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Nasty floodwaters from the remnants of Lee and Irene -- tainted with sewage and other toxins -- threaten public health in parts of the Northeast by direct exposure or the contamination of private water wells, officials said Thursday.
A dozen Vermont towns flooded by Irene were still on boil-water orders 12 days later, though officials reported no waterborne illness. Similar precautions have been taken throughout other storm-damaged states.
In Waterbury, the municipal wastewater plant was overwhelmed by flooding from Irene and raw sewage flowed into the Winooski River. The smell of sewage was still strong Thursday in the mud- and muck-stained driveway where Air Force Master Sgt. Joe Bishop, 35, was home on leave -- after a tour in Iraq and three in Afghanistan -- trying to salvage what he could from his elderly parents' home.
In Waterbury, the municipal wastewater plant was overwhelmed by flooding from Irene and raw sewage flowed into the Winooski River. The smell of sewage was still strong Thursday in the mud- and muck-stained driveway where Air Force Master Sgt. Joe Bishop, 35, was home on leave -- after a tour in Iraq and three in Afghanistan -- trying to salvage what he could from his elderly parents' home. "I've been drinking bottled water," Bishop said, and cleaning up with jugs of water from a tanker truck positioned down the road by emergency officials. He said he's trying to clean his father's power tools and other items but with limited water, the task has been difficult.
Sewage-tainted floodwaters threaten public health - BusinessWeek
To the person who said that young nurses don’t care. Please don’t generalize, I started nursing at 17. I have always taken time with my patients and given them every thing I could. I never brought my phone with me on the floor. Not all young nurses are as you described.
How many idiots on here think a nurse using a cell phone is wrong? You honestly think Memorial nurses don’t use cell phones at work? Get real, man. This is 2011 and social networking is a way of life.
I think that God would rather that we actually help our brothers rather than turn them into slaves dependent upon their government for handouts. There are huge advantages to charitable giving over enforced redistribution.
Giving to charity is something that people do from the goodness of their hearts. However, it is naive to think that tax incentives do not increase giving. I would rather give $100 to charity than give $10 to the government.
The remaking of UP as a great university can only be achieved through individual and collective recognition that the alumni are One UP, the international investment banker said.
This is evident in the One UP attitude among its seven constituent universities and an autonomous college dispersed all over the country; more than 5,000 faculty members, 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and 10,000 administrative staff and research, extension and professional staff in 15 campuses, plus over 260,000 alumni scattered across the globe.
UP’s track record in academic excellence is unquestioned. Thirty-four of the country’s 57 National Artists are either UP alumni or faculty members. Thirty-six of the 37 National Scientists are from UP. Alumni lead the prestigious higher education institutions in the land. UP has 20 Commission on Higher Education-recognized centers of excellence and six centers of development. Graduates and constituent universities have been the topnotchers and the best performing schools in the various board exams.
He vowed to review the college admission test and socialized tuition and financial assistance and scholarship programs to enable financially strapped students to attend the university. This move should dispel the image of the UP as a school for the elite.
Pascual, 20th UP prexy/ Amazing Ka Imon's story - Philippine Star
CHICAGO (CBS) The head of a local Islamic-American organization says that after this year, except for remembering its victims, its time for America to move on from the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
As WBBM Newsradios Bernie Tafoya reports, Ahmet Rehab of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says many people still are under the false impression that Islam is a radical religion, and that its believers want to change the U.S. into an Islamic state.
Rehab says the United States needs to move on from that. It was always a gang of criminals, called al-Qaeda, who happened to be Muslim, who are trying to justify their acts through faith and through religion, Rehab said.
September 8, 2011 at 4:58 pm “gang of criminals . . . who happened to be Muslim” — that’s over the top, even for Muzz.
Written in 1967, Bob Dylans All Along the Watchtower simmers with images of an impending day of reckoning. A mysterious and understated poem of simple rhyming couplets, it is the ideal musical accompaniment to the reality of todays war on oil from Albertas tar sands.
The businessmen and plowmen of Dylans song are the representatives of TransCanada Corporation who want to dig up the Earth to lay a 2,673-kilometre (1,661-mile), 36-inch pipeline to deliver bitumen to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
If it goes ahead, the pipeline will ferry as much as 1.3 million barrels per day of heavy crude from Hardisty, Alberta through Saskatchewan and cross five states as well as the Missouri, Yellowstone and Red Rivers, the Nebraska Sandhills and the Ogallala aquifer to Cushing, Oklahoma. Additional pipeline phases would see the oil delivered to refineries in Nederland, Texas.
It will double, and maybe triple, exports of Canadian crude to our southern neighbour and crude is the operative word. This diluted bitumen or DilBit is a highly corrosive, acidic, and potentially unstable blend of thick raw bitumen and volatile natural gas liquid condensate that contains benzene and other toxic chemicals.
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