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The first chance for the Somerset Patriots to wash away the taste of last season will come April 26 as the franchise is home at 7 p.m. on the Atlantic League's opening day for the first time since 2009.
The Patriots' 2012 home schedule, which was announced Wednesday afternooon, features 70 games at TD Bank Ballpark, including 33 on weekends.
The 140-game season will run through Sept. 23 and is highlighted by a busy promotional calendar, six 11 a.m. weekday games, a July 24 day-night doubleheader and a June 17 Father's Day celebration.
For the first time since 2006, the Patriots are not home on Mother's Day. Their annual Breast Cancer Awareness event will be scheduled for another date.
The expansion Sugar Land Skeeters will make their first visit from Texas for a three-game series May 7-9. The Patriots will make the first flight travel of their 15-year history for a six-game series in Sugar Land from June 8-13 — just before the two-time defending champion York Revolution visit Bridgewater for the first time — and return west at the end of July.
By that point, it should be clear if the Patriots have bounced back from a 49-74 record and a .398 winning percentage that was the worst in their championship-rich history.
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A new study by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, reports that asteroids headed for earth could be deflected by the weak gravitational pull caused by the engines of a nearby spacecraft. The hypothetical spacecraft, known as a gravity tractor, would be able to deflect asteroids as large as 140 metres in length. The tractor would position itself along an asteroids path at an optimal location to deflect the asteroid away from earth's atmosphere.
The study reaffirms previous research into the field of gravity tractors and adds an engineering framework that brings the tractor from being theoretical into something that really could be created.
It should only be a matter of time before we go from gravity tractors to tractor beams.
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FULLERTON – A former Disneyland employee charged with a felony for setting off two dry-ice bombs inside the park pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor Monday and was sentenced to three years' probation, 36 days in jail and 100 hours of community service.
Superior Court Judge Nicholas Thompson granted a motion by Christian Barnes' attorney to reduce the count to a misdemeanor, over the objections of the prosecutor, according to court officials.
Barnes, 22, of Long Beach was sentenced to time served, plus the other conditions, including an order to stay away from Disneyland. Had he been convicted of the felony count of possession of a destructive device in a public place, Barnes would have faced a maximum sentence of six years in state prison.
He was accused of possessing two water bottles containing dry ice May 28 at a vending cart near Mickey's Toontown, where he had worked shortly before he was relieved of his shift that day. The combination can create a dry-ice bomb, prosecutors said.
When Barnes opened the vending cart, one of the bottles exploded. Officials said Barnes took the second water bottle from the cart and threw it in a trash can before walking to the employee break room. Several minutes later, a custodian had removed the bag from the trash can and walked away to clean another trash can when the second bottle exploded.
The blasts did not hurt anyone or cause significant damage to Disneyland property, but prompted an investigation and Barnes' arrest, authorities said.
Barnes' attorney, Deputy Public Defender Seth Bank, said Barnes has no arrest record and has his family's support.
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Deputy District Attorney Andrew Katz said he believes reducing the charge to a misdemeanor was premature.
"Inspite of some people calling it a prank, the problem with this is you can have danger to hearing and fragmentation (from the blast)," Katz said. Dry-ice bombs "are inherently unstable," depending on containers used and several other factors.
"This case was particularly troubling given that the subject chose to detonate this in a crowded place with hundreds if not thousands of children" in the area, he said.
Disney officials declined to comment, except to say Barnes was separated from the company shortly after his arrest.
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Maryville College is an undergraduate, liberal arts, residential community of faith and learning rooted in the Presbyterian/Reformed tradition serving students of all ages and backgrounds.
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Maryville College prepares students for lives of citizenship and leadership as we challenge each one to search for truth, grow in wisdom, work for justice, and dedicate a life of creativity and service to the peoples of the world.
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Maryville College is a liberal arts, church-related college. It strives to be an instrument of liberation and growth for adults of all ages. Through its curriculum the College affirms the continuing value of a broad range of study in the humanities, the sciences, and the arts. Avoiding narrow specialization, the College aims to enhance career opportunities and develop a true sense of vocation.
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It's one of the great canards of fretting over the youth — they're drinking too much soda and abandoning the homey goodness of milk. Well, it turns out that kids are drinking more sugary drinks, but it's not linked to a decline in drinks that aren't horrible for them.
According to data analysed from surveying thousands of children from 5th to 8th grade, kids are drinking more sugary drinks on the whole, and consuming less of milk and 100% juice, but the two aren't connected. In fact, once they corrected for variables associated with demographic and nutrition characteristics, they found that "changes in children's milk consumption were not significantly related to changes in their consumption of sweetened beverages over time."
The one link they did find was that kids cut back or increased both milk and juice in tandem. Kids who began to drink less milk also drank less juice, and likewise for drinking less. Right, so what other boogeyman can we blame the ills of today's youth on? Is prescription drug abuse still a thing?
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In classic French cuisine, Florentine is a term used for a dish that contains a bed of spinach and—usually—mornay or cheese sauce. Enjoy a Florentine the Thomas' way.
2 Thomas'® Plain Bagels, split and toasted
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups milk, heated
4 large eggs
1/2 cup fresh baby spinach leaves
Melt butter in a small saucepan over moderate heat and whisk in flour. Cook, whisking constantly, for 2 minutes. Whisk in milk in a stream, until smooth. Simmer, whisking, until thickened, about 3 minutes and reduced to 1 1/4 cups. Keep warm, covered, off heat. Fill a medium skillet halfway with water and bring to a boil. Break eggs into separate teacups and pour into water. Cover skillet and remove from heat. Let eggs sit for about 4 minutes until whites are set. Place bagels on serving plates and top each with 1/4 of spinach, using a slotted spoon top with a poached egg and 1/4 of sauce. Serve immediately.


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Imagine, if you will, a marriage between traditional pork bacon and beef jerky. That is the flavor you will taste from beef bacon. If you are a bacon lover, as many are, then we encourage you to try beef bacon. It is a delicious way to bring slightly new flavors to a classic breakfast.
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Lopinavir/Ritonavir in Combination With Saquinavir Mesylate or Lamivudine/Zidovudine to Explore Metabolic Toxicities in Antiretroviral HIV-Infected Subjects
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00043953
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 19, 2002
Last Update Posted : September 27, 2007
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Lopinavir/ritonavir Drug: Saquinavir mesylate Drug: Lamivudine/zidovudine
|Phase 2
|Study Type :
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|Actual Enrollment :
|30 participants
|Intervention Model:
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|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Study of Lopinavir/Ritonavir in Combination With Saquinavir Mesylate or Lamivudine/Zidovudine to Explore Metabolic Toxicities in Antiretroviral HIV-Infected Subjects
|Study Start Date :
|August 2002
- Proportion of subjects with plasma HIV RNA level below 50 copies/mL [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
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- Subject is naïve to antiretroviral treatment (subjects may not have more than 7 days of any antiretroviral treatment).
- Subject is at least 18 years of age, inclusive.
- If female, subject is either not of childbearing potential, defined as postmenopausal for at least 1 year or surgically sterile (bilateral tubal ligation, bilateral oophorectomy or hysterectomy), or is of childbearing potential and practicing one of the following methods of birth control:condoms, sponge, foams, jellies, diaphragm or intrauterine device(IUD), a vasectomized partner, total abstinence from sexual intercourse
- If female, the results of a urine pregnancy test performed at screening (urine specimen obtained no earlier than 28 days prior to study drug administration) is negative.
- Subject is not breast-feeding.
- Vital signs, physical examination and laboratory results do not exhibit evidence of acute illness.
- Subject has no significant history of cardiac, renal, neurologic, psychiatric, oncologic, endocrinologic, metabolic or hepatic disease that would in the opinion of the investigator adversely affect his/her participating in this study.
- Subject does not require and agrees not to take any of the following medications for the duration of the study: midazolam, triazolam, terfenadine, astemizole, cisapride, pimozide, propafenone, flecainide, certain ergot derivatives (ergotamine, dihydroergotamine, ergonovine, and methylergonovine), rifampin, lovastatin, simvastatin, and St. John's wort.
- Subject agrees not to take any medication during the study, including over-the-counter medicine, alcohol or recreational drugs without the knowledge and permission of the principal investigator.
- Subject has not been treated for an active AIDS-defining opportunistic infection within 30 days of screening.
- Subject has a plasma HIV RNA level of greater than 400 copies/mL at screening.
- Subject agrees to take all doses of the study drug from the bottles provided by the sponsor (rather than other containers, i.e., "pill box").
- Subject has voluntarily signed and dated an informed consent form, approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB)/Independent Ethics Committee (IEC), after the nature of the study has been explained and the subject has had the opportunity to ask questions. The informed consent must be signed before any study-specific procedures are performed.
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- Subject has a history of an allergic reaction or significant sensitivity to LPV/r, INV or Combivir.
- Subject has a history of substance abuse or psychiatric illness that could preclude adherence with the protocol.
Screening laboratory analyses show any of the following abnormal laboratory results:
- Hemoglobin ≤ 10.0 g/dL
- Absolute neutrophil count ≤ 1000 cells/µL
- Platelet count ≤ 50,000 per mL
- ALT or AST ≥ 3.0 x Upper Limit of Normal (ULN)
- Creatinine ≥ 1.5 x Upper Limit of Normal (ULN)
- Subject has received any investigational drug within 30 days prior to study drug administration.
- For any reason, subject is considered by the investigator to be an unsuitable candidate for the study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00043953
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|AHF Research
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90015
|Stephen Becker, MD
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|Harbor UCLA, Research & Education Institute
|Torrance, California, United States, 90502
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|Community Research Initiative of New England
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|Community Research Initiative of New England
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|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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|The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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|September 27, 2007
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European Commissioner Viviane Reding said she will push member states to adopt a proper data breach notification law - something the Information Commissioner in the UK has failed to get.
Such a law would force businesses to tell people if their private data has been lost or stolen. Data controllers in the UK have no obligation to tell people, but they are supposed to inform the Information Commissioner's Office.
Viviane Reding told the European Parliament debating telecoms regulations: "I have to make two declarations in response to points raised by parliamentarians. The first one clarifies that the Commission will promote a wide debate on the scope of universal service and will come forward with early proposals as necessary. The second states that the Commission will start work without delay to consult widely and make proposals relating to the extension of data breach notification requirements in other sectors."
EU telecoms law will impose a breach notification onto telecoms and internet service providers and it seems Reding thinks this should be extended - something the UK has resisted.
The Information Commissioner's Office said legislation was a matter for government and warned: "Should legislation be proposed to compel UK organisations to notify people when a data breach occurs, it must be properly considered before it is introduced in the UK."
The role of the ICO and of data protection legislation was reviewed after Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs lost details on almost every UK family.
The issue of breach notification was much debated in the wake of this loss. Some observers felt the DPA should be strengthened to include such a requirement while others felt it would damage the relationship between the ICO and the institutions it regulates. ®


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Transition Town Kingston – celebration and future plans
by Shaun Chamberlin on March 6th, 2010
Following on from our success in the local Green Awards, TTK has won 'Green Group of the Year' at the South London Awards. I was also highly commended in the Green Champion category, with my indefatigable friend Lucy Neal of Transition Town Tooting the deserving new holder of the title of Southwest London Green Champion.
With the groundbreaking Our Kingston, Our Future documentary-creation and workshops also set to take place on the weekend of March 20th and 21st, our list of things to celebrate is now in desperate need of some attention, so thank heavens the Great Unleashing of TTK (AKA The Big Launch Party) on Sat 17th April is edging ever closer. Old stalwarts and total strangers equally welcome at the party!


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As posted by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad at Che Det on December 25, 2014
1. The economy of the world is in a state of turmoil. Not only has the oil price tumbled from USD 110/- to less than USD 60/-, but palm oil price, rubber price, share prices and the exchange rate of the Ringgit have all taken a beating, a severe beating.
2. All these things involve us, Malaysian, our commodities and our money. But we are assured and reassured that we would not be affected. We will continue to grow at the projected rate.
3. Are we!!
4. Inflation is at 3%. Can we believe it would not affect our purchasing power i.e. can we continue to buy all those things we use to buy, all the food, clothing etc.
5. Driving, flying may cost less. But earnings by Petronas will diminish a lot. And the Government used to get billions from Petronas. Will Petronas pay to Government the same amount as when 1 bbl cost USD130/-. Common sense, (not so common a commodity) says it will not. And that must affect the 2015 Government budget which was presented when oil price was at USD110/- per barrel.
6. Palm oil growers and rubber growers especially the latter are not complaining that they are not making money, certainly not the huge profits they use to make. Government has decided to help them with monetary gifts.
7. But when these people are not making money or making less money, the corporate and other taxes they pay must be less. So Government revenue will once again go down. But now Government has to give money to them. How does the Government do this without down-sizing the budget provisions for other Government obligations and needs?
8. Then there are the various impacts on business and the general public.
9. Business may or may not benefit from the fall in petroleum price. Those in the transport industry such as bus companies and airline may benefit.
10. Those involved in the oil and gas industries will suffer. They had invested at the time when oil prices were high, hoping to repay loans from the proceeds of the sale of products. With low product price they will need to sell more in a weak market to acquire funds to repay loans.
11. Contractors will find payments delayed or requests for revisions. Some contracts may have to be cancelled.
12. The depreciation of the Ringgit will affect the repayments of loans taken in USD. On the other hand imported raw materials and components would cost more, neutralizing the gain from the cost of production. There may be a demand for wage increases and revision of rates as the Ringgit devalues. Inflation will be the result.
13. For the general public there must be a lowering of the purchasing power of their incomes when acquiring imported goods or when abroad. However incoming travelers may increase if proper marketing is done.
14. Overall the worst effect will be felt by those who had borrowed in USD or have to pay for purchases made in USD.
15. Clearly the unprecedented fall in oil price and other products for export must be met with revisions in everyone's budget. The corporations and the Government need to study closely the effect on earnings and cost of doing business. They cannot be lulled by the gains from lower cost of oil alone. Loss of income and higher costs of imports must be taken into account.
16. We are a small producer of oil, said to be 650,000 barrels a day. We are also a great consumer of oil since our use of motor vehicles is the highest in ASEAN in terms of per capita ownership. It would not be too far wrong to assume that any gain from lower oil price will be negated by lowered earnings from Petronas oil and gas. It is the same with gains in other sectors, as they will always be accompanied by losses. The important thing is to know how much is the gain as against the losses.
17. Simply assuming that we are immune to the massive and widespread decline in the prices of almost all the raw materials and goods we produce for consumption and export does not reflect the depth of our understanding of the problems we face.
18. We are a trading nation and changes affecting the world market must affect us one way or another.


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Last evening while watching BBC World News I caught a report on the 1,300 year-old St. Cuthbert Gospel, which recently became the property of the British Library in London. The story of how the earliest, completely preserved European book came into the collection of the Library is an extremely interesting one, as you shall see. However it is also a rather sad, contemporary example of how many of the Christian art objects we enjoy in museums today have lost their original, intended purpose.
Last summer the British Library began a campaign to purchase the book known as the "St. Cuthbert Gospel" from the Jesuits at Stonyhurst College in England, who have owned it since the 18th century; the book is a beautifully handwritten, simple manuscript of the Gospel of St. John in the New Testament dating from the 7th century. The Library announced yesterday that, with the assistance of Christie's auctioneers and other experts on valuation, since the book was not actually on the open market, they had finally raised the agreed-upon $14.7 million price tag for the volume, through a combination of public grants and private contributions. The Library has been in possession of the book since the late 1970's, when it was loaned by the Jesuits for exhibition and study.
St. Cuthbert (c. 634-687) is one of the most revered of the early English saints. He was born in the Kingdom of Northumbria, in the north of present-day England, and discerned a religious vocation after spending part of his youth as a shepherd and then as a soldier. He subsequently became a monk, and was eventually ordained the Bishop of Lindisfarne, one of the most important centers of Christianity in Britain during this period.
The process for canonization of saints as we understand it today had not been fully formalized at the time of St. Cuthbert's death, but according to St. Bede, the great chronicler of the early Church in Britain – whose superb "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People" is a must-have for any serious student of history – when several miracles were attributed to St. Cuthbert's intercession and his coffin was opened, his body was found to be incorrupt. This led to his popularly being declared a saint, and he was re-buried in a beautifully decorated coffin in about 698 A.D., behind the main altar at his cathedral in Lindisfarne. The Gospel copy which is now the property of the British Museum was a gift from a neighboring monastery, which created and donated it to be buried with St. Cuthbert when he was re-interred.
From there the travels of this book, and indeed St. Cuthbert himself, become exceedingly strange. The coffin had to be moved multiple times due to invasions by the Vikings, until in the 10th century it finally came to rest at Durham Cathedral. During construction of a shrine to house the saint's remains, his coffin was opened and this volume was re-discovered. It was then removed from the coffin, and kept in the cathedral priory for select visitors to examine and use as an aid to prayer; it remained there for the next 500 years.
When Henry VIII decided that he was not disgusting enough already, and decided to destroy the monastic communities in Britain so he could take their wealth and possessions for himself and his cronies, many books such as this were lost. Fortunately, someone managed to preserve this little volume from destruction, and it eventually came into the possession of the Earls of Lichfield. The 3rd Earl, in turn, presented it in the middle of the 18th century to the Reverend Thomas Phillips who, in most of the news articles I have read in researching this story, list him as a "Canon", meaning a priest attached to a cathedral.
However it turns out that Thomas Phillips was not a Protestant dressing up and playing Catholic in property stolen from Rome, but rather the real thing: a Catholic priest. He was private chaplain to the recusant Berkeley family, who were instrumental in getting the remaining English Catholic nobility and gentry together to petition King George III for his support of the Catholic Relief Act of 1778. This Act was the first, small step toward the emancipation of Catholics following the Reformation, who up until the passage of this Act could be prosecuted, for example, for being or housing a Catholic priest, or teaching the Catholic faith in a school. Catholics were forbidden from buying or selling land, and they could in fact lose their property if a Protestant relative wished to take possession of it. Of course, legally enshrined prejudice against Catholics is still in fact part of English law today, but we will save that for another post.
For his part Father Phillips was the first English biographer of Reginald Cardinal Pole (1500-1588), the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, and published a two-volume study of this rather interesting prelate at Oxford in 1767. As an aside, Cardinal Pole was perhaps not always a saintly bishop, but he and I share a mutual dislike for Machiavelli and a preference for Count Castiglione, who is of course the patron of this blog. Cardinal Pole once described Machiavelli's "The Prince" thusly: "I found this type of book to be written by an enemy of the human race. It explains every means whereby religion, justice and any inclination toward virtue could be destroyed".
In 1769, Father Phillips presented the St. Cuthbert Gospel as a gift to the English Jesuit College in Liège, Belgium, where many of the English Jesuits who had been killed by Elizabeth I received their education. It then traveled back across the Channel, after the Jesuits were suppressed in Catholic Belgium and, ironically, found refuge in Protestant England in 1794. The book had remained at their school, Stonyhurst College, until it went on loan to the British Library, which now owns the well-traveled and ancient volume.
As interesting as all of this history is, I cannot help but think it a shame that this book is not still resting with the relics of St. Cuthbert. Of course it was not a book which he personally owned, since it was created several years after his death. Yet it was a mark of love, gratitude, and respect from his fellow monks, in recognition of how much he had done for them, and indeed for all early Christians in the north of England.
It also demonstrates yet again something which I have talked about periodically in these pages over the years. As much as I love things like beautifully made, historic paintings, statues, illuminated books, and other Catholic religious objects, there is something very tragic about seeing said objects in secular hands. I am of course not naive on this point: no doubt they are being better cared for than they would be if they were kept in regular use, or if they were simply gathering dust in some ancient and leaky church.
However when these things stop being ways of giving glory to God, and become little more than pretty baubles to be looked at, or remains like fossils or pottery shards to be studied scientifically, there is a type of sadness that arises for those of us who not only appreciate these things aesthetically, but also as spiritual expressions of the Catholic Faith made tangible. They were created by Catholic artisans for Catholic communities, but have been removed from the practice of the Faith, never to return. I cannot walk into the National Gallery for example, and kneel down in front of the tranquil, meditative, and magnificent 15th century Perugino altarpiece of the Crucifixion to pray and reflect on Christ's suffering. Well, I suppose I could, but then I would probably be chased away or arrested.
In the end it is certainly a good thing that more people will be able to study this remarkable book – which by the way has been digitized and will be available to examine online – and that it will be preserved for future generations. However in isolation from its context, i.e. the shrine of a great Catholic saint, it loses some of its impact. It is no longer an ex-voto, as it was originally intended to be, but an ex-ex-voto. And for those of us who are aware of this fact, we cannot help but be a bit disappointed that it is not remaining in at least some kind of a Catholic setting.
Beginning of the Gospel of St. John from the St. Cuthbert Gospel (c. 698 A.D.)
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Friday, November 26, 2010
Southern Belle
On Nov 1, Alex Honnold and I repeated the Southern Belle on the South Face of Half Dome. It was first climbed in 1987 by Walt Shipley and Dave Schultz and freed the next year by Schultz and Scott Cosgrove. In 2006, Leo Houlding and Dean Potter made the second free ascent.
Hazel left to go back to the UK on October 8th, which left me a few weeks before I had to leave Yosemite too. Jason Kruk and I had an Arc'teryx photo gig to attend in Joshua Tree on Nov 5. Alex and I had made plans to climb together and were shooting ideas around on email. We hoped to get on a big wall but October's weather was surprisingly unstable. Storms were rolling in every week, it seemed. Perhaps a one-day mission was the go? The idea of climbing the Southern Belle had been floating around in my head for a few years. I popped the idea to Alex. He responded, "Everything I can find on the internet says that it's certain death, but I guess you never know till you try."
As soon as I figured it was game-on, I cranked up the Strokes on the I-pod and hiked the three hours to the south face in a raging rainstorm. I stashed a rope, rock shoes and water at the base.
When we arrived at our stash on try number 1, the rope and shoes, despite being wrapped in multiple plastic bags was all wet. There was verglas on the approach, and we hoping that route was icy, too. It was one of those days where we were looking for any excuse to bail.
On that first attempt we both onsighted to the crux, a 12d near vertical pitch of micro-holds. We spent a few hours try to figure this pitch out. Alex tried, I tried, then Alex tried again. A real head-scratcher. Finally, Alex saw through the sequence and we both dialed it in. The next pitch, named 'the Cuntress' by Walt Shipley, is a 150 foot left leaning micro-seam protected by very small wires. Leo told me to bring a double set of micro-wires, and that beta was critical. Its graded 12a, but the grade doesn't really do it justice. I spent about an hour trying to onsight it, and grabbed a cam a stone's throw from the top. I dropped about six of Alex's nuts in the process and arrived at the belay completely fried. Alex, terrified at the belay, stopped looking up and just payed out slack.
It was obvious the route wasn't going down that day, but we were psyched. Alex arrived at the belay bug-eyed, and said, "this route is a good adventure!" We rapped down, had pizza at Curry Village with Alex's girlfriend Stacey, and made plans for the next round.
The next round came about a week later. We blasted the first few pitches pretty quick. Alex led the fourth pitch, and I took a few falls on toprope, then sent it from a mini-ledge, no hands stance about 15 feet above the last anchor. From there we didn't fall again. The Cuntress went smoothly. Just knowing what was in store for me made all the difference.
From there we were adrift in a sea of open slabs, tick-tacking our way to the bolts, trying to make good decisions. I was concentrating really hard, and don't remember much. Dean Potter told me it was the only route that made him feel nauseous from the runouts. I can relate.
We swung leads to the top. Just as the sun started setting we pulled over the top of Half Dome. My feet hurt like hell and we were thirsty. We dunked our heads in puddles and sucked back as much H20 as possible. "Maybe there will be base-jumping chicks at the top with cookies!" said Alex. No such luck.
We loped down the tourist path, drained of adrenaline.
Ben Ditto, Brad Gobright and I snapped some shots a couple days later. The next day I drove down to Joshua Tree, met my best budJason Kruk. We drank scotch until three in the morning at the Travelodge, catching up. We spent three days in Josh filming with Brian Goldstone and Angela Pervcival. I repeated a few old Stonemaster highballs, like So High and Up 40. Everything paled in comparison to the runouts of the Southern Belle.
Jason Kruk photo.
After that, Jason and I drove up to the Bow Valley. Hazel was there for a North Face athlete summit. We tried to go climbing at Grassi Lakes. Between the driving and climbing, I was worked.
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Racine police investigate 84-year-old man's death
Racine police are trying to figure out how an 84-year-old man died at his home.
"When you see something like that happen, though, it's heartbreaking, it's hard to take," neighbor Ralph Herman said.
Herman has lived down the block from the victim, 84-year-old Donald Thompson, since the 1950's and was troubled to hear Thompson may have been the victim of a home invasion.
A relative came to check on Thompson Thursday afternoon and found him dead. Police aren't elaborating, but he's not believed to have died of natural causes, and they're describing it as a crime.
"When you start thinking about people you see here; and the next day they're gone, and it's not right, but that's the world today, and there's nothing we can do about it," Herman said.
Orville Larrabee has lived across the street for 50 years, and worked with Thompson at American Motors in the '50s. He said his neighbor's health had been failing, but he knew it had to be something unnatural by all the police who showed up.
"I know they had them squad cars there yesterday, I never seen so many. I figured it was something, had three or four of them," Larabee said.
If anyone has any information about the case, they are asked to call the Racine Police Department at 262-635-7700 and ask for the Investigations Unit; or call Crimestoppers at 262-636-9330.


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Harley's 110th celebration good for area businesses
The influx of bikers means a big boost in revenue for many small businesses.
Restaurants all over the area are reaping the benefits of the Harley-Davidson 110th anniversary.
Wendt's Pub and Grill near 60th and Layton has been at capacity much of the day, but the owner said he was well prepared.
As Harley riders flood the streets surrounding local dealerships, they are also pouring into nearby restaurants lured in by the sounds and smells.
"This is probably about 10 times more than what I normally do," Jim Wendt said.
Wendt has owned Wendt's Pub and Grill on Layton Avenue for the past eight years, and he said this year's anniversary has been the busiest so far.
"We're over capacity right now," Wendt said.
Wendt is used to having a big crowd, but this year's Harley anniversary had him blocking the doors soon after opening, but that doesn't mean the family-run restaurant wasn't prepared.
"We get some extra friends and family and neighbors to help out and you try to have a good time. We work our butts off, but it's fun," Wendt's daughter, Jessica Wendt, said.
With four cooks in the kitchen and several food and drink stands outside, the Wendts have been able to keep up with the demand of hungry bikers.
In New Berlin, the Quaker Steak and Lube saw a record amount of people during their bike night Wednesday.
"We had between 4,000 and 5,000 motorcycles," Scott Acker said.
That is a big increase from the normal 700 to 900 attendance for their summer bike nights.
"The guests were from all over the world, from Germany, everywhere, and it's spectacular," Acker said.
The owner of Wendt's expects Saturday to be even busier, and Sunday Quaker Steak has a bike giveaway, which will no doubt bring in more customers.


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Having made Manhattan home for 43 years it's hard to watch what's happening there.
The Javit's Center, where the NY Auto Show had been scheduled to open in April, is now being filled with beds and ventilators to become a mammoth improvised medical center to handle overwhelm from the virus. The only thing worse than being on a ventilator with hundreds or even thousands in the Javit's Center would be not having a ventilator at all... And that's why they're doing it.
Being a global hub with high density population makes NYC the perfect petri dish for a virus. 3 international airports with crowded streets, subways and buses make social distancing laughable from a practical standpoint without shutting the city down, which has now virtually happened. Sadly international flights from all over the world were delivering folks to every corner of the city, who were all crossing paths in close proximity, before the urgency of isolation was understood.
My sister lives in NYC and 70% of the people in her apt building have now fled the city. Last week I offered to bring her up to CT but her life is there and she wanted to stay. The spike has elevated so fast that anyone leaving now is told to self-quarantine for 14 days. There is a market in the ground floor of her building so she doesn't have to go outside to get food. She's being hyper vigilant but the city is such a virulent hotspot now that I'm more than worried.
The link at the top is a first person account by a woman who's husband is fighting the virus at home with their teenage daughter in a city apt and gives a window into the suffering being endured by a single family.1 Reply
Johns Hopkins has a global map of the spread of the virus, that can be broken down into more granular components: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
According to that, NYC is sitting just below 16K cases. Godspeed to your sister, Pat.
A friend from Colorado just lost his step father due to COVID-19. While he was older (73) he was vibrant and in good health prior to contracting the virus. Such a sad state of affairs. This virus seems to be very unpredictable; which makes it quite difficult to get a grasp of. What does one believe? That it isn't that bad? There are certainly examples of that. Or, is it a "dooms day" scenario? Definitely a case for that as well. Whatever you might believe about this pandemic, I think politics need to take a backseat. Full stop. Perhaps it's social distancing that is keeping our elected officials from crossing the aisle. Just a thought.1 Reply
Condolences to your friend, Jim. The problem is, the virus is new, and there are no precedents (except for the last 3 months) to accurately determine who is at risk, and what type of pre-existing condition may contribute to complications.
I am on another forum where there is a virologist from the UK that posts regularly. Even he can't give any accurate predictions right now. The best thing to do is physical distancing. I personally do not believe it will prevent anyone from contracting the virus, but it will postpone the inevitable infection enough so that those who need medical intervention will have the required help available.
Wednesday - We just keep on keepin' on here, my gal is finding her legs in working from home and I mostly continue doing what I've been doing, working this site and a few others.
One of the podcasters I frequent got into reading suggestions from his listeners, one of which was a marvelous short story by Harlan Ellison: "Jeffty is Five." I must admit, I never got much into Ellison, but after listening to Seth tell the story, I'm tempted to dive in, head first. I can post it here, if anyone is interested.
Working from home is certainly different when you're very used to being mobile. Was able to get outdoors a bit today. It was a beautiful spring day in Central NY. Also, work on the LEGO Bugatti Chiron is coming along nicely. I'll post a full set of pics when it is complete.
Only "essential" businesses are allowed to operate here now. Agriculture and pest control are exempt from restrictions, so what we do is unaffected. Never had such a run on citrus. Every piece is sold. Looks like all retail is closed here except for Walmart, Home Depot, and grocery stores. I'm really worried about whether locally owned restaurants are going to be able to reopen. I know if we had been shut down I was still looking at upcoming payroll tax, estimated tax, myriad types of insurance, and on and on to pay next month. A scary proposition to look at if no money is coming in for a business owner. Hope this thing works out sooner than later.
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At the start of the time lapse found myself thinking, "I could do that..." because the initial block cutting is relatively simple and boring. Then... He starts getting into the delicate details of the grill, doors, wheels etc. and I think, "Ohh... no, I could never do that!" And then as the detail and intricacies of the piece are further revealed find myself thinking, "Why would he do that!" slack jawed that he would put that much time into a Toyota Land Cruiser, something that looks like a block of wood to begin with. Finally I see his commitment to the process in that he's made all kinds of them (Saw a vintage Caddy that looked cool) so, ultimately he's doing it because he can and I tip my cap to both him and his artistry. Thanks for sharing that.
That is certainly impressive.
Friday - Week One of "shelter-in-place" not quite done and so far, we're hanging in pretty well. Any sort of luck and Week Two should be little different. I just wonder if circumstances will necessitate a lockdown longer than that. As Frenchie from The Cotton Club once said, "We learn as we go."
A little something to appease the gods for now.
Was in Manhattan when 9/11 happened and in the aftermath saw pain and empathy in direct proportion to proximity. Because the devastation was isolated to the Trade Center area those who saw the towers fall and lived in that immediate area could not fathom people above mid-town going to restaurants and resuming their lives relatively quickly because the downtown people were still overwhelmed with processing what they saw and felt. We visited the devastation, seeing, smelling and feeling it first hand but our apt. on the upper west side was 7.5 miles away. The day the towers fell was beautiful and warm but we could see and smell the smoke from that far away. In the weeks after we constantly heard fighter jets, emergency vehicle sirens and conga lines of debris trucks endlessly trundling by. Even though the devastation was not in our face we were reminded how close it was by AR-15 equipped National Guard and police with dogs at every public venue. Every time a plane flew over you couldn't help but look up and wonder. The tension and fear was palpable for over a year.
I quickly had a better understanding of the proximity issue when we visited our home in Northwest CT. The people in our CT community had no direct impact except what they saw on television. When we shared the ways we were still feeling impacted being in NYC their eyes glazed over. They were oversaturated with television coverage and because it didn't directly impact their daily lives they wanted to or already had moved on. We were trying to process our feelings but they didn't have or need to process those feelings and while most were empathetic the big disconnect was not having direct contact with event.
I bring this up because there's a similar correlation between proximity and the ability to take seriously the virus threat. If no one you know or near you is impacted by the virus dealing with it is an enormously inconvenient mental construct. We can't see what's disrupting all of our lives and livelihoods and the farther we are from it's direct impact the more we can get away with denying it's impact. I'm not talking politics here. I'm talking human nature. I was working on the MM Traveller last week with several friends in close quarters without giving it serious thought. We laughed as we touched elbows when they left but since then it's stopped being a joke as we've learned people we know and love have the virus. (Thankfully none we've been in contact with)
When my sister came back from California and went into the city I asked if she wanted to come up to CT with us. She declined because none of us saw how quickly things would get serious. Now, because NYC is a hotspot if I drove in and got her we'd have to self isolate in our home for two weeks and people up here are fearful of New Yorkers trying to escape the city bringing more of it up here. The real nightmare scenario would be if she got it and needed hospitalization in the city. The saddest stories are of people, young and old, who have died alone in isolation and whose families then couldn't gather to mourn them.
This will eventually peak and pass. The smartest path to saving the most lives and restarting the economy will eventually emerge but is still unclear with the hardest part being, at this moment, no one has the answer.
Sorry to run on so long... We seem to be living an endless episode of "Stranger Things" in the upside down.1 Reply
Pat, the problem is that the towers falling were a blatant indicator that our individual and collective lives had changed. A virus that you've heard about yet has struck no one you know so far can be ignored or minimized or waved off as something inconvenient that happens to someone else but not to you ... until you start showing symptoms and/or test positive. This is a phenomenon I run onto all the time in a different venue, and I am very familiar with it.
Denial is a scary thing to watch in action, and it can be deadly and has been needlessly so in places. Yeah, I know you know this, as do many others. It's the ones who either don't know or don't want to know that worry me.
"As usual with "this" General Motors, things just never seem to work out. They said they were going to give us 40,000 much needed Ventilators, "very quickly". Now they are saying it will only be 6000, in late April, and they want top dollar. Always a mess with Mary B. Invoke "P"."
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I picked up a ton of Ford Stock this week. I got in at $4.26 and thus far it's held. I think we are at bottom and I think we could be at $7.50 again by the end of the year. I hope it does anyway, I want to get a 2008-2009 Bullitt Mustang.
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I really hope it works out for you Russ, as I bought some too.
Good time to pick-up TD or BMO stocks. Loblows or Sobeys would be good too. As my broker at Raymond James used to say, you can't go wrong with fundamentals.
If I wasn't in $200K with my pubco, I go buy some bank stocks and collect the dividend check/cheque.


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The objectives of this meeting are as follows:
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Hi Lauren,
I used to be a decent intermediate player during my twenties but have not played in the past 15 years until starting again recently. My game is still rusty but I'm down in Palm Springs for the next month, hope to play as much as possible during that time, and should be available most days at any point between 4 - 10 pm. I'm staying at Indian Palms (border of La Quinta/Indio near the polo clubs) which has decent lit courts and I can also drive elsewhere if it's more convenient. Are you up for a game?
Best regards,
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No, I like to keep it 2.5.
Hi lauren, just got back from london. i went to wimbledon and saw the lawn tennis club.. it was great!
I'll be in Palm Springs/Desert from Feb 12-19. I'll be staying at the Hyatt hotels in both places. 4.0 player here (used to be 4.5, but haven't played in a while.)
anyway, i'm looking forward to getting back into shape. if you're around and interested in hitting, let me know.
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Louisiana has suffered a long, hot, humid summer. Anything reminding us of cooler fall weather was needed, so here came the idea of creating a Fall Quilt Garden from the Moda designs of Sandy Gervais, called "Awesome". This quilt uses every one of the 42 swatches from the Layer Cake and provides a variety of fall flowers scattered in field of soft white.
Hi, my name is Jamie with L' Fair Quilts, and I hail from the most southern part of Louisiana — further south than New Orleans! I am a baby boomer closing in on retirement age (although no plans to leave a 36 year career in finance — yet) and very excited to expand my quilting hobby. I have been watching the internet quilt world from afar and decided it was time to jump in head first. I started a blog this past January, and created a "hobby" pattern/quilt line under the name L'Fair Quilts (a play on my last name).
I hope you enjoy my first Moda Bake Shop submission and look forward to coming back again every so often to share my love of quilting.
- 1 Layer Cake, "Awesome" by Sandy Gervais (contains 42 – 10″ x 10″ swatches)
- 2 1/4 yards solid background, Moda Bella Snow (#9900-11)
- 1 1/4 yards orange solid by Sandy Gervais for inner border and binding
- 1 3/4 yards large print by Sandy Gervais for outside border (#17541)
- 4 1/2 yards backing
From Layer Cake:
- Cut each 10″ x 10″ fabric swatch into four 5″ x 5″ squares, yielding 42 sets of flower petals.
From Background Fabric:
- Cut 9 – 2″ strips, subcut to 168 – 2″ squares
- Draw a diagonal line on each of the 2″ squares
- Cut 15 – 3 1/2″ strips, subcut to 168 – 3 1/2″ squares
- Draw a diagonal line on each of the 3 1/2 squares, and another line 1/2″ apart (for snacks later in another project).
From Orange Solid:
- Cut 14 – 2 1/2″ strips for inner border and binding, pieced diagonally to make inner border and binding:
- Subcut to 2 – 2 1/2″ x 63 1/2″ for sides
- Subcut to 2 – 2 1/2″ x 58 1/2″ for top and bottom
- Use remaining for binding
From Large Print:
- Cut 8 – 6 1/2″ strips, pieced diagonnally to make outside borders
- Subcut to 2 – 6 1/2″ x 67 1/2″ for sides
- Subcut to 2 – 6 1/2″ x 70 1/2″ for top and bottom
Sew a 2″ background square to the top right hand corner of each 5″ square.
Trim each corner as pictured below and press open the background square.
Sew a 3 1/2″ background square to the top left hand corner of each 5″ square, then run a second stitch along the other drawn line.
Cut between the lines, press open (and don't forget to save those trimmed leftovers for snacks in future projects). If you have a chance to visit my blog later on, you may even find the quilt top I made with my leftovers!
Assemble each of the 42 flowers, sewing the top two petals, then the bottom two — helpful hint: don't cut the thread between the top and bottom. When you sew the top and bottom together, the thread keeps the intersection in tact for a perfect matching of seams.
Open the center intersection (clip the little thread first) and press counter-clockwise.
- For the top, layout is 6 flower blocks across and 7 rows down.
- Add side inner borders, then add top and bottom inner borders.
- Add side outside borders, then add top and bottom inner borders.
- Layer top, batting, and backing …. quilt as desired!
A finished quilt measuring 70″ x 79″, with each finished flower measuring 9″.
Jamie in Louisiana


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One in five Americans -- and one in three of adults under 30 -- is religiously unaffiliated, the highest percentage ever, according to a Pew Research Center study released Tuesday.
Over the past five years, the study found, the number of religiously unaffiliated adults has increased from slightly over 15 percent to just under 20 percent, a figure that includes more than 13 million self-described atheists and agnostics, as well as almost 33 million adults who do not identify themselves with a particular religion.
Survey takers were able to choose from a list that included more than a dozen possible affiliations, including "Catholic," "Protestant," "Orthodox," "don't know" and "nothing in particular."
But, according to the nationwide survey, many of the 46 million unaffiliated adults or so-called "nones" are spiritual or religious in some way:
- 68 percent say they believe in God.
- 58 percent say they feel a connection with nature and the Earth.
- 37 percent say they think of themselves as "spiritual" but not "religious."
- 21 percent say they pray daily.
Most "nones" said religious institutions can benefit communities through their social outreach, but an overwhelming majority thinks religious organizations are too focused on rules, money and power and too involved in politics.
Pew says the rise of the religiously unaffiliated is mainly due to a generational shift, with 32 percent of adults under 30 saying they're religiously unaffiliated, compared with only 9 percent of those aged 65 and older.
Politically, the "nones" skew heavily toward the Democratic Party, making up 24 percent of the Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters, the largest religious constituency. Black Protestants at 16 percent, white mainline Protestants at 14 percent and white Catholics at 13 percent are some of the other large religious groups skewing Democratic.
With social issues such as same-sex marriage taking center stage this election season, 73 percent of "nones" say they support gay marriage and 72 percent support legal abortion.
According to Pew, a counterpoint to the rise of the religiously unaffiliated has been a dip in the share of the population that identifies as Protestant. That figure now stands at 48 percent, down from 53 percent in 2007. It is the first time the number of Protestants has fallen significantly below 50 percent, according to Pew. This is a continuation of a long-term trend, as the Protestant population has been declining since the early 1990s.
The number of Catholics, which now stands at 22 percent, has been steady for a few years, the study shows, owing in part to immigration from Latin America.
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Allegations that Syrian government forces have used toxic chemicals are false, Russia said on Friday, and accused President Bashar al-Assad's foes of fabricating such claims to provoke foreign military intervention.
"Accusations against government forces of supposed cases of the use of poisonous chemicals continue to be fabricated," the Russian Foreign Ministry said, apparently referring to reports of chlorine gas attacks.
"The latest anti-Syrian chemical hysteria makes one wonder about the true aims of its initiators, who have not stopped their attempts to find a pretext for military intervention in Syria," the ministry said in a statement.
Russia has given Assad crucial support during the civil war in Syria. Moscow backed the Syrian government's denial that it was behind a devastating sarin gas attack last August, but also initiated a deal for Syria to abandon its toxic chemical stockpile in a move that averted potential U.S. air strikes.
The head of the global chemical weapons watchdog overseeing Syria's chemical disarmament, which is supposed to be complete by the end of June, is considering launching a fact-finding mission to investigate reports of chlorine gas attacks there, sources told Reuters on Thursday.Last Mod: 25 Nisan 2014, 15:05


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For every Appalachian State-Michigan game that does college football's heart good, there are dozens of Savannah State-(Oklahoma State, 84-0)(Florida State, 55-0) artery-clogging debacles that are yearly embarrassments to the sport.
For its part, one conference has decided to take the necessary steps to end the "ridiculous" and "not very appealing" scheduling of FCS football programs for what amounts to nothing more than in-season scrimmages.
During his monthly radio show Tuesday night, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez told WIBA-AM his counterparts in the Big Ten have reached an agreement to stop scheduling games against FCS programs. While such a move likely means the conference will load up on even more MAC-like teams, it's a step in the right direction for the sport.
"The nonconference schedule in our league is ridiculous," Alvarez said by way of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. "It's not very appealing. …
"So we've made an agreement that our future games will all be Division I schools. It will not be FCS schools."
(Your move, SEC)
It's not exactly clear when this agreement will go into effect — the Badgers will host FCS-level Tennessee Tech the second week of the season — although the Journal-Sentinel writes that "the likely starting point would be the 2014 season, when Maryland and Rutgers are set to join the Big Ten."
The biggest issue as far as not scheduling future games against FCS programs is the fact that the conference already has a plethora of future games scheduled against FCS programs. In fact, just one B1G member — Penn State — has no future games scheduled against lower-level programs. Michigan (App. St., 2014), Ohio State (Florida A&M, 2013) and Wisconsin (Tennessee Tech, 2013) are the only members with one such game on their future schedules.
Iowa, future member Maryland, Minnesota and Northwestern all have one FCS program scheduled every year through 2016, while Illinois, Purdue and Rutgers have one scheduled for each of the next three years. Michigan State is slated to play an FCS team once in three of the next four years.
The move to eliminate future games against FCS teams comes at the same time as the Big Ten is looking to move to nine (probable) or 10 (unlikely) conference games. It also comes ahead of the implementation of a playoff system to determine a national champion, which will presumably take into account strength of schedule when setting the four-team (for now) field.


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Prince Harry is heading to the Arctic, showing his support for Britain's wounded Afghanistan war veterans by joining part of their punishing expedition to the North Pole.
Harry travels to frigid northern Norway on Tuesday for three days of training and five days of trekking on a trip organized by the Walking With the Wounded charity, of which he is a patron.
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The group includes four British soldiers who were seriously wounded while on active duty, including two amputees.
"What the Walking With The Wounded North Pole Team is undertaking is an enormous adventure of the most challenging order," Harry said in a statement Friday.
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The charity hopes to raise 2 million pounds ($3.2 million) through donations and sponsorships for the expedition. Harry said he hopes the money "will make a life-changing difference to injured servicemen and women from our Armed Forces."
The four wounded men will be joined by two expedition leaders and a Norwegian guide familiar with the region.
The expedition is expected to take four weeks and cover roughly 200 miles (320 kilometers) of frozen Arctic Ocean territory by foot. The group will be pulling their own equipment in sleds in temperatures expected to drop far below zero.
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The wounded men making the trip are Afghanistan veterans Capt. Martin Hewitt, 30, Capt. Guy Disney, 28, Sgt. Steve Young, 28, and Pvt. Jaco Van Gass, 24.
"Through this expedition, we aim to demonstrate to injured servicemen and women of all ranks that you can achieve great things post-injury," Hewitt said. "Our training is complete and now it's time to freeze."
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Harry plans to leave the group April 5 to resume his military training and to serve as the best man at his brother Prince William's April 29 wedding.
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Press Release
From: SETI Institute
Posted: Monday, December 5, 2011
The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is once again searching planetary systems for signals that would be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Among its first targets are some of the exoplanet candidates recently discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope.
"This is a superb opportunity for SETI observations," said Jill Tarter, the Director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute. "For the first time, we can point our telescopes at stars, and know that those stars actually host planetary systems -- including at least one that begins to approximate an Earth analog in the habitable zone around its host star. That's the type of world that might be home to a civilization capable of building radio transmitters."
The ATA had been placed in hibernation mode last April as the result of the withdrawal of the SETI Institute's former partner, U.C. Berkeley, due to budgetary shortfalls. Berkeley was the operator of the Hat Creek Observatory in northern California where the ATA is located. With new funding recently acquired for observatory operations, the ATA can resume SETI observations where it left off: examining the thousands of new candidate planets found by Kepler. Highest priority will be given to the handful of worlds discovered so far that are located in their star's habitable zone: the range of orbital radii where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist. Most astrobiologists consider that liquid water is the sine qua non for life.
"In SETI, as with all research, preconceived notions such as habitable zones could be barriers to discovery," adds Tarter. "So, with sufficient future funding from our donors, it's our intention to examine all of the planetary systems found by Kepler."
Observations over the next two years will allow a systematic exploration of these Kepler discoveries across the entire, naturally-quiet 1 to 10 GHz terrestrial microwave window. The ATA is unique in providing ready access to tens of millions of channels at any one time, anywhere in this 9 billion channel range (each channel is 1 Hz wide). Until recently many SETI searches focused on limited frequency ranges, including a small number of observations at the 8.67 GHz spin-flip transition of the 3He+ ion, proposed by the team of Bob Rood (University of Virginia) and Tom Bania (Boston University). In memory of Rood, who died November 2, the initial ATA search of Kepler targets this week will focus around the 8.67 GHz band, before moving on to examine the billions of channels available for observation at the ATA.
The restart of SETI work at the ATA has been made possible thanks to the interest and generosity of the public who supported SETI research via the http://www.SETIStars.org website. Additional funds necessary for observatory re-activation and operations are being provided by the United States Air Force as part of a formal assessment of the instrument's utility for Space Situational Awareness (see http://www.seti.org/afspc for more information).
"Kepler's success has created an amazing opportunity to focus SETI research. While discovery of new exoplanets via Kepler is backed with government monies, the search for evidence that some of these worlds might be home to intelligence falls to SETI alone. And our SETI exploration depends entirely on private donations, for which we are deeply grateful to our donors," notes Tarter.
"The year-in and year-out fundraising challenge we tackle in order to conduct SETI research is an absolute human and organizational struggle, yet it is well worth the hard work to help Jill's team address what is one of humanity's most profound research questions," says Tom Pierson, CEO of the SETI Institute.
The public can follow the new ATA observations via the http://www.SETIStars.org website and can read more about the overall work of the SETI Institute at http://www.seti.org. The SETI Institute is proud to be a supporting partner in NASA's Kepler mission -- see http://goo.gl/ykFTf
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Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the SETI Institute is a non-profit research organization that addresses the question of the origin, nature, and prevalence of life beyond Earth. SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA 94043. http://www.seti.org
The first Kepler Science Conference will be held at NASA Ames Research Center from December 5 to 9, 2011. Agenda for the meeting:
The abstract for Dr. Tarter's talk on Earth analogs can be downloaded from there.
Images of the Allen Telescope Array:
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