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dc.contributor.advisor | Ferdon, Douglas Robert, 1945- | |
dc.contributor.author | Barrett, Tye E. | |
dc.contributor.other | Baylor University. American Studies Program. | en |
dc.date.copyright | 2010-05 | |
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dc.description.abstract | Merton McLaughlin moved to the Texas Panhandle and began making cowboy boots in the spring of 1882. Since that time, cowboy boots have been a part of the Texas Panhandle's, and America's rich history. In 1921, twin brothers Earl and Bearl Beck purchased McLaughlin's boot shop. The Beck family has been making cowboy boots in the Texas Panhandle ever since. This thesis seeks not only to present a history of Beck Boots and cowboy boots in the Texas Panhandle, but also suggests that the relationship between bootmakers, like Beck Boots, and the working cowboy has been the center of success to the business of bootmakers and cowboys alike. Because many, like the Beck family, have nurtured this relationship, cowboy boots have become a central theme and important icon in American life. | en |
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dc.subject | Beck Boots. | en |
dc.subject | Cowboy boots. | en |
dc.subject | Texas Panhandle. | en |
dc.title | Beck Boots : the story of cowboy boots in the Texas Panhandle and their important role in American life. | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
dc.description.degree | M.A. | en |
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Gas prices in continental Europe are mainly set by a decades-old system of long-term contracts, linked to the price of oil. But in relatively liberalised Britain gas is largely traded at spot prices set by current supply and demand. This handed an advantage to some smaller European utilities with interconnections to the British spot market when, in 2008, gas prices suddenly fell. Their bigger rivals meanwhile suffered. They were saddled with "take or pay" contracts that obliged them to buy fixed quantities of gas far above what they could sell and at prices way above those on the spot market.
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Troubles at RWE, Germany's second-biggest electricity producer, have also played into Gazprom's hand. RWE is burdened by poor acquisitions, a new nuclear-fuel tax and Germany's decision to abandon nuclear power (which constitutes 20% of RWE's generating capacity) by 2022. On October 6th it said it would continue negotiations begun in July with Gazprom over a possible joint venture to generate electricity from gas and coal. In return for going into business with the Russian gas giant, RWE would likely get cheaper gas, but still on the basis of oil indexation.
A deal between Gazprom and RWE could have big consequences for European energy policy. To reduce reliance on Russia, plans are afoot to run a pipeline from Central Asia. And the main consortium partner in the EU's preferred proposal, known as Nabucco, is RWE. Yet doubts persist as to how this would be financed (particularly given RWE's parlous state) and indeed where the gas to fill such a large pipeline would be found. Meanwhile, another proposed pipeline along Europe's "southern corridor", called South Stream, which would run from Russia to Western Europe, subsidised by the Kremlin, looks set to go ahead—making Europe even more dependent on the Bear.


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March 2015: GARNKINNY NGARRANGGARNI
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December 2014: Christmas Show
All works under $2000, this is a special exhibition full of wonderful ideas for Christmas. Joyously uplifting works, prints and paintings from all over Australia. Celebrate our wonderful country, and its diverse landscape, while giving a fabulously unique gift for Christmas. This is an online exhibition, full of great ideas to help take the stress out of Christmas shopping. Enjoy!!
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November 2014: ENCOUNTER 2014
Featuring new works from John Awram. John lived in Broome for many years and is now living in Cairns, This exhibition explores the mind as an interior landscape. Using the visceral materials of cardboard, wood and charcoal, the implications of the transient nature of existence is revealed. Awram takes us on a journey into the interior through his intricate drawings and mind maps. Short St Gallery is proud to present this unique exhibition.
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August 2014: In memory of Kunmanara Williamson: These are the stories we teach our children
Nganampa tjukurpa nganana nintini Tjitji malatja tjuta. These are the stories we teach our children. In memory of Kunmanara Williamson. An exhibition from the women artists of Amata. Including Kunmanara Williamson, Barbara Moore, Sylvia Ken, Tjungkara Ken, Tjimpayi Presley, Serena Ken, Freda Brady, Sharon Adamson, Mona Shepherd, and Paniny Mick. These works remind us of the imperative significance of inter-generational wisdom. Each work is weighted with a sense of importance, these are not just simple landscapes, they are imbued with meanings of things that are fundamental to our existence. In celebrating country these women are emphasising the very nature and the significance of consciousness itself.
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July 2014: Saltwater Soul Desert Heart
The artists from Bidyadanga dramatically altered the colour palette of the whole desert art movement. In order to pay tribute to the Karrajarri, whom had taken them in when they left their traditional desert country in the late 1960's and early 1970's, they chose to paint their desert homeland using the colours of the saltwater country. This was radical, and created a movement with ramifications still impacting the desert painters today. They started painting in 1998, many of the artists are no longer with us, but they live on through the dynamic and powerful art. A tribute to their traditional bush life, and the extraordinary power and history of the Great Sandy Desert.
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June 2014: Tjuntjuntjara recent works from Spinifex Country
East of Kalgoorlie, running down to the Great Australian Bight, is some of the most remote country in the world, this is Spinifex Country, home to traditional country men and woman (including the last family to walk out of the desert in 1986). The art is made in country on site of many of the stories, and embodies a rich and long unbroken cultural practice and tradition. The energy of the desert country, and the intimate understanding and knowledge of each place, is immediately felt. Each work is laden with a presence a raw power which transcends culture and language. Short St Gallery is proud to present this unique and enlightening exhibition.
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May 2014: Papa Ipi Tjurrkapa (Dog Dreaming) by Ginger Wikilyiri and Keith Stevens
To commemorate the Pinctada Polo event in Broome for 2014, Short St Gallery would like to announce a special monumental exhibition by two senior desert law men. This vibrant collection of paintings represent the journeys of Papa (dog), many important inma (ceremony) are connected to the travels of the dog. It is apt that these works are being shown in Broome, a place where the desert meets the sea, and also where the dog dreaming people migrated. We would like to invite you to come and experience the wonder, and rich cultural history of the desert landscape documenting 30,000 years of journeys across the vast interior of Australia.
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April 2014: Two Waters Two Women
An exhibition by Ralwurrandji Wanambi and Manini Gumana. In the last two years of her life Ralwurrandji Wanambi introduced a radical innovation to the Yolŋu art vocabulary with her extensive use of sand both painted and unpainted. Despite illness her creativity multiplied and she produced this radical body of work right up until her passing. This exhibition is a milestone in the Yolŋu art history of East Arnhem and Yirrkala. Manini is good company for her. She too has struck an innovation that has no precedent. She is the first to make the outline to her work solely using the marwat or cross hatching brush made from human hair. In eschewing a framework built by a larger painting brush she sets herself apart from all that has gone before.
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December 2013: Transitions
An exhibition of the emerging Kija women painters. Charlene Carrington reinterprets the rub back techniques of her Grandfather, while, Evelyn Magil is experimenting in bold acrylic colours and mixing them up with ochre, challenging traditional interpretations and the old Kija motif : "if it is the country it must be from the country". Evelyn is being true to her world, which is full of the manufactured. Kathy Ramsay, displays a lyrical wonderment in her depiction of the kimberley landscape. This compares to Lorraine Daylight's more classical approach. While Berilyne Mung seems to be fragmenting the landscape, it is like she is breaking it down in order to understand the rich and long heritage, for which one day she will be the boss. A wonderful exhibition which highlights the generational transitions of a cultural painting practice.
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October 2013: Spring in the Desert
Short St Gallery is thrilled to present a collection of works celebrating spring in full glorious bloom, featuring stunning works from artists throughout the Desert country. These delightful and inspired artists capture the nuanced changes of a parched landscape in full flower. Please view these remarkable works online over the next two months and immerse yourself in the joy of Spring in the desert. Featuring works from the late Mr Barney Wangin, Ray Ken, Hector Tjupuru Burton, Ruby Tjangawa Williamson, Wawiriya Burton, Mona Mitakiki Shepard, Bugai Whylouter, Helen Dale Samson, Sonia Williams, Lily Long (Jatarr), Amy French and more.
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I don't know if some of my colleagues in the journalistic trade are having a laugh, but The Spectator wrote last week that, if the Liberal Democrats won the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election, "it would transform politics". A surprisingly early contender for understatement of the year. It would not just transform politics, it would defy the laws of human nature, physics and the universe.
One enterprising bookmaker, Paddy Power, last week put out a news release that attracted some publicity, saying that the chances of Elwyn Watkins, the Lib Dem candidate, winning the by-election were the same as those of Manchester United being relegated. Some killjoy pedant pointed out that this comparison was not supported by the odds that Paddy Power itself quoted, which gave Watkins a 30 per cent chance of winning. But the news release was more accurate than the quoted odds. The idea that the Lib Dems have a 30 per cent chance of victory is, of course, balderdash – a technical term for a bookies' profit margin. It is strictly accurate, therefore, to say that a Lib Dem win in Oldham would be helpful to Nick Clegg. It would be helpful in the way that Harry Potter benefits from the discovery that he is the most famous wizard in the world. Unfortunately for Clegg, being locked in the understairs cupboard of public opinion is no guarantee that a hairy giant is about to burst in and take him off to Hogwarts.
Indeed, the voters of Oldham are more likely to adopt the role of Uncle Vernon and subject the unfortunate prisoner to further humiliation. Today's Sunday Telegraph poll in the constituency suggests that the Lib Dems are some distance short of the winning post. Indeed, it is quite possible that Watkins will come third on Thursday. Labour's Debbie Abrahams is what the bookies call "nailed on" to win, and the Conservative, Kashif Ali, could be the runner-up.
My prediction has little to do with the qualities of the candidates or their campaigns. Provided the candidate is not an obvious liability he or she does not make much difference in a modern by-election campaign. I was reminded by a veteran by-election watcher, who was in Oldham last week, of Bob Gillespie, Labour's candidate in the Glasgow by-election in 1988, who had LOVE and HATE tattooed on his knuckles. But by-election voting is mostly affected by two main factors.
The baseline is provided by national opinion polls. In this case, Labour is up 10 points since the general election, the Lib Dems down 14, and the Conservatives unchanged.
Then there is the anti-politics factor. By-elections have long been a means of expressing not merely hostility towards the Government, but towards the established order generally. Hence that staple of British politics, the Liberal, Alliance or Liberal Democrat by-election "upset". The rules of that game have changed. Nick Clegg is now The Most Hated Man in Britain, and only his outstanding unpopularity shields the Conservative wing of the coalition from greater contagion. Thus, in English seats and subject to the Gillespie proviso, the Labour Party is by default the beneficiary of anti-politics sentiment. Labour may be part of the establishment, but the option of a third party untainted by the responsibilities of office is no longer available. It is as if Labour were Her Majesty's Opposition and a protest party rolled into one.
Satisfying as it will be for Labour to see Clegg fall victim to the anti-politics wave that he used to ride against them so lazily, it would be a mistake to see victory in Oldham as a new dawn. Winning a by-election is no substitute for credibility on managing the economy, which is what the general election will be about.
That is why Ed Miliband was misguided in his broadcast with Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 last week. It was not that he seemed discomfited by the relentless hostility of the callers, although he should realise that the anti-politics mood is against him, too. It was not that he accused the Government of "deceit" about Labour's role in the fiscal crisis, although it is not a word calculated to win over those who think all politicians are liars. It was that he denied that Labour had made the crisis worse than it need have been.
If he persists in this, the sceptical centrist voter will not listen to the sensible part of his argument. The SCV knows that Gordon Brown increased public spending during a boom. He did it while he was prime minister, and Tony Blair's memoir records that he did it before he became prime minister, possibly with a view to an early general election in 2008. Blair announced a Fundamental Savings Review in February 2006 to restrain the growth of public spending, but it was "fought every inch of the way" by Brown, abetted by Ed Miliband, who was at the time struggling to fill Ed Balls's shoes as the Chancellor's economic adviser.
As Philip Collins, one of Blair's former advisers, put it last week, the accusation against Ed Miliband "is not that spending 'caused' the deficit, but that he was driving too fast, with no insurance, when there was a crash".
Miliband needs a better line, one that has more credibility by virtue of being true. Which would be that he was sorry that Labour continued to spend too much (probably better not to add, "or tax too little") when it would have been prudent to provide a cushion for an adverse turn in the global economy. Having thus engaged the listener's interest, he could go on to point out (as he did last week, to no effect) that the Conservatives supported Labour in making this mistake every step of the way (until the crunch actually came, when David Cameron and George Osborne started to make all the wrong decisions about how to respond to the crisis).
The danger is that Labour's victory in Oldham will encourage the party to misread an anti-politics spasm for winning an argument, when the voters are simply not listening.
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As announced on Siliconrepublic.com, "MATHletes Challenge 2014, which O'Sullivan is launching today with the Minister for Training and Skills Ciaran Cannon, aims to help students develop the confidence and competence to excel in maths by introducing Irish students and teachers to the Khan Academy. … In the MATHletes challenge, students will compete in county and provincial finals, with top scorers advancing to the national finals, which are scheduled to take place in early May. Students will also be able to connect with other contestants by attending free Saturday Khan Clubs which will be held in the National Educations Centres across the country."
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The six-game collection was built in WebGL specifically for mobile devices. WebGL was the perfect platform for delivering rich 3D characters and animations and allowed for the delivery of a video game experience delivered right through the browser for players around the country without the need to download a native app.
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The two components of an option premium are the intrinsic value and the time value. The intrinsic value is the difference between the underlying's price and the strike price. Specifically, the intrinsic value for a call option is equal to the underlying price minus the strike price; for a put option, the intrinsic value is the strike price minus the underlying price
Intrinsic Value (Call) = Underlying Price – Strike Price |
Intrinsic Value (Put) = Strike Price – Underlying Price |
By definition, the only options that have intrinsic value are those that are in-the-money. For calls, in-the-money refers to options where the exercise (or strike) price is less than the current underlying price. A put option is in-the-money if its strike price is greater than the current underlying price.
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Any premium that is in excess of the option's intrinsic value is referred to as time value. For example, assume a call option has a total premium of $9.00 (this means that the buyer pays, and the seller receives, $9.00 for each share of stock or $900 for the contract, which is equal to 100 shares). If the option has an intrinsic value of $7.00, its time value would be $2.00 ($9.00 - $7.00 = $2.00).
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Thank you everyone! Unfortunately, there was not a lot of money left for her to buried so there will only be a graveside service. I feel selfish in being happy over this development but I will not have to sit in a church and I am thankful.
My Father in law was an Atheist adn my mother in law comes from a fundie family with preachers and all. He told her after he got terminally ill that she could have whatever funeral she would like for him. So, they had an all out Christian one. I sat there ill at what had happened. Ii know when you die that is it but I will be damned that someone throw me a christian funeral in my memory. I'm just saying...
Since she passed I thought a lot about funerals and christianity. Anybody else had a similar situation?
My Aunt Wanda died last night. She was a tough woman who did not even let polio slow her down. Her daughter died in a motorcycle accident at the age of 18. She had been in the hospital several times this last year but she kept recovering. However, she was 92 and it was just a matter of time. She was also a fundie so I know the funeral will be at the church she went to, a baptist church. Soooo, I am going to have to sit in that church and listen to jesus this, gawd that. It makes me extremely uncomfortable and if it wasn't for my grandmother I probably would for go the funeral and just go to the funeral home. I am dreading it bc I do not have a poker face. Any time I have had to go to church funerals I always make faces (unintentionally) when the preachers say ridiculous things. I needed some where to share this, I hate baptists churches and their bs.
I got home about 2 hours ago (we stopped at a nice restaurant for dinner), and I'm still speechless. Most of the songs were written by Sir elton John, but the number that blew me away was set to "Swan Lake." I'm still breathless, too.
So many memories...
Thank you, I am feeling better finally. It was a nasty virus and I won! My mother is agnostic but she does not like me telling people i'm an atheist. She is 58 I am sure the whole communism time really affected her as well. However, she is not afraid to tell people she is agnostic, double-standard. I'm going to print that out and give it to her. I've been working on helping her become an atheist so I send her links to the different atheist sites if I see something that might make her go "hmmm."
Ask them, or whoever shows up next, if they believe in Santa Claus (or Zeus, or Oberon, or any fictional character you can think of), and when they say, "no," tell them they are a-Santa-ists. They are theists, and you are an a-theist. It's really a simple little word, with no sinister connotations. They probably won't accept that, but maybe, just maybe, you'll give them something to think about later on.
Go to the FFRF web site, and look up their non-tracts; I think there's one about "Myths About Atheism," or something like that. You can print out a copy or three, and hand it to the next buybull-pusher that annoys you. And give a copy to your mother, too.
My mother was a bit of a fundie (raised in Oklahoma), and was mildly upset when I told her Genesis was wrong about everything, but she also was too curious about the natual world to not read popular articles about geology, anthropology, archaeology, and other sciences. She never gave up on god altogether, but I remember how she was glued to the TV with the rest of us when Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the surface of the Moon. She couldn't help having a mind, and using it.
I miss her.
PS: I hope you're feeling better.
After those ladies left all I could do for the rest of the day was think up new things I should have said. Now I wish they come back, hehe...
In about 2 hours, I'm leaving to go see "Billy Elliot - The Musical" with some friends. I haven't been to a live show in about 30 or 40 years, and I'm so excited that I'm jumping out of my skin. I love musicals, always have, and this one has received wonderful reviews from even the most cynical critics..... Cheering, laughing and crying all at the same time.
I'll let y'all know if I survive the experience.
Jessica: "Atheist" was not a "dirty" word until the 1950s when the USA was overwhelmed with McCarthyism and paranoid fear of the Soviet Union. The loud-mouthed conservatives equated a lack of religious faith with communism (even though the earliest xians lived in communes and shared everything...monks and nuns still do) and the "godless communist" shibboleth stuck.
I like to mess with doorbell-ringers, too, but it's kinds difficult to do that when my sister is home because she's one of them. A JW, I mean. We have a silent truce...we don't discuss religion. Ever.
The people at the Freedom From Religion Foundation (and other non-believers like Richard Dawkins) have been trying to take the stigma off the word for years, but I have a feeling that people won't let go of the "devil-worshipping, godless commies" idea unthil those of us who were raised during the Cold War are long gone.
Buy a "This is What an Atheist Looks Like" T-shirt, and wear it proudly! (I haven't bought one yet because when I look at my 72-year-old face in a mirror, I shudder.)
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LUCERNE VALLEY, Calif. - Zachary Freeman loved to fish, dirt bike and camp, but most of all, he loved to watch off-road truck racing in the vast Mojave Desert northeast of Los Angeles.
That love would cost the 24-year-old pipe welder and seven other off-road enthusiasts their lives when a truck competing in the annual California 200 careened off the sand track Saturday and into the crowd, instantly killing Freeman and his best friend.
On Sunday, his girlfriend and his stepfather mourned at a simple cross-and-stone memorial set in the thick sand and waited in the blistering heat for a locksmith to arrive to change the ignition lock in Freeman's truck so they could take it home. His keys had been lost in the chaos; the coroner found only a lighter in his pocket.
"I'm just in shock. It's not real yet, it hasn't soaked in," said Randall Peterson, his grieving stepfather.
Freeman's girlfriend, Nicky Carmikle, sobbed as she knelt down and placed her boyfriend's camouflage baseball hat in the center of the stone circle surrounding the wooden cross.
Carmikle recalled how she had stepped away from the race for a few minutes to use the bathroom and returned to find the truck upside down, bodies everywhere and people screaming in panic.
"His shoes are still over there. I can't even look," she said, gesturing to a bag full of abandoned clothing, shoes and blankets, some stained with blood. "It just isn't fair, it isn't right."
Those who witnessed the accident said the crowd pressed close to the track and could almost touch the trucks as they hurtled and bounced over the desert sand.
Shortly after the race began, one driver took a jump at high speed, hit his brakes on landing and rolled his truck sideways into spectators, sending bodies flying on a section of track that had no guardrails or anything else to keep the crowd back. Eight people were killed and 12 were injured.
"You could touch it if you wanted to. It's part of the excitement," Carmikle said. "There's always that risk factor, but you just don't expect that it will happen to you."
California Highway Patrol Officer Joaquin Zubieta said Brett M. Sloppy, 28, of San Marcos, was behind the wheel of the truck involved in the crash. Zubieta said alcohol was not a factor in the crash and there were no plans to arrest Sloppy, who the CHP estimates was going 45 to 50 mph at the time of the crash.
Zubieta said state vehicle codes don't apply because the race was a sanctioned event held with the approval of the federal Bureau of Land Management, which owns the land used for the race.
The BLM issued a statement saying safety was the responsibility of the race organizer, South El Monte-based Mojave Desert Racing. MDR's permit required racers to travel 15 mph or less when they were within 50 feet of fans, and allowed no more than 300 spectators for the event, the agency said.
BLM spokesman David Briery said the agency would cooperate with the CHP's investigation.
"We followed all our rules," he said by phone. "We don't think we did anything wrong."
Phone and e-mail messages left for MDR were not immediately returned.
Tens of thousands of people were spread out along the 50-mile track, but the site of the crash, a stretch known as the "rockpile," is one of the most popular areas to gather because the trucks become airborne, witnesses said.
Some said they got within 4 feet of the unmarked track, watching trucks fly over a series of jumps. Several jagged rocks jut from the rutted dirt track at the bottom of the hill.
The driver "hit the rock and just lost control and tumbled," said Matt March, 24, of Wildomar, who was standing next to the jump. "Bodies went everywhere."
Derek Cox, a friend of victim Andrew Therrien, told KABC-TV in Los Angeles that Theirren, 22, pushed children out of the way as the truck barreled toward them. He was killed in the accident.
"I owe my son's life, as well as many others. They were inches away from him and he saved their lives," Cox said of the Riverside resident. "He's a hero in my book."
March said he and other fans lifted the truck, which came to rest with its oversized wheels pointing toward the sky, and found four people lying unconscious underneath.
It took rescue vehicles and helicopters more than half an hour to reach the remote location, accessible only by a rutted dirt road. Spectators said off-duty police and firefighters in the crowd joined paramedics hired by the race organizer to help the injured and place blankets over the dead.
Six people died at the scene and two others died after being taken to a hospital, authorities said. Most of the 12 injured people were airlifted to hospitals.
Paramedics brought six people--five adults and a child--to Loma Linda University Medical Center, spokesman Herbert Atienza said Sunday. He had no information on their condition.
Officials said Sloppy, the driver, wasn't hurt. It was not clear why he lost control of the truck, a white modified Ford Ranger with "Misery Motorsports" painted on the doors.
A Facebook page that appeared to belong to Sloppy and included a picture of his truck was updated Sunday with a note: "Soo incredibly lost and devistated my thoughts and prayers go out to all the familys and friends involved.. Thank you too all my friends for sticking with me even thru these tragic times I love you all."
Nearly 40 friends responded with messages of support by Sunday afternoon.
The race is part of a series held in the Mojave Desert's Soggy Dry Lake Bed, about an hour's drive from the nearest city, Lucerne Valley.
The course winds through empty desert dotted only with rocky outcroppings and desert shrubs. Several families were still camping Sunday on a dried-up lake bed below the crash site. Buggies and dirtbikes zoomed back and forth, kicking up dust that could be seen for miles.
There were no barriers at the site of the crash. Fans said these races rarely have any kind of safety guards.
"That's desert racing for you," said fan John Payne, of Anaheim. "You're at your own risk out here. You are in the middle off the desert. People were way too close and they should have known. You can't really hold anyone at fault. It's just a horrible, horrible accident."
Briery said he didn't know if the BLM would conduct an internal investigation, and he added it was too early to say if the agency would change its permit rules to ensure stricter enforcement of safety requirements.
The BLM is required by Congress to make public lands accessible to reasonable requests, and the area used Saturday is one of the few available to off-road enthusiasts, he said.
The CHP does not normally investigate crashes at organized events, but took the lead on this probe because of its scope.
Aside from Freeman and Therrin, those killed were Brian Wolfin, 27, Anthony Sanchez, 23, and Aaron Farkas, 25, all of Escondido; Danica Frantzich, 20, of Las Vegas; and Dustin Malson, 24, of Ventura. The name of the eighth victim, a 34-year-old man from Spring Valley, had not been released by Sunday night.
Associated Press Writers Andrew Dalton and Christopher Weber reported from Los Angeles. AP Radio correspondent Shirley Smith in Washington contributed to this report.
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Autism Linked to Mom's Autoimmune Disease—Including Celiac Disease
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View all articles by Jefferson AdamsAlthough earlier studies have documented a connection between autism and a maternal history of type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, this is the first study to document a link between autism and celiac disease, according to the study's authors.
A team of researchers led by Dr. William W. Eaton, chairman of the Department of Mental Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University recently set out to review data related to autoimmune deficiency and autism.
Eaton's team collected data on 3,325 Danish children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, including 1,089 diagnosed with infantile autism. All of the children were born between 1993 and 2004, and their data was part of the Danish National Psychiatric Registry. Data on family members with autoimmune diseases came from the Danish National Hospital Register.
The data showed that children whose mothers had autoimmune disease faced a higher risk of developing autism spectrum disorder than children of mothers who did not have these conditions. Moreover, children with a family history of type 1 diabetes faced an increased risk of infantile autism.
Overall, the increased risk of autism in people with autoimmune diseases is not huge, Eaton said. "The increased risk for type 1 diabetes is a little less than two times, for rheumatoid arthritis it's about 1.5 times and for celiac disease it's more than three times," Eaton said. "That's enough to impress an epidemiologist, but not enough to make anybody in the general population start changing their behavior."
Eaton added that this finding "reinforces the suggestion that autoimmune processes are connected somehow with the cause of autism and autism spectrum disorder, and...may point a flashlight to areas of the genome that connect to autism."
The finding itself has no clinical significance, says Eaton, but could guide future efforts by researchers to determine the cause or causes of autism.
One reason autoimmune diseases might have a role in autism lies in genetic history, Eaton said. Children who were underweight or premature at birth face a higher risk for autism, and both of these obstetric problems are associated with celiac disease, he added.
There may be a significant overlap "in the genetics of some of the autoimmune diseases and autism," he said. "Autism is strongly inherited, but we don't have the faintest idea where...this finding is on the pathway of finding the cause of autism." Various environmental triggers may also affect the fetus, he said.
Lead researcher, Dr. Hjordis O. Atladottir, from the Institute of Public Health at the University of Aarhus in Denmark calls the findings important because they support the theory that autism is somehow tied to problems with the immune system.
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13 Jul 2009 6:34:29 AM PST This is a fascinating result and may tie in with the hypothesis that Vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy is a major factor in some cases of autism. (Vitamin D being more likely to be low in celiac mothers, obviously.) What would be even more interesting would be to see the figures for autistic children born to celiac mothers before diagnosis, who might all be expected to be low in D. These mothers all appear to have been diagnosed.
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11 Aug 2009 11:55:33 PM PST I wonder where does all this lead us to? More than 50% people today are suffering from some or the other autoimmune disease. For an example I am type 1 diabetic, my daughter is a coeliac, my husband is suffering from some form of AS. Our future generations are probably doomed.
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04 Nov 2009 9:19:40 AM PST My entire family is in some way suffering from some form of autoimmune disease and all of my nieces, nephews and offspring are affected too. Three generations of medical problems has cost my family time money and heartache. I would have liked to have known in advance that I could have changed my diet or decided not to have children. More of this information needs to be available to women of childbearing age.
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11 Aug 2013 10:00:57 PM PST Absolutely! Very well written. I am a mother of a son with autism and am just now being diagnosed with celiac disease as a senior citizen. Two other children have asthma and one daughter struggles with mental illness and a sensory processing disorder. It has cost our family a lot. I believe women of child bearing age should be tested for celiac disease. Those who have it can hopefully improve the health of their families by eliminating gluten from their diet. I'm asking my two daughters to get tested.
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04 Mar 2010 5:10:42 PM PST Very interesting finding. I was pregnant with my third son when I was diagnosed. He was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. My second son has tested negative by biopsy for celiac, but when he eats wheat he gets sick within a half-hour. He is on a gluten free diet. Something else that is rather interesting--my oldest sister, youngest sister, cousin, and uncle have all been diagnosed with celiac as well. Autoimmune disorders are very prevalent and unfortunately celiac disease education is not spreading quick enough.
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24 May 2010 11:51:22 AM PST As a person on the autism spectrum and with ASD showing up to greater and lesser degrees in most members of my family for four generations, I believe that the celiac disease is caused by autism, not the other way around. Mothers who have celiac may have it because they have autism genes. The autism simply may show up more pronounced in their children. My sister appears to have celiac and her son shows signs of ASD but she does as well, just maybe not enough to diagnose.
I believe the same goes for low birth weight and early births, and late births. I believe my son was born late and my labor was long because my ASD caused intense fear of giving birth. My son clearly has ASD. It may be just from my genes but it may also have been increased by the long labor and hence some encephalitis. |
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24 May 2010 12:08:52 PM PST I am finding more out every day. My children have learning difficulties/dyslexia like their dad. He is a colic and has type A blood which is also connected to autism. I have really struggled over the years feeling on my own and I have been, it was not an illusion. I am at present trying to find a psychiatrist via private health care to diagnose whether one of my children is on the Autistic Spectrum. I feel scared. Everything I know has been my own doing. Doctors need to help the innocent people that live daily with the problems linked to the above. I agree with Sad and that I have been alot. If I had been aware I may not have decided to have children with their dad. I do not mean it cruelly, I have been through a lot on my own with behavioral issues from the two worst affected and was not aware of why. I felt a nervous wreck until I started researching. Lots makes sense now.
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15 Sep 2012 1:05:16 PM PST My son has ASD, gluten and dairy intolerance, type A blood. My husband, type A blood, gluten and dairy intolerance. Me, type O blood and possible celiac, iron deficiency, dairy intolerant.
I am a 100% believer in food crossing the blood brain barrier... People with type A blood have a higher occurrence of Autism/ food allergies. my son is on a gluten-free, casein-free diet and is doing much better! all this information being reported needs to be linked in some way, blood type, food allergies, genetics =autism |


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