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The Lt. Governors Stakes is one of the biggest races of the local thoroughbred season and Hastings Racecourse is proud to welcome as its guest decorator Saturday - Canada Day - British Columbia's Attorney General, The Honourable Wally Oppal.The 10-horse field for the $125,000 Lt. Governors showdown features some of the finest talent drawn together to date with the entry of Quiet Cash and True Metropolitan logged as morning line favourites. They've been tabbed by Hastings race analyst Mike Heads as "a tough tandem to beat". Veteran jockey Chad Hoverson will ride Quiet Cash while apprentice sensation Mario Gutierrez is on True Metropolitan.
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The Dodgers received another blow today, as second baseman Mark Ellis was placed on the disabled list with a yet undisclosed left leg injury. Losing Ellis was just part of a middle infield shakeup by the Dodgers, as slumping shortstop Dee Gordon has been moved to the bench "for a few days," per manager Don Mattingly.
Ellis hurt his left leg in the top of the seventh inning Friday night, when Tyler Greene of the St. Louis Cardinals upended Ellis with a hard slide (a slide that both Mattingly and Ellis agreed was just good, hard-nosed baseball). Ellis had x-rays after the game that showed nothing broken, but he was very sore.
Ellis had an MRI on Saturday and we are still awaiting full results, but just by the nature of it this sounds like an injury that could cause him to miss much more than two weeks. Mattingly said the team was still getting information back about the MRI, but there was swelling in different areas of Ellis's left leg.
"We're still getting information back, but we have enough to know we're going to DL him," Mattingly said.
Ellis was hitting .273/.373/.364 with 27 runs scored in 37 games batting second for the Dodgers, and he is the fourth starter currently on the disabled list.
"I think he's a great player. The more you see him play, the better he is. He's a tough guy to replace," Mattingly said.
Mattingly said for now he will use a combination of Elian Herrera, Adam Kennedy, Justin Sellers, and Ivan DeJesus Jr. at second base, as DeJesus was recalled from Triple A Albuquerque on Saturday. DeJesus will wear number 13 with the Dodgers, and he should be at Dodger Stadium close to game time.
Hairston Close To Returning
Jerry Hairston Jr. is also in the mix at second base, as well as third base, and possibly shortstop, but that is after he returns from his stint on the disabled list. Hairston is eligible to return as early as Tuesday, but Mattingly said Hairston will likely play in rehab games, either in the minors or at extended spring training at Camelback Ranch while the Dodgers are in Arizona, on Monday and Tuesday, and will likely be activated on Wednesday.
"At this point we've gotten this far. I'd rather go a day late than a day early," Mattingly said. "Wherever he goes it's not a matter of timing, it's just him being healthy."
"When I get activated I want to be full steam ahead. I know we have a lot of guys hurt, and I don't want to have a setback," Hairston said. "I definitely want to hit the ground running, literally."
Gordon Benched
Shortstop Dee Gordon, currently in a 2-for-31 slump, will be used off the bench for the next few days. Mattingly didn't give an exact timetable, but it means Gordon won't start tonight or Sunday, nor will he start against left-handers Patrick Corbin and Joe Saunders on Monday and Wednesday in Arizona.
"Just thinking properly is what Dee needs to do right now. He's not going through anything that there haven't been a ton of guys go through," Mattingly said. "Nothing has really changed in my thinking about Dee about what he's going to become or where he will end up."
Mattingly said he spoke with Gordon last night after Gordon went 0-for-5, to drop his average to .200/.239/.255.
"The things that Dee talked to me last night were the same things Kenley Jansen talked to me about last year. He goes home and sits there and thinks about it and thinks about it, and that's not how you play your best baseball."
House Call On Sunday?
To round out the Dodgers infield infirmary news, Juan Uribe was scheduled to meet with a hand specialist regarding his left wrist injury on Saturday, but that meeting has been changed to Sunday. Uribe went on the disabled list on Monday.
Starting Lineups
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SS | Furcal | CF | Gwynn | |
RF | Beltran | 2B | Herrera | |
LF | Holliday | LF | Abreu |
1B | Berkman |
RF | Ethier | |
3B | Freese | 3B | Kennedy | |
C | Molina | 1B | Loney | |
2B | Greene | C | Ellis | |
CF | Robinson | SS | Sellers | |
P | Westbrook | P | Kershaw |
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"Kasparov could be sentenced up to five years in jail"
Garry Kasparov could be sentenced up to five years in jail for using violence against a state official, after allegedly biting a policeman's hand. Kasparov himself dismissed the accusation as "drivel". Meanwhile, the 13th World Champion has given an interview and written an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. We give an update to the Kasparov arrest story, including video footage on YouTube.
One aspect of the arrest of Garry Kasparov last Friday that struck us was the huge amount of photo, video and phone cameras in the hands of protesters and journalists in the Moscow streets. Therefore it was no surprise to see more and more videos appearing on YouTube. In the following video (we start it from 0:48) you can see the confirmation of what was claimed by Kasparov's supporters: that he was not protesting, but quietly giving an interview.
While he is being dragged to a minibus, Kasparov asks repeatedly, "What are you doing? What are you detaining me for?"
The video is not a single shot, though - it was edited at some point. At 01:56, when Kasparov is about to be thrown into the minibus, a new clip starts. It seems like Kasparov is screeming while he is taken into the bus, but as the following video shows, this part is in fact from a later moment. As it turns out, Kasparov actually tried to escape from the bus. The following video (we start it from 01:39) shows this:
The YouTube videos strongly suggest that indeed there has been some fighting going on inside the bus. As we noted last Friday, the police are pursuing a charge that Kasparov bit one of their officers. On his Facebook page it could be read that
he has more protocol to go through tonight with his attorney and must return to the police next week.
Kasparov could be sentenced a five year jail term. Here's how The Telegraph put it:
Police sources told Russian media that Mr Kasparov, who claims he was talking quietly to journalists when he was arrested, could be charged with using violence against a state official, a criminal indictment that carries a maximum custodial sentence of five years, after allegedly biting a policeman's hand. Mr Kasparov dismissed the accusation as "drivel".
Kasparov suggested that it could have been a police dog that bit the cop. In response, the police said they were ready to "carry out a test comparing a police dog's bite to Kasparov's teeth" in order to prove the alleged assault.
Shortly after his release, Kasparov gave an interview to Eli Lake of The Daily Beast. He said he was punched in the genitals and beaten by several police officers.
I remember one strong hit between the legs, then they tried to bring me in the bus, and they started carrying me and beating me. When that happens, you resist. They were trying to break my leg.
In the interview Kasparov does not mention that he tried to escape from the minibus.
The 13th World Champion also wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. Here's a paragraph:
My bruises will heal long before the members of Pussy Riot are free to see their young children again. In the past, Mr. Putin's critics and enemies have been jailed on a wide variety of spurious criminal charges, from fraud to terrorism.
But now the masks are off. Unlikely as it may be, the three members of Pussy Riot have become our first true political prisoners.
Taking into account the fact that Kasparov resisted being arrested and even tried to escape, who knows what he'll be charged of when he faces the police again next week.
There is nothing brave about it. Kasparov is, and always has been, a coward. Searching for ways to start the fight with an advantage and playing the media. He knows he is safe because he is both famous and completely unimportant at the same time. It's just that he got lost in the moment and went too far biting an officer. The average Russian protester risks a lot more and has much more courage.
"Kasparov is, and always has been, a coward. Searching for ways to start the fight with an advantage"
You can call him many things, but hardly a coward, and I wouldn't say he is starting fights with an advantage either.
While talking bulls-it all the time on the internet under S3 alias is the most brave thing.
so what we seem to have here is a man giving an interview in a public street, being forcefully arrested by a group of thugs in uniforms and also being charged for resistance which means he's being charged because his survival instinct kicked in while they were kicking him in the balls. Is this arrest even legal in Russia? I mean weren't they supposed to read him his rights or something? I'm pretty confident that if a police official approached him calmly and asked him in an official manner to escort them in police hq, he would peacefully comply
and frankly i'm a bit shocked about some other remarks being made in this thread
About what? How another country deals with law enforcement? Read his rights? Wake up, the world does not evolve around the USA!
Exatly, the police was very " friendly " in this arrestment if you take notice that Kaparov is not cooperating and refuse to get in the bus, start to struggle against te police and bite them. Not very smart to do. One in Holland I trew a stone to a group of marsing Neo Nazies and shout "go away you Nazies! " after this five police man were trowing me on the ground wile I was no risiting at all. I stay calm and told them that I would calmly go with them, but still they trow me at least three time hard against the van and then they wait for there supirior befor they trow me in the Van. So this Russian arrestment was very peachfull as you compare it to mine at that time.
Funny thing was that they must let me go because they did not find the stone, haha.
Please remember, thay Kirsan is a friend of Putin as well as other dictators. It might have been a provocation against Kasparov. Kirsan is not happy with last actions taken by Garry, so this case might not be so easy as we can see.
@S3- LOL, are you in favor of Putin? I don't know where you live but your comments are appalling. I don't like Kasparov but clearly he was just giving an interview.
The only thing clear is him behaving agressively after the police tried to take him away in a most gentle manner.
Exactly. Some people just want to see conspiracy's everywhere, cause the west implies it is the case.
thank you for proving my point, even in your own unique trollish way
I agree the police were gentle to begin with and Kasparov was the one who started the commotion. He most likely did bite the hand of an officer.
But was it an arrest, or were they just taking him to the bus to detain him for a while? In either case, why? If it was an arrest, what was the charge? If not, why detain someone who is calmly giving an interview?
What happens in authoritarian regimes is that at some point, people of character get fed up, sometimes resorting to violence. If the laws are unjust or the regime oppressive, is it always wrong to oppose them violently?
I don't know why they took him to the bus.The video isn't clear on that. It's a good question that doesn't seem to concern most people here as they pretend to know the answer already.
Whatever the reason, the violence of Kasparov is pointless, even if the police had orders to arrest him for no reason at all.
At the moment no violence is needed anyway since Putin isn't the worst that could happen to Russia. Most Russians still support Putin because there is no reasonable alternative. The power hungry Kasparov's of the opposition appear to be no better.
I hope things get better in Russia with time but people here shouldnt get all upset because of the self inflicted "mistreatment" of a quite safe chess millionaire who just wants attention.
Kasparov is not an opposition, he doesn´t even live in Russia. He just comes when he receives some money to create showcases for media propaganda, thats what he is paid for.
Saying in Russia there is no "freedom" f.e. "free press" like in other countries is totaly ignorant. When there were elections the Candidates had debates in TV, you could see them speak their mind, when there were protests i could watch in mainstream Russian TV that people speak their mind, would a totalitarian state let something like that happen, guess no? But there is a big difference in how and where you protest, you can´t just go to random places like churchs etc., also it must be approved, on some occasions some people like Kasparov and Nemzov etc. thought they don´t need that, so they got busted by the police. And that, ladies and gentlemen, happens in every country where not approved demos are made or where violence against police is used, see Spain or Greece.
Putin is not a saint, but people should wake up and stop being ignorant, completely ignoring the fact, that such things like beating demonstrants or hard judgements happens even in their so called "Democratic" countries too... but somehow you never see your head of states as criminals or your government, because you never hear it in your mass media and never think about it, but that´s no surprise, because people who rely too much on these just spit out the same nonsense, which the mass media squirts into them. The use of proclamations in the media like "political prisoners" about people who break laws on purpose, not once, and therefore sit in prison or are beaten, is ridiculous, but sheep can´t filter propaganda. There is a simple scenario used everytime: 1."something about human rights" or something people see as good, 2."seemingly some injustice happened", this good was broken and 3.connect this occasion to "Putin" or another figure we don´t like. This little schema is always used in the media against politicians or countries your "Western" government doesn´t like.. but never against itself of course. ;)
I don t know if it is just giving an interview because he said that the Pussy Riots are political prisoners and he encourish actions like they made in the church, and maybe also the sex orgie in public , I don t know.
So as a public person set people on to make crimes. Thus maybe the police wanted only to ask him some questions but then he starts to fight with them and bite them, so logical that they took him under arrest. But Kasparov has been arrested all ready many times, so he is looking for it. He wants the attention because he is a narcist.
Not saying the Russian police do not abuse people, no doubt they do, but Kasparov WAS resisting arrest and if he did bite someone I hope he is charged for it. Free speech isn't freedom to do what ever you want to, to destroy public and private property, or to express your views in private places as the band did, they crossed a line when entering into a church and doing what they did. Funny thing is let the cowards enter a Mosque and do the same, go to Mecca and protest see how that works out for ya. Never happen. For the record Putin is a scary man and I put nothing past him, I hope Kasparov gets treated fairly but he's not innocent either.
I hope the Russian police abducts your family. If one of them resists I hope they get the death penalty.
I hope the Russian police abducts your family. If one of them resists I hope they get the death penalty.
Where is the photo with the bite mark on the policeman's arm?
I honestly think that Gary should return to chess, that is his fighting ground. I would rather to see him fight on chess board against youngsters like Carlsen, Grishchuk and Nakamura. Come on Gary, a couple of months is what you need for a warm up!!
I'm hearing a lot of confusion on this topic.
Here is what I see ...
Kasparov resisted arrest (not violently) but he was successfully put into the police van without
biting anyone. This is shown in this UNEDITED BBC clip: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19300149
While he was inside the police van something happened which caused Kasparov to try to escape in a highly agitated manner.
Kasparov said. "They were trying to break my leg." - Read the full report in The Daily Beast here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/17/chess-champ-garry-kaspa...
That incident is shown at around 1:39 of this video. Notice you see him trying to escape the van in a highly agitated manner and he is forced BACK INTO the police van. He may very well have been biting when he was making those strange repetitive sounds "ai yai yai yai yai ... etc."
@ a micro-second before 1:53 one of the officers is seen nursing his hand as if it had been
injured in some way; it happens very quickly so you may have to stop the video more than once to see it.
forgot the video: http://youtu.be/K-pomYNiNps
The arrest portion of THIS BBC clip is 'unedited' in that it shows that he was initially put completely on the police bus without biting anyone: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19300149
The bite comes later after he was trying to be PUT BACK ONTO the police bus.
That incident begins around 1:39 of this video:
Notice you see him trying to escape the van in a highly agitated manner and he is forced BACK INTO the police van. He may very well have been biting when he was making those strange repetitive sounds "ai yai yai yai yai ... etc."
@ a micro-second before 1:53 one of the officers is seen nursing his hand as if it had been
injured in some way; it happens very quickly so you may have to stop the video more than once to see it.
You got the wrong guy and body part. It's an arm not a hand, from the photo that Mig tweeted and then removed, look around for it.
The policeman is the guy closest to the bus. He gets bit on the left arm that he hit Kasparov with as it slips from his head down to the front of his face. It's quite clear, at about 1:42/43 you can see his arm being yanked because someone's teeth are embedded into it. At 1:50 he's looking at his wound. It's quite obvious.
This is sad news, that Chessvibes won't post the photo.
Chessbase has actually published a "A frame-by-frame analysis of the Kasparov assault". I was actually looking for the shooter on the grassy knoll! ;-) http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8421
Its as clear as it can be. Gary was there to support (and maybe even organise) the voilent of the Pussy Riot outside the court room and in general. Support there crimes in the church .Set on to voilent as a public person. And after this he used voilent himself against police officers resisted the arrest and bit them. ( Then said it was a dog , but there were no police dogs present, so also lying agianst the police. )
Thats all you can clearly see from the movies.
And you can conclude of whats he was saying to the press. All obvious and not so difficult.
Kasp will do anything if there is a camera around. His campaign is that desperate and always has been. Shame on the people urging him on...
Peter, this exact message was caught by your spam filter, no clue why.
Where are the rest of the comments Peter? There were more then three pages, but a lot is removed. Is the many heads monster forcing you to this? As it goes about human rights and "Family live" in Holland?
It seems like Kasparov is screeming
Should be "screaming".
Anyone surprised?...This is how it works in a totalitarian State.
The man once was and actually still is my idol, now fights and screams like a child and animal..
Whats wrong with reality lately???
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Mutations in the Slow Skeletal Muscle Fiber Myosin Heavy Chain Gene (MYH7) Cause Laing Early-Onset Distal Myopathy (MPD1) The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 75, Issue 4, 1 October 2004, Pages 703-708 Christopher Meredith, Ralf Herrmann, Cheryl Parry, Khema Liyanage, Danielle E. Dye, Hayley J. Durling, Rachael M. Duff, Kaye Beckman, Marianne de Visser, Maaike M. van der Graaff, Peter Hedera, John K. Fink, Elizabeth M. Petty, Phillipa Lamont, Vicki Fabian, Leslie Bridges, Thomas Voit, Frank L. Mastaglia and Nigel G. Laing Abstract We previously linked Laing-type early-onset autosomal dominant distal myopathy (MPD1) to a 22-cM region of chromosome 14. One candidate gene in the region, MYH7, which is mutated in cardiomyopathy and myosin storage myopathy, codes for the myosin heavy chain of type I skeletal muscle fibers and cardiac ventricles. We have identified five novel heterozygous mutations—Arg1500Pro, Lys1617del, Ala1663Pro, Leu1706Pro, and Lys1729del in exons 32, 34, 35, and 36 of MYH7—in six families with early-onset distal myopathy. All five mutations are predicted, by in silico analysis, to locally disrupt the ability of the myosin tail to form the coiled coil, which is its normal structure. These findings demonstrate that heterozygous mutations toward the 3′ end of MYH7 cause Laing-type early-onset distal myopathy. MYH7 is the fourth distal-myopathy gene to have been identified. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1213 kb) |
Vocal Cord and Pharyngeal Weakness with Autosomal Dominant Distal Myopathy: Clinical Description and Gene Localization to 5q31 The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 63, Issue 6, 1 December 1998, Pages 1732-1742 Howard Feit, Alice Silbergleit, Lori B. Schneider, Jorge A. Gutierrez, Reine-Paule Fitoussi, Cécile Réyès, Guy A. Rouleau, Bernard Brais, Charles E. Jackson, Jacques S. Beckmann and Eric Seboun Abstract Summary Distal myopathy refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders in which the initial manifestations are weakness and atrophy of the hands and feet. We report a family segregating an autosomal dominant distal myopathy, with multiple affected individuals in whom vocal cord and pharyngeal weakness may accompany the distal myopathy, without involvement of the ocular muscles. To our knowledge, this pedigree displays a distinct distal myopathy with the added features of pharyngeal and vocal cord dysfunction (VCPDM) that has not been previously reported. We mapped the MPD2 gene for VCPDM to chromosome 5q within a 12-cM linkage interval between markers D5S458 and D5S1972 in a large pedigree (a maximum LOD score of 12.94 at a recombination fraction of 0 for D5S393) and combined genome screening and DNA pooling successfully adapted to fluorescent markers. This technique provides for the possibility of fully automated genome scans. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (2049 kb) |
Mutations in the N-terminal Actin-Binding Domain of Filamin C Cause a Distal Myopathy The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 88, Issue 6, 10 June 2011, Pages 729-740 Rachael M. Duff, Valerie Tay, Peter Hackman, Gianina Ravenscroft, Catriona McLean, Paul Kennedy, Alina Steinbach, Wiebke Schöffler, Peter F.M. van der Ven, Dieter O. Fürst, Jaeguen Song, Kristina Djinović-Carugo, Sini Penttilä, Olayinka Raheem, Katrina Reardon, Alessandro Malandrini, Simona Gambelli, Marcello Villanova, Kristen J. Nowak, David R. Williams, John E. Landers, Robert H. Brown, Bjarne Udd and Nigel G. Laing Abstract Linkage analysis of the dominant distal myopathy we previously identified in a large Australian family demonstrated one significant linkage region located on chromosome 7 and encompassing 18.6 Mbp and 151 genes. The strongest candidate gene was FLNC because filamin C, the encoded protein, is muscle-specific and associated with myofibrillar myopathy. Sequencing of FLNC cDNA identified a c.752T>C (p.Met251Thr) mutation in the N-terminal actin-binding domain (ABD); this mutation segregated with the disease and was absent in 200 controls. We identified an Italian family with the same phenotype and found a c.577G>A (p.Ala193Thr) filamin C ABD mutation that segregated with the disease. Filamin C ABD mutations have not been described, although filamin A and filamin B ABD mutations cause multiple musculoskeletal disorders. The distal myopathy phenotype and muscle pathology in the two families differ from myofibrillar myopathies caused by filamin C rod and dimerization domain mutations because of the distinct involvement of hand muscles and lack of pathological protein aggregation. Thus, like the position of FLNA and B mutations, the position of the FLNC mutation determines disease phenotype. The two filamin C ABD mutations increase actin-binding affinity in a manner similar to filamin A and filamin B ABD mutations. Cell-culture expression of the c.752T>C (p.Met251)Thr mutant filamin C ABD demonstrated reduced nuclear localization as did mutant filamin A and filamin B ABDs. Expression of both filamin C ABD mutants as full-length proteins induced increased aggregation of filamin. We conclude filamin C ABD mutations cause a recognizable distal myopathy, most likely through increased actin affinity, similar to the pathological mechanism of filamin A and filamin B ABD mutations. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1177 kb) |
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The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 64, Issue 5, 1420-1426, 1 May 1999
Tommy Martinsson1, , , Niklas Darin2, Mårten Kyllerman2, Anders Oldfors3, Birgitta Hallberg1 and Jan Wahlström1
1 Department of Clinical Genetics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
2 Department of Pediatrics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
3 Department of Pathology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
We recently described an autosomal dominant inclusion-body myopathy characterized by congenital joint contractures, external ophthalmoplegia, and predominantly proximal muscle weakness. A whole-genome scan, performed with 161 polymorphic markers and with DNA from 40 members of one family, indicated strong linkage for markers on chromosome 17p. After analyses with additional markers in the region and with DNA from eight additional family members, a maximum LOD score (Zmax) was detected for marker D17S1303 (Zmax=7.38; recombination fraction (θ)=0). Haplotype analyses showed that the locus (Genome Database locus name: IBM3) is flanked distally by marker D17S945 and proximally by marker D17S969. The positions of cytogenetically localized flanking markers suggest that the location of the IBM3 gene is in chromosome region 17p13.1. Radiation hybrid mapping showed that IBM3 is located in a 2-Mb chromosomal region and that the myosin heavy-chain (MHC) gene cluster, consisting of at least six genes, co-localizes to the same region. This localization raises the possibility that one of the MHC genes clustered in this region may be involved in this disorder.


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FAIRFIELD — Fairfield police say they're working with the FBI in the search for the killer of a 13-year-old girl whose body was found in a park last week.
Police released few new details during a press conference Wednesday, but did repeat their request for help from the public, especially anyone who may have seen Genelle Renee Conway-Allen Thursday afternoon.
The teen was reported missing around 5:45 p.m. Thursday by her guardian at the foster home in nearby Suisun City where she lived. Police say her naked body was found a little before 7 a.m. Friday by a passerby.
The manager of a market located near a surveillance camera that took a photo of Genelle shortly before she vanished told police that a girl matching her description was outside his store.
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Rockefeller noted that a December 2011 Republican budget rider delayed the MSHA rule until a U.S. Government Accountability Office report on the issue was completed in August 2012.
"It has been nearly a year since the GAO issued their report, in which it confirmed MSHA used key scientific findings to develop the aforementioned rule," Rockefeller wrote. "Despite this affirmation by the GAO, the rule has not yet moved forward."
Black lung, or coal workers' pneumoconiosis, is an irreversible and potentially deadly disease caused by exposure to coal dust.
One goal of the 1969 federal coal-mine safety law was to eliminate black lung. Deaths declined for years, but experts have been warning since the 1990s that the dust limits need to be tightened. More recently, since 2003, researchers have been documenting an alarming increased incidence of the disease in younger miners, whose entire careers took place under the 1969 law's dust limits.
Last year, a joint investigation by NPR and the Center for Public Integrity, with additional reporting by The Charleston Gazette, documented widespread industry cheating on coal-dust controls and repeated inaction by regulators to try to end the disease.
Between 1996 and 2005, nearly 10,000 coal miners nationwide died of black lung, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. West Virginia recorded the second-highest black lung deaths of any state, with more than 1,800 during that period, according to NIOSH.
"No miner should have to face the destructive effects of black lung," Rockefeller said in his letter. "We must act now before we lose more West Virginia coal miners to this disease."
The two other MSHA initiatives mentioned by Rockefeller focused on proposals to require mine operators to install proximity detection devices that shut off underground equipment when miners get too close to the equipment.
One rule would cover adding such devices to continuous mining machines. Between 1984 and 2010, 30 miners died and 220 were injured nationwide when they became crushed, pinned or struck by these machines.
MSHA proposed that rule in August 2011 and the public comment period closed in late November 2011. MSHA has yet to send a final draft of the rule to OMB for White House approval.
The other rule would require proximity detectors on other types of mobile underground equipment. MSHA sent a draft of that rule to OMB in September 2011, but the White House has yet to approve it being proposed for public comment.
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- Mint sprigs, for garnish
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Grease and flour a 13 by 9 by 2-inch pan. In a bowl, beat the eggs and butter together; add the brown sugar, then gradually add the flour and mix well. Stir in the vanilla. Spread the batter in the prepared pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Cool and cut into squares.
Prepare the pudding according to the package directions. Let cool slightly. Crumble the blondies into chunks, put them back into the glass dish, and sprinkle with sherry. Spoon the pudding over the blondies. Beat the cream with the sugar just until stiff peaks form. Spoon the whipped cream onto the completely cooled trifle. Refrigerate until serving time.
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3. Stuff is rarely enough. While you can use goal-setting to, say, save up for a car, research shows that self-oriented goals, such as fame and fortune, don't create true, lasting happiness. Instead, Halvorson says, we need to pursue goals that satisfy three basic human needs: relatedness to other people, a sense of competence, and the autonomy to make decisions about our lives. So instead of imagining a shiny new BMW in your garage, imagine how can you create community in your life, do what you feel good at, and gain control.
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5. Be specific. "I'm going to exercise" isn't nearly as effective as "I'm going for a walk Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from noon to 1." Over 100 studies, Halvorson says, have shown that simply deciding where and when to do certain things can double or triple your likelihood for success. Having a specific goal creates a link in your brain between the cue ("it's noon") and the behavior that follows ("I'm going for a walk").
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Vice President Joe Biden will take a break from the campaign trail to attend a memorial service on Thursday for Sen. George McGovern, the White House announced today.
The Vice President, who served with McGovern in the Senate, will "attend an evening prayer service" in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, according to the White House.
McGovern, who grew up in South Dakota, is being remembered as both a peace activist and a path breaker in the fight to end hunger. He passed away on Sunday, aged ninety. In his statement honoring McGovern, President Obama hailed him as "a champion for peace" who was a "statesman of great
conscience and conviction."
The Vice President will attend the 6:30 PM service on Thursday at First United Methodist Church in Sioux Falls. A public viewing is planned for 1:00 to 6:00 PM at the church.
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The Vice President is campaigning for his second day in Ohio today. On Tuesday, he appeared with the President at a rally at Triangle Park in Dayton (in the photo, above). The President is today on a four-state junket, which includes a two-hour stop in Los Angeles to film Tonight Show.
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Joe L. Allbritton, the founder of Allbritton Communications - the parent company of KTUL Tulsa's Channel 8 and POLITICO - died Wednesday, just 17 days shy of his 88th birthday.
Mr. Allbritton was the father of the company's current chairman and chief executive Robert Allbritton.
Mr. Allbritton was born in D'Lo Mississippi, on Dec. 29, 1924, in the company hospital of the timber company where his father ran the general store.
He was the sixth of seven children.
Mr. Allbritton learned the value of hard work as a child, earning a dollar a day for stirring orange juice at a local bottling plant.
"Somebody asked me if I came from great poverty. I said, 'No. I was born in D'Lo, Mississippi, and if you owned everything in the little town, there wouldn't have been enough to buy you a Greyhound bus ticket to Jackson," he said in 1994.
When Mr. Allbritton was in junior high, the family moved to Houston, where his father opened a cafeteria.
Young Mr. Allbritton cooked, washed dishes and manned the counter.
He also decided the cafeteria business wasn't for him.
In high school and later at Baylor University, Mr. Allbritton developed the debating skills that he used to great advantage in law school and in business He earned both his undergraduate and law degrees from Baylor University, where he was celebrated as a national champion debater.
"The greatest thinker in the world gets stuck in his thought if he can't deliver it," he said.
A Houston friend said Mr. Allbritton, "could charm the rattles off the back end of a rattlesnake."
After naval service during WWII and law school, Mr. Allbritton borrowed $5,000 to buy some land outside Houston.
When it came time to build the freeway connecting Houston to Galveston, the value of that land skyrocketed and so did Mr. Allbritton's business career. He went on to chair the Houston International Bank, Houston Citizens Bank and University Bankshares.
In 1970, Mr. Allbritton purchased The Washington Star along with its television station and smaller stations in the south.
In 1978, he sold the paper but kept the T.V. stations which became the foundation of the media empire that bears his name today.
Allbritton Communications purchased KTUL-TV from the Leake family in the mid-1980s.
Mr. Allbritton also owned the Riggs bank from 1981 to 2004.
He and his wife Barbara were major contributors to scores of philanthropic, educational and artistic institutions, including Washington's Kennedy Center and Arena Stage. He has given to hundreds of charitable causes through the Allbritton Foundation, including Baylor Medical School, the Allbritton Art Institute, the Oxford Scholars, and the establishment of the International School of Law, which has become the George Mason Law School in Virginia.
"I remember when I was a boy, my father asked me if I was going to give a particular cause that was coming on. I said, 'Dad, I've only got a dollar.' He grabbed my arm and squeezed it and said, 'Son, if you won't give when you've got a dollar, you won't give when you've got a million'," he said.
"He was teaching me that giving was habit, and I've followed that through my lifetime."
Mr. Allbritton also made a name for himself in thoroughbred racing. In 1991, his 3-year-old horse, Hansel, won two legs of the Triple Crown, the Preakness and the Belmont.
And he never lost his sense of humor or his debating skills.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara, and son, Robert, along with grandchildren, Alex and Katherine.
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Boulder can operate utility, but should it?
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Heather Bailey, the city's executive director for energy strategy and electric-utility development, gave a presentation of the city's recent work at a meeting hosted by the Boulder Chamber.
Since November, a group of city planners, environmental specialists and attorneys have worked with outside legal and engineering consultants to determine whether Boulder could create a utility that would meet criteria established in the city charter. Among the criteria were that the utility be as reliable as Xcel Energy Inc., the city's current energy provider and the owner and operator of the local electric grid. The municipal utility also would have to meet environmental goals, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while charging customers no more than Xcel would.
The criteria were established in November 2011, when Boulder voters narrowly approved ballot measures giving the city the authority to create a utility under certain conditions.
The city's studies in the past few months have been about whether it could form a utility that met the minimum requirements, Bailey said. In a report issued in February, city staffers concluded that the city could.
"That test, we considered the floor," Bailey said. "I think to move forward with municipalization, the municipalization proposition would have to be a lot better than that."
If the city council gives it the go-ahead at its April 16 meeting, the next phase is to study whether the city should create a utility.
The city also would need to know the steps it would have to take to launch the utility. That would include looking at legal strategies if Boulder and Xcel ended up in litigation, talking to bond-ratings agencies to prepare for issuing debt and creating a governance structure. An implementation plan also would have to be created at that stage, she said.
Work on that phase is scheduled to wrap up around the end of the summer.
Bailey said the city is trying to make sure it hears a diversity of viewpoints, including reaching out to the business community at events such as Friday's lunch and a conference call focused on business-related topics scheduled for noon Tuesday. Registration for the conference call can be made online at http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=5759.
Businesses use about 70 percent of Boulder's power, and the city is trying to build safeguards into the process that would ensure "fair and equitable" rates for businesses, Bailey said. The city also has provisions that would allow representatives of businesses to serve on the utility's oversight board.
Ultimately, however, it's the concerns of voters that drive the process, and in repeated elections, Boulder voters have approved measures calling for pro-environment policies.
"Boulder is a community that has very clear values about what's important to them," Bailey said. "As a business community, you have different interests, and not all of you have the same interest and the same level of need for certain things. But as an overall community, Boulder's made it clear that climate action is important, so that's what we hope to address when we move forward."
The city continues to hope that it can work with Xcel Energy to develop a partnership, but nothing concrete has yet emerged from early discussions, Bailey said.
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