Kaboom update

Apparently in the case of the Sunrise Propane explosion of 810, the Toronto Sun reports that the operators of the gas plant allowed truck to truck transfers. For any gas, this is not allowed. Note that I once worked as a gas plant operator in Edmonton.

If true the operators of Sunrise should be criminally charged for allowing and encouraging such a practice. The operator that was handling the transfer lost his life due to his inexperience. He was only a foreign student working in the summer.

The reason that truck to truck transfers are not allowed is that vehicles notoriously have bad grounding. One of the trucks may have had a higher electrical static (capacitance) charge compared with the other. The reason that all trucks must transfer to and from a tank is that the tank can be fully grounded. Trucks that operate on rubber tires can hold a charge and if tying to another truck there is a very good change of a very good spark. A spark is a good source of ignition.

Since the employee was only a summer guy, there is no way that he would have chosen this method of transfer unless he was told to do so. Does one expect the owners of Sunrise to be charged criminally? No. This is Canada.

Reassurance

This is Ontario. Step into an elevator. Look for the elevator operating certificate. Observe the lower part of framed and glassed document. There exists or should exist a round image or logo with TSSA on the center bar.

The elevator is inspected by the very same Ontario government agency that over saw the safety and operation of the exploded Sunrise Propane facility. Happy elevating.

Darn it

The Rogers Communications Empire swallowed almost all of the Toronto broadcasting stations including Moses Znaimer's once experimental City - TV. Znaimer it should be noted left art for the dollar when he began selling out his assets to buyers years ago.

There were many good programs on CITY. CITY trained many good on air personalities. CITY shared owners and facilities with MUCH Music. Alas the world of commerce led by the grey eminence of Ted Rogers.

While CityTV created many interesting personalities, it was also visionary. It hired an eccentric but skilled weather forecaster by the name of Harold Hussein. It worked with Harold Hussein. It was the first station to actively assign a regular reporter to cover the environmental beat years before the environment saviorship became fashionable.

One of these shows featured a sock puppet by the name of "Ed the Sock". The character was a grumpy curmudgeon who could insult and comment on almost anything. The Ed and Red show could not withstand the sanitizing effect, and dumbing down of CITY TV. Ed and Red have been anyting but politically correct. This coming weekend the Roger's Empire have broken the backs of free artistry by canceling the TV show.

I'm for a resounding BOOOO!

reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_the_Sock

Third party profit

Squeals of burning rubber pierce the night as the usual car takes off on the light change to green. It matters little whether the car on the side next is going to race. Drivers take off from the lights all the time, roaring onto the next red light a block away.

Many people win half a dozen races every rush hour. Goodyear rubber makes a profit.

Maple Laughs not so much

Justice in this world comes hard on the heels of those deserving. Mayor David Miller keeps trying to explain away his absence by saying that he was with his family to celebrate a daughter's 13th birthday. That's birth "Day" not "Birthweek" Dave. So. No one's buying it. Simply say, ya right... ha ha. Laugh it away.

Considering the fact that there is monster maladministration by the NHL hockey Maple Leafs, its not surprising that a company hosting the same moniker also scores on own goal. It is in the name Adolf.

Then on his return, he is confronted by the closure of the Maple Leafs Plant and the recall of thousands of pounds of meat. It remains an ironic muse to notice that now here is a lot of political porkers finally wondering "Where's the beef?"

Left is always right

Education can be confusing. Even a little bit of education muddles. From this derives a sense of deception by educators.

Proof lies in the right hand, left hand description. In school, the kindergarten teachers teach that the hand on the left hand of your body is the left hand and the right side and right hand the same.

In our journey studying school in science we learn about the body and all the nuances of biology. In studies of law, we learn that the owner, the operator of machinery is responsible for the operation of a piece of equipment.

The name of that equipment belongs to the owner. For instance, this tractor is Charlie's John Deere or this is Jack's snow blower. Thats a prime lesson in the study of business law.

Students learn later in science education thousands of little trivial facts. One of these is that the right hand is controlled by the left side of the brain. The left hand controlled by the right side of the brain. The brain controls almost all of body function including the hands.

By our business law model then the correct definition is that what you thought was the right hand is actually the left hand. And the left hand should really be called the right hand since it is controlled by the right side of the brain. Then the right hand is actually the left and the left is actually the right hand.

Remember this next time you talk to your hands. Incorrect naming is probably why they are angry at you.

Options

When it comes to politics, few Canadians participate due a large dose of anguished apathy. As long as perception holds firm the idea that despite all the problems there is good order and government, there appears little protest.

That day maybe coming to an end. Mayor Miller's and the Toronto deputy mayor's absence sparks the issue about democracy. Voters tend to vote for the person that best mirrors them. However after 810, there is sparked a political movement. Miller returned to vacation in BC.

Arithmatic message

Mayor David Miller's performance during the last couple of days since 810, appears wanting. 810 is the day that the Sunrise propane explosion occurred. So far he has not accepted Toronto council's responsibility for anything to do with the mini-disaster.

Today the death toll rose to two. An unidentified body has been found at the disaster site. A Sunrise employee is listed as missing. One of the top field chiefs of the fire department "Bob Leeck" passed away. Initially natural causes were given as the chief's cause of death. This claim has been muted because the cause of death may not be natural.

Yet Mayor Miller claims that it is a provincial regulator that is responsible for the mishap. What a lack of leisurely responsibility. Miller blamed it on old bylaws. Yet ultimately who is the politician that is most responsible for being the guardian of the municipal citizen. If there is an emergency of any sort, its the mayor's job to assume responsibility for emergency action according to the Ontario Municipal Act.

Before any sort of law, it is the Mayor and council's job to protect the lives and property of its citizens. Otherwise the math of this equation is that the councilors of Toronto failed in their duty and are the ones that are immediately responsible. Casting blame is unseemly but a weapon of choice for this lame mayor. He is a person who shows little or no leadership needed in a mayor. One hundred homes lay waste as a result.

The mayor states that it is the old municipal bylaws that are to blame. But ask yourself which political body is most responsible to update, and maintain those bylaws. It is council. It is math. Math comes after arithmatic. And after the Math it is the aftermath. In the Toronto aftermath, no one is to blame.

Windy booms

Sitting by the window at the computer early Sunday morning I too heard the rolls of what I thought was distant thunder. Fortunately, Sunday isn't the best time to listen to ESPN radio. TV sucks in the early morning hours. So I had 680News the all news radio channel on.

Not that 680 is all that good either. They don't do much news normally. Most of the time its in house advertising every two minutes or so telling everyone of how they do the news. You might get a story or so in between the advertisements.

But that AM they had breaking news right on the four am newscast. There was explosions in North York by Downsview. Well it was mayhem and confusion. They had five different virgins of the same story.

It took almost to 7:00 am by the time they had the story all sort of straight, they did report the massive sudden evacuation that took place. That thunder I heard was the explosions ten miles away.

Its strange. I mean the aftermath. The post partem period is worse than the actual events. Basically all the safety devices on propane tanks worked. Everything exploded upwards. They may never know what caused the explosion. Propane fires are like that.

My educated guess is that it was some kind of spark. Thunder had been in the area and could have left a charge in the industrial framing or the actual tanker truck. One or both were not grounded correctly. A tanker driver fortunately escaped the fire. Only one person is missing and if they had been caught inside the plant, they are likely dead.

One fire fighter died indirectly due to the fire suppression activity. 18 more fire fighters went to hospital for treatment. Fighting these kinds of fire is not easy. But to the credit, of the fire departments involved, this fire was contained within the site.

Later in the day though, Julian Fantino, the publicity seeking head of the OPP, couldn't wait to get onTV and give his pointless little point. The only thing the OPP did was to close down the 401. And even that took them a couple of hours to figure it out. What a putz.