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Three people with knowledge of the situation tell The Associated Press that team owner Glen Taylor has decided not to pick up the option for next season on Kahn's contract. Taylor is also putting the finishing touches on a deal to hire Saunders as Kahn's replacement. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because an official announcement has not been made.
Kahn spent four seasons leading the Timberwolves. He helped bring point guard Ricky Rubio and coach Rick Adelman to Minnesota, but his teams went 89-223 and missed the playoffs in all four of his seasons.
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An excellent question! Firstly, it is extremely easy to do. In fact the universal feedback is that this is the easiest form of meditation there is. It is also the most effective technique we know of for combating stress, anxiety and insomnia, and for developing present moment awareness, creativity and self-confidence. It doesn't matter if your mind is noisy, whirling and overactive – the technique does not require concentration. It is customised to each individual so that it works for everyone. And you'll be amazed how easy it is to reach the deepest states of relaxation even in the busiest and most hectic of environments. The bus, tube, train and plane are all perfect places in which to meditate. It is portable, practical, non-religious and really enjoyable and you will start noticing benefits almost immediately. It's an incredibly effective tool for living a full and inspiring life.
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No! This is certainly a classic stereotype, however these things are completely superfluous to effective meditation and can actually be somewhat counter-productive. We are all about providing meditation that is easy, comfortable and enjoyable, and which can be done at your convenience anywhere you wish – tube, train, bus, plane, coffee shop or park bench. Most people think you're simply resting your eyes, when in actual fact you're having a deep and blissful experience. It couldn't be more ideal!
Absolutely. The beauty of this technique is that there is a mantra for everyone, and it will start working straight away. We have taught people of all ages, backgrounds, professions and physical and psychological types and it works every time. Do have a peek at our reviews when you get a chance.
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December 2008-Bone marrow transplant program celebrates 25 years
Twenty-five years — 4,000 transplants.
UNMC and its hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center, are celebrating a significant milestone this year.
The bone marrow and stem cell transplant program at the medical center, known for its innovation and success in stem cell transplantation, is celebrating its 25-year anniversary.
The program was founded in 1983 by James Armitage, M.D., Shapiro Professor of Medicine at UNMC and hematologist/oncologist at The Nebraska Medical Center, who is world renowned for his clinical research in lymphoma and bone marrow and stem cell transplantation.
"Jim and his team always wanted the transplant program to be the best in the world and it has become the best," UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., said Wednesday at a ceremony commemorating the program's 25th anniversary. "(The program is made up of a) marvelous team of people that cannot be duplicated very easily anywhere else."
Drawing patients from around the world, the program is ranked as one of the busiest adult lymphoma and pediatric programs in the country. The program averages 150 transplants a year and has performed more than 4,000 transplants since its founding.
There are many reasons why people come from around the world to receive care from the medical center's transplant program.
Since its founding 25 years ago, physicians and researchers in the program have been pioneers in the field and have been recognized internationally for a number of ground-breaking advancements.
These advancements have helped improve success rates and have made bone marrow and stem cell transplants a more viable and promising option for a growing number of patients. This includes those with malignancies that include primarily lymphomas, leukemias, multiple myeloma as well as some blood disorders.
The first of these revolutionary achievements was the study and introduction of autogolous transplantation by Dr. Armitage and his colleagues, which served as the starting point and foundation for the program's success.
"At the time, bone marrow transplants were still a very new thing," Dr. Armitage said. "Allogeneic transplants, in which stem cells are harvested from a donor, were increasingly being done, but they were quite dangerous and risky. We wanted to find a way to help people who had otherwise incurable lymphoma. So we developed a hypothesis and began testing autogolous transplants as another option for these people."
Autogolous transplants involve using the patient's own stem cells, which reduces the complexity of the procedure and eliminates rejection issues such as graft versus host disease. This condition, which Dr. Armitage said occurs in more than half of all allogeneic transplants, happens when the new immune cells recognize that they are not in the right body and attack the other cells of the body.
Today, autogolous transplants are the preferred form of transplantation for more than 75 percent of lymphoma patients, he said.
Another milestone in the field of bone marrow and stem cell transplantation was the development of stem cell transplantation, which was introduced in 1984 by Anne Kessinger, M.D., professor of oncology/hematology at UNMC and a hematologist/oncologist at The Nebraska Medical Center.
The use of peripheral blood-derived stem cells, as opposed to bone marrow-derived stem cells, has become the standard of care for transplantation. This has helped improve outcomes for autogolous transplant patients, contributed to much quicker recovery times and decreased infection rates.
Peripheral blood-derived stem cell transplant is similar to bone marrow transplant except the cells are collected from those circulating in the blood rather than bone marrow. Bone marrow is the spongy tissue found inside the bones. It produces the body's blood cells and cells of the immune system. The blood cells of the bone marrow, white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets and others, all come from one type of cell called the stem cell.
The process for removing stem cells is much easier, quicker and more comfortable for the patient, said Julie Vose, M.D., chief of hematology/oncology at UNMC. For instance, bone marrow removal required general anesthesia and was performed by using numerous needles to inject the patient until enough marrow had been withdrawn.
In comparison, stem cells are removed during a two- to three-hour procedure in which a catheter is placed into the chest and inserted into a large blood vessel. The blood is circulated through a special machine that separates out the stem cells from the rest of the blood. The stem cells are then frozen and stored until they are ready to be re-infused back into the patient.
"Research is critical. As leaders in research, we are able to offer our patients new and promising therapies before anyone else. You can either watch others do it or you can be the ones doing it, and we are definitely leaders in this area."
– James Armitage, M.D.
Physicians and researchers at UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center also have been extensively involved in the study and use of colony stimulating factors, also called growth factors. Growth factors are drugs that are used to stimulate the growth of cells before the collection of stem cells and are used during and after transplant.
"By being able to stimulate and increase the growth of stem cells after transplant, today we are seeing decreased infections, lower death rates, fewer transfusions and reduced recovery time in the hospital," Dr. Vose said.
Other important treatment advancements that have had a significant impact in improving the outcomes for patients, Dr. Vose said, include improvements in supportive care techniques, anti-rejection medications and the ability to prevent and treat complications, especially infections.
"Twenty years ago, 30 to 40 percent of adult patients died from complications of an autogolous transplant," she said. "Today, that number is down to 1 to 2 percent."
In addition, adult transplant candidates used to be limited to those younger than 60 years of age. Today, transplants are performed on individuals as old as 75 years old. Survival rates average 50 to 60 percent, depending on the type of malignancy, compared to approximately 20 to 40 percent 10 years ago.
"Research is critical," Dr. Armitage said. "As leaders in research, we are able to offer our patients new and promising therapies before anyone else. You can either watch others do it or you can be the ones doing it, and we are definitely leaders in this area."
Pediatric transplants are another component of the bone marrow and stem cell transplant program. Started in 1987 by Peter Coccia, M.D., vice chairman of the department of pediatrics at UNMC and chief of pediatric hematology/oncology at The Nebraska Medical Center, the program has performed more than 335 transplants. Transplants in the pediatric population are normally reserved for patients with more aggressive disease and are far less common than adult transplants.
The majority of pediatric transplants are performed on patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. More than 80 percent of these patients will be cured with conventional chemotherapy, said Al Grovas, M.D., hematologist/oncologist at UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center and clinical director for the pediatric bone marrow and stem cell transplant program, leaving about 20 percent of patients who will need a stem cell transplant.
"The knowledge curve has risen steadily since the first pediatric transplant in 1987," Dr. Grovas said. "And with that, improved success rates have followed suit.
"The Nebraska Medical Center program is unique in that it shares the same transplant unit as the adult program. This provides us the advantage of sharing all of the same resources and the expertise of our experienced nursing staff and other health care professionals."
–Dr. Armitage with Nancy Wurtele of Nebraska City, who was the second person to receive a transplant through the bone marrow and stem cell transplant program.
The program also is part of the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute Bone Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network. This is a consortium of 16 transplant centers across the country that collaborate on clinical trials in order to derive data from a larger population of patients and to allow for greater sharing of information between centers.
Through this network, doctors can study and refine their techniques to diagnose, treat and follow patients to provide them with optimal care.
The medical center's program is the only one of its kind in the region, said Theresa Franco, executive director of the cancer program.
"We have experienced physicians focused around specific diseases, an investigational mentality and pioneering treatments," she said. "We have built this program on total commitment, total expertise and total engagement of our patients and families."
Dr. Armitage said his ultimate hope is that the bone marrow and stem cell transplant program will some day go out of business.
"Because that would mean that we had learned enough about treating these cancers that patients would no longer need transplants," he said.
And you can be sure that Dr. Armitage and researchers at UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center will have played a major role in that scenario should it some day come to fruition.


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Almshouses in affluent Chestnut Hill? Not exactly, but the origins of the ubiquitous twin houses and occasional triples and quads built by the Houston and Woodward families in the late 19th and early 20th centuries date back to the medieval English institution that provided a home for the poor, sick or elderly.
The influence of the almshouse on the architecture of Chestnut Hill is the subject of "From Almshouse to Artistic Attached House," featured in the current issue of the Germantown Crier. Written by local architect/historian George Bryant, the article traces not only the history of architectural styles but also the emergence of new ideas in urban planning, especially the English garden city and garden suburb movements that played so important a part in the development of Chestnut Hill.
Also in this issue is "Hidden in Plain Sight," describing some of the little-noticed manmade changes to the natural landscape of Northwest Philadelphia. Author Alex Bartlett, an archivist at the Chestnut Hill and Germantown historical societies has written an eye-opening article reflecting his life-long interest in the history of this area, informed by his training as an archaeologist.
The Germantown Crier, is published by Historic Germantown, a partnership of 15 extraordinary Philadelphia houses, destinations and museums. Copies of the current issue are available by calling HG at 215-844-1683.


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Author Notes: During the holiday season, I grew up watching and helping my mother and grandmother bake and slice dozens of their special almond cookie, my mother always called them Biscotini.
Over time I developed my own version, changing up flavors, as well as making a thinner, and lighter cookie; a recipe with a serious burst of the Holidays with every bite!
Makes: 36-40 thin biscotti cookies
3 tablespoons browned butter
1/2 cup superfine sugar
1 egg & one egg white
1 teaspoon molasses
2 teaspoons bourbon vanilla extract
1-3/4 cup all purpose flour (plus a little extra on hand if needed)
3/4 teaspoons baking powder
Zest from one large orange
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1/8 teaspoon clove
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
2/3 cups salted pepitas/ pumpkin seeds (or chopped pecans if you prefer)
Cooking spray
In This Recipe
- BROWN THE BUTTER: Heat a thick-bottomed saucepan on medium low heat, add butter – melt and cook, check often, giving the pan a shake; the milk solids will rise to the top and start to foam up. Check for browned specks to form at the bottom; the butter will start to turn golden and will be done when it has turned a medium dark and gives off a nutty aroma. Move the saucepan to a cool surface and strain out the solids. Use immediately or store covered in the refrigerator for a future use.
- Combine the sugar with the rest of wet ingredients in a large bowl; beat at medium speed until well blended.
- Combine all the dry ingredients; add to the wet ingredients in thirds, beat well.
- NOTE: the last third addition you will need to finish up with a wooden spoon or something similar.
- Stir in more flour, if needed, to make a soft dough – but I have never had to.
- Stir in the pepitas/pumpkin seeds (or pecans)
- SHAPING AND BAKING: Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide in half. Shape into 2 12-inch rolls; place on a cookie sheet coated with cooking spray. Flatten rolls to 1/2 inch thickness. NOTE: both rolls can fit on one large cookie sheet.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 25 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack; let cool for 15-20 minutes. Turn oven down to 300 degrees.
- After slightly cooled; slice each roll diagonally into 20 1/2-inch thick slices. Place the slices back onto the cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes; turn cookies over, bake another 10-15 minutes or until dry.
- Cool on wire racks, they will become crispy. *lighter fare cookie adapted from Cooking Light
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Holiday Cookie from Anywhere in the World
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Holiday Confection
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Non-Pie Thanksgiving Dessert
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Extensive testing of the 2007 Southern rice crop has turned up no evidence of the LLRice601 or other LibertyLink transgenic events that have caused turmoil in the U.S. rice industry for more than a year.
With 960,000 metric tons or 21 million hundredweight of green rice sampled for testing as of Sept. 20, USA Rice Federation officials said tests have so far been negative for the LibertyLink traits, whose discovery in August 2006 led foreign governments to close their markets and U.S. rice prices to plummet.
"The two largest cooperatives and other mills in Arkansas are testing every load of long grain rice that crosses their scales," said Bob Cummings, senior vice president at the USA Rice Federation. "We're also getting results from testing in Louisiana and Texas.
"A lot of work is going into this, which is part of the seed plan the industry put together to try to resolve this issue," said Cummings, speaking on a telephone conference call with ag media representatives Sept. 26. "We are getting some very strong and favorable results now."
During the conference call, USA Rice Federation Chairman Al Montna repeated his request that USDA officials release a report on the investigation of the LibertyLink trait issue. The Agriculture Department's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service began looking into the development last August.
"We believe we have a very good chance of regaining the European market (because of the testing)," said Montna, a rice farmer from California. "But we need the release of the report to be part of our discussions with European Union officials on Oct. 10."
Montna, Cummings, USA Rice President and CEO Betsy Ward and Reece Langley, USA Rice vice president for government affairs, met with Bruce Knight, undersecretary of agriculture for marketing and regulatory programs, the afternoon of Sept. 26 to press for the report's release.
Cummings said the current testing for the LLRice601 trait is being done at the 0.01 percent level using the standard "P35S::BAR" test. Samples are being pulled from individual truckloads and co-mingled with other shipments.
He said the rice harvest currently is centered on Arkansas, the nation's largest rice producing state, and is moving into Missouri. The Arkansas rice harvest was estimated to be 58 percent complete as of Sept. 24.
"A lot of work is going into this," said Cummings. "The mills are pulling the samples and sending them to an independent laboratory. The lab tests the rice for the presence of the LibertyLink trait and provides a certificate to the mill which forwards it to USA Rice."
USA Rice arrived at the testing program and the remainder of its seed plan after a sample of 2003 foundation seed rice of the variety Cheniere was found to contain a trace amount of genetic material from LLRice601, a rice line that was genetically altered to be resistant to LibertyLink herbicide.
The LibertyLink trait, which was not approved by USDA at the time, would allow rice farmers to treat fields of commercial rice for red rice, a cousin of the commercial rice plant that can leave black seed hulls in bags of cooking rice.
Rice millers, such as the 9,000-member Stuttgart, Ark.-based Riceland Foods cooperative, subsequently decided not to purchase the Cheniere variety of rice from its farmer members as a precautionary measure.
During the press conference, Montna described the contents of a letter he sent to former Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns expressing the rice industry's frustration with the lack of a definitive report on the LibertyLink situation. The federation later released a copy of the letter.
In it, Montna notes that USA Rice Federation and USDA staff members have been discussing the challenges facing the rice industry, especially in the European Union, and the best options for the secretary's and USDA's engagement.
"While these discussions continue, I must note that the lack of a comprehensive investigative report by USDA explaining how traces of regulated genetically engineered events entered the commercial supply is limiting our recovery," Montna wrote.
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Prior to the LibertyLink incident, the European Union was buying 275,000 to 300,000 metric tons of long grain rice annually, he noted. "Europe barred any further exports while Iraq and Japan required us to begin testing. At least 60 percent of our exports have been impacted.
"The cost of losing markets is just unacceptable," said Montna. Looking at the bigger picture, "the great victory will be when we regain the European market."


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by Sue Ann Rybak
Chestnut Hill is the highest energy-consuming neighborhood in Philadelphia, according to a report released earlier this month by Alphabuyer, a PUC-licensed energy broker and consumer advocacy company.
The report, based on PECO's R Class residential customers' usage over a two-year time period, revealed that Chestnut Hill residents used an average of 6,087 kilowatt-hours annually. Society Hill was second at 5,178 kwh, and Northeast Philadelphia used 5,014 kwh.
"If consumers are aware of their energy consumption habits, they will be more likely to implement changes to be more energy efficient, which of course translates into big dollar savings and has environmental benefits," said Alphabuyer co-founder John Raisch. "Alphabuyer has a lot of valuable data, so we decided to take that information one step further and shine a spotlight on top energy consuming households as a way to hopefully encourage people in those areas that now is the time to make easy changes that result in big savings and benefits."
Alphabuyer is a Paoli-based group purchasing company that negotiates with electricity suppliers to get the best "group rate" for its customers.
Raisch said that by pooling their buying power, customers can get better rates and terms than they could obtain as individuals.
"Our goal is to be a consumer advisor," John Raisch said. "We want to help people save money, understand deregulated energy and help them to choose a pre-screened trusted supplier."
According to Raisch, only 30 percent of residential customers in the PECO region have switched providers since rate caps expired on January 1, 2011.
Raisch said he felt that skepticism in general was to blame. He added that many people don't believe the savings will be that significant and that people are familiar with PECO.
"It's the one bill people having been paying the longest," Raisch said. "But, Alphabuyer can help them pay dramatically less."
Raisch said in October PECO increased its "price to compare" electricity rate by 22 percent, the single-largest rate increase since PECO rate caps expired.
Chestnut Hill resident Henry Kao, 33, recently used Alphabuyer to find a electricity supplier. He said he stumbled across Alphabuyer's website while researching different suppliers.
"Alphabuyer spelled out all the terms," Kao said. "There was no cancellation fee."
Alphabuyer negotiates with companies to waive or lower cancellation fees. The deal runs for a limited amount of time – similar to Groupon. The service is free, and Alphabuyer switches customers to their new supplier.
"Alphabuyer has your back," Raisch said.
Prior to the expiration of your new offer, Alphabuyer will contact you to help you find out if there is a better deal out there.
The first year, Kao switched he noticed a savings of $120 a year. He encouraged consumers to go to Alphabuyer's website. He added that it was a hassle-free way to choose an energy supplier.
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Mummies from Ancient Egypt
On Mummy Research at the Kunsthistorisches Museum
During the last three years, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, in collaboration with the University of Vienna (Histological-Embryological Institute of the University of Vienna) and with the support of the FWF (Fund for the Support of Scientific Research), has carried out X-ray, histological, and cultural-historical research on the mummies in its collection. This research and its findings will be brought to the attention of a wider audience for the first time in this exhibition.
There can be no doubt that the public is still greatly interested in all questions relating to mummies, mummification, and the Ancient Egyptians belief in the afterlife. Therefore the success of such an exhibition seems assured, particularly as it is intended as a preliminary show organised in connection with the special exhibition "Portraits from the Dessert Mummy Portraits from the Egyptian National Museum in Cairo which will open on 18 October.
The exhibition "Mummies from Ancient Egypt consists of two parts, related in content:
In the first, a mausoleum-like installation will house a collection of the most important mummy coffins and mummies, together with their X-rays. X-ray photography or rather the medical, histological or anthropological examinations have concentrated mainly on methodical questions such as determining a mummys age and gender, describing its pathological state, or isolating certain clinical pictures responsible, for example, for causing death. In the exhibition, original mummies will be placed next to their X-ray photographs enlarged to equal size. At the same time, the inner parts of a mummy, obscured by the mummy wrappings, will be made visible with the help of Computed-tomography RÖNTGENSPEKTROSKOPIE and other modern medical methods of examination. Thus it will be possible to see amulets, heart scarabs, jewellery and other objects without having to destroy the mummy.
The second, but no less interesting part of the exhibition will document the development of burial rituals in Ancient Egypt, e.g. mummification and all connected techniques. The aim is to illustrate the belief in the afterlife which led to mummification, to show funerary goods, and to document the importance of art as a "picture for eternity, as something of a replacement for the mummy, eventually prey to physical disintegration despite mummification - the deceaseds statue a guarantee for his or her continued existence in the World of the Dead. On show will be Books of the Dead, descriptions of the nether world, and appeals, as well as a set of medical instruments used for mummification, painted mummy wrappings, gilt cartonnages, and, of course, funerary stelae depicting, for example, a burial or the different ritual funerary ceremonies.
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(12:30 p.m. ET: Scroll down for an update about MSHA's regulation of the mine and questions about whether it followed through on some issues.)
It's been a busy week for the 29 families of the coal miners who lost their lives last year in the explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia.
As we reported Tuesday, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) issued its final report on the cause of the tragedy, echoing earlier findings that placed blame on Massey Energy and what investigators called "systematic, intentional, and aggressive efforts to avoid compliance" with mine safety law.
And the same day, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin, said he had reached a settlement with Alpha Natural Resources, the company that bought Massey earlier this year. Goodwin called the $209 million civil and criminal settlement the biggest ever springing from a coal mine disaster.
Briefings about each development were held for the victims' families.
There's more to come.
MSHA is conducting an internal probe of possible agency failures that may have contributed to the tragedy. And a federal criminal investigation continues.
Former MSHA official Tony Oppegard says MSHA's final report underscores the importance of the agency's internal investigation.
"When you read the report [Upper Big Branch] sounds like one of the worst mines in the history of mining," says Oppegard, who now is a mine safety advocate and attorney. "You have an enforcement agency that had to know this was an outlaw operation and they did not use the stringent enforcement tools they had which possibly could have prevented the disaster."
MSHA coal mine safety chief Kevin Stricklin defends his agency's enforcement at Upper Big Branch. "We did shut the mine down 48 times in the year leading up to the explosion," Stricklin notes. "What we don't have is the ability to say because you received so many orders we're going to shut you down permanently."
But the agency failed to place the Upper Big Branch mine on a special "Pattern of Violations" list reserved for repeat offenders and a trigger for heightened scrutiny by regulators. MSHA also didn't use one of its toughest enforcement tools at Upper Big Branch — hauling the mining company into federal court.
Agency officials said this week that the results of their internal investigation are still months away. But Oppegard is skeptical of the probe given an apparent conflict of interest.
"It's hard to imagine that MSHA is going to do a real thorough job, a real critical analysis of itself given the magnitude of this disaster," Oppegard says. "It's just human nature. It's going to be hard to point the finger at your co-workers and say that they did far less than they should have."
Assistant Secretary of Labor Joe Main says MSHA has been investigating itself since 1989.
"I can guarantee you when you go back and look at those reports, there have been a lot of problems that have been found," Main says. "And I think when we issue our [internal] report, it's going be one that's going to identify shortcomings that we need to address."
In addition to that report, Upper Big Branch families are also anxious to see whether the Justice Department will file criminal charges against former Massey Energy executives and managers. Mine disaster prosecutions rarely reach into corporate offices. The only criminal charges filed in the Upper Big Branch investigation so far were not directly related to the mine explosion and involved two low-level officials.
That's what Goodwin may have been referring to Wednesday when he was pressed about possible criminal charges. "Yes," he told reporters, "our investigation has revealed criminal conduct."
Goodwin wouldn't elaborate but he did describe the circumstances at Massey Energy that could lead to indictments of executives if wrongdoing is found.
"Knowledge is a key element," Goodwin explained. "Intent is a key element and when it moves up the ladder all the information doesn't necessarily flow with it."
But then Goodwin noted a documented characteristic of Massey Energy management. "Massey was a company that was fairly closely controlled by a reasonably tight group of individuals."
Criminal charges at the highest levels are important to Gene Jones, a power company engineer whose identical twin Gene was killed at Upper Big Branch.
"I want to see someone actually go to jail," Jones said, after being briefed about the developments this week. "[That will] show these other coal companies, 'Listen. If you do wrong, you're going to go to jail."
"That has to happen," Jones adds, because brothers will continue to die in coal mines until convicted mining executives go to jail.
Goodwin declined to speculate about when the criminal probe might conclude.
Update at 12:30 p.m. ET:
Ken Ward of The Charleston Gazette has just posted an item on his Coal Tattoo blog that suggests a direct link between the Upper Big Branch mine explosion and MSHA's regulation of the mine. The link is buried in MSHA's own final report about the cause of the disaster. Ward's picked up on the connection and it's related to Massey Energy's discredited theory that the explosion was caused by a natural infusion of natural gas.
Massey's theory was based on pockets of natural gas (which is mostly made up of explosive methane) trapped beneath the Upper Big Branch mine. The Gazette previously reported several inundations of gas into the working sections of the mine in 1997, 2003 and 2004. The mining process can release trapped gas. Massey said a similar infusion occurred on April 5, 2010, and it alone fueled the deadly explosion that day. But MSHA and an independent investigative team concluded that excessive coal dust fueled the explosion — coal dust that Massey failed to control. The final report supports that conclusion.
Still, MSHA's final report also concludes that a methane pocket beneath the floor of the mine is the source of the methane that started the April 5 explosion:
"Based on physical evidence, the investigation concluded that methane was likely liberated from floor fractures into the mine atmosphere on April 5, the day of the explosion. ... MSHA believes that this is the same fault zone associated with methane inundations at UBB in 2003 and 2004, and in a 1997 methane explosion."
And MSHA, as Ward and NPR have noted in the past, failed to address this known gas leak problem. Agency documents show that MSHA officials met with mine managers, discussed the problem in detail and made specific recommendations to help control these dangerous leaks.
As Ward notes in his post, MSHA issued a citation in its final report for failure to follow those recommendations. Ward writes:
"What's not said there is what MSHA has partly acknowledged already, that agency officials never made sure Massey implemented these recommendations or some other plan to avoid methane doing exactly what it did on April 5, 2010. I say partly, because MSHA has not really explained in any detail how in the world this could have happened, which agency officials exactly were responsible — let alone how they have been punished or what steps have been taken to ensure the same thing doesn't happen again."
In response to a question from Ward at a news conference yesterday, Assistant Labor Secretary Joe Main repeated what he's told the Gazette and NPR in the past: MSHA's action or inaction on this key safety issue will be addressed by MSHA's own internal review of the agency's possible failures before the explosion. Main also said this in response to Ward:
"One of the things we can't miss here is ... the mine operator had the information that was available on how to address the problem."
Of course, the whole point of mine safety regulation is to make sure mining companies obey the law and respond to safety issues identified by MSHA.
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
And I'm Linda Wertheimer sitting in for Renee Montagne.
It was a big day yesterday for the families of the 29 mine workers killed last year in that horrific mine explosion in West Virginia. Federal investigators issued their final report and federal prosecutors said they were still considering criminal charges.
The Justice Department also announced the biggest mine disaster settlement ever involving the current owner of the Upper Big Branch mine. But key questions remain unanswered. Here's NPR's Howard Berkes.
HOWARD BERKES, BYLINE: There was little in the final report of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, or MSHA, that the agency hadn't said before. The Upper Big Branch mine explosion was again blamed on Massey Energy, which was systematic, aggressive and intentional in its failure to keep miners safe, according to investigators.
TONY OPPEGARD: You know, when you read the report it sounds like one of the worst mines in the history of mining.
BERKES: So there's something missing for Tony Oppegard, a former federal mine safety official himself.
OPPEGARD: You have an enforcement agency that had to know that this was an outlaw operation. And they did not use the stringent enforcement tools that they had, which possibly could have prevented the disaster. That's the bottom line.
BERKES: Coal mine safety chief Kevin Stricklin responded this way in a news conference yesterday about the final mine disaster report.
KEVIN STRICKLIN: We did shut the mine down 48 times in the year leading up to the explosion. What we don't have is the ability to say because you received so many orders, we're going to shut you down permanently.
BERKES: But the mine safety agency failed to give the Upper Big Branch mine the increased scrutiny reserved for persistent violators. And it failed to use one of its toughest tools - hauling the mining company into federal court. MSHA is conducting an internal probe of its own possible failures and officials said that report could be several months away. Again, Tony Oppegard.
OPPEGARD: It's hard to imagine that MSHA is going to do a real thorough job, a real critical analysis of itself, given the magnitude of this disaster. I mean it's just human nature. It's going to be hard to point the finger at your co-workers and say that they did far less than they should have or to be completely thorough about it.
BERKES: Assistant Labor Secretary Joe Main was asked about that and he said the agency has been investigating itself after mine disasters since 1989.
JOE MAIN: And I can guarantee you, when you go back and look at those reports, there's been a lot of problems that have been found. And I think when we issue our report, it's going to be one that's going to identify shortcomings that we need to address.
BERKES: Still, there's concern about whether these internal investigations are rigorous enough. There's also concern about whether an ongoing criminal investigation will result in charges, convictions and jail time for former Massey Energy executives. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin cryptically acknowledged yesterday that his investigation has revealed criminal conduct. But he wouldn't elaborate. When pressed he said this...
BOOTH GOODWIN: Knowledge is a key element. Intent is a key element. And when it moves up the ladder, all the information doesn't necessarily flow with it. But that being said, Massey was a company that was fairly closely controlled by a reasonably tight group of individuals.
BERKES: This is a very important point to Gene Jones, whose brother Dean, his identical twin, who both looked and talked just like him, died in the Upper Big Branch mine.
GENE JONES: I want to see someone actually go to jail. And show these other coal companies that, listen, if you do wrong, you're going to go to jail. That has to happen.
BERKES: Jones spoke after being briefed about the day's developments. Brothers will continue to die in coal mines, he said, until someone goes to jail.
Howard Berkes, NPR News, Beckley, West Virginia. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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