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Hello everyone. May I kindly ask for your help? I have posted on the kitchen forum concerning planning for a new kitchen. I admit it is less fun than I expected it to be-planning a kitchen. Could you read my thread? Any thoughts and help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. What have you seen in old house kitchen renovations that are practical but do attempt to respect the age of the house? What works? What doesn't? This is a one time event.
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One of my first questions is what type of heating do you have? Many steam and hot water systems heat rooms via the pipes in the walls as the heating lines run to radiators in other rooms. Many kitchens and mudrooms were heated this way. So, before you go taking down walls and moving lines, consider your HVAC system. We wanted to open the kit/DR wall up but can't. Now I'm glad I didn't. It would have ruined my 1920s house.
Actually, if you have radiators, don't let anybody but an expert move or alter the lines running to them. You'll likely end up with a big mess.
Mary, thanks for responding. The heating is forced air with registers on the floor. The house was built as a summer home so I guess a heating system was added some time later. The wall between the kitchen and dining room is not original. The kitchen area was part of the dining room and later, a wall was installed to make an area for the kitchen. How did your kitchen turn out? Do you have room to eat in it or some other configuration?
We love our kitchen. It was remodeled in the 50s or 60s, so most of the appliance sizes were standard. We cutup one base cabinet to get in an 18" dishwasher. I had to replace the 24" wall oven and settle for a smaller fridge to fit the available space. We added panels to the flat slab cabinet doors and painted everything white. My DH put granite tile over the existing formica counter. So far so good on that one. The backslash is a combination of beadboard and tin ceiling metal panels. Everybody who sees the finished product thinks that the kitchen is original to the house. The 54" wall cabinets certainly helps.
The room is only 9x12, and has two doors. So no eat-in space. We eat either in the adjacent dining room, or go to the other side of the house to the sun porch. Not having easy access to seconds has helped the waistline.
I took the paint off the dining room side of the door jam and shellaced it. If you look closely at the jam, you can see, carved into the wood, a PO's kids initials, dates and height marks. The dates range from 1948 to the late 50's. If I had opened up this wall, I would have lost this. I couldn't do it.
lov_mkitchen, saw the kitchen of About to get Dusty, and it seemed similar to what I have in mind (although, the wall between the dining room and kitchen was carved out in her design). Beautiful kitchen and mudroom space. I am not strong on visualizing a revamped mudroom with a kitchen. Need a kitchen designer but most seem to be associated with cabinetry lines and I already have selected an independent cabinet maker. It's layout that is my issue as I know what style of cabinets, flooring, and counter top that I like.
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Can someone post the link to the kitchen thread Fall is referring to? I did a quick look and couldn't find it, and don't have time to go through dozens of pages for it.
What is the size of the room? The shape? Layout is the easiest part since you have the cabinet types already set...get some graph paper, draw the room on it, and just pencil in various placements for the cabinets...nothing hard about it.
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3. The 'work triangle' is not a new concept, but it is flexible so you can orient and extend it if necessary due to the room's dimensions
4. Recessed lighting will kill the effect you are going for faster than almost any other aspect. A central fixture with another over the sink was common, if you need more you MAY use indercabinet but make it invisible and not glaringly bright. Houses today are FAR too brightly lit for most purposes--this is a home with a mood, not an operating theater.
5. You can use wainscot below, and various materials for a backsplash...upper walls were most likely plaster which was enamelled and varnished to give an easy to clean finish.
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The PC-on-a-stick will come pre-loaded with Windows 8.1 for $149, or Linux for just $89, when it starts shipping in March.
During a CES 2015 keynote, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich highlighted a bevy of technologies coming out of the labs for the short-, mid- and long-term.
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My friend dug up a plant for me to ID. Sorry I can't post a photo. It looks like chives, but it has tiny white onion like bulbs on the base of it.
To eliminate the possibility that you have Muscari, or some other non-Allium, break off a leaf, squash it and sniff. Does it smell oniony? That would narrow it down a bit. Are the leaves round in cross section, i.e. little tubes, or are they flat bladed? Chives have tubular leaves. But so do Muscari so you need to sniff too.
Hope it is not just what is called "onion grass" in the South! LOL That stuff is edible, but it is certainly not chives, the botanical name of which is Allium schoenoprasum. Ask your friend what the flowers look like.
The onion-y lawn weeds never will produce the ball of pinkish-purple blooms that real chives produce in the spring, but a thin, often curling stalk later in the summer (if not mowed first) with a cluster of tiny white flowers that become little bulblets. These scatter around by means of wind, water, bird, or animal and quickly and happily (for them!) take root.
This link has good info, pictures, and the botanical names of the plant you may have...
Here is a link that might be useful: Onion grass, aka Wild onion or wild garlic
We have Allium vineale in our side yard. It is perfectly mowable and it is nothing that needs to be poisoned away. It is only visible before the mowing starts. Of course it pops up in gardens but it is edible and easy to pull out...
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Video- Can You Call Interference On A Linesman?
by Paul on 02/12/15 at 09:05 AM ET
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You have to think the linesman feels pretty bad after this...
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Afternoon Line- Chuck Gormley On Mike Green
by Paul on 02/06/15 at 03:13 PM ET
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Chuck Gormley of CSNWashington when asked if Mike Green would take a discount to stay in Washington...
I have seen veteran players agree to take "hometown discounts" over the years and there is no question Green wants to stay in Washington. But how much of a discount are we talking? Green is making $6.1 million this season and there is no doubt in my mind someone will pay him very close to that, if not more, on the open market. Orpik [$5.5 million] and Niskanen [$5.75 million] take up a big chunk of the Caps' spending on the blue line and I'm guessing the Caps would like to keep Green in the $4.5 million range to have enough to spend in other areas.
more on Green and other Caps related questions...
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Keep Or Trade Mike Green
by Paul on 02/05/15 at 09:34 AM ET
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from Alex Prewitt of Capitals Insider,
Over the coming month, if he has not already, Washington Capitals General Manager Brian MacLellan will field calls from suitors courting the services of defenseman Mike Green. At that moment, MacLellan, his scouts and the coaching staff will judge whether the proposed haul outweighs, at worst, the potential for keeping Green until season's end then watching him walk, unable to reconcile a contract extension given his demands and their salary cap room. And if the value of Green is being discussed, games like Tuesday night might come to the fore.
MacLellan hasn't shied away from expressing his opinion on Green, all but proclaiming that only a win-now haul would entice the Capitals into parting with the blue-liner they raised as a 2004 first-rounder. Draft picks and prospects would send the wrong message to the locker room, MacLellan said. Upgrading the defensive corps, rejuvenated under assistant Todd Reirden and bolstered with the offseason signings of Matt Niskanen and Brooks Orpik, seems beyond the radar. But if an offer comes in that addresses an area of need in the forwards, MacLellan hasn't ruled out considering that.
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David Backes With Five For Boarding And A Game Misconduct
by Paul on 02/01/15 at 03:24 PM ET
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added 2:52pm, video of the hit below...
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Washington Capitals Losing Streak Hits Four
by Paul on 01/28/15 at 09:18 AM ET
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from Alex Prewitt of Capitals Insider,
If Tuesday night's 4-3 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets, their fourth straight defeat bridging the all-star break, had not sobered the Washington Capitals enough, context delivered from Coach Barry Trotz inside Nationwide Arena's visiting locker room certainly hammered it home.
"Trotz came in here after the game, we've given up 17 goals in our last four games, and a lot of them five-on-five," forward Troy Brouwer said. "Those are issues we need to address as far as being better in our D-zone, having more communication, making sure that we know our assignments. We can't keep giving up four or five goals a night and expecting to win. Coming off a break isn't an excuse. The guys should be fresh, lively, heads clear, ready to play hockey and ready to have a good push here."...
The Capitals will now return home to host the Pittsburgh Penguins, one of three teams ahead of them in the Metropolitan Division standings, without the benefit of practice to correct their mistakes.
"I'd like to [practice], yeah," Trotz said. "But it's not the case. Guys are professional. They should know it. We've gone over it many, many times. It's got to start in the dressing room. It starts with me telling them what they need to do, and I have been. Now they've got to take ownership of it. They've got to own that shift that they're out there. Too many guys are getting on the wrong side of pucks and some lines are good with the puck and without it they're not good. There's too much cheat in their game."
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Washington Capitals GM Brian MacLellan On The Trade Market
by Paul on 01/20/15 at 03:54 PM ET
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from Alex Prewitt of Capitals Insider,
"I think the teams, I think that are going to be out, you're obviously looking at the UFA guys there," MacLellan continued. "There's a couple others guys out there that are higher-profile players that I think teams are testing the market and they might wait until the draft of they might do it at the deadline if they get what they want. I think the important thing for us is to keep track of what the market's saying and what the cost is for certain players and evaluate: Do we think that's going to be a big addition or take us to the next level?
"We're going to field the best team we can here. We want to win. We want to do some damage in the playoffs. I think our decision is going to be how much we want to expose our young guys down the road and can they handle it. You don't want to put them in a position where can they handle it. You don't want to put them in a position where they're not ready for it. I think that's our big decision."
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Barry Trotz Would Like Some Experienced Forwards
by Paul on 01/19/15 at 04:41 PM ET
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from Alex Prewitt of Capitals Insider,
... Coach Barry Trotz wasn't shy about proclaiming his desire to add veteran forwards for the postseason push. When asked whether he believed the Capitals were a "playoff team that can win," he said yes, then added, "We still need a piece or two, I think."
"We have some guys that are at this level pretty good contributing players, but the playoffs are another level, and I don't know if some of our guys are ready for that," Trotz continued. "We'll see. We've still got another 40 games to go, but some guys that looked like they weren't going to be ready for the first part and they got it turned around. I think we have enough pieces to be a real good threat, but we still, our depth hasn't been really tested to the point that we need to do that."
Indeed, the Capitals' forwards corps has enjoyed relative stability and health, particularly through their recent torrid stretch.
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Alex Ovechkin Is Winning
by Paul on 01/19/15 at 03:19 PM ET
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from Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal,
Alex Ovechkin has 25 goals, in case you haven't paid attention–nine in his last 10 games.
The stat that jumps out at you, though, is plus 12. That's a better plus/minus than Sidney Crosby (plus 8) or Ryan Getzlaf (plus 9). Last year the Washington Capitals' captain scored 51 but was a frosty -35 (third worst in the NHL) which used to be a normal weather day in Edmonton before global warming. Only Steve Ott (minus 38 and Alex Edler minus 39 were worse.
Ovie's changed defensive posture this season has a lot to do with new coach Barry Trotz who believes in people, even supernovas, back-checking. So did his predecessor Adam Oates, but in team video sessions, the head knock Oates, so the story goes, didn't always point it out when Ovechkin wasn't as industrious as he should have been. That undoubtedly was noticed by other players on the team even if they knew it wasn't a total meritocracy.
Ovechkin likes scoring, but now 29, he likes winning more.
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Video- Thank You Barry Trotz
by Paul on 01/17/15 at 09:54 AM ET
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via Sportsnet,
Watch as Predators fans stand up and cheer on their former coach, Barry Trotz, as he returns to Nashville for the first time coaching the opposing team.
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Barry Trotz In Washington
by Paul on 01/15/15 at 03:55 PM ET
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from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,
Here's something you don't hear often from a fired coach: Barry Trotz, now with the Washington Capitals, ex- of the Nashville Predators, is glad that his boss, David Poile, issued him a pink slip last summer.
The dismissal, as the first and only coach in Predators' history, gave Trotz a chance to seek out a new opportunity and the Nashville players a chance to hear a fresh voice. Trotz is succeeding with his new team – points in 17 of the last 18 games to move into a playoff spot – and Peter Laviolette is succeeding with his old team, leading them to first overall in the NHL, on a percentage basis.
So what's not to like about the shuffle?
Trotz, who returns to Nashville for time Friday after spending 15 years behind the Predators' bench, admitted as much this week: That the upheaval caused by losing his first NHL job this past summer has turned into a win-win for both franchises.
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Twenty years ago, the highest-grossing movie of the summer wasn't a budget-busting superhero movie, an explosion-driven sequel, a remake, a reboot, or (God help us) the fourth in a series of toy-based films about cars that turn into robots. The highest-grossing movie of the summer — of the year, in fact — was a mid-budget comedy/drama called Forrest Gump, which ended up winning six Oscars and grossing an astonishing $677 million worldwide, on a $55 million budget. Studios made mid-level movies like Gump back then (and not just in Oscar season); the following year, Universal's Waterworld would make headlines and prompt giggles of derision when its budget zipped past $100 million. Such a thing was unheard of. Now, it's impossible to imagine a major studio summer movie costing less than $100 million — unless, of course, it's a film counter-programmed to make people laugh. … Read More
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dj BC writes, "It's the 9th annual Santastic Holiday mashup collection. Contains much Beatles, Mariah Carey, AC/DC, Flula, Ella Fitzgerald, The Staple Singers, various holiday bad guys, DMX..."
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Great profile of a black, female World War II vet
Millie Dunn Veasey traveled to England through U-Boat-infested waters, saw war casualties in bombed-out French towns, went to college on the GI Bill, and sat next to Martin Luther King, Jr. at the March on Washington.
Her life story, some of it centered around her time in England and France working with the first all-female, all-black military unit sent to a war zone, is absolutely fascinating. Kudos to Josh Shaffer of the Raleigh News & Observer for profiling Veasey.
Back in Raleigh, Veasey saw an advertisement looking for female black recruits. Women with work experience were especially prized. At the time, she didn't think of her role as freeing a man for the front lines. She thought, if a white woman could join up, why shouldn't I?
Her family didn't share her optimism. She was small, weighed less than 100 pounds, and she'd been sickly as a child. Her mother doubted she could handle the rigorous training. Her brother, already in the Army, doubted she could pass the test.
But Veasey took a bus to Fort Bragg, where she aced the exam, physical and written; she was one of three selected. Before long, the girl from Bloodworth Street who'd never been out of Raleigh found herself standing at reveille in the rain at Fort Des Moines in Iowa, wearing Army-issued galoshes that didn't fit her narrow AAA-sized feet.
"I didn't know how to tie my tie," she confessed.
Here's a video of Veasey's unit, the 6888th postal battalion, taking part in a parade and drills.
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I just discovered Tim Minchin's "White Wine in the Sun". I'm sure a lot of you have heard this before, but it's a lovely Christmas song and, frankly, the first Christmas song to actually make me cry. Especially that last verse. For a new parent, it's an emotional doozy. Really, overall, just a great song for people who aren't religious, but enjoy a religious holiday for the cultural traditions and the time it allows you to spend with people you love. (Even though, personally, I'd rather have dinner with Desmond Tutu than Richard Dawkins.)
Who put the "X" in "Xmas"
What did Santa really look like?
The bones of St. Nicholas (or, at least, his purported relics) rest in the crypt of in Basilica di San Nicola in Bari, Italy. They've been disinterred, measured, and documented, and over the years various anatomists and forensic anthropologists have taken a stab at reconstructing what the real Santa might have looked like. The results vary widely. Why?
In 2010, Caroline Wilkinson of the Centre for Anatomy & Human Identification at the UK's University of Dundee wrote an easy-to-read (and publicly accessible) research paper about the flaws of facial reconstruction techniques — flaws that are exacerbated when all you have to go on are dry bones.
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Science Geek Advent calendar
What happens to turkey feathers after the turkey becomes Thanksgiving dinner?
For clarification, it's Big Bird that is made out of turkey feathers. Not Pat Nixon.
How turkeys fly
Happy Dinosaur Dissection Day!
A holiday reminder
DIY Halloween: Baby Jackhammer Jill
This year, my husband, Chris, and I made a baby and a costume to put her in. Here, Althea Koerth Baker, 4 days old, shows off her Halloween costume and her ability to tolerate parental shenanigans.
Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day by adding more female scientists to Wikipedia
Happy Sysadmin Day, Ken!
It's Sysadmin Day! Time to publicly state aloud that which I say in my mind every day: THANK YOU, KEN! The Ken in question is Ken Snider, Boing Boing's intrepid, tireless, magnificent systems administrator -- awakened at all hours to fix things, cheerful night and day. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The scientific history of Independence Day
Celebrate the first interplanetary holiday!
In which Charles Darwin gets trolled
Muppet Danny Boy, the only St Paddy's celebration you need
In what's becoming a regular St Paddy's tradition around here, here's the Muppet Danny Boy you know you want to hear but were afraid to ask for.
Muppet Danny Boy performed by Beaker, Swedish Chef and Animal
Celebrate "Pi Day" by throwing hot dogs down a hallway
One man's kindly benefactor is another man's fetishist
Economist valentines
Liz Fosslien offers 14 graphs explaining love from the perspective of a twitterpated economist.
Ancient money shot, caught in chert
10 possibly romantic facts about shark reproduction
What your New Year's Resolutions tell us about the way you think
It's a little late, but I kind of love these 2013 props made by PaperandPancakes on Etsy.
How did you write your New Year's resolutions? I don't mean, like, the tools you used — pencil and paper vs. tablet and bluetooth keyboard. What I'm talking about is how you put the goals into words — how you described what it was you wanted to do.
There's more than one way to make a resolution.
A couple of weeks ago, I ran across a great example of this in an old sociology paper from 1977. Researchers had collected New Year's resolutions from two groups of 6th graders — one of average middle class kids, and another group made up of Amish and Mennonites.
The researchers meant to study differences in gender. They were trying to figure out how different cultural backgrounds affected behavior that we tend to associate with one gender or another. But in that data, they noticed something odd, something they couldn't easily translate into statistics. The Amish kids' resolutions were different from those of the "normal" children.
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XKCD on New Year's resolutions
Today's XKCD is holds wise advice for those of us contemplating New Year's resolutions. Be sure to click through for the tool-tip bonus punchline.
Could you get a restraining order against Santa?
The excellent Law and the Multiverse blog (which seriously considers legal questions arising from funnybooks) examines the legal options available to someone seeking to get a restraining order against Jolly Old St Nick. As with all stories whose headline ends with a question-mark, the answer to this one is "no," but the reasoning behind that "no" is a fascinating look at the law of protective orders.
We don't think Santa's behavior would meet this standard. People couldn't have a reasonable fear of material harm because Santa has an unbroken record of hundreds of years of peaceful activity. It could be enough that he has actually caused material emotional harm to someone, except that the harm would have to be caused by contact or communication initiated by Santa. The problem here is that Santa doesn't initiate communication; instead people write letters to him. Arguably he initiates indirect contact by entering people's homes, but there's no evidence that he enters homes where he is unwanted. In fact, staying up late to 'catch' Santa is traditionally considered to cause him not to visit. And of course visits from Santa Claus have rarely, if ever, caused someone to lose their job.
Law of Superheroes organizes the best material from Law and the Multiverse into a kind of first-year lawschool compressed into one set of covers where all the hypotheticals revolve around comic-book storylines. It's the best quick legal education going, really.
(Image: Original Bad Santa kicks arse, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from dancentury's photostream)
Santa's privacy policy
"Santa's Privacy Policy" is a McSweeney's classic from 2010. On the one hand, the joke is pretty much all in the headline and doesn't really need much elaboration. On the other hand, this is pretty well done.
We obtain information from a variety of sources. Much of it comes from unsolicited letters sent to Santa by children all over the world listing specific items they would like to receive for Christmas. Often these letters convey additional information as well, such as the child's hopes and dreams, how much they love Santa, and which of their siblings are doodyheads.
The letters also provide another important piece of information—fingerprints. We run these through databases maintained by the FBI, CIA, NSA, Interpol, MI6, and the Mossad. If we find a match, it goes straight on the Naughty List. We also harvest a saliva sample from the flap of the envelope in which the letter arrives in order to establish a baseline genetic identity for each correspondent. This is used to determine if there might be an inherent predisposition for naughtiness. A detailed handwriting analysis is performed as part of a comprehensive personality workup, and tells us which children are advancing nicely with their cursive and which are still stubbornly forming block letters with crayons long past the age when this is appropriate.
Our network of fully trained, duly deputized mall "Santas" file reports from the field, telling us which children are well-behaved, which are elf-phobic, which are prone to sphincter control issues, and which are squirmy beard-pulling monstrous little brats. Digital copies of photos taken with these "Santas" are automatically sent to our database for further evaluation, with particular attention given to the ones where the children are crying.
Santa's Privacy Policy. (via Dan Hon)
(Image: Santa Claus, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from mattimattila's photostream)
Soviet space-program Christmas cards
"Soviet Christmas card" sounds like a mere kitschy improbability, but what if I told you that they were space-race-themed Soviet Christmas cards? It's a Christmas miracle, dude.


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U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin has set an example for every prosecutor in the country by indicting Don Blankenship, the venal, punitive, flamboyant, and reckless former CEO of Massey Energy. For years, Blankenship demanded updates on coal production every two hours and, the indictment reveals, browbeat senior managers to cut cost and violate crucial safety. In one handwritten note, he told one such target, "You have a kid to feed. Do your job." When the Upper Big Branch mine exploded, propelling flames at a speed of 1,000 feet/second in all directions from the point of ignition as far as two miles underground, Massey was directly responsible for the root causes of the tragedy. The families of the 29 men who died can take some solace that this courageous prosecution, by a prosecutor from coal country, takes the strongest possible stand to protect miners from the most reprehensible kind of greed.
Steinzor is the author of the new book, Why Not Jail? Industrial Catastrophes, Corporate Malfeasance, and Government Inaction, published by Cambridge University Press.Full text
Recently, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a report entitled Energy Works for US: Solutions for America's Energy Future. The data and references in the report are largely accurate, as far as they go, and the report promotes energy efficiency, which is a welcome step. Ultimately, though, the report is unreliable because it has too narrow a vision of the energy future. It inaccurately characterizes government regulation and neglects the environmental consequences surrounding the production, use, consumption, and disposal of our energy resources. Instead, Energy Works is more of a political polemic rather than a useful white paper. While it may well serve the Chamber's political agenda, Energy Works for US fails to recognize the complexities and challenges necessary to fashion our energy future.
Our energy future is as important a policy matter as any that now confronts the United States. Any discussion of our energy future, therefore, must be conducted with openness and candor and must recognize the complexities and challenges of fashioning that future. Unfortunately, Energy Works fails on each these counts.Full text
As people across the country and around the world watched the tableau of 300,000 West Virginians give up their drinking, cooking and bath water for days on end because an untested toxic chemical was spilled by a company that was co-founded by a twice-convicted felon, the ever-present John Boehner (R-Ohio) had pungent advice for President Barack Obama. "We have enough regulations on the books. And what the administration ought to be doing is actually doing their jobs. Why wasn't this plant inspected since 1991?" he declared. "I am entirely confident that there are ample regulations already on the books to protect the health and safety of the American people. Someone ought to be held accountable here."
Consistency, of course, is the hobgoblin of small minds and, unfortunately, no member of the media thought to ask Speaker Boehner whether sequestration and other merciless budget cuts might have something to do with the lack of inspections. Or, to put the issue more bluntly: Why won't anyone in the press ask the Speaker and his ilk whether we get the government we pay for and whether, these days, we aren't paying—or getting—enough? But fair is fair: John Boehner isn't the president, and this latest catastrophe happened on President Obama's watch, along with a string of other, disturbingly similar episodes.
Yesterday, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) finalized the long overdue Pattern of Violations rule, a measure that will enhance the agency's enforcement authority by making it easier for the agency to hold scofflaw mines strictly accountable for repeatedly and needlessly putting their workers at risk of chronic illness, severe injury, or even death. The deterrent effect of this enhanced enforcement authority will discourage delinquent mine operators from cutting corners on health and safety, a development that will produce significant benefits for America's miners. MSHA estimates (see page 6) that the rule will prevent nearly 1,800 non-fatal injuries over the next 10 years, in addition to reducing instances of illnesses and fatalities.
The Pattern of Violations rule was one of the high priority regulatory actions that MSHA announced in response to 2010's Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, in which 29 miners were killed in a massive mine explosion. Several investigations of the incident revealed that the explosion was precipitated by a deadly combination of hazardous conditions including improperly maintained mining equipment, inadequate ventilation, and insufficient rock dusting; the Upper Big Branch Mine had had been repeatedly cited for many of these kinds of hazards in the months prior to the disaster. Between 2005 and the time of the explosion, MSHA had cited the Upper Big Branch Mine for 1,342 violations. In 2009 alone, the agency cited the mine for 515 different safety violations, around 200 of which MSHA deemed to be "significant and substantial," or violations that could reasonably be expected to lead to a serious injury or illness. The Upper Big Branch Mine's operator—the now defunct Massey Energy Company—also had a long history of operating mines with similar health and safety violations.
Under the existing rules, delinquent mines that in practice had a long pattern of violations could avoid official "pattern of violations" status—which would enable MSHA to order the mine to withdraw workers from any part of the operation that it subsequently finds to have a significant and substantial violation—by appealing the citations. The Massey Energy Company had resorted to that tactic with Upper Big Branch, and MSHA had also made an error that stopped the company from moving a step closer to receiving a pattern of violation notification. Had a proper Pattern of Violations rule been in place, and had MSHA properly implemented it, the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster might have been prevented.Full text
With considerable media flourish, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday the first and so far only criminal charges related to the BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe that killed 11 workers, and did profound violence to the Gulf of Mexico and the local economies dependent up on it. One Kurt Mix, 50, an engineer involved in designing the failed "top kill" remedy, was indicted for obstruction of justice. More specifically, he's accused of deleting text messages from his phone that he knew were to be collected as evidence in the case..
Prosecutors made Mix do a perp walk for reporters, with the New York Times reporting that he "surrendered" in Houston, "wearing a light purple shirt and pair of khakis without a belt." Several legal experts, including Professors Richard Lazarus (former executive director of the Oil Spill Commission) and David Uhlmann (former chief DOJ environmental crimes prosecutor) predicted that the arrest of Mix would help prosecutors build cases against those further up the food chain. With all due respect to these hopeful—really wishful—predictions, it's way too soon for DOJ to take a victory lap.
For one thing, Attorney General Eric Holder has amassed an underwhelming track record in prosecuting perpetrators of unspeakable and fatal health, safety, and workplace crimes, including Don Blankenship, former chief executive officer of Massey Energy, whose obsession with "digging coal" without pausing to ensure safety requirements are met, led to extraordinarily hazardous working conditions at the Upper Big Branch mine, where 29 miners died in the worst disaster in 40 years; and Stewart Parnell, the chief executive of the Peanut Corporation of America, whose decision to ship peanut paste that tested positive for salmonella killed nine and sickened hundreds. Elsewhere in the regulatory arena, Holder has not yet delivered on prosecuting financial crimes documented in two dozen books, television programs, and movies.Full text
Congress usually enacts new public protections following a major crisis or series of crises that focus attention on the failure of existing laws to protect the public or the environment from abuses by companies pursuing economic gain.
Most of the protective regulatory programs of the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Public Interest Era (the period of active government extending roughly from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s) were established after widely publicized tragedies or abuses stirred public opinion to levels sufficient to overcome the inertial forces that otherwise overwhelm Congress and the regulatory agencies.
Federal regulation of mine safety and health is an excellent example of this phenomenon.
The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 was enacted in direct response to the November 20, 1968 explosion at the Consolidation Coal Company's Console Number 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia that killed 75 miners and 3 federal inspectors. That disaster also inspired Congress to enact the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
Congress enacted the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 in response to explosions on March 11 and 13, 1976 at the Scotia Coal Company's Scotia mine in Ovenfork, Kentucky. The initial explosion killed 15 miners, and a second explosion two days later took the lives of three federal inspectors and eight members of two rescue teams.
An explosion at International Coal Company's Sago mine in Buckhannon, West Virginia on the morning of January 2, 2006 killed 13 miners and motivated Congress to enact the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (MINER) Act of 2006.Full text
Booth Goodwin, the U.S. Attorney for the southern district of West Virginia, and Attorney General Eric Holder announced today a landmark settlement with Alpha Natural Resources, the coal company that bought out its rival Massey Energy after a catastrophic explosion deep within the Big Branch mine killed 29 miners. Alpha recently announced that its third quarter 2011 profits had more than doubled in the wake of its purchase of Massey, up to $66 million in the quarter. The settlement requires the company to fork over $209 million to pay fines, reimburse families of miners killed and injured, and to fix the chronic safety problems that produced this tragedy. The announcement had no news on efforts to hold individuals accountable—most notably, Don Blankenship, the rogue CEO who constantly harassed his employees to "dig coal" faster, and faster, and faster, at the expense of routine safety precautions.
As I explained here in May 2010, Blankenship monitored production as often as every two hours, deliberately creating an atmosphere in which workers feared for their jobs if they protested routine and egregious safety violations. The proximate cause of the explosion was methane build-up in an old coal shaft that was never properly sealed—instead, miners stuffed it with garbage and rags. "Every single day, the levels were double or triple what they were supposed to be," a foreman who remained unnamed because he was afraid of losing his job told the New York Times. Blankenship ultimately retired from Massey Energy, and is now enjoying a well-heeled retirement.
Attorney General Holder pledged today that "we continue to investigate individuals associated with this tragedy." DOL Secretary Hilda Solis said "Anyone determined to have violated a criminal statute in connection with Upper Big Branch should be brought to justice." Ken Ward of the Charleston Gazette's immensely useful Coal Tattoo blog thinks it's indeed possible that Goodwin is not finished with this case, and I surely hope that insight is correct. The U.S. attorney certainly knows how to put people in jail: he brags on his website about a sentence of 57 months in prison his office achieved for an oxycodone dealer who sold between $36,000 and $50,000 worth of the drug out of his home. Surely the deaths of 29 people as a result of willful negligence in avid pursuit of corporate profits should reap a harsher penalty – or some penalty that goes beyond corporate fines.Full text
Following up on President Obama's January Executive Order calling for agencies to conduct a regulatory "look-back," the Administration today released a target list of health, safety, and environmental standards to be reviewed by agencies in the coming months, with an eye toward eliminating or modifying them.
The President's January announcement was driven by politics, and from all appearances, the process of reviewing these regulations will be as well. In an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal, and in a speech today at the American Enterprise Institute – note the conservative venues chosen – "Regulatory Czar" Cass Sunstein, Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, not only unveiled the target list but once again deployed the kind of anti-regulatory rhetoric one might expect from the Chamber of Commerce. Sunstein asserts that "Our goal is to change the regulatory culture of Washington by constantly asking what's working and what isn't. To achieve that goal, we need to obtain real-world evidence and data." The ugly implication, and it's incorrect, is that agencies don't currently carefully examine real-world evidence and data.
Several points stand out. First, what the White House initially billed last January as an objective examination of regulations appears to have been transformed into a blatantly one-sided effort to loosen restrictions on industry while paying little heed to the numerous threats to public health and the environment that remain unchecked. The Administration previously said that in addition to looking for regulations that are "excessively burdensome," it would also look for rules that are "insufficient" and might needed to be "expand[ed]." But today the notion of strengthening safeguards seems to have dropped out of the conversation.
Second, the Administration's pandering to industry on this issue is in danger of doing long-term damage to the important business of protecting Americans from a variety of hazards. For one thing, the entire frame for this conversation, the one chosen by the White House in the President's January op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, is that regulation is bad for the economy and needs to be trimmed back. In fact, regulation strengthens the economy, saves lives, keeps American healthy and safe, and in a variety of ways contributes to Americans' quality of life. In addition, it's worth noting that many of the rules identified today are not examples of bad rulemaking, but rather of rules that have simply been overtaken by technology—a reexamination of a rule requiring vapor recovery systems at gas stations that has become less crucial because automobiles now have similar technology on-board, for example. Such rules made sense when adopted, and should be updated as needed. But spare us the "stupid regulation" rhetoric, please.Full text
The report issued this morning by the Governor's Independent Investigation Panel on the West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 miners at the Massey Energy Company's Upper Big Branch Mine just over a year ago will never make the New York Times best seller list. But it should be required reading for all policymakers with responsibility for protecting the safety of the workers who spend much of their lives deep underground digging coal.
Although the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and Massey Energy have conducted their own investigations (MSHA's is forthcoming) into the causes of the tragic explosion, Joe Manchin, then the Governor, correctly assumed that the full story was not likely to come out of two entities with such an obvious stake in the outcome. He asked Davitt McAteer, the head of MSHA during the Clinton Administration and a long-time advocate of greater safety in the nation's underground mines to assemble an independent and objective panel to investigate the explosion. McAteer brought together a team composed of experts without any special connection to the coal industry or its regulators.
The tightly drafted 120-page report provides a clear and detailed account of events that preceded and followed the explosion and of what we know about its causes based on its own examination of the physical evidence and on more thant 300 interviews with persons involved in the explosion and in the management of the Massey Energy Company.
The panel concludes that the immediate cause of the explosion was methane gas that had reached unsafe levels in the mine. Massey Energy took the position that there was a massive entry of methane into the chamber through a crack in the floor that inundated the mine. The governor's panel, by contrast, concluded that the explosion was caused by a small amount of methane that, once ignited by a spark from a shearer, caused a fireball that spread to coal dust that had inexcusably been allowed to build up for miles throughout the mine. The coal dust in turn carried the explosion throughout more than two miles of the large mine. The report implies that the ignition of a small amount of methane would not have caused the massive explosion and that absent the negligent accumulations of coal dust, the miners might well have survived the explosion.Full text
One hundred years ago today, 146 people perished in one of the nation's worst workplace tragedies – the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in the heart of New York City. The story is gruesome, and each detail of exactly how so many people were trapped in a burning building was, and remains, a reminder of what can happen when worker safety is sacrificed in the name of profit.
Here's the barest sketch. The Triangle Waist Factory in lower Manhattan relied on cheap, exploitable labor to produce women's blouses – shirtwaists, as they were known. The factory occupied the 8th, 9th and 10th floors of a building at 29 Washington Place, and its employees were mostly young immigrant women, some as young as 14. They'd come to the United States for a better life, and found themselves working more than 50 hours a week, six days a week, in a non-union shop, laboring under sweatshop conditions. (This, of course, was before unions had essentially created the concept of "the weekend.")
On March 25, 1911, at about 4:45 p.m., fire broke out on the 8th floor and spread quickly to floors above, fueled by piles of fabric scraps. The factory had no alarm system and no sprinklers, although such technology was available. Workers were quickly trapped, not just by the flames but by doors locked by company officials worried that workers would abscond with fabric if allowed to leave by any but the main door. The fire escapes did not reach to the ground, and eventually collapsed under the weight of the many escapees. A heroic elevator operator made several rescue runs but had to abandon the effort when the elevator's guide rails buckled under the heat. Responding fire trucks lacked ladders that could reach the victims. Faced with the prospect of being burned alive, many of the workers chose instead to leap to their deaths.
Watching in shock that day was a young social worker, Frances Perkins, who would go on to champion a successful crusade for safer working conditions. (She would later become the first female Cabinet member, serving as FDR's Labor Secretary.)
In a spot-on piece in Wednesday's Washington Post, columnist Harold Meyerson observes that industry rose in opposition to Perkins' proposed reforms, offering arguments that ring familiar even today. Proposed fire code reforms would cause "the wiping out of industry in this state," said the Associated Industries of New York, and were "absolutely needless and useless," said a lawyer for the Real Estate Board of New York City. The president of the Real Estate Board argued that, "To my mind this is all wrong….The experience of the past proves conclusively that the best government is the least possible government, that the unfettered initiative of the individual is the force that makes a country great and that this initiative should never be bound…"Full text


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Without a SIM card, users will receive a pop-up message every time the iPhone is rebooted.
Activating an iPhone to be used as an iPod is a relatively simple process. First, locate a SIM card that came from a previously-activated iPhone. Insert the SIM card into its slot. Then, connect the iPhone to iTunes on a computer with an Internet connection. iTunes then automatically activates the device, and it is ready to use as an iPod, either with or without a SIM card.Learn more in Mobile
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