| KARACHI: Blaze ravages paint factory in Site
KARACHI, Jan 23: A manufacturing unit of the Berger Paints went up in flames on Wednesday when the blaze blamed on chemicals stored in the factory turned into an inferno and made firefighting an uphill task.
Two of the employees with severe burns were admitted to the Civil Hospital Karachi, whereas five others were released after being treated at the Imam Zainul Abideen Hospital.
Gul Mohammad, a worker of the Berger Paints, said the fire started when two chemicals were being mixed in the production section of the factory. He and other workers rushed out of the factory when the fire alarms began ringing.
The blaze was so huge that clouds of thick black smoke billowing from the factory could be seen from all over the city.
Almost all the fire tenders of the city district government with the snorkels were employed in the fire-fighting operation.
50,000 trees planted in Trinity River wildlife refuge
For a partnership looking for ways to improve the Houston area's environment, the math made sense. First, plant 50,000 seedling trees on 158 acres of logged pasture in the Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge east of Houston. In return, the restored forest will remove carbon dioxide a potent greenhouse gas linked to global warming equivalent to what 3,000 average Americans use in fossil fuels in a year. The $250,000 project was completed this month by five corporate and nonprofit groups who partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which runs the 23,000-acre reserve on the Trinity River in Liberty County. The other participants include Dell Inc.; Travelocity; NBC Universal; Environmental Synergy Inc., a reforestation company based in Atlanta; and The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit environmental group, based near Washington, D.C.
Donna Maurillo, Food for Thought: Break away from baking the same old ...
Quick breads are so easy to make. You don't need yeast, rising times, kneading, or much fuss. Just combine the dry and the wet ingredients, stir just enough to moisten, pour into a pan, top with something like streusel or sugar, and bake. Unfortunately, we get stuck with the cliches of quick breads -- banana bread, date nut bread,and corn bread, plus maybe some blueberry muffins. And that's it. Boring!! If you're into creating something easy and imaginative, then you need a copy of "Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More." It's written by Carole Walter, winner of a James Beard Award, and she's provided 200 outstanding recipes. Most are quite simple, but she's also included a few challenges -- croissants, bear claws, Danish pastry and yeasted breads like babka.
Daily Blabber Celebrity Gossip Blog from iVillage Entertainment
I know this is like my 47th entry about Diddy this week, but this one is too good to let go. MediaTakeOut.com is reporting that a Bad Boy insider believes that Dannity Kane hottie, Aubrey O'Day, may be pregnant --with Diddy's baby! According to the insider, whispers of an Aubrey pregnancy have been widespread among the Bad Boy staff. The blabber explains, "People here are always gossiping, so at first I didn't listen to them. But I swear ... now Aubrey is beginning to show." Holy Crap! The snitch continues, "Everyone knows she had something going on with [Diddy]. It makes a lot of sense that he would be the father." If it is true, the "Making the Band" alumni will be the fourth woman to mother an itty-biity Diddy baby -- and then Aubrey and Diddy can make a show called "Making the Baby".
No-cost solutions in the antispam ecosystem
Like the rising cost of postage stamps, increasing complexity in e-mail is inevitable. In the early, halcyon days of the Internet, SMTP connections flowed like a mountain spring and mail filters were used solely for mail organization. Now, the water is brackish, and mail filters are an absolute necessity. But whose filters? Given the extraordinary volume of e-mail that most organizations receive, care and feeding of e-mail whitelists and blacklists is sporadic at best, and it's usually done only to address an acute problem. Subscription services such as Postini can alleviate this problem from an inbound perspective, but that's only half the battle. Free DNS blacklists such as spamhaus.org and spamcop.net provide an interactive service to enable inbound mail servers to match the IP address of the server delivering mail against a list of known spamming servers via a simple DNS query.
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