They hadn't eaten for three days when we got to them. They had no blankets, nothing. They were sleeping on the floor. They had no money to buy food.

Some of them had been there two or three days. Some of them had not eaten in six days.

When I first got it, it meant nothing to me because I knew nothing about the mines. But when I looked over it and saw there had been recommendations made.

I have no idea when I'm going to hear the verdict. It's anywhere between three to nine days. So all I can do is sit tight at the moment. I think things went fairly but we'll have to wait and see.

When I was five years old I saw an insect that had been eaten by ants and of which nothing remained except the shell. Through the holes in its anatomy one could see the sky. Every time I wish to attain purity I look at the sky through flesh.

[Aspen's blankets are finding their way into jackets as well.] You could use two or three millimeters in a jacket and replace a significant volume of down, to have something much leaner and body-forming, ... There's also interesting work going on to perhaps address firefighter suits. The dream there is instead of 35 pounds of vulcanized rubber, you have something with more freedom and less weight so they can do their jobs.