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Letters to the Editor, May 15

Edit Toronto Sun 15 May 2016
FIRES ARE FIRES. Re “Stupid, stupid, stupid” (Lorrie Goldstein, May 8) ... The time of year for forest fires has begun and nothing has changed. How stupid! A northern forest and city are burning and what do we have? A handful of water bombers and a few hundred firefighters doing the best they can with squirt guns and shovels trying to put out the first catastrophic fire of the season ... (Okay, we’re speechless) ....

Canada wildfire: why a sleeping giant awoke in Alberta and became relentless

Edit The Guardian 15 May 2016
An animal of fire ... “The way this thing happened, the way it travelled, the way it behaved, they’re rewriting their formulas on how fires behave, based on this fire,” he said ... A 2011 fire in northern Alberta grew to more than 700,000 hectares ... “We have a temperature and it’s turning into a fever and we’re trying to ignore it,” said Tim Lynham, a fire behaviour expert with Natural Resources Canada....

QUOTE SHEET | Revolution 2:0 Chicago Fire (Chicago Fire)

Edit Public Technologies 15 May 2016
Chicago Fire) ... He is important for us, but we need to keep working on him and be careful; after being out for two months, you need to be careful, but we expect David to be fine for the next game.' ... Of course when you play two games with such little time to recover it's different, but we did well in our preparation.'. CHICAGO FIRE MIDFIELDER KHALY THIAM ... CHICAGO FIRE FORWARD DAVID ACCAM ... They're a tough team....

Rural Queenslanders contend with drought and new threats

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 15 May 2016
The loss of grazing land is not the only of concern to rural Queenslanders. There is also a potential fire hazard that arises from the decision. A rural fire brigade first officer had concerns for the health of the national parks when cattle are no longer allowed to graze in then. "They're going to turn it into a complete fire hazard, what's going to keep the grass and weeds like lantana down?" The officer said....

13 things people say when they get fired that they later regret

Edit Business Insider 15 May 2016
Being fired is one of the most stressful things than can happen to a person ... "If you're concerned about such a possibility, you might think strategically about how to best react after an event like this," Taylor says ... You may be asked to sign documents, for example, but give yourself enough time to respond appropriately, when you're not in an emotional state."....

Gas delivery startups want to fill up your car anywhere. Is that allowed?

Edit Colorado Springs Gazette 15 May 2016
A new crop of startups are trying to make gas stations obsolete. Tap an app, and they'll bring the gas to you, filling up your car while you're at work, eating breakfast or watching Netflix ... "It is not permitted," said Lt. Jonathan Baxter, a spokesman for the San Francisco fire department. Residents seeing any companies fueling vehicles in the city should call the fire department, he said. Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette ... ....

Thiam, Accam look to move forward following positive first shifts (Chicago Fire)

Edit Public Technologies 15 May 2016
Chicago Fire). Neither would have confessed to being at their apex Saturday night, but both Khaly Thiam and David Accam took positive steps toward providing the Chicago Fire the types of performances each are capable of. Thiam, the 22-year-old Senegalese midfielder acquired on loan on May 4, made his Fire debut in Saturday's 2-0 road loss to the New England Revolution, playing 64 minutes paired in central midfield with Matt Polster....

Joseph Fiennes on Chinese sequel to Chariots of Fire: 'It transcends religion'

Edit The Guardian 15 May 2016
Despite The Last Race being billed as an “unofficial sequel” to Hugh Hudson’s Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire, Joseph Fiennes, who headlines the follow-up, said he sought the support of Hudson before embarking on the project ... “But what we’re doing is connected ... “Whether you’re atheist, Buddhist, Catholic, I think we can all agree that what Eric did – and our beautiful film does – is promote a sense of care,” Fiennes said....

‘Chicago Justice’ is the latest — here are more Chicago ideas

Edit Atlanta Journal 15 May 2016
Hall, Christina Hendricks, Blair Underwood, Evangeline Lilly) who work at the “The Merc,” as it’s called, a financial and commodity derivative exchange in which they spend their days trading various financial instruments, including equities, interest rates, currencies and … hey, where are you going? They’re also sleeping with each other ... “Cleveland Fire”. Other cities have fires too, apparently ... But, you know, better....

Jared Waerea-Hargreaves says watching Sydney Roosters struggle was hardest test

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 15 May 2016
"It was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do, for sure," Waerea-Hargreaves said. "Not being out there, you don't really feel you can say much because you're not really doing it," he said ... "You're trying to help the boys prep as well as they can and you're doing as much as you can but you're not out there ... But we weren't far off and now we're back, it's on."....

Satellite maps provide survey of wildfire damage (Government of Alberta)

Edit Public Technologies 15 May 2016
These images should not be used for official damage assessments, determining the status of individual structures or planning re-entry to the city. 'Having been through a devastating fire and evacuation myself, I know firsthand how stressful it is to wait for updates on which homes have been lost ... Preliminary re-entry planning is underway and a ......

Jim Souhan: Torii Hunter got out in the nick of time

Edit The Miami Herald 15 May 2016
This year, as was the case from 2011 through 2014, you walk into the Twins clubhouse and feel like you're in a windowless basement in the middle of a Minnesota winter ... Even if you can make a case for Hunter's influence, he is no longer a solution. He doesn't want to be a full-time coach, and you can't bring a player back to be a glorified bench-player/coach ... Don't fire anyone ... Calls for Paul Molitor's firing are silly....

Carney Defying Brexit Critics Sees U.K. in Early 1990s Quandary

Edit Bloomberg 15 May 2016
“We’re taking a judgment as a committee, and we’re changing policy because of it, we’re putting out billions of pounds of liquidity facilities, we’re getting banks to raise capital as we did a few years ago against these types of risk,” the governor said on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show. “If we’re potentially going to alter the path of interest rates ......
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