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Runway Hair & Beauty Trends to Try This Fall
You likely don't have the six-figure budget or 13-person glam squad that your favorite stars do, but that doesn't mean you can't still look stunning. Celeb stylist Phillip Bloch — who wrote The Shopping Diet: Spend Less & Get More — says that it's really all about the dress, anyway. "Have a cocktail dress always at the ready," he advises. "Cocktail has become the new black tie, so you can always get away with a cute little black dress. And that LBD can be green or blue or purple." The best part? You don't have to spend a fortune on it. "With Facebook photo tagging, real women can't always wear the same exact dress twice anymore," he says. "Find clothes that are transformational. You could buy an Old Navy jersey dress for $29 and pair it with a great shoe and jewelry. Then, you can wear it again with a blazer or cashmere cardigan. Don't buy something you will only wear once. Know what you can do with it afterwards."
Leave those frilly panties at home, ladies. For important events, you need to take out the big guns when it comes to undergarments. Wear a proper bra and a trusty pair of Spanx. "You don't want panty lines," says Zanna Roberts Rassi, the senior fashion editor at Marie Claire. "The camera flashes pick up everything, and inappropriate underwear can ruin an otherwise gorgeous dress."
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Dinesh was greeted by all the wonderful people at FEMA who are working every day to prepare our country in case of disasters. Dinesh knows how to talk to kids so an important press conference was held where the information could be shared. Dinesh has a lot to tell families about how to be prepared for emergencies.
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Educational Intervention for Optimizing Adolescent Mental Health Screening and Treatment in Pediatric Residency
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The purpose of this study is: 1) to assess pediatric resident knowledge of adolescent mental health; 2) to assess pediatric resident comfort level for screening, assessing, and treating mental health disorders in adolescents, and; 3) to evaluate pediatric resident current practices for adolescent mental health screening, assessment, and treatment.
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U.S.-China Trade Dispute Could Stall Arizona's Solar Progress
-Complaint Draws Concern from Business Leaders Over Solar Jobs in Arizona-
Nov 29, 2011, 17:00 ET from Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy (CASE) and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) are concerned that jobs will be lost in Arizona due to SolarWorld's anti-trade petition.
Arizona is the third-largest employer in solar-related fields in America with nearly 5,000 jobs across 980 solar establishments in the state, according to the National Solar Jobs Census for 2011 report released by The Solar Foundation. Nationally, the solar industry is expected to add about 37,000 jobs by 2013, with many anticipated to be created in Arizona. SolarWorld's trade complaint could put these jobs in jeopardy.
"Arizona jobs are at stake in the brewing solar trade war between the U.S. and China. As with most trade wars and protectionism, we stand to lose much more than we could gain – in this case, jobs for Arizonans and Americans," said Barry Broome, president and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC).
GPEC has worked tirelessly to attract solar-related businesses to expand or relocate to Arizona and create high quality jobs for Arizonans. The Greater Phoenix region is now home to leading global PV manufacturers such as Suntech and First Solar, as well as supply-chain leaders like Power-One, Rioglass, Maxwell Technologies, Gestamp Solar Steel and six others. The region also represents thousands of downstream industry jobs in sales, marketing, logistics, construction and engineering. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer also completed a successful trip to China in September 2011 to continue attracting foreign investment opportunities that would benefit Arizona workers and the state's solar industry.
"The U.S. is a net exporter of solar products to China and the world," continued Broome. "At the end of the day, free trade is good for the solar industry, it's good for Arizona jobs, and it's good for the U.S. economy. We encourage policymakers to reach a decent resolution that protects our U.S. interests without sacrificing the opportunities provided by a free trade alliance with China."
In October 2010, Suntech opened a 117,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Goodyear, Arizona. With more than 100 well-trained workers, the facility is now operating 24 hours per day and producing nearly 50MW of solar panels per year. Suntech was planning to grow the facility to 120MW; however, the imposition of trade barriers would undermine the facility's continued growth.
"Trade barriers would hurt the economics of our Arizona manufacturing operations," said Polly Shaw, Director of External Relations for Suntech America, a member of CASE. "Global supply chains have been critical to driving down the cost of solar manufacturing, and Suntech depends heavily on companies and operations in countries around the world, including both the U.S. and China. The U.S. has been a major beneficiary of solar trade, as a net exporter of solar products to China by more than US$250 million and the world by nearly US$2 billion. In fact, Suntech has been a net consumer of solar products in the U.S. for almost a decade."
The Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy (CASE) was formed in response to an anti-trade action filed by Germany-based SolarWorld with the U.S. government that threatens the entire U.S. solar industry. CASE represents more than 100 leading U.S. solar companies that represent more than 10,000 jobs in the U.S. solar industry, or roughly 10% of the industry's total workforce, and the coalition is quickly growing. The Coalition is committed to building a domestic solar industry, promoting innovation, and making solar an affordable option for all Americans.
To learn more about the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy (CASE), please visit our website: www.coalition4affordablesolar.org.
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10 Best Lightweight Cars of the 2011 LA Auto Show
We saw this car at the Frankfurt show, but for L.A., Jaguar changed the color from grey to white—with terrific effect. The C-X16, which Jag calls a pure sports car, appears even more sensual. Under the hood is a 380 hp supercharged V6 coupled to an eight-speed automatic with a electric boost motor. The electric motor adds another 95 hp; you can use it either as a 10-second "push to pass" mode, or the electric motor can propel the car silently for roughly 45 miles.
When the car appears in 2014 (Jag hasn't confirmed production, but it's all but definite), it'll more likely come with the supercharged V6 only. And we bet Jaguar will offer a manual transmission, too. Expect this one to start around $75,000.
Over the past 60 years, the Jeep-like Land Rover Defender has evolved like a sturgeon. But an all-new model is in the works, and Land Rover says that this concept illustrates one possibility. Like the original, the new one—whatever it turns out to be—will retain the utilitarian roots in stout towing capacity and a minimalist interior. Land Rover officials talked about Chinese construction workers using the new one, but in the U.S., we'll probably get something a little more upscale. But who knows—in the next seven years before the production model appears, that could change.
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I went and played a round with my wife's brother-in-law and this is what happened. **I had to let him use my discs since he doesn't really play**
Threw a goblin into the rough and never found it, but while looking for the goblin I found an Aviar.
Threw a wraith into the rough and never found it (it was the first time I reached around the 380' mark backhand, so I was fine with it) but then found another wraith while looking for it (that new DX is nice!).
My buddy threw a cyclone into the rough and never found it, but found a cheetah while looking for it.
He threw his preceeding drive into the rough, however he did find it, but while looking for it he found a champion sidewinder.
So today's total is 3 discs lost, 4 discs found for a net gain of +1!
Thank God, too, because my entire week would've been ruined by losing 3 discs in the same round.


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The first speaker in the Far Away Places series is Ricardo Marin Ruiz, presenting "Cycling in Spain" Thursday, September 21 at Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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BGM Models is no longer accepting applications as we have merged with Vivien's Models (head to their website to apply there). If you have always dreamed of being a model, and want to get the best head-start in your career – we highly recommend that you enrol in The Model Course.
Created by Darrianne Donnelly and her daughter Dara, The Model Course will give you no-fuss, honest information about how to get signed with any agent – without having to get any professional photographs done.
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- BSO Case Number: 10-1309-003215
- PIO Number: 13-9-29
- Date: September 22, 2013
- Time: 5:41 p.m.
- Place of Occurrence: Southwest 10 Street and Dixie Highway, Deerfield Beach
- Jurisdiction: Deerfield Beach
- Robert Ullman, 59, male, 4/18/54, 506 Garden Dr., #203, Pompano Beach (DECEASED)
- Marie Saint Fort, 36, female, Deerfield Beach
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A motorcyclist was killed Sunday evening when he was struck by an SUV while traveling down Dixie Highway in Deerfield Beach.
Marie Saint Fort, 36, was travelling northbound on Dixie Highway with her 12-year-old son when she collided with a motorcycle headed southbound on the same road driven by Robert Ullman, 59. Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue transported Ullman to Broward Health North where he was pronounced dead. Saint Fort's son received non-life-threatening injuries. Both he and his mother were transported to Broward Health North.
The traffic homicide investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact BSO Traffic Homicide detectives Robert Miller or Anthony Morales at 954-321-4840 or Broward Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-TIPS (8477) or www.browardcrimestoppers.org.
- INVESTIGATORS: BSO Det. Robert Miller, THI/CID and BSO Det. Anthony Morales, THI/CID
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Low-Sugar Raspberry Cheesecake with Pecan Crust
|Low-Sugar Raspberry Cheesecake with Pecan Crust
Here we are in the middle of the sugar rush season, where there are sweet treats everywhere, and even people like myself who normally don't have trouble passing up the sugary stuff will be seriously tempted. To help with that, I thought it might be fun to try to add a few more options to the Low Sugar Desserts section of the recipe archives this month, and it's been fun testing new dessert recipes. (It's a tough job, but someone has to do it!)
This recipe is for Gayle, a teacher at school who gave me the pie plate you see above when we came back to school after Thanksgiving. Gayle tried the Sugar-Free Pumpkin Cheesecake and in that recipe I mentioned I didn't have a pie plate, so she bought one to thank me for helping her find tasty Thanksgiving food that would work for her low-glycemic way of eating. I'm considering this recipe a work in progress, because I'm not sure I liked the seeds in the raspberries, and I'm thinking blueberries would be the next fruit I'd try. I'm not a baker, but I think you can bake it in a pan of hot water to prevent cracks. Meanwhile, this version is still very good, even with raspberry seeds and a few cracks. I'm definitely not a dessert cook, so if any readers make improvements to this recipe I'd love to know about it.
Low-Sugar Rasberry Cheesecake with Pecan Crust
(Makes about 8-10 servings, recipe adapted from AllRecipes version of pumpkin cheesecake.)
1 cup pecans, ground in food processor
1/2 stick butter or margarine, to rub pie plate (you will not use it all)
2 pkg. (8 oz. each ) light cream cheese, at room temperature (do not use fat free cream cheese)
1/2 cup Splenda or other sweetener (or a bit more if you want a sweeter cheesecake)
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 10 oz. pkg. frozen raspberries without added sugar (Check the label to see that it says only raspberries, nothing else. Could also use fresh fruit.)
Thaw raspberries overnight in the refrigerator or use microwave to thaw. Drain raspberries and discard the juice. Put cream cheese, Splenda, and vanilla in a medium sized bowl, and use electric beaters to combine, then add eggs one at a time, and beat until mixture is smooth. (It's important that the cream cheese is at room temperature or this will be very difficult.) Gently fold in raspberries, being careful not to overmix or the mixture will turn completely pink. Spoon batter over the nut crust and spread around evenly with rubber scraper.
Bake cheesecake 35-45 minutes, or until center feels firm to the touch. Allow to cool, then chill several hours or overnight before serving.
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South Beach Suggestions:
This is not a sugar-free dessert because there's some natural sugar in the rasberries, but made with Splenda and margarine, this is a great dessert option for phase 2 or 3 of the South Beach Diet or any other type of low-glycemic eating plan. I couldn't bring myself to use margarine, but there's not a huge amount of butter here.
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More Low-Sugar Cheesecake to Try:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly; check ingredients.)
Reduced Sugar Layered Pumpkin Cheesecake from Kalyn's Kitchen
Sugar-Free Layered Pumpkin Cheesecake from Kalyn's Kitchen
Low Carb Pumpkin Cheesecake from Christine Cooks
Mixed Berry Cheesecake from A Recipe a Day
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The Oakland A's may be wondering what the point of replay in baseball is after Wednesday night's game in Cleveland.
In their (and a lot of other people's) eyes, the umpires botched a critical home run review in the ninth inning. The men in blue ruled that Adam Rosales' drive to left field off Indians closer Chris Perez hit high off the wall rather than against a railing behind the fence.
The crew's original call stood, and Rosales was stuck at second base with a double. Had the hit been ruled a home run, the A's would have tied the game.
UPDATE: MLB says call will stand
From one angle at least, the A's had a very good argument. The ball appeared to carom off the railing.
Umpiring crew chief Angel Hernandez was hearing none of it, though; he ejected Oakland manager Bob Melvin for disputing the decision.
"I don't get it. I don't know what the explanation would be when everybody else in the ballpark knew it was a home run," Melvin told reporters afterward. "Clearly, it hit the railing. I'm at a loss. I'm at a complete loss."
Perez eventually escaped a bases-loaded jam and preserved a 4-3 Indians victory.
Melvin said Thursday that he has been in contact with Major League Baseball regarding the disputed ninth-inning call. Umpires ruled that a ball hit by Oakland's Adam Rosales with two outs was a double, not a game-tying homer.
Melvin does not know if the call will be overturned, but expects baseball officials to comment.
"I've heard from MLB and I'm not going to say what they said," Melvin said before the A's and Indians wrapped up a four-game series. "It's probably what the majority saw, but what they're going to do from here I haven't had any discussions about that."
REACTION: A's blast umpires, disputed call on Twitter
"We all know it was the wrong call, the whole team," Rosales told reporters after the game, according to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle. "I appreciate Bob standing up for us. We all know how important every game is, we found that out last year."
Perez initially thought the ball hit the wall, but one he saw a replay...
"Obviously, coming back in here I saw different," he said.
"I don't think I've ever been on the other side of a replay like that, but I've definitely been on the other side of bad calls and missed strikes and stuff like that," Perez added. "It's part of the game. We'll definitely take it."
Hernandez told Slusser that his crew did not have enough evidence to overturn the call.
"It was not evident on the TV we had that it was a home run. … I don't know what kind of replay you had, but you can't reverse a call unless there's 100 percent evidence," Hernandez was quoted as saying.


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That is not the issue. If his criticisms, as a teacher of other teachers and their methods, were carefully considered and well expressed, that would be one thing, but that is not what we get from him. Take a look at the OP video and we see something rather unpleasant, dismissive and demeaning of the teachers and learned monks with whom he disagrees (not to mention his distortion of the Buddhaghosa story as a way to dismiss the Visuddhimagga). Reprehensible seems to be an accurate description of Vimalaramsi's behavior.robertk wrote:I think Vimalarsmsi has the right , as does anyone, to critique aspects of teachings he doesn't agree with.tiltbillings wrote:Length of time in the robes is not a guarantee. Sincere? Studied a great deal? Probably, but there are some serious issues in how he teaches -- and in what he claims about himself -- that raise serious questions.robertk wrote:I have discussed Dhamma with Vimalaramsi at length and while I dont agree with many of his points it ia clear he is sincere and has studied a great deal.
It is very very unlikely that he is not properly ordained- considering how long he has been in robes.


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This is the second of two stories. Read Sunday's story here.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It was almost 3 p.m. on April 5, 2010. Roof bolter Tim Blake and eight fellow crew members had finished their shift. They were riding a mantrip out of Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine.
All of a sudden, "everything just went black," Blake recalled.
"It was like sitting in the middle of a hurricane, things flying, hitting you and stuff like that," Blake said.
Only Blake and the mantrip driver, James Woods, survived the horrible explosion. Woods suffered serious injuries, leaving Blake as the only one left to tell the world what happened to his crew that day.
With debris still flying around him, Blake put on his emergency breathing device. He wiped the dust from his cap lamp, but could only see as far as his hand in front of him. He heard a terrible sound.
"It was my buddy beside of me," Blake recalled. "He couldn't get his rescuer on."
Blake grabbed his friend, 25-year-old Jason Atkins, pulled him off the mantrip and put Atkins' rescuer on him.
He did the same thing for Woods, and for the other miners: Benny Willingham, Robert Clark, William Roosevelt Lynch, Carol Acord and Steve Harrah. He couldn't find Deward Scott's rescuer.
"All of these guys, I was feeling for a pulse," Blake told investigators in a September interview. "They all had a pulse, you know, so they were still alive."
When the air cleared a bit, Blake looked at his watch. It was three minutes until 4 p.m. His rescuer's one-hour air supply was almost gone. Blake left to try to get help.
"That was the hardest thing I've ever done," he said.
Bits and pieces of this story have come out in recent months, in part because of a lawsuit filed against Massey. And some of the confused events of the subsequent rescue efforts have been revealed through media reports and the release by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration of sworn statements by mine rescue team members.
But in a report made public last week, an independent team led by longtime mine safety advocate Davitt McAteer quoted extensively from an interview with Blake, statements of other individuals whose testimony was not released by MSHA, and from other documents and evidence gathered by his team over the last year.
The 126-page report sheds new light on those events, and raises even more questions about how state, federal and company officials handled the situation.
For example, CONSOL Energy's elite mine rescue teams refused to take part in the recovery of bodies from Upper Big Branch. They objected to a plan that ignored longstanding protocols and sent rescue teams in to gather the bodies before the entire mine had been examined for lingering safety hazards.
"The emergency response to the Upper Big Branch disaster raised concerns about how decision-making was conducted in the command center and the manner in which mine rescue teams were deployed underground," the McAteer report concluded. "Standard protocols were not followed, effective records were not kept, and rescuers' lives were placed in jeopardy."
'All we can do is pray'
In the immediate aftermath of the explosion, Massey Energy official Chris Blanchard and vice president of operations Jason Whitehead quickly readied a group of mine management personnel to go underground. They climbed onto a mantrip and entered through the mine's Ellis Portal sometime between 3:20 and 3:25 p.m.
Around 4 p.m., Blanchard's crew saw a single light coming toward them underground.
"It was Tim Blake, who had walked from where he left his crew," recalled section foreman Patrick Hilbert, who was driving the mantrip.
In a lawsuit against Massey, the family of William Roosevelt Lynch alleged that Blanchard and Whitehead "refused to make any effort to render aid" to Blake and his crew, "choosing instead to continue deeper into the mine where it is believed that they traveled near the longwall face for reasons that remain unknown."
McAteer's report cites testimony from both Hilbert and Blake that disputes the lawsuit's account.
Hilbert said that he stayed with Blake, while the rest of Blanchard's crew continued on foot to find Blake's co-workers.
"So I'm sitting there with Timmy and Timmy said, 'That's all my friends,'" Hilbert recalled. "I said, 'I know, Timmy, mine, too.' He said, 'What can we do?' I said, 'Timmy, all we can do is pray.'"
Using the mantrip from Blake's crew and their own, the team that came underground with Blanchard rushed the crew out of the mine. They arrived at the surface at about 4:30 p.m.
Blanchard and Whitehead stayed underground, continuing toward the longwall section to look for more survivors.
Attorneys for families of some of the miners have alleged Blanchard and Whitehead could have tampered with evidence underground.
Massey has said Blanchard and Whitehead were motivated only by a desire to rescue any survivors.
McAteer's report did not take sides on the issue. Blanchard and Whitehead both asserted their Fifth Amendment right and refused to talk to investigators.
'The mine is being evacuated at this time'
Just before he went underground, Chris Blanchard called Jonah Bowles, safety director at Massey's neighboring Marfork Coal office, with instructions on reporting the incident to state and federal regulators.
Bowles called MSHA's hot line at 3:30 p.m. and reported a "hazardous inundation of carbon monoxide gas" had occurred at 3:27 p.m. Shortly after that, Bowles told the state's emergency response center "it was an air reversal on the beltlines."
Asked if there were any injuries, he responded, "No. The mine is being evacuated at this time."
The McAteer report questioned Bowles' reports, saying, "By this time, it can be reasonably surmised that officials on site at UBB knew that they had a situation more serious than had been reported."
The calls from Bowles set off a flurry of telephone calls -- some official and some not -- among state and federal mine safety officials and emergency response personnel.
West Virginia mine inspector Wayne Wingrove had left Upper Big Branch at about 2 p.m. He hurried back to the operation after getting a call that "something bad had happened."
By the time Wingrove arrived back at the mine, he could see bodies lined up outside, covered with plastic, their boots sticking out. He said it "felt like somebody had their hand on my heart and was squeezing the heck out of it."
'It frustrated me more and more'
Shortly before 4:30 p.m., MSHA coal administrator Kevin Stricklin got off a plane after landing at Charleston's Yeager Airport. Stricklin was on his way to Kentucky to, among other things, talk about growing problems at another of Massey's mines.
Stricklin's office called him to report, "There was a pretty major issue" at Upper Big Branch. Once in his rental car, Stricklin headed down U.S. 119 and took a left at Danville, following W.Va. 3 to the mine.
Stricklin volunteered to handle briefing miners' families and the media. Hardman, MSHA's district manager, would focus on rescue operations.
But when he headed in to brief the families the first time, Stricklin still didn't know for sure how many miners were dead or missing underground.
"As the evening went on, it frustrated me more and more, because I wanted to go down and give the families definite information of how many people were unaccounted for, and it seemed like I was having a very hard time getting that from Massey," Stricklin told investigators.
McAteer's team concluded that a big part of the problem was Massey's failure to finish installing a new communications and tracking system required by the 2006 MINER Act.
Derrick Kiblinger, a miner in charge of the installation, told investigators he had trouble getting parts fast enough and didn't have a large enough crew to get the job done.
Not until 12:30 a.m. on April 6 -- more than nine hours after the explosion -- did state, federal and company officials finally get an accurate count.
Around that same time, rescue teams were being ordered out of the mine after one of them detected explosive concentrations of methane underground. During a meeting at 1:30 a.m., Massey's Chris Adkins told the families he had little hope that the last four miners unaccounted for would be found alive.
'Whatever happened to us happened to us'
The McAteer team pointed out "another complication" in the rescue efforts: "News reports based on briefings by MSHA officials and West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin raised the possibility that some of the missing miners may have reached a safe shelter" not far from the longwall face.
Hopes about this shelter were fueled by rumors that rescue teams had seen fresh footprints heading in that direction. But as early as Monday night, rescue officials knew that Blanchard and Whitehead had made those footprints during their initial search for survivors.
Earlier in the week, MSHA's expert mine rescue teams had already clashed with Adkins and with their own boss, MSHA district manager Bob Hardman. Hardman overruled his teams, and supported Adkins' insistence that rescue teams continue further underground Monday night without required backup teams being ready.
Fred Martin, an MSHA rescue team member, later testified that "political pressure from the state level" pushed rescuers to try a last-ditch effort to check the chambers before their 96 hours of air ran out. Rescuers weren't sure the move was necessary. They didn't believe anyone had survived the blast, and that checking the chamber was an unnecessary risk.
"Whatever happened to us happened to us," Martin told investigators. "But they wanted to see what was in that box."
'What an explosion will do'
On Thursday and Friday, April 8 and 9, mine rescue teams made several runs back into Upper Big Branch to try to find the last four miners.
State mine inspector Eugene White was with a Massey rescue team on one of those missions late Friday afternoon. They made it all the way to the mine's Headgate 22 section, where six victims -- Kenneth Chapman, Bob Griffith, Ronald Mayer, Eddie Mooney, Boone Payne and Ricky Workman -- had already been found on a mantrip.
"The best of my recollection, the mantrip was on the track," White testified. "There was two victims in the outby end, facing the outside. One's leg was hanging out of the trip ... the canopy of the mantrip was kind of collapsed down, and there was four victims in that end of the mantrip."
As White and the Massey team continued up the track, they found the bodies of Greg Brock, Dean Jones and Joe Marcum. At about the same time, another rescue crew found the body of the last miner, Nicolas McCroskey, over near the mouth of the longwall. Rescuers had been past the body several times but had not noticed it.
McAteer's team explained that damage inside the mine made it impossible to use vehicles alone to get the bodies out.
"A larger group of rescuers -- as many as 100 men -- formed a human chain," the report said. "Each two-man team carried the victims to another two-man team, who would then carry the victim to another team until the body reached a mantrip that completed the journey to the surface of the mine."
Later, White told investigators, "We've got a lot of young coal miners. I wish we could take them all in UBB now that the victims have been removed and let them look at what an explosion will do, and maybe it will help us down the road, to get these kids, I'll call them, to think about what's going on."
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The local NAWCC chapters generally organize Field Suitcase Workshop classes, but anyone willing to organize a class can become a Class Coordinator. The Coordinator enrolls the students, collects the tuition, locates an appropriate classroom, pays the classroom rental, and schedules the class with the Field Suitcase Workshop Administrator.There is a class size requirement of seven to nine students for each class. with some exceptions:
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Ñāṇa wrote:BlackBird wrote:alan wrote:Nothing I've read in the Suttas says anything about Boddisattvas.
It's remarkably absent.
Are you suggesting that prior to his awakening the Buddha wasn't a bodhisattva and the suttas where he refers to himself prior to his awakening as a bodhisattva are fictions?
Why would I say that... Let's not assume the worst and jump to conclusions. I'm saying the Buddha was entirely silent on the path of the Bodhisattva, except when used to illustrate his own struggles or provide an example for some Dhamma lesson for the benefit of the student. Simple put, if you give the Suttas precedence: A reasonable conclusion is that the Buddha would have his student take the path to Arahantship.


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In accordance with the City of Peoria's commitment to sustainability, Peoria Sports Complex implemented a recycling program. With home teams from environmentally conscious states, the complex was pleased to adopt green initiatives that many of our visitors already supported.
In addition to large receptacles at both team clubhouses, over 30 containers are available throughout the main stadium and around the complex. Recyclable items include plastics, cardboard, paper, aluminum, steel, tin and glass.
The program is successful with cooperation from the concessionaire to use recyclable products whenever possible and an educational campaign for complex visitors. During Spring Training, PA announcements alert fans where to drop their recyclable items. Easily identified blue recycling containers are found near major concession areas, concourses and gates.
City of Peoria's Solid Waste division collects the compacted recyclable materials. Four pickups are made during Spring Training with over 12 tons of compacted recyclables processed at that time. The annual total for the complex is over 20 tons.
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GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager sat out Sunday's action against the Indians due to a jammed index finger as Seattle dropped a 6-3 decision.
Seager hasn't played since the Mariners' initial Cactus League game Thursday after injuring his right hand while sliding into third base. The injury isn't believed to be serious, but Seager has been given the ensuing three games off to recover.
Seager, 26, has been one of the Mariners' top players the past two years. He hit .260 with 22 home runs and 69 RBIs in 2013 after batting .259 with 20 home runs and 86 RBIs in 2012.
With Seager out, the Mariners have primarily used Willie Bloomquist, Carlos Triunfel and Nate Tenbrink at third base.
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Livestock producers, along with several national and state elected officials, are calling for a waiver of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which requires fuel blenders to include a set volume of ethanol in gasoline. But whether or not a waiver would bring lower corn prices depends on a complex set of factors, according to a new report from Purdue University economists.
The RFA always has been controversial, but this year's drought, which has pushed corn prices 60 percent higher since June, has brought the issue to the forefront.
According to the Purdue researchers who presented their findings in a Webcast sponsored by Farm Foundation Thursday, the impact of a waiver would depend in large part on the flexibility of fuel blenders to adjust. Even without the RFS mandate, several technical and economic factors could prevent them from significantly reducing their ethanol usage, says the report's lead author, Purdue economist Wally Tyner, PhD. For example, the current standard ethanol/gasoline blends produce 87 octane, versus 84 octane for the same gasoline without ethanol, and blenders might be unwilling to make the necessary adjustments to their processes. Also, blended fuels avoid some seasonal vapor pressure rules regulating the formulation of gasoline. Economically, blenders would not be likely to reduce ethanol use as long as ethanol prices are below those for gasoline, as they are now.
Another influencing factor is that blenders currently are running ahead of the mandated RFS. This year the RFS mandates oil companies blend 13.2 billion gallons of ethanol with the gasoline they produce. The mandate increases to 13.8 billion gallons in 2013. However, blenders have built up credits known as "renewable identification numbers (RIN) by blending 2.6 billion gallons of ethanol above what was required in previous years. They can carry those credits forward, and count them against the requirements in future years. If blenders decided to use those credits to blend 2 billion fewer gallons of ethanol in a year, corn prices could drop by about 67 cents a bushel without any EPA waiver," Tyner says.
The researchers conclude that If EPA granted a waiver, and blenders have the have flexibility to adjust their use of ethanol, a small waiver could reduce corn prices around 47 cents a bushel, while a large waiver could reduce it as much as $1.30 a bushel, depending on economic conditions.
Several experts offered comments following the Webcast. Steve Meyer, president of Paragon Economics, pointed out that while a 47-cent reduction in corn prices might sound small, but for livestock producers, a change of that magnitude can affect margins significantly. He also noted that the effect of rising corn prices on food prices for consumers comes about slowly. Fresh beef and poultry prices hit all-time highs in July he says, but the current increases relate to the run-up in corn prices from 2008 to 2010. The impact of the current corn market on food prices is still ahead of us.
Purdue economist Chris Hurt warned that 'demand destruction" caused by exceptionally high corn prices could create market instability and volatility in the future. If corn users find ways to ration and scale back on corn purchases during a time of tight supplies, a big corn crop could turn the situation upside-down, with supply exceeding demand.
One participant asked Hurt how much of an impact a reduction in corn use for ethanol would have on feed prices, since production of distillers' grains also would be reduced. Hurt pointed out that when a bushel of corn goes into ethanol production, about two-thirds ends up as ethanol and one-third as distillers' grains for feed. Shifting that bushel of corn from ethanol to feed use results in a reduction of 18 pounds of distillers' grains but contributes 56 pounds of corn for feed. And because of the strong relationship between the prices of corn and distillers' grains, lower corn prices could result in lower prices for distillers' grains in spite of shorter production.
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Does all this winning have Big Ten relevance?
Let's take a look.
Everybody knows scoring will drop along with margin of victory once conference play begins. Today's race-horse basketball –- few teams push the pace as well as Indiana, Illinois ("They might have as much speed as any team in the country, which is a scary thought," Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said about the Illini), Michigan, Iowa and Michigan State -– will morph into the half-court Big Ten battles we've grown to appreciate.
"What's going on now doesn't prove what will happen in January, February and March," Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said. "Teams always look faster in November and December. I've been in this league 12 years and I don't think this is anything new. Trying to judge the Big Ten by the non-conference isn't a good comparison."
Even the toughest non-conference schedules are loaded with home patsies. For financial reasons, every team has to have a certain number of home games -– in other words, guaranteed money games. You pay, say, Coppin State or Central Connecticut State to come to Assembly Hall and get waxed.
"We're usually playing teams we're probably deeper than," Minnesota coach Tubby Smith said. "Right now everybody in the league is an up-tempo team. When you get into conference play, when everybody has all the goods on you and knows what to take away from you, it's different."
Is there a surprise Big Ten team? You could make a case for Illinois under first-year coach John Groce or No. 13 Minnesota (11-1 with its only loss to No. 2 Duke) or even Nebraska, which is 8-2 with a win at Wake Forest as part of the Big Ten-ACC Challenge.
Ohio State coach Thad Matta doesn't buy the whole "surprise" thing.
"I expect Big Ten teams to win every (non-conference) game," he said. "I can't say anybody has surprised me. I've seen teams with great wins and close games. It's part of the maturation of figuring everything out."
Maturation is crucial give the looming Big Ten battles. Parity is everywhere you look, perhaps even more than last year, when Michigan State, Ohio State and Michigan shared the Big Ten title with 13-5 records.
"When I look at the depth of our league," Illinois's Groce said, "it's about as strong as I've ever seen it."
The silver lining is if you do well in Big Ten play, you earn a high NCAA tourney seed. Do mediocre and you're still likely in the field. Do poorly and you're looking at the NIT, or worse.
Nobody understands that better than Purdue coach Matt Painter. His Boilers have the Big Ten's only losing record, at 4-5. Much of that comes from a rigorous non-conference schedule that has staggered a youthful squad.
Purdue played at Eastern Michigan and lost. It played two games in New York as part of the exempt 2K Sports Classic and lost, once in overtime. It lost at home to good Bucknell and Xavier teams. Painter blames team immaturity when he doesn't blame himself.
The losses have been close (all less than 10 points), but it doesn't matter. A six-year run of NCAA tourney appearances is in jeopardy.
Painter took a chance with the road trip to Eastern Michigan. Over the years he hasn't been afraid to play at mid-major teams in non-conference play. In recent years Purdue has also played at Indiana State, Evansville, Ball State, Valparaiso and Loyola.
"A lot of people won't do that," he said. "We've proven we've done that in the past. We'll continue to do things of that nature, especially in the Midwest. I just wish we could play better."
Painter said playing at mid-major schools has Big Ten benefits.
"It helps us. You have to get your guys out there and see how they react to being on the road, to not getting the calls."
Indiana has crushed all comers, especially at Assembly Hall. It faces its last real non-conference challenge on Saturday against Butler (7-2) as part of the Crossroads Classic at Indianapolis' Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
But the Hoosiers won't play a true road game until Big Ten action begins. Could that leave them vulnerable, especially early? Is non-conference strength of schedule important given the grind of Big Ten play?
"We don't spend a lot of time on the strength of schedule part of it as much as projecting where we think somebody's going to be inside of that year," IU coach Tom Crean said. "You try to look at the statistics. You try to look at their past, who they have coming back. You try to put some of those factors in and say, 'OK, this team might have been this way last year, but they have these many guys coming back. This guy was injured.'
"Whatever the situation is, you just want to do as best as you can. As far as the higher end of it, we're trying to counterbalance the Big Ten/ACC Challenge with playing a home game, when we're going to be on the road and vice-versa, and then trying to find the best situation for us that year when it comes to the exempt tournament."
IU rotates between Butler and Notre Dame as part of the Crossroads Classic. It has played Evansville and IUPU-Indianapolis under Crean.
"I think the other thing is trying to play more in-state schools," he said. "We've been able to do that more and more."
In the end, the goal is to be Big Ten ready, and time grows short. Conference action begins Dec. 31 when IU plays at Iowa (8-2) and No. 19 Michigan State (8-2) plays at Minnesota.
You can argue whose non-conference schedule was the best for Big Ten preparation, but this much is certain:
It's going to be brutal, bruising — and hurt so good.


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"ZALTRAP is an important addition to the metastatic colorectal cancer treatment landscape and helps to fill a critical treatment gap," said Eric Van Cutsem, M.D., Ph.D., University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium and lead investigator of the VELOUR study. "ZALTRAP is the first and only agent to demonstrate a survival improvement in a Phase 3 trial in patients previously treated with an oxaliplatin-based regimen who are being treated with FOLFIRI for their metastatic disease."
"I would like to thank the physicians, patients, and their families for their support in moving ZALTRAP through the clinical trial process leading to approval in Europe," said Debasish Roychowdhury, M.D., Senior Vice President and Head, Sanofi Oncology. "We are thrilled to provide a new therapy that further extends the lives of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer and look forward to working with European health authorities to ensure patients have access to ZALTRAP."
In Europe, colorectal cancer is the most common cancer in both men and women and is the second leading cause of cancer death. In 2008, there were 436,000 new cases diagnosed and 212,000 deaths from colorectal cancer.[1]
Commenting on the marketing authorization, George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron and President of Regeneron Laboratories, added: "The European approval of ZALTRAP provides a new option to address the unmet medical need in this patient population. There continues to be a need to develop new cancer therapies and Regeneron and Sanofi are committed to finding novel investigational treatments and combinations."
ZALTRAP received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August 2012 after a Priority Review, and marketing authorization applications for ZALTRAP are under review with other regulatory agencies worldwide.
About the VELOUR Phase 3 StudyThe ZALTRAP approval was based on data from the pivotal Phase 3 VELOUR trial, a multinational, randomized, double-blind trial comparing FOLFIRI in combination with either ZALTRAP or placebo in the treatment of patients with mCRC. The study randomized 1,226 patients with mCRC who previously had been treated with an oxaliplatin-containing regimen. Twenty-eight percent of patients in the study received prior bevacizumab therapy. The primary endpoint of the trial was overall survival. Secondary endpoints included progression-free survival, overall response rate, and safety.
The VELOUR trial showed that in patients previously treated with an oxaliplatin containing regimen, adding ZALTRAP to FOLFIRI significantly improved median survival from 12.06 months to 13.50 months (HR=0.817 (95% CI 0.714 to 0.935; p=0.0032), an 18 percent relative risk reduction. A significant improvement in progression-free survival from 4.67 months to 6.90 months (HR=0.758 95% CI 0.661 to 0.869; p=0.00007), a 24 percent relative risk reduction, was also observed. The overall response rate in the ZALTRAP plus FOLFIRI arm was 19.8% vs. 11.1% for FOLFIRI alone (p=0.0001).
The most common adverse reactions (all grades, greater than or equal to 20% incidence) reported at a higher incidence (2% or greater between-arm difference) in the ZALTRAP/FOLFIRI arm, in order of decreasing frequency, were leukopenia, diarrhea, neutropenia, proteinuria, AST increased, stomatitis, fatigue, thrombocytopenia, ALT increased, hypertension, weight decreased, decreased appetite, epistaxis, abdominal pain, dysphonia, serum creatinine increased, and headache. The most common Grade 3-4 adverse reactions (greater than or equal to 5%) reported at a higher incidence (2% or greater between-arm difference) in the ZALTRAP/FOLFIRI arm, in order of decreasing frequency, were neutropenia, diarrhea, hypertension, leukopenia, stomatitis, fatigue, proteinuria, and asthenia.
About ZALTRAP® (ziv-aflibercept)ZALTRAP is a recombinant fusion protein which acts as a soluble receptor that binds to Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A (VEGF-A), VEGF-B, and placental growth factor (PIGF), as shown in preclinical studies. VEGF-A is one of the mediators contributing to angiogenesis. VEGF-B and PlGF, related growth factors in the VEGF family, may contribute to tumor angiogenesis as well. In the US, ZALTRAP is a registered trademark of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
In the US, ZALTRAP is approved with the US proper name ziv-aflibercept. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended international non-proprietary name for ZALTRAP is aflibercept. Marketing authorization applications for ZALTRAP are also under review other regulatory agencies worldwide.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION FOR ZALTRAP® (ziv-aflibercept) INJECTION FOR INTRAVENOUS INFUSION
Severe and sometimes fatal hemorrhage, including gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage, has been reported in the patients who have received ZALTRAP in combination with FOLFIRI. Monitor patients for signs and symptoms of GI bleeding and other severe bleeding. Do not administer ZALTRAP to patients with severe hemorrhage.
GI perforation including fatal GI perforation can occur in patients receiving ZALTRAP. Discontinue ZALTRAP therapy in patients who experience GI perforation.
Severe compromised wound healing can occur in patients receiving ZALTRAP/FOLFIRI. Discontinue ZALTRAP in patients with compromised wound healing. Suspend ZALTRAP for at least 4 weeks prior to elective surgery, and do not resume ZALTRAP for at least 4 weeks following major surgery and until the surgical wound is fully healed.
About Colorectal Cancer Worldwide, colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in males and the second most in females, with more than 1.2 million new cases diagnosed in 2008. One of the deadliest cancers, colorectal cancer was responsible for more than 600,000 deaths globally in 2008 alone. According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 60 percent of colorectal cancer cases are diagnosed at the locally advanced or metastatic stage. Although survival for early stage disease is relatively high, once colorectal cancer metastasizes to distant organs, five-year survival is estimated to be 12 percent.
About Sanofi Oncology Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and Vitry, France, Sanofi Oncology is dedicated to translating science into effective therapeutics that address unmet medical needs for cancer and organ transplant patients. Starting with a deep understanding of the disease and the patient, Sanofi Oncology employs innovative approaches to drug discovery and clinical development, with the ultimate goal of bringing the right medicines to the right patients to help them live healthier and longer lives. We believe in the value of partnerships that combine our internal scientific expertise with that of industry and academic experts. Our portfolio includes 11 marketed products and more than 15 investigational compounds in clinical development, including small molecules and biological agents.
About SanofiSanofi, a global and diversified healthcare leader, discovers, develops and distributes therapeutic solutions focused on patients' needs. Sanofi has core strengths in the field of healthcare with seven growth platforms: diabetes solutions, human vaccines, innovative drugs, consumer healthcare, emerging markets, animal health and the new Genzyme. Sanofi is listed in Paris (EURONEXT: SAN) and in New York (NYSE: SNY).
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Two accidents occurred within hours of one another last Friday, both of which resulted in injuries to drivers or their passengers between east Woodland and the Yolo Bypass.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the first accident occurred at 11:24 a.m. and involved only one vehicle, a 2001 Nissan Maxima, driven by Charles B. Gansah, 25, of Woodland.
In that incident, Gansah was driving southbound on Interstate-5 and was just north of the Yolo Bypass when for still-unknown reasons he made an unsafe turning movement, left the roadway and rolled the vehicle over a barbed wire fence.
Inside the vehicle was Krystal M. Hernandez, 30, of Sacramento. Hernandez was seated in the right front passenger seat. She complained of pain and was taken to the UC Davis Medical Center for treatment.
The second accident occurred around 4:55 p.m. on County Road 102 at Highway 113, and involved three vehicles.
The CHP reported that Michael G. Murphy, 51, of Dixon was driving a 1998 Mercedes E320 southbound on CR-102 from Woodland headed toward Knights Landing when Stefonie S. Gold, 20, of Chico failed to stop at the stop sign on northbound Hwy. 113 and broadsided the Mercedes with her 1998 Honda Civic .
After the collision, the Honda continued forward into the northbound lane of CR-102 and struck a 1996 Honda Passport being driven by Lester A. Lynton, 46, of Robbins head on.
The Civic and Passport sustained moderate damage and the Mercedes sustained major damage.
Murphy was transported to UCD Medical Center for pain to his neck, back, chest and arms. Lynton was taken to the UCD Medical Center for scrapes to his arms, and hands and complaint of pain to his back and arms. And Lejon Harris, 21, of Sacramento, who was a passenger in the right front seat of Gold's Civic was also transported to UCD Medical Center, reporting pain to his ribs.


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Trying to be a good neighbor, I mow the yard of an elderly fellow who lives in a cul de sac off my street. He is of extremely advanced age and is not familiar with machinery (indeed, I am not sure that his house even has electricity). A day or two after I mow his lawn, an envelope will appear in my mailbox, containing a thank you note, maybe a clipped magazine article of interest, or a short note on some subject of presumed mutual concern. I often reply to these missives, placing notes in his mailbox.
In recent years, our communications have turned to focus more and more on (of all things -- this is Georgia, after all) the Indiana Pacers. As I noted, I do not believe his home has access to an electrical current, yet he seems most familiar and 'current' (heh heh) with team news...and even, to my great surprise, the postings of Pacers fans on the website The Pacers Digest.
This afternoon, I found this note from the old fellow in my mailbox. I post it here for your appraisal, and I post it here because of its frankly disturbing nature, and because I don't know quite what to make of it.
"Disregarding the need to be seen as being capable of any mundane rationation, or what may be considered mundane and safely normal by the great majority of Humanity's Herd, I will tell you, my friend, that I am beginning to believe that (in his time as a Pacer) Troy Murphy was practicing some form of Dark Arts...perhaps spiking the Pacers KoolAid with some Noisome Physick, or washing his fellows' concentration away with Mystery Rays from a modified tanning machine....all to make his own contributions seem more 'legitimate.'
How else to explain the Improvement in Defense that his departure has wrought, or the renewed Vitalitie and Vigour of his erstwhile teammates?
Theorizing and speculating as to the effects of the Basket Ball Player Murphy's absence are currently filling the pages of the main board of The Pacers Digest...but could even the most damning of these Speculations be Mere Shades of the more Sinister Truth? That dire reality being that Murphy was a Practitoner of Unsportsmanlike Magyck, engaged in unspeakable...Practices...or Acts, to the detriment of our doughty Pacers' Well-Being, and in whose Blessed and Timely Absence the course of the health of our young athletes has begun to seek that robust mean to which our Creator surely intended it to cleave?
Food for thought, dear correspondent, and one whose true taste must forever escape us, as the suspected Villain Murphy has Escaped, Absconded and Absented Himself, probably into the more uncharted and dangerous reaches of the swamps of New Jersey, where he will no doubt be able to find another crew of Unsuspecting Innocents upon which to work his wiles.
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SANS Control Security Training Coming to Houston
Source: ControlGlobal.com
May 21, 2013
The SANS Institute reports it will have courses and panel discussions on the latest security strategies and solutions for industrial control systems (ICSs) at its ICS Security Training event on June 10-15 in Houston's Energy Corridor. This session is part of SANS' effort to help process engineers and security professionals with their ICS security concerns.
"Critical questions need to be answered, such as, 'If security strategies and solutions are failing to keep attackers out of Internet facing IT systems, how are we going to maintain the integrity and protect ICS?' We believe an essential piece of the response is to best develop engineers and security professionals to meet this challenge head on," says Michael Assante, SANS' project lead for ICSs.
The ICS Security Training event will feature in-depth, hands-on, technical courses led by SCADA experts. Benefits to be gained from attending include:
- Current information regarding SCADA and control system threats and how to best prepare to defend against them;
- Advanced security testing techniques that work in operational ICS environments;
- Networking with top individuals in the field of SCADA Security; and
- Take-home solutions that you can immediately put to use in your organization.
In addition, a special event from 12 noon to 8 p.m. on Monday, June 10, will include a keynote address, as well as a "What Works" panel discussion. Also, the following training courses will be taught on June 11-15:
- SCADA Security Training, with instructors Jonathan Pollet and Daniel Michaud-Soucy, is a five-day course that bridges the gap between SCADA engineers and IT security professionals. Students will be are taught how SCADA and telemetry systems work from the ground up with several hands-on exercises. The course dives deeper into system exploitation. And, after everyone has built their own SCADA system, the course rounds out this process by explaining how to defend these systems from similar threats.
- Pentesting ICS and Smart Grid, with instructor Justin Searle, will teach hands-on penetration testing techniques used to test embedded electronic field devices, network protocols, RF communications and controlling servers of ICS and smart-grid systems like PLCs, RTUs, smart meters, home area networks (HAN), smart appliances, SCADA, substation automation and synchrophasors. This course is structured around the formal penetration testing methodology created by the National Energy Sector Cybersecurity Organization Resource (NESCOR), which is U.S. Dept. of Energy project.
For more information about the ICS training event, including course descriptions, instructor bios, or to register, please visit www.sans.org/info/129600.
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One of the farm names most synonymous with high-quality dairy cattle, Lylehaven Farm held a dispersal sale on Friday in East Montpelier, Vt. The farm, consisting of 150 Holsteins, held "The Celebration of Lylehaven" sale as input prices stayed high and no future generation was willing to take over the farm.
Jerry Rappaport, Lylehaven's owner, dedicated 40 years of his life to dairy industry. The 87-year old accomplished many things through dairy cattle, including selling C Metcalf Valiant Mist for over $1 million; Mist was featured in People magazine for the feat. Lylehaven Lila Z also sold for $1.15 million.
Rappaport is no farm boy, though. Jerome Lyle Rappaport (his middle name is where "Lylehaven" comes from) was born and raised in the Bronx and Manhattan in New York City. Entering Harvard University at the age of 16, he continued on to be a lawyer and political leader in Boston. He may be best known, outside of the cow world, for redeveloping Boston's West End neighborhood, beginning a 40-year real estate career throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts. Also a philanthropist, Jerry and his wife began the Rappaport Foundation in 1997.
Update: According to The Cattle Exchange, the sale averaged $5,934 on 133 lots. Top seller was Lylehaven Atwood Lylly-ET (EX-92) at $70,000.
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Before I play in the mornings I like to eat my breakfast at the park. I was eating and watching people play and this one guy would putt on a hyzer and always put his bag about 6 feet behind the basket a little to the left. Well, he missed about 1/3rd of his putts that I watched, but if he missed, he missed wide right and his putter would hyzer around and hit his bag then stop.
I know if somebody else's bag is in your way and you don't ask them to move it, it becomes a part of the course, but can you purposely place your own bag to stop your disc? Is there some kind of sportsmanship rule against that?


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Two teenage boys accused of stabbing two women at a youth center in North Platte could be behind bars for the rest of their lives, following their arraignment Wednesday in Lincoln County Court.
Each boy faces five felony charges. That could put them behind bars for 20-50 years on each charge.
The gravest charges are attempted first-degree murder (two counts each), as well as use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony. Each of those three charges carries a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison.
After the bleeding victims managed to lock themselves safely in the office, the teens left the building and stole a car that belonged to one of the women. They were caught about an hour later 60 miles east of North Platte.
Each of them is also charged with escape and theft. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
At the arraignment, both of them asked for a public defender.
Presiding Lincoln County Judge Kent Turnbull told Baker, who is 16, that he could choose to have his case transferred to juvenile court after he consults with an attorney.
One woman was stabbed five times and the other twice, according to several people familiar with incident. The women are recovering - one a hospital in Omaha and the other in North Platte.
The Nebraska Youth Center is home as many as a dozen boys at one time who do not have a safe home otherwise.
The center opened two years ago at 18th and Washington on the north side of North Platte, in a residential area a few blocks northeast of Madison Middle School.
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LastLegend wrote:Adamantine wrote:LastLegend wrote:
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I was really speaking to the OP, I never expected you to agree that you are being puritanical and your arguments are simply rhetoric. I wonder how you developed such certainty about a topic which you clearly know nothing about. . . I guess it's human nature. Samasara.
This is a chance for you to educate me. Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against Vajrayana at all. But the practice of sex in the path is clearly not Buddha's teaching. You are welcome to argue against this point. I know that there are Vajrayana teachers out there who teach about visualization of a consort or dakini instead of the actual sex practice. This is accord with Buddha's teachings. Right now I am digging information about Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden.
You can believe what you want if it helps you sleep better at night. Basically all lineage masters practiced karmamudra. Guru Rinpoche, Mandarava, Yeshe Tsogyal, etc., Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa, Gompopa, Phagmo Drupa, etc., It's hard to find anyone responsible for the existence of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet who did not practice karmamudra. Karmamudra is part and parcel of buddhist tantra. But that does't mean you have to practice it. There is karmamudra, samayamudra, dharmamudra and mahamudra. One can rest in the nature of the vajra, as in mahamudra, or join feeling to mahamudra as in tummo, or visualize consort as in deity yoga, or for those practitioner who require a basic concrete viceral introduction to the practice, then karmamudra. Actually, karmamudra is taught as a low level practitioner's tool.The highest capacity practitioners are introduced directly to mahamudra, and so on, in descending order. But, also even for high level practitioners, if they have difficulty bringing all five vayus into the central channel, then karmamudra will be employed. As in the case of Milarepa, this event happens to someone on the doorstep to buddhahood. Such a person is extremely advanced practitioner. And in such a case, dakinis and celestial beings can serve as the consort.


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'Voice of the Bears' to call his 300th consecutive football game Saturday
Each and every football Saturday for a quarter of a century — in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, and as both color analyst and play-by-play announcer — John Morris, BA '80, has been at the microphone, painting the verbal picture of several distinct eras of Baylor football on what is now the Baylor IMG Sports Network.
This Saturday at Oklahoma State, "The Voice of the Bears" will call his 300th straight football game, continuing a streak that began when he worked as the No. 2 announcer alongside his hero and mentor, the legendary Frank Fallon, '53. Morris served as a color analyst on three games in 1987 on the old Southwest Conference Radio Network, but his current streak began in 1988 when he became a full-time member of the Baylor Radio Network.
"I had to get over hero worship the first game I ever did," remembers Morris. "I called him Mr. Fallon on the air. He leaned over and said, 'You can call me Frank.' Those eight years I worked with him were the best learning experience I ever had."
When Fallon retired after the 1994 season, Morris moved into the play-by-play chair, where he described a number of lean seasons before Art Briles came along, elevating the program and giving Morris the chance to call some of the most memorable games in Baylor history.
"Doing play by play is a great job, and doing it for your alma mater is the best," John said. "But then doing it for your alma mater when they're winning? It's above the best. I don't know what that next level is, but we're there."
Morris' Baylor roots go far beyond the broadcast booth. He followed his parents, Sid (BA '58) and Brenda (who worked as a dorm director in addition to attending Baylor), to campus, then met his wife, Terri (BSEd '85), at Baylor. Their daughters, Meagan (BA '11, MSEd '12) and Maddie (a junior) are continuing the legacy.
Sic 'em, John!