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Mummy Mountain (NV) Climber's Log
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|Don Nelsen
|Great climb -
Date Climbed: Mar 9, 2007
|This is a very scenic climb and the Bristlecone pines are fantastic to see in all their convoluted glory. Amazing to see living trees in such a high dry and hostile environment. Went up Kyle canyon and up the scree slope then the climbers trail to the notch leading to the summit.
|Posted Mar 13, 2007 1:28 am
|Anya Jingle
|Via Trail Canyon, North Loop and Scree Slope
Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2005
|I have done it many times in all seasons. The scree slope is most fun when it is covered in snow.
This peak can be also climbed along with Charleston Peak and Griffith Peak as a long, open loop dayhike when the Spring Mountains are snow free. The slideshow from one of our hikes like that is here: Three Peak hike
|Posted Jan 23, 2007 2:01 am
|Trail Canyon / North Loop
Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2006
|Climbed Mummy Mountain from the North Loop trail. Scrambled up the scree slope to the ridge. The cliffbands on the mountain are more interesting than Charleston Peak. The summit was located on a very long plateau that stretched for a mile.
|Posted Oct 12, 2006 1:17 am
|South Loop Dayhike
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2005
|South Loop dayhike with Charleston tagged afterward.
|Posted Oct 10, 2006 3:07 am
|Entertaining route
Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2002
|Followed the route in the local guidebook to the main peak. Minimal exposure but a fair bit of scrambling and bushwhacking.
|Posted Sep 12, 2006 4:55 am
|Route Climbed: NLT
Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2006
|Beautiful Day hiked with friends and my dogs Kaleb and Khami
|Posted Jun 28, 2006 6:49 pm
|Trail Canyon/North Loop/Scree Slope
Date Climbed: May 19, 2006
|Very enjoyable hike. The summit is like a small desert island in the sky.
|Posted May 26, 2006 9:46 pm
|Route Climbed: North Loop to
Date Climbed: Jul 21, 1990
|Great hike with my coworker Jerry Faircloth. I had attempted this mountain once before on a solo climb with cross country skis from the Lee Canyon side on December 31, 1984. After taking most of the day to get to the ridgeline between Charleston and Mummy, I turned around before sunset and made it back to the Lee Canyon ski area in about 45 minutes.
2nd time summitting was May 25th, 2012 via the south chutes (Class 4) with Dick Wimmer, Howard Vandermeer, Jeff Ankeman, and Alan Pulsipher. Winds were 60+ mph on top.
|Posted Apr 5, 2006 5:44 am
|Day Hiker
|Trail Canyon / North Loop
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2008
|2005 September 25: After living in southern Nevada for over five years, my wife and I finally hiked to the top of Mummy. I've been on Charleston and Griffith several times, but never made it over to Mummy until today. The entire route is nice and direct, without all that downhill-on-the-way-up bullshit that you find on the way to Charleston Peak (via South Loop). The scree up to the ridge above the trail added some variety to the hike, and it actually wasn't too bad. Maybe my tolerance for crappy terrain has just been increased after hiking through the brush to South Guardian Angel last week. The weather was beautiful, which probably helped a lot. I'm glad we hiked this Sunday instead of Saturday. The wind around here was horrible Saturday, and it would have been really cold and windy on top.
2008 June 21: Hiked with my wife and DayHikerJr (age 9 1/2 months). The weather was great, with light winds and maybe 65 or 70F on the summit. Las Vegas, 9500 feet below, was near 110F, so we picked a great day to hike The Mummy!
|Posted Sep 26, 2005 12:04 am
|Route Climbed: North Loop Date Climbed: Oct 1986
|You will like this one. Cave spring is a great stop
along the way. Final scamble can be as tough as
you like from class 3 on up. Summit is so large
and flat that its tough to know the exact summit!
I too preferred this over Charleston.
|Posted Jul 31, 2005 10:59 am
|Route Climbed: Trail Canyon Date Climbed: July 3rd, 2005
|Challenging hike at times, especially with the dreaded scree slope ascent. Tremendous views of Charleston and the surrrounding Spring Mountains with a touch of Vegas looking towards your south-east. Bring older hiking shoes / boots, the descent of the scree slope is quicker, easier and safer with a simulated ski / surf motion which can tear up newer footwear.
|Posted Jul 5, 2005 5:16 am
|Route Climbed: Trail Canyon/North Loop/Scree Slope Date Climbed: 7/3/2005
|Nice hike with perfect weather. Snow was not a factor. What few patches were left were easy to navigate around. Great views from the top.
|Posted Jul 4, 2005 4:05 pm
|Route Climbed: Various Date Climbed: January 21,2006
Date Climbed: May 12, 2007
|May 12, 2007 -Another summit, this time with a nine and seven year old. Snow is sparse now, and the day was perfect for hiking via Trail Canyon.
May 20, 2006 Via Trail Canyon and a Class 3 climb up a cliff wall. Snow is patchy and the summit is a little muddy, otherwise a great hike. My 8 year old son made the summit today.
January 21, 2006 Via Trail Canyon to Tummy - the Scree slope is mostly free of snow, although there is a lot of mud. The upper portions of Mummy at the base of the cliff walls necessitate crampon use.
August 7, 2005 -Climbed to Mummy's Chin from SR156- Our initial plan was to traverse the entire mountain, but storms with hail chased us down after we reached the chin. Since the Tummy doubles as a lightning rod, we decided to forego the remainder.
Previous June 11, 2005 via ascent:Trail Canyon / North Loop trail/ Scree Slope to the Tummy: A lot of snow remaining on the Northern base of the Mountain. We made it without axe or crampons, but having the right gear would have made this so much easier.
Previous: Camped on the Tummy a couple of times with friends. The area is so large, flat, and wide you could have a football game up there.
|Posted Jun 30, 2005 4:53 am
|Route Climbed: North Loop to "the tummy" Date Climbed: twice in summer 2003
|Nice hike. Nice route. A better mountain, in my opinion, than Charleston.
|Posted Dec 2, 2004 4:59 pm


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National Bison day is coming!
The Wildlife Conservation Society, Intertribal Buffalo Council, National Bison Association, and dozens of bison-friendly businesses and groups around the country are celebrating the second annual National Bison Day on Saturday, November 2. The U.S. Senate passed a resolution on October 29th that officially recognizes National Bison Day for the historical, economic, ecological and cultural contributions of bison across the American landscape.
At a time when Congress appears at its most divided, Senators of both parties came together to pass the National Bison Day Resolution by unanimous consent. Sens. Michael Enzi (R-WY) and Tim Johnson (D-SD) led a group of 25 co-sponsors, 13 Republicans and 12 Democrats, who helped push the resolution to full passage.
Sens. Enzi and Johnson introduced the legislation at the request of the Vote Bison Coalition, currently consisting of 47 diverse entities representing bison producers, Native Americans, conservationists, educational institutions, sportsmen/recreationists, zoological institutions, health organizations and businesses. The Vote Bison Coalition celebrated the inaugural National Bison Day on November 1, 2012, with events in South Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico, West Virginia, and Washington, DC. The Vote Bison Campaign is supported by an Advisory Council that includes Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Chief Earl Old Person of the Blackfeet Nation, and Ted Roosevelt V – the great-great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.
"National Bison Day is an opportunity to celebrate the bison as a living symbol of the United States," said Senator Johnson. "Bison not only play a central role in Native American culture, they are increasingly important in South Dakota and across the nation as bison ranching and interest in this great mammal have grown."
The Campaign asks the public to "vote for bison," while highlighting the many ways that bison have shaped America's history, economy, culture, and landscapes. The public has an opportunity to follow the national campaign focused on making bison the National Mammal of the United States by visiting www.votebison.org. Steering members of the coalition are WCS, the Intertribal Buffalo Council (which has a membership of 57 tribes in 19 states), and the National Bison Association (which has more than 1000 members across all 50 states).
American Bison photo via Shutterstock.
Read more at Wildlife Conservation Society.


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My Dear Bowne,
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If you would like to assert that the " if-you-say-you-are-you-aren't test for the sotapanna test" is wholly accurate you will need to explain where it is shown in the texts that sotapanna cannot announce such a thing. Many sotapannas announced themselves to others before the Buddha could give his endorsement that what they said is the truth. The truth is that your test does not work, though you would like it to.tiltbillings wrote:There is a massive difference between the texts, where there is the Buddha who can correct such a claim, if needs be, and someone, on an internet forum, declaring of himself "I am a sotapanna" or whatever level of ariya the individual might imagine of himself. Does it need to be spelled out?Virgo wrote: If that were derived from the texts there wouldn't be a problem with it. The problem is, however, that many sotapannas announced their attainments to others in the texts.
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ANAHEIM, Diane Singer: Former police officer Christopher Dorner snapped ["A search for Dorner and answers," Front Page, Feb. 10]. It can happen to anyone. It can happen to good people from good families. I am saddened by his actions but even more disappointed in our lack of sophistication about mental illness. My heart goes out to him and his family.
|Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, left, talks about the $1,000,000 reward for accused killer and fired L.A. police officer, Christopher Dorner as L.A. Police Chief Charlie Beck, center, and Irvine, Calif., Mayor Steven Choi look on during a new conference at the L.A. police department, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (Chris Carlson, Associated Press)
His behavior is symptomatic of severe mental illness. Cancer has its symptoms. Diabetes has symptoms. This is a sick guy who is out of his mind. It is tragic. It is so very sad. And what about the people who love him? How horrible for them.
Let's have compassion and address the bigger issue of what we do as a society about the severely mentally ill. We can no longer tolerate leaving our mentally ill to the police. It's not their job. Nor can we risk the lives of others just because we are ignoring a horrible disease.
Mental illness needs treatment and those afflicted need our support and empathy. We cannot tolerate a system that says the sick must hurt themselves or be a danger to others before we can take action. There has to be a way to treat the sick and protect the public before dangerous situations develop.
MISSION VIEJO, John Richardson: Whenever a notorious and diabolical murder occurs, the media is quick to describe the perpetrator with terms such as: off balance, psycho or "over the edge." So, now Christopher Dorner already has a basis for an insanity plea if he ever is brought to justice. But, isn't it possible that he may be perfectly sane, but totally angry? Why give any person accused of crimes such as this a media-created background for an insanity defense? Our justice system is based on the principle of innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Shouldn't one also be considered sane until proven insane in a court of law?
In the past few days the public has been made very much aware of Dorner's size, appearance and background. So, now thousands of eyes are on alert for him. At this point it would seem well for the media to quit feeding his ego with big headlines, and let the police agencies do their work.
YORBA LINDA, Herbert Trumpoldt: The Fourth Estate has covered Christopher Dorner's manifesto in detail and given it importance. In it he says, "I am a victim," which is the typical narcissistic, center-of-the-universe thoughts of a self-styled victim.
Where are the questions like: What was the family situation, including the father and mother? Who taught Dorner his value systems? Were there disciplinary problems in elementary, middle and high school? What parent appeared with him in the school on those occasions? What was his scholastic performance and what family support was there to help him if he had problems?
There is more to his life than those years in the Navy and the Los Angeles Police Department. Tell us about them.
IRVINE, M. Chieffo: Why hasn't the media covered the Benghazi or the Fast and Furious debacles in depth and in as detailed a manner as the Christopher Dorner manhunt?
The LAPD misfire
LA HABRA, Heath Robinson: In a shameful case of mistaken identity "trained professionals" of the Los Angeles Police Department fired more than 50 rounds at a vehicle with two aging, unarmed and unsuspecting female newspaper carriers in it and failed to kill either one ["Police seeking Dorner open fire on two vehicles," News, Feb. 8].
While this is a good thing for these victims and their assailants, it serves as stark testimony to the fallacy that a 10-round limit for civilian magazines is sufficient against a violent and determined attack.
The union has it good
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Fred Pieracci: General Manager of the Orange County Employee's Association Nick Berardino is at it again in his op-ed "Worker's well-being key to free market" [Orange Grove, Feb. 11]. He fails to mention that the average union worker makes more than his or her counterpart in the private sector. Many have a defined benefit plan allowing retirement as young as age 50 or 55 with as much as 80-90 percent of final salary. Furthermore, the public sector is on the hook for the unfunded pension liability and some medical costs per family.
Sorry Nick, I don't feel sorry for you. I do feel sorry for the poor union folks who you pillage. Taking dues from their hard-earned pay checks without their permission, spending it on lavish salaries and benefits for union bosses and pouring millions into political campaigns they may or may not agree with.
Get real. Unions are the problem, not the solution.
An online outrage
MISSION VIEJO, Greg Woodard: The Employee Development Department's flawed new online system is the perfect example of why government is the problem and not the solution ["EDD defends program's price tag," Local, Feb. 10]. The project, estimated to cost $35 million, has cost nearly $160 million. The contractor the EDD hired has a history of bilking the state government with huge, cost overruns and shoddy work. And the legislative effort to prevent contractors from stealing taxpayer money was defeated.
With Democrats having a supermajority, these failed government policies will only get worse. When will the electorate learn that smaller government is the only good government? Hopefully, not before it is too late.
Pumping big oil dry?
BUENA PARK, Jack Bowden: Register columnist Marshall Kaplan's recommendation that big oil companies' profits should be squeezed sounds a lot like our president's mantra of "tax the rich" ["Time to squeeze big oil," Opinion, Feb. 11]. Does he think the oil industry will take a hit on its bottom line and do nothing? The people who manage these companies are not stupid.
If Kaplan's suggestions were put in place, the only thing that would be squeezed would be the public's wallet at the gas pump.
'Babying' the famous
MISSION VIEJO, John Bartiromo: The Register once again writes about poor Angel's right-fielder Josh Hamilton and how he "almost" threw his life away again with drugs and drinking ["Improved bullpen huge key to hopes," Sports, Feb. 11]. Stop putting people like this – who are paid millions of dollars – on pedestals and stop forgiving them for screwing up the blessed lives they have been given.
Normal people are fired by employers the first time that taking drugs or drinking keeps them from doing their jobs.
Weathering the storms
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Michael Barton: Columnist Mark Landsbaum dismisses the magnitude of climate change based largely on the premise that "when people build more stuff in harm's way, it's more likely to be harmed" ["Don't panic about global warming," Opinion, Feb. 9]. In other words, both Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy would have been insignificant rainstorms, if we had known better than to build all those homes, office towers and other structures in New Orleans, New Jersey and New York City during the last several hundred years.


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Lenoir City, Loudon County (WVLT) - Five Lenoir City High School football players accused of firing an airsoft gun on campus last week will not face a year's suspension from school.
The superintendent must now decide on a lesser punishment for the boys, and as Volunteer TV's Kim Bedford explains, the parents of the student who was shot want to see more done.
"He got shot seven times by an air rifle," says Sandy Blackwell, whose son was the student shot with an airsoft gun at school.
"He was bleeding and he had seven holes in his arm," says Hal Blackwell, the victim's father.
Hal and Sandy Blackwell say their 16-year-old son was an innocent bystander last Thursday night when he was shot in the Lenoir City Football Field House.
"He was leaving the room at the time the boys were taking shots at another soccer game that was going on," explains Hal.
Fortunately their son wasn't seriously injured, but his parents say the physical scars are still there, and the emotional ones have taken over.
"He's very scared. He has to go through daily abuse from most of the students," says Sandy.
"We were told they'd get 365 days suspension," Hal says.
Superintendent Wayne Miller wasn't available to talk on camera, but he told WVLT by phone that the school system's legal consultant in Nashville ruled that the offense did not legally merit a full year's suspension because the airsoft gun did not use gun powder, and therefore, is not considered a weapon.
"I feel the lawyer in Nashville made a wrongful decision. A weapon is a weapon," says Hal.
"It's very unfair. These boys need to learn a lesson from this," says Sandy.
Mr. and Mrs. Blackwell say many other parents are concerned about the five boys not playing football right now, but the Blackwell's say that's the least of their worries.
"When the boys come back from the suspension, we're very concerned about them hurting him," says Sandy. "There has already been comments made about getting even with him."
Whether or not there was gunpowder involved, the Blackwell's say their son was shot with what appeared to be a large assault rifle, and the boys who did it are getting off the hook.
"If something like this could happen, what else could happen? It could've very well been a real gun. We'd be going to a funeral," says Hal.
Superintendent Miller tells WVLT he and the rest of the disciplinary board is working on a suspension recommendation right now, and isn't sure how soon they'll come up with one.


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SANFORD, Fla. - A bill proposed by State Sen. Dorothy Hukill, R-Port Orange, has passed a major hurdle in both the House and Senate. It would ban schools in Florida from collecting biometric information from students.
An aide to Hukill told Local 6 the bill cleared the Senate Criminal Justice Committee in a 5-1 vote. Now it goes to one more committee in both the House and Senate before it could reach the floor of the legislature.
Hukill's bill would ban schools from collecting information such as fingerprints and retinal identification, which some districts use for attendance or food service.
Seminole County explored a biometric-based program from 2007-2011 but has since ended the program, saying it was too expensive. At seven schools, students bought lunch with their fingerprints.
Hukill said she worries the biometric information is too susceptible to would-be hackers and based the legislation on her concern for the privacy of students.
Anne Marie Dunphy, chief financial officer and co-founder of Identimetrics, a company that creates biometric technology, said the bill is an "overreaction." She said her technology doesn't retain a student's full fingerprint, just points on the finger, so it's less likely anyone could do anything harmful with the information.
She also said biometrics protect privacy, replacing ID cards or PIN numbers that could easily be lost or forgotten.
Identimetrics said schools in Pinellas County use biometrics, and forcing a school district to abandon the technology already installed would waste thousands of dollars.
Hukill filed the bill last summer and expects it to pass this legislative session.
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The 2011 edition of the TransWorld SLAM went down this weekend at Milestone Ranch MX park in Riverside, with racer Justin Bogle coming out on top over Jake Canada. The head-to-head racing was as close as ever with a couple upsets in the early rounds leading to the final, but there was much more action surrounding the track as hundreds from the industry came out to walk the vendor booths, which included Spy Optic, Arnette, General Tire, Skullcandy, One Industries, and many others.
Read the entire race report from TransWorld Motocross for the full results and details from the race.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine firefighters have found signs of life as they search a huge pile of rubble for more than a dozen people still missing in after a gas explosion destroyed a 10-story apartment building.
Civil defense authorities also say that 10 people are confirmed dead in the Rosario blast, and two gas company workers who were repairing the building's gas supply are in custody.
Investigative Judge Juan Carlos Curto said Wednesday that one gas repairman fled the scene while the other tried to warn people moments before the blast, which injured dozens and damaged buildings for blocks around in Argentina's third-largest city.
Some residents smelled clouds of gas and escaped their apartments just in time.


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Halloween's Meanest Witch Left a Note
A reader sends us this photo of a note to trick-or-treaters left on a door in Las Vegas: "Porch light is off... You know what that means??? No candy here, cunts! Run back to mommy + daddy, cuz I'm a witch. Don't look back motherfuckers!"
We find that kind of charming, actually. Put your own threats against trick-or-treaters in the comments.


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Crazy Guy Occupies Rope Ladder Dangling 75 Feet Below Tappan Zee Bridge
Looks like the "Occupy Wall Street" movement is spreading! To a spot about 75 below the Tappan Zee bridge, where a gentleman named Michael Davitt was dangling for a few hours on Monday, complete with an incomprehensible sign.
Davitt, admittedly, isn't actually protesting greed and corruption the way the Wall Street occupiers are. No, he's got a much more personal, and, it would seem, rather more crazy set of hobby-horses; apparently, Davitt has been protesting outside the Rockland County legislature "on and off" since 2008, when he was laid off from his job as a substance abuse counsellor. Fired why? Given the nature of his protest you might be able to guess:
"He wasn't able to perform his essential job functions, Levine said. "He's a troubled individual."
His handmade blue banner with yellow lettering read in part "Rockland Executive Legislature Cover Up Retaliation."
The rest was unreadable.
Davitt lasted about three hours, falling into the water, where he was pulled into a rescue boat, around 2 p.m.


text: how long did it take your serve to mature to the level of your groundies? I play on weekends only, and my serve is always my weak point. Sometimes, my flat serves and topspin serves are just "on"; I get aces left and right. Other times, I get 1 serve in, and all the other ones are double faults. It is really bad when the first serve goes into the net or long 90% of the time and the second serve is almost slower than my groundstrokes. Nevermind serving to the backhand/forehand, or slice/topspin. I'm more worried about simply getting the ball in. I've thought about just practing my serve for a couple of hours to improve my consistency until something clicks, and I start serving consistently. In the mean time, I'm just wondering how other people have developed their serves over time.


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Hello all and welcome to my tradelist. Right out of the gates I would like people to know that I will only ship to "US AND CANADA ". I ship everything First Class (Delivery Confirmation upon request or else I will not get it) unless other means are agreed upon.
The same trade rules apply if you have a lower rating you ship first unless it is someone I traded with in the past.
Please PM me with trade offers because I do not check my TL often and it may be some time until I get back to you, PM would be faster.
Don't be afraid to make an offer to buy something.Please note I take PayPal only .
*My entire collection is listed here for purposes of an easy way to keep track of what I have *
*Everything is Mint and complete unless otherwise specified*
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Battlefield:Bad Company 2
Prototype 2 Radnet Edition (Sealed)
Red Faction Armegeddon
Gears of War 3 (Sealed)
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Thank you for looking at my trade list and offer away the worst thing I can say is "No Thanks" and Im pretty sure there may be games im interested in that are not listed here.Be sure to check back often because my list changes pretty often and I may not reflect that in the date in the title.
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phonemaker HTC Corporation released a relatively short earnings
report, but that was just fine as the numbers spoke for
themselves. Profit on a year-to-year basis had soared
from T$5.695B (approximately $184.54M USD at current exchange
rates) to T$11.1B ($359.68M USD).That figure handsomely
trumped the consensus analyst estimate of T$8.7B by Thomson
Reuters I/B/E/S. The company also raked in T$75.85B ($2.458B
USD) in revenue, up from T$33.81B ($1.096B USD) a year
prior.HTC's stock rose around 3% percent on the strong
earnings report, and is currently at T$719.00/share.The
outlook seems rosy for HTC. Despite facing increased Android
competition from the likes of Samsung, Motorola, and Dell, the
company has the benefit of being on what appears to be the winning
team in the smartphone war and is poised to stay
competitive. The company in September announced two upcoming
models. Comments Steven Tseng, an analyst at RBS in
Taipei, "Investors are comfortable with HTC's status in the
Android market. HTC will keep a stable position, even if it is
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Maldives, in 2006, adopted its National Action Plan for Adaptation and a zero emissions plan; target of carbon neutrality by 2020.
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What a total, total creep.
Town Square
Giordano gets four years in prison
Original post made by John, Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Nov 3, 2006
What a total, total creep.
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a resident of Jordan Middle School
on Nov 3, 2006 at 4:57 pm
Unfortunately we only think of him as a creep because he has been found out. He was a nice guy til then. My daughter never had him as a pe teacher, got Mr.Colombo instead, and would have much preferred Mr. G. I spoke to him at back to school night once as he was leading the session and even I was taken in by his pleasant manner. This is the big problem, we never know who the bad guys are, its impossible to tell.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 3, 2006 at 6:57 pm
This is the problem: we rarely think of the people who will abuse our children as the people who most often do. Those people are not strangers in trenchcoats, hanging out in dark shadows or in the bushes.
They are typically someone in a position of trust in the lives of our children. They aren't strangers at all.
I find it difficult to understand, though, how this could have happened for so long to at least two different girls and no one have suspected something was afoul. Adults in these girls lives were asleep at the wheel, plain-and-simple. It's just too difficult to believe that this guy was doing this to these girls and NO adult suspected something was wrong.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 5, 2006 at 2:11 pm
How many of us have shown this to our 8,9, 10, 11 year old girls? I'm reading this, sitting across from my 6th grade daughter as she writes out our christmas cards, and I realize, I have been 'shielding' her from this utterly ugly episode which is probably the worst thing I could do...
How many of our girls don't know its OK for them to come to their Mom or Dad if something scary or fishy is going on?
Will talk to her now.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Nov 8, 2006 at 9:04 am
i know who this victim is, but i am surprised that the press didn't release her name since she is no longer a minor...
a resident of another community
on Nov 8, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Sadly, I have been following this story (only recently as I work here in PA but, live elsewhere now). Since I have no children, I don't really follow school stories much and for some reason, I'd just never heard anyone mention Giordano's arrest/story. However, I grew up and went to school and worked here in the MV/PA area so, I do have some interest in local happenings.
I only came upon this story about Giordano a few months ago (remarkably) when I picked up the local paper and recognized Giordano's picture in the paper staring back at me. I worked what feels like a lifetime ago (as a teenager) at a local racquetball club where Giordano was a member. He would have been about 35 at the time. I distinctly recall him being a relentless flirt and as one of the other posters here said, "I was taken in by his pleasant manner." He seemed like a total flirt and also seemed like a normal man, to me, as a young girl.
I started my previous paragraph with the word "sadly" as this whole thing is quite sad and disgusting. The other posters write, "I find it difficult to understand....It's just too difficult to believe that this guy was doing this to these girls and NO adult suspected something was wrong." – AND – "How many of our girls don't know it's OK for them to come to their Mom or Dad if something scary or fishy is going on?"
I, unfortunately, was sexually molested as a young girl (from 4th grade through 6th grade) by my step-father. So, my interest in following this story is two part (1) because as a teenager, I knew Giordano through my job and was curious how much time he'd get and (2) because I know exactly the horrors his victim(s) went through because of my own personal experience.
You mothers and fathers out there who want to believe that this sort of thing could never happen to your child or God forbid in Palo Alto.....who write how you just can't understand and don't your kids know they can come to you..... Please stop and think about it! These guys didn't just fall off the turnip truck. They don't often look like some letch hanging out on the street corner. They are usually working men who are quite intelligent and adept at brainwashing young girls into believing that (a) it is THEIR fault and that the whole world (including Mom and Dad) will BLAME THEM for what happened, (b) worse yet, they will never be believed and (c) if they tell, something horrible will happen to them (my dear step-father loved to tell me over and over that he would kill me if I ever uttered a word). Needless to say, I never uttered a word until he was long out of the picture and I was in my early 30's because he put the fear of God in me (i.e., way too late for anybody to protect me from him). Young girls usually don't tell out a number of fears.
Guys like Giordano and my step-father set up their environment in such a way that they end up ALONE with their victims – so that others don't see the obvious signs. They are cunning and manipulative.
I wondered as a young girl, "How could nobody know? Doesn't anybody SEE?" I wished someone would just ask me – but, nobody did because he was too good at threatening me and made sure others were never around to see. I have 2 sisters who suspected my step-father and even they didn't know what to do or say (and I didn't ask for help because I figured everybody would blame me).
Talk to your kids (especially young girls) and ask questions. Parents see what they choose to see, in my opinion. Do a yearly grilling of your kids (in a good/nice way) – but, don't just assume that if the kid doesn't say something then something isn't going on. It is far more common than we'd like to believe.
a resident of Gunn High School
on Nov 8, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Thank you, Anonymous, for your wise words. As parents, we need to hear experiences like yours as a reminder to let our children know we are always there to listen and will protect them. I'm so sorry you had to experience such a trauma.
a resident of another community
on Nov 8, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Thank you, Gunn High School Parent, for taking the time to read my story and your kind words. I wondered if people would still be reading this blog/link after so many days had passed (and figured some might never read what I wrote).
I have never written about this before (anywhere) -- maybe because it is anonymous, it is easier? My husband encourages me to write a book about my story. Maybe now, I will find my voice.
a resident of Gunn High School
on Nov 8, 2006 at 4:19 pm
You're welcome, Anonymous. I encourage you to write. There's so much shame and secrecy around these events, and the more open we are, the easier it will be to prevent them from happening to other children.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 8, 2006 at 5:59 pm
My daughter had Bill Giordano as a PE teacher 7 years ago, and tells me that many of the girls thought he was creepy. They called him "the perv." Even young girls are aware of the subtle differences between an innocent pat on the back or hug and something more sexual; between a friendly look and a lecherous stare.
The key is to teach young girls (and boys, too!) to express their discomfort before the situation gets out of hand, and for the school district to take it seriously and address the problem way before the person in question engages in sexual intercourse with a student. It's shameful that at least a couple of staff members seem to have known what was happening, and did nothing.
My heart goes out to the victims, and I want to thank them for coming forward to prevent this person from further abusing our middle school age girls.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 8, 2006 at 6:43 pm
What happened to those young girls is awful and Giordano is a very sick man who took advantage of his role working with kids, just a very sick, demented man.
On the other hand I have known Pete Colombo for years and it was UNFAIR AND CLASSLESS of the first post to even mention his name in the same sentence as a pediphile like Giordano. Yes, Pete can be very rough around the edges at times while teaching and coaching but his heart is always in the right place and he certainly is not a child molester and is the first to admit when he is in the wrong.
a resident of Jordan Middle School
on Nov 8, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Please excuse my post if anyone thought I was casting any kind of doubt against Pete Colombo. The reason I mentioned him was to show that my daughter and I both were taken in by the "nice" Mr. G. to the extent that this was the preferable choice by reputation alone. In the end, she did enjoy Pete's classes and even went on the Boston/New York trip he helped to chaperone and particularly enjoyed getting to know him better. His reputation as a teacher and coach were a little daunting to my p e challenged daughter but we never had any doubts about his character.
The point of my post was to say just how we were all taken in by Mr. G and how hard it is to find out who these creeps are. If they all wore a big C for Creep on their shirts it would be easy, but in this real world we have to judge by other methods and these other methods are so difficult because the creeps are so good at appearing normal.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 9, 2006 at 12:47 pm
I checked with my son (who attended Jordan awhile back and had Mr. G as a teacher) when the story broke of Mr. G.'s arrest, and my son said he had a good impression of Mr. G. I had a little contact with Mr. G. and I vaguely recall it was courteous, I had a good impression. Therefore, I was surprised the allegations "turned out to be true." This has been an educational experience.
An aspect I find extra-disturbing is the earlier investigations (haven't read all the details yet). At a minimum, if concerns are raised about appropriate behavior of a teacher, I would think school officials should keep an eye out.
Thanks, Anonymous, for sharing your story - it has been instructive, thanks for the insights you offer us parents.
a resident of Jordan Middle School
on Nov 10, 2006 at 12:57 am
To simply call Bill a total creep is naive and simplistic. And to say that other adults must have seen, must have been aware, is also misguided. I was a colleague of Bill's for quite a few years, and I can tell you that his community of teaching colleagues was as shocked and disbelieving as anyone when the news first broke.
We who thought we were his friends were dismayed, angry, stunned, and more-- I was not the only one who was sure it could not be true-- until the whole story began to emerge and became undeniable. Then, it was like experiencing a death in the family-- someone likened it to when a suicide occurs, and you're left feeling grief, and anger, and betrayal, and even guilt for not having seen the warning signs.
I say this to try to give you some idea of how much Bill was liked and admired, and what a great guy he was-- he was a good friend to many. Yes his crime was despicable, and that's the awful part. He kept his secret life so secret, and was totally "normal" to those of us who knew him. I never saw any hint of his deviance, never heard students call him "perv", never saw anything but loyalty and devotion to a trusted coach and teacher.
Unfortunately, this is too often true in cases of sexual abuse-- Anonymous was right about the need to educate our children in a way that empowers them to resist and report, not make them fearful... Because the adults among us who have this terrible flaw may be good friends, trusted family, or respected colleagues, and not show this flaw even to those closest to them...
a resident of Gunn High School
on Nov 10, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Teachers, remember Hamlet's words: "O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!. . .That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark." --and in Palo Alto it seems. A molester is not a "great teacher," no matter how pleasant he seems.
a resident of Jordan Middle School
on Nov 11, 2006 at 12:36 am
Hey Anon, thanks for the great quote from Hamlet-- but it's not only for teachers to know-- but for everyone. Education isn't the only arena where abuse happens, unfortunately.
And I totally agree that "A molester is not a 'great teacher'"-- it's just that he certainly looked and acted like one, for many years. That's part of what makes it so terrible...
a resident of Gunn High School
on Nov 11, 2006 at 8:13 am
Anonymous, you're right. The "smiling villain" can be found in all arenas unfortunately. Education is where I least expect to find one. I addressed the quotation to teachers only because I know that Giordano's colleagues and friends are the ones who are having to deal most directly with the shock of discovering his secret life.
a resident of another community
on Nov 30, 2006 at 9:13 am
I don't really believe Mr. G. is the person that the newspapers have written about. It is hard to believe that he did all those inappropriate activities with the young girls, although, he has confessed to two incidents. I'm sorry this happened because I know he wasn't always that way and was a very wonderful man when he was younger. He was an inspiration to me and an encourager to study and learn and help with students.
a resident of another community
on Dec 1, 2006 at 9:47 pm
I decided to post my comment to this dialogue since it seems to be the most recent one taking place about the recent announcement of B. Giordano's sentence. My mom encouraged me to weigh in because so few former students of Mr. G's have done so thus far.
I am a young woman who attended Jordan at the time that the 1991 abuse took place and I also know the identity of the victim. Many of us who went to Jordan during those first years that the school reopened, were aware that Mr. G's interaction with girls at school seemed very inappropriate. I had him as a teacher for leadership class and he always made me very uncomfortable.
I have spoken to many of my classmates from Jordan and have yet to encounter a single person who was surprised to hear about Mr. G's arrest and conviction. More often the response was, "what took so long?"
Those of us who suspected the worst intimated as much to our peers and adults but without actual proof, we couldn't push the envelope any more than that. As teenagers we didn't possess the confidence to acuse an adult of such extreme behavior, now matter how much our instincts told us we were right. Moreover, as a teenage girl, I was just starting to develop a more mature understanding of how men and women relate to one another and also of how my relationships with grown men were becoming a bit more "delicate" in my transformation from a girl to a woman. I imagine many of my female peers felt the same.
Finally, I believed that there was absolutely no way the parents, teachers and administrators could be blind to what was taking place. They were always warning US to be on the lookout for warning signs. I imagined they MUST have seen what we saw and investigated Mr.G's behavior. Wasn't it the job of the adults to be vigilant over such matters? Again, as teenagers we had no idea that adults were capable of such denial, negligence and ignorance. Now as adults ourselves, we see how this can happen because we are all human. But that is a realization that comes only with a maturity not possessed by middle school age children.
It is very sad that this occurred and I only hope that everyone who has been impacted will be able to help prevent it, or at the very least identify it, in the future.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jan 17, 2007 at 10:52 am
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This wasn't quite how I'd imagined writing my next blog post – one-fingered, elbow cranked at an angle to work around the two drips easing various magical substances into my (I'm reliably informed) rubbish veins. Twelve straight days of puking my guts up have landed me in two Barcelona hospitals, with so far no sight of salida.
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Who let the Chihuahuas out?
NFL GameDay 2004 for the PS2 represents an interesting mark in the GameDay franchise. While I wouldn't say that the series has finally come of age, I will say that it has come of adolescence. You remember that kid who was fat all through middle school and then somehow lost thirty pounds over the summer? That's the idea. While certainly not as mature as Madden or as athletic as ESPN, GameDay proves that sometimes dropping a ball is a good thing.
The most noticeable improvement is the brawny on-line component. There are chat-rooms, message boards, tournaments, rankings stats, instant messengers and all sorts of other online goodies that weren't there last Fall. Not only is the SOCOM headset supported for voice-chat, but you can also use it to administer voice commands to your team, even offline. That's right - the headset recognizes over thirty commands. Unfortunately, "throw the damn ball you @%#$!" isn't one of them.
The single-player is still a bit underdeveloped. The usual suspects all make it to the huddle including Preseason, Season, Tournament, Practice, General Manager and Franchise. Essentially nothing has changed here since last year. The General Manager and Franchise modes, usually the bread and butter of any single-player sports game, are too barebones compared to the wealth of details and possibilities in Madden, and the other modes have been unchanged since I was in diapers.
However, much of yesteryear's clumsiness has dissipated and GameDay plays better than ever before. Controls are now truly pressure sensitive (as they are in the ESPN and Madden games) and not quite as gangly and uncoordinated as they used to be. Having said that, GameDay's gameplay still isn't up to speed with either Madden or ESPN. It's a long way from high-school to the pros.
Quarterbacking is handled better than any other aspect of the game, although this is partially due to bad defensive AI. With Michael Vick, for example, I can totally demolish any defense any time by simply rolling out behind a running back and passing him the ball when defenders finally close in'if they ever do. Sometimes Vick just gets to take it thirty or forty yards. The option play might be great in college, but you shouldn't be able to do it this easy in the NFL.
GameDay has always tripped when it comes to running, and this year's game isn't much different. The pressure sensitive controls help, but weird frame-rates and an overall lack of fluidity kind of spoil this aspect of the game.
After a taste of Madden's incredible defensive AI, playing defense in GameDay makes me want to put down the controller and go play for real in the park. There's just no comparison. It's not really bad, per se, so much as static compared to what we see in the other two big NFL games. Defenders don't clog passing lanes nearly as effectively and pass-rushers always seem to get hung up on linemen. This means two things: the CPU offense will score on you more easily, and you can score on the CPU defense really easily, making GameDay a very offensive game. Pun slightly intended.
NFL Gameday 2004 has visited the dermatologist and cleared up a couple blemishes, but the overall countenance isn't that attractive. The main problem is the framerate, which is still a little clunky. However, I don't think this is due to bad programming or weird hardware issues so much as a result of the 989's animation style preference. In 989 games, there's always an element of enhanced quickness to gives the game a more arcadey feel. Unfortunately, this is often taken too far and makes movement jerky and awkward. Visual Concepts employs this tactic as well, but in a far more subtle manner so that the action seems energized as opposed to frantic. I think a revision to this approach, perhaps slowing down the animations and making them more fluid, would give the game the proper look.
The sounds are okay. Dan Fouts and Dick Enberg have always been decent video game commentators and combine to provide the one area in which GameDay does something better than Madden.
NFL GameDay 2004 represents a marked improvement over last year's effort. However, the football game genre is probably the toughest in sports, and small gains are easy to take for granted or dismiss as simply not enough. However, I think the GameDay series is beginning to show signs of life, and I'm actually interested in seeing what next year brings to this awkward but improving series.


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Work-Related Lung Disease Surveillance System (eWoRLD)
Methods: Exposure
Occupational Exposure Limits
Permissible Exposure Limits. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) each enforce regulations that establish the legal limits of workplace exposures to pneumoconiotic agents. These legal limits are described here as permissible exposure limits (PELs), although the regulations sometimes use the term "standard" or "exposure limit". Since 1979, OSHA and MSHA began reporting exposure data for pneumoconiotic agents.
The OSHA PELs for several pneumoconiotic agents were changed on March 1, 1989, but a legal challenge to the modified OSHA PELs was upheld, and the modified OSHA PELs reverted to the previous OSHA PELs on March 23, 1993. Therefore, data for respirable quartz, selected pneumoconiotic agents, and all pneumoconiotic agents are presented for 1979–1988, 1989–1992, and for 1993 onwards. Some pneumoconiotic agents had a substance-specific OSHA PEL only from March 1, 1989 to March 22, 1993, including: aluminum as welding fumes, respirable dust of natural graphite, mica containing less than 1% crystalline silica, tin oxide, inorganic compounds of tin oxide, fused respirable silica dust, fibrous talc not containing tremolite, talc not containing asbestos, insoluble tungsten and compounds, and welding fumes (total particulate).
The following table presents the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs) for legal limits of workplace exposures to pneumoconiotic agents by industry. Although OSHA has PELs for the maritime industry [29 CFR 1915], very few samples have been collected and are not reported here.
|General Industry
|Construction Industry
|Coal Mine Industry
|Non-Coal Mine Industry
The MSHA metal/nonmetal mining PELs for pneumoconiotic agents were adopted from the 1973 edition of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH®) publication entitled TLVs® Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances in Workroom Air Adopted by ACGIH for 1973. MSHA has not adopted PELs for the following pneumoconiotic agents: tin oxide dust/fume, inorganic dusts of tin, insoluble tungsten dusts/fumes, and welding fumes (total particulate). A MSHA PEL of 10 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/m3) is used for welding fumes (total particulate) through 1993, but since then it has been MSHA policy not to collect samples for welding fumes.
OSHA and MSHA do not have PELs specific for crystalline silica. The PELs apply to
respirable dust containing crystalline silica, and the allowable exposure to respirable
dust is reduced as the crystalline silica content increases. The formulas for allowable
exposure vary with the agency and the industry. In metal/nonmetal mining, the MSHA
PEL is the same as the OSHA PEL for respirable dust containing at least 1% quartz:
However, OSHA adopted a PEL of 0.1 mg/m3 for quartz that was enforced from March 1, 1989 through March 22, 1993.
Since December 1972, the MSHA PEL for respirable
coal mine dust has been 2 mg/m3 Mining Research Establishment (MRE)1 unless the quartz content of the respirable coal
mine dust at the mine exceeds 5%. When the quartz content of the respirable dust
exceeds 5% in a coal mine sample, the MSHA PEL is reduced based on the following
The OSHA PEL of 2 fibers per cubic centimeter (f/cc) for asbestos was reduced to 0.2 f/cc on July 21, 1986, and to 0.1 f/cc on October 11, 1994. Therefore, asbestos exposures are presented for 1979–1986, 1987–1994, and for 1995 onwards. The MSHA PEL for asbestos has not changed from 2 f/cc since it was adopted.
The OSHA PELs for cotton dust (raw) vary by processing operation. They are: (i) 1 mg/m3 for the cotton waste processing operations of waste recycling (sorting, blending, cleaning, and willowing) and garneting; (ii) 0.75 mg/m3 for textile slashing and weaving operations; (iii) 0.50 mg/m3 for textile mill waste house operations or for dust from "lower grade washed cotton" used during yarn manufacturing; and (iv) 0.20 mg/m3 for yarn manufacturing and cotton washing operations.
Reporting of cotton dust data began when the process-specific OSHA PELs became effective on March 27, 1980.
Recommended Exposure Limits. NIOSH develops and periodically revises recommended exposure limits (RELs) for hazardous substances or conditions in the workplace. The RELs are then published and transmitted to OSHA and MSHA for use in promulgating legal standards. The RELs for mineral dusts and chemical hazards, including pneumoconiotic agents, are published in the NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards. The REL for coal mine dust was adopted in September 1995, while RELs for the other pneumoconiotic agents presented were adopted before 1979. The REL for beryllium and compounds is based on cancer, rather than pneumoconiotic effects. NIOSH has no full-shift RELs for the following pneumoconiotic agents: aluminum oxide, emery, synthetic graphite, rouge, fused respirable silica dust, titanium dioxide, and welding fumes (total particulate).
Data Selection
MSHA Coal Mine Dust. Coal mine dust samples presented here met all of the following criteria:
- Samples were obtained in the U.S. or one of its territories;
- Samples were designated by MSHA as valid;
- Samples were coded as "designated occupation", "non-designated occupation", "designated work position", "non-designated work position" with valid occupation codes, or "designated area" other than "intake air"; and
- Samples were not an optional operator sample.
MSHA Coal Mine Quartz. Coal mine quartz data presented here were obtained from MSHA. The MSHA Teradata Query System (often used by other investigators) only includes some specific samples sent from the Pittsburgh database for special analysis prompted by specific actions. Coal mine quartz samples presented here met all of the following criteria:
- Samples were obtained in the U.S. or one of its territories;
- Samples were designated by MSHA as valid;
- The sample duration was greater than zero;
- The quartz content was greater than or equal to zero;
- Samples were coded as "designated occupation", "non-designated occupation", "designated work position", "non-designated work position" with valid occupation codes, or "designated area" other than "intake air"; and
- Samples were not an optional operator sample.
MSHA Metal/Nonmetal Mine Data (MNMD). MNMD presented here met the following criteria:
- Samples were obtained in the U.S. or one of its territories; and
- Samples were not duplicated by another record, as determined by a comparison of all data fields.
NIOSH staff edited the MNMD provided by MSHA to remove duplicate records and records with internal inconsistencies, similarly to the methods previously used by the U.S. Bureau of Mines for updates prior to December 2005.
The respirable quartz exposure data includes the following MSHA respirable dust contaminant codes: 121 (listed nuisance dust, respirable fraction, less than 1% silica), 131 (unlisted dust, respirable fraction, less than 1% silica), 521 (respirable dust, quartz fraction not analyzed), and 523 (quartz, respirable crystalline silica fraction, greater than or equal to 1% quartz). Codes 121, 131, 521, and 523 are all respirable silica dust personal air samples. The specific code is assigned based on the laboratory's analytical result, matched to the definition of the code.
OSHA Integrated Management Information System (IMIS). IMIS samples presented here met all of the following criteria:
- The state code was one of the 50 U.S. states, Washington, DC, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands;
- The sample type was "area" or "personal" (excludes: "bulk", "wipe", "screen", "blood", and "urine" samples);
- The exposure type was "time-weighted average" or "not detected" (excludes: "ceiling", "peak", "dose", "sound reading", "not analyzed", and "not valid"); and
- The indicated OSHA PEL and units were applicable to the contaminant indicated by the substance code for the recorded date of sampling.
Data Analysis
The reported number of samples for an agent was the total number of samples meeting the above criteria. The percent of samples exceeding the PEL for an agent category was calculated as the number of samples in that category with measured exposures exceeding the PEL enforced at the time the sample was collected, divided by the total number of samples for the agent, and finally multiplying by 100. The percent of samples exceeding the REL for an agent was calculated as the number of samples in that category with measured exposure exceeding the REL, divided by the total number of samples for the agent, and multiplying by 100.
Exposures are commonly log normally distributed, rather than normally distributed. For this reason geometric mean exposures are presented. To calculate a geometric mean exposure, samples less than the minimum quantifiable concentration (MQC) were assigned a value, either the (MQC/2) or (MQC/√2), depending on the distribution of samples that were quantifiable.2 The analytical methods used to calculate the MQC for selected pneumoconiotic agents are presented in the Selected Pneumoconiotic Agent Categories table below. The calculation assumes a sample duration of 6 hours for cotton dust and 7 hours for other agents.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) asbestos MQCs changed over time since 1979; therefore, appropriate MQCs were used for each time period.
The limit of detection of 10 micrograms was determined by the sensitivity of the balance. Results for cotton dust samples below the MQC (3.5% of all cotton dust samples) could not be assigned to a specific cotton dust processing operation and were not included.
The MSHA respirable coal mine quartz data are based on analyses of respirable coal mine dust samples. Not every respirable coal mine dust sample is analyzed for quartz. Therefore, the percent of respirable coal mine dust samples exceeding the MSHA PEL were calculated using the MSHA PEL of 2 mg/m3 MRE for respirable coal mine dust containing no more than 5% quartz.
For the MSHA respirable coal mine quartz data, the quartz concentration is used
in calculating the geometric means. The quartz concentration is calculated using
the formula:
The geometric means of exposure to quartz are reported for OSHA samples. However, the reported percentage exceeding the PEL compares only the respirable dust samples containing at least 1% quartz to the PEL for respirable dust containing at least 1% quartz. The exception is from March 1, 1989 through March 22, 1993, when OSHA enforced a PEL of 0.1 mg/m3 for respirable quartz. During this period the percentage greater than the PEL compares the exposure to quartz to 0.1 mg/m3.
MSHA - Mine Safety and Health Administration; OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration
* No data reported for this agent in the most recent provisional data.
** See Limitations.
NOTE: The following documents were reviewed to identify pneumoconiotic agents: ACGIH® Documentation of TLVs®, 6th edition; Occupational Respiratory Diseases Report, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Pub. No. 86-102; the NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards, NIOSH Pub No. 2005-149; and NIOSH Criteria Documents.
|Pneumoconiotic Agent Category
(as defined for eWoRLD)
|MSHA Agents in Category
|MSHA Analytical Method
|Asbestos, fibers >5 µm in length (3MgO.2SiO2.2H2O)
|Coal Mine Dust
|Respirable coal mine dust, <=5% quartz
|Respirable coal mine dust, >5% quartz
Respirable dust, >1% quartz
Nuisance dust (respirable fraction), <1% quartz*
Unlisted particulate (respirable fraction), <1% quartz*
Respirable dust (not analyzed or below detection limit)*
|MSHA coal: MSHA P7/NIOSH 7300
MSHA metal/nonmetal: MSHA P2/NIOSH 7500
|Aluminum oxide dust (as Al2O3)
Aluminum oxide fume (as Al2O3)
Beryllium dusts (as Be)
Beryllium fumes (as Be)
Cobalt dusts (as Co)
Cobalt fumes (as Co)
Iron oxide fume (as Fe2O3)
Titanium dioxide dust (as TiO2)
Titanium dioxide fume (as TiO2)
Welding fumes (total dust)
|Cristobalite (respirable fraction)
|Talc, nonfibrous, <1% quartz
|NIOSH 0600 (gravimetric)/MSHA P8 (impinger)
MSHA - Mine Safety and Health Administration; NIOSH - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration
* See Limitations.
|Pneumoconiotic Agent Category
(as defined for eWoRLD)
|OSHA Agents in Category
|OSHA Compliance Analytical Method (SLCTC)
|OSHA Consultation Analytical Method (WOHL)
|Asbestos [actinolite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite, tremolite]
Talc, containing fibrous tremolite
|WOHL method (based on NIOSH 7400 and OSHA ID-160)
|Cotton Dust
|Cotton dust (raw)
|1910.1043 - Appendix A; SOP for nuisance dust
|WW001.6.0 (5µm PVC filter)
|Respirable crystalline silica (as quartz)
Respirable crystalline silica/tripoli (as quartz)
Respirable coal dust, >5% quartz
|WOHL method (based on NIOSH 7500 and OSHA ID-142)
|Alpha-alumina (total dust)
Aluminum oxide
Antimony and compounds (as Sb)
Beryllium and compounds (as Be)
Cobalt, metal, fume and dust (as Co)
Iron oxide fume (as Fe2O3)
Tin, inorganic compounds, except oxide (as Sn)
|Carbon black
|Silica, respirable cristobalite
|WOHL method (based on NIOSH 7500 and OSHA ID-142)
|Welding fumes (total dust)
|SOP for nuisance dust
|WW001.6.0 (5µm PVC filter)
ID - Identification number of the OSHA sampling and analytical method
NIOSH - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration
PVC - Polyvinyl chloride
SLCTC - Salt Lake City Technical Center
SOP - Standard operation procedure
WOHL - Wisconsin Occupational Health Laboratory
1 The MRE designation refers to the Mining Research
Establishment of the National Coal Board, London, England. MSHA's PELs for respirable
coal mine dust and respirable coal (Return to text)
2 Hornung R, Reed L. Estimation of average concentration in the presence of nondetectable values. Appl Occup Environ Hyg 1990;5:46–51. (Return to text)
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It has always been important for authors and researchers to maintain and present accurate records of their work and experience. In this digital age, an author can achieve such record-keeping by using a persistent digital identifier, a number associated with a particular author that remains with him or her, regardless of changes in discipline, research project, organization, or position. ORCID, a not-for-profit-organization working to make it easier to connect research results to authors, has stepped in to provide just such a service. To date, they have registered over 2.5 million ORCID iDs for their users, and this number grows daily.
ORCID first opened its registry allowing researchers to register ORCID iDs and link their works to their iD in 2012, and the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) was one of the first federal organizations to embrace the ORCID concept. In spring 2013, OSTI moved to help make it even easier for researchers to employ ORCID iD by offering the option to submit scientific and technical information (STI) records including an ORCID iD via E-Link, the DOE corporate STI ingest system. Once records have been processed, users may search SciTech Connect by ORCID iD to find works associated with that iD. Under this system, authors curate their ORCID Works list manually, adding records found in OSTI's databases.
In April 2012, The Economist ran a biting editorial arguing that, "[w]hen research is funded by the taxpayer or by charities, the results should be available to all without charge." Academic journals, the magazine contended, were raking in huge profits by selling content that was supplied to them largely for free and in the process restricting public access to valuable research to just those willing to pay for subscriptions. The answer to this "absurd and unjust" situation, The Economist wrote, is "simple": governments and foundations that fund research "should require that the results be made available free to the public."
We at the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) have found that providing full public access to the research DOE funds is simple in principle and complex in practice. And reflecting on this 2012 editorial, we can say that a great deal of progress has been made toward reaching the goal of free public access it sets out. And much of that progress is due to hard collaborative work by both the government and publishers.
Following the February 2013 memo from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on "Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research," all major U.S. federal science agencies are now implementing public access plans, which comprehend both publications and data.
Fumaroles at Brady Hot Springs, Nevada.
Image credit: DOE Office of Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy, Photo by Dante Fratta
In the 1800s, the Brady Hot Springs geothermal fields were known as the "Springs of False Hope." As pioneer wagon trains traveled across the northern Nevada desert on their way to California, their thirsty animals rushed to the springs only to find scalding 180° water and bare land. Additionally, the water was loaded with sodium chloride and boric acid.
These geothermal fields were not a welcoming place, but that changed over time; Brady Hot Springs could now be called the "Springs of Hope." In recent years, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) has funded a wide array of geothermal research projects at the Brady Hot Springs site. One, an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) project, was the first EGS project to be connected to the grid and resulted in a 38 percent increase in power output from brine at Ormat's Desert Peak 2 geothermal power plant in the Brady complex, according to Ormat Technologies, a leading geothermal company and one of DOE's primary collaborators in the project. GTO's Brady Hot Springs projects research results are available in the SciTech Connect database.
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave
Observatory (LIGO) in Livingston, LA.
Image credit: LIGO Laboratory
Interferometers are investigative tools used in many fields in science and engineering. They work by merging two or more sources of light or other waves to create an interference pattern, which can be precisely measured and analyzed. Interferometers are making possible significant advances in scientific research. One of these advances is in astronomy, where laser interferometers are opening a new era in the exploration of the universe.
In 1972, a young Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics professor, Rainer Weiss, drew up a teaching exercise using a basic concept for an interferometer to detect gravitational waves. This work later became the blueprint for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), a national facility for gravitational wave research. LIGO is funded by the National Science Foundation and other public and private institutions.
LIGO currently consists of two of the world's largest and most sensitive interferometers located 1,865 miles apart on DOE's Hanford Site at Hanford, Washington, and in Livingston, Louisiana, shown in the image above. These incredible laser interferometers operate in unison using laser interferometry to measure the minute ripples in space-time caused by passing gravitational waves from space events. Observed signals from the Hanford and Livingston detectors are then superimposed to verify the gravitational waves and their origin.
Two solitons in the same medium.
Image credit: Mathematics and
Statistics at ScholarWorks @UMass
Amherst (Open Access)
In 1834, naval engineer John Scott Russell was riding his horse along the Union Canal in the Scottish countryside when he made a mathematical discovery. As he subsequently described it in his "Report on Waves," presented at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1844, Russell noticed a boat had stopped abruptly in the canal leaving the water in a state of violent agitation. A large solitary wave emerged from the front of the boat and rolled forward at about eight miles per hour without changing its shape or speed. He continued on his horse to follow the wave down the canal for nearly two miles until the wave became lost in the winding channel. Russell called this beautiful phenomenon the "wave of translation," and it has become known as a solitary wave, or soliton.


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Tigers-White Sox has call overturned
By Scott Merkin / MLB.com
CHICAGO -- The White Sox won their first replay challenge of the season on Wednesday in a play that involved Gordon Beckham's line drive to center with one out in the third inning against the Tigers at U.S. Cellular Field.
Adam Eaton had reached base on an eight-pitch walk from Detroit starter Max Scherzer, when Beckham followed two pitches later with a sinking shot to center that one-hopped Austin Jackson. Eaton had to stop halfway to make sure the ball fell, and Jackson's throw to second originally was ruled a force out at second by umpire Jerry Layne.
On the video challenge, the call was overturned as Eaton clearly beat the throw into second. Beckham was credited with a base hit, but the White Sox did not score in the inning.
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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"Through an agreement with its partners at New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit), select Amtrak Northeast Regional and Keystone Service trains will be permitted to make special stops at NJ Transit's Secaucus, New Jersey, transfer station prior to and following the Super Bowl. Also, Amtrak will suspend all routine repair work in the Hudson River Tunnels for Super Bowl weekend, allowing for the two available tunnels to remain operational," Amtrak said Jan. 14.
"In addition, the United States Coast Guard has granted Amtrak's request to suspend all non-emergency opening requests from maritime traffic at the Portal Bridge in Newark, New Jersey, on the day of the game. Each of these measures will enhance the overall reliability of Northeast Corridor service between New York and New Jersey for those traveling to and from the game," Amtrak said.
Amtrak normally does not usually serve Secaucus Junction Station, despite efforts from New Jersey rail advocates to consider the market opportunities to tap NJ Transit customers using three rail lines traversing Bergen County, which holds roughly 10% of the Garden State's residents.
Amtrak passengers "presenting a valid Super Bowl game ticket at Secaucus" will be allowed on board NJ Transit's rail shuttle service linking Secaucus with MetLife Stadium. "Amtrak has also designated game day volunteers to staff Penn Station in New York and the Secaucus transfer station to guide passengers to their destinations and answer any questions they may have about getting to and from the stadium."


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Laser. How do he do it?
Laser. How do he do it?
notice how good Harris is in coverage
Just can't cover a tight end.
foster = 9+ yards/carry average
are you fing kidding me
Nobody within 10 yards of Owen Daniels
Middle wide open
Horrible blitz schemes by Rex
Wtf was that.. Rex is losing this chess match bad
Holy **** where is the defense? Rex you fraud, you pansy.
4 years and this team still can't cover the tight end unreal
What defense was that?
Terrible. Terrible scheme.
This is where the wheels fall off. The game will be out of reach shortly
Worst third down defense I have ever seen in my life
REX is making SAR I look like a GENIUS tonight.