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Lafayette County Health Dept. asks residents to monitor CO
DARLINGTON -- Nine people were taken to the hospital after becoming ill at a theater. A camper was found dead in his trailer. A couple were forced to leave their new home due to illness after only one month living there. Each of these cases was caused by carbon monoxide -- a colorless, odorless, tasteless and potentially lethal gas. Every year, hundreds of people in the United States are killed by carbon monoxide and thousands more become ill. Home and portable carbon monoxide detectors and regular furnace inspections could prevent many of these accidents. Carbon monoxide, or CO, is created when fuels such as gasoline, kerosene, wood, coal, oil, natural gas and charcoal, do not have enough oxygen to burn completely. When you breathe in CO, it replaces the oxygen in your blood.
LCRC Member Calls For Break-Up Of Local GOP
State Republican leaders are reviewing a complaint a member of the Loudoun County Republican Committee filed seeking "dissolution" of the local party organization.The letter, sent Wednesday by Jeffrey A. Wolinski to 10th District Republican Chairman Jim Rich, Virginia Republican Party Chairman Ed Gillespie and the state RPV Executive Director Charlie Judd, states that the Loudoun County Republican leadership "has practiced a closed and insular form of governance that is not in keeping with the inclusive outreach we need to remain a viable political party.""I fear for our Grand Old Party here in Loudoun County," Wolinski states in his letter.Aside from Wolinski's claim that the party has become insular, he makes two specific charges. Wolinski states the LCRC has not held an official meeting since November, and that, he states, puts the local party in violation of its own party plan, which requires meetings every three months.LCRC Chairman Paul Protic has previously said the party plans to meet at the end of March, satisfying the party plan because the committee will have met in the first quarter of the year and the final quarter of 2006.
Where there's muck, there's art
CLAIRE Midwood is crouched in the middle of the gallery with a lump of mud at her knees. She's in the dead centre of the airy exhibition hall, which is set on the rolling hills of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, kneading the brown gunk into the shape of a large cannonball. It is both elegant and fetid, attractive in form and repellent in substance. Every day the gallery's cleaners gather more mud, sweeping it up from the floor of this rural beauty spot and brushing it in Midwood's direction. And every day she adds another layer to the ball. Her task will not be over until January 2008. "My boyfriend says I stink," she says. "I have a bath every night." .
Review: Cold War Kids, Tokyo Police Club and Delta Spirit Storm ...
The touring collective that combines the Cold War Kids, Tokyo Police Club and Delta Spirit is a torrid indie-rock trifecta. After breathing and being at this shakedown of a show, fans and band members alike may need triage. While each group apparently has its own van and the collaborative is not traveling in a schoolbus-cum-biodiesel-circus caravan (though the latter would be entirely appropriate), the vigorous crew has the spirit of a carnival-esque blues brotherhood and an old-school road show. Combining one Canadian anti-rock ensemble with two rootsy California crews that sound nothing like California, the soul train started its engine in early March with shows in Minnesota and Wisconsin and will conclude with three sold-out nights at New York's Bowery Ballroom in early April. (To catch the band's own dispatches, Delta Spirit lead singer Matt Vasquez is bloggin' it on MySpace, and the Cold War Kids have great picture albums on their homepage.) Fresh from SXSW and shows in Florida and Georgia, the whole enchilada rolled into “Nash Vegas" for a Saturday night show.
Storm spotters
WAUKESHA - When many kids her age show fright at the thought of thunderstorms or tornados heading their way, 10-year-old Sarah French shows no fear. She knows their inner workings, and that knowledge, learned literally at her mothers knee, has made her fascinated with the nastier side of Mother Natures temper. French and her parents, Barb and Scott, are trained weatherspotters. To brush up on their skills, they and about 30 other people attended a class in Waukesha recently on severe weather and tornadoes offered by the National Weather Service in Sullivan. "Shes been around weatherspotting since she was born," said Sarahs mother, Barb French. "I think shes almost as well-trained as we are." When severe weather is approaching - day or night - weatherspotters like the French family head to pre-determined locations to watch the sky.
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