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Actress-Host Kris Aquino

MANILA It seems that host-actress Kris Aquino made the right decision to sacrifice her love life for the sake of her career and her two children.

Citing his chart readings, Hong Kong-based feng shui master Joseph Chau Kam Ching predicted that Aquinos love life will not be good in 2014, which is known in the Chinese calendar as the Year of the Wooden Horse.

Its not good, Chau told ABS-CBNnews.com and select members of the media during the Chinese New Year press conference of Mandarin Oriental Manila.

Given this, Chau encouraged the Kris TV host to do more exercise or engage in other activities that will keep her busy, noting that she will tend to have a lot of negative thoughts this year.

She has to do more exercise, not because shes fat, but because she is easy to she will have negative thinking. Shes more prone to negative thinking, he explained.

She should do something [to keep her busy] so shell have no time to think about nonsense things, he added.

Born on February 14, 1971, Aquino caused a buzz among Filipinos after crediting her showbiz success for 2013 to not having sex.

Last September, the host-actress said she would rather give up being in another relationship so she could have more time to take care of her two sons, Josh and Bimby.

Aquinos marriage to basketball star James Yap was annulled in 2012.

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Theres a steely gleam in Esau Pritchetts eyes as he tells harrowing childhood stories. He keeps his cool, but theres a chilling sense of torture as his voice rises and tenses but never reaches a full outcry.

As Troy Maxson in Fences at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, Pritchett simmers, stretching to endure, until he has lost all he has cared about and only then do we see the full extent of his rage and his pain.

As the nucleus of director Phylicia Rashads perceptive production of August Wilsons Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning classic, Pritchett is emblematic of the powerful characters portrayed in finely calibrated performances by the full cast.

Set in Pittsburghs Hill District in 1957, the action takes place largely on the Maxsons porch, where Wilson probes family ties, economic hardship and racism endured to different degrees by different generations in a time of social change. Set design by John Iacovelli and costumes ESOSA vibrantly evoke the period.

The title refers most explicitly to a fence Troy and Cory have promised to build for Rose. As their friend Bono (a dynamic Phil McGlaston) says, some people build fences to keep people out and others, to keep people in. Rose wants to hold her family tightly close, Troy to keep out the threat of an enemy, in his mind, death.

Rose (played by the single-named actress Portia) has reason for concern. Troy wants his son Cory (Chris Myers) to be as different from him as possible with the exception of a having a loving wife and his approach to parenting can be brutal.

Once a Negro League baseball star born too early for the majors Troy is now a garbage collector. As played by Pritchett, he still has his old charm and bravado, which peek out from beneath a hardened, weary exterior.

Sharing his fathers athleticism, Cory has attracted the attention of a recruiter who has offered him a football scholarship which Troy refuses to let him accept, thinking he will be similarly shut out from professional opportunities.

Throughout the play, both swat at a makeshift baseball substitute hung from a tree they can swing for the fences, so to speak, with flawless aim, but their efforts go nowhere.

Myers physically embodies Corys early tentativeness, his shoulders slumping, intimidated at the sight of his father. In one of the most memorable scenes, he asks Troy, How come you aint never liked me?, a question met with what seems like cold puzzlement. Later, we see that the response comes from Troys desire to help his son to develop calluses, like his own, against harsh realities.

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Web Extra: Michele Kelm Helgen on the Metrodome #39;s Demolition
Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority Chair Michele Kelm Helgen talks about the process by which the Metrodome will be demolished.

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Demolition work continues on the former hospitality complex at Dunedin's Carisbrook yesterday.

The final stage of demolition started last week on the four-storey, concrete hospitality complex.

Work is scheduled to be completed by the end of March. Construction company Calder Stewart Ltd bought the site for $3.5 million from the Dunedin City Council last June, half the $7 million the council paid the Otago Rugby Football Union for the ground in 2009.

A fundraising project by Dunedin Rotary clubs, the Carisbrook Rotary Project, raised $200,000 through the sale of stadium turf, seating, signage and other memorabilia, Carisbrook Rotary Project committee member Lindsay Thorburn said yesterday.

The remaining rubble would be crushed into aggregate for future developments and the vacant site fenced off, Southern Demolition owner Alan Edge said.

The only reminder of the site's former sporting career will be the historic brick Neville St turnstile building, which is to be incorporated into a pocket park, as part of the redevelopment.

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January 20, 2014

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The family of the owner of the building housing Le Baril Bar at 35 Child Street in Coaticook obtained a stay of the demolition of the centenary edifice on Saturday in order to determine whether or not it could be saved. After an independent evaluation performed by engineers Monday morning, it was unanimously decided the demolition would go ahead as originally planned since renovations needed to put the building back in shape were extensive. This building is dangerous from a structural point of view, said Deputy Mayor, Luc Marcoux. We are concerned that the demolition of the house beside it will compromise its stability. This is the second building to be demolished in the Child St. portion of Coaticook after damages caused by last weeks Pratt Creek flood rendered them unsafe. The St-Pierre Excavation company is making final arrangements for the demolition which will take place as soon as everything is in place. Due to Monday mornings developments the press conference originally scheduled for Monday at 3 p.m. was canceled.

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The iciest sidewalk in town is in a place where it never snows an underpass beneath the Gardiner Expressway.

We had a small break last week from the brutal winter weather, which gave the city a chance to get caught up on clearing sidewalks that were coated with hard packed snow, glazed by ice.

But the effort to clear a backlog of sidewalks that hadnt been shovelled seems to have missed a section of The East Mall that runs through a Gardiner underpass, south of The Queensway.

A reader posted a report last May on SeeClickFix about water oozing from a retaining wall on the west side of the underpass, saying the sidewalk is always flooded and slippery, (and) lane two of the road is always flooded.

Its been this way for years, said the reader, noting that the city has never taken an interest in fixing it.

We forgot about it until this week, when we found new comments posted to the report last week about an icy moonscape on the sidewalk.

As of Jan. 18 the sidewalk is impassable, said the reader who made the original complaint. All pedestrians have to walk on the east side of The East Mall.

If someone is injured they can use this report to prove the city has had ample notice of the problem and failed to do anything almost a year later.

Someone with mobility issues is going to get hurt trying to navigate the sidewalk.

We went there on the weekend and found a small glacier in the curb next to the road, which goes on for a distance of 20 metres or so and extends onto the sidewalk.

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West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday proposed tighter regulations for chemical storage facilities after a spill contaminated the water supply for 300,000 people.

Tomblin, the Democratic governor, urged passage of a chemical storage regulatory program. The bill aims to address shortcomings that allowed 7,500 gallons of coal-cleaning chemicals to seep into the Elk River on Jan. 9. Freedom Industries, which owned the plant that leaked the chemicals, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Friday.

Freedom Industries' safety flaws, including a last-resort containment wall filled with cracks, went largely undetected, because as a facility that neither manufactured chemicals, produced emissions, or stored chemicals underground, it was not subject to environmental regulations, state Department of Environmental Protection officials have said. The chemical that spilled also wasn't deemed hazardous enough for additional regulation.

The material flowed 1.5 miles downstream and made it into West Virginia American Water Company's water supply.

Below-ground tanks storing chemicals face environmental regulations, but ones above the surface fall into a regulatory loophole, officials have said. The department made several routine visits to the Charleston site between 2002 and 2012, but found no violations.

The governor's bill, which hasn't been filed yet, would mandate annual inspections of above-ground chemical tanks, and would require water systems serving the public to draft emergency plans in case of spills.

Storage facilities would self-report locations, construction and maintenance of tanks, and file annual reports. They would need to detail their spill-prevention mechanisms, and would be subject to penalties from the Department of Environmental Protection if they don't comply.

"This proposed legislation will ensure that all above-ground storage facilities are built and maintained consistent with required safety standards," Tomblin said.

Manchin, D-W.Va., wants the federal government to set standards for state-run regulatory efforts. His proposal would require states to inspect chemical facilities that could threaten a public water system every three years. Others would be inspected every five years. States could recoup costs from responding to emergencies. The bill is also supported by U.S. Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

Both bills aim to make locations and specifics of chemical storage sites publicly available.

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