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Ben Jervey | April 1, 2013
By Ben Jervey • Monday, April 1, 2013 - 18:46
In Greek legend, everytime the winged horse Pegasus struck his hoof to the Earth, an "inspiring spring burst forth." Unfortunately for residents in Mayflower, Arkansas, when the Pegasus pipeline ruptured, the only thing bursting forth was a nasty tar sands oil spill.
On Friday afternoon, the Pegasus pipeline operated by Exxon Mobil ruptured, flooding an Arkansas neighborhood with thousands of barrels of Wabasca Heavy crude from the Athabasca tar sands in Alberta.
Here's what you need to know about the spill, with links to some reporting on this awful event, which at very least ruined the holiday weekends of many Mayflower, Arkansas residents, many of whom didn't even know the pipeline was running through their neighborhood.
What is Pegasus?
The 20-inch pipeline carries diluted bitumen – originating from the Alberta tar sands – for 858 miles from Patoka, Illinois to refineries in Nederland, Texas. It was built in the 1940s and can carry up to 95,000 barrels a day.
Pegasus was built to funnel crude from the Gulf Coast up to the Midwest, but the flow was reversed in 2006 to help relieve the tar sands crude bottleneck in Cushing, Oklahoma. (The same reason given by proponents for the construction of Keystone XL.)
It is worth noting that a similar line reversal has been proposed by Enbridge to potentially ship tar sands crude for Atlantic export from a port in Maine.
In 2009, Exxon Mobil successfully petitioned regulators to allow them to expand capacity on the pipeline from 65,000 barrels per day to 95,000 barrels per day, a nearly 50 percent increase.
Update 4/2: On DeSmog Canada, Carol explains the bizarre technicality that allowed Exxon Mobil to avoid paying into a federal oil spill cleanup fund for its use of Pegasus.
How bad is the spill?
In 45 minutes, the spill spread through the suburban neighborhood, filling the streets and covering lawns with dilbit.
Because of the dangerous vapors emitted from the dilbit, residents of at least 22 homes were forced to evacuate.
Here's a firsthand video account of the dilbit running over lawns and streets.
The spill was first estimated by the EPA at 84,000 gallons, but already over 189,000 gallons of oil and water (combined) have been collected.
Greenpeace photographer Karen Seagrave has the best photos from the spill that we've yet seen.
Update 4/2: The spill's impact on local wildlife is already being documented, as at least two ducks have been found dead, and at least a dozen more are oily. Carol has heartwrenching photos of volunteers cleaning ducks in her post.
Is it under control?
Cleanup crews scrambled to prevent the diluted bitumen (or dilbit) from reaching Lake Conway, an important local source of drinking water and a popular recreation spot. A local judge, who was responsible for declaring a state of emergency and is coordinating response efforts, told Lisa Song of InsideClimate News that they were successful in doing so.
Dodson said emergency crews led a "monumentally successful" effort to prevent the Exxon spill from entering nearby Lake Conway, a popular recreational area. First responders set up earthen dams to contain the flow of oil, he said, and crews are working to shore up the protections as rains continue to fall and complicate the cleanup operations.
Update 4/2: There are some troubling accounts from the ground of the cleanup efforts, however. Lisa Song from InsideClimate News is there on the scene and writes of how public officials are nowhere to be seen, and Exxon Mobil is clearly running the show, and limiting access to journalists and the public.
Along the same vein, on Mother Jones, Kate Sheppard has written about her frustrating interactions with Exxon's staff and is properly chastising the company for its vague responses to earnest and important questions about the spill.
Update 4/3: Here on DeSmogBlog, Steve points out that the FAA has issued a "No Fly Zone" at ExxonMobil's request, which will essentially keep out news copters and other sources of aerial photography.
Update: 4/3: Meanwhile, I took a closer look at Exxon's history of paying for spill cleanup and damages, and asked whether we can really trust ExxonMobil to make it right for the victims of this spill.
Update: 4/6: Lisa Song from InsideClimate News has now been threatened with arrest for visiting the command center where federal authorities are working. Others in the media are reporting similar treatment.
Sign of things to come?
Just last week, we wrote about how the oil spill from a derailed train in Minnesota was being used by Keystone XL boosters as an argument for the pipeline. We sarcastically ended that post with a "sure, pipelines never spill," linking to a catalog of multiple spills along existing stretches of the Keystone pipeline system.
Pegasus provides yet another example – on top of those Keystone spills and the so-called DilBit Disaster of Enbridge's Line 6B – of how pipelines carrying tar sands crude are more susceptible to leaks and ruptures and spills. Here's an earlier post on the many problems with tar sands pipelines.
Who is on this story?
We'll update this story with any new developments, but here are some of the best pieces of reporting on the Pegasus spill thus far:
- Lisa Song at InsideClimate News was early on the story, and will continue to put this spill in context of tar sands expansion and the Keystone XL controversy.
- Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones on what Exxon is trying to hide from the public.
- Steven Mufson reported on the spill for the Washington Post, where there is also a startling slideshow.
- Local station KTHV has reactions from Mayflower residents.
Update 4/8: The first lawsuit has been filed by victims of the spill. The Associated Press reports on two women who live near the spill who are looking for compensation for ""a permanent diminishment in property value."
Update 4/9: These recently released images show the scope of the damage has grown far beyond the nearby residential street:
Above Image Credit: Alyssa Martinez / Drew Crownover / Annie Dill / Alex Shahrokhi via Imgur.
The EPA's On Scene Coordinator also recently released images of the scene:
Image Credit: EPA On Scene Coordinator.
Here's a video taken by activists who snuck onto the cleanup site:
Photo: AJ Zoltan on Facebook
Victims of Ethical Oil...
So, umm, what do the people of Arkansas think of this Ethical Oil stuff now?
Seriously, Ben, Carol, you need to get their opinions on this posted up here right now. Let Ezra know what victims of ethical oil really think.
[I'm pro-pipeline… but I also believe that the people who are most affected by pipelines are the people whose properties the pipes lay beside. It ain't right to taint another man's property for another's personal gain. It ain't right to mess up their lives. Settlements for this kind of accident can take decades. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Would you?]
CBC had a property owner on the Radio this morning, and they ended the interview with the obnoxious question… about 6 minutes in.
"I know this is difficult because you are so directly affected by what is happening, but does this change or affect your views at all about pipelines, especially in light of Canada's wish to build another pipeline?"
"Its been an eye opening experience. Here in Arkansas we're what you'd call a red state, and most folks didn't have an issue before with any kind of pipeline, future pipeline, Keystone XL or what have you. After this, its been a sobering wake up to what happens when something goes wrong. I think the feeling here is that pipelines are fine until they rupture in your backyard, and thats been a sore spot with many folks this week."
Just another observation, but has the definition of crude oil been changed to include dilbit? That pipeline was approved to carry crude in the 1940s. There was no dilbit back then, and isn't the chemical composition different?
The reason I ask is that by redefining crude its a lot easier to ship this stuff without checking if it is indeed safe for the pipes. For dilbit to be crude, crude now needs to be corrosive and abrasive. (For the southern leg of the Keystone XL, the US Army corp of engineers redefined crude to include dilbit. Land owners are being told that the pipeline will only carry crude… Also are there regulatory reasons for doing so?)
Peter Moss replied on Permalink
And just to add to the
And just to add to the confusion, there's also syncrude (synthetic crude) which can be a component of the diluent. In fact, if the density of the fluid is 800kg/m3 or greater then the fluid is usually called synbit and not dilbit.
Ben Jervey replied on Permalink
It's a great question about
It's a great question about the "definition" of crude oil and of dilbit. Look at Carol's most recent post for a particularly shocking turn on this.
I'll look more into the full redefinition question, but her post (and how Exxon didn't have to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund b/c it wasn't technically crude) is a great place to start.
I saw...
This defines the nature of how these companies operate. Its corporate malfeasance. Their objective is to save every dollar no matter what.
How does that make you feel about safety?
I'm curious but who's doing the clean up? I assume this is Exxon only because who ever is paid out of that cleanup fund should not be there. If its not crude they do not know what they are doing.
So that means....
The entire ethical oil movement has nothing to do with the tar sands. How bizarre!
… that could explain the lack of ethics in the Tar Sands…


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It was huge. I had a lot of exposure to the faculty and the academic programs at UCLA Anderson. The program offered a broad based perspective on marketing and finance. Just as important was the interaction with students and my mentor, which provided a JD/MBA student's perspective.
There was a glass ceiling for engineers at the Camarillo plant and I knew I needed an advanced management degree (Lawrence also has a master's degree in engineering from Georgia Tech) to get through that ceiling.
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We are a marketing company working for the ultimate client here - an architectural engineering firm in Ireland called O'Connor, Sutton, Cronin. In the course of preparing marketing materials for OCSC (as they are known for short) - they would like to "refresh" their logo. OCSC are an engineering firm that help build projects on a large scale - like bridge, malls, conference centres, schools, universities - etc.
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I can't believe the ending. Only more questions to be asked.
I want to know if the Zodiac boat Faraday was in went with the island. Or is it stuck in the middle of nowhere?
Hoo boy. More clues. I'm banging my head against the keyboard.
I loved this show, but somehow I fell a whole season (and a half) behind but I want to catch up too! I feel a marathon coming on too.... Let's all rent a deluxe hotel room somewhere, lock ourselves in, and live on re-runs and roomservice till we are done--any takers?
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Is there anything that can be done about these horrible bags under my eyes? They are always there, it is not due to lack of sleep, etc…
Anyway, I hear about so many treatments on the face and eyes…crows feet, brow lifts, etc… but never about bags.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
My answer is that eyebags are a very complex entity or at least can be. If you have truly an eye bag that is there all the time then it could be related to excess fat, which can be removed either through a tiny incision on the skin surface or through inside the eyelid without an incision. Skin may need to be removed through a pinch method or alternative if there is extra there. If the skin is loose, resurfacing with a laser or a peel can also help. Neurotoxin (like Botox) can help slow down and improve moving wrinkles and prevent static wrinkles over time. Sometimes many surgeons believe that there is not an excess of fat but a hollowness to the bony rim below that if you put fillers or fat grafting there that it can manage the hollowness and thereby cover the exposed eyebag. Other times a combination of some fat removal and placing some fat can help. If you are confused by the many ways to approach an eyebag, I am sorry about that but there are so many ways to do it depending on your problem and the surgeon's preferred choice of addressing it. You can find a facial plastic surgeon in your area to help you with your problem but looking at the map of surgeons on this Web site. Good luck!


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Here is a list of changes to make to your application so that it can take advantage of the new KStatusNotifierItem (KSNI) class, available since KDE 4.4.
KSNI API can be found here:
Note: the mapping presented here is the one implemented by the Plasma Systemtray applet. Other implementations may do different choices.
Icons can be passed as a QString or as a QPixmap. Note that both must go through D-Bus, so for performance reasons, pass icons by name whenever possible.
A KSNI tooltip is made of an icon, a title and a subtitle (which may contain some limited markup). This means you have to replace your call to setToolTip(QString) with calls to:
An item has a status, which can be set with setStatus(). The host implementation can use this status to adjust the way it presents the item. For example, the Plasma Systemtray applet will automatically hide items with the Passive status by default, making it only visible if you click on the applet expand arrow.
When porting from KSystemTrayIcon, you can replace calls to show() or hide() with setStatus(KStatusNotifierItem::Active) and setStatus(KStatusNotifierItem::Passive) respectively. You can also choose to delete the KSNI instance to hide it, and recreate it when you want to show it.
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Since we ship 20' and 40' containers, you might think that, in essence, a 40' is double the price of a 20' container because it takes twice as much space on board a vessel – but that's not actually how it works. From our point of view lifting a 20' or a 40' is, in many regards, the same.
There are other factors which can affect the freight such as:
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MSC reserves a space for the merchandise in our vessel (a container slot) and we reserve the container itself at our terminal for your trucker to come and pick-up.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT men's lacrosse team dropped a tough 10-9 loss to Massachusetts Maritime Academy on Saturday. Isaac Taylor paced the Engineers' attack with three goals while Zach Brewer collected 23 saves.
Taylor put MIT (3-3, 2-1 Pilgrim) on the board 4:35 into the contest by connecting on a feed from Devin Dersh. Stefano Young extended the margin less than a minute later. The Buccaneers ended the shutout with 4:29 left in the period. The Engineers lifted their lead back to two (3-1) when Dersh set up Carter Powers for a goal with 23 seconds remaining.
In the second period, Massachusetts Maritime cut the deficit back to one at the 12:26 mark. Three minutes later, Scott Purchase fed Taylor for a man-up goal. The Buccaneers countered with an extra-man goal of their own, bringing the score to 4-3 in favor of MIT at halftime.
Massachuetts Maritime tied the game after 1:50 had expired in the third stanza. A man-up goal at 10:31 gave the Buccaneers their first lead. Three minutes later, Purchase fed Jonathan Stolmeier for the equalizer (5-5). Massachusetts Maritime went ahead with 5:15 left in the period. Once again, MIT countered with an unassisted goal from Tyler Sorba nearly two minutes later.
The Buccaneers built up their largest lead of the game by scoring a pair of goals during the first 3:25 of the final period. The Engineers responded with scores from Stolmeier and Taylor. Massachusetts Maritime regained the lead at 7:29 on its third extra-man goal and then recorded what proved to be the game-winning goal 33 seconds later. Powers posted the final goal for MIT with 4:40 left in regulation.


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The decision today by Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander to cut short his role in the Senate GOP leadership boosts Texas Sen. John Cornyn in the San Antonio resident's behind-the-scenes campaign to move up to the second most powerful post in the Republican leadership.
Alexander's departure from the Senate GOP leadership averts a looming showdown with Cornyn in their contest to become Senate GOP whip in January 2013.
Alexander told Senate Republican colleagues in a letter today that he was giving up his post as chairman of the Republican Conference – the third ranking post in the Senate GOP leadership – in order to return to the GOP rank and file.
Alexander said he wants to try to build bipartisan consensus within the Senate rather than continuing to serve as a partisan voice for the Senate GOP leadership as he heads into his 2014 re-election campaign back in Tennessee.
"Stepping down from leadership will liberate me to spend more time working for results on the issues I care about," Alexander told colleagues in his letter.
Alexander's departure from the leadership in January 2012 ends the potential struggle with Cornyn to succeed retiring Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, the Senate GOP whip.
Cornyn, currently leading Senate Republicans' campaign operation, announced last February that he would seek the post of Senate Republican whip when Kyl leaves the Senate in January 2013.
With Alexander's departure from the Senate leadership. Cornyn could have an uncontested road to the post as deputy to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
"Senator Alexander is not only an exceptionally effective leader in the Senate, over the years we have become good friends," Cornyn said in a statement.
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It's amazing how quickly your PC can start to behave sluggishly as detritus piles up. PC Performance Toolkit contains all the tools you need to quickly clear out various parts of your system, plus reorganise files and even the Windows Registry itself to reclaim some of that lost performance.
The program is split into three broad sections: optimise, maintain and recover. The Optimise section is where you regain lost performance through Registry cleaning and defragmenting, file cleaning and shredding (for those with sensitive data), Services tuneup and a one-click optimisation that performs various tweaks for you.
Select Maintain to keep your PC in good running order: from here you can check your hard drive's health, plus defragment your drive. You can also manage your startup entries from here – you might be surprised what's loading with Windows; disabling unwanted programs not only speeds up your startup times, but also frees up valuable memory, resulting in better performance.
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The Mathematics Department offers two geometry courses: (1) MATH 50 emphasizes problem solving and applications, and (2) MATH 55 emphasizes proofs and the logical structure of geometry but includes problem solving and applications. Students intending to study precalculus algebra, trigonometry, or calculus should take MATH 55.
The Mathematics Department offers two calculus sequences:
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MARION — George H. Hardey, 77, passed away Oct. 23, 2012, at Mercy Hospital in Moundridge.
He was born April 29, 1935, in Walters, Okla., the son of Grayson and Vivian Cloud Hardey. On Aug. 16, 1953, he was united in marriage to Earline Midgley. He was a retired dispatcher for the Santa Fe Railroad. He was active in the Isis Temple of the Shrine, and a 32nd Degree Mason. He was active in the Florence community and served several terms as mayor.
He was preceded in death by siblings: Grayson Hardey Jr., Barbara Joan Hardey, and John McGee. He is lovingly survived by his wife, Earline of Marion; his children: Randy and wife Debbie of Goessel, Reba Ann Mackey of DeSoto, Ronnie and wife Shelli of Marion, Tangie and husband Andy Edwardson of McPherson, and Gina and husband Rick Mounts of Hillsboro; 10 grandchildren; and 9 great-grandchildren. All services were held at Zeiner Funeral Home in Florence with visitation from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday and funeral service at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Memorial funds: Advance Lodge No. 114, AF & AM of Florence, or the Alzheimer's Association in care of Zeiner Funeral Home, PO Box 6, Marion, KS 66861.


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Our challenge this week was to find an app that would allow my parents, who are taking a Spanish class together, to create flashcards of vocabulary that could be shared on two iPhones and one iPad. With the Spring semester well on it's way and the first round of tests approaching, my parents surely are not the only our student readers that looking for ways to be better, more efficient studiers.
With over half a million apps for just about everything, you'd figure there'd have to be at least one in the App Store for this. But with so many apps, it can be hard to find the one you want. That's where we come in. We're sorting through the App Store and we're going to help find just exactly the app for that.
App for that: gFlash+/gFlashPro - Flashcards & Tests
gFlashPro has turned out to be the perfect solution. First, you create a spreadsheet with Google Docs where one column is the vocabulary term, and a second column is the definition -- or in my parents's case, the English and Spanish versions of the words. Each row in your spreadsheet then gets transformed into a flash card after you connect gPlushPro to you Google account and download the spreadsheet. Since the flashcards are tied to Google, they are easily shared on multiple devices. If you wanted, you can even share the Google documents with your classmates, so that they, too, can download the flashcards for studying on the go.
There are two version of this apps: gFlash+ and gFlashPro. The former is free to purchase and supported by ads. gFlashPro is ad free and includes addition features like the ability to Delete, "forget", and move cards in the deck. You also get free access to more than 50 million cardsets from Quizlet and StudyStack.
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One of the most bizarre things seen in the solar system is captured in the image above, taken on 27 November by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini's camera zoomed into Saturn's polar hexagon storm's eye from from a distance of about 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometers). The spacecraft observed in infrared wavelengths, which can peer through the top layer of clouds to reveal the complex texture beneath. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been traveling the Saturnian system in a set of inclined, or tilted, orbits that give mission scientists a vertigo-inducing view of Saturn's polar regions, yielding spectacular images of roiling storm clouds and the swirling vortex at the center of Saturn's famed north polar hexagon.
These phenomena mimic what Cassini found at Saturn's south pole a number of years ago. In 2007, the Cassini team saw a huge hexagon-shaped structure two-thirds as wide as Earth about 25,000 kilometers across stretching over Saturn's north pole while planet was in the depths of its 15-year-long winter, and it was impossible to what was going on within the storm. But, with the change of the Saturnian seasons, the sun started to creep over the planet's north pole and spring lifted the gloom in 2009, and the team was able to view and study the massive storm at the hexagon's core.
NASA scientists first spotted the hexagonal weather pattern when they stitched together Voyager images of Saturn's north pole. Cassini later obtained higher-resolution pictures of the hexagon – which tells scientists it's a remarkably stable wave in one of the jet streams that remains 30 years later – but scientists are still not sure what forces maintain the object.
The hexagon was originally discovered in images taken by the Voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s. It encircled Saturn at about 77 degrees north latitude and was estimated to have a diameter wider than two Earths. The jet stream is believed to whip along the hexagon at around 100 meters per second (220 miles per hour).
'Now that we can see undulations and circular features instead of blobs in the hexagon, we can start trying to solve some of the unanswered questions about one of the most bizarre things we've ever seen in the solar system," said Kevin Baines, Atmospheric scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory after viewing Cassini images in 2009. "Solving these unanswered questions about the hexagon will help us answer basic questions about weather that we're still asking about our own planet."
Because Saturn does not have land masses or oceans on its surface to complicate weather the way Earth does, its conditions give scientists a more elementary model to study the physics of circulation patterns and atmosphere, said Baines.
The images of the hexagon, whose shape is the path of a jet stream flowing around the north pole, reveal concentric circles, curlicues, walls and streamers not seen in previous images. The last visible-light images of the entire hexagon were captured by NASA's Voyager spacecraft nearly 32 years ago, the last time spring began on Saturn.
After the sunlight faded, darkness shrouded the north pole for 15 years. Much to the delight and bafflement of Cassini scientists, the location and shape of the hexagon in the latest images matched up with what they saw in the Voyager pictures.
"The longevity of the hexagon makes this something special, given that weather on Earth lasts on the order of weeks," said Kunio Sayanagi, a Cassini imaging team associate at the California Institute of Technology. "It's a mystery on par with the strange weather conditions that give rise to the long-lived Great Red Spot of Jupiter."
Early hexagon images from Voyager and ground-based telescopes suffered from poor viewing perspectives. Cassini, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004, has a better angle for viewing the north pole. But the long darkness of Saturnian winter hid the hexagon from Cassini's visible-light cameras for years. Infrared instruments, however, were able to obtain images shown above and below by using heat patterns.
Those images showed the hexagon is nearly stationary and extends deep into the atmosphere. They also discovered a hotspot and cyclone in the same region. Scientists are still trying to figure out what causes the hexagon, where it gets and expels its energy and how it has stayed viable for so long. They plan to search the new images for clues, taking an especially close look at the newly identified waves that radiate from the corners of the hexagon — where the jet takes its hardest turns — and the multi-walled structure that extends to the top of Saturn's cloud layer in each of the hexagon's six sides.
Scientists are also particularly intrigued by a large dark spot that appeared in a different position in a previous infrared image from Cassini. In the latest images, the spot appears in the 2 o'clock position.
The Daily Galaxy via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute and NASA Cassini Mission


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I recently held a shoebox packing party for Operation Christmas Child at Valley Bible Church on Oct. 19. I would like to thank every participant and supporter of this project, because it would not have been possible without their generous help.
The final count was 133 shoeboxes, and they will be sent around the world to many children this Christmas.
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One of our biggest challenges at this point, along with the enormous amount of snow we need to remove, is providing up-to-date information to residents. While we have tried to keep information flowing, this is a very dynamic environment demanding adjustments as circumstances change.
During storm preparation last week, we had planned for significant accumulation, though none of the forecasts called for 30" of snow with 4-5' drifts in Southington. At 4 a.m. Friday, we called in all of our crews with plans to work them for 36 hours straight, followed by a planned break for rest and maintenance, before sending them back on the road for what we expected to be another 24-plus straight hours.
As the storm progressed and circumstances changed, the snow fall was greater than anyone predicted and the rate exceeded our ability to keep up…therefore, we realized that a break would put us too far behind so the crews continued to plow, only stopping for 90 minutes during whiteout conditions overnight Friday. At our peak, we had 43 trucks of various sizes on the road, including Town equipment, all our contractors and several extras that we were able to employ. As of now, crews have cleared 90 percent of our 200 miles of roads, with 10 percent of subdivision roads remaining impassible.
Last night, our goal was to clear a pathway on every street in town. Due to mechanical breakdowns and contractors having to depart, we were unable to do so by just before midnight, when the remaining people and equipment had to break for safety and welfare reasons. We gave our people and contractors a nine-hour break, and they have resumed work as of 9 a.m. this morning, and will continue until roads are normalized.
During the course of plowing, our public safety departments also responded to over 200 calls for service, including a half a dozen disputes, domestic violence incidents, threats, harassment and vandalism complaints. We answered 24 medical calls, almost all of which required diverting a plow from its assigned route to escort public safety vehicles. We also responded to 22 disabled motor vehicles, 13 carbon monoxide alarms (requiring fire department deployment and plow escort) and dozens of vehicle breakdowns, parking violations, minor collisions and public hazards.
Our hope is that our citizens can keep this storm in perspective. We are working very hard to clear access for our residents out of their homes, and if people are watching the news, they realize that towns throughout the state are in the same or worse shape as Southington. It is our goal to clear access routes on all roads by early afternoon, with crews transitioning to widening main roads by the end of today. But we recognize that it will take several days to completely clear our streets.
We have weather concerns about Monday including rain, freezing rain and sleet, potentially making the existing snow significantly heavier. There also is more snow forecast on Wednesday. The final challenge that must be considered is that this snow was so large that we are unable in many areas to simply push it to the side of the road, particularly downtown, which will require hauling snow away in order to completely clear the area. This is our most difficult challenge and will take us the longest to complete.
We have suspended the requirement to clear sidewalks until further notice.
I have been in contact with school Superintendent Joe Erardi, who is discussing school openings with his counterparts this evening and plans to provide information to the public when he is able.
Thank you for helping us get this information to our citizens. We will provide updates as changes to this information requires.
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Kathleen Ferrier and the Idea of Opera <Back
Ferrier sang in only two operas, Lucretia (1946), and Gluck's Orfeo and Euridice (1762). In 1950 she wrote to Emmie Tillett, who organised her performances and repertoire "The more I see of opera, the less I want to take part in it, except Orfeo. I think I'll have a rest in May. Am seeing Ben and Peter tomorrow and will let you know if any persuasions corrupt me!" (LDKF, 159)
Evidently she remained uncorrupted by any opera proposals from Britten or Peter Pears.
There is an explanation for her limited interest in opera. Both Orfeo and Lucretia are fairly static, and not much movement is required of the performers. These operas come close to resembling a recital, Kathleen's preferred kind of performance. The point is made by Christopher Fifield:
Opera, as she herself readily admitted, was not a medium in which she felt instinctively comfortable […] because she felt intimidated by its conventions. Somehow, being compelled to stand still on a stage for a song recital galvanised all the vocal emotion and facial expression she required to bond with her audience. She had no need of the operatic necessities. (LDKF, 11)
As she wrote of performing Orfeo:
[Opera] is a lot of play-acting, [whereas] I live and love and die in a song. (LDKF, 173)
Kathleen found particularly difficult the confession to Tarquinius, and her suicide – "See how my wanton blood / Washes my shame away!"
She appealed to Joan Cross for help in acting,and Cross later told Ferrier's biographer: 'She didn't know what to do with them [her arms], or her feet. My advice was simple. "Why don't you leave them alone? Your voice expresses all you need" '. Cross added: "If you confine acting to movement on stage then she was not brilliant, but if you define it as the ability to convey great depths of emotion, then she was a fine actress". (Leonard, 87)
In July 1947 Kathleen wrote to Ibbs and Tillett, the company that organized her performances, to turn down a performance at the BBC on 5 August because "shall be sunbathing (ever hopeful) in Devonshire!" (LDKF, 55) The visit to Ronald Duncan and his family lasted from 29 July to (probably) 12 August.
The Diary shows her leaving Waterloo for Braunton in north Devon on 29 July. A drive in Duncan's car through Barnstaple and Bideford would have brought her to the Duncans' farms near Welcombe. The image below is a photograph taken of Ferrier at Mead farm, Devon.
Kathleen Ferrier with the horse Lucretia in August 1947. This Arab filly 'foaled during the première of the opera', wrote Duncan. Noticing her touch on the horse's neck: "This same tenderness was in her voice too". (724)
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My Thornton connection
Thornton is one of those interesting names which started as a surname but was then used in subsequent generations as a first name or middle name. The first Thornton in my pedigree is maternal great grandmother Margaret Jane Thornton born in 1871 in Choppington in Northumberland. She married Archibald Henderson in 1871. Her sister Mary Phyllis Thornton, born in 1876, married Archie's brother Newton Henderson. As a result there are several Hendersons who carry Thornton as part of their name.
Margaret Jane and Mary Phyllis were two of the 11 children of my 2x great grandfather Randle Thornton born in 1843 in Newburn in Northumberland. Randle married Mary Oliver in 1863.
Randle's father is my 3x great grandfather John Thornton born in Hartburn in 1794. John married Margery Hall in 1822.
I have some information gathered from Woodhorn archives which should help to take my Thornton line further back, but need to analyze it more thoroughly before I add to the tree.


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IN JANUARY 2012, I was honored to be elected by mayors and council members of the 11 Marin cities to be their representative on the Association of Bay Area Governments Executive Board.
Thursday was a tough night. After consulting with representatives of Marin cities I represent on the ABAG board, I determined that it was my duty to abstain from voting on the Final Environmental Impact Report and "Plan Bay Area," which is an integrated long-range transportation and land-use/housing plan for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. The plan, which ABAG and MTC have worked on for three years, is our Sustainable Community Strategy that identifies how the Bay Area will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent from cars/light trucks by 2040 as required by SB 375, while focusing on where housing should be provided based on Bay Area economic growth.
The plan raised a number of very serious issues for Marin — and, we simply did not have enough time to work with our community members, "stakeholder" organizations and municipalities to resolve those issues; and, some of those issues couldn't be resolved by their very nature.
ABAG/MTC received over 588 written/verbal comments on the plan. Four hundred of those were written comments from individuals, of which 171 came from Marin residents, many objecting to the potential "priority development areas" in Tam Valley and Marinwood, recently withdrawn by the Board of Supervisors.
Those individuals, along with other Marin community members, dug deeper and raised additional issues, challenged the population and jobs growth projections, the assumption of GHG reductions, and proposals to streamline California Environmental Quality Act in PDAs — that's perceived as "gutting" environmental review.
Most importantly, the public expressed, loud and clear, it wants to maintain local control.
Since I represent the Marin cities on ABAG, I reached out to my colleagues and encouraged them to have public meetings to garner community feedback. I held several meetings with ABAG delegates on the city councils to ascertain how Marin cities should cast our one vote (mine) on the ABAG board.
Of the 11 cities, three (Novato, Sausalito, Mill Valley) indicated their support for Plan Bay Area, one (Corte Madera) voted for the "No Project Alternative" and seven (Belvedere, Tiburon, Larkspur, Ross, San Anselmo, Fairfax and San Rafael) took "No Position." "No Position" is just that — they chose not to take a position for or against any of the alternatives.
Given the majority took "No Position," it was my duty on July 18, to cast an abstention vote for or against the Plan. After hours of testimony, the ABAG/ MTC Boards voted to approve the Plan Bay Area with changes:
ABAG: 21 Yes, 5 No, 1 Abstention
MTC: 12 Yes, 1 No
As we go forward, I will advocate for ABAG/ MTC to have open dialogues on what worked well and what needs improvement so we don't repeat past mistakes.
Both ABAG/ MTC need to find a better way to involve the communities at the local level in updating the plan that's due in four years.
I will recommend we start now by working backward from 2017 to ensure there is adequate time for a bottom up effort where the public, stakeholder organizations and elected officials are brought into the process early on. I will continue to advocate for enough time that allows each city, town and county to vote.
We, the elected officials on ABAG/MTC, need to look at options and select the best approach for projecting the population and jobs growth, whether locating housing near transit/transportation reduces greenhouse gas emissions as projected and how needs in our schools, parks and recreation, public safety, etc. can be addressed with the anticipated growth.
I hope that by changing the process and making improvements to the plan, we will have a plan in 2017 that satisfies our individual community values while contributing to the region's values of preserving our environment while having a prosperous economy where everyone has a place to call home.
Novato Mayor Pat Eklund represents Marin cities on the Association of Bay Area Governments Executive Board.


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Governor Sued!Mar 21, 2017
Family Foundation Announces Impending Legal Action
- McAuliffe Administration Notified Today -
RICHMOND–The Family Foundation of Virginia today announced that the administration of Governor Terry McAuliffe has been notified of impending legal action regarding violations of state law by the Department and Board of Health during the abortion center health and safety standards regulatory process.
"Over and over again during the nearly three-year process of amending the standards, the administration and Board violated the Administrative Process Act, the state law that provides the framework for regulatory action, the administrative code, and the Governor's own Executive Order 17 regarding the regulatory review process," said Victoria Cobb, President of The Family Foundation. "Regardless of one's belief about the need for basic health and safety standards for abortion centers – or of any regulation for that matter – we all have to agree that a regulatory body cannot act outside the law when it wields extraordinary power over business, commerce and health care. We have the Administrative Process Act for that reason, to provide legal boundaries and process for unelected regulatory bodies, to provide transparency and public input throughout the regulatory process, and to be able to hold these agencies accountable when they go beyond the scope of their authority."
Details of the administrative appeal were not released, but will be made available when the action is filed in Henrico Circuit Court within the next thirty days. The Family Foundation is paying the legal fees for one appellant in the appeal, Itzel Melendez, from Richmond. At a Richmond press conference today, Mrs. Melendez said, "In the past, I had occasion to visit an abortion center for the purpose of obtaining an abortion. I am participating in this case because I am concerned that without basic health and safety standards, abortion centers will operate in a way that could put my health at risk if I ever decided in the future that I needed their services. The standards that were in place were there to protect women like me from harm. Without them, I am no longer confident that my health would be protected."
Cobb did reference one of the examples of where the pro-family organization believes the administration broke the law. She stated, "The agency violated the Administrative Process Act by amending entirely separate and unrelated regulatory sections that had not been included in the regulations' "Proposed" phase. Several regulatory sections amended by the Board were not included in the "Proposed Regulation Agency Background Document" posted in townhall.gov, and these regulatory sections dealt with matters the public did not have an opportunity to comment on in accordance with the requirements of the law.
"In addition, several regulatory sections the Board amended were not even in the agency's "Final Regulation Agency Background Document" posted in townhall.gov, let alone its "Proposed Regulation Agency Background Document". The Code of Virginia requires that the notice requirement contain "(i) a statement of the date, time and place of the hearing at which the regulation is to be considered; (ii) a brief statement as to the regulation under consideration; [and] (iii) reference to the legal authority of the agency to act; …." Yet, that never occurred for all of the regulatory topics for the sections that were not included in the agency's "Proposed" regulations. This is an important matter of transparency – providing to the public a clear list what areas of regulation are intended to be reviewed and amended. The public and the entities being regulated should know from the beginning what areas of regulation the agency intends to change. By avoiding disclosing all the areas the Department and Board intended to amend they violated both the letter and spirit of the law.
"In this case, the Department and Board initially indicated they would review and amend only six areas of the regulations, and instead ended up changing more than 20. The public had no ability to weigh in on these changes until after the Board had already voted."
Cobb said, "There is a specific, detailed, and yes sometimes cumbersome regulatory process that, whether we like it or not, is the law of Virginia. Without a framework, and without criteria and accountability for regulatory agencies, one can only imagine the damage that could be done in any arena by regulatory bodies."
"The Family Foundation fully supports the actions taken by these appellants," added Cobb. "It is unfortunate that the McAuliffe administration has in its ideological zeal consistently ignored or violated state law throughout this process, but it must be held accountable for those actions. The regulatory process has rules that must be followed. Again, this appeal is about that legal process and this administration's ignorance of or disdain for that process."
Appellants in the case who appeared at today's press conference were Virginia Board of Health members Megan Getter and Henry Kuhlman, and Itzel Melendez of Richmond. The attorney representing Mrs. Melendez is Dan Carrell of Carrell, Blanton Ferris and Associates, Richmond.


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Christopher Anton Knight (born November 7, 1957) is an American actor best known for playing Peter Brady on the 1970s series, The Brady Bunch. He has since gone on to become a successful businessman and enjoyed a semi-resurgence in the public eye with television appearances in the 2000s. His father, Edward Knight, was also an actor. He is separated from reality television personality Adrianne Curry.
Since the end of his Brady Bunch appearances, Knight's acting career consisted mostly of making guest appearances on other television shows. He also helped create a Brady Bunch computer game and is involved in the IT industry, according to a TV Land documentary about the Brady Bunch.
He reunited with his former Brady costars the 1988 holiday television movie, A Very Brady Christmas.


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Although telematics has been on insurers' agenda for many years, Accenture believes it is on the cusp of broad-based consumer adoption. Positive self-selection bias and lower premiums will drive uptake in the short term, after which insurers will use location-based value-added services to differentiate their offerings and broaden their appeal within the mass market.
From his viewpoint in London, Roy Jubraj, Managing Director Digital & Innovation, is convinced that telematics is a game-changing opportunity for insurers to transform the way consumers perceive insurance, and to reshape every aspect of the insurance value chain. However, this is not good news for everyone. Adverse selection will leave carriers that are slow to respond with a customer base increasingly skewed toward poorer risks. And even those that do offer a telematics-enabled product will potentially have to deal with the cannibalization of their existing customer base as profitable, lower-risk customers switch from standard to cheaper, usage-based products.
To succeed with this potentially disruptive innovation, insurers need to have a clear strategy and roadmap that views telematics not simply as a novel pricing mechanism for niche markets, but as a radical shift in the way insurance can be bought, consumed and serviced.
"Until recently, motor insurers priced their products in broad risk categories," Roy says. "If you were a 28-year-old male, you could expect to pay roughly the same premium as most other 28-year-old males, unless you had a bad driving record." With telematics, however, insurers are able to monitor the driver's minute-by-minute activities: when he drives, where he goes, how fast he drives, and how hard he hits the brakes.
"Telematics has insurers starting to set up pilot programs, analyze data and study customer acceptance," Roy notes. "No one insurer has all the answers yet, but there are big changes in the works."


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MIDDLEBURY — Former Addison Central Supervisory Union Superintendent Lee Sease has filed a lawsuit against his former employer in U.S. District Court, claiming he was unlawfully fired last spring.
Sease further claims he was not given reasons for his termination and alleges he was not given a chance to be heard on the matter. He is urging the court to award him damages, including lost wages and benefits. Sease received a total annual compensation package (salary and benefits) of $127,321, according to court records.
MIDDLEBURY — When His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama makes his third visit to Middlebury next October he will bring a new message appropriate to a world that is struggling with a global financial crisis and religious differences. New, and yet the message of the spiritual leader of Tibet and 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate will be rooted in the ancient tradition of Buddhism.
VERGENNES — The U.S. Department of Labor will not renew Alutiiq LLC's contract to operate Northlands Job Corps, the federal job training center in Vergennes.
However, Ted Fitzgerald, the DOL's Regional Director for Public Affairs for the area that includes New England and New York, said this week that Alutiiq's contract will be extended through the end of 2012 to give the DOL time to find a new firm to run the MacDonough Drive center.
BRISTOL — Local lawmakers on Monday hailed the Vermont House's passage last week of proposed fiscal year 2013 General Fund and transportation budgets, spending plans they said would maintain key services for Vermonters while beefing up repairs to the Vermont's roads and bridges.
The $5.01 billion state budget reflects a 6.4 percent hike in spending but will not require any increase in broad-based taxes, Rep. Willem Jewett said at the Legislative Breakfast in Bristol. The Ripton Democrat serves as assistant majority leader of the House.
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MIDDLEBURY — On Wednesday, April 4, Middlebury's Town Hall Theater will host its largest production to date. One hundred six cast members will present William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" — and not one of them is more than 12 years old.
MIDDLEBURY — The Rolling Acres, Buttolph Drive, Butternut Ridge and South Street neighborhoods of Middlebury will resonate with construction activity this spring and summer as the town will initiate a combined total of almost $6 million in infrastructure improvements to those areas.
The most dramatic work will occur on South Street, which is slated for a $3.5 million makeover that will span two construction seasons, according to Middlebury Director of Operations Dan Werner.
MIDDLEBURY — College sports is a big deal in Middlebury. Not big enough, says Charles T. Clotfelter.
The Duke University economics professor will deliver a lecture titled "What?! You Don't Take College Sports Seriously?" on Thursday, April 5, at 4:30 p.m. in Twilight Auditorium on the Middlebury campus.
"The cost of big time athletics is growing faster than anything else that universities do," Clotfelter said.
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Buddy LaCour said he and his partners will move ahead with their own plans for three 15-story condos, offices and a "major name" restaurant and 42-slip marina.
PORT ORANGE — The proposed marriage between Port Orange and Riverwalk's master developer is off.
Both parties acknowledged Friday that a long-negotiated land swap ended recently in stalemate because of irreconcilable differences.
Buddy LaCour said he and his partners will move ahead with their own project. He expects to submit plans next month for three 15-story condos, offices and a "major name" restaurant to adjoin a riverboat eatery, cafe and 42-slip marina that previously were approved by the city.
"The rhetoric is over," he said. "We've talked about it almost 15 years and we're done talking."
At the heart of the breakup was the city's desire to keep a cleared former trailer park it bought several years ago as the site of a public park – property LaCour sought in the land swap.
City Councilman Drew Bastian said the breakup might be best for both sides.
"The swap is dead for Port Orange. I think it's good because we're not going to give away valuable property. We still have an option to build the park on property we control," Bastian said. "I hope his project is successful and makes Riverwalk a reality, a destination that is going to draw people to the area. I hope we can make it work."
Port Orange has unsuccessfully looked for projects for the 35-acre waterfront redevelopment district for 15 years.
The City Council last year approved a "master development agreement" and conceptual plan geared toward LaCour's riverboat proposal for Riverwalk, which goes from U.S. Highway 1 to the river and north of Dunlawton Avenue to almost the South Daytona line.
Several impressive plans date back to 1998 but nothing came of them.
Councilman Bob Ford, an outspoken critic of LaCour's land-swap proposal, said he would have preferred a coordinated project between the city and developers, "but it doesn't appear to be possible."
"We can't come to an agreement on a whole bunch of things," Ford said. "What killed it was he wanted too much property for what he was giving. ... We would have ended up with a narrow sliver of park on the river."
Moving forward, Ford said LaCour has a right to develop the property he owns "as long as it's consistent with codes."
The city owns about 17 acres in Riverwalk, LaCour and his partners 11 and other individuals the remaining land.
LaCour said his new proposal, if approved, would result in more than $100 million in property value on the city's tax roll.
"We've invested a tremendous amount of money over the years. We hoped we'd be under construction by now," he said. "But there's a lack of commitment from the city. ... We've been playing this game for 15 years and it doesn't work, and we're not going to do it anymore. ... This is the only solution for us to move it off dead center."