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17 hrs ago | The Winnipeg Free Press

Dynamic Duo

Boy walks into a bar. Boy meets girl. The rest of this narrative does not turn out the way you think.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Motown, Soul

Wed May 15, 2013

Examiner.com

Top Family Friendly Wineries in Paso Robles

Travel should not come to a screeching halt when one becomes a parent, and, after one visit, you'll see why Paso Robles California clearly understands this concept.

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Related Topix: Paso Robles, CA, Life, Hobbies

Mon May 13, 2013

Jackson Hole Radio

3 BYUI Students Found Stranded In Cave

Twenty-three members of the Teton County Search and Rescue team responded to a report Sunday morning of students from BYU-Idaho who had gone caving at the adjoining Wind & Ice Caves Saturday and had failed to return.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Avalanche

WDRB-TV Louisville

SLIDESHOW: A Cave in the Basement

NOTE: Click on the "filmstrip" above to open the slideshow, then click on the right arrow to toggle through each of the individual slides.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Saturn, Weather

Daily Mail

Subterranean Victorian shopping street in Keighley set to reopen after lying abandoned for 120 years

A bargain in the basement? Subterranean Victorian shopping street discovered by builders is set to reopen after lying abandoned for 120 years Shoppers may soon be able to walk through a secret Victorian shopping street after it was revealed the maze could be reopened for business.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies

Sun May 12, 2013

Globe and Mail

With pipelines on hold, oil storage services boom

A propane storage 'bullet' at Keyera Corp. The wait for proposed pipeline projects such as Keystone XL has resulted in growth of the storage industry, once considered a sideline.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, North America, Canada, World News,

Lake Cowichan Gazette

Cody Caves to reopen mid-June

For the first time, ice formations in the Cody Caves like these will be shown to the public as part of a new operator's plans to offer tours year-round. More than three years after closing to the public, the Cody Caves are set to reopen next month with a new business model emphasizing what the new operator calls the "caving experience." Tours ... (more)

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies

Thu May 09, 2013

Concord Monitor

Concord Insider's Ben Conant and Keith Testa

If you've seen the painting of dogs playing poker in your buddy's man cave and couldn't help wondering what that dinner party was really like, now is your chance to score that elusive invite.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Merrimack County, NH

This Is Somerset

Ian_Mat published Cavers injured and trapped in giant Cheddar Gorge cavern

A group of five seasoned cavers were leaving Frozen Deep on Sunday at 3pm when a rock fall caught Naomi Sharp, 34, a glancing blow to the head and pinned Nick Chipchase's left hand.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Somerset County, England, United Kingdom, World News,

Wed May 08, 2013

North Country Now

Free speech not bullying at Potsdam Central School

To the author of "Caving to Pressure" : The PCS music department and friends are "bullies" for fighting to get a music position back, or so you say.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Martin Luther King, Jr.

OpEdNews

Bayou Corne Sinkhole: Micro-Earthquake Activity Halts Work

BACKGROUND: In Spring of 2012, Louisiana's Corne and Grand Bayou residents noticed strange bubbling in the bayou for many weeks, and they reported smelling burnt diesel fuel and sulfur.

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Related Topix: Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Life, Hobbies, Napoleonville, LA, US News, Liberal Political News

Tue May 07, 2013

The Times-Picayune

Bill curbing salt dome storage caverns near manmade disasters fails in Louisiana Senate

Scientists have speculated that the 372-foot-wide and 422-foot-deep sinkhole might be related to structural problems within a brine cavern owned by United Brine Services, a subsidiary of Texas Brine Co., Senate Bill 200 by Sen.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Breaux Bridge, LA, Napoleonville, LA

KQED

Exploring Caves in California: An Otherworldly Experience

While most people are out enjoying the warmer weather spring offers, there are some who cannot wait to make their way underground.

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Related Topix: Weather, Life, Hobbies

Reuters

COLUMN-Super-computers and the hunt for oil: Kemp

Typically buried thousands of feet below the surface, oil fields are like a sponge saturated with a mixture of oil, water and gas, rather than the underground cavern most people imagine when they think about oil and gas reservoirs.

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Related Topix: Computers, Life, Hobbies, Science / Technology, High Performance Computing

Mon May 06, 2013

KJCT

Wonders of the Western Slope: Glenwood Caverns

Deep inside Iron Mountain on the north side of Glenwood Springs, you'll find an intricate maze of colorful caverns first discovered in the late 1800s.

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Sun May 05, 2013

The Advocate

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Rhett and Donna Pipsair have spent the last 23 years making their home on Sauce Piquante Lane just the way they want it.

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Related Topix: Texas, Life, Hobbies

Sat May 04, 2013

Nuketown

Can Humanity Survive a Draconic Reign of Fire?

In a reality just next door to ours, a crew working in the London Underground breached a long-buried cavern, unleashing a horror locked inside for millions of years.

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Related Topix: Action Movies, Thriller, Reign of Fire, Life, Hobbies, Christian Bale, Celebrities, Movies, Entertainment

Fri May 03, 2013

The Advocate

Some work halted when tremors hit Assumption sinkhole

Another moderate increase in tremors near the Assumption Parish sinkhole has prevented work on the 15.1-acre swampland hole since Wednesday, parish officials said Friday.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Geismar, LA

Daily Kos

Cheney Library Opens in Dark, Subterranean, Undisclosed Location.

Unnoticed amidst the coverage of the Bush Library opening last week was the opening of the Dick Cheney Library and Museum in a vast, dark, sulfurous cave thousands of feet below the surface of the earth.

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Related Topix: Dick Cheney, Life, Hobbies

Thu May 02, 2013

KATC-TV Lafayette

House members pass bills regulating salt mines

Two bills aimed at regulating salt dome operations were approved unanimously by the Louisiana House on Thursday, a day after some Bayou Corne residents were told an evacuation order will remain in place indefinitely due to the instability of a 15-acre sinkhole.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Pierre Part, LA, Port Allen, LA, Baton Rouge, LA