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text: SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Technology stocks edged lower early Monday as shares of Yahoo Inc. yhoo shed about 2% to $19.52 after Bernstein Research cut its rating to market perform from outperform. Analyst Carlos Kirjner cited the uncertainty related to "any visibility on the timing of an eventual Alibaba initial public offering and hence cannot recommend the stock with high conviction based solely on the Alibaba upside." Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL, +1.19% were down 1.6% at $517.87 even after the company said its AppStore has recorded more than 40 billion downloads. On the upside, shares of Amazon.com AMZN, +1.23% gained nearly 3% to stand at $266.02 after Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock to overweight. But the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.94% gave up a fraction to stand at 3,087. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, +0.86% also slipped 0.6%.


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Ode to Technology
Oh technology,
How I love you,
But why must an ad
Obstruct my view?!
Who says I want
To shop for a man
Or find a great steal
From a bargain-store stand?
Why do you ask me,
"what is your age?
Click here to see
What you could be paid!"
Oh technology,
How did you know
That I live in Kentucky
And yet love the globe?
Now, technology,
You must relent,
Or I'll pull the plug,
And stop your attempts!
You can't even hear the sound of the smack
If my head hits the keyboard
In a frustrated thwack!
But, technology, you and I,
Have this strange partnership
As we both try
To reach some great goal;
You, my attention,
Me, information.
And social connection.
I won't give you up,
You're my complex tool,
Though sometimes I fight you
And look quite the fool.
my dear,
I have intentions
of great interventions
to keep you and I on appropriate terms.
But, for now...
Let's set back our difference
And each shake a hand
Behave with more reason
As machine and man.
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text: OAKLAND, Calif. -- With the season on the line once more in Oakland, Justin Verlander pitched another Game 5 gem. Verlander carried a no-hit bid into the seventh inning and Miguel Cabrera homered to lead the Detroit Tigers past the Athletics 3-0 Thursday night and back into the AL championship series. Joaquin Benoit retired Seth Smith on a fly ball with two on in the ninth to close out the deciding game of their division series. The Tigers became the first team to reach the ALCS in three straight years since the New York Yankees from 1998-2001. Anibal Sanchez will start Game 1 in Boston on Saturday. The Tigers went 4-3 against the Red Sox this year. They have never faced each other in the post-season. Detroit staved off elimination at home in Game 4, overcoming a three-run deficit on Tuesday. Behind Verlander, the Tigers never trailed in the clincher. The big right-hander gave up a clean, two-out single to Yoenis Cespedes in the seventh to end his chance at the third no-hitter in post-season history. The hit hardly fazed him, however. On a night he allowed only three baserunners, Verlander made it a post-season-record 30 straight scoreless innings against one team since Coco Crisp hit a leadoff home run for the As in Game 1 last October. Just 364 days earlier, Verlander tossed a four-hit, 6-0 masterpiece in Game 5 in this very ballpark, a 122-pitch performance for his first career post-season shutout and complete game. He nearly matched that with a spectacular 111-pitch outing in a rematch of his thrilling pitchers duel with rookie Sonny Gray five days earlier in Game 2. "It felt good out there," Verlander said. "Its the first time in a while my changeups been really good. Obviously this lineup with a bunch of left-handed hitters that was a big pitch for me." Aching slugger Cabrera hit a two-run homer in the fourth off with a drive into the left-field seats for his first homer since Sept. 17 and just his third extra-base hit in 99 at-bats. That ended a 20-inning scoreless streak by the Tigers at the Coliseum. Gray danced with danger from the start with stuff not nearly as crisp as just five nights before when he matched zeros with the 2011 AL MVP and Cy Young Award winner. This time, Verlander didnt allow a baserunner until Josh Reddick drew a one-out walk in the sixth -- but the no-hit bid remained until Cespedes single the next inning. The hardest hit ball was a fly to the centre-field warning track by Stephen Vogt in the sixth. Verlander struck out 10 in eight innings, giving him 21 Ks in these two starts. He has 43 strikeouts in his four playoff outings against Oakland the past two years. The As saw their season end at the hands of Detroit for the third time in as many postseasons, including in a four-game sweep in the 2006 ALCS. Oakland has lost its last six winner-take-all Game 5s and fell to 1-12 in potential clinchers since 2000. The As struck out 57 times for the most in a best-of-five playoff series. Verlander earned the nod for the decider after Game 1 winner Max Scherzer pitched in relief of an 8-6, season-saving win Game 4 in Detroit. Manager Jim Leyland had no qualms turning again to Verlander, who went 13-12 this season. When asked before the game about his bullpen availability, Leyland nodded his head and quipped, "Verlander, hes available." Gray, meanwhile, looked overmatched this time. He wiped his brow and never looked comfortable. As manager Bob Melvin went with Gray over 18-game winner and 40-year-old Bartolo Colon, who yielded three first-inning runs to lose Game 1. These Game 5s becoming awfully familiar for both sides in their recent October rivalry. Detroit held another clinching party in the visiting clubhouse of the Oakland Coliseum, where a raucous crowd of 46,959 swirled yellow towels until Benoit threw his hands in the air at the final out. Catcher Alex Avila met Benoit in front of the mound for a long embrace as their teammates quickly joined them -- with cheers of "Lets go Oakland!" still ringing out. The Tigers came together near the mound for a unique chant in which they squatted in unison and raised their hands in the air. The 93-win Tigers are determined to take the next step and win a championship after being swept in four games of the 2012 World Series by the San Francisco Giants. "Thats the motivation that weve been looking for, that weve had all year," Verlander said. "Guys like Torii (Hunter) who wasnt a part of our team last year, he comes in and hes got that urge. He wants to win that championship before he retires. Everybody else that was here that had a taste of that last year how much it hurts, its that extra driving factor." The 23-year-old Gray, pitching to chants of "Sonny! Sonny!" in his 12th career start, returned for the sixth inning at 92 pitches but was done once he allowed consecutive singles to Victor Martinez and Jhonny Peralta. Omar Infante then drove in the third run with a fielders choice grounder off Dan Otero. Along the 880 freeway just outside the Coliseum, a billboard blared: "ITS ALWAYS SONNY IN THE TOWN." The only thing sunny was the outfield for the early evening start, which had players shielding their eyes to deal with tricky shadows and sun angles. Center field and right field initially played in bright sun. Rookie starters have lost their last six winner-take-all post-season games since Daisuke Matsuzaka beat Cleveland in the 2007 ALCS for Boston. Grays curveball had less break and he never found the same groove that carried him in his playoff debut. It was a breezy Bay Area night and 19 degrees cooler at first pitch than the 82 degrees in a game starting an hour later Saturday night. This marks another disappointing exit for the low-budget As, who have baseballs 27th smallest payroll at $71.1 million after having the lowest at $59.5 million last year. Both managers tweaked their lineups, most notably in the middle infield with Peralta back at shortstop for Detroit and the As Alberto Callaspo playing second base in his first career post-season start. Peralta, who served a 50-game suspension until late September for his ties to the Biogenesis clinic accused of distributing performance-enhancing drugs, hit a three-run homer in Game 4 to help extend Detroits season. NOTES: Verlander tried for just the third no-hitter in post-season history and first since Philadelphias Roy Halladay no-hit Cincinnati on Oct. 6, 2010. Don Larsen pitched a perfect game for the New York Yankees against Brooklyn in the World Series on Oct. 8, 1956. ... 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"Its just one of those times where I feel like Im playing well and Im thankful to be here." Blaum, who played at Duke, shot a 68 at Thornblade Club -- the site of the final round. "The goal out here is always to win," Blaum said. "I feel Ive been playing well enough to win the last four or five events." Jon Curran and Kyle Reifers were a stroke back. Curran had a 66 at Thornblade Club, and Reifers shot 70 -- also at Thornblade. ' ' '


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Mitigation and cleanup of spills requires knowledge of resources at risk. Because many source locations and pollution paths are possible, strict prioritization of protection strategies is difficult. However, identification of resources potentially at risk before an incident and discussion of their relative importance by the appropriate trustees are useful processes, both technically and from communications and human standpoints.
Environmentally and Economically Sensitive Areas are identified in the Inland Sensitivity Atlas series, a set of Geographic Information System (GIS) products intended to provide contingency planners and spill responders in Region 5 with the most accurate and relevant information possible for spill preparedness and response. The atlas series includes data about sensitive environmental, economic, and cultural resources; potential spill sources; and response resources within US EPA Region 5, including portions of the basins of the Upper Mississippi River, the Ohio River, and the Great Lakes. GIS products from this joint effort are made available as paper atlases and in digital format, including an online Inland Sensitivity Atlas viewer and publications on CD-ROM.
Information mapped includes:
Types of environmentally and economically sensitive areas are detailed below, including agencies and programs that can be contacted for further information. Owners/operators should also incorporate information on locally managed environmentally and economically sensitive areas into their FRPs.
Identification of culturally sensitive sites in the vicinity of a spill can be accomplished by contacting the appropriate State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). This individual is generally associated with the State Historical Preservation Office or Society, which may or may not be within a department of State government. Contacts for individual States are provided in the table below.
The National Parks Service (NPS) has responsibility for sites located on Federal lands within the Region. NPS maintains a registry of historically and culturally significant resources, the National Register of Historic Places, which can be accessed via the National Register Information System at www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/database-research.htm.
Specific procedures and Federal OSC responsibilities regarding these sites are set forth in the Programmatic Agreement on Protection of Historic Properties During Emergency Response. Further information about the NPS History and Culture program can be found at www.nps.gov/history/
USFWS Field Response Coordinators are the primary Federal contact for information about migratory birds, endangered and threatened species, and fish and wildlife at risk as a result of spills in the inland and coastal zones. See Appendix VII, Fish and Wildlife Annex for further information.
Each State has fisheries and wildlife biologists, who may be assigned to a Department of Natural Resources or other State agency. These personnel are assigned to geographic areas within a State (district or region) and are listed in Appendix VII. They can also be identified through State emergency response agencies or USFWS Pollution Response Coordinators.
The Inland Sensitivity Atlas includes inventories developed by each State's Natural Heritage or Natural Features Inventory.
The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) can be a source of technical assistance in understanding Native American fish and wildlife management and cultural values. Another source of valuable information is the National Animal Poison Control Center.
Sea Grant Universities and Extension Agents may be a source of local knowledge outside the public sector. These agents have contact with local scientists, fishermen, environmental groups, and other sources that may supplement information provided by regulatory agencies. They can be contacted through the NOAA SSC.
Updated information on protected habitat and economically and environmentally sensitive environments is provided in this plan in three separate indices, one for each of the three drainage basins in Region 5: the Great Lakes basin, the Mississippi River basin, and the Ohio River basin. Each index contains detailed information, in digital format, regarding the environmentally and economically sensitive areas, and Tribal interests.
Descriptive information, maps, and emergency contact lists are also included. The text in the indices provides further instructions on accessing the data available on the disks.
A variety of protected areas such as forests, parks, preserves, reserves, and management areas are managed by public or private organizations such as The Nature Conservancy/Heritage Foundation. Additional sources of this information include Federal or State land management agencies, which include the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce at the Federal level and their counterparts at the State and local levels.
CERCLA, CWA and OPA require the designation of certain Federal, State, and Native American Tribal officials to act on behalf of the public as trustees for natural resources that they manage or protect. Natural resources, as defined in CERCLA and OPA, means land, fish, wildlife, biota, air, water, groundwater, drinking water supplies, and other such resources belonging to, managed by, held in trust by, appertaining to, or otherwise controlled by the United States, any state or local government, or Indian Tribe.
Natural resource(s) trustees are responsible for assessing damages to resources under their jurisdictions resulting from oil spills or release of hazardous substances. Also, agencies are responsible for seeking recovery for losses from responsible parties and for devising and carrying out rehabilitation, restoration, and replacement of injured natural resources. Where more than one natural resource(s) trustee has jurisdiction over a resource, agencies will coordinate and cooperate in carrying out the activities described above (reference NCP 300.600). Damage assessment is controlled by the designated natural resource(s) trustees and not response; however, it is important for natural resource(s) trustees to work with the OSC/RPM to coordinate activities as necessary.
To minimize impacts to natural resources and assist trustees in carrying out their responsibilities, the OSC is required to
The trustees and other natural resource managers, consistent with procedures specified in the Fish and Wildlife Annex (Appendix VII), may provide timely advice on recommended actions concerning resources that are potentially affected by a discharge of oil or release of hazardous substances. This could include providing assistance to the OSC/RPM in identifying and recommending pre-approved response techniques and in predesignating shoreline types and areas.
See Appendix VII for a detailed discussion of trustee responsibilities.
The trustees are authorized to assess monetary damages for resources injured, lost, or destroyed as a result of discharge of oil or releases of hazardous substances. In addition, the trustees are authorized to seek damages from the responsible person(s), and to devise and carry out restoration, rehabilitation and replacement of natural resources. Where more than one trustee has jurisdiction over a resource, these agencies should coordinate and cooperate in carrying out their activities. RRT representatives from trustee agencies serve as contact points.
The Region 5 contact for the DOI Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance is located in Philadelphia, PA, at (215) 597-5378.
NOAA acts on behalf of the U.S. Department of Commerce as a trustee for natural resources. NOAA contacts include member/trustee Representative Stephen Lehmann (phone: (617) 877-2806) and alternate member Lt. Greg Schweitzer (phone: (206) 849-9918) [24/7 Emergency Contact for both: (206) 526-4911].
CERCLA requires the President to designate in the National Contingency Plan (NCP) Federal officials who are to act on behalf of the public as Trustees for natural resources under Federal trusteeship. Section 300.600 of the NCP designates the Secretaries of the following Cabinet Departments to act as Trustees for the natural resources, subject to their respective management or control:
Specific information about each of the Secretary's responsibilities can be found in the NCP at 40 CFR §300.600 or in the links supplied for each Cabinet Department above.
The governor of each state has designated state officials to act on behalf of the public as trustees for natural resources. Natural resources under state jurisdiction include all fish, wildlife and biota, including a shared trusteeship with the federal government for certain plants and animals, air, surface water, groundwater and land.
The tribal chairman or head of the tribal governing body, or person designated by tribal officials, acts as trustee of natural resources under Native American tribal trusteeship including lands and other natural resources belonging to, managed by, controlled by, or otherwise appertaining to the tribe; or held in trust for the tribe; or belonging to a member of the tribe if subject to a trust restriction on alienation.
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Adan Espinoza Canela pleaded guilty on Thursday to slashing the throats of three young relatives, more than nine years after the children's beaten and bloodied bodies were found in a Northwest Baltimore apartment.
Espinoza Canela, 26, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday. He will be eligible for parole by 2019.
His uncle, Policarpio Espinoza Perez, 31, was convicted this year of conspiracy to commit murder for his part in the killings and sentenced to life in prison. He is appealing the verdict.
The two men, neither of whom is in the country legally, had their cases heard three times — twice together. The first trial ended in a hung jury, and guilty verdicts in the second were overturned on appeal. The difference between the two sentences this year raised objections from the father of two of the victims.
Ricardo Espinoza Perez questioned the fairness of Espinoza Canela's sentence and has said he thinks Policarpio Espinoza is innocent.
"I don't think it would be fair to give him 30 years," Ricardo Espinoza Perez said in court Thursday, speaking through a Spanish interpreter. "He should receive 200 years."
At the end of the plea hearing, Espinoza Canela made a brief, cryptic statement to the judge.
"I thought that my family knew me, really that they would understand," he said in Spanish. "But I see that's not it. … They broke my heart."
In a statement, Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein praised everyone who had worked on the case for their "perseverance."
"This case is one of the most horrifying that our city has seen," he added. "This result brings some measure of closure to this terrible tragedy."
Ricardo Espinoza Perez and his wife, Noemi "Mimi" Quezada, arrived at their Falstaff apartment in May 2004 expecting their children, Ricardo and Lucero Espinoza, 8 and 9 years old, and their 10-year-old nephew Alexis Espejo Quezada to be waiting for them after a day at school.
Instead, the family returned home after a day's work on their food truck to find the children beaten and mutilated, their throats cut and bleeding.
"They were three little trees that were growing," Espinoza Perez said. "They were cut. They will never flower again."
The investigation revolved around an extended family of immigrants who had come to Baltimore illegally from Mexico at various points in the years before the crime.
At Espinoza Perez's trial, prosecutors said the two men had been seen at the apartment building a few days before the killing, which they argued was a trip planning how to commit the murders. They said they found bloodied clothing in Espinoza Perez's car.
But prosecutors were not able to establish a firm motive for the attack on the children. They pointed to a romantic falling out between two other family members, but did not explain why that might have led to the children's deaths.
The jury in Espinoza Perez's trial convicted him on conspiracy counts but cleared him of two murder charges and deadlocked on a third, which was later dropped.
Espinoza Canela's defense attorney Brian Murphy said he believes prosecutors' experience with Espinoza Perez's trial and lingering questions about genetic material might have led to the new deal.
"It was a fair resolution of a difficult case," he said.
Both sides had agreed to try the two men separately, a departure from previous trials.
Espinoza Canela was set to go before a jury a third time in the fall. A judge had barred key DNA evidence in the case, but prosecutors said at a hearing earlier this year that they wanted her to reconsider and planned to present new expert testimony in October.
Nicholas Panteleakis, Espinoza Perez's attorney, questioned the fairness of the outcome. The deal struck Thursday is better than one both Espinoza Canela and Espinoza Perez rejected last November, which would have seen them receive life sentences with all but 40 years suspended.
"I'm very unhappy that my client's serving life in prison for conspiracy when the guy who is admitting killing the kids is getting 30 years," Panteleakis said.


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Since I have been busy, I haven't had much time to bake or blog. Still I am slowly continuing to make things that intrigue me. So I decided to make Nigella Lawson's Clementine Cake, which I have had bookmarked since I saw the recipe in 2004. it only took me two years to get to, oh well! The cake was lovely and moist and best of all simple to make. The version I have made is from the Green and Black's chocolate book where, Nigella advises to grate 100g of Maya Gold Green and Black chocolate over the cake once it has come out of the oven. Let the chocolate completely cool before you cut. To make mine a little more festive, I dusted it with gold dust. Wishing you all a wonderful 2007!
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Three young women in their 20s have done what protests of hundreds of thousands in Russia over the past year failed to do: Put President Vladimir Putin's regime, which many Russians feel is rife with cronyism and oppression, in the world's spotlight.
In February Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist collective —- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and two others who have since fled the country — performed a punk rock song damning Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church that supports him, in the country's major cathedral, Moscow's Christ the Saviour.
It seemed another in the months of actions by hundreds of thousands of Russian citizen protesting widespread election fraud and the cynical way former president Dmitry Medvedev and former prime minister Putin simply swapped places.
But the band's arrest, five-month pre-trial imprisonment and unusually harsh two-year labor camp sentences was met with a flood of international outrage — from Paul McCartney and Madonna to Amnesty Intl. The European Parliament has nominated them for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The band's supporters continue to protest, staging a Free Pussy Riot music festival and keeping the band — and the issues it brought to light — in the global spotlight.
In September, Medvedev made weak noises calling for their sentences to be commuted. Their appeal process is currently under way. Meanwhile the young women sit in jail, with husbands and for two of them, children, at home.
Twitter: @freepussyriot


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No one was elected to the Hall of Fame today. So regarding the "steroid era" is this going to be like the Family Guy episode with the tour in Germany when Brian asks what happened between 1939-1945? And the guide says, "Everyone was on vacation."
If the Baseball Hall of Fame really wanted to make a statement about PED's they should have elected Jamie Moyer. Since we know he got 269 wins without PED's. (If he had been on 'roids his fastball would have hit at least 70.)
If the real issue with PED's is that they are illegal does that mean we need to eject all baseball Hall of Fame members who drank alcohol between 1920 and 1933?
Temperatures in the San Francisco Bay Area will dip below freezing this weekend. Thereby proving the point of some who probably said years ago that it would be a cold day in hell if Barry Bonds wasn't a first ballot Hall of Famer.
The NYC Fire Department said the high-speed ferry that crashed this morning had a "hard landing" Ya think? Almost as hard a landing as Notre Dame's BCS title hopes.
(on a serious note, the injuries apparently were almost all people falling, in some cases down stairs. A reminder, maybe if you stand up getting off a ferry or anything else that moves, good idea to have at least one hand on a railing instead of one holding a briefcase and one on a smartphone…)
Some think Phil Jackson has to thanking his lucky stars that he turned down the Los Angeles Lakers' job. But I figure Phil thinks if he took the job, they'd be in first place by now.
A new NIH study said that diet soda drinkers are more likely to be diagnosed with depression. Maybe when they find out that diet drinks don't offset large quantities of potato chips, ice cream and pizza?
John Wall hopes to join the Wizards for his season debut Saturday. Isn't this like somehow getting aboard mid-voyage of the Titanic?
So since it's about character and being "natural" will this year's Academy Awards exclude drug users and anyone who has had plastic surgery?
From my funny friend Jerry Perisho: No one was elected this year to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Now, if we could just do that with Congress.
Well, a couple days ago I posted how Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly claimed that leaving Notre Dame "is not an option. I don't even think about it." Today sources said Kelly interviewed with the Philadelphia Eagles. Well, maybe Brian can stop by the confessional on his way out.
AIG, who took a $182 billion bailout from the U.S. govt, has apparently changed their mind about joining a lawsuit against the terms of that bailout. Even the folks at Penn State fighting NCAA sanctions were thinking "Have you no shame?"


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This was my Paigey-Pie's lunch today...
Packed in an Everset Sandwich Box she has:
- cucumber mishaps in a pumpkin shaped silicone cup (found those at a hobby shop last year)
- raspberries
- jack-o-lantern ham & cheese sandwich
- bbq flavored Pop Chips
- a couple tiny clementine oranges
The cucumber mishaps were born from a cucumber idea gone awry. My idea didn't work out so I hacked them up and tossed them in the silicone cup.
The jack-o-lantern sandwich was made simply using a pumpkin shaped cookie cutter and then using tiny bento cutters to make the face. The cheese inside the sandwich shows through nicely.
Teensy cutters:
I've purchased a lot of these little cutter sets. You can find similar ones here and here.
Little cutters are one of my favorite bento supply staples. :)
The skinny-ish pumpkin cookie cutter left a lot of bread to waste - almost half a slice for each side, but not quite enough for me to squeeze another pumpkin out of, but too much for me to just toss as scraps. Times have changed since the days my littlest kidlet began eating the scraps...these days they usually end up in his little bentos. :)
He's got the exact same foods as his big sister, just in a less inspired presentation. Almost every time I'm making a bento for Paige I'm making one for him too, his are just (almost always) not as cute, and usually the landing pad of all the scraps. Luckily, he doesn't mind (yet). :) The bread used to make his sandwich was the leftover bread from Paige's jack-o-lantern sandwich - note the rounded shape on the cut side!
This box is a sandwich box I found at Marshalls a year or so ago.


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Aeolus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (
Through the end of January 2012, Aeolus had billed or completed approximately $7.9 million of programs under the contract, had committed work in progress totaling approximately $2.0 million and expected to bill for the full amount of $10.4 million in the base period Under terms of this cost plus, fixed fee development contract, Aeolus will receive $10.4 million in the base period of performance and up to an additional $107.5 million in options, if exercised by BARDA, for a total contract value of up to $118 million. In addition to accomplishing the major objectives during the base period of the agreement, Aeolus managed the contract so that 12 additional items could be added to create further value for the government during the base period. The modification reflects these additional items, as well as the additional time required to complete them.
Aeolus will be presenting the results and deliverables that have been produced during the first twelve months under the base period of the contract at an "In-Progress Review" meeting with BARDA on February 14, 2012, and will be requesting the exercise of additional contract options, which contain the key items required in the advanced development of AEOL 10150 from April 2012 through March 2013. Among, these key items are efficacy studies in murine and non-human primate models, a Phase 1 clinical study in healthy normal volunteers, mechanism of action research and manufacturing and process validation work. All of these items build off of work successfully completed during the first twelve months of the contract base period.
"We have delivered significant value to shareholders and the government during the first twelve months of the BARDA contract and look forward to presenting this progress to BARDA next week, and making our case for the exercise of additional options. The threat of radiation exposure from nuclear accidents and/or nuclear attacks is unfortunately a reality, and AEOL 10150 represents a promising technology to protect our citizens from this threat. With the contract modification and the continued support of BARDA, we will take additional major steps forward in the development of AEOL 10150 as a countermeasure to the pulmonary effects of ARS," said John L. McManus, Chief Executive Officer and President of Aeolus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. "We are grateful for both the economic and intellectual support we have received from BARDA to advance the development of our drug, and as a result have made significant progress toward our ultimate objectives of procurement and FDA approval, while creating jobs and supporting more than 35 full-time equivalent positions."
About the BARDA Contract
In addition to supporting the cost of development of AEOL 10150 as an MCM for Lung ARS, the Company believes that the preclinical, chemistry, manufacturing, and controls (CMC), toxicology, and safety studies expected to be performed under the BARDA contract will be supportive of the Company's oncology development program. A procurement of AEOL 10150 for the Strategic National Stockpile could occur after approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, if obtained, or sooner under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). The value of a procurement, if any, is not included in the contract value announced herein.
AEOL 10150 is currently also being studied by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Radiation/Nuclear Medical Countermeasures development program as a countermeasure for radiation exposure to the gastrointestinal tract and by NIH CounterACT as countermeasure against chlorine gas and sulfur mustard gas exposure.
About Acute Radiation Syndromes (ARS)
Immediately after exposure, the most critical components of acute radiation syndrome are the hematopoietic (bone marrow) and early-onset gastrointestinal (GI) syndromes because symptoms begin very quickly and can be lethal. However, depending on the level and location of radiation exposure, much of the lethality of both hematopoietic and early-onset gastrointestinal syndromes are potentially avoidable with proper treatment, including supportive care (fluids and antibiotics) and Neupogen, leaving complications to later responding tissues subsequently becoming a major problem.
In situations of accidental exposure, it was initially assumed that a whole-body dose exceeding 10 Gy was inevitably fatal. However, experience with nuclear accident victims suggests that when patients survive gastrointestinal and bone marrow syndromes, respiratory failure become the major cause of death. This effect is known as a delayed effect of acute radiation exposure (DEARE).
About Cancer Radiation Therapy
According to the American Cancer Society, cancer is the second leading cause of death by disease representing one out of every four deaths in the United States. According to the Radiological Society of North America, about 50 to 60 percent of cancer patients are treated with radiation at some time during their disease. The NIH estimates overall costs of cancer in 2008 in the United States at $228.1 billion: $93.2 billion for direct medical costs, $18.8 billion for indirect morbidity costs (costs of lost productivity due to illness) and $116.1 billion for indirect mortality costs (cost of lost productivity due to premature death).
About BARDA
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides an integrated, systematic approach to the development and purchase of the necessary vaccines, drugs, therapies, and diagnostic tools for public health medical emergencies. BARDA was established to provide funding and coordination to address challenges in medical countermeasure development. BARDA was created to increase funding for advanced research and development and to better coordinate the U.S. government's medical countermeasure development and acquisition process. BARDA manages Project BioShield, which includes the procurement and advanced development of medical countermeasures for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents, as well as the advanced development and procurement of medical countermeasures for pandemic influenza and other emerging infectious diseases that fall outside the scope of Project BioShield.
About AEOL 10150
AEOL 10150 is a broad-spectrum catalytic antioxidant specifically designed to neutralize reactive oxygen and nitrogen species. The neutralization of these species reduces oxidative stress, inflammation, and subsequent tissue damage-signaling cascades resulting from radiation exposure. The Company believes that AEOL 10150 could have a profound beneficial impact on people who have been exposed, or are about to be exposed, to high-doses of radiation in the treatment of oncology.
AEOL 10150 has already performed well in animal safety studies, was well-tolerated in two human clinical trials, and has demonstrated statistically significant survival efficacy in an acute radiation-induced lung injury model. AEOL 10150 is also currently in development for use as both a therapeutic and prophylactic drug in cancer patients.
About Aeolus Pharmaceuticals
Aeolus Pharmaceuticals is developing a new class of catalytic antioxidant compounds that protects healthy tissue from the damaging effects of radiation. Its first compound, AEOL 10150, is being developed for oncology indications, where it is used in combination with radiation therapy. It is also being developed, with funding by the US Government, as a medical countermeasure against chemical and radiological weapons, where its initial target indications are as a protective agent against the effects of acute radiation syndrome and delayed effects of acute radiation exposure. Aeolus' strategy is to leverage the substantial investment in toxicology, manufacturing, and preclinical studies made by US Government agencies in AEOL 10150 to efficiently develop the compound for use in oncology. For more information, please visit Aeolus' corporate website at www.aeoluspharma.com.
The statements in this press release that are not purely statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. Such statements include, but are not limited to, those relating to Aeolus' product candidates, as well as its proprietary technologies and research programs and any potential future submissions or applications to the FDA. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Aeolus' actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause results to differ include risks associated with uncertainties of progress and timing of clinical trials, scientific research and product development activities, difficulties or delays in development, testing, obtaining regulatory approval, the need to obtain funding for pre-clinical and clinical trials and operations, the scope and validity of intellectual property protection for Aeolus' product candidates, proprietary technologies and their uses, receipt of funding under the contract with BARDA, and competition from other biopharmaceutical companies. Certain of these factors and others are more fully described in Aeolus' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, Aeolus' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2009. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.
Contact Information:
Russell Skibsted
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Aeolus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Disquiet Junto by Lee Rosevere
Album Description
Each Thursday, Marc Weidenbaum, who runs the Disquiet.com website, posts a compositional assignment based on deliberate constraints "to stoke creativity". The track must be finished by the following Monday night.
This is a compilation of some of Lee's favourite submissions to the Junto community. There is a great variety of style and mood to these tracks, that doesn't necessarily work as an album, especially when they are presented in chronological order.
From disquiet.com: "The word "junto" comes from the name of a society that Benjamin Franklin formed in Philadelphia during the early 1700s as "a structured forum of mutual improvement." In Franklin's honor, the third Disquiet Junto project explored the glass harp, an instrument he experimented with in the development of what he christened the armonica."
For more, visit the Junto page at disquiet.com or listen to all submitted compositions at the disquiet Soundcloud page:
1. Ice Chimes
"Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it."
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2. The Rhythmic A.I. Nomothetic (T.R.A.I.N.)
"Duet for Fog Horn & Train Whistle"
No midi or samplers used. All sequences and edits built manually.
Fog horn sample by Schaarsen: http://www.freesound.org/people/schaarsen/sounds/69663/
Train whistle sample by Ecodios: http://www.freesound.org/people/ecodios/sounds/119963/
3. Nearly There (metal machine music remix)
"Remixing Marcus Fischer"
Using only the original samples of Marcus Fischer's "Nearly There". The non-musical sounds (pick up scrapes, bumping) inspired me to make a 'metal machine music' remix, everything turned up past 11.
4. The Attic
"Remixing archival Edison cylinders"
Based out of a small extract of "Shimmee Town - Fox Trot", with 'rain and thunder' from "Angel's Serenade".
All audio selected from these antique cylinder recordings:
5. His First Day Without Her
"Remixing wild Up playing Shostakovich"
My intention was to keep the timbre and textures of the original recording, and create a new arrangement of elements from the piece, that could actually be played by an orchestra.
More on wild Up at:
6. Milo's Afternoon Snack
"Sonic version of Matt Madden's Oubapo story"
I really wasn't sure what to do for the Junto assignment this week... after a lot of thinking and looking up Matt Madden, I saw a photo on his blog, reading and sipping a martini. And then the idea of doing a 50s lounge style track might be a good soundtrack for the comic.
I quite like the melody here, and will probably use it again in the future with a longer (and more flushed out) piece.
And it's 99 seconds, with a special appearance by naotko's "Abstractedly". Cha cha cha!
More on Matt Madden and his book 99 Ways to Tell a Story at:
7. Sacrificial Shortwave
"Transition between field and composed"
Inspired by Marc's "The Classical Button" radio recording last week, I used a 'field' recording of static from my shortwave radio, and combined it with the track by Tag Cloud.
I noticed that when "A Controlled Burn" was reversed, it is a tiny gong being played at various tempos and intensities. I recorded repetitive rhythmic bursts of noise off the radio, edited them so had accents (follow by fades) and then mixed in distorted and manipulated versions of the recorded music sample.
As per instructions, it begins with at least 5 seconds of the untouched field recording, and 5 seconds of the untouched sample at the end.
The best way to describe the result is a bizarre soundscape of a shortwave radio being sacrificed to a volcano. A controlled burn indeed.
8. Pre-Vertex (Limited Functionality Is My New Jam)
"Use the NodeBeat app"
I recorded simple progressions from nodebeat desktop version (I refuse to buy an ipad/iphone), and then chopped them up into a bass loop, and little melody lines. Then constructed a song around them, and chose percussion (played live) to be the second instrument, with lots of flanging the drums.
The track is now fully-realized and available on the new EP "Xeno"
9. Prosecutor As Bully (Lessig on Aaron Swartz)
"Create an original musical score for the day's news"
I wasn't planning on submitting anything for this week's project, but the news of the death of Aaron Swartz changed my mind. I didn't know Aaron, but I make use of his work with both RSS feeds and archive.org on a daily basis (my version of "local news"), not to mention my support for SOPA and his dedication to keeping the internet a free and open place.
After reading a few articles on it, I found Lawrence Lessig's was the most powerful and insightful:
I read it a few times in my head and then composed this piece on Ableton.
10. Love Theme from Dr Curiosio meets the Ambient Amphibians
"Combine two Nils Frahm solo piano pieces into one"
After listening to the original source tracks again by Nils, I really didn't feel like messing with them, they were so beautiful on their own. Despite that, I had a go anyway - this is the result of two attempts.
The first was running "Re" through my monotron and the second was isolating sections I liked from "Do" and stretched them with Adobe and then looped. Then I arbitrarily inserted bits from attempt #1 into attempt #2. Voila.
photo by Rick Scully
11. Cat Wearing Glasses
"Record a single for which the cover would be the image suggested by a @textinstagram tweet"
Since it was such a literal image instruction, and since there are tons of cat photos on the information superhighway, I used one for actual reference (hipstercat).
I don't have an iphone so I had to use http://photogramio.com/ for the filter, the closest approximation of what "toaster" might look like.
Simple 4-bar phrase in 3/4, looped - originally much faster, slowed down a little less than half original speed. Added little bits to it, that now sound somewhat too goofy on reflection, but oh well. Yes, it's also longer than 2 minutes
12. Trio (nofi)
"Collaborate posthumously with the late Jeffrey (Nofi) Melton" (also with BASSLINGss)
Since this week required a live performance, I chose the only instrument I am capable of doing that on.. drums. I had initally chosen the same section as BASSLINGss did (Thriller [disquiet0066-nonofi] by BASSLINGss), so I downloaded his track and I played along to him, playing along with Jeffrey, essentially making it a trio. This works better for me, as I find drums sound a little empty without some bass in there.
As the rhythm was pretty much established on Jeffrey's original track, I ended playing inside the beats and wound up with something I believe mortals refer to as "overplaying".
But it was fun to do, and I figured that's what the project was all about: celebrating Jeffrey's memory and enjoying doing it.
I've uploaded it as a .wav in the event that anyone wants to make this a quartet.
This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.
13. Sense the Wind
"Create an original score to the trailer to Christine Knowlton's film about blind sailors"
Written and performed in real time on acoustic and electronic instruments. This entry was selected by the director as the official music for the trailer:
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See J. Stone's book on Original Enlightenment. She's critical of the idea.mirage wrote:I have a couple of questions on the "original enlightenment" theory.
1)Is there an authoritative text which explains hongaku in more or less accessible way? Right now I am quite lost: is this just common Tathagatagarbha doctrine, or something else?
2)How is hongaku not ethernalist? I mean, what's the difference from Hindu Brahman?
Some would in fact argue that hongaku shiso is, indeed, eternalist. I disagree, because Buddha-garbha is understood as emptiness, not as Sat Chit Ananda. Interpretations differ though. The "Critical Buddhists" of Japan take a very different approach.
At a certain point, the distinctions among the categories "sentient beings" "Buddhas" and "everything else" fall apart. They are conventional designations.Related question: why are trees, rocks and such are describes as having Buddha-nature and even capable of achieving Buddhahood? They obviously do not possess mind-streams in the way sentient beings do, right?
For myself, I appreciate the idea of "suchness" as presented in such texts as the Awakening of Faith, where all things are understood as suchness and Buddha-ness is understood as immanent. I'm not entirely sold on the Japanese interpretation of original enlightenment thought in its full-blown form--or perhaps I understand it incompletely.


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A year after bin Laden raid, Pakistan still harboring U.S.'s biggest enemies
A year after Osama bin Laden was found and killed, Pakistan still harbors, willingly or unwillingly, America's greatest enemies: current al Qaida chief Ayman al Zawahiri and Afghan insurgent leaders Sirajuddin Haqqani and Mullah Mohammad Omar.
Pakistani Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed was added to that list in March, when the United States offered $10 million for his capture.
What is striking, say analysts, is how little has changed in Pakistan a year after U.S. special forces burst into a large house in Abbottabad in the early hours of May 2, 2011, and shot bin Laden dead.
Pakistan's security establishment remains addicted to using, or at least tolerating, Islamic extremist groups as its proxy warriors, despite the deaths of thousands of Pakistani civilians and soldiers and the humiliation of bin Laden being found just steps from the country's premier military academy. While the country is fighting some jihadi groups such as the so-called Pakistani Taliban, which is broadly affiliated with al Qaida, others are still apparently regarded as "good Taliban".
The latest incarnation of the pro-state jihadi is an alliance of fire-breathing mullahs, many associated with banned militant groups, called Difa-e-Pakistan, or Defense of Pakistan Council.
Pakistani thinking about the utility of jihadi actors, especially those operating across its western border, is shaped by the impending 2014 deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan, said Ayesha Siddiqa, an analyst and author of "Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy."
"With 2014 round the corner, you don't expect the establishment now to give up on them (jihadi groups)," said Siddiqa. "Nothing has changed since May last year."
In Pakistan, the civilian government has little influence over security policy, which is run firmly by the military and its spy agencies. Since the 1980s, that military has backed jihadist groups as a way to push action without having to fight itself, first in Afghanistan, against the Soviet invasion of that country, then, in the 1990s, in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir against India. Since 9/11, Pakistan has formally sided with the United States, following George W. Bush's "with us or against us" ultimatum, but allegedly the pro-jihadi policy continued in secret.
Today, the Pakistani military says that it does not have the resources to fight all the extremist groups on its soil at once, so it is first targeting those most dangerous for the country. Some military officials insist they will eventually go after all jihadist groups.
The question of whether Pakistani officials helped hide bin Laden is still unanswered. But even if there were no official complicity, Pakistan's ambivalent policy toward violent extremists would have provided the al Qaida leader with an enabling environment, analysts say.
The world's most wanted man was found living in a garrison town less than a mile from Pakistan's elite military academy. It's clear now from testimony that his captured wives gave Pakistani interrogators that since December 2001, when he fled the U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan, bin Laden spent almost his entire time in Pakistan.
American intelligence believes that Zawahiri, who was bin Laden's deputy and succeeded him last year, also is likely somewhere in Pakistan. John Brennan, deputy national security adviser, told CNN Sunday that Zawahiri "as well as other al Qaeda leaders continue to burrow into areas of the FATA, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan."
The U.S. has always maintained that Taliban founder and leader Mullah Omar has had refuge in Pakistan since he fled Afghanistan in late 2001. He was supposedly in the western town of Quetta initially, but he could now be elsewhere in the sparsely populated Baluchistan province, or melted into the chaotic megacity of Karachi.
Sirajuddin Haqqani, who took over command of the Haqqani network from his father, Jalaluddin, a veteran Pakistan-backed jihadist, spends most of his time in North Waziristan, part of the FATA, the rugged, isolated region along the Afghan border, U.S. intelligence believes. The Haqqanis have been blamed for some of the most spectacular attacks on U.S. and allied targets in Kabul in recent years.
Many here argue that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency could find Omar or Haqqani if it wanted to, but they have concluded that for now it's not in the ISI's interests to do so. Many believe that the ISI was behind the revival of the Taliban after their 2001 defeat _ a claim made, for instance, in the recently published book by leading Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, "Pakistan on the Brink."
Hafiz Saeed is in a different category in that he lives openly in Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city. He founded, and by some accounts still runs, Lashkar-e-Taiba, an armed extremist group blamed for the 2008 terrorist assault on the Indian city of Mumbai, in which 166 people, including six American citizens, were killed.
Yet Saeed is able to appear openly on behalf of Difa-e-Pakistan, which has been hosting virulently anti-American rallies around the country. Difa-e-Pakistan's leading figures include Sami ul Haq, whose madrassah in northwest Pakistan is a university for jihadis, including the Taliban, and Fazlur Rehman Khalil, who was one of the five signatories in 1998 to bin Laden's World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders.
"The real challenge now is not 'al Qaida Central' but organizations like Difa-e-Pakistan," said Imtiaz Gul, author of "The Most Dangerous Place." "Al Qaida in Pakistan's border region is dispersed. Groups like the TTP (Pakistani Taliban) are mercenaries and are not socially networked. But people like Hafiz Saeed and Difa-e-Pakistan have a social base."
There's no official estimate of how big that base is, but a survey of Pakistani attitudes by the Washington-based Pew Center in the wake of last year's bin Laden raid provides an idea: Only 10 percent of the Pakistanis surveyed approved of the raid, while only 14 percent thought killing bin Laden was a "good thing."


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99 Reasons to Finish Lake Placid
Heading into the 15th edition of IRONMAN Lake Placid this weekend, we're reminded of an athlete who stood out from the crowd at last year's race. Sarah Coulam used her race to raise money for the Children's Tumor Foundation. On race day she had the names of 99 children written on her shirt for the run—a constant reminder of her motivation to get to the finish line.
Coulam's race in Lake Placid was just the start of her journey, one that provided hope to many children and their families that someday a cure might be found for their disease.


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Major General Gunther Blumentritt: This is history. We are living a historical moment. We are going to lose the war because our glorious Führer has taken a sleeping pill and is not to be awakened. It's unbelievable. Think of it Kurt. Don't ever forget it. We are witnessing something that historians will always say is completely improbable, and yet it is true. The Führer is not to be awakened! I sometimes wonder whose side God is on
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Do you remember when Clint Eastwood did his empty chair bit at the GOP convention. The left berated him as an old senile weirdo.
Then came the Denver Debate and the New Yorker Cover, conservatives laughed and liberals panicked.
While some thought it a joke and some thought it a farce the true meaning of the empty chair was never clearer than it was at the Benghazi hearings.
Under questioning from South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta could not explain why President Barack Obama spoke with him only once on Sept. 11, 2012 during the Benghazi terrorist attack, and never called back for any updates for over seven hours.
The actual testimony is astounding:
Sen Lindsey Graham (R-SC)….And my question to you is during that eight-hour period, did the president show any curiosity about how's this going, what kind of assets do you have helping these people? Did he ever make that phone call?
SEC. PANETTA: Look, there is no question in my mind that the president of the United States was concerned about American lives and, frankly, all of us were concerned about American lives.
SEN. GRAHAM: With all due respect, I don't believe that's a credible statement if he never called and asked you, are we helping these people; what's happening to them?
And the exchange between Sec Panetta & Sen Kelly Ayotte was simply incredible:
Ed Morrissey is incredulous as is Ace over the statements of the head of the Joint Chiefs of staff (as well he should be) but for all of that incompetence of man with the stars and all the snark of the Leon "Global 911" Panetta there is only one story here:
The story is that on 9/11 during an attack on Americans in Benghazi (including a person he knew personally) the President of the United States was uninterested.
Yesterday Ace wrote a story titled: I always wondered what happened to that empty chair saying it was it Reince Priebus office.
He's wrong.
The empty chair is in the White House, we as a nation put it there…
…and Americans were left to die.
Update: Should have said "uninterested" instead of "disinterested" corrected. Thanks guys.
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The minor league season wrapped up yesterday, which means its time to call on the Farmstros Village again to vote on a player of the month. (Voting runs through Saturday, September 10) This month's installment includes games played in September as well. Early next week, you will have a chance to vote for the player and pitcher of the year at http://www.farmstros.blogspot.com/.
Many thanks for Following the Astros the Future with us this season. I am grateful to Nick Matthews and Chron.com for giving me this new platform to share my love for the Astros' minor league system this season.
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Dayan Diaz, 22, RHP, Tri-City. Diaz struck out 33 batters in 24 innings of pitching for the Valley Cats. He only allowed 14 hits in nine appearances, posting a 1.13 ERA.
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"A home in a neighboring community contained a biodiesel processor and storage area in the garage. A fire occurred in the home during the night. When the biodiesel and other liquids became involved in fire, the resulting fireball was so intense, that the fire destroyed the home in the matter of minutes:"
Follow the link, and near the bottom there is a lengthy write up on biodiesel (clik through) and it's safety concerns; all stuff we have been harping on here for some time now.
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An excellent warning for all of us. I wonder what the cause (ignition point) of the fire was though? My impression was the article 'seemed to' indicate that it started elsewhere and eventually spread to the processor. Best wishes for the residents.
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The same thing crossed my mind.
If you look at the first photo, it appears the fire started in or near the garage.
I just know I'm going to get my head chewed off for saying this, but I think that there should be federal law against having a reactor in any structure attached to a residential dwelling. Outbuildings ONLY.
If you dissagree, take a good look at the house in the photos and ask yourself how long it would take a couple of groggy confused parents to run around gathering terrified kids from the bedrooms. Of course anyone in a wheelchair wouldn't stand much chance of escape, would they? Would you want your single friend relative to rent a basement suite in a house like this?
Huge sheets of flame are gushing out of the doors and windows. The heat is so intense, the plastic siding is melting outside. Anyone still inside there would wish they were dead already.
If you look at the first photo
it appears that the fire is mainly in the garage door and window above it at the lower left of the house.
In the second photo the fire is no longer in the garage door. I suspect this is because the garage door is open and acting like a chimney with the air being sucked into the garage and drawing the fire back into the house.
Thanks Tilly,
A very good reason for anyone involved in making biofuels to GET IT OUT OF THE HOUSE! because, whether the fire begins in the processing area or not, most extinguishing methods readily available to the average homeowner are just not sufficient to arrest a fire if it spreads to the processor.
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Maybe I'm wrong but I thought it was code everywhere that there be a firewall between the home and the garage space.
As I understand it, the firewall is supposed to be good for 20 minutes or something like that?
If true, that means the home was already destroyed by the fire and someone just wants to drag the biodiesel processor into the story.
Or am I mistaken about the firewall thing?
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I could not agree more. THe nly problem with a federal law is now they know you are producing bio......
I totaly agree that any processor should be way, way away from the house and if you do not have the land to do that, then don't produce bio.
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My building that I make my biodiesel in is 150' behind my house. Never a good idea making it in an attached garage. State Farm told me the same thing that it would be a problem covering an insurance claim if it was in my attached garage but would cover it if my building burned down due to biodiesel.
I find it hard to believe this even has to be expressed...hasn't everybody read the warnings? Would you really do this in a building attached to your house?
I think you can't, or shouldn't even try to, legislate for the stupidest 1%...ya just gotta let em' kill themselves and pray they don't take anybody else out with them.
Examples right off the top of my head where there are laws to protect the stupidest 1%;
Seatbelt laws
Smoking laws
If you don't realize the danger WITHOUT having to have a law to tell you not too...why even bother?
You know, this is actually a point I agree on. I really don't think Biodiesel should be made in a garage attached to your home.
I've NEVER made Biodiesel in my own garage. I'm just not willing to do it. It's always been in a building unattached to the garage or in a warehouse somewhere.
Granted, you can have the safest equipment in the world, but if something goes wrong, we're messing with methanol, oil, and heat to make FUEL (you know, stuff that'll burn).
I fully agree. If at all possible, produce your brew in an unattached building from your house. It's just not worth the risk in my mind.
Also, I don't think the firewall thing holds true in Utah. There's several attached garages that are below the dwelling space as well as attics above that have no "firewall".
My garage is attached to the house and besides 2 X 4's & insulation, there's nothing between it & my house. The attic attaches everything & the fire would just shoot up into the attic & move into the house.
When I was a kid in the neighborhood I grew up in there was an arsonist that used to get his jollies by burning peoples houses to the ground on Saturday nights. He'd start the fires around 11PM too.
He successfully burned 7 homes in our neighborhood & 2 of them he burned twice before they finally caught the SOB (he tried to burn a building down on the local Air Force Base & they caught his sorry a$$).
I still have very vivid memories of watching houses blow up into big fireballs in the night sky. One time I saw a fireball shoot from a house 300 feet in the air.
So, I'm in total agreement. Move the processor out of an attached garage and into a DETACHED building. Your house, your family, and your life isn't worth risking just because you wanted to save a couple bucks on fuel.
Also, this is a great time to bring it up. BUY A FIRE EXTINGUISHER AND KEEP IT HANDY! I hope you may never need one, but it's always a good idea to have on hand.
I have big, bad a$$ fire extinguishers near my equipment. I know where they are, can easily grab them if needed, and I know how to use them.
I'd recommend the same to anyone else that makes Biodiesel.
Anyway, that's my $0.02 cents.
If you go in and read the artcle posted on the firefighters' site you will see that the fire did in fact start elsewhere and that the biodiesel equipment contributed to the fire; this we've been on and on and on about here ad nauseum.
You will also not that in the guidelines given the TYPE of containers is discussed, and proper storage is discussed. This is not a hit piece on biodiesel at all, it is simply demonstarting how that if the proper equipment isn't used then the results could be catastrophic.
Just like keeping the heating element out of a water heater as a reactor is responsible, so is detaching the reactor house from any primary building(s). Look at the photo posted in the article. One water heater reactor, and plastic everywhere; this is in the part of the article that speaks of proper container types.
I don't know how many times this forum has addressed that exact scenario; fire starts, you have plastic tanks full of biodiesel, fire reaches tanks, you got a much bigger problem than you had a minute ago.
And biodiesel, with it's higher flash point and self propagated oxygen supply, will, once ignited, be much more difficult to put out than a diesel fire or a gasoline fire.
Thank you for posting that article. It goes to confirm what has been said here many many times. The nice part (if there is one) is that is was NOT the biodiesel that started the fire, it certainly DID contribute to it with devastating results.
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The firewall, as I understand it, is just a piece of drywall that is thicker than normal.
It just seems to me that if the fire started in the house and was able to spread to the garage that the house was already destroyed.
I forgot to include one thing in my previous post..
I think anyone doing this in their garage is taking a huge risk. But I do understand why they do it.
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Let me just say as a Massachusetts resident, that while I agree with everything said here the only part of the article that I have a problem with is this little thing:
Simply because this state has a tendency to over regulate everything! That being said, my processor that I'm currently constructing is actually going to be a mobile trailer unit, with it's own power supply, and will never be anywhere near my house.
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I agree that bio-fuel processing or any other flammable liquids should never be kept in an attached garage or in the basement, with the possible exception of a properly installed fuel oil day tank.
More laws and regulations are not required. It's much simpler for the insurance companies to state that your fire insurance is null and void if you are keeping flammable liquids in an attached garage or basement.
My VO processor is in a separate shelter 10 meters from the house.
I'm sorry everybody, but I'm gonna have to disagree with you on this.
Of course biodiesel equipment should be kept as far from the house as possible, but that should be because of the fumes it may produce, not because of the fire hazard.
Yes, biodiesel is flammable, but I fail to see how having a biodiesel container in your garage would be any more dangerous (fire wise) than parking your car with a tank full of gas in it.
What would've been the difference if those people had a car, or truck/SUV with a full tank in their garage?
I'd say, given that most people (to save a couple of bucks) insulate their processors, the flames would've probably spread faster in the car/truck scenario.
Biodiesel is flammable, and so is 90% of everything you find in a normal home, including the wood most houses are built with, the glorified cardboard (drywall) that covers the wood, most of the furniture, etc. Bottom line: As weird as it may sound, a house is a dangerous place to live. Add to that the fact that most people don't even have a fire extinguisher in their homes, or any other effective way to try and control a fire, and you have a recipe for disaster, biodiesel or not.
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Everyone has their own standards for acceptable risk. What I might consider OK for me is quite different from what I would recommend to others, especially on a public forum that any idiot can read.
Real drywall is quite fire-resistant, and not "glorified cardboard" as you put it. Yes, it has two cardboard/paperboard outer sheathing layers, but the core is actually powdered and reconstituted gypsum, which is a stone.
It takes a very, very, very intense and hot flame to burn drywall. Liberal use of accelerants and lots of readily available fuel.
My reactor and storage is attached to the house, but only by virtue of sharing a common concrete wall. With a corrugated steel roof with a poured concrete slab atop it, six inch thick concrete walls all the way around it, and a poured slab floor, there isn't really any way a fire is going to get through to the house. We call it "the dungeon" for a reason. It'd be in a shed out back except that the HOA gets up in arms over every little thing we do. Homeowner politics.
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