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The History of Pedicabs in San Francisco
Pedicabs first appeared in San Francisco in 1980 when Jeff and Helena Sears started Barbary Coast Pedicab with 8 cabs. They operated in and around Fisherman's Wharf and Chinatown, where they faced concern by area merchants who were always skeptical of any new player in the tourist-rich neighborhoods. Despite the opposition from some groups, their business became one of the most enjoyable attractions in San Francisco, and they continued to grow.
Pedicab drivers came from all walks of life and from all corners of the world. They were a colorful and eccentric bunch. Many had pedicabbed in other U.S. cities or countries. It provided a great summer job for some, and an adventurous alternative lifestyle for others who would move from city to city, riding a pedicab wherever they landed.
As they gained popularity, more pedicabs began to operate along the wharf. Some were part of organized groups, while others were just individuals showing up with their pedicabs for the day. With no rules or regulations at the time, it was hard to control to the quality of the industry. Disputes between pedicab companies and/or drivers weren't easily resolved due to the lack of proper laws. Organized companies such as Barbary Coast were concerned that some of the rogue pedicab drivers were threatening the industry by giving it a bad reputation.
The local merchants weren't any more accepting of pedicabs either. Some of them called the cabs tacky. In 1985, when asked about pedicabs, the president of the Fisherman's Wharf Merchants Association, Chris Martin, said, "I'm not proud of the honky-tonk you see in the area already." But the public appeal for pedicabs was strongly evident by the increasing number of fares. People enjoyed the open air experience and driver interaction that a pedicab ride provided, and it was quickly becoming one of the many awesome things to do in San Francisco.
By the mid 1980s there were over 50 pedicabs operating in San Francisco. The industry had shown that it had a strong demand, but it was still suffering growing pains. Some wharf merchants and city officials still complained about pedicabs. The Sears' were frustrated that the reputation of the industry was being tarnished, and some of the rogue companies and drivers were making matters worse.
One of these companies, Artie Shaw Rickshaws, was known for their Thai style rickshaws driven by some of San Francisco's flower children. They were colorful and hip, but would eventually get booted from their Port lease after complaints of illegal activities and rumored ties to the Hells Angels. As the unregulated pedicab scene continued, the organized companies decided to make a strong push for more Port regulation to protect the quality of the industry.
In the early 90s, there were two pedicab companies operating in The City: Barbary Coast and Rama. They fought to gain acceptance from the S.F. Port Commission. They wanted to be recognized as legitimate Port businesses and establish a set of pedicab regulations to prevent rogue drivers from damaging the image of San Francisco pedicabs. They also lobbied for legal pedicab parking zones. At the time, drivers were often hassled and/or ticketed for parking along yellow curbs. There was no place a pedicab could legally stop and wait for a fare in the Wharf or along The Embarcadero.
The two companies and their drivers campaigned hard for the cause. They took the issue to the 5 member Port Commission, and then Supervisor Angela Alioto. In 1992, on the day of the hearing, dozens of drivers filled the court room to show support for pedicabs and their livelihoods.
In a 3-0 decision (2 absent), the Port Commission granted pedicabs a three month trial of official pedicab parking zones. One zone was at the Ferry Building, and the other was inside Fisherman's Wharf at Pier 41. This was a major victory for the pedicab companies. The ruling not only further legitimized their operations, but also was a turning point towards a more friendly relationship with Port and city officials. The three month trial would go on to be made permanent.
The mid-late 90s were a great time for pedicabs in S.F. as the they gained legitimacy and benefited from a booming dot-com economy. Although Rama Pedicab ended business in 1996, Barbary Coast kept going strong. The unlicensed companies and drivers were now gone due to the new regulations. By the year 2000 though, the dot-com bust had arrived, and Sears decided to sell almost all of his pedicabs to a company in New York. Pedicabs all but came to a halt in San Francisco. There was a driver named Craig Nairn who had purchased 5 cabs, and for a moment, his cabs, along with two licensed independent operators, were the only pedicabs on S.F.'s streets. A handful of drivers shared Craig's cabs as they struggled to keep the San Francisco pedicab scene alive, but soon Craig would end up selling his pedicabs as well, leaving only a couple of independent drivers left.
Keith Saggers, who had worked on and off for Sears since 1982, was one of the licensed independent operators. He purchased his first pedicab from Sears in 1992, and then in March of 2001 he purchased the remaining 3 pedicabs that were left over from Barbary Coast. With these 4 pedicabs, and 10 other cab frames that came with the deal, Saggers carried on the legacy of the original San Francisco pedicab company, and pioneered what is now San Francisco Pedicab -- or Keith's Pedicabs.
The early 2000s continued to be a rough time for pedicabs in The City. The lingering effects of the dot-com bust, along with the tragic and economic crushing events of 9/11 left the lone company struggling to survive.
By 2004, business was getting back to normal, and a new company named Electric Time put 6 pedicabs on the street. San Francisco Pedicab and Electric Time shared the roads until 2006, when Electric Time decided to get out of the business. From that time on, it was one lone individually licensed driver, and SF Pedicab's 15 cabs which were the only pedicabs operating in The City.
Public support for pedicabs continued to grow even though the number of cabs on the street was declining. Pedicabs provide green transportation, they are able to navigate through traffic jams, riders enjoy open air views, and they are downright fun! Despite a bump in the road during the 2008 economic slump, pedicabs continued to grow in popularity in San Francisco and elsewhere.
In 2010, national pedicab chain Coaster Pedicab, Inc. opened up shop in San Francisco as Golden Gate Pedicab, and in 2011, one of their former drivers would go on to start his own pedicab company, Cabrio Taxi. The three companies, along with one individually licensed driver, are presently the only pedicabs operating in The City.
Today San Francisco Pedicab upholds the S.F. spirit with a diverse fleet of 20 colorful and customized pedicabs. Our fun and knowledgeable drivers still serve all the traditional tourist attractions in San Francisco, as well as Giants games and other events at AT&T Park.
Kids and adults alike can't help but smile when it's pedicab time. Pedicabs are more than just transportation -- they're entertainment!


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In adopting the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, the countries of the world signed on to a huge collective effort to transform their approach to development, in order to create a more prosperous, equitable and sustainable future for all. Now each country is looking at the actions they need to take to meet that pledge. Every country faces a unique set of challenges, but there are also similarities that offer opportunities for cross-country learning, particularly within regions or among countries with similar development trajectories.
During the year and a half of negotiations that resulted in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), IRF organised a series of well-received informal weekend retreats for government negotiators. The retreats offered a carefully facilitated "safe space", outside of the formal inter-governmental process, for negotiators to collectively explore critical aspects of the evolving goal framework. Following the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, a number of "graduates" of the retreats encouraged IRF to organise similar events, bringing key SDG actors from different countries together to share ideas and experiences on key challenges. Earlier this year, two IRF partners, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), committed funding to allow IRF to conduct an initial series of retreats, each targeting a specific region.
The High Level Group in support of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda was created in 2015 at the initiative of the Prime Minister of Sweden. It brings together the leaders of nine countries with a shared commitment to showing political leadership, partnership and responsibility in order to achieve the SDGs by 2030. High Level Group members have endorsed this new IRF retreat series and several have offered to host individual retreats.
Four 2-day retreats are planned for the coming year. Each will bring together representatives of government planning agencies from several countries in the regions in which they are held. Most will also include participants from civil society, private sector leaders and representatives of regional organisations.
The first retreat, Achieving the SDGs' vision of equity, growth and resilience in Africa through regional cooperation, will be held in Liberia in September 2017. Participants will use case studies and examples from their own experience to explore two major dimensions of sustainable development: inclusive and sustainable economic growth and effective, accountable governance institutions. The focus of discussions will be on West African challenges and experiences, but with attention also to relevant learning from throughout the continent. The retreat is being organised by the Government of Liberia, IIED on behalf of IRF, and the Open Societies Initiative for West Africa, whose sister organisation for southern Africa is also an IRF member.
A retreat on ownership and operationalisation of the SDGs will take place in October in Colombia. At the retreat, government planners from twelve Latin American countries will map out national strategies around those themes, share information and network. A scoping paper prepared by IRF partner Rimisp (Latin American Centre for Rural Development) will provide material for presentations and discussions. The retreat's organisers are the Government of Colombia's Department of National Planning and SEI and Rimisp on behalf of IRF.
The governments of Timor Leste and Germany have expressed interest in hosting similar retreats for their regions in 2018.
IRF partners expect the retreat series to add value to the more formal processes around the SDGs, such as national consultations and the annual UN High Level Political Forum. They also hope to provide participants with a moment to look away from the specifics of SDG targets and indicators and focus instead on the big opportunities for transformative change embodied in this exciting new universal agenda.

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What a joy it was reading this novel! And I'm so glad I purposely saved it as the last book to read from The Women's Prize longlist. I had a hunch it'd be a pleasurable and immersive story and it was. It's the kind of book I was eager to get back to every time I had to put it down which is something I can't say about some other literary novels no matter how clever or interesting they are. Given how much I enjoyed reading both Imogen Hermes Gowar's debut novel and "The Parentations" I'm beginning to think my favourite kind of historical fiction has a dash of the supernatural mixed in with it. Although, to be honest, "The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock" is almost entirely firmly grounded in reality. The mermaid element comes to stand for something more emotional and rooted in the real world later in the novel. It's primarily the story of a widower businessman whose livelihood is at stake when his merchant vessel is unwittingly traded away and a high society escort/prostitute named Angelica Neal who is reentering her trade after the death of a duke that kept her and left her nothing. Their stories collide in a richly imagined version of late-18th century London with its bawdy houses of ill repute and emerging middle class neighbourhoods.
Fans of Sarah Waters are likely to enjoy this novel for Gowar's incredibly engaging prose style and the rich way she reimagines this historical period without making her research too evident. Also in Waters' fashion, there's a playfully indulgent sexiness to the writing where a woman's breasts are described as "full and pale, seamed with one or two pearly lines, quivering just fractionally in time with her pulse" and, in response, a man is "hard as a yardstick." It's also the kind of story about a historical time period that wouldn't have been written in the time its set because Gowar adds realistic details that wouldn't have normally been included. For instance, in one part a woman visits a household where she drinks a great deal of tea and in the carriage back has an urgent need to urinate. So Gowar doesn't shy from showing how cumbersome and messy a situation like this would have been in the time period. Also, it gives some presence to racial minorities in Georgian times. One of the sub-plots involves a prostitute named Polly who is bi-racial and a black servant named Simeon. They have very different attitudes towards race and feelings about how to navigate English society as members of a racial minority. While I'm glad Gowar took care in representing different kinds of people from this time period, their stories are perhaps too self-contained and slight within such a larger story so it feels close to tokenism. Nevertheless, she portrays their plight in a sensitive way.
Mostly I found myself drawn towards the character of Angelica and I was wholly wrapped up in her story. She's someone who seems quite superficial and selfish, but comes from a difficult background and has a dogged faith in intense romance. It's skilful the way Gowar made me care about her even when she was doing foolish or cruel things. And it's also compelling how the characters around her seem to caution and advise her against making obvious mistakes, but Angelica can't stop herself from getting into trouble and falling into disgrace. Mr Hancock is sensitive to the fact that "She is a woman out of place, this Angelica Neal, a piece fallen loose from a great machine." This combined with the melancholy losses Mr Hancock has endured gives the novel real depths of feeling which might not be evident at first. Their journeys take them to a place which should seem like a happy conclusion, but a lasting sense of fulfilment and contentment remain elusive. Rather than stand as a thing of glorious wonder, the mermaid that the characters seek becomes merely "A thing that tells us what we really want is out of reach." For a novel that appears on the surface to be an indulgent historical tale, "The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock" has a real emotional resonance.


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Jenna has taught in both public charter and traditional schools. Her experience working in urban environments has brought great success in building teams and strategic plans that set the foundation for change beyond normal expectations. Jenna has also experimented with entrepreneurship as the founder of The Whole Teacher, a public benefit corporation that reshapes the way we take care of educators.
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A W Tozer once wrote that truth has many facets. By this he meant not that there is no absolute truth, but that truth in Christ is seen and known from any one of a multitude of perspectives, each of which can potentially add to the understanding of his truth. This is one reason why we can never own the truth of Christ, but must be continually challenged and changed by our engagement with it. It is too great for us to absorb completely or to observe from only our own perspective. The next revelation or experience may change our view radically.
This view of perspectives on truth is also important in understanding how we receive information and make judgments today. For instance, how I judge the possible guilt or otherwise of Oscar Pistorius will depend on a number of factors, including what coverage I read, hear or see of his trial. Am I swayed by his emotional condition, the aggression of the prosecutor and the brutality of his tactics, or the pain of the victim's family? Is the commentator reporting 'facts', speculation or merely his opinion? As I hear his selection of the day's events, how do I know which parts are reliable and what he has chosen to withhold?
I was struck by a recent radio report questioning who was telling the truth: the prime minister or the leader of the opposition. David Cameron had quoted official statistics on the economy's performance which supported a positive view of the effect of government economic policies. Ed Milliband challenged those statistics and the conclusions drawn with some official statistics of his own. An expert was summoned to opine on whose conclusions were right. Both, came the answer. It depends on what measures you use over what period – it's all in the perspective they used.
In truth, of course, the economy in its totality can only have performed in one way, but the choice of measurements used give rise to the science of spin; we lose the truth by trumping one perspective with another. We change the nature of the argument and promote perspective over substance. In order to justify ourselves and our position then and now, many resort to the trading of Truth for truths – yours and mine are both valid.
In that first Holy Week Jesus said to Pontius Pilate: "In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me" (John 18:37).
Pilate, the arch-politician, answered with a question: "What is truth?" For him, as for many of us, it is the expedient, the useful, the self-protecting; ultimately, that which wards off the truth presented in Christ himself.
We rarely have the complete picture and our view may indeed change as we learn more. The truth should be a mirror in which we really see ourselves and a lens through which we see everything else, as C S Lewis once observed.
The pursuit of truth is about more than information and facts to bolster our position. If we engage with it, the truth in all its varied facets will indeed challenge our perspectives, condition our judgments and add to our understanding, leading us to encounter Christ himself more fully.
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Diane Varsi started her show-business career by playing the coffee-house circuit as a folksinger. She finally found her true calling when she began taking acting lessons under the aegis of acting coach Jeff Corey. In a twinkling, Varsi was signed to a 20th Century-Fox contract and was cast as Alison McKenzie in the 1957 film version of Grace Metalious' Peyton Place, a performance that earned the 20-year-old novice actress an Oscar nomination. After two years of important roles in major Fox productions, she impulsively ran out on her studio contract, insisting that she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown (which proved to be the case). After several years' retirement in Vermont with her third husband, Varsi decided to give acting a second try. Unfortunately, 20th Century-Fox, still smarting over Varsi's violation of her contract, effectively blocked her chances at renewing her stardom. She was able to pick up roles in low-budget and independent productions, notably as wigged-out Sally LeRoy in the cult favorite Wild in the Streets (1968). After several years of off-and-on screen activity, Varsi retired for good in 1977. Diane Varsi died at the age of 54, of complications ensuing from a respiratory ailment and Lyme Disease.
Diane VarsiActive - 1957 - 1977 | Born - Feb 23, 1938 | Died - Nov 19, 1992 | Genres - Drama, Romance, Crime
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A quick and dirty explanation of prescription drug costs...
For the last several years, health care reform has been a major emphasis of political conversation. More recently, anytime healthcare gets brought up, the conversation goes straight to prescription drug costs. This is a complicated issue. It involves US gov't policies, public and private research, banking, investing, interest rates, foreign gov't policies, capitalism, socialism and ethics. Here, I am going to do my best to boil it down to the essential elements.
First, the reason this has been getting attention is a few recent high-profile cases of price gouging of life saving medicines by pharmaceutical companies. I want to be completely clear, that this is NOT the reason for high drug prices. It is a very good thing that drug prices are getting attention, but a very bad thing that the focus of media coverage has been a few outliers that lead people to believe that drug prices are totally arbitrary.
First, a little about the science of developing drugs. As someone working in biotech, I can tell you that most ideas don't pan out. If they did, disease wouldn't be much of a problem. As it is, coming up with new drugs that eliminate suffering and help people lead longer healthier lives is not at all easy. In fact, a recent study found that the likelihood of a drug that makes it to a phase I clinical trial ever achieving approval is 9.6%. To be clear, only the very most promising laboratory work gets translated to a phase 1 clinical trial. When you take that into account, WAY less than 1% of tested drugs will ever achieve approval. For the sake of argument here, I will make a super generous estimate that 10% of drugs tested achieve approval. I will assume there are zero R&D or time costs prior to beginning phase 1 trials. This is the first part.
The next piece of the equation is US Gov't policies. In order to get a new drug approved in the US, it must go through the FDA approval process. This process is designed to protect patients, but it is also time consuming. The FDA estimates that from phase 1 clinical trials to approval is 5-7 years, plus additional post-market surveillance. Again, I will use the very conservative estimate that a drug can go from phase I to market in 5 years.
Now we come to a cross-section of capitalism, banking, interest rates, and investing. One universal truth, is that NOTHING is free. As it turns out developing drugs is particularly expensive. This is in part because so much specialized equipment and knowledge is necessary, and in part because when the stakes are human health, we want people investing adequate resources to ensure results. Let's make another very conservative estimate that it will cost $100M to get a drug from phase 1 to approval. Now we tie back in with everything else we've discussed. Because in order for drugs to get developed it requires capital. So let's say someone wants to develop a drug. Let's assume they have to raise $100M up front to develop it. Now, at the very minimum in order to fund the project, returns have to be better than what you would expect investing in an index fund. For simplicity, let's say 5% annually. That means that in 5 years, returns would have to be $127M. In a realistic scenario where the returns come over a long period rather than as a bulk sum upon reaching the market, that $127M becomes much larger. But wait....Only 10% of drugs reach the market from phase 1 trials. So now, to account for the risk. The returns have to be $1.27B in order to be as good an investment as an index fund. Now, it may not be possible to invest in 10 different drugs, and even if you do, there is no guarantee that one of those will succeed, so the capital for investing in pharmaceuticals comes at a premium, because it has to compensate for the risk. Now we are looking more in the range of $1.5-2B.
Now, I hope at this point you see that developing drugs is incredibly time and resource intensive. I hope you are also still skeptical about the prices we pay in the US. They are TOO high. Everything that I have said about drug development doesn't account for the prices we pay. So the next conclusion most people assume is, "those lousy, greedy, pharma executives are screwing us". However, you have probably also heard, "they have affordable drugs in (insert country with socialized medicine)." Why then, are those greedy people not screwing the sick people in other countries? Do they have a particular disdain for the US? No.
This is where foreign gov't policies (especially those with single payer systems) come into play. You can think about these governments like a really big insurance company. The one big difference is that they are the only game in town so if you live in one of these countries they WILL be your insurance company. In the US, the only thing we hate more than pharma companies charging ridiculously high prices for medication, is insurance companies refusing to cover those medications. This is where we lose our leverage. Countries with single payer systems tend to either have laws or official policies governing how much they are willing to pay for drugs, and often it is dependent on manufacturing costs. So let's consider Drug A. Drug A must make $1B in order to be a profitable drug. Each pill costs $1 to make. The company making drug A expects to sell 200M pills in the US, and 300M in countries with single payer systems. This means we would expect the pills to cost roughly $2/each. Instead the countries with the single payer systems say we will only pay $1.01/pill, because you shouldn't be charging us more than it costs you to make the pill. Now they go to negotiate the drug price in the US, and they still need to make $1B, but they can only make that money in the US. Additionally, they know that consumers in the US will demand that drug companies cover the cost, no matter what it is, so they tell US insurers that the pill will be $5/pill each. Thus, a pill that costs $1 in Country B can be $5 in the US. So in a less direct way, the US is paying for the healthcare of other nations the same way we have been paying for the defense of other nations.
What can be done about this?
For starters, we can be realistic. This is one place where we should lower the cost of delivering healthcare in our country, but it is not by any means the only place. We can't hope to fix this and suddenly have cheap healthcare. Also, we have to do basic arithmetic. We have to understand that if we pay the same thing here that places like Canada or New Zealand currently pay, new drugs simply will NOT get made. There is a minimum amount of money that drugs have to make in order to incentivize the research and manufacture of new ones. We can force drug companies to sell drugs in other develop nations at a similar price to what they sell them for in the US. This would likely cause our own drug prices to plummet, but it would also cause the drug prices in many friendly nations to skyrocket making their current health care systems untenable.
What makes the most sense to me is a piecemeal approach. Let's not allow drug companies to use the US to subsidize other nations to the extent they currently do. Lets also fund more translational research with public money, so that we can minimize risk and there fore the expect return on capital in drug development. Lastly, what if we made the FDA work more like the CPSC in order to allow safe drugs to make it to the market substantially faster also lowering the expected returns.


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The function of magnetic energy was theorized by physicist James Clerk Maxwell in the 19th century as being comprised of both magnetic and electric forces. Maxwell's equations established the two forms of energy as operating under a single force, with each magnetic field generating a distinctive electrical current.
Maxwell's equations expanded upon known relations of electric and magnetic fields through determining that various forms of light are sources of electromagnetic energy that may be produced through transmitting magnetic currents through conducive materials. Electromagnetic energies vary depending upon their wavelengths, which visibly manifest themselves in a spectrum of colors that occur in natural phenomena, such as the Northern Lights.
Magnetic energy may be generated to attract other metal pieces or to store power in the form of batteries and dams. The hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls generates electricity through rotating magnetic field forces discovered by Nikola Tesla, who developed polyphase alternating current generators capable of changing the direction of voltage.
Electromagnetism is additionally harnessed in the form of direct current developed by Thomas Edison through devices called dynamos, which consist of magnets rotating within the influences of other magnetic fields. As with generators, dynamos include stationary and rotating magnets that respectively build magnetic fields and sever lines of magnetic flux. This process generates the electricity used in most contemporary and developing technologies.


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Transparency and fraud are issues that display advertisers have always sought to control. Banner ads appearing next to horrific stories have been well documented for years, and programmatic trading, ad fraud and online brand safety all remained in top 10 biggest concerns for the ISBA's advertiser membership in its annual survey.
With these topics making headlines once again amidst a storm of false news, extremism and shocking, divisive content, display advertisers need to act quickly and decisively in order to allay brand's concerns.
Today, the Guardian and the Government have joined Mercedes-Benz and other brands in assertive action to, quite rightly, challenge Google's media supply chain after The Times exposed brands were unwittingly funding terror organisations when their ads were placed next to extremist content by ad exchanges. The industry is eagerly waiting Google's response after it was summoned to the Cabinet Office and received heavy criticism from brands for negligent ad placements.
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Minecraft an open-world game that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is your imagination.
Mods are add-ons allow changes Minecraft's game content from what it originally was. With Mods you can make your own world within Minecraft by programming a whole new set of rules and situations!
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- Newest File: LabyMod_v2.7.3_mc1.8.8.jar
- Release Type: Release
- Supports: 1.12.2, 1.11.2, 1.10.2, 1.9.4,1.9.2,1.9, 1.8.9,1.8.8,1.8,1.7.10
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LabyMod for the minecraft is an ALL-IN-ONE mod and contains a lot of features and settings, new update compatible with all versions 1.12.2, 1.11.2, 1.10.2 1.9.4,1.9.2, 1.9, 1.8.9,1.8, 1.7.10. It's the name with top 1 search and download for moment.
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Features Overview:
LabyMod extends Minecraft by adding a variety of useful features. Through cooperation with many large Minecraft servers, LabyMod provides exclusive features and information for various gamemodes.
Features Detail:
LabyMod consists of countless small and useful features, improving your gaming experience and allowing you to make the best out of Minecraft. In the following, the features are being explained briefly.
Laby Mod contains 7 main features:
- 1.7 Animations in Minecraft 1.8 and 1.9: Allow minecraft players to switch or choose animations and designs between mc 1.7 (1.7.10) and mc 1.9 (1.9.4,1.9.2), 1.8 (1.8.9,1.8.8). For a simple instance, if minecraft players don't like how the new blocking animation in 1.9, 1.8 looks, but they prefer the new more articulated tab list in mc 1.9,1.8, just find and active 1.7 the blocking feature with 1.9,1.8 tab list
- TeamSpeak in Minecraft: LabyMod added a new TeamSpeak tab very useful. This tab allows for a quick and easiest way to access the teamspeak in the current server which you logged and provides you with all the basic features you need: chatting and poking, moving, switching the channel. This feature is especially useful for players who only one monitor but it only work with one teamspeak server at same time
- LabyMod Chat: is simple way help minecraft players to connect, discuss everything together in minecraft. They can add, delete or block friends but that is not all. LabyMod chat allow players to send images,screenshots and voice chat. Besides the chat layout also based on Skype.
- Capes & Cosmetics (Unique yourself!): LabyMod allows you to adjust your playermodel individually! You can find various cosmetics and capes in our shop which are visible to all LabyMod users. Alternatively you can use free cosmetics provided by LabyMod which are only visible to you.
- Customizable: Adjust your GUI as you desire and receive many additional information directly in game.
- Server features: We're cooperating with many large Minecraft servers allowing you to improve your gaming experience.
- LabyMod Installer: You can add a variety of different compatible mods by a few simple mouse clicks during the installation.
Change log
LabyMod v2.7.98: (27/11/2016)
- Added new christmas cosmetic
- Recoded Cosmetic System
- Fixed LabyMod Chat join feature (now with server ports)
- Fixed PlayMinity Nick Support & Fixed bugs
- Added Timolia Nick Support & Fixed MSG Support
- Added new login screen for the auth server
- 'Not working?' option for the auth server
- Open link request screen
- Draggable skin preview (Skin Customization)
- Fixed cosmetic rotation while riding entitys
- New rabbit ears cosmetic animation if a player wears a witch or christmas hat
- New LabyMod Chat design changes & textfield auto focus
- Improved performance?
– Removed cape priority system
– Removed Cape Manager (Upload & Move)
- Bugfixes! 😉
LabyMod v2.7.97: (28/10/2016)
- GommeHDnet Nightmode search
- Original Minecon cape particle
- Added Ingame Skin Uploader
- Cape Report System (Ingame command /reportcape)
- Bugfixes!
LabyMod v2.7.9: (21/07/2016)
- BedWars Bed percentage
- Added ingame namechange history
- Fps drops fixed
- Controller support
- Fixed many crashes
LabyMod v2.7.8 (19/07/2016)
- New cosmetics
- Spotify track viewer in Minecraft
- Cape System recoded (json format)
- HD Capes quality increase (95% – jpg)
- Update-System recoded (json format)
- Mojang Status Viewer (+notification) in Minecraft
- Out of memory fixed? (missing textures)
- fixed skin rendering (second hand bug)
- Removed LabyMod info gui (Changelog/About/News)
- Possibility to sort friend list by recent messages
- LabyMod Chat friend status bar
- LabyMod for Minecraft 1.9.*
- Added WorldEdit CUI
- Blockbuild bugfix
- New cape servers
- Added BetterHat support
- Added Resourcepack24Mod support
- Added all cosmetics for free
- Added new cosmetic "Rabbit"
- Fps drops fixed
- Controller support
Compatible Mods for LabyMod:
- Optifine HD + Shader (GLSL Shaders Mod)
- WorldEdit CUI Mod
- Xaeros Minimap
- Toggle Sneak/Sprint (1.9.4,1.9 | 1.8.9,1.8.8,1.8)
- ItemPhysics (1.9.4,1.9 | 1.8.9,1.8.8,1.8)
- Resourcepack24 Mod (1.8.9,1.8.8,1.8)
- BetterHat (Animated Player feature) (1.8.9,1.8.8,1.8)
- BattysCoordinates (1.9.4,1.9 | 1.8.9,1.8.8,1.8)
- DirectionHUD (1.9.4,1.9 | 1.8.9,1.8.8,1.8)
- AccountManager (1.8.9,1.8.8,1.8)
- CustomCooldown Mod (1.9.4,1.9)
- Damage Indicator (1.9.4,1.9 | 1.8.9,1.8.8,1.8)
- NEI Mod
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Scientizing Science Policy: Implications for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy and R&D Evaluation
Kim, Gouk Tae
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In this dissertation research, I try to deepen the understanding of the logic and history behind science of science policy approaches and to substitute for this scientific evidence-based science policy model an evidence-critical and -informed model in which scientific and democratic claims are promoted simultaneously. Science of science policy, or what I call the scientizing science policy (SSP) discourse, is a strategic response of science policy community members to the following two socio-political developments: the government performance management reform movement and a new social contract of science. These two developments have motivated the science policy community to construct new science R&D management strategies that make science R&D investment more effective and economically beneficial than before. Former Presidential Science Advisor John Marburger played an important role in articulating an SSP approach at the federal level that opened up a political space for the larger SSP discourse to emerge and take hold. Other heterogeneous science policy community actors, including science agency managers and academic researchers, have also engaged and played major roles in shaping the premises, strategies, and directions that make up the SSP discourse by articulating their own approaches to SSP. The SSP discourse constitutes a series of strategies such as economizing and quantifying R&D investment decisions. In particular, to implement the ideas of performance reform and a new social contract of science in the field of science policy and management, the SSP community members have prioritized the development of data, models, and evidence related to federal R&D investment by funding studies on new scientific data, tools, and quantitative methods through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program. Interagency collaboration organized and supported by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is another key feature promoted by the SSP community. Through this research of the rise and development of the SSP discourse, I emphasize the following aspects that are relevant to both science policy practice and research community members. First, the SSP discourse demonstrates the influence of the performance reform movement on science, technology, and innovation policy and R&D management. Second, the SSP discourse has the strong potential to shift science policy makersâ focus from planning and implementing to evaluating federal R&D programs. Third, the SSP discourse not only reflects, but also promotes the tendency of public policy makers, politicians, and the public to rely on scientific claims and evidence when they are engaged in discussions or policy decision making processes related to science and technology. Fourth, the SSP discourse alters the balance of authority and influence among science policy actors, including science agency managers, scientists, and executive branch offices in the decision making process on federal R&D priority and investment. Fifth, even though there are conflicts and disagreements among science policy community members on the visions and future of the NSF SciSIP program, the SSP discourse is valuable as a space in which heterogeneous science policy research and practice community members can interact, learn from each other, and collaborate to develop U.S. science, technology, and innovation policy. I conclude by proposing an evidence-critical and -informed science policy in which the SSP discourse contributes to promoting democratic values in the science policy decision process. In particular, the evidence-critical and -informed model focuses on not only using scientific data and evidence when making federal R&D decisions, but also on promoting the democratic and deliberative process in monitoring R&D activitiesâ performance and social outcomes. In this model, I view the public as a legitimate stakeholder for evaluating federal R&D investment. This evidence-informed model can be implemented under the SSP discourse if the new R&D data, models, and tools developed by the NSF SciSIP-funded research are coupled with a new government performance website in which the public can access information about federal R&D activities as well as provide feedback about R&D investments to science policy makers.
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Steve Jobs returned to the public stage Monday to announce Apple's iCloud, a new online music storage service. Ray Suarez discusses the announcement with The Washington Post's Technology Reporter Cecilia Kang.
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Now, Apple's Steve Jobs returns to the stage to promote a new way to store and stream music online.
Ray Suarez has our report.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs received a standing ovation as he took the stage at the annual Apple Developers Conference in San Francisco.
He brought news of a new long-awaited service called iCloud that will allow customers to more easily share their data, like photos, contacts, documents and music, among devices.
STEVE JOBS, Apple:
We're going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life into the cloud.
ICloud users will have the ability to buy, store and stream music collections online. Consumers currently have to connect to their computers to transfer songs to their iPhones, iPads, and iPods. But iCloud would eliminate that step.
ICloud stores your content in the cloud and wirelessly pushes it to all your devices. So, it automatically uploads it, stores it and automatically pushes it to all your other devices. But, also, it's completely integrated with your apps. And so everything happens automatically, and there's nothing new to learn. It just all works.
It just works.
Google and Amazon recently launched similar services for music.
The other news was Jobs himself, whose announcement today was a break from a medical leave that began in January. He last made a public appearance in March to announce a new iPad.
The NewsHour's Spencer Michels was at the Apple event today and asked other attendees about their impressions.
JUSTIN BUR, Web developer: He's got good things to say. And you can — I think, as time goes on and he gets older and more frail, that the things he actually puts his energy into talking about and promoting are things that he considers really, really important.
GARY BENNETT, Web developer: This is like the Thomas, Thomas Edison, of our day. We have all these new innovations that are coming out, from the cloud to iOS applications and developer tools that nowhere else in the industry that you have.
But iCloud wasn't the only keynote announcement. Apple introduced an operating system for Mac computers called Lion, which it says will make personal computers behave more like mobile devices.
For more on Apple's announcement, we're joined again by The Washington Post's technology reporter, Cecilia Kang.
And with iCloud, Apple becomes the latest entrant to this marketplace. So, if you have been ignoring it so far, what is the cloud?
CECILIA KANG, The Washington Post:
Well, the cloud is a very fluffy — excuse the pun — term to describe really the Internet for devices.
And it's this idea, this service, this idea that your information, be it your music, your videos, your calendar, whatever information that you use on your devices, your laptop, your smartphone, iPad, your personal computer, no longer resides just in those silos on those devices itself, but can be accessed through the Internet.
And that really is a pretty revolutionary step, in that it makes all of us much more mobile, and it makes access to the Internet much easier and efficient from wherever you are and from whatever device, and all in one place.
Well, a lot of people have digital cameras, a smartphone, a laptop. What — and they have been managing content from place to place to place. What does this make possible that wasn't made possible pre-cloud?
Well, pre-cloud, everything had — your personal computer really was the center of your device ecosystem, if you will. So, if you wanted to share the songs that you just downloaded off of Amazon, iTunes, what have you, from your iPod to, say, your iPhone, you had to do that through the personal computer.
This is no longer. Now the Internet is actually the central platform, or the — really the stall or the reservoir of where all your information will reside. And that means that, if you want to on your iPhone access a song that previously was really on your laptop computer at home, you can do this through accessing the Internet right on command on — at that moment and very easily, and for free. And that was sort of one of the big announcements as well too, today.
If I put my stored and accumulated content on the cloud, is it private?
Well, that's a good question.
The — the devices will be encrypted. And that's what Apple said in passing. But there's a lot of questions as to your privacy and the security of cloud-based applications, Internet-based services. We have seen a lot of attacks on information, hacking attacks into Sony, Nintendo, PBS. You have seen a lot of these — this — the vulnerability of information that resides on the Internet.
And when I say it resides on the Internet, I mean that it resides on servers. You don't know where they are, but there are large data farms all over the country around the world, where bits — your bits and pieces, the bits, I should say, of the music that you have, the videos that you have, the bits, the actual digital packets, they reside in these places that you don't really as much control of.
So, when you make this decision to switch to cloud-based applications, it's much easier, more convenient and often much cheaper. But there often is the — there is the consideration of a tradeoff, perhaps, in that there may be less security involved. It's much safer when you have your information on your own computer that only you can access than on the Internet.
And your privacy is also perhaps in — in question, in that more people, more companies have access to what you're doing. And they can see what you're doing online.
I know young people — and I'm not going to use any names — who have a lot stuff on their hard drives that they didn't necessarily come to have in the most conventional ways, music, pieces of television shows, images, movies.
If you put that kind of stuff on the cloud, are there rights issues? Are there copyright issues? Are there purchase issues? Can somebody say, you know, that doesn't really belong to you, and purge what doesn't belong in your memory?
It's a great question, Ray.
The thing that concerns some people about this announcement is that Apple has decided, with iMatch, one of the services announced today, is to allow you to actually upload some of the content that you already have to match to what is available on iTunes. And that could include pirated music, pirated videos perhaps.
And there's no way to really tell how people got it once it's in your hands. And so there is a question as to whether this can expedite in some ways piracy, perhaps not. That's one thing that has held up the music industry from going full force into going into the cloud, and sharing these kinds of services and sharing the revenues that come from these sort of services from iTunes and Apple and services like Amazon and Google services as well.
But if I'm a music company, am I better off leaving well alone, or do I have some interest in making sure pirated material isn't in people's memories?
I think it's both.
In some ways, you don't have any choice. It's going to be captured anyway. Your music and your videos right now are being exchanged throughout peer-to-peer file sharing anyway. There are lots of technological solutions. But, really, when it comes down to it, the amount of pirated material online is so overwhelming that, in some ways, these new, cheaper services provide at least some sort of a solution to make it a little bit harder for piraters to exchange their information, because there may be more people willing to get it the legitimate way.
So, it's a really difficult question to stop piracy, to stop illegal trading of copyrighted material. This provides perhaps one way, so that people could see a more legitimate way to share information, to get their information across different devices that Apple and the music companies, and maybe the film companies as well down the road, will like.
Quickly, before we go, a lot of people were waiting to see Steve Jobs, since he's been on sick leave. How does he look? Was it enough to reassure people that he's still in control?
I think the fact that he showed up and he made an announcement about this service, iCloud, that he feels pretty strongly about obviously is a sign that he at least is not getting worse.
It's very important for Steve Jobs, as the head of his company — really, few people in corporate America personify their companies that they head like Steve Jobs does. He's so much the figure, the iconic figure of — head of this company.
And the fact that he showed up, he didn't look any worse. He looked like he was excited about the announcement he was going to make. That, I think, was well enough to assure people. Even though he didn't make any commentary about his health — as you know, he's on medical leave — the fact that he showed up and that he was — looked no worse was good news.
Cecilia Kang, thanks for joining us.
Thank you.


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Inconvenient Grace
Metra has been warning commuters that the Adams Street entrance to Union Station will be closed this weekend. Commuters were advised to use the Jackson and Canal Street entrances.
This seems to be an apt metaphor for my spiritual life: I'm always inconvenienced by the work God is accomplishing in my soul. Such feelings of inconvenience are not a time for despair or sadness. Rather, I consider them as moments of grace. Here's why:
- God is at work. I am being built into a temple where I can offer God perfect praise. This requires that the façade I have hidden behind all these—all the monuments I have built to honor everything that I have accomplished or achieve—have to be torn down.
- God is leading me. Until the construction is completed, I will have to follow the Holy Spirit as she leads me to alternate entrances, that is, new ways of thinking, seeing, and believing.
- God is challenging me. The Holy Spirit will lead me to question my assumptions about who God is, who I am, and who my neighbor is, and she will challenge me to love them—God, myself, and others—freely and completely.
"This is the time of fulfillment the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the Gospel." (Mark 1:15)
The kingdom of God must look like the work being done outside the Adams Street entrance. A lot of things are being torn down and new paths are being led so that God can flow more freely among us in the world today.
And while it may be inconvenient, the promise alone of what God's finished project will look like is liberating.


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Editor's Comment:
I am posting the following article in complete support of what the author is stating. I was raised a Catholic. I was Confirmed a Catholic and did my First Communion as a young boy. I left the Catholic Church when I was kicked out of the Confessional and became a liberal atheist in the 60's and 70's, but that's another story. By the 90's I started understanding I was a Conservative and found God again.
While I still don't practice any part of Catholicism, I have always respected the idea and existence of the Pope. I have always thought the Pope was always acting on behalf of good and honesty. If Pope Francis does what the following article implies, I would have to believe he, the Pope, is either very stupid or a Pope in name only. Does he really meet with atheists for advice? In my opinion he would then be added to the list of the uninformed.
My next question would then be, how can a Pope take such a position and be so uninformed?
We all know the climate is changing as it has always changed. To attribute it to man is way over to the left side of the ideological spectrum. Man-made global warming is a left wing progressive political movement disguised as science. The Pope needs to be a real Pope.
I'm Catholic and this Sunday I'm announcing that I'm disassociating myself from the Vatican and its pope. I urge other skeptic Catholics to consider doing the same. This is not a step I've taken lightly.
I'll be opting out of Germany's Kirchensteuer (Church Tax) and will not attend any services in the future. With their latest planned encyclical they are indicating that they have shifted back to the Dark Ages of bad-weather witches, superstitions and Medieval indulgences. Worse, they are openly subscribing to nutty end-of-times theories.
This comes on the heels of a recent announcement that Pope Francis intends to issue an encyclical on climate change. I am not renouncing
Catholicism Christianity, rather I am solely renouncing my recognition that the Vatican and Pope are the faith's administrator and moral compass. It's the last straw in an unending string of corruption, child sexual abuse and scandals that have raged within the Catholic Church in recent times.


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I'm really thrilled to return to the Southern Theater in Minneapolis for a concert with Jace Clayton, better known around the world as DJ/rupture. Not only is MPLS my favorite town full of great friends, great year round bike riding, and general awesomeness, it's also home to one of the coolest theaters in which I've ever had the chance to play. Music programming director Kate Nordstrum has consistently corralled innovative and eclectic artists often by bringing the pinnacle of New York Cool to the Culture Capital of the Midwest [editor's note: Owen just invented that title, but it's true].
At my last dance at the Southern in 2008, I was part of a MPLS satellite concert of NYC's Wordless Music Series performing music by Iannis Xenakis and John Cage alongside guitar looping artist Andrew Broder and laptop music/video composer, sepia.
This time around I'm bringing an all electroacoustic set with music by Austin composers Graham Reynolds and Steven Snowden, as well as works by Tristan Perich and Javier Alvarez. More on these composers and their music later, but they all bring something sonically and aesthetically unique to the table.
The show is Tuesday, December 14th, and tickets are available from this link.
A little more on Jace Clayton: Turntablist DJ/Rupture occupies a dizzying variety of musical and artistic spaces from holding court at parties and soloing with the Barcelona Symphony to running a record label, a great blog, and a radio show (to name just a few projects). An avid video collaborator, here's a look at a teamup with Brooklyn-based Panoptic:


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Very basic example of how it's possible to manipulate menu items by destroying the Dock (requires v2.0+), changing it, and then re-initialising it. I've used a list, but the same principles apply for non-lists. Note that care needs to be taken with styling in order to get seamless transition between docked and undocked!
Oops! I've just noticed a wee bug in v2.0.0 of jqDock, regarding the new noAntiFlutter option.
jqDock has had some anti-flutter code in it for a while, and I was asked to provide a means for disabling that code … which is why the noAntiFlutter option was introduced in v2.0.0. The intention was to keep the default options all working as before, ie. leaving noAntiFlutter turned Off (the default) would still run the anti-flutter code; and only by specifically turning noAntiFlutter On would the anti-flutter code be by-passed.
Unfortunately, I have somehow got the option back-to-front. Sorry! This means that in order to run jqDock v2.0.0 with the same anti-flutter code as previous versions had by default, you actually need to turn noAntiFlutter On!
The simplest way to do this is to modify the jqdock defaults immediately after the script has been loaded, which avoids having to change any individual Dock options you may have set up, eg:
<script type='text/javascript' src='jquery.jqDock.min.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
jQuery.jqdock.defaults.noAntiFlutter = 1;
My sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may cause, and I'll fix it in the next version asap.
If you want to do it in a way that doesn't require the inserted code to be removed if/when you upgrade to the next jqDock release, you can expand on the code above by testing for the version…
if(jQuery.jqdock && jQuery.jqdock.version === '2.0.0'){
jQuery.jqdock.defaults.noAntiFlutter = 1;


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As Obama ponders his first huge decision as the Democrats' "presumptive nominee," he might consider something that Hillary Clinton told me in January about the relationship between Nos. 1 and 2:
What we now know about how Dick Cheney basically controlled the information going to Bush means that we'll never really know how much responsibility Bush should be assumed to have taken with respect to serious decisions. The water will flow downstream, and often pool in great reservoirs of power that will then be taken advantage of by those who have been smart enough to figure out how to pull the levers. And I know from my own experience, and certainly watching how deeply involved Bill was in those areas that he thought were important, what it takes to try to get the government to respond. It's not easy. We're talking about this massive bureaucracy…and you have to be prepared on Day One to basically wrest the power away in order to realize the goals and vision that you have for the country.
In other words: beware of overweening Vice-Presidents. Bush was happy to turn over the shadow government to Cheney, because the details don't interest him and he probably trusts Cheney more than himself; but between Obama and Clinton the power relationship would be jealous rather than avuncular. It would be intolerable if his V.P. kept trying to manipulate the locks and dams to send the mighty stream of power flowing her way. Rick Hertzberg warned yesterday against a too-hasty decision made by Obama under the appearance of pressure. I would add: there are as many good reasons why Clinton should be among the top two or three choices as there are reasons why she would make a disastrous selection. Her seventeen-plus million votes are just the most obvious points in her favor. But much depends on her. Last night, in the concession speech she didn't make, Clinton said that she wants her supporters to be respected. To which I say: Senator Clinton, I am one of your supporters. My vote has been respected. It was duly recorded in Kings County and helped put you over the top here in New York. But if by "respected" you mean that my vote (and others') should land you an automatic spot on Obama's ticket, then that's not how I want my democratic participation to be respected. That kind of respect feels too much like the code of the street or the Cosa Nostra. That's about you, not me.
But if you mean that Obama has to understand that he has staggered across the finish line weak and dehydrated, and that your candidacy revealed the problem he has connecting with millions of Democrats who voted for you (and with millions of other Americans), and that he needs to listen to those skeptical people in small groups rather than simply bask in the adoration of the devoted thousands that came to see him last night in St. Paul—then I couldn't agree more.
(My own view is that the politically shrewdest choice Obama could make would be Chuck Hagel.)


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HI, I am using the TS Forecast (ARIMA) to forecast sales units, for customer/product for the next 12 months, I have installed the TS Forecast Model Factory, but cant figure out how to do this? any help would be much appreciated
Go to Solution.
Go to Solution.
can you have a look at this link ?
Hi @WilliamR, I did go though this, with the tool it only allows for one grouping field and target, with my analysis I am forecasting for sales by 2 grouping fields customer(s) and product(s), thoughts?
if you want to forecats by group customer/product, you should concatenate those variables in one with a formula tool no? So your model would take one field for the grouping field and you will have one forecat per customer/product.
Hi, great thought this should work, thanks for pointing this out
Hi William,
Could I use 4 dimensions/groups for forecasting;
Will the same methodology of concatenation work?
Should this be done using TS Model Factory tool?
Forecast Sales by below grouping :
Product/Year/Segment/Customer Type
yes you can use a concatenation to create your group and use the TS factory tools to forecast by group.


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Effective Problem Solving and Decision Making
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This short session will focus on how to break down a problem and work towards a justifiable and confident decision to achieve the best outcome you can. It will focus on work-related scenarios however the key principles are applicable in all areas of life.
- University staff
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|Thu 14 Mar 09:30 - 12:30
|09:30 - 12:30
|Greenwich House, Edmonton Room
|Jessie Monck
- to consider different types of problems and decisions
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- to use creative techniques to gather ideas and information
- to look at techniques to evaluate options and select the best one
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Routes: Northwest Ridge, South Slopes via Scimitar Pass
Elevation Gained: 6,511'
RT Distance: 13.5 mi
RT Time: 10hr 50min
Trailhead: Big Pine
Summit Elevs.: Palisade Crest: 13,553' Mt Jepson: 13,390'
Rating: Class 4
Routes: Northwest Ridge, South Slopes via Scimitar Pass
Elevation Gained: 6,511'
RT Distance: 13.5 mi
RT Time: 10hr 50min
Trailhead: Big Pine
Summit Elevs.: Palisade Crest: 13,553' Mt Jepson: 13,390'
Rating: Class 4
When climbing in extremely exposed terrain there are several rules one must abide by to be able to deal psychologically with the exposure:
Don't ruminate about one's fears beforehand.
Don't imagine oneself falling along different points along the route
Don't look down more than you have to
I broke all of these rules when attempting the summit of Gandalf Peak along the Palisade Crest. The night before, I began to be overcome with a feeling of dread. I had seen photos of the route beforehand, and it was awesomely exposed. By climbing with a rope, I knew that it would be exciting, but we were going to free-solo the route. It was only class 3 along the most exposed part, and the class 4 ramp at the end was reportedly easier to deal with than the class 3 traverse. I was excited to be climbing such as awesome peak, but this feeling that something bad was going to happen kept getting worse. After experiencing minor injuries in a fall on Basin Mountain 3 days earlier and narrowly escaping a monster rock slide on Mt Wallace 2 days before, my nerves were a little tense for good reason.
Like the day before when we climbed Mt Winchell, we were departing the Big Pine trailhead at 5:10 am. Today Bob, Michael, Matthew, Joe , Daryn, and I were the only ones attempting the Palisade Crest. This time we headed past the first set of switchbacks and straight up the south fork of Big Pine creek. Soon we began a tedious series of switchbacks winding up a 600 foot headwall. This ascent went by easily and soon we reached flatter ground again. The sun was just rising and a beautiful alpenglow washed over Middle Palisade and the Palisade Crest. This lasted only a moment before it was gone and we continued on our way. We descended a hill and then left the trail to begin heading up a western spur of the south drainage to reach Elinore Lake. The going soon got tough as the trail disappeared. We wound our way through tall grasses, crossing the myriad of streams snaking through the flats before finally reaching class 2 boulder hopping on the north side of the stream. Bob had disappeared, but after climbing up the boulders a few minutes we spotted him a little behind us, on the overgrown south side of the stream. Apparently we had picked the better route this time, and Bob hopped over to our side.
A while later we parted company with Bob and Matthew – they followed the stream all the way to Elinore Lake, but Joe, Michael, and I opten to take a shortcut up a dividing ridge. Daryn continued up the drainage since he had decided to climb Mt Gayler and Temple Crag from the south instead of joining us on the Palisade Crest. The shortcut worked nicely as the ground was mostly clear of vegetation and we were able to scramble straight up to the shores of Elinore Lake, reaching it just as Bob and Matthew came around the corner. We hopped along the granite boulders along the eastern shore and then began climbing some steep class 2 slabs. They reminded me a lot of Bob's aptly named 'Slabs 'O Plenty' we crossed on our way up Mt Lyell 5 days earlier. We aimed towards the end of a spur coming off the crest. The spur stuck out dramatically, like the bow of a huge ship driving its way through the rocky valley below.
At the subtle saddle at the end of this prow, we crossed over to the south side of the ridge. From there we had a full view of the impressive east face of Norman Clyde Peak, dropping over a 1,000 vertical feet straight down to the Norman Clyde Glacier. A ways over was the Palisade Crest, although I couldn't tell which peak was Gandalf Pk yet. We scrambled up some ugly loose sand and scree composing a moraine of some unnamed glacier, and then traversed above the glacier, angling up towards a break in the impediment of cliffs known as Scimitar Pass. For some reason this name seemed very fitting to me, due to the lethally rugged terrain surrounding it and the brutal cross country approach required to get to it. By just reaching the pass we covered more ground than one would need to climb a Sierra Peak!
After surmounting a short class 3 headwall, we were at Scimitar Pass. Now all we had was a relatively short scrambling traverse to reach Gandalf Peak! Joe announced that he was going to split off from the group to climb nearby Mt Jepson and then head down. He felt that the exposure of the climb up Gandalf Peak would be too much for him and he didn't want to get in over his head. This was perplexing to Matthew and Michael, since Joe could climb 5.10, well above their abilities, and yet he was too scared to attempt a class 3-4 route without a rope. Of course climbing proficiency and acceptance of risk don't necessarily correlate, so it made sense to me.
As Joe headed north to Mt Jepson and Bob, Matthew, and I took off up the spiny ridge of the Palisade Crest.
Bob soon disappeared in the lead, and as the exposure increased and I became more nervous, I fell about 50 feet or so behind Matthew and Michael. The scrambling was thrilling, but it was also barely within my comfort level. We dropped repeatedly to the east, and then climbed class 3 rock back up to the ridge. At one point we walked along the spine of the ridge with big vertical drop offs on both sides. The rock was flat, about the width of a sidewalk, and angled at about 15 degrees towards the 60 foot drop off to the West. At a notch in the sky high sidewalk Michael and Matthew just hopped over the gap. I was sketched out enough that I climbed into the notch and up the other side – I'd really rather not risk the consequences if I tripped on my landing on the far side. As the exposure increased I became increasingly worried, and I kept thinking of different scenarios of falling off of the ridge.
Then we reached the route finding crux of the ridge. The class 3 scramble dropped us down onto the +1,000 ft high east face as it headed toward a prominent notch in the ridge. From there all we had was the class 4 ramp that wound its way up the backside of Gandalf Peak. The summit block was amazing. The rock was shaped like a sagging wizard hat – a very surreal shape to see on a mountain top. This silhouette belonged in cartoons and claymations, not in real life! The summit was named after the elf, Gandalf, in J.R.R Tolkien's 'The Hobbit', and apparently the other 11 spires on the ridge were named after other characters in his stories.
At this point the class three scrambling was intermixed with sandy class 2 ledges covered in loose scree. The looseness of the rock added to my anxiety – while the terrain was easy to walk and scramble through, it seemed very easy to slip or fall as the loose rock gave way, as it did on Basin Mountain and Mt Haekel. I climbed down the ledges facing into the hill, and I made the mistake of looking down. As I down climbed I could see the unnamed glacier we had passed over earlier peeking between my legs, over 1,000 feet below. My sense of vertigo increased and I stopped to recompose myself at a sheltered notch and chock stone along the east face.
Michael and Matthew were having a difficult time route finding, and the cairns scattered around didn't help much. The kept climbing farther down, closer to the precipice, and were slowly making progress to the notch. I could see Bob standing atop the ramp beyond. I took some photos and then re-evaluated the situation. This last 150 ft before the notch was the last of the most exposed scrambling on the ridge, and it really wasn't too bad, apart from the 'splat' factor. I could probably make it across. Then I looked down again, and my vertigo worsened. I could probably make it across, but it would be hell coming back! As much as I desperately wanted to summit, I just couldn't bear the though of having to retrace all of this terrain, and I froze. Matthew and Michael had found the route by then and beckoned me to follow. I knew that I was too scared to continue climbing safely, so I reluctantly told them that I was turning back. They insisted that I climb just a bit further, but I declined and headed back along the ridge.
I was pissed that I had turned around. I really wanted to climb Gandalf Peak and it was easily within my climbing ability. I just couldn't handle the exposure as a free-solo. It was embarrassing having turned around on a class 3 route, and I resolved to return with a rope and complete the climb. I knew that the ridge traverse was rated 5.5, so I could do the traverse for more enjoyment and as an excuse to have a rope for the sketchy parts.
(Note: In 2010 I unsuccessfully attempted this traverse. In 2013 I completed it. It was much harder 5.5 - more like 5.8. It was a spectacular climb: Trip Report)
I made my way back along the ridge slowly, but easier than when coming. I felt defeated, but I didn't want this long approach to be a waste – I decided to climb Mt Jepson before heading down Scimitar Pass.
It was at about this time that I heard a noise behind me. I turned around to catch Bob trying to sneak up on me. I waited for him to join me and told him regretfully of my choice to turn around, and my intent t at least bag Jepson. He was up for that and we headed toward the peak. Then we heard more voices.
Like sirens luring us off the cliffs, two mysterious ladies appeared over a bulge in the talus slopes below. Were we hallucinating?! Who would be coming up to Scimitar Pass from the West?! We greeted them and chatted for a while. Actually, Bob chatted and I just sat there. I was still a little shaken up from the Palisade Crest and couldn't think of anything to say. Apparently these two ladies had been backpacking in the High Sierras for the past 10 days and they were hiking out over Scimitar Pass to pick up a food cache at the Big Pine trailhead before returning to the backcountry, passing back through Scimitar Pass. Quite the detour!
We wished them well and parted ways. Bob and I scrambled up the class 2 slopes of Mt Jepson and were soon on the summit. From there we had some very nice views of the Palisade Crest to the south and the backsides of Mt Sill and Mt Polemonium to the north. We happily signed the register and laughed at Joe's entry. He had made it here earlier and had written a very strange entry in the summit log. Then we headed back toward Scimitar Pass, reaching it at about the same time as Michael and Matthew.
We happily told them of the sirens we had encountered, but they were skeptical. As we headed down Scimitar Pass we took to some glissading on the glacier to avoid the class 2 boulders on the side and were soon at the moraine. The ladies we had met earlier were also at the moraine, having lunch. Now Michael and Matthew were convinced. They all chatted for a while, and I remained awkwardly silent since once again I couldn't think of anything to say, and then we parted ways again.
Back at Elinore Lake our group paired off again to take our respective routes down to the drainage, and once again ended up there at about the same time. Daryn met us there too, having just come down from the summit of Mt Sill, and we all headed down together. The terrain was tiring, but much easier on the downhill. Once we reached the meadow we found the proper use-trail through the area and had an easy time getting back to the main trail, and in no time we were back at the cars.
Sadly this was the last day of the Challenge for me. I had originally planned on attempting to participate for the entire 10 days, but Dirk Summers had tempted me into joining him and Gordon Ye in climbing the 5.6 North Arete of Matterhorn Peak. While it would have been fun to climb the rest of the peaks in this year's Challenge, I was more interested in getting more experience on technical alpine routes. After having my last dinner with Bob and the gang, with the new arrival Heyning Cheng making some 'interesting' conversation, Heyning gave me a ride back up to Bishop to meet up with Dirk for my next adventure in the Sierra.Note: I came back in 2010 at an attempt to do a traverse of the ridge with Dirk Summers. Lightning chased us off, but I wouldn't let go of the idea, and in 2013 I returned with Steph Abegg and did the traverse, FINALLY summitting Gandalf Peak, along with the rest of the Palisade Crest summits. These climbs are covered in another trip report.


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There's a new breed of designer creating a buzz. Vogue.in introduces you to the bags worth waiting for and the names to know
For the new season, these creative bag designers found genius in everything from architecture to Africa. Vogue.in tells you more about the new breed of designers, their celebrity fans and their inspirations.
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The Inspiration: The architecture of Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry.
The Label: The Parsons' school of design alum says her stints at Ralph Lauren, plus her work co-founding brand Tory Burch, honed her already powerful fashion aesthetic. When she moved to Hong Kong, she discovered a collection of vintage brocades in an old warehouse, and this led to the great creation of handbag label Kotur.
Vogue Loves: The unique colours of the snakeskin 'Aidha' bag.
The Inspiration: Africa.
The Label: Started in 1947 by Bruna Zagliani In Milan, the label was injected with a fresh look by Mauro Carella in the 80s.
CC Skye
Vogue Loves: The 'Victoria' wristlet. Skye says she's "slowly introducing more clutches that go from day to night."
The Inspiration: The gypset.
The Label: A Malibu girl, Skye started designing in the backstreets of Nepal. She lived with a shaman in the Himalayas while filming a documentary, but like a true Vogue girl – always looking for glamour – she started working with local craftsmen to supplement her wardrobe. After moving back to LA, she worked at MTV and the Style Network before launching her own jewellery line. In 2008, a handbag collection followed.
Kara Ross
Vogue loves: The timeless 'Trinity' bag with its exquisite gemstone closure
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