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- Australia's homeless youth: a report into the National Youth Commission Inquiry into Youth Homelessness
- Author(s)
- National Youth Commission; Eldridge, David; MacKenzie, David; Clay, Narelle; Dethlefs, Wally
- Abstract
- The National Youth Commission Inquiry into Youth Homelessness is only the second inquiry, specifically focused on homelessness, to be conducted independently of government. The first was the landmark Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Inquiry headed by Brian Burdekin in 1989. As a result of the Burdekin Report, youth homelessness became an identifiable community problem and impetus was given to some important new initiatives. However, twenty years on, 'youth homelessness' is still with us. This is despite our nation experiencing its highest level of economic prosperity since the 1970s and the lowest unemployment for several decades. Moreover, Australia is predicted to reap billions of dollars in strong tax revenues from its natural resources over the next twenty years and beyond.
- Publication type
- Report
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Publication year
- 2008
- FOR Code(s)
- 370102 Social Policy and Planning
- Keyword(s)
- Homelessness; Homeless youth; Young people; Youth
- Publisher
- National Youth Commission
- 9780646489100
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © National Youth Commission.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina State has added Alabama transfer Trevor Lacey.
Lacey will sit out this season and have two years of eligibility. In a statement from the school Tuesday, coach Mark Gottfried said Lacey "is a winner and really understands the game."
The 6-foot-3 guard started 52 of 69 games over two seasons. Last year, he averaged 11.3 points and 3.8 rebounds while starting all 36 games. He also led the team with 62 3-pointers.
Lacey was a five-star prospect and Parade All-American when he chose the home-state Crimson Tide after being recruited by Kentucky, Kansas and Connecticut, among others. In April, Alabama coach Anthony Grant had called Lacey's decision to leave "a family decision to pursue other opportunities."
Gottfried was Grant's predecessor at Alabama, coaching there from 1998-2009.
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History: Kris grew up without a dad, he went missing when she was little. Everybody thought he made it back to the surface, she still thinks to this day it was an attack by one of the guards, since he tried to get out. Her mother died when Kris was 18. It was an accidental death that Kris doesnt like to talk about.
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Madison County, FL - December 8, 2012 [UPDATE AT 6:36 p.m.]
Daniel G.Moses, 39, of Van Buren, AR has been identified as the victim of fatal semi-tractor trailer crash in Madison County this afternoon.
According to Florida Highway Patrol, Moses, the driver of the semi-tractor trailer, was traveling eastbound on the mile marker 238,
For unknown reasons, the semi left the eastbound lanes of traffic.
The semi traveled through the median and crossed both westbound lanes of traffic.
The semi continued traveling in a northeastern direction failing to stop before the front the semi impacted a large pine
All debris from the crash was located on the north shoulder of the roadway.
Madison County Sheriff's Office, Emergency Management Services and Fire & Rescue assisted on scene
Madison County, FL - December 8, 2012
A crash in Madison County leaves at least one person dead.
It happened along I-10 westbound by mile marker 238 in Greenville around 1 p.m. Saturday.
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Maisy is the granddaughter of Kurt, the Poké Ball crafter.
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She is first seen meeting Ash and his friends at Kurt's house carrying a shop bag. Ash asked her where Kurt lives and she points at the house where he and she lives. Ash calls at the door and she tells them he won't be back until noon. Ash asked her if she was his neighbor and she replies that she is his granddaughter. She tells them that he went to find Slowpoke and to check that noise caused by Team Rocket. She is again seen with Kurt in their house thanking Ash and his friends for saving the Slowpoke from Team Rocket. She also tells them about the Apricorn Pokeballs. While Kurt was examining the GS Ball Ash calls him to make some Apricorn Pokeballs she tells him to keep quiet so Kurt can concentrate on his work. She shows Ash and his friends the Apricorn Trees. Ash tries to get a pink Apricorn and she tells them that they are not ripe yet. She shows them the Yellow Apricorn tree which is guarded by Pinecos and then the Green Apricorn tree only to get chased by Beedrills. Team Rocket then appears and tries to steal some Apricorns for their boss and Maisy tries to stop them because they would have hurt the trees. Team Rocket are defeated by some of the Pokémon guarding the Apricorn trees as well as Ash and his friends. She is last seen catching up to Ash and his friends who are ready to leave after defeating Bugsy the Gym leader of Azalea Town Gym and gives them the Apricorn Balls that Kurt made for them and to say goodbye. She is presumed to be saddened over Ash's defeat by his friend Harrison who helped him get the Sacred Fire which is guarded by a Sneasel in the Johto League Silver Conference.
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1956 Chevrolet Door Install - Swingin' For The FencesWritten by on May 11, 2012 Contributors: Jason Scudellari Gapping and Hanging a '56 Chevy Door
Midway through the process of installing a load of patch panels courtesy of Brothers Trucks on the Project '56, we came to the realization that we really needed to hang the doors in order to continue. See, once we cut the rockers away, the A-pillar started getting a bit squirrely. When that happened, we thought we'd better quit while we were ahead lest we weld up the new rocker panels and have the door opening shrink without our knowing. That would be bad. And so, it was decided that we could hang and gap the doors as close as possible at this early juncture before pressing on with the patch panel install.
The driver's door was shot, so it took some time to find a decent replacement, but as luck would have it, Jason turned up with one after a few weeks' search. We followed up by contacting John Lawrence at Brothers Trucks and had him send us some replacement hinges, striker plates, latch assemblies, and door hardware to replace the 50-plus year old junk that was on the truck (in some cases, permanently!). With new parts in hand and decent OEM steel to now work with, we disassembled, cleaned up, repaired, and installed both doors and their respective hardware in an afternoon, putting us in good shape to press on with the patch panel repairs next month. CCT
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Here's the hardware we'll need in order to properly install each door. A pair of hinges, striker plate and latch assembly, outside door handle, and inner door relay make up the gist of what we need to properly hang the door.Since we had already removed the doors prior to starting the patch panel work, Jason proceeded to remove the remaining pieces, namely, the original striker plates.These guys have been in place since 1956 and did not want to come loose. That only left us with one option, brute force. A groove was cut into the head of each fastener using a cut off disc on an angle grinder…Since the Chevy uses caged nuts that are part of the structure of the cab and, therefore, cannot be removed easily, it's a good idea to chase all the threads of each fastener before trying to install any of the new hardware. Here, a 3⁄8-inch tap, die, and thread repair kit is shown.Now the door hinges can be installed to the cab. Note that the portion surrounding the lower hinge has already been replaced with a new patch panel. This was necessary as the stock sheetmetal was completely rotted away.The design of the '56's hinges are actually pretty good as they bolt to both the A-pillar as well as to the firewall, making for a strong foundation.
Here you can see the sheetmetal that has been replaced thus far; the lower hinge pocket, rocker panel, and step plate. Hopefully when Jason cut the cab apart, the support structure held everything in place, otherwise we'll be taking two steps backward. You can get a glimpse of the support structure that's still in place in the background around the driver's door.Left slightly loose, the hinges can be manipulated using a pry bar to get the doors situated in the opening.The door gap looked pretty good, except for the upper rear corner, which needed a bit of tweaking to get it to sit properly.The gap and relationship between the cowl and the front upper corner was a bit worse, however, and required a slightly more involved technique.
The back side gap of the door also required a bit of massaging with the mallet, alternated with the hammer and dolly technique.Installing the linkage between the latch assembly and inner door relay is a fairly straight forward affair.


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Fullerton Veterans Day parade honors heroes
FULLERTON – Salutes, high-fives and a sea of U.S. flags greeted veterans during Fullerton's 25th annual Veterans Day Observance and Parade.
Military veterans of all stripes marched along Harbor Boulevard to the cheers of an appreciative crowd. They were joined by hundreds of JROTC cadets from Fullerton high schools.
"We can't do enough to honor our vets," said parade watcher Janet Hatley-Hyde, as she watched her husband, William, a Vietnam veteran, wave from the street. "They pay a high price for our service."
For some of the veterans, the parade was nearly 40 years overdue.
"It's overwhelming," said Mike Moreno, who served stateside in the 82nd Airborne during the Vietnam War. "When we got out of the military, we didn't get any parades or anything."
Moreno's boot camp buddy, Paul Limon, who served with the 173rd Airborne in Vietnam, was overjoyed after the Fullerton observance.
"We're thankful to the city for what they did," he said. But Limon didn't want to take too much of the glory. "The real heroes are the heroes that didn't come home," he said.
The holiday has its roots in Armistice Day, celebrated for the first time on Nov. 11, 1919, to commemorate the end of fighting in World War I a year earlier. It became a legal holiday in 1938, and was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.
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And when I feel myself, it takes me a while to get to the right spot and when I do get there I start to tremble and I'm not able to go on because I just can't take it, then I stop. I want to keep going, but I'm not able to. I was wondering what can I do to go on with the pleasure? Is this when I have reached my climax?
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"Intelligent design" is the target of Charles Krauthammer's op-ed column "Phony Theory, False Conflict" in the Washington Post (November 18, 2005), and no punches are pulled.
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The November 8, 2005, vote of the Kansas state board of education to adopt a set of state science standards that systematically impugn the scientific status of evolution is, unsurprisingly, receiving criticism from all over.
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Antievolution standards adopted in Kansas
At its November 8, 2005, meeting in Topeka, the Kansas state board of education voted 6-4 to adopt the draft set of state science standards that were rewritten, under the tutelage of local "intelligent design" activists, to impugn the scientific status of evolution.
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As a bicycle commuter, who used to cross several lanes of Kalamazoo Avenue traffic in fear every time I rode to work, I've dreamed of visiting Davis, CA. Davis is one of three communities given top honors by the League of American Bicyclists, as a Bicycle Friendly Community. It also is featured, among other cities, in Jeff Mapes' Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities. Mapes traces the grassroots movement of cycling activists to create room and safety for cyclists in many communities. It's an inspiring topic. Locally, Kalamazoo is making progress for non-motorized travelers. The development of sections of the Kalamazoo River Valley Trail provides Kalamazoo area cyclists and hikers with additional paved trails free of motor vehicle traffic. Now you can hook up to the Kal-Haven Trail from an access point downtown. By later this fall, you should be able to ride the trail from the Kalamazoo riverfront out to the Kalamazoo Nature Center, and ultimately, plans call for the trail to extend as far as Battle Creek. The 2010 Kalamazoo Master Plan--drawn up to project city land use plans for the next 20 years--states that "expanding non-motorized connections is a high priority for residents and city leaders." The plan includes a map on p. 49 (well, p. 55 in the Adobe read-only format) which details the current and planned non-motorized connections for the city. If you prefer to read the plan in print, our Local History room holds a copy of the final version.
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Hard work and 'Sweat' helps WVU pick up win
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Throughout last week, a national headline was "WVU mascot told to stop firing musket at wildlife."
The Mountaineer, it seems, shot a bear. On the court, though, West Virginia's players were having trouble shooting bunnies. Layups and short shots were a problem that extended into WVU's nail-biting 68-67 victory over Virginia Tech Saturday.
No sweat though. Because the Mountaineers had "Sweat," aka Kevin Noreen.
In a surprising outburst, Noreen, the 6-foot-10 sophomore, blocked shots early, scored throughout and lifted his team in the second half with a pair of 3-point goals that had the 11,631 in attendance roaring.
"The role I have is to play hard," Noreen said after coming off the bench and finishing with 14 points and 12 rebounds, seven of which were collected on the offensive end. "If you play hard, things fall in place. Tonight it fell in place."
The lift moved WVU to 4-3 and dropped Virginia Tech, which had a No. 53 RPI ranking before the game, to 7-1.
Noreen's teammate, 6-10 Aaric Murray, also had a pair of treys.
"[The Hokies] were basically just disrespecting us by backing off," Murray said. "We work on our games all the time, so I told Sweat to let it fly. If they back off, we gotta let it fly. If not, they'd just keep sinking in on the rest of our team and we wouldn't be helping."
So help the big men did.
"It helps if you get in a rhythm at the beginning of the game," Noreen said. "I was able to get a couple layups and a 15-footer. It carried over."
Murray actually started the party for the big men with a trey from the left corner, but Noreen soon joined in. He took a pass from Keaton Miles for a layup. On the other end, he grabbed a rebound and stepped into a 17-footer.
After WVU squandered its halftime lead, Noreen took a charge. At 11:23, he nailed his first 3-point attempt from the left side. Shortly thereafter, he hit from the top of the key to pull the Mountaineers within 48-47.
"I think it does more for my team than myself," Noreen said of his outburst. "If you noticed, I made a couple of those shots and the bench went crazy. That's what we want. It gets everybody involved and into the game. It gets the bench alive and the guys on the floor are a lot more enthusiastic."
It was satisfying to watch for WVU coach Bob Huggins.
"Over the years, I've had some great, great guys," said the coach. "I've had some hard-working guys. I don't know, though, if any of them put more time in than Kevin Noreen.
"Other guys were physically more talented, but I don't know if I've had anybody put in more time. He's in the office after classes trying to figure it all out.
"And he listens. If we had some other guys that would listen, and were as committed as he is, they'd be very, very good players."
Huggins continued.
"I just hope this is something so that Kev will feel more comfortable stepping into shots. He's going to get open shots. He's had open shots in every game we've played."
The payoff was action during crunch time. Noreen was on the floor with Murray, point guard Juwan Staten, freshman Eron Harris and Miles.
Perhaps Noreen is growing as he did in Minneapolis.
"I have the third-most makes of 3s in Minnesota history," Noreen said. "That's how I played in high school. In my early days, all I did was shoot 3s in high school. To bring it back today really felt good."
He said comparing his game to another Kevin - Pittsnogle - is "kind of a stretch." But don't underestimate Noreen's shooting ability.
"I played varsity in seventh grade," said the sophomore. "But I was only 5-9, 5-10. I wasn't posting up then. I had to take 3s. As I grew, it just stayed with me. As a senior, I was 6-10, but not shooting quite as many 3s."
"Hey, I'm not surprised," Murray said. "Sweat is the hardest worker I know. Sweat is the hardest worker on the team. I know Sweat can shoot it. He goes hard."
Huggins was pleased.
"[Noreen] shot the ball," said the coach. "He never shot it before. He wants to win, and he just felt there were other guys that may be able to get shots other than him. And he's kept rebounds alive, but I don't know if he's ever rebounded this well."
As for shooting beyond the 3-point arc, Noreen said that hasn't been a priority for him and Murray.
"We do a little bit of that," said the sophomore. "But we're mostly in the post and the short corner trying to get mid-range jumpers in. But on our own time we try to shoot some 3s too."
On Saturday, that extra practice paid off.
"We have more of a system where you pass the ball, screen and get your teammates open," Murray said. "You can't just come down jacking 3s. But once they're backing off, let it fly."
The hard work, though, was almost for naught. Tech's Robert Brown banked in a 3-point attempt to give the visitors a 67-66 lead with 18 seconds left.
"That really hurt," Noreen said. "I saw we had a good boxout. We had a ring inside. They weren't going to get that rebound. To see it bank in was demoralizing, but at the same time we knew we had time on the clock to get another shot."
Staten provided the winning bucket.
"We were running a 1-4," Noreen said. "It was an isolation play to Juwan. However, Turk [Deniz Kilicli] was going to duck in. We were going to look for Turk first and if that wasn't there, [Staten] was going to try to beat his man."
They had to sweat it out. But Sweat helped them out.
"The nickname really came my freshman year," Noreen explained. "We had [Kevin Jones], so there couldn't be another Kevin. I was Little Kev. Then the strength coach gave me the name Big Sweat. It stuck. I don't know if I like it, but it is what it is. At least I'm known for something."
And after Saturday's game, something else.
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WARREN COUNTY, Ga. -- Warren County and Hancock Central high schools will play each other in football Friday night for the first time since a fight after last year's game.
The details of the security plan for the game have been released.
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Last year's fight happened when the two teams were returning to the locker rooms after the game. Warren County players said Hancock Central players ambushed them and began fighting.
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(1)The Administrator shall establish a council to be known as the "National Nuclear Security Administration Council". The Council may advise the Administrator on—
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Source(Pub. L. 107–314, div. D, title XLI, § 4102, formerly Pub. L. 104–201, div. C, title XXXI, § 3140,Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2833; renumbered Pub. L. 107–314, div. D, title XLI, § 4102, and amended Pub. L. 108–136, div. C, title XXXI, § 3141(d)(3),Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1757; Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI, § 3113(a),Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2169.)
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- This study deals with psychological correlates of long-term imprisonment on a representative sample of 175 men serving either indeterminate sentences or determinate sentences of 10 yrs or more in a number of English prisons. 4 groups of prisoners were delineated, matched for age but differing in mean total length of prison experience, and a battery of cognitive tests was administered to each S. Analysis of the data showed no decline in general intellectual capacity with increasing length of imprisonment, but hostility and introversion increased significantly. A group of men who had been released on parole subsequent to testing did not differ significantly on these measures from a matched group who had been considered for parole but detained for a further period. This fact is interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that imprisonment, rather than selection procedures, was responsible for the differences noted.
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Amid this morning's starting-line mayhem, though, one athlete, an American, is almost totally still. Diane Van Deren is standing off to the side, by the shuttered Great Wall souvenir stands, wearing sunglasses and a fresh, glistening coat of sunscreen as her husband, Scott, holds her close, quietly offering counsel.
Van Deren is 50, and she's traveled from her Colorado home as an athlete sponsored by The North Face, the race organizer. In the days before the race, Van Deren has proven a sprightly and winning spokesperson for the outdoor apparel company. Five feet nine inches tall, and blond with blue eyes, she exudes a windblown good cheer and a certain renegade spark. She's promoted running in near religious terms. "When I run in the mountains, that's my medicine," she told the Chinese journalists during a press conference. "That's my heart." She's also told the story of how she once ran up 14,110- foot Pikes Peak in Colorado, and then hitched a ride down on the back of a stranger's Harley. She's a jaunty jock who travels nearly everywhere in pastel-bright running togs, and she's a sentimental mother of three 20-something kids. Back in Beijing, she brought a roomful of reporters to their feet by singing, a cappella, a song she'd written herself about her son, a Marine who until recently was driving a Humvee through the battlefields of Iraq.
Now, however, Van Deren is silent. Her face is impassive behind her wraparound shades. This race—every race—looms large for her. Her running career is the culmination of a long and trying saga.
For nearly 17 years, until she was 37, Van Deren suffered from epilepsy, enduring hundreds of seizures, sometimes as often as two or three times in a week. With each seizure, she lost consciousness for about a minute. Usually, her body just went limp as she stared off into space. But there were also the two dozen or so grand mal seizures she suffered, when her muscles radically contracted and her legs and arms flailed uncontrollably. With each seizure came the distinct chance that she could die. Rather than risk death, she did the next best thing: She let doctors drill a hole into her skull.
In 1997, Van Deren underwent a partial right temporal lobectomy. Doctors removed a portion of her brain that was the focal point of her seizures. The surgery ended her epilepsy; Van Deren hasn't seized once since the operation. But the surgeon's work created a blind spot in the upper left part of her vision. And there is also the residual neural damage from the seizures. She cannot track time well; she is always running late, and she has almost no sense of direction. Her memory is weak—she can't recall where, exactly, she took her honeymoon—and when she's confronted with excessive sensory noise, as she is now, at this clamorous starting line, she gets weary and irritable. Sometimes Van Deren needs to lie down and nap for hours.
She is an ultramarathoner with extraordinary limitations. In races she must cover hundreds of miles, and yet often has no idea how long she has been running—or where she is going.
Still, Van Deren's surgery may actually have aided her distance running. "The right side of the brain, where Diane had surgery, is involved in processing emotion," says one of her doctors, Don Gerber, a clinical neuropsychologist at Craig Hospital in Denver. "The surgery affected the way she processes her emotional reaction to pain. I'm not saying Diane doesn't feel pain, but pain is a complex process. You have a sensory input, and then the question is: How does the brain interpret that? Diane's brain interprets pain differently than yours or mine does."
Gerber's assessment is controversial among neurologists, and all that's certain, really, is that Van Deren has almost primordial gifts of endurance. In February 2008, in the Canadian Yukon, she won the Yukon Arctic Ultra, spending nearly eight days pulling a 50-pound supplies sled 300 miles and through temperatures that plunged to around 50 below. The next winter she covered 430 miles. And once, in Alaska, she trudged 85 miles through snow on a sprained ankle after stepping in a moose hole.
This race in China will be, relatively speaking, a cakewalk. Still, it begins by scrambling up about 1,000 steep steps carved into the Great Wall itself. "Dear runners," says the race starter, speaking in stiff, stilted English as she summons the runners to the line. "Dear runners."
When the race starts, the field erupts with hoots of applause. Van Deren moves forward, quietly, her head down.
Diane Van Deren first experienced brain trauma when she was 16 months old. Otherwise healthy, she came down one day with a high fever. She was rushed to a hospital near her childhood home in Omaha, Nebraska. Nurses packed her quivering body in ice, but still she trembled for almost an hour. The seizure was not extraordinary. About five percent of American children endure a fever-induced seizure before age 5. Most never seize again. For many years, it seemed Van Deren would end up in that lucky majority.
As a kid, she played catcher on a boys' baseball team, going by the name Dan and shoving her pigtails under her cap. As a teenager, she was a Colorado state champion in tennis and golf. She left high school early to spend four years touring the United States and Europe as a professional tennis player. She also ran a bit to keep fit. In 1982, at the age of 22 and on a whim, she entered a marathon in southwest Texas and won the women's division.
Her infantile seizure had scarred a small portion of her right brain, though, and the cells there were vulnerable to reinjury. In her 20s, without even being aware of it, Van Deren began having tiny seizures. They didn't manifest as convulsions, but rather as subtle perceptual shifts. Out on the tennis court, or while relaxing at home, she had what she calls "funny sensations. It was like a deja vu feeling," she says, "like you're in a dream, and you're thinking, Oh, what's happening right now has happened to me before. You feel like you're floating; it's an out-of-body experience."
Lasting just seconds, these mini-seizures were "auras," in neurological parlance. Auras are the first stage of a full-blown epileptic attack. Dr. Mark Spitz, the University of Colorado neurologist who would later order Van Deren's surgery, describes them as an electrical phenomenon. The brain, he explains, consists of millions of cells that are "wired" to one another to transmit sensory, motor, and processing data. "When an aura occurs," he says, "it's like the beginning of a fire in the brain. That fire can grow so that the person is increasingly vulnerable to stronger seizures."
None of this was evident, though, when Diane and Scott Van Deren met in 1982. The two were recent college graduates, and he was taken by her larksome spirit and drive. At the time Diane was training for the Ironman World Championship. She was a novelty—Ironwomen were still rare then—and Scott was smitten. "She seemed spontaneous," he says. "She seemed fun."
The Van Derens married when they were both 23. A few years later Scott went to work for Mountain Steel & Supply, founded by Diane's father. Diane worked there herself, in sales, but lasted only six months—and never pursued another desk job. "Office work has never been my thing," she says. She taught aerobics instead, and kept running, sometimes five miles, sometimes 20, a day. When the mood struck, she entered a local triathlon.
By the time Diane was 28, she was pregnant with her third child. Her brain was at the mercy of hormonal shifts. One night, as he lay in bed, sleeping, Scott awoke to the sound of his wife having a grand mal seizure. "She was violently shaking," Scott says. "I'd never seen a [grand mal] before." Diane had been diagnosed with epilepsy due to an attack earlier in that pregnancy, and now, Scott says, "I thought to myself, Here we go. I knew that we were entering a new chapter in our lives. I moved a lamp, so she wouldn't knock it over, and then I called 911."
For years afterward, Scott would lie awake in bed, intently listening. "I got very in tune with Diane's breathing," he says. "Snoring was a good thing; it meant she was getting some peaceful rest." But there were more seizures, and when their children were small, says Scott, the household "revolved around how Diane was feeling. There was constant worry over when she'd have her next seizure." Each one crushed her. "I'd feel like I'd been run over by a truck," Diane recalls. Depending on the severity of the seizure, she'd take to bed for two or three days. Nannies were hired to drive the children and to clean the house.
Throughout all the trauma, though, Diane evolved a rare trick: She learned to abort her seizures by running.
She had noticed that her attacks usually occurred when she was resting—at the movie theater, say, or in a quiet restaurant. Her brain cells were "idle" then, as Dr. Spitz explains it, and as such more prone to "catch fire" when an abnormal seizure discharge occurred. What she needed to do was to activate brain cells quickly, the instant she felt an aura come on. Few people can do this, Spitz says, but Van Deren kept her running shoes by the door, and whenever that eerie deja vu feeling settled upon her, she stood up and rushed toward those shoes. "I knew that I only had a few seconds," she says. "I had to get moving."
Dr. Spitz says Van Deren's seizures always began in her right hippocampus, a small sea horse-shaped ridge that sits deep within the brain, storing and retrieving memories. "Running," he says, "probably activated the part of the hippocampus where seizures started. When the cells there were active, they didn't accept the abnormal electrical activity, and the seizure fizzled out."
She laced up her shoes and started running—out her driveway and then over ranchers' tawny, fenced rangeland in the rural area outside of Denver. "I'd go right out into a forest," she says. "I'd be anxious, but there was a softness to being outdoors. I felt the pine needles underfoot on the trail, and listened to the birds. It calmed me. I kept running. The point was to just keep my mind going, my body moving. I'd run until I'd broken the cycle of the seizure. Sometimes I'd run for two or three hours."
After climbing up the great wall, the race course rolls onto back roads. Then, roughly 12 kilometers into the race, it climbs to its highest point, at 2,477 feet, offering a hazy view of Beijing 30 miles away. From the ridge top, it's a steep, pounding descent into Tiger Valley, where, near the 19-K mark, race officials have festooned several desolate cliffs with 20-foot-high red and white banners.
Scott Van Deren and I are standing beside these banners, on the bank of a river, in the morning coolness, waiting. Van Deren is a big man—6'4" and quite fit, thanks to a weight-room regimen and a heavy cycling habit. His voice is deep, and his manner toward his wife protective and steady. In 1995, when Diane was suffering frequent seizures, he moved the family to their current home on a 35-acre windswept property in Sedalia, Colorado, in part so that Diane could be around horses. "There's something therapeutic about brushing horses," he says.
Scott now owns the family steel business. He has the confident air of a man accustomed to getting things done, but at this moment he can only peer with hope up the mountain path as the runners start trickling down toward us, their voices echoing in the narrow canyon. First comes a boyish-looking Chinese student, 23-year-old Yun Yan Qiao, bounding through in one hour, 39 minutes. The first woman—43-year-old Zhang Huiji—comes through at 1:57. More than 20 minutes later, Scott Van Deren is still waiting. "I expect her any moment," he says.
Scott has waited helplessly like this before. In 2008, at The North Face Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, Diane started the 103-mile race with a fever and began shaking as she ran. Twice she stopped to sleep for an hour—something she'd never done before. It took her more than 40 hours to finish. Today, after two hours and 22 minutes, she finally comes through the 19-K mark, in eighth place in the women's race, running at a 12-minute, 15-second pace. She's not far off from where she should be, really. By her standards this race is a sprint—it doesn't play to her strengths—and at 50, she's older than all but one woman beating her. Still, Scott is worried. "My instinct is this isn't her day," he says. "She looks tight."
Indeed, Van Deren's face is a tense mask, her stride slightly halting and choppy. She strained her Achilles a few months earlier during a predawn run. It's been stiff ever since. But it's impossible to discern if Van Deren's in pain, for she's dialed into the race. When she comes to the aid station at 26-K, now in seventh place, Scott can only try to get through to her by delivering one clear message that he's carefully rehearsed in his mind. "Get your pace," he says. "You've got three big climbs ahead."
Scott isn't a coach. He's never been a runner. His advice isn't necessarily astute. It's chivalrous. For a few seconds he runs beside Diane. "You look great, babe," he shouts as she gulps down some water.
"I'm outta here," says Diane. She tosses the water bottle and then breaks into a trot.
When Van Deren first began having grand mal seizures in 1988, she refused to give in to them. Unable to drive, she walked to the supermarket, three miles away, pregnant, and pushing her two infant children in a stroller. Then she walked home, with the groceries in a backpack. Once her kids grew, she went downhill skiing—and wrapped her arms around the back of the chairlift each time she boarded, so she wouldn't fall out if she seized.
The auras kept coming, though, and sometimes Van Deren didn't grab her running shoes fast enough. She seized, and more cells in her brain died, and more rewired, and as a result her prelude-like auras shortened and shortened. "The seizures," she says, "overtook my body and my confidence. I tried to dig deep and hide my confusion. I didn't want my kids to feed off my fear."
Nonetheless, Michael Van Deren, the Marine, says that his mom's illness permeated his childhood. He remembers his mother once having a grand mal attack in the living room when he was 7 and his dad was away for the weekend. "It was fullblown," says Michael, who is now 24. "She was clenching her teeth. I yelled at Robin and Matt"—his younger siblings—"to leave the room. I didn't want them to see that."
Scott Van Deren adds, "Diane's epilepsy absolutely dominated the relational pattern of the family. The second I walked in from work, I'd ask, 'How's Mom? What's she doing?' I couldn't rest." The next seizure was always a threat. Once, when Scott was treating customers to dinner at a restaurant in Vail, Diane seized at the table. "It was a casual meeting on a summer day," he says, "and we hadn't discussed Diane's epilepsy with those people."
But the seizure that pains Diane most, in hindsight, happened when her daughter, Robin, now 22, was in grade school. Diane was coaching Robin's basketball team, and at a game, before hundreds of spectators, Diane says, "I had this aura and the next thing I knew the other coach was standing over me, saying, 'Diane, is everything okay?'" The gym went silent. "I was out of control," Diane says, woefully re-creating the moment. "I couldn't control myself, and I hurt for my children: They had to see their mom having a grand mal seizure right on the gym floor."
Dr. Spitz wanted to send Van Deren to surgery, but he could operate only if he could identify the source of her seizures. To do so, he brought her into the hospital, deprived her of meds, and then attached electrodes to her scalp to measure electrical activity. She proceeded to have three seizures over the next four days. A videotape of one, a grand mal, shows Diane biting her tongue and then gurgling audibly on the bloody saliva in her throat.
Dr. Spitz isolated Diane's problems to her right hippocampus. She'd be seizure-free, probably, if the damaged tissue there was excised. Spitz saw surgery as Van Deren's safest path. Without it, her seizures were likely to become more severe and more frequent, he explained, and she faced about a 10 percent chance of dying from a seizure over the next 10 years. The surgery, in contrast, delivered just a three percent chance of a stroke. "I was calling Spitz's office over and over, trying to get into surgery right away," says Diane. "I was in fear of dying of a seizure."
Scott was more measured. He insisted they seek a second opinion. Again, surgery was recommended. So in February 1997, in Denver, a neurological team operated on Diane's brain. Using a high-speed drill, the surgeon removed an outer section of bone from her skull. He cut deeper, into the brain's dura, or protective membrane, and then focused a microscope on the exposed temporal lobe. Using an aspirator, he excised part of the lobe along with the affected portion of the hippocampus.
A few hours after Van Deren awoke, she felt "horrific pain." And it seems that her innate stubbornness kicked in. There was a shunt lodged in her skull, to drain blood, and she tried to tear it out. According to Scott, "She tried to get out of the room. A doctor and two nurses had to strap her into the bed, and she tried to bite one of them. Then she kicked a nurse."
The doctors had to remove the partially dislodged shunt, exacerbating the pressure in Van Deren's head. "When I went in to see her," Scott says, "she was like a combative animal. She said, 'Get me out of here. Why are you letting them do this to me? I hate you.' She called me every name in the book—f'ing this, f'ing that."
"The brain is very personal," Diane would explain later. "It doesn't like be messed with."
By the time Van Deren reaches the aid station at 32-K, she remains in seventh place. She has blood on her arms and her shins. While running on rubbly dirt a few miles back, and staring downward in search of good footing, she couldn't see the low branches surrounding the narrow trail due to her poor peripheral vision. A couple of times she had tripped and fallen down. But she continued to press on. "I just listen to my feet when I run," she had told me earlier, "and I try to get a rhythm going. I breathe in two steps. I breathe out two steps."
At one point, Scott Van Deren and I ride in a van alongside Diane. We're so close to her that we can hear her footfalls. "Get mad," Scott yells out the window. "Get mad now!"
"You got any gels?" Diane asks. "Got any gels?"
We don't. There'll be nothing for her to eat until the 44-K mark. She sucks at her energy drink and keeps running.
What Diane Van Deren remembers most from the weeks following the surgery is the pain. "Every time I'd bend down, it hurt," she says. "Even tying my shoes, I felt like my head was going to explode from the pressure. I played golf, and when I put the tee in, my head just throbbed." She was eager to run again, however, and roughly a month after the operation, she did, covering 10 miles, gingerly. "I tried to hold my head as steady as possible," she says. Still, she kept running every day. "The mountains were my safe zone. I was at peace there."
Having worked with many patients who had undergone surgeries similar to Van Deren's, Dr. Spitz says the weeks, months, and even years after such an operation can be as emotionally challenging as they are physically. "You need to figure out what your future in this world is without having seizures," Spitz explains "And that can be harder than you might think. I've seen many divorces take place after the surgery. In the years before her surgery, Diane had pretty much stopped competing because of the seizures. She had become very dependent on her family. Now she had to figure out what to do with her new life."
For a while, Van Deren seemed content to live in the moment. When she ran, her husband says, it wasn't about competing; it was about "being free and outside." Van Deren could cover 20 miles on the trails, and when she was done feel invigorated versus being exhausted. And then she would run a little farther.
Finally, in 2002, roughly five years after her surgery, she entered a low-key race—a 50-mile Colorado trail run in which there was only one other entrant. "The race director had to run along with them through the first few miles," Scott says, "to show them the route." Diane finished, in a tie with the other runner, and soon she was dreaming big. Later that year she signed up for The Hardrock 100, which climbs more than 30,000 feet in the Colorado Rockies. "If I could get through years of seizures and then brain surgery," she says, "I could take this baby on. I could do it."
Hardrock's race director stifled Van Deren's race plan, though—she needed to have previously finished at least one 100-mile ultra. Undeterred, she jumped into another 100-miler, this one starting in Leadville, Colorado, elevation 12,600 feet. She ran for about 70 miles, twisted her knee, and continued to hobble on. When Van Deren finally dropped out at the 72-mile mark, her desire to run, and to compete, had only intensified.
She began planning for her next 100-mile race, and, Van Deren told a friend, Kathy Pidcock, "I expect to win it." Pidcock, who was then an elite ultrarunner, crafted for Van Deren a rugged training program—a 100-mile-per-week regimen heavy on high-altitude training and back-to-back 25-mile outings. "Whatever I told her to do, she did," says Pidcock. "She never questioned me, and she was so strong. I knew she would make it." She did. In June 2003, Van Deren completed the Bighorn Trail 100 Mile Run, in Wyoming, in 31 hours, 54 minutes, finishing sixth in the women's race. She figured, "I've done it. That's my last one."
Two days later, though, she talked to a roomful of grade-schoolers with epilepsy at a camp in Colorado. "These were kids who had 20 or 30 seizures a day," she says. "They were having seizures right in front of me, and one of them, a girl named Mandy, asked, 'Are you going to run another 100-mile race?'"
Van Deren's feet were still swollen; her shins were bruised from postholing in snowfields. But Mandy persisted: "Will you run your next 100-miler for me? I can't run. I have seizures."
"I felt guilty," Van Deren says. "I thought, If I could only give them a piece of what I've felt overcoming my epilepsy?"
Soon, Van Deren was the first woman finisher in the San Diego 100-Mile Endurance Run, placing second overall. Then in 2004, over a six-month period, she ran seven ultras, including three longer than 95 miles. In 2004, after finally being accepted into the race, she was the ninth-place woman at the Hardrock 100.
How did Van Deren rise so suddenly from obscurity? Granted, she'd already proven herself a world-class athlete, but that was in tennis, a very different sport. And she'd run some, sure. But what enabled her to knock off so many ultras, so speedily, with so little recovery time? Each year, thousands of Americans have epilepsy surgery. Can we expect some of them to start flourishing in endurance sports with new and magical pain-tolerance?
Dr. Gerber credits her endurance in part to her brain limitations. He says runners who can better track time and map where they are can be distracted by the details. But Van Deren has a special facility for what he calls "flow" that lets her transcend the anguish of running long. "It's a mental state," Gerber says. "You become enmeshed in what you're doing. It's almost Zen. She can run for hours and not know how long she's been going."
But Dr. William Theodore, chief of the clinical epilepsy division at the National Institute of Health, says no evidence exists that epilepsy surgery will cause a change in pain tolerance. "Certain parts of the brain are related to pain, but they're very deep structures. They're almost never involved in epilepsy surgery."
Another expert, Dr. Jerome Engel, director of the UCLA Seizure Disorder Center, says the majority of epilepsy patients who undergo partial lobectomies do not experience either diminished brain function or changes in character. Still, Engel calls Van Deren an "atypical case." While he has never examined her, he's struck by reports of her unusual postsurgical cognitive problems—of her trouble with getting lost, for instance. To him, such symptoms suggest that her brain bears "bilateral damage;" in other words, her presurgical seizures could have scarred both lobes of her brain. If that is the case, Engel suggests, "it could affect her pain tolerance." He explains that the electrical shocks involved in a seizure cause the brain to release its own opioids, or pain relievers. When both sides of the brain have endured seizures, the opioids' effect is, Engel says, "more powerful."
One medical professional who worked directly with Van Deren thinks the equation is simpler. "Diane was a great athlete before surgery, and she's still a great athlete," says Mark Spitz, her original doctor. "The surgery didn't change that."
Van Deren herself disagrees, slightly. "The surgery helped," she says, "because it was painful. I learned how to endure pain. But I've always been superfocused and stubborn." Van Deren argues that her gift lies in keeping up the fight—in refusing to wallow in sadness, even amid the trials of epilepsy and her current impairments. During a recent 50-mile race, she says, "A guy knocked me off the trail in the first mile. I rolled my ankle all the way over and just kept running, for 49 miles more, even though a PT thought it was broken. Here's why I'm good: I don't give up."
At about 45-k, the North Face 100 cuts through a small village, and the course markers are nowhere to be seen. Several runners get lost, and our guide—Sky Song, a young North Face marketing rep—gets a call: The top 10 runners are stalled at a country store. We begin flying toward them. En route, we see diminutive Xu Yuan Shan, the 2:45 marathoner, churning along, just off the lead pack. "Get in the van," Sky cries out the window. "You're lost!"
Xu climbs in, sweaty and winded, and then Song keeps rolling. The leaders elude him, though. Some, but not all, catch a ride back to the course from a policeman, and soon there's another snafu. When leader Yun Yan Qiao hits the 50-K aid station, he looks for the drop bag he packed the night before with extra socks and snacks. Race organizers were supposed to bring each runner's bag to this station, but Yun's isn't here. In exasperation, he drops out. Later, when Van Deren learns that Yun quit, she's disgusted. "He could have finished," she hisses. "So many people in ultras lose it when one thing crumbles. You just can't do that."
Van Deren doesn't. In 2008, in the Yukon Arctic Ultra, her water bottles froze solid—for 20 miles, she ran without a drop. A few days later, she reached the Yukon River in 70-mile-per-hour winds and didn't know which way to go. As the wind tossed her to her knees, she began marking her way with red tape. She went in one direction for an hour. When it appeared that was the wrong way, she doubled back, patiently. She kept at it for four hours and eventually found her way.
Now, in China, Van Deren's caught in another long struggle. All day, there's been a phenom running ahead of her—a chipper young Chinese woman in navy knee-length pants, a red collared shirt, and cheap gray running sneakers. Zheng Rufang, 28, is primarily a cyclist. She trains with the Chinese national team, and she's dressed, she'll say later, to signal, "I am not a runner. I know nothing about running." About 75 kilometers into the race, her inexperience starts to show. Climbing a small mountain, up hundreds of concrete steps, past little Buddhist shrines carved into the cliffs of the Yinshan Pagoda Forest, she's worn out—dragging. There's another Chinese woman just ahead of her. And when Van Deren chugs up behind them, out of sight but closing, it's as though she can smell the roadkill.
"How far ahead are they?" she asks as she passes me on the stairs. Her cool reserve is gone now, more than 11 hours into the race. Her face is sunburned, and there's an edge of wild hunger to her voice.
"About three minutes," I say.
Van Deren cranes her neck skyward, looking for them.
For all her ambition, Diane Van Deren can seem very vulnerable. On a trip to Beijing in 2009, she got lost for two hours after leaving her hotel for a run. It was the sort of misadventure that could befall any tourist, but the incident still looms for Van Deren as terrifying: worrisome proof of her limitations. She remembers being on the verge of tears and desperately beseeching directions, in shouted English, from the white-gloved soldiers who stand on small pedestals all over Beijing, stock still, at attention. The Chinese businessman who eventually saved her, leading her by the hand for more than a mile, back to her hotel, still shines for her as a saint.
Van Deren's general disorientation could prove fatal in competition—what if she took a wrong turn in the Arctic?—but she insists that it is also an anguishing impediment at home, in day-to-day life. She forgets appointments, she says, and cannot remember people's faces. Once at a family gathering, when everyone was asked to name their favorite Christmas, she drew a blank. "So many emotions were packed into those 10 seconds," she says, "Sadness, frustration, embarrassment. You don't know how much pain these disabilities have brought me. It's challenged my relationships with my family and friends."
Donald Gerber, the neuropsychologist, has provided her counsel over the past six years. He meets informally with Van Deren before each of her races. He tries to anticipate the trouble she might encounter, given her brain injury, and then devises coping strategies. "You want to minimize distraction and dangers," he says, "and make everything as routine as possible."
It was Dr. Gerber who advised Van Deren to take red tape to the Arctic, so she could mark her path if she got lost. Before she ran the snowy course of Alaska's Iditarod on foot, he likewise advised her to stop if suddenly the snow underfoot seemed soft and untrammeled by dogs. "That could be a sign you're off the Iditarod Trail," he advised.
As Dr. Gerber himself admits, his tips are "not rocket science." But they give Van Deren a certain assurance. "When I go out to race," she says, "I feel confident. And that's because Don and I had put together a game plan. I'm prepared. I'm always prepared."
On Yinshan Mountain, Van Deren keeps climbing past the treeline, and on up to where the mountain is just a windswept exposed rock looking out onto a succession of other slabs of basalt speckled with small, green, scrubby trees. Then she guts past Zheng Rufang and the other Chinese woman. At the 90-K checkpoint, she's intent on burying them. "That girl in red," she shouts to Scott, "she's on my ass."
Scott Van Deren is now riding in Sky Song's van. "Babe, she isn't on your ass," he shouts out the window, a bit wearily. It's been a long day for him, too, and in fact, neither Chinese woman is anywhere in sight now. They're fading.
"She's on my ass. Where is that girl? Is she walking behind me?"
Genially, Scott ignores the question. "You look good, honey," he says. The van revs away from Diane, and then, with a smirk, he says to me, "Sometimes you have to lie."
The course rolls onto a mostly flat paved road, and between 90-K and 98-K, Van Deren passes 14 men. At about the 99-K mark, in the darkness, Scott is anxious again as we sit in the idling van, by a fork in the road. "Wait here," he says to Sky Song. "She could miss this turn." She doesn't. Scott guides her in and she finishes in 13:16, good for fifth among 10 women.
From the finish area, we ride away in the van. Diane is in the back, with her feet up, resting her Achilles, which bears a swollen, grape-sized bulge. It's dark out. She's taken her sunglasses off, and it's as though all her armor has melted. She's woozy and mushy—happily delirious, like a society dowager high on martinis. "Sky," she calls out to our guide, "you've been so sweet. Let me buy you a glass of wine. Sky, come to Colorado. Bring your wife."
Scott fixes a jacket into a pillow for Diane. She moans a little, in pain. They are middleaged warriors, both of them, and Diane, who hopes to write a memoir some day, has admitted she may be nearing the end. "When I finished the 430-miler in the Yukon," she told me, "I thought, There's a great chapter for my book. There comes a time and a place where the odds just get slimmer and slimmer."
The van swoops over hills, and through little villages. Eventually, we're on the outskirts of Beijing, rolling through traffic for a few minutes before cutting north, back to our hotel by the Wall. It's a warm Saturday night. People are out taking strolls and drinking at sidewalk tables outside cafes. Inside the van, there's tranquility: the deep satisfaction that comes after a long race.
At this stage in her life, Diane Van Deren says her days are happy, mostly. She is grateful for her surgery--"without it," she says, "I'd probably be dead." And her older son, Michael, has returned safely from Iraq and begun working at the family steel business. He calls his mother before races, wishing her well. "There's laughter in our house now," Diane says, "and there wasn't before."
Weeks after we return from China, though, I give her a call. During our conversation I ask what she remembers of her trip and of the 100-K race, and for a second there's a weird silence. "I'm sitting here panicking a little," she says. "My heart's pounding. It's almost like I'm drawing a blank. I remember the big picture. I remember landing at the airport. I remember being on the Great Wall, and I can always remember things that are traumatic, like falling on the trail. But other things?" There's a long pause.
We soon hang up, and when we speak a couple of days later, she says, "You know, when I went running today, I was like, 'Okay, Diane, think. What do you really remember of China?'" She goes on to recite her memories. They are essentially the same memories she's already told me about, and soon she seems to recognize that once again a small part of her has been lost, irretrievably. For maybe half a second, there's a blue silence.
But then Van Deren muscles past it, and back into good cheer. "Hey, you know, I just went to the doctor's yesterday," she says, "and I got an MRI done on my Achilles. There's nothing wrong with it. It's just tender and swollen. I can keep training, which is good. The Hardrock 100 is only four weeks away. Four weeks, baby. It's coming right up. I'm there."


text: Through sept 7. The performing arts slow to a crawl as summer closes; it's hard to find a dancer dancing or a player playing in all of Colorado. But the visual arts go on with galleries showing their best work. For something thoughtful, check out Lui Ferreyra's deconstructed, geometric portraits through Sept. 6 at William Havu Gallery (1040 Cherokee St. williamhavugallery.com). More adventourous? Try Heather Doyle-Maier's "BO(U)ND" installation through Aug. 22 at Emmanuel Gallery (Auraria Campus, emmanuelgallery.org.), which promises, boldly, 3,000 hand-washed eggshells. Last, if it's color you love, the rich, reds and yellows of Larisa Aukon's Southwestern landscapes, through Sept. 7 at Mirada Fine Art (5490 Parmalee Gulch Road,Indian Hills, miradafineart.com), will make your season.


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Speaking of Ork King, revive skills seem to be above all other skills in their power because not only do you negate all the opponents unit's turns spent killing something, that unit gets to act twice in one turn.
It wasn't until recently that some revive skills had an engage clause attached to them. What do you guys think about revive skills?


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CHARLES COUNTY, Md. (WUSA9) -- A Saturn passenger car hit a gasoline tanker truck in Waldorf on Thursday, police said.
At approximately 6:25 p.m., Aaron Michael Butler,21, ran into the rear of a gasoline tanker truck carrying approximately 4,500 gallons of gas, police said.
The accident occurred on Crain Highway in Md.
Police say the tanker was inspected by the Maryland State Police Commercial Motor Vehicle Division and found to be safe to drive.
The driver of the Saturn failed to notice that the tanker truck was slowing down. There was no explosion and no one was hurt. The driver of the Saturn vehicle suffered minor injuries, according to police.
According to police, the roadway of northbound and southbound of route 301 were closed for approximately 2.5 hours.


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WASHINGTON COUNTY, Mo. (KSDK)-- A crash involving a motorcycle and a car claimed the life of a Bonne Terre man Friday evening.
Authorities say George Carr, 69, of Bonne Terre died after his motorcycle crashed into the back of a car on Missouri Route 8 at Old Missouri Route 8 in Washington County, Missouri.
Police say the collision occurred around 5:30 Friday night. The motorcyclist was transported to an area hospital where he died a short time later from injuries suffered in the collision.
Preliminary investigation shows the motorcyclist was driving a 2005 Yamaha V Star when a 2012 Chevy Cruze was stopped in the eastbound lane attempting to make a left turn. The driver of the motorcycle applied the brakes, lost control, and that is when Carr collided with the car.
The woman driving the car that was involved suffered minor injuries in the crash. Police are continuing their investigation and NewsChannel 5 will bring you more information as it becomes available.


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Today for #SundaySupper we are getting together to #BakeForACure. I did a whole week of Breast Cancer Awareness around here last week, had some great friends help out, and even have a giveaway going on. This is the perfect way to end the week. I didn't go pink, I just went with some of the best cookies I have had in awhile.
I have only added pudding to cookies one other time, not sure why it has taken me so long to do it again. They make for the softest and chewiest cookies around. My husband is a huge butterscotch fan, so I as soon as I saw these, I knew I had to make them. And, they did not disappoint! Butterscotch in the background, and then white chocolate, butterscotch, and semi-sweet chocolate chips. A party in your mouth!
Don't wait to make these, they will be loved by all. It does make quite a bit though, so bring these your local hospital or cancer center. What a great way to say thank you to the medical professionals who selflessly give a part of them self every day to help others. Or you could reach out to someone who has struggled with cancer. A nice way to show what an inspiration they have been, or just to show you care.


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Serves 6
Popular in Italy, panzanella is a refreshing salad made with leftover bread and tomatoes that virtually transports you to the rolling Tuscan hillsides. This recipe changes the classic a bit by adding green beans and yellow wax beans, as well as feta cheese. Although it's not a classic Italian cheese, it adds a wonderful salty quality to the salad. Give this recipe a try the next time you find yourself with leftover stale bread.
Slice the bread into 1-inch slices. Sprinkle with 1⁄2 cup water and let sit for 2 minutes. Carefully squeeze the bread until dry. Tear it into 1-inch pieces and let rest on paper towels for 20 minutes.
Bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. Add the green and yellow beans and simmer until tender but still crisp, 3 to 5 minutes. Drain and cool.
Place the tomatoes, onions, bread, and cooled green and yellow beans in a large serving bowl. Tear the basil into 1⁄2-inch pieces and toss carefully into the bowl along with the oregano.
In a small bowl, whisk together the vinegar, oil, and garlic. Season with salt and pepper. Carefully toss the salad with the vinaigrette and let rest for 20 minutes. Serve with the crumbled feta on top.
Photo: Erin Kunkel
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Jambo, and though cheered by readers support, I'm still feeling sombre over last weeks subject, in which I meant to include a recent
press headline. This was "Angry mob invades police station - kills four suspects," which brings a whole new dimension to the issue.
Despite rescuing victims of such attacks when the need has arisen, we know police have lacked strategies to deal with and retard 'mob murders' nationwide, and prevent this shocking aspect of lawlessness.
But if police posts are invaded in an attempt to lynch detained suspects, the methodology to protect them, should be well defined, and effective. Just as you'd expect your money to be safe in a bank, a police station, if necessary, should provide a safe haven for your body, free, or in custody, dead or alive, so it's a shock to learn it isn't. As it surely must have been for the four deceased cattle rustlers.
Interesting to know if this crime will result in any prosecutions by police against the killers, or law suits from victim's families against the police….. unlikely on both counts.
And who's keeping count of such incidents in the broader sense, as opposed to just another statistic logged as 'mob justice', and forgotten.
….one more nail in the coffin of compassion…..for
how long to come, ….any ideas…..government guys….or could our Bagamoyo boss man come up with solutions?.
.…I can just see it, in a social history of the nation……….."Though prevalent in much of Africa, after five decades of independence, Tanzania's C.C.M had failed to deal with the long standing custom of citizens murdering suspected thieves in public. Some of which 'executions' were televised live.
Once described as a 'rock star President' by an American film company, out-going leader of the fourth phase government Jakaya Kikwete, finally brought it under control, thereby successfully ending this discreditable practice in the peaceful East African country".
...Yeah, that sort of thing …….whady'a think Jakaya honey, can you try?!
After atrocities against albinos and elderly women killed as witches being globally reported, the country, despite its abundant natural attractions and friendly people, could also become externally known for brutality.
And switching on the radio last week, I heard a B.B.C. reporter announce, ….. "Well, Tanzania is making headlines around the world, as children with HIV in some schools are made to wear red ribbons to identify their condition, so join the discussion now in 'World Have Your Say', comments so far include…..madness…..crazy….downright stupid, ….tell us your thoughts…..".
Judging by the opinions in the lively debate which followed, the decision in seven schools in Kibaha to label such children for 'technical reasons' according to the Minister for Health, mightn't come under the heading of physical brutality, but nevertheless, if B.B.C. facts are correct, it appears cruel and insensitive.
I remember a tale of an l8th century woman accused of adultery, and forced to spend her days in public penitence, wearing a cap adorned with a large red 'A'. The story was called the Scarlet letter, and the moral of it was the lack of compassion shown to the sinner.
It was the branding aspect that was morally repugnant, the instant stigmatisation and setting apart, which is what these school children could also have experienced, amongst their unmarked peers.
If there's a theme to this rather boring piece today, then it that of compassion. My Heinemann dictionary tells me the word means "…..a strong feeling of understanding, pity or sympathy for the sufferings of another"………O.K. that'll do to describe the residue of last weeks topic, combined with today's.
Anyway, let's hope those children in Kibaha, victims of lack of understanding from the no doubt well intentioned policy makers, might be relieved of their forced 'stigmata' soon, and replaced by a more considerate method.……..though I won't feel any compassion if those responsible for the original decision, are also instantly relieved of their posts!
Well, talking of developing countries gaining a bad press, should we be thankful we don't have a Joseph Kony like Uganda. It was often said their former dictator Idi Amin gave black men a bad image, but strangely, Hitler didn't seem to do likewise for white men.
Apparently Kony is now on the global agenda, because a well intentioned American made a short film about him and put it on U tube, where it had millions of hits. Surprisingly, Ugandans aren't pleased with this late entry intervention, saying it gives a negative image of their country.
But the reality seems a 'quick fix' solution from the western world, can equal years of policy planning from third world governments. And global coverage of corrupt but colourful leaders or villains can raise the country's international profile, for good or bad.
Time to close….. but does Tanzania have any such characters or leaders that can do this ? send in your nominations in a sealed envelope!.


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