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My Alexandra heritage tour follows the visits the military installations constructed by the British to defend the naval outpost in Singapore and follows the war from Labrador to the devastating massacre at Alexandra hospital and its neighbouring Boh Beh Kang villages.
Participants will hear a first-hand account of the war from the ex-villagers and visit former military installations such as Labrador battery, Gillman Barracks and Alexandra Barracks, etc
Note: This guided trail is physically strenuous and may not be suitable for young children and persons with disability due to rough terrain.
Level of Difficulty: 3/5
- Approximate Duration: 4 hours (8.30am to 12.30pm)
- Please arrive at Labrador MRT Station Exit 15 minutes before 8.30am. The trail guides will be wearing red T-shirts with our distinctive CROWN logo.
- The trail will end at Queenstown MRT Station.
What to bring?
- Wear comfortable clothes (preferably long pants) and shoes suitable for thick vegetation.
- Bring along insect repellent, EZ-Link card, ear phones, a bottle of water and an umbrella
- Asthmatic patients are encouraged to bring their inhaler
Weather Check!
- Guided tours will be cancelled in the event of heavy rain. We will email or SMS you to inform an hour before the trail
- Guided tours will also be cancelled if the Pollution Standard Index (PSI) exceeds 100. We will email or SMS you to inform an hour before the trail
- Guided tours will continue in the event of light rain. Participants are required to bring their umbrellas.
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Tornadoes, Tournaments and Today's Inspiration
This is the first time I've missed a daily posting on Today's Inspiration. Why, nothing short of a major power outage caused by a tornado would stop me from this pleasant self-imposed obligation. Coincidentally, that's exactly what happened.
Friends invited us to join them at a cottage in Haliburton last Wednesday. We packed up the kids and the dog, I loaded in my iMac and tablet, and off we went for a couple of days of working vacation in cottage country. We arrived at dinner time and a major storm arrived just an hour later. The power went out a 7:55 pm and was still out the next morning. The one kilometer walk to the paper box required running an obstacle course through downed trees draped in broken power lines. Our sideroad alone had five 40' tall trees snapped off like twigs.
That day the supermarket would only sell ice, bottled water and newspapers at the front entrance and rumour spread that power would be out for up to five days. We still had a great time but had to deal with inconveniences like boiling water on the barbeque to make a pot of coffee - and of course working on my computer and using the internet became impossible.
I was scheduled to meet a second group of friends at another cottage about an hour away for our annual summer fishing derby that coming weekend, so Wendy and the kids dropped me off as they headed home last Friday. The power was back on at the second cottage but the storm had wreaked havoc with the water levels in the river, and the fish had become all befuddled. We spent a pleasant time drinking beer and not catching fish.
I'm back home at last and I still have enough Andy Virgils to get us to Friday so I thought we'd just pick up where we left off so unceremoniously last week.
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Hey Buddy....we were up in cottage country too...Our last night was the tornado....ReplyDelete
fun and scary at the same time..drinking a few from the boathouse watching the action.
(I swear I saw Dorthy and a coupla flying monkeys)
We drove back the next day from Renfrew county and passed thru Bancroft,Haliburton,etc,etc.....
Major damage all the way to Barrie.
....I love cottage life.
Your excuses sicken me.ReplyDelete
Why do I even bother paying you so much money to do these?
I'm with Chip, on that one: at least say that your dog ate it, or something creative!!! Tornadoes, 40' trees, yeah right: you even got the small minded putz from Orangeville believing that story! He was not in cottage country: he was wasted in in backyard...! All that to say thanks for at least coming up with an excuse! That will go in your records, unless a bribe is quickly forwarded to the "Save the René" fundation.ReplyDelete
See, in the states that's what we call "camping." ;)ReplyDelete
Glad you're back in the game man.
I'm digging Virgil.
Welcome back, Leif. I missed my daily fix.ReplyDelete

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Mamiya, the village leader in the new Fist of of the North Star game, gets a new downloadable costume today. It's not "new" per se as it's based on what she wears in the manga. Or so we thought.
In fact, the earlier released artwork does not exactly correspond with what players are getting in game. The image below says "DLC costume image" and "Actual in-game costume".
The in-game costume, it seems, looks something like this.
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The "Mamiya Original Comic Costume" went on sale today for ¥300 on the PS3 and 240 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE.
The manga Fist of the North Star debuted in 1983 and went on to spin off two animated series and motion pictures.


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Look Of The Day: Kate Mara's Sleek, Slicked Back Pony
Slicked-back hair is a runway trend that doesn't always translate to real life—but there are exceptions. Exhibit A: Kate Mara's sleek, elegant pony at Sunday night's Tony Awards. We got the scoop from hairstylist Peter Butler, who told us exactly how he created this look.
"I started by blowing out her hair using Leonar Greyl Mousse Au Lotus Volumatrice ($46)," Butler says. "This product is fantastic for fine, colour-treated hair!" Next, he used a Mason Pearson Brush ($120) to smooth her locks as he blew her hair dry (he swears the boar bristles help boost shine). To create volume at Mara's crown, he used a 2-inch curling iron to create two large curls—one at her hairline and another right behind it. After combing her hair back into a ponytail and tying it with a bungee elastic, he finished with a spritz of Moroccan Oil Treatment Light ($43) and the brand's Glimmer Shine ($28) to really amp up the shine factor. "I really thought she looked amazing under the lights on the red carpet!" he says. We couldn't agree more.


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April 25, 2012
Update on Genealogy Re-organization
You can see a few of the boxes of files ready to be moved to their new home. Those that I need on a daily or weekly basis are going to my new office in the loft.
Those that I use a few times a year will go to our basement family room and the ones that I need to keep but probably never look at again are going to our basement storage room.
I still have to empty 2 more lateral filing cabinet drawers (6 linear feet) and 2 letter size filing cabinets.
Then I'm ready to tackle the bookcases!
Phew. My son will be here on Friday to help move the furniture so I have to have everything ready by then.
On the right you can see the huge box of papers I'm burning. Hubs already burned one box this size. The box is as tall as my desk.
It's been exhausting and tedious but what a great feeling to purge! I had no idea I'd enjoy it so much.
There's much more to do but we've passed the half-way point now!
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- Michelle Goodrum said...
Wow! I am impressed.
- Celia said...
The alternative to all this work is to just move every 3 years...! :) You'd be amazed at how quickly you decide to copy items into your computer, get rid of duplicates of things, etc. What great work you've done in such a short time!! Congratulations to you (& hubs) for all the work!
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One of the hardest part of trying to conceive is what it can do to your sex life. I remember being told that I had "Hostile Cervical Mucus".....now isn't that hot? "Come on Honey - Don't you want me and my hostile vagina?!!!" Doesn't that feel welcoming? Well - it didn't to me. I felt like my body was saying that it didn't want to receive my husband and my husband's potential babies. It rocked my world. For a while I was really shut down sexually. I felt like my body was not warm and welcoming....I felt the opposite of sexy. I didn't feel fertile and lush. I was everything that was not. Just think of the other diagnoses..."habitual aborter" or "premature ovarian failure".....I mean this is really sexy stuff.
Then we move into timed sex....and the list goes on. We like to think that sex has nothing to do with our ability to conceive. That a man who has many children is not more virile, i.e. more sexual than a man who has none. But that is simply perception. The man with many children may actually be an awful lover - and the man with none may be a regular Don Juan - but the children is what everyone sees and uses as a measure. The same thing goes for a woman.
So how do we manage to separate our sexuality of our ability to procreate? And it I read one more fluffy piece about taking bubble baths and lighting candles - I will be sick. Come on...if it was that easy all of us would hardly have any skin left from all the constant bathing!!!
We truly have to do more than that. I love that in Fully Fertile - that they talk about learning how to touch each other erotically again. The suggestion of learning how to give sensual massage to each other is a wonderful option for opening the doors to reconnection that separates our sexuality from reproduction. There are some wonderful resources - books and videos out there that can help couples learn to give each other sensual touch. Just google it or go to Amazon - it is all there! We need to learn to let go of our diagnosis's and the pressure to perform - and go back into our bodies and feel pleasure again in being a couple.
So...it took me a long time for me to get my groove back. My self image was thrown to the ground from infertility. But I recovered. A great place to start is through touch. And if you want to start with the bubble bath and the candle....why not?


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Obama picks Cuban-born, Miami-raised poet for inaugurationBy Jordan Melnick | January 9th, 2013 | No Comments
Richard Blanco, a son of Cuban exiles who grew up in Miami, will recite an original poem at Barack Obama's second presidential inauguration, on January 21, according to the New York Times.
From the moment Barack Obama burst onto the political scene, the poet Richard Blanco, a son of Cuban exiles, says he felt "a spiritual connection" with the man who would become the nation's 44th president.
Like Mr. Obama, who chronicled his multicultural upbringing in a best-selling autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Mr. Blanco has been on a quest for personal identity through the written word. He said his affinity for Mr. Obama springs from his own feeling of straddling different worlds; he is Latino and gay (and worked as a civil engineer while pursuing poetry). His poems are laden with longing for the sights and smells of the land his parents left behind.
Now Mr. Obama is about to pluck Mr. Blanco out of the relatively obscure and quiet world of poetry and put him on display before the entire world.
To learn more about Blanco, who honed his craft at FIU and writes about "negotiating the world" as a "mainstream gay" man who came out of a very conservative culture, read the NYT's profile. On this recording, Blanco reads "América", a poem from his first collection, City of a Hundred Fires.
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The SCSU Huskies avoided elimination in the NSIC baseball tournament with a 2-0 win over Concordia Thursday afternoon. Junior pitcher Kyle Fischer pitched a complete game shutout for SCSU.
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Finally, there's a bit of good news about reproductive rights. As a result of emergency contraception being sold over-the-counter, between 2006 and 2008 about twice as many women used the pills, compared to six years earlier when it required a prescription.
A new study of 6,300 sexually active American women found that nearly 10% have used the morning after pill, up from 4% in 2002. Megan L. Kavanaugh, a senior research associate at the Guttmacher Institute who worked on the study, said, "It has more than doubled since the last time the data were collected," adding, "its use still seems relatively low, given that it's easy to access. So there's room for improvement."
Guttmacher attributes the rise in use to more media attention, but they found there's been no change in how often doctors are discussing emergency contraception. In both surveys only 3% of women said they talked about the pills with their doctors, and previous research found that health providers don't usually bring it up. Of course the 2006 law made it so women over 17 don't have to talk to their doctors to obtain emergency contraception, but Guttmacher says it should be part of talks women have with their doctors about how to prevent unplanned pregnancy.
While there have been some huge improvements in access to the morning after pill since it became available in the U.S. in 1999, it hasn't had as big an effect as some expected. It was hoped that the medication would lower the rate of unwanted pregnancies, but Kavanaugh says, "so far there's no evidence that this is happening." Slowly more women are starting to use emergency contraception, but many still don't know what it does, or that it's easy to obtain.


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The most common step in creating software is building it. Usually this means running make or equivalent and waiting. This step is so universal that most people don't even think about it actively. If one were to see what the computer is doing during build, one would see compiler processes taking 100% of the machine's CPUs. Thus the system is working as fast as it possibly can.
Some people working on Chromium doubted this and built their own replacement of Make called Ninja. It is basically the same as Make: you specify a list of dependencies and then tell it to build something. Since Make is one of the most used applications in the world and has been under development since the 70s, surely it is as fast as it can possibly be done.
Well, let's find out. Chromium uses a build system called Gyp that generates makefiles. Chromium devs have created a Ninja backend for Gyp. This makes comparing the two extremely easy.
Compiling Chromium from scratch on a dual core desktop machine with makefiles takes around 90 minutes. Ninja builds it in less than an hour. A quad core machine builds Chromium in ~70 minutes. Ninja takes ~40 minutes. Running make on a tree with no changes at all takes 3 minutes. Ninja takes 3 seconds.
So not only is Ninja faster than Make, it is faster by a huge margin and especially on the use case that matters for the average developer: small incremental changes.
What can we learn from this?
There is an old (and very wise) saying that you should never optimize before you measure. In this case the measurement seemed to indicate that nothing was to be done: CPU load was already maximized by the compiler processes. But sometimes your tools give you misleading data. Sometimes they lie to you. Sometimes the "common knowledge" of the entire development community is wrong. Sometimes you just have to do the stupid, irrational, waste-of-time -thingie.
This is called progress.
PS I made quick-n-dirty packages of a Ninja git checkout from a few days ago and put them in my PPA. Feel free to try them out. There is also an experimental CMake backend for Ninja so anyone with a CMake project can easily try what kind of a speedup they would get.


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One day an old traveler happens upon a small dilapidated cottage a few miles out of town. As he approaches, an elderly woman opens the door and greets him with a hesitant smile.
"How are you?" he begins on a note of enthusiasm.
"Okay, I suppose," she replies in a sullen manner.
"Do you mind if I join you for a hot meal?" he asks. "I haven't eaten in a few days."
"But sir ... I haven't enough to feed myself. There's not a scrap of food in the house. My husband died and I've been through some tough times, and..."
"But madam!" he interrupted. "I have just what we need to make the most delicious soup you've ever tasted." Before she could say another word, he pulls an old nail from his pocket and holds it in front of her face.
"A nail ... are you kidding? What good is a nail when we're both starving?" she demands.
"My dear woman ... this is the secret ingredient for the soup. Trust me, I'll show you how it works."
Upon entering what's left of the small cottage, the old traveler takes off his coat and walks into the kitchen. Sure enough, the cupboards are bare. He rolls up his sleeves and directs the woman to fill a pot with water and place it on the stove. When it begins to boil, he throws in the nail. She just stares at him in despair.
He knows the look of despair on her face - he's seen it many times.
"Madam, I realize this may be impossible, but would you have even the slightest remnant of a potato anywhere? It could add some flavor."
"I doubt it ... but I'll look," she says while walking down the creaky stairs into the old root cellar. There the old woman finds a few old potatoes in the corner and presents them to the traveler. After washing and dicing them, he drops the pieces into the pot.
"By the way, would you happen to have a parsnip or turnip around? If you don't, it's alright."
Remembering she saw one in the cellar, the old woman soon returns with another specimen and it winds up in the boiling water as well.
"You know, although we don't need it, some seasoning might add some flavor," says the traveler. Soon she's back with a sprinkle of salt and pepper.
"Wouldn't it be nice, not essential of course, to have a fresh carrot or two?" he asks. A short time later she presents a handful of vegetables from her old garden.
"And I know this is probably out of the question, but a little flour for thickening could really add the finishing touch ... not necessary of course, but certainly a nice addition."
After scavenging around the kitchen for a few minutes, the old woman finds some flour, makes it into a paste and slowly stirs it into the soup. Somewhat exhausted, she sits down at the kitchen table, closes her eyes, places her head on her hands, and begins to notice a wonderful aroma that immediately stimulates fond memories.
A tap on the shoulder arouses her, as the traveler places a delicious bowl of Nail Soup before her. And as they savor the hearty meal, the old woman is awestruck. For she has witnessed magic - or perhaps a miracle heralding better times.
This old story, recounted over the ages in many cultures, reflects the true resourcefulness that's buried within each of us. It builds on the power of the human spirit to uncover the survival elements we need that often seem hidden, yet really exist in front of our eyes.
Nail Soup is a metaphor of encouragement, of belief and of rediscovering what is missing - perhaps the truest elements of healing. It shows us that when we reach deep within, we nourish ourselves and fortify our spirit.
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Mikey wrote:Indeed - there are no absolutes in Western policy about such things, just decisions about whether the nutters can be used for us or agin' us.
Deepcrush wrote:The key to a last victory will be giving the Afghans a more fragile/local target and setting ourselves as a support resource while pushing them to take the lead. The US will have to not only accept but encourage itself to take second chair to local governments, even if we normally wouldn't trust them with such a position. The sooner the US backs out of being the UNs muscle and leaves it to the UN to make up the difference the better for all.
SolkaTruesilver wrote:my understanding is that the lack of local power to balance Iran's military forces
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Managing price risk can be a daunting task for cotton producers. But it's becoming more and more of a necessity in markets where volatility is the norm, and outside forces can affect prices more than fundamentals.
With that in mind, Cotton Incorporated is hosting a seminar in Memphis, Tenn., on Feb. 17, at the Peabody Hotel, 149 Union Ave., from 8:30 a.m. — 5:00 p.m.
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Sessions will cover the basics of cotton futures and options, specific hedging strategies involving the use of cotton options contracts, producer perspective, and a market outlook. There will also be discussions on integrating crop and revenue insurance.
Other seminars are scheduled in Coalinga, Calif., in March (date to be determined) and in Lubbock, Texas, on April 7, at the Holiday Inn Hotel and Towers, 801 Avenue Q.
"The seminars will cover the basics, as well as some of the more intermediate information related to cotton futures and options, specific hedging strategies involving the use of cotton options contracts and real world applications," says Cotton Incorporated's director of agricultural research and ag division staff economist, Jeanne Reeves.
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You might think that everything would have changed for the chemicals industry on April 16, 1947. That was the day of the Texas City Disaster, the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. A ship loaded with ammonium nitrate — the same chemical that appears to have caused the disaster last month in West, Texas — exploded. The ship sparked a chain reaction of blasts at chemical facilities onshore, creating what a newsreel at the time called "a holocaust that baffles description."
Or you might think everything would have changed on Dec. 3, 1984. That was the day that the U.S.-owned Union Carbide pesticide plant on the edge of Bhopal, India, suddenly began to leak — spewing a cloud of deadly gas over the city. By all accounts, thousands of people died; the Indian government never made an accurate count. Union Carbide paid $470 million damages.
Or you might think the chemical industry would have been forced to reform after March 23, 2005, when an explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City killed 15 workers and injured 180 others, according to a federal report. A BP spokesman says the company paid $1.6 billion to compensate victims and their families.
Or change could have taken place after any of the hundreds of fatal accidents at chemical facilities in the past dozen years, according to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, an independent federal agency, based on media reports.
For years, a loose network of environmental groups, public health organizations and members of Congress, both Democratic and Republican, has fought to require companies to try to redesign their chemical facilities, to make them safer. Engineers often call the approach "inherently safer" technology or design. But industry executives and their allies in Congress have blocked the proposals.
Christine Todd Whitman, a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, says she was angry when she heard about the West fertilizer plant explosion in April. "It just made me so mad, you wanted to take Congress and shake it, and say, 'Listen, what more does it take for you to understand that we need some action here?' "
Whitman led the EPA for President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003. "I'm a Republican; I'm leery of too much regulation," she says, "but there are times when you need it. There's a reason for some of this stuff."
Over the past few decades, government and industry have taken some steps to make chemical plants in the U.S. safer. For instance, Congress passed two landmark laws in the years after the Bhopal disaster. Together, they require plant owners to disclose exactly which dangerous chemicals they use at specific plants; estimate how many people would be at risk of getting killed or injured if there were an accident at the plant; and spell out what steps they are taking to prevent it.
But after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, security specialists began to worry that those laws weren't strong enough.
Solutions Vs. Band-Aids
"Chemical plants are really pre-positioned weapons of mass destruction," says Charles Sam Faddis, a former CIA officer who ran the CIA team that searched for WMDs in Iraq after the U.S. invaded. They didn't find weapons of mass destruction there, but Faddis says he realized that if terrorists had attacked a U.S. chemical plant instead of the twin office towers, they might have caused a bigger disaster.
The chemical industry's own reports back then, filed under federal law, show there were hundreds of plants across the country where a single incident could potentially kill thousands of people. For instance, D.C. Water — Washington's water and sewer utility — reported that if tanks of chlorine gas ruptured at its Blue Plains wastewater treatment plant, a deadly cloud could reach the U.S. Capitol.
So, some Bush administration officials decided that there was a fundamental problem with the way the government regulates chemical plants. The laws tell chemical plant owners, in effect, that it's fine to use large amounts of deadly chemicals, even if the plant is next to a city — as long as the company protects them with measures such as strong tanks and fences. And in case there is an accident or a terrorist attack, the company needs to have an emergency action plan to protect the community.
Officials at the time, like Bob Bostock, EPA's homeland security adviser, said those aren't solutions but Band-Aids.
"It was the only thing that kept me up at night," Bostock says — the fear that terrorists would blow up a tank of chlorine or other toxic chemical and trigger a disaster in a major city.
Executives at some companies used the inherently safer design approach after Sept. 11 and reduced their use of dangerous chemicals. D.C. Water, for example, got rid of deadly chlorine gas only a few months after the attacks and started treating wastewater with safer methods.
Bostock and Whitman drafted a law in 2002 that would have required chemical facilities across the country to see if they, too, could use inherently safer design.
Bostock says they knew that every plant might not be able to eliminate or cut back on its use of the deadliest chemicals. At some facilities, it might be technically impossible or too expensive. But the draft legislation would have required executives to at least examine whether it could be done.
"If there was ever a successful attack on one of these facilities or even an accidental release," Bostock says, "the first question you would get asked as a policymaker is, 'You knew this was a problem. Why haven't you done anything about it?' "
Meanwhile, up on Capitol Hill, a separate bill calling for inherently safer technology sailed unanimously through a key Senate committee. Then everything screeched to a halt. Whitman and Bostock say top aides to President Bush told them the push for inherently safer design "was not going anywhere," as Bostock remembers. "It was dead." White House officials never publicly explained why.
Since then, a coalition of more than 100 public health, environmental and labor groups and security specialists has tried repeatedly to get Congress to reconsider. It tried in 2003, 2006, 2009 and again in 2010. But in each case, opponents managed to block the proposals.
Whitman attributes the defeats, in part, to pressure from the chemical industry. "There are very powerful influences, and in politics you always sort of trace that back to the money," Whitman says.
Campaign finance reports, collated by the Center for Responsive Politics on OpenSecrets.org, show that the petrochemicals industry has been one of the main funders for key members of Congress who have opposed inherently safer design. And lobbying reports, collated by the Sunlight Foundation, suggest that chemical industry trade groups have made the fight against bills requiring inherently safer technology one of their priorities.
The Industry Response
Industry spokesmen say petrochemicals are already one of the safest and most regulated industries. "We stand second to none as the chemical industry in trying to implement an appropriate focus on process safety and security," says Michael Walls, vice president of the American Chemistry Council, which represents most of the leading corporations from Dow and DuPont to Exxon Mobil and Chevron. The council has lobbied Congress for years to kill bills concerned with inherently safer technology. In fact, together with other industry groups, they have told Congress that companies should not even be required to consider whether it should be implemented.
On the face of it, the call for companies to switch to safer chemicals "does sound attractive," says Walls. "But the basic choice comes down to, do you mandate something like a review of inherently safer technology, or do you want to require its consideration at the right time for each particular facility? One of the questions here is, who decides? Who decides what is inherently safer in any particular case?"
Walls and other industry spokesmen, such as Kathy Mathers, vice president of The Fertilizer Institute, worry that federal regulators might tell chemical companies how to run their business.
"Agriculture knows agriculture," says Mathers. The institute represents companies that make and sell ammonium nitrate, among other chemicals, which may have caused the explosion last month in Texas and has caused some of the worst industrial accidents in history. "And certainly the regulators have their role in society. At this point we have not seen a version of an inherently safer technology bill that we would support."
That perspective puzzles Rafael Moure-Eraso, chairman of the main federal agency that investigates accidents at chemical facilities. "I was quite surprised that anyone would resist this concept, this concept of prevention," he says, sitting in his corner office at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, not far from the White House. The CSB, whose members are appointed by the President, is currently investigating what caused last month's fatal explosion at the West Fertilizer facility in Texas.
Some of the CSB's official reports on chemical plant explosions recommend that the industry use inherently safer technology as one of the main strategies for preventing accidents in the first place — and limiting the damage when they do occur.
In fact, Moure-Eraso says he supports the idea of a law requiring plant owners to see if their plants can eliminate or reduce the need for dangerous chemicals. "You have to make a cost-benefit about what is more costly: to engage in a process to try to mitigate or avoid hazards; or deal with the families of the people who get killed, the destruction of an industry, the destruction of a community," Moure-Eraso says. "And I claim that it's a lot more expensive to deal with these catastrophic losses than what it will take to invest to prevent this to happen in the first place."
Advocates of inherently safer design wonder now where President Obama stands on this issue. Back when he was in the Senate, Obama co-sponsored a bill that would have required plants to consider inherently safer technology. And his administration supported the concept after he became president. But Rick Hind, legislative director of Greenpeace, says members of the coalition that has been campaigning for the approach are frustrated that Obama hasn't spoken out about it recently.
"We're very concerned," says Hind, "because we've been asking [the Obama administration] to look into this and to do something since 2011. And they said, 'Well, after the election maybe we'll do something.' And now, we're still waiting."
NPR asked White House officials where President Obama stands now on the issue of inherently safer technology. A spokesman sent this brief reply:
"Chemical plant safety is a high priority, and federal departments and agencies will continue to work within their authorities and with state officials to support the ongoing investigation and assess appropriate information that can help inform ongoing efforts to ensure chemical plant safety."
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And I'm Melissa Block. Investigators in Texas yesterday said they're still trying to figure out what caused the deadly explosion last month at the West fertilizer company. The blast killed 14 people and destroyed dozens of homes and other buildings. The chemical industry's own reports show thousands of plants across the country where a single accident or terrorist attack could put an entire community at risk, even a city. Some government officials and public advocates have been fighting for decades to require companies to redesign their plants to make them safer.
But as NPR's Daniel Zwerdling reports, industry executives and their allies in Congress have blocked those proposals.
DANIEL ZWERDLING, BYLINE: You might think that everything would've changed for the chemicals industry on April 16th, 1947. They call it the Texas City disaster, the worst industrial accident in U.S. History.
ZWERDLING: A ship loaded with ammonium nitrate exploded. That's the chemical that apparently caused the disaster last month in Texas. The ship triggered more explosions at chemical facilities onshore. More than 500 died. So you might think Congress would've forced industry to redesign the way they handle chemicals.
ZWERDLING: Or you might think everything would've changed for the chemicals industry on December 3rd, 1984.
ZWERDLING: That was the Bhopal disaster caused by an American corporation. Here's ABC News.
ZWERDLING: Thousands of people died. Union Carbide paid almost half a billion dollars in damages. Or you might think the chemical industry really had to reform in 2005. Here's NBC.
ZWERDLING: At least 15 people were killed and almost 200 injured. BP says they paid $1.6 billion to compensate victims and their families. Government statistics, based on press reports, show there have been hundreds of accidents at chemical facilities that have killed people in just the past dozen years. And Christine Todd Whitman says when she heard about the West explosion last month in Texas...
CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN: It just made me so mad and you wanted to take Congress and shake it and say, listen, what more does it take for you to understand that we need some action here?
ZWERDLING: Whitman ran EPA under President George W. Bush.
WHITMAN: I'm a Republican. I am leery of too much regulation, believe me, I understand it. But there are times when you need it. There's a reason for some of this stuff.
ZWERDLING: Over the past few decades, government and industry have taken steps to make chemical plants safer. For instance, Congress passed two landmark laws after the Bhopal disaster in the 1980s. They told industry, you have to tell the public which dangerous chemicals you're using. You have to tell how many people would be at risk of getting killed or injured if there's an accident at your plant. And what are you doing to prevent it?
But then came 9/11 and security specialists worried that those laws on chemical plants aren't strong enough.
SAM FADDIS: I mean, these things that we are talking about, chemical plants, are really prepositioned weapons of mass destruction.
ZWERDLING: Sam Faddis knows about weapons of mass destruction. He used to work for the CIA. And Faddis realized if terrorists had attacked a chemical facility instead of the World Trade Center, they could've caused a bigger disaster. The chemical industry's own reports back then showed there were hundreds of plants across the country where a single incident could potentially kill thousands of people.
For instance, the water treatment utility in Washington, D.C. reported that if their chlorine tanks ruptured, a deadly cloud could reach the U.S. capitol.
FADDIS: And as long as you got the wind blowing in the right direction - I mean, the right direction from the standpoint of a terrorist - that cloud is now going to drift into areas populated by literally millions of human beings.
ZWERDLING: So some officials in the Bush administration decided there's a fundamental problem with the way the government regulates chemical plants. The laws basically tell industry, it's fine if you use huge amounts of deadly chemicals, even if you're right next to a city. Just be sure you protect them with measures like strong tanks and fences. Bob Bostock said, those aren't solutions, they're Band-Aids.
BOB BOSTOCK: It was the only thing that kept me up at night.
ZWERDLING: Bostock was a top advisor to the head of EPA, Christine Todd Whitman. And they decided that one of the best ways to make chemical facilities safer is to change the way they operate so they don't need so many dangerous chemicals in the first place. Engineers often call the approach inherently safer design.
BOSTOCK: For a lot of these chemicals there are other chemicals that can be substituted that do not pose the same sort of effect if there was a breech.
ZWERDLING: And some companies did substitute other chemicals after 9/11. The waste water treatment plant in Washington, D.C. got rid of deadly chlorine gas within three months and they started treating water with safer methods. Bostock and Whitman drafted a law that would require companies across the country to see if they could use inherently safer design.
They said, look maybe every plant can't switch. It might be technically impossible or too expensive. But they said, the government should require executives to at least try to do it.
BOSTOCK: If there was ever a successful attack on one of these facilities or even an accidental release, the first question you would get asked as a policymaker is, you knew this was a problem, why haven't you done anything about it?
ZWERDLING: Meanwhile, back in 2002, a key Senate committee voted to support inherently safer technology unanimously. Then, suddenly everything screeched to a halt. President Bush's aides said, forget it. They didn't explain why publicly. And since then, public health groups and environmental groups and unions and Democrats and Republicans, they've all tried over and over again to get Congress to reconsider. They tried in 2003 and 2006 and 2009 and 2010.
Whitman says, here we've just seen the devastation in Texas. You'd think Congress would finally act.
WHITMAN: But there are very powerful influences and in politics you always sort of trace that back to the money.
ZWERDLING: And the money is coming from?
WHITMAN: I guess the money's coming from the industry.
ZWERDLING: And you can see where some of that money flows if you log onto OpenSecrets.org. This website is run by the Nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. They track campaign finance. And the site shows that the petrochemicals industry has funded key members of Congress who've opposed inherently safer design. And take just one of many examples. Type in the name Fred Upton from Michigan. Upton is the Republican chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. No bill on inherently safer design can go far without his support.
The page on Upton shows that the petrochemicals industry is one of the main industries that finance his campaign. Upton did not grant our request for an interview but a spokesman for the chemical industry did.
MICHAEL WALLS: You know, we stand second to none as the chemical industry in trying to implement an appropriate focus on process safety and security.
ZWERDLING: Michael Walls is vice president of the American Chemistry Council. They represent Dow, DuPont, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, most of the leading petrochemical firms. The Chemistry Council has lobbied congress for years to kill bills on inherently safer design. I asked Walls, as a layperson who got a C in chemistry, I have to say it sounds like a really attractive and totally common sense approach. You know, get chemical facilities to do everything they can to figure out, can we switch to different chemicals.
WALLS: Daniel, I'd agree with you, it does sound attractive. But the basic choice comes down to do you mandate something like a review of inherently safer technology or do you want to require its consideration at the right time for each particular facility? One of the questions here is, who decides? Who decides what is inherently safer in any particular case?
ZWERDLING: Walls says, there are already plenty of agencies that regulate the chemicals industry. Although, as the West fertilizer investigation suggests, they're not always paying close attention. I also talked to Kathy Mathers. She's vice president of the Fertilizer Institute. Their member companies make and sell ammonium nitrate, among other chemicals. That's the product that apparently caused the explosion last month in Texas. And it's caused some of the worst industrial accidents in history.
So it sounds like you're worried about federal regulators, somebody in some bureaucracy in Washington, making a decision that's well-intentioned but would affect the fertilizer industry and the food industry.
KATHY MATHERS: Well, agriculture knows agriculture. And certainly the regulators have their role in society. At this point, we have not seen a version of an inherently safer technology bill that we would support.
RAFAEL MOURE-ERASO: I was quite surprised that anybody will resist this concept, concept of prevention.
ZWERDLING: Rafael Moure-Eraso runs the Chemical Safety Board. That's the main federal agency that investigates accidents at chemical plants and then recommends how to prevent them. The board is investigating the Texas fertilizer explosion right now and Moure-Eraso recommends a new law. He says the federal government should require every chemical company to analyze whether they can use inherently safer design to get rid of dangerous chemicals.
MOURE-ERASO: You have to make a cost-benefit about what is more costly, to engage in a process to try to mitigate and avoid hazards or deal with the families of the people who get killed, the destruction of an industry, the destruction of a community? And I claim that it's a lot more expensive to deal with these catastrophic losses than what it will take to invest to prevent this to happen in the first place.
ZWERDLING: All this raises a question. Where is President Obama on this issue?
RICK HIND: That's our $64,000 question.
ZWERDLING: That's Rick Hind. He's legislative director of Greenpeace. Greenpeace is one of the leaders of the coalition's campaign for inherently safer technology. Obama co-sponsored a bill calling for it back when he was in the Senate. His administration backed the idea again after he became president, but...
HIND: We're very concerned because we've been asking for them to look into this and to do something since 2011 and they said, well, after the election, maybe we'll do something. And now, we're still waiting.
ZWERDLING: We asked the White House, where does the president stand on inherently safer design? A spokesman wouldn't say, but he sent us a statement that said, quote, "chemical plant safety is a high priority," unquote.
ERIN COLES: Well, right now, we're standing next to the baseball field and if you look right behind it, you can actually just touch the refinery.
ZWERDLING: That's a mother named Erin Coles(ph). She wishes President Obama would take action. She's taken me to Paulsboro High School. It's across the New Jersey border from Philadelphia. Her kids go here. In fact, two daughters are practicing track while the baseball team plays a game. And right beyond them, there's the PBF Energy Company refinery. It looms over the baseball diamond, metal towers, plumes of white smoke.
COLES: It almost looks like Cape Canaveral where you see the launch pads and things like that.
ZWERDLING: Coles has helped organize a community group to educate people about the potential dangers. The refinery's own reports show that it uses tons of hydrofluoric acid. They show that an accident could send a toxic cloud across an area with 3 million people.
COLES: I'm concerned that so many people live in a radius around the plant that depending on the wind direction and which way the plume goes from the refinery, it could fatal to them.
ZWERDLING: A recent study by the United Steel Workers concludes that the company could use inherently safer design and switch to safer chemicals. In fact, other refineries have already done that. I called PBF to find out why they don't switch, but they referred me to their industry trade group. A spokeswoman wrote that there are a wide variety of safety measures to prevent an accident at refineries like this one.
Of course, that's what some executives said about other plants before they exploded. Daniel Zwerdling, NPR News.
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I also thought since the Royal Wedding is taking place this Friday, what better way to celebrate in style than with a plate of fresh baked blueberry scones to share with your friends and family.
I may not have an 18-carat sapphire engagement ring to share with my kids, but I'm grateful I have my baking knowledge to pass down to them, and hope that someday they'll remember fondly the times we spent in the kitchen together. - mrslarkin —mrslarkin
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cup granulated sugar, plus more for sprinkling on tops of scones
tablespoon baking powder* (see step 11)
teaspoon kosher salt
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cup frozen wild Maine blueberries
cup heavy cream, plus more for brushing on tops of scones
large egg
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- In the bowl of a food processor fitted with the chopping blade, place the dry ingredients and pulse to combine.
- Add the butter, and pulse about 10 or so times. You want to retain some small pieces of butter. Don't blitz the heck out of it. Transfer the flour mixture to a large mixing bowl. If you've got some really large butter lumps, just squish them with the back of a fork.
- Gently toss the blueberries into the flour mixture.
- In a large measuring cup, place the heavy cream, egg and vanilla. Mix well. Pour into flour mixture. With a dinner fork, fold the wet into the dry as you gradually turn the bowl. It's a folding motion you're shooting for, not a stirring motion. When dough begins to gather, use a plastic bowl scraper to gently knead the dough into a ball shape. If there is still a lot of loose flour in the bottom of the bowl, drizzle in a bit more cream, like a teaspoon at a time, until the dough comes together.
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- Preheat oven to 425° F. Place frozen scones on a parchment-lined sheet pan, about 1-inch apart. Brush with cream. Sprinkle tops of scones with sugar.
- Bake for about 20 - 25 minutes, turning pan halfway through. They are done when a wooden skewer comes out clean.
- Serve with clotted cream, creme fraiche, and jam if you wish. These are great the next day, warmed in the microwave for 15 - 20 seconds. They freeze really well, too, and can be reheated in a 350 degree F oven until warm. Enjoy!
- For plain scones, just omit the blueberries.
- *COOK'S NOTE: Update on freezing scones. I usually use Red Star non-aluminum baking powder. I recently ran out, so I bought some Rumford's instead. After freezing solid, the Rumford scones did not rise at all when baking. So fyi, if you use Rumford's baking powder, bake the scones straightaway, and don't freeze.
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Lady Gaga's Boyfriend Taylor Kinney Goes Ring Shopping
Lady Gaga's boyfriend Taylor Kinney may like it enough to put a ring on it. Word is that Kinney, her 'You & I' co-star and ex-'Vampire Diaries' cast member, went ring shopping in Chicago. Does that mean that this pair is getting serious enough to make it official?
According to Hollywood Life, they are. The Mother Monster's man was supposedly looking at promise rings.
"Taylor is shopping for a promise ring," a source claimed. "They both have been in Chicago for the past week, staying at a swanky hotel downtown. Taylor is filming a movie called 'Chicago Fire.' He went to an upscale jewelry store on Michigan Avenue asking about rings. He said something about a promise ring."
We'd like to point out that the source is erroneous about Kinney's work. He is filming a pilot for an NBC series about firefighters called 'Chicago Fire.' So that makes us wonder if said source got it all wrong about his search for a ring for his lady love.
We also have to wonder -- would he really make that comment out loud and spark rumors about his relationship with one of the most famous women on the planet? Gaga recently told Oprah she is happy but would not elaborate further about her romantic life. We doubt her BF would disrespect her wishes to keep their relationship private.
Gaga and her man were also spotted dining at Frontera Grill on March 20. A witness said, "They looked like they were so totally in love, holding hands and laughing."
We're happy if Gaga is happy. She is about to head out on tour again soon, so she is probably spending as much time with Kinney as possible before she has to jet and get back to work.


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Perhaps it's too horrible for many of us to contemplate, but if you couldn't have a dog for some reason, what pet would you choose instead? There's no replacing dogs, but other pets do offer some of the same benefits. Whether it's companionship, exercise, training fun, participating in activities together, the peacefulness that comes from being with animals, or the satisfaction of caring for others, dogs offer so much to our quality of life.
There's a reason they're called our best friends—dogs seem to do more for us than so many other pets, but it would be dishonest to suggest that they are the only ones that can provide any of these benefits to us. Rabbits, cats, birds, rats, ferrets, fish, hamsters, snakes and horses all provide some of the same benefits to various degrees. They are all common pets for people who have dogs and for those who don't.
There are many reasons that people who have always had dogs may decide not to acquire another. It may be too difficult to provide them with enough activity in the face of aging or a health problem. A housing situation such as those designed for the elderly may not allow dogs. A new job with an extensive travel schedule may raise concerns about properly caring for a dog. Allergies in yourself or in a family member may make a dog problematic. A new relationship in which no dogs becomes a key compromise may mean not having a dog. (I realize many readers have expressed their disinterest in developing a relationship in which dogs were a point of contention, but this is an issue for many people and there's no right answer.)
I know it's the stuff of nightmares—not being able to have a dog—but if you couldn't have a dog, what pet would you choose instead?


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Traffic Crawls On 220 Following Bee Hive Spill [AUDIO]
Traffic delay continues west of Casper on highway 220 this afternoon. The Wyoming Highway patrol reports of a two truck collision earlier that sent bee hives and diesel on to the roadway in the vicinity of Goose egg road.
Danial Sandoval was on scene and says some traffic has been able to get through, but its all moving very slowly.. Listen Here;


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Session 2, 2013: Summer Snowboard Camp from Windells on Vimeo.
Words: Chas Truslow
Well another session has come to a close over at Windells Camp, the "funnest" place on earth. Campers head home tuckered out after days of euro carves down the Palmer glacier, rope tow laps through Windells' mile-long Private Park and daily skate sessions in the Concrete Jungle. Tons of fun activities on hill and off made Session 2 a blast for everyone.
Session 2 boasted everything from blue skies to snow fall, but sporadic weather did little to damper Chase Weaver and the rest of the Windells Diggers. They put together another amazing set up in Windells' lane. A variety of jumps and jibs for all skill levels provided Session 2 campers with the perfect environment to progress all session long.
Past Downtown Throwdown standouts Nial Romanek, Forest Bailey, Ted Borland, Nick Visconti, Dylan Thompson, Johnny Lazz and Jesse Burtner took over Windells for the Lib Tech Downtown Throwdown Team Takeover. Off hill, the crew combined Nial, dodgeball, and an autograph signing for a spin on the camp classic. Campers enjoyed skating BOB's brand new interior with Dylan Thompson and had their minds blown by Jesse Burtner's tramp skating wizardry.
On hill the Downtown Throwdown crew judged The Feeders! at Windells. The Feeders! is a rail jam series that gives competitors the opportunity to win a spot in the Lib Tech Downtown Throwdown. Windells Diggers built a unique set up for the event. "Nine unique hits made it so that the winner had to be an well-rounded rider and able to do more than just hit your standard features," said Nial. Hammers were being dropped left and right all day long. Standouts included Head Counselor Cody Lee's smooth top to bottom runs, Aaron Cardwell's deep bag of tricks, Jesse Paul's insanely technical lines and Everest Arnold's tricks through the kinks. In the end it was Jake Rose walking away the win, setting himself apart from the rest with his consistency and deep bag of tricks. The judges decided to give away a second entry into the Downtown Throwdown to Jesse Paul for his video part in Working For The City II.
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I try to look for positives because being negative all the time can be draining. But, right now the positives, at least offensively, are scarce.
This team just doesn't score any runs, and the odd thing is people are talking about blowing up this group and trading David Wright and Jose Reyes, the Mets' two best, although inconsistent, offensive players. Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
One of the season's bright spots, R.A. Dickey, goes today against Houston. Dickey has been splendid all season and has pitched better than his 8-5 record indicates. He's pitched deep into games, but has given up two late-inning homers in his last two starts to deprive him of victories. Otherwise, he'd have ten wins. He'd have even more than that with a little run supprt.
We've known for awhile now that the playoffs weren't going to happen, but you'd like to see some form of growth, something to build on. But, right now there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of it.
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Sony E-books Support Forest Conservation in SumatraAug 07 (Tue ), 2012
New Sony E-book Store Project Adds to Support for Forest Conservation in Sumatra
Sony Corporation launched a new project called "Read Books and Protect Forests" in April 2012. The company has been supporting a forest conversation project conducted by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Japan on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, since 2011. With the new project, Sony will donate part of the revenue from sales of e-books at its e-book store (Reader Store) to the project.
The donations will support activities such as tree planting at Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in Sumatra and the Elephant Patrol program, as well as strengthen communication activities to inform a wider group of people about the situation in the park.
Sony is aiming to plant about 5,000 trees during the project's first fiscal year. It will also continue efforts to support the project by providing an online library "corner" with more environment-related e-books at Reader Store, and posting reviews from WWF Japan staff.
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pieces o'nine wrote:Ubi Dubium wrote:bacon wrote:I heard that the proper forms haven't been filed in triplicate yet, and that they still need a cover sheet stating the intentions of the revolution.
We haven't even had the meeting yet where we set a time to work out the implentation schedule for setting the procedures for establishing a mission statement. We can't even begin working on the revolution plans until we have that all done, let alone start the paperwork.
That is just crazy talk. How can you be dreaming of mission statements when you haven't even scheduled a breakfast meeting to brainstorm team names?
Before we jump the gun here, we must first assemble a committee to form a consensus on what we will have at the aforementioned breakfast meeting, i.e. donuts, muffins, granola, etc.


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A guy offered me Kurt Warner for Brett Farve. Is this a good trade straight up? Rookie looking for some advice on a potential first trade.
He also has Flacco. I was thinking I should get more for Farve since he is hot right now and Warner seems to be getting destroyed by every defense. Im not sure he will be healthy if I need him to sub in for my other QB who is A. Rodgers.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
US President Barack Obama's visit to Israel has come to an end.
In a whirlwind two-day call, the president shmoozed average Israelis far more aggressively than most expected by repeatedly referencing the Jews' ancient and biblical connection to this land.
He also made an impassioned plea for Israel to resume making the kinds of security compromises that have proved so disastrous over the past 15 years for the sake of acheiving peace and justice for the Palestinians.
And while most Israelis love America and appreciate the gesture, very few outside of media commentators believed the visit would achieve anything concrete.
Israel Today spoke to Israelis on the streets of Jerusalem about Obama's visit, and this is what they had to say:
Ariye Caspi: "I think Obama's pro-peace and wants what's good for all of us."
Aviv Eldad: "It's good that he came, so he can see the situation here."
Mr. Sharon: "I think he's visiting and doing nothing else. He doesn't care."
Dafna Trujaman: "First of all he's a Democrat, and they are pro-Palestian, and he is a Muslim himself."
Hadas Levmore: "In some aspect he's pro-Palestinian and in some aspects he's pro-Israeli."
Debbie: "I don't know why he came."
Elana Falick: "I'm really excited that he's here. Most of my friends are not pro-Obama. But I think it will be really good and I think it will solidify the fact that he's on Israel's side and that he supports Israel."
Gabriel Danon: "He didn't accomplish anything more than other visiting presidents in the past."
Talia Sandman: "He's not been the most friendly president to Israel."
Ortal Cohen: "I think it can really help see what the Americans feel about us and how they see us around the world."
Leo: "Obama visiting is nice, but I think it's for show."
Michele Benami: "For us, Obama in Israel is a very good thing because we need America and Obama is the president of America."
Iris Marks: "Obama tries to be nice and shoot that smile when he wants to please people, but I don't think he's pro anything except himself."
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Wild Shut Out In Los Angeles Late Thursday Night
The Minnesota Wild struggled to score goals despite acquiring forward Jason Pominville from Buffalo.
The Wild were shut out by Los Angeles 3-0 at Staples Center Thursday night. The loss was Minnesota's third straight, and puts them in sixth place in the Western Conference with 44 points.
Niklas Backstrom was yanked by head coach Mike Yeo after allowing two goals in the first 3:07 of the game. Darcy Kuemper allowed just one goal the rest of the way, but the Wild could not manage a goal against Kings goalie Jonathan Bernier.
Minnesota actually outshot LA 23-14. Pominville played nearly 19 minutes and was a -1 with two shots on goal.
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Groton fire district considering return to volunteers
Groton - The Poquonnock Bridge Fire District Board of Directors is contemplating its most drastic cost-saving move to date with the conversion of its Fort Hill station into a volunteer department.
It was an idea first made public earlier this month by board member Alan Ackley during budget discussions. With a unanimous vote, the board has formed a three-member committee expected to further discuss the idea with Poquonnock Bridge Fire Chief Todd Paige.
Clearly uncomfortable with the idea, Paige answered questions from board members Tuesday about expenses surrounding training, equipment and physicals for volunteers.
Ackley said with a looming fiscal crisis and continued high taxes in the district, the district board could no longer afford not to look at all cost-saving options.
"We're kind of pushed into a corner," Ackley said. "A situation like this is just not sustainable. The only way to get financial control back to this district is to entice those volunteers back."
Ackley said he had been in contact with residents who had expressed an interest in volunteering.
"We had a very active volunteer group here at one time," Ackley said. "All we want to do is let them have their house back, let them be a viable entity, like they are in other districts. Our thought is, if you give them the environment to get together like they had years ago, there's a good chance of that happening."
Board President Chris Clark said it was "way too early" to comment on whether the addition of volunteers would actually result in a cost saving. He said there has been no discussion of layoffs accompanying the proposed move.
The Poquonnock Bridge Fire Department, with a paid staff of 28 union firefighters, presently operates out of two stations, at Fort Hill and Long Hill roads.
Paige said he was caught off guard by the board's proposal.
"We haven't had a volunteer since 2005," Paige said. "To bring back a volunteer department would cost a considerable amount of additional money. I think it's going to be more complicated than just saying we're going to start a volunteer fire department. It would not be a simple task. Nationwide, there is a problem with volunteerism. Groton isn't an exception to that."
While there are several surrounding districts with successful volunteer departments, Paige said many of those have been increasing their paid staff. He said new volunteers also need to be trained and equipped.
"I'm open to hearing what the district has to say," Paige said. "But because it was sprung on me, I haven't had the opportunity to look at the different impacts, such as response time. I'm not saying it can't be done. ... It's just that they were not a viable group for many years."
Board members Ackley, Clark and Peter Legnos plan to meet with Paige at 5 p.m. on April 23 to further discuss the matter. A union representative was not immediately available for comment.
Poquonnock Bridge is the most active fire department in town. Residents, at 5.9 mills, pay the largest tax rate of Groton's nine fire districts.
Paige said the Fort Hill station actually belongs to the former volunteer group but is leased to the district at no cost.
The district's final budget, along with membership of the board, are subject to a vote by Poquonnock Bridge residents at the annual meeting next month.
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New Book Celebrates Abbey Road Studios, Home of the Beatles, Pink Floyd
It's one of the most famous recording studios in music history, with people coming from all over the world on a daily basis to walk across the famous intersection depicted on the brilliant album that bears its name. Now, a new book will celebrate the history of London's Abbey Road Studios.
'Abbey Road: The Best Studio in the World' is a history of the EMI studio located at 3 Abbey Road in the St. John's Wood section of London. Written by Alistair Lawrence, the book chronicles the 80-year history of the studio rare photographs and stories about many of the artists who recorded there.
In addition to the Beatles, who made the building world-famous, the studio has also seen hit records by Pink Floyd, Radiohead, XTC and Oasis and many more recorded inside its hallowed halls. In 2010 the studio was granted Grade II listing by English Heritage in recognition of its contribution to British culture.
The book is published by Bloomsbury, the same people behind the excellent 33 1/3 series, where writers and musicians discuss their favorite albums. Sir George Martin, the producer of the bulk of the Beatles' work, contributed the book's foreword. He also signed a limited number of copies available exclusively through Bloomsbury's website.


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We started playing Diablo 3 at the beginning of July, Spode, Stingite, Calrain and I. We finally finished killing Diablo in Inferno mode last Sunday. In between we all played a bunch of classes, played a lot of solo stuff, did hardcore, did the auction house, did Whimsyshire, and killed Diablo so, so many times.
Blizzard kept changing the game as well, adding things like Nephalem Valor, Paragon Levels and Monster Level to keep the game challenging. I never did finish the Hellfire Ring from the Infernal Device in Act II; every time I'd run through the Device, I'd gain another level, and I was really trying to not get that far ahead of everyone else (though once we all hit 60, Spode and Sting moved way ahead on Paragon levels). The forthcoming patch 1.0.7 introduces PvP, buffs my class (wizard, and may I say, finally?) and fixes reflect damage so that it isn't a sure-fire way to kill a wizard character.
Okay, maybe I'm taking this stuff a little personally.
Diablo 3 is not a game about killing the demon lords you didn't get to in the first two Diablo games, as well as Diablo himself once more. That's what you DO. That's not what the game is ABOUT.
The game is about playing a number of mini-games. Introduced into Diablo for the first time is a WoW-like auction house, which was meant to be a driver for the longevity of the game. Players would farm gear hoping for a good stat roll, then sell that thing for real money to another player. Everyone gets rich as long as they want to put in the time. This replaced the Diablo 2 mechanic of joining a public game where some guy would drop piles and piles of gold on the ground, as well as all the most valuable items in the game. That ruined the game for me, because I could not NOT pick up that gold and those items, though I really had joined the game just to go kill stuff.
Diablo 3 doesn't let you drop gold on the ground…..
Anyway. Opening up the Achievements list listed any number of things to work on, such as speed runs of acts, or killing things with certain handicaps, or exploring absolutely everything, or sitting around listening to some old god spit nonsense from inside a barrel, or taking different companions out for a spin.
The story itself never changes, but the story itself is not the point. By completing the game in Inferno mode, we've finished the main game and are now ready to get started on the other 90% of the content. Team Spode could spend another year just doing the achievement challenges and have a lot of fun doing it because playing with friends is the most important thing about any of these games.
How does Diablo 3 stack up against Diablo and Diablo 2? I found the original game a really atmospheric hack and slash game. It was small enough to be fun for a weekend, and I enjoyed it but didn't play it all that long. Diablo 2 I played through twice; once as a Sorceress (and this is the character that was ruined by greed and a public game), and once as a Druid when that expansion came out. I only did normal mode; played through the story once and moved on. My son was really into it, though — he made it to the highest level, led cow level runs, "boosted" levels for friends, got his account hacked and stolen, restarted, hacked and stolen, restarted and so on. He played it for a long time.
Diablo 3 is a "grown up" version of Diablo 2. The grouping is better, though it has an issue with not being able to find groups for specific achievements, only specific quests, which I feel is missing the wider point of the game. The auction house is a necessary evil, but one that Blizzard is trying to deal with by making crafting more important (it is currently a waste of money to craft new items, which, unless you have a legendary pattern (and even then) are well below what can be found cheaply in the auction house).
The story pacing is wildly uneven, with Act I taking as long to complete as the remaining three acts together. Act IV goes by so fast that we got the "speed run" achievement the second time we did it. Diablo himself being the easiest boss in the game was also a little backward. Champion mobs often took more time to kill than it took to kill Diablo.
I don't think any of us did not have fun in the game. Even though we played this game for half a year, it didn't overstay its welcome. It's time to move on while we're still having fun with the game. I don't think it will be leaving any of our hard drives any time soon.
In particular, I'm going to be back, solo, on my wizard as soon as the patch goes live. Looking forward to a return to my former uberness….


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Carnations are very classic boutonniere flowers especially for black tie and white tie events, but combined with a dark suit, they look just as stunning. Likewise, a carnation makes for a great companion to an overcoat. This carnation is carefully crafted from hand-dyed silk. Therefore the bottom of the petals have a hint of green, just like a real carnation. Overall, nobody will spot the difference once it is on your lapel. If this dark red carnation is too large for your tastes, we also offer a smaller version of the same flower here.
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"The Road Home" Season 9 Episode 13
Behind the Scenes: While the BAU looks for a vigilante killer on the loose in Cleveland, Rossi is concerned when his former Marine sergeant goes missing and heads to Los Angeles to find him on CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, Jan. 22 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Series star Joe Mantegna directs his first episode of the series. Pictured: Joe Mantegna as David Rossi, Thomas Gibson as Aaron Hotchner. ©2013 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.