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		<title>Sunday Boating in Topanga:  &#8220;Dude, Are We, Like, Floating?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The above depicts part of why those of us living in Topanga found the drive home yesterday evening a bit more interesting and eventful than usual.

I estimate that I came up Topanga about 30 minutes after this video was shot, by which time it was getting dark, the water was deeper, and the rain was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saluting Monday&#8217;s New Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll Hall of Famers Because&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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&#8230;OTHERWISE WE ARE LEFT HOPELESSLY CONTEMPLATING the ever worsening news about Japan&#8217;s Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.  (The nuclear plant situation is being live-blogged by the WaPo&#8217;s Elizabeth Flock.  Also, try following @norishikata on Twitter.)

The new inductees were Tom Waits, Dr. John, Darlene Love, Alice Cooper, Neil Diamond and Leon Russell&#8212;all wonderful artists.

But since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking of Japan, the Blocked California Budget and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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MEMORIES OF JAPAN, SOME INDELIBLE, SOME WASHED AWAY
The frightening news out of Japan cannot help but hold our attention,  as heroic engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station  continue to try to save the plant&#8217;s crippled nuclear reactors from meltdown. 
But, in addition to the devastating TV news reports, please do yourself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8.9 Earthquake, Tsunami &#8211; #PrayingForJapan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Excellent (if alarming) online  live streaming from Japan on KCET.org.
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		<title>Ted Hall, Arnie Quinones &amp; Camp 16:  Part 2 &#8211; the Inferno</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The memorial for LA County firefighters Captain Ted Hall and Specialist Arnie Quinones will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday at Dodger Stadium.
So let us revisit the events on Mt. Gleason on August 30 in order to honor the work and the lives of two men who became the teachers, heroes and friends, over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ted Hall, Arnie Quinones &amp; Camp 16: Part 1 &#8211; Inmate Grief</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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When I posted a less detailed version of the above story ten days ago, after the news of Hall and Quinones deaths became public, former Mt. Gleason inmates and their family members wrote in to say how much Hall and Quinones mattered to them.
You&#8217;ll find some of those comments excerpted below:

FROM GABBY GUZMAN
Q, was an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firefighters Arnie Quinones &amp; Ted Hall:  A Hero Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Firefighters are, by definition, heroic.  But in some cases, the heroism is more direct.
We know that Sunday night Los Angeles County Firefighters Arnie Quinones and Ted Hall, both experienced firefighters&#8212;Ted a 26-year veteran of LACFD, Arnie a specialist&#8212;were killed in the course of working on the Station fire.  We think it happened when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Katrina, Triage &amp; The Cost of Great Journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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For the second week in a row, the New York Times Magazine has presented a cover story that is everything that journalism should be.
The story, called &#8220;The Deadly Choices at Memorial,&#8221; is about the choices some doctors and nurses made at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans after the back-up generators failed, the majority of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Weather:  Two LA County Firefighters Killed &#8211; UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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UPDATE:  5:15 P.M. The word is now, according to LASD&#8217;s Steve Whitmore, that those five people in Gold Canyon who needed rescue, don&#8217;t need to be rescued after all.  According to Whitmore one of the group&#8217;s members has been calling local radio stations and news outlets saying that they&#8217;re fine.  That they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Weather &#8216;09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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View on Saturday at 1:40 p.m. from Topanga Canyon Blvd. looking toward the La Canada Flintridge fire, known as the Station Fire.
Even from a distance, the smoke roiled in explosive billows,  like an angry and malign ghost&#8212;signaling that the fire was very much out of control.


Here it is seen from the Altadena Weather Cam, [...]]]></description>
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