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One of the conveniences of the regulus theme is being able to check the box to allow administrator's options to be shown on the front of the blog when signed in. Unfortunately mine have disappeared from the front page. Can you enlighten me as to why and how to restore them please?
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regulus administrator's options missing when signed in
do they appear following this link?
No. They used to be there and now they are gone. Moreover they also used to be on my third blog also a regulus theme at http://islandeaglewatch.wordpress but they have also disappeared from there too. I sure hope this is not another situation like the disappearing and re-appearing widgets one. I'm just not in the mood and will develop an instant migraine headache if this is a repeat performance [she said with a grimace while flipping her hair off her forehead]. Perhaps I caused this myself by completing that little "about" box that appeared in the sidebar. I did so because I was so eager to sound more open and appealing. If so [said she with a snarl] I can wipe them clean and become an ice queen but that's not what blogging is about. Please advise.
I thought I read on the Binary Moon site that the admin stuff had been removed because it was causing some confusion but I can't locate the post right now.
I remember something like that as well. You can either add in the Meta widget (which look slike what you did) or create a text widget with the links that you need.
I like the Admin options. It only shows up if you are logged in as an Admin right? So how can that cause confusion? Using a text widget with a link would more likely to cause users confusion unless you put "DO NOT CLICK HERE".
Anyways if it is removed by Binary Moon, how come the option to select it can still be found in "Presentation/Current Theme Options"?
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Cesare Maldini believes Milan CEO Adriano Galliani has always considered Pippo Inzaghi an ideal fit for the Rossoneri coaching position.
The 40-year-old is set to take over as San Siro boss from Clarence Seedorf, having spent the last two years in charge of the club's Primavera youth team.
Speaking to Corriere Dello Sport, Maldini senior said that he is not surprised by the impending appointment and outlined what he feels Inzaghi must do in order to be successful in his new role.
"Pippo has been given a great opportunity and I send him my congratulations," Maldini said.
"I am not surprised, Galliani is the one behind the deal and he has always thought of Pippo as being suited to the Rossoneri job.
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Fed shocker!
Tomas Berdych stuns defending champion in Dubai Open semi-finals; Djoko cruises into final
Defending champion Roger Federer squandered three match points as he slumped to a 3-6, 7-6 (10/8), 6-4 defeat to Tomas Berdych in their Dubai Open semi-final yesterday.
Berdych, who knocked Federer out of the US Open in the quarter-finals last year, will tackle World No 1 Novak Djokovic in today's final.
Top seed Djokovic reached the final with a 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) success over Juan Martin del Potro. The Serbian was again in remarkably fine fettle for a man who has not played a tournament since making a successful defence of the Australian title nearly five weeks ago and. This will be his 55th final.
"I am proud of that record and of what I have done in my career," he said. "It's been more than successful and I am trying to cherish every moment I spend on a tennis court.
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(Lawrenceburg, Ind.) – Indiana's Superintendent of Public Instruction will meet with students and teachers in Lawrenceburg on Wednesday.
Glenda Ritz will be at Central Elementary School in Lawrenceburg at 1:30 p.m. Lawrenceburg Schools Superintendent Karl Galey says students will give Ritz a tour of the school.
The state's top education official will also participate in a roundtable discussion with Lawrenceburg Community School Corporation's administrators.
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Penn State Seeing Redd: Joe Paterno Should Make Silas Redd His Featured RBOctober 25, 2010
It's time for a change in the Penn State backfield. Evan Royster is simply not producing for the Nittany Lions. Head coach Joe Paterno has a history of being loyal to his seniors but he needs to realize that Royster is not the answer. The numbers are progressively getting worse for Penn State, which is currently ranked 10th in the Big Ten in rushing through seven games and a bye week. Yes, the Nits don't have a great offensive line but they do have a true freshman in Silas Redd that should be bumped up to first team reps.
If you don't believe me, just look at the numbers. Redd has played in six games this season and rushed for 173 yards on 29 carries. That's nearly a third of the attempts for Royster, who has 450 yards on 88 totes in seven games. Redd's yards per carry average (6.0) is nearly a full yard higher than Royster's (5.1) and would be better with more reps.
The only game both running backs had comparable carries was this past weekend at Minnesota. Royster rushed for 62 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries, Redd had 71 yards on nine totes. The big difference was 70 of Redd's 71 yards came in the 4th quarter while Royster racked up a goose egg. Did I also mention that Minnesota has the worst rush defense in the Big Ten and Penn State was down to its third-string quarterback in Matt McGloin for most of the game? If there was any game that Penn State needed its running backs to step up, it would have been Saturday and Redd did, while Royster did not.
Royster came into the season just 481 yards shy of breaking Curt Warner's career rushing record at Penn State (3,398 yds). His weight, work ethic and desire were questioned earlier this year and broke the century mark just once so far this season. Royster is still 31 yards shy of eclipsing the mark and maybe that's why Penn State continues to give him the benefit of the doubt. The reality is that his production continues to dip since cracking the line up three years ago. Royster rushed for 1,236 yards and 12 TDs in 2008 and 1,169 yards and 6 TDS last year. He has just 450 yards through seven games this season and is averaging less than 65 yards per game.
The Penn State offensive line can't take the entire hit for the Nittany Lions non-existent rushing attack. They are being out-rushed by their opponents by more than 100 yards this season and the running backs need to pick it up. Redd has taken advantage of his limited opportunities in there and made the most of them. He's quick to the holes and powerful enough to run through arm tackles. His runs seem to energize the offense and always churns out positive yardage. Redd has only lost two rushing yards this season, compared to Royster's 17.
Royster had his chance to be the featured back, he hasn't produced. It's time to give Redd the bulk of the carries and see if he can make things happen. Royster will eventually be Penn State's all-time leading rusher but he is not the best option at running back for this football team. The quicker the Nittany Lions realize that the better off they will be, but they better hurry, they have just five must-win games left on the schedule.


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Federer and UBS's Ospel were probably not playing the same tune
Update 25 February 09:30 (video clip) Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The people of Basel will have sore feet by the early hours of Thursday 25 February, as Fasnacht moves into its final drumbeats after three days of incessant marching and parade-watching.
If you've read Swiss newspapers you could be forgiven for thinking that the guests of honour were Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffi and former Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz. They were indeed present, but only in effigy, dozens and dozens of versions of each of them. Uncle Sam, who looked like an IRS (US tax authority) employee saying "I want YOU!" also showed up several times during the parades and in city bars.
More intriguing, however, were the rumours flying thick that one of the pipers behind a mask was Marcel Ospel, former boss of banking giant UBS and a citizen of Basel. "He never gave back his bonus!" the word went round. But should the piper pay the piper? Ospel apparently thought not.
If he was behind a mask he was one of thousands, and there was no danger of it being pulled off in this festival with no written rules, but an unspoken list of do's and don'ts. Masks stay on.
Another giant question mark hanging over the crowd was the possible presence Roger Federer. The tennis star had said that he would not be participating in the Dubai tournament because of a lung infection, that he would be taking a little time off. Where better to do that than in hometown Basel during its famous Fasnacht, the city whispered loudly.
For loud it is in Basel during Fasnacht, surely one of Europe's most spectacular shows and all the more endearing to visitors because it is not put on for tourists.
The parade route is 7km long, but the city's population joins in so enthusiastically that there are 14km of people. "It poses a few organizational problems," says Fasnacht Comite President Felix Rudolf von Rohr, a former politician, ruefully.
The way money really works in Basel
How many tourists come to town for the event, von Rohr was asked by visiting journalists. "We don't know. We don't count them," he says. The closest anyone has come was to calculate one year that CHF30 million more is spent on food, drink, costumes and related items during the Fasnacht week. And CHF1m is spent cleaning up afterwards.
The finances are simple: Fasnacht is not subsidized and those in the parade pay for their own costumes, elaborate masks, props and floats. Badges, called Blaggedde, are sold everywhere during the festival, for CHF10 and 15 francs. Anyone on the street who is not wearing a badge is fair game for pranksters, so the badges sell well. The money goes to the Comite, a group of 13 who are members with unlimited terms, and they decide which cliques, the parade groups, get money and how much. It depends on how good their costumes and sujets, or themes, were for the last festival. Within each clique, the president then decides who gets reimbursed for some of their expenses.
"People are very keen to get the president's jobs," according to one woman from Basel who says that you join a clique when you're young and stay with the same one most of your life. "It's pretty unusual to change."
That kind of power, to take in money and disburse it, could be a temptation to some, so are the accounts verified, von Rohr was asked. "Of course!" he says. This answer is repeated by others, when asked if the money given to the president of a clique must be accounted for, too.
The money serves another, law enforcement function. Fasnacht has no rules, only do's and don'ts that are remarkably well observed. Satire can walk very close to the edge of cruelty, however.
A journalist ask von Rohr if there are ever problems with anti-Semitism, or anti-Muslim sentiments, for example. He is quick to say that "Swiss law is the rule," in the end, so anti-religion comments are taboo, as is anything that invades an individual's privacy.
"But you don't have any way of enforcing this, right?" insists another journalist at a pre-Fasnacht press conference.
"Oh yes," he smiles. "We just don't give them any money. The word gets around pretty fast. People know how close to the edge they can go and where the limits are," says von Rohr.
A din well before dawn
The festival, Switzerland's largest February carnival and arguably the most colourful, begins officially when the lights in the city are turned off abruptly at 04:00 Monday.
Twelve thousand people marched in the parade early Monday this year and cheered, despite a drizzling rain. There was a sudden din as thousands of pipes and drums went to work. The musicians and others marched with lanterns in hand or more often on their heads, to wake up lazy citizens still in bed. There cannot have been many of those.
The size of the crowd watching was as great as the marchers.
The city had been vibrating and humming for hours, as excitement grew and amateur musicians warmed up. These are regular Basel citizens who spend hours during the year preparing for this moment.
Two hours later the crowd begins to thin as some people head for bed, but most find breakfast in the cafés that keep whatever hours they want, for a change. Typical fare: Basel brown flour soup, onion and cheese tarts.
The big public events of Fasnacht that follow are the parades on Monday and Wednesday afternoons, with several activities and a parade for children on Tuesday. Brass bands boom Gugge music as they march Tuesday night.
Privately, the city never stops partying.
It's all about poking fun
Fasnacht in Basel is living proof that the Swiss are organized, can move like clockwork (but we knew that), have a wicked sense of humour, and that there is no one they like to poke fun at more than themselves. Upright citizens most of the year, Basel's population lets loose for half a week: they close most shops but open others in the wee hours of the morning, forego the office and continually shove confetti down each other's necks. Unsuspecting tourists get bopped on the head by wooden clubs that are really balloons, carried by grunting cavemen. A larger than usual number of street people wander around.
The streets are the messiest you will ever see in Switzerland, but everyone knows they will be swept later in the week. The near-absence of police is remarkable and something other cities might envy, especially given that the party runs night and day for three days. Alcohol is consumed, but drunkenness is rare.
There is one golden rule: do not take yourself seriously. This goes for the butt of jokes – you, me, Qadaffi and Merz included.
Fasnacht is also proof that not all Swiss talk alike, for much of the humour is lost on anyone who cannot make sense of Basel's peculiar own brand of German – which is anyone not born and raised in the city.
The power of the community lies behind unwritten Fasnacht rules
The festival has murky origins, but it has existed in some form since at least the 14th century. Records exist of a 1376 event which began as a jousting tournament and ended as a bloodbath, with Basel losing the protection of the Holy Roman Empire as a result of its rowdy behaviour: this is the first recorded Fasnacht.
In 1529 it was decided to hold it on the Monday and Wednesday after Ash Wednesday, unlike most Catholic Mardi Gras festivals today, but it is not clear if this was done to snub Rome. Masks were banned as "perilous" in 1715 and in 1798 parades and drumming were banned. Later, the torches used for parading through the city were not permitted, considered too dangerous.
Fasnacht as it exists today is 100 years old. The Comite oversees the parade route and security but the event is loosely organized by the 500 or so cliques, or groups, each of which decides soon after one Fasnacht, what its own "sujet" or theme will be for the next one. Politics and politician's foibles are high on the list.
Elaborate costumes and masks for the parades are organized accordingly, posters and wagons are painted to illustrate the satirical sujets, which lie at the heart of Fasnacht. People lining the parade route eagerly read the posters and painted wagons. They grab the flyers handed out by the cliques as they walk along, eager to see who's being made fun of now.
Fasnacht tips for visitors
- do's and don'ts: top of the list is do not use flash on your camera during the darkened parade the first night, called Morgenstreich, and stay out of the way of the marchers
- do buy a badge from anyone on the street selling them
- wear comfortable shoes, for you may find yourself standing for four hours watching the parade, and consider an alternative to eye-poking umbrellas if it rains
- be sure to pick up a copy of the parade route from the tourism office in advance and arrive 30 minutes early; trams run most of the night, but not on normal routes, so check the schedule and stops that are working
- stay out of the marchers' way and if you find a wonderful mask sitting outside a bar, leave it: a lot of work and often money has gone into making it, but the owner is taking a short break.
The Basel Tourism Office has package deals for the weekend which are well worth considering, with bed, breakfast and city transport included. You won't go hungry in any event, with bread and a variety of sausages for CHF4-6 on sale on every street corner.
Links to other sites: Basel Tourism, CFF special train offers, Fasnacht Comite


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Guide Search in Cusco
I had originally hoped to climb with Rene Huaman, but was deterred from hiring him. He failed to show at preset meeting points a couple times and while I waited for his arrival from a trek he led on the Salkantay trail, I found another option. That morning, I had breakfast with the few remaining members of the medical team I had come to Peru to work with at The Meeting Place on Plaza San Blas in Cusco. The restaurant served excellent food in a cozy, well-lit setting and was operated by Americans raising money for church projects in Peru. I spoke to the manager and he recommended that I visit Peru Inca Trek Adventures between the restaurant and Plaza de Armas down the hill. I asked what was special about this company and he quickly responded with enthusiasm about their promptness and reluctance to swindle people, which is rare in the Cusco area. Naturally, I decided to visit the place.
There, in the back of a gift shop filled with flutes of all types and sizes, alpaca paraphernalia, and a money exchange booth, I met Jomer. A charismatic 30-year-old fellow with an eagerness to help, Jomer seemed okay to me. I asked him to help me reach Rene Huaman whose name didn't seem to ring a bell. I threw down the phone number on the table and Jomer immediately snatched it up and began dialing. He arranged for me, a meeting with Rene in the Plaza de Armas within the hour and I was thrilled. Finally, I would meet a guide. I had used up three days waiting around after the medical expedition with Mountain Medics International ended (more on that in another trip report). Before I left, Jomer also recommended his friend Ruben so I could maybe get a better deal that way. Reluctantly, I agreed to meet with Ruben later that day. I marched to the plaza and met Rene, who was accompanied by an associate carrying a map. Rene seemed like a large man with his black down jacket and I could see age and wisdom in his eyes, but he seemed a little pushy. He quizzed me on my mountaineering knowledge and experience, then proceeded to give me the layout of the mountain using the massive map his associate carried. Since he had to do a trek in six days, he wanted to take me up the mountain in five days for a cost of $550 excluding travel expenses and food. I told him I'd think about it and meet him in four hours at the same spot. He agreed after saying that it didn't matter to him if I went; the decision was mine.
Later, I met with Ruben, who seemed much younger and more cheerful than Rene. He expressed his concerns about not knowing my condition and mountaineering skills. We thought a bit and he suggested we climb a lesser mountain over the weekend to acclimatize, which would also give him an opportunity to assess my potential. If I was up for it, we could then take 6-7 days on Ausangate. Jomer and Ruben talked and came up with a $650 charge for the services for both Nevado Halancoma and Nevado Ausangate. I thought about how it wasn't much more than Rene's proposal of five days with the inclusion of another mountain and up to 4 extra days in the mountains. I told them $600 for the whole thing would be fine. With a little discussion, we all came to a consensus. I assumed, but did not really contemplate all the additional charges for transportation, food, personnel, and mules, which would leave me with a total bill of nearly $900. Yet, now that I see how much a friend will pay for a week on Cotopaxi this coming January ($2200 for a group of 4), the costs accrued on my trip seem to not weigh so heavily on my mind. Besides, the excellent service, the amazing mountain experience, the insights into local life and culture, and the great friendships I developed far and away eclipse the costs I paid.
Immediately after the meeting, Ruben and I walked up the hill to my hostel where he sifted through my gear. He soon the concluded that I had more than enough to tackle the mountains—I even brought a small tent we would use on both mountains. From there Ruben had to run some errands while I met with Rene at the designated time. Rene was late but his associate had arrived on time, so I just told the number-two guy I was going with someone else and I didn't need his services anymore. Not long after that, I met up with Ruben again and hit the market for food and supplies. We spent about 70 soles on food, which is roughly $25.
To my astonishment, Ruben suggested we use benzene for fuel. Benzene is a solvent used to clean pretty dirty stuff like oils and resins from a range of different machines. I also learned in the last year that benzene was the reason for an astronomically high incidence of cancer in a cluster of Iranian villages because people would use it to wash their hands after working. He claimed it burned better at altitude and didn't clog the stoves during use. I told him nope—we'd use gasoline. Beyond the shopping trip, I was free to hang out with my buds from the medical expedition while Ruben made arrangements for our departure to Nevado Halancoma the following day.
Nevado Halancoma
Below are the dictations upon my return to Cusco describing the events of the previous few days.
August 23, 2010
Okay, let me see here. It is Monday, August 23. I'm lying in my bed in the hostel, Casa de La Gringa. It is 12:42, I meet Ruben at one o'clock and I guess we'll go down to Peru Inca Trek Adventures where Jomer works. We'll try to plan out the trip—we start out tomorrow for Ausangate. The climb at Nevado Halancoma went pretty well. We took a bus. Well, first of all, Ruben came a little early to pack up the stuff. He said I could leave my ice tools here and he convinced me to wear my mountaineering boots the whole time. So we ate breakfast with Nizhoni here at the hostel before taking a taxi across town to the bus station, which cost only 4 soles. It's nice having a guide (he does most of the work). I just need to tag along and take care of myself. He bought some of the groceries the night before; he also bought the bus tickets and water at the bus station.
The bus was very nice. We could recline almost horizontally. It was orange inside and though we were driving on dirt roads, I really didn't feel much and I was able to take a nap. Some older ladies tried to take my seat, but they soon realized that there weren't many people on the bus and they could take their own seats. We rode on the bus the whole way up the canyon between Nevado Veronica and Nevado Halancoma. We got to about 11,700 feet—something in that range. We got dropped off, not even at a bus stop, but just along the side of the road. We packed our gear and started walking. We were blazing at first—it was difficult for me at first, but I got used to it. We talked to Mario Cinche who is the jefe of the valley and the lake. We talked to his kids, one was about 12 years old and the others were about 2 and 3. They wanted candy and the little ones could only speak Quechua. Ruben was able to talk to Mario and learn that there were other guys up there at the lake. Soon after that, we hiked up the valley and turned to the right up another smaller valley up to the lake. We saw Ruben's friends on their way up to the higher lake. It was funny listening to them talk because Ruben has a distinct, unique accent. We decided to take a stroll around the lake and settled on a small flat area; a small dried island that was barely big enough for the tent. We got settled, got water, ate soup and bread. Oh yeah, we had bread and cheese sandwiches outside of Mario's place when we talked to him. An apple that I ended up eating fell in the water. I took it, spat water on it, and wiped it off. So far I haven't had any bad effects from it. Anyway, we got that done and arranged the gear. I set up the sleeping pads and bags inside the tent while Ruben did most of the cooking. It's a real luxury to have someone cooking for you.
Continuation from dictation 19, August 23, 12:47. Anyway, we had a great view from our campsite of Nevado Veronica, which is really steep. It reminded me of Mt. Hood from Hood River except bigger, more rugged—heavy glaciers. Apparently, some of the bald spots up there were non-existent five years ago, due to climate change I guess. Clouds arrived from the east and sort of lapped up against the mountains like waves on the ocean. Occasionally a cloud would slip in, cross the lake, and roll up over the slope above us. We couldn't see the peak at the time because there was a ridge in front of us, but you could see the slot that we'd go up the next morning.
We hung out a bit, got things rolling around 5:30 and ate. Not even that late, more about five o'clock. We had spaghetti and meatballs and what was supposed to be chocolate Nesquik—we had vanilla and powdered soy milk. It was alright, but we would have preferred chocolate and regular milk. We ate and watched the sun go down. It started getting chilly but the moon was rising and it lit up everything anyway—it was very pretty. We went to sleep at 7 pm.
I woke up feeling nostalgic for my new friends, realizing that it would be difficult to see everybody again at the same time. Especially…considering that it was the environment that brought us all together, each day seeing each other, talking through all our problems for nine days straight. Yeah, I'm really going to miss those guys. It took me a little bit to shake it off that morning. Luckily, I really had to pee and was holding it for about three hours so I ran outside, peed real quickly, and got dressed. We made a little bit of breakfast…what was it? First of all, the water purifier was frozen so we had to boil a little water and put the water filter on top along with the platypus. Eventually, we got some Nesquik, water, and ate some bread before we took off around 4:30, 4:35. The next little valley used to have a glacier but now it's completely dried up. Pretty soon…well, the moon had gone down and the sun began to rise so I had to turn off my headlamp. We continued up the valley and slope to the southwest. We did a bunch of scrambling/rock climbing in mountaineering boots along the ridge. We eventually got to the top and behold, there was Nevado Veronica and the big glacier we would cross and Halancoma to our left. We could see Ruben's friend on the glacier—he yelled to him. We skipped our way down, put on our crampons, got our harnesses set, everything. We went onto the glacier. We couldn't see the peak he was referring to as Halancoma, which was concealed by the glacier above because of a bulge. Anyway, we went up, crossed some crevasses, which was interesting. I had to use my straight ice ax to ice climb out. That was a little difficult but I felt safe since Ruben had me on belay…a sort of belay. We got to the summit at 7:20. We ate some snacks, celebrated, checked out the view from Ausangate to Salkantay, San Juan, Chicon, and all those great peaks.
We were looking across at another peak even higher, and I looked at my altimeter, which read about 5900 so I decided we should go for the other peak since it was higher and was probably the actual summit. So we did. On the way down, I ended up falling on the glacier once—I wasn't used to walking in those crampons. We crossed crevasses and eventually got off the first glacier and had to do a slab climb, which was fairly difficult. We got to the other glacier and it was pretty dang steep and difficult to do with my straight ice axe. I didn't have gloves on so my hands got eaten up—crushed against the ice. We were shocked at how much blood there was. I shook it off and we kept going. Eventually, we made it to the end of the glacier, with little stops since my calves were killing me. Ruben's legs were eating it, too. We looked up and there was still rock climbing to do. We dropped the crampons, ice axes, and bags. I just kept the SPOT and went up. Ruben free climbed with the rope, got to a ledge, and hip-belayed me up. There was loose rock but I wasn't scared. From there he traversed left and I followed. From that point, I thought we should have a little more security so I wrapped the rope around a rock—it didn't matter because he eventually found a route up over on top. I followed and we summited. We celebrated our second summit of the day.
We decided to go down the southeast ridge since it looked easier, then took a left back to our packs. We headed down the glacier and my ACL hurt, and still hurts—my left leg is achy right now. I don't know how I'm going to do on Ausangate—I'm a little worried. I think if I keep resting I'll be okay. We ran into Ruben's friends on the way up, blazed by them, and on the way down we blazed by them again because they were taking the rock route while we took the glacier route. Again, this glacier was nearly 50 degrees steep and to go straight down on that was painful for my knees. Luckily, I have my knee brace here—I hope it will help. We got to the end of the glacier and decided to go right and skid down a lot of scree. At that point, I decided to put on my IT band band and apply it to my patellar tendon. It helped a little but it was still painful. We walked across part of the glacier without crampons, but at one point we just decided to do it. Ruben had some bad blisters. We fixed them up with duct tape. We eventually got back to the camp around 11:20. Oh yeah, we hit the second summit at 9:30, so two hours. We made it back to camp less than two hours after that. We ate cereal and yogurt, packed gear, and left a little after…according to my time we arrived at…we left at almost one and got down in an hour. We just blazed it. I don't know if my knees will recover from that. I'll have to tell him to go slower on the downhill next time. From there we hitched a ride on a commie bus/van. This guy was a horrible driver. We blazed down the switchbacks and made it back to Cusco around four o'clock.
Well, that wasn't Ruben; just a couple German ladies coming to get their bags and leaving. Anyway, we got back around four o'clock, dropped our bags off at the hostel, and went to a restaurant at Plaza San Francisco—it was really good. We downed some platano con leche. They put tons of sugar in it but I didn't care. I had garlic chicken because I misspoke when I wanted orange chicken. After dinner, I wanted to stop by Amy's to leave her a message and she ended up being there. She was about to go out so I told her I would meet her at the restaurant we ate at with everybody minus Graham. [Amy was the last remaining member of the medical team with Mountain Medics International and Graham is the leader of the organization who left Peru first.] I went back to the hostel with Ruben, said good-bye, and went and got shampoo, which took longer than I thought. I jumped in the shower—it was warm and good. I was in a rush but tired. I just got everything ready and spruced up. I saw Amy there with some sangria. We talked for a bit while she drank her sangria then we went to the sister restaurant of Baco. [Baco is a high-end restaurant a couple blocks from the main plaza where the Mountain Medics ate on their last night together.] That was nice with wine. We had some tapas; for instance, prawns with wasabi cream sauce—was really good. I had another jugo de pina y papaya and a platano con leche, well two of those. I really hydrated up. After dinner, we said good-bye. I went back up to the hostel and started watching the history channel in Spanish—I understood bits of it. Then Chantelle and what's her name from Thailand walked in and we talked, but I fell asleep on the couch. [Chantelle and the woman from Thailand were good pals I met at the hostel.] I woke up a little later and they had gone to bed so I decided to go to sleep as well.
Today, I'm sort of feeling nostalgic, a little sad. It's the post-climb blues combined with saying good-bye to everybody, seeing everyone leave, and being the only one left here in Cusco. I think about everybody back home. I don't know, maybe I am a little homesick—strange. I never thought that would happen, but it's okay. Now I have to worry about my leg and get things arranged for the big one. Ruben says I'm prepared and ready to do it. I feel I am too but it's just my left leg that would be holding me back. I'm sure it'll be all right. I'll just continue to rest.
I took a cold shower and it has taken me forever to get warm again. I ate some breakfast at the hostel and got some more breakfast with Chantelle and what's-her-name over at the Bread and Breakfast, which is connected to the restaurant Amy and I went to. It was delicious waffles with fruit and ice cream—awesome. I had another platano con leche that was delicious. God, it's an emotional, crappy day today. Let's see if things will pick up when Ruben gets here—it's game time. After breakfast we went and got massages. Mirasol is really good and much better than the other place. I think I'll go back to her later today for another massage focused on my leg. We'll see how things go…big concerns: IT band and ACL. Alright, there's Ruben.
Nevado Ausangate
So after returning to Cusco from a successful summit bid at Nevado Halancoma. My guide, Ruben, and I, decided to take a couple days to rest since his left MCL and my left IT band we causing us problems. He visited the physical therapist while I paid for a couple excellent massages that really loosened up my muscles. While in Cusco, we organized and planned our trip to Ausangate, including buying 200 soles worth of food ($70) that would last us the 7 days we had reserved for the trip. By this time, all the members of the medical team I had joined (the primary reason for my visit to Peru) had left. Nostalgia and even a little homesickness struck as I tried to relax and prepare my body for the coming barrage of pain. We took two days off and on the third we left for the mountain.
Ruben had arranged for porters in Tinqui that would meet us at Pacchanta. To my dismay, I found out I had to pay them out of pocket since they were not included in the overall trip costs. The mountain was at hand so I ignored the troubles and moved on, drinking as much water as I could stomach for the acclimatization process ahead.
Below are the dictations I recorded while on the mountain. Note that dictations 23/38 – 30/38 had the great addition of labored breathing throughout.
August 25, 2010
It is 8:43, Wednesday, August 25. We are driving through some small town on our way to Ausangate. The bus left [Cusco] about 7:30. Woke up around 5, got ready. Ruben came around 6 and we headed out. Doing ok right now. I'm a little apprehensive about the whole ice climbing wall thing. Well, not going up, but going down on rappel. Well, everything's in order. Looks like a bunch of people are trying to sell stuff here on the bus. I'm not hungry right now but will probably eat in Ocongate.
We're at the first campsite at 4600 meters, 15280 feet. We were on our way to the refuge but we got some information that it would be more peaceful here on this shelf between Ausangate and this wall of peaks in the Vilcanota Range. We're camping along side one of Ruben's friends who's guiding a couple Israelis up this peak above us here—probably a 17-er. Our porters, Alfredo and…I forgot his name, have their own tent for the night. The horses are chillin' and it looks like Ausangate is covered in clouds. We got some hail, little bit of rain, and lots of clouds. I hope it clears up in the next couple of days.
Continuation of the last message. It is 4:45 on August 25, 2010. I just looked at the map--it says we're at 4900 meters. Ruben's altimeter watch says 4815 so it is somewhere between 4800 and 4900 meters. My watch appears to be off by 300 meters--I'll see if I can adjust it. We're pretty dang high. There's a risk of altitude sickness but I took some Diamoxx so it should be okay.
August 26, 2010
It is 8 o'clock in the morning on August 26, 2010. We're at the first camp looking up at Ausangate. It has a cloud plume flowing to the northeast. The sun's up pretty high, reflecting off the glaciers on Puca Punta and neighboring peaks.
Went to sleep about 8 o'clock last night…I was feeling…I was trying to keep my breathing rate high. I felt a little woozy. After some hot chocolate and tea I felt a lot better I could feel my lungs expand a lot more efficiently. I slept like a baby last night, woke up without a headache…doing ok, I think. I'm acclimatizing all right but I think I need more water to ensure that I am.
Alfredo went back down to get another horse since one of them was carrying too much weight for us. So to expedite things, he got a new one. That's about 4 horses now. [We had 2 horses and the other party had two as well.] This is pleasant and…Ruben is cooking some more breakfast right now. I already had bread and butter and hot chocolate. I think I'll eat some more since we have quite a ways to go today.
It's 3:53, August 26, 2010. Base camp for Ausangate. Altimeter reads 4585 m. I'm guessing that's an underestimation. I'm going to look at the map here and see the elevation according to the topo. I'm a little out of breath since we're so high…going to take it easy. We've set up the tents already. Ruben's sharpening the crampons (yell in the back "Wahoo!"). A bunch of llamas walking around…
Can't really see the top of Ausangate…Tomorrow morning we'll go up to high camp. Looks like we'll traverse this glacial valley and go up onto a shelf. We hiked from our first camp over a 5000 m pass…probably a little more than that…5030. We hiked down a valley never dropping below 14,000 feet. Did a little bouldering at 4565 m. I added 200 on top of the altitude, which read 4365 m. It was an awesome problem. Continued down the valley—it was really wide.
Right now I'm looking at a tall peak to the south—I don't know what it is.
We came a long way—it was 5 hours of hiking today. Now I'm looking up at Nevado Santa Catalina or Mariposa. Looking at the crevasses and seracs of the glaciers here at Ausangate.
The llama herd is moving, probably 40 ft away from us—pretty cool.
Feeling all right. Felt really good this morning and good all day today but right now feeling out of breath and a little dizzy. I'm going to take a little Diamoxx and check over the map.
August 27, 2010
Ruben and I are at high camp—5195 meters according to my altimeter; Ruben's says 5350 meters. According to the map, we're about 5400 meters up, which is roughly 17,715 feet. We're looking up at the glacier and it looks pretty gnarly. Ruben has our path picked out. I don't know if we're going to do the big face or the smaller big face…ice climbing tomorrow.
Nevado Santa Catalina is across the way—the glacier looks awesome. There's a storm to the south breaking against the mountains. I can see through the pass, some blue sky. The pass goes over into Pacchanta valley. We had to carry a bunch of crap up here and put the tent on some rocks—we're sleeping on some rocks. Alfredo helped us a lot by bringing some of the equipment. He saved us about 30-40 pounds of extra hauling. Our stuff was already 50…what a stone? We're melting snow from a bunch of; a big deposit over the ridge and there appears to be a big stone in the water (Chuckles). We're packing up, getting ready for tomorrow. We'll get up at one and get going by two. We should get to the summit in 5-6 hours—that will be around 7 o'clock in the morning. Alfredo is going to walk back down to base camp, spend the night down there and come back up tomorrow and try to have a meal ready for us. That's awesome! It's probably going to get pretty cold up here tonight but we're looking pretty good. I'm going to finish off my lunch, continue packing and getting ready.
August 29, 2010
We're at high camp. It's almost 8 o'clock. We got up about 20 minutes ago—real stiff, got a headache. Ruben has a sore throat and the weather is clear today. Apparently, we decided to climb up on the only day that had bad weather (Chuckles). It was just bad luck all around yesterday. Wait, what did we start with? I had dolor de estomago and Ruben's MCL was hurting him. My IT band was hurting me and my glasses broke. What else…when we neared the summit, we went up the wrong route so we lost half an hour and a snow picket. We got to the summit…well, first off, we woke up at one and got going at 2:30. We got to the summit at 10:30…I think it was a little before that and we started coming down at 10:30.
We didn't get back until 6:30. On the way down, we had to take a hard right on the high plateau around some crevasses and it was a total slog. Part of the time we were trudging through knee-deep powder and towards the end for the last hour or so, it was waist-deep powder. My gaiters we useless. In fact, detrimental to my progress…they just packed in snow onto my legs so I was walking with leg weights. Not to mention I was the one carrying the extra rope at the time. Yeah, and there was a whiteout through the last hour of that slog. We picked a direction and aimed for it. You could barely make out a ridge to our left. We hit the ridge far to the right of where we were supposed to be. We decided to go down and traverse the face a bit. We didn't go far enough to get to where our original picket was placed so we had to make a couple new anchors. We had to rappel 3 or 4 times so that's roughly 210 meters.
We were rappelling onto a flat plateau and continued the damn slog across and up and across again on this glacial plateau and work our way down to where we buried a snow picket. We were unlucky enough to have the ropes not be long enough to get us past both cruxes. The first one was overhanging and the second one was about vertical, 90 degrees. So that was tough because when I tried to kick in, I knocked out the ice so I had to do a pull-up, basically. On the way down, we had to do two separate rappels, leaving snow pickets behind at each. The second one, we managed to go over a couple crevasses in combination with the crux move. From there, we found a large ice block that we could rappel off of. We did another rappel off another steep section that was not as hard as the other two but still quite difficult, maybe 70 degrees, and then did one more rappel. All the while, through these crux sections, we got snowed on. Up on the face as well, we got snowed on and cold winds. I was losing feeling in my pinkies so I had to switch gloves.
Coming down, it was nearly dark as we got off rappel. We had to do a little slogging past that then the snow got a little harder. We walked off the glacier, finally. Again, it was total whiteout. Luckily, we were at a position on the glacier where we could find our way down. Anyway, Alfredo was down there shining his light towards us to show us the way and we made it back around 6:30 after going through some rockfall danger areas covered with snow. I'm completely exhausted. I only had…I had less than one and a half liters yesterday. I took Diamoxx—I took a diarrhetic without drinking. When I came back I only had 2 cups of water, Gatorade, then hit the sack because I was just too tired. Woke up this morning feeling a little sore. Apparently, we're going down to base camp. It should take 2 to 3 hours where our breakfast will be waiting. What an adventure. I was brutalized by that mountain; totally brutalized. Whew!
We're at base camp—it's hailing on us. We're going to head to Pacchanta. It's a six-hour hike if we move fast. When we get there, we'll have hot springs—that will be nice. First we have to pack up and get our stuff together.
We're on the second story; that's Alfredo, Ruben, and me. We're on the second story of a building in Pacchanta. Right now, it's freezing. We enjoyed a nice soak in the hot springs. Got pummeled by rain and hail coming in on the hike today. We booked it from base camp and arrived in five and a half hours, arriving at 5:30. We had some alpaca for dinner—it was delicious. Now it's 10:11 on August 29 and it's time for bed.
Back to Cusco
The next morning we took our time pulling things together after a pleasant breakfast. We conversed some more with the people from the mountaineering club before most of them headed out for another day of sport climbing up the valley. Ruben, Alfredo, two girls from the club, and I would walk the remaining hour and a half to Tinqui. My feet hurt like never before since the hot springs caused sloughing of my calluses. Once at Tinqui, we made arrangements for Alfredo to meet me in Cusco and receive his pay in the subsequent days. From there, the bus ride was smooth and I slept all the way back to Cusco.
Ruben and I said good-bye to the two girls from the mountaineering club and got our own taxi to the hostel where we unloaded our gear. We parted ways to clean up before we would meet again later for a night on the town.
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Campbell's soup and Chef Boyardee pasta are banned from Lori Popkewitz Alper's pantry in Bedford, Massachusetts, because the mother of three says her family may be harmed by the chemical that lines the metal containers.
Alper is part of the growing opposition among consumers to bisphenol A, also known as BPA, which the National Institutes of Health says may affect the development of young and unborn children. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which since the 1960s has said BPA is safe, must reassess by March 31 whether the chemical should be forbidden in food and beverage packaging.
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Global carbonated soft-drink sales were $175.1 billion in 2010, twice as much as canned food, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Industries.
About 4.7 million metric tons of BPA valued at about $8 billion will be produced this year, one-quarter in the U.S., according to a report by GlobalData, a London-based publisher of business intelligence. Three times as much BPA goes into polycarbonate plastics -- used in items ranging from plastic bottles to DVDs -- as is used to make epoxy resins for can linings and other applications.
The biggest U.S. producer of BPA is Saudi Basic Industries Corp. Jose Ramon Tarzona, a spokesman for Sabic, didn't respond to e-mail requests for comment. Bryan Iams, a spokesman for Bayer AG, the second-largest producer in the U.S., said assessments by the FDA and the European Food Safety Authority show BPA is safe.
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"BPA poses no human health risks based on current exposure levels," Gregory Baldwin, a spokesman for Dow Chemical Co., the third-biggest producer in the U.S., said in an e-mail response to questions. Can linings are "a very small percentage" of the Midland, Michigan-based company's epoxy-resin sales, he said.
Manufacturers of baby bottles and cups have already stopped using polycarbonate containing BPA. The American Chemistry Council, a Washington-based industry group, petitioned the FDA in February to ban BPA in those products while reiterating that the chemical is safe when in contact with infants' food.
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Wow...more things you didn't know about me... um... ok...
1. I hate going out in public usually, I'd rather stay home
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Thomas Vanek didn't sleep a wink on Sunday night.
Instead, he stayed awake waiting for his 7 a.m. flight out of Buffalo on Monday morning, kissing goodbye to his young family and heading out for his new home, on Long Island. He landed, went to the doctor's office in New Hyde Park for a physical, then came to the Coliseum, put on the same white sweater as his new linemates, John Tavares and Kyle Okposo, and headed out to the ice.
"It's a shock," said Vanek after the practice, having been obtained in a trade with the Sabres in exchange for Matt Moulson, a first-round pick in 2014 and a second-round pick in 2015.
"Not surprised, I knew it was gong to happen sooner or later with the situation in Buffalo. I was excited to come here, great young team, up-tempo style. I'm looking forward to it."
Vanek is an unrestricted free agent after this season, as is Moulson. The big question that will hover over the trade is whether Vanek will re-sign with the Islanders. His agent and Islanders general manager Garth Snow have not begun those discussions in earnest yet, as the feeling-out process has just commenced.
"I haven't gotten that far," said Vanek, 29, who will be coming off a deal that carried an annual salary-cap hit of $7.14 million. "I'm going to catch some sleep first, get to know these guys, and figure the rest out later."
The one thing that was made very clear with this deal is Snow was not happy with his team's 4-4-3 start, and that he wasn't going to continue to watch his team's inconsistent performance without doing something.
"Probably a pretty good time, if any, with some of the guy's work ethic, to let them know that the boss isn't happy," said coach Jack Capuano. "And as coaches, we're not happy too with some of the guys."
The team got the message loud and clear, and will hope to start implementing it with Tuesday's game against the Rangers at the Coliseum.
"I think if things were going the way we wanted them to, there wouldn't be too many changes," Tavares said. "Just goes to show that we have to be better. There's no waiting around for it."
Added Okposo, "Our rebuild is no more."
And Snow, who just engineered arguably the biggest trade this team has made since sending Taylor Pyatt and Tim Connolly to Buffalo for Michael Peca in 2001, reiterated the Islanders are no longer playing nice.
"We haven't been good enough," Snow said. "We're .500 and our expectations are to be higher in the standings than we are. I think the message, with or without this trade, is that we have to more consistent. We need to take that next step, and feel that Thomas can help us get there."
Defensemen Lubomir Visnovsky (concussion) and Brian Strait (upper-body) both didn't practice on Monday. It's doubtful either will be available for Tuesday.


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7 Steps to Better Tables of Contents in OpenOffice.org Writer
Like other word processes, OpenOffice.org Writer makes creating tables of contents (ToCs) quick and easy. Unfortunately, it also works with unaesthetic defaults and allows you to make choices that complicate your work flow rather than improving it.
Fortunately, Writer is also flexible enough to allow you to produce useful, aesthetic ToCs if you follow a few basic steps.
However, before you read about these steps, you might want to refer to "OpenOffice.org Off-the-Wall: ToCs, Indexes and Bibliographies in OOo Writer," which covers the basics of how to create a ToC. The general procedure is not difficult: first. you create the markers to use in the ToC via Insert -> Indexes and Tables -> Entry -> Index -> Table of Contents, then you generate the ToC through Insert -> Indexes and Tables -> Indexes and Tables. If you want, all you need to do is click the OK button to generate the ToC, but you can customize it in just about every way imaginable, so you might want to refresh your mind about the details before looking at these steps.
Create from outline
Instead of adding your own markers for the ToC, write the document from its very beginning using Heading styles to mark off sections of your work, then select Create from -> Outline as you generate the ToC. You'll not only save time, but help readers to find exactly what you are referring to when they follow a reference in the ToC.
Change the outline numbering if you want to use other styles
Usually, Writer ToCs use Headings 1 through 10 paragraph styles. If you want to include a Title, SubTitle, or Chapter Style in the ToC automatically, go to Tools -> Outline Numbering and change the paragraph style for the first and maybe the second level headings.
Limit yourself to 3 levels of headings
Old engineering documents often had half a dozen heading levels or more. Many heading levels are a document designer's nightmare, because there are only so many ways to differentiate headings - - chiefly typeface, size, indentation -- and using all the possible connections quickly looks cluttered.
Even more importantly, keeping track of where you are in the document is nearly impossible.
Three is a rather arbitrary number of headings, but it is usually enough to organize your document without being confusing aesthetically or practically. And that's three in total, including any title, sub-title, or chapter title that will be listed in the ToC. If you think that a subject needs more headings, ask yourself whether a re-organization can keep the number down -- almost always, it will.
Protect against manual changes
On the Index/Table tab for generating ToCs, you will find a check box labeled "Protect against manual changes." Always check this box. It will force you to work through styles and Writer's other automated features. At first, if you aren't in the habit of using styles regularly, you may think that this work flow is a nuisance, but you will soon find that it helps you regularize your work habits. Besides, if you make manual changes, you will lose them every time you update the fields in your documents and have to redo them. Edit the Contents styles instead (see below).
Avoid dot leaders
Dot leaders are the characters (usually periods) that separate the ToC entry from the page number on the right side of the margin. For some reason, dot leaders have become standard in word processor ToCs, despite the fact that professional typographers generally avoid them. As Robert Bringhurst writes in The Elements of Typographic Style, "Dot leaders (lines of dots leading the eye from one word or number to another) are rarely beneficial in tables." They are both ugly and inefficient.
The reason that dot leaders are seen as necessary is that the page number is always on a tab aligned to the right, which places the page number against the right margin. Most of the time, this position is so far from the ToC entry it refers to that you can hardly see the relation between the page number and the entry, especially in a crowded ToC.
The simplest way to eliminate any need for dot leaders is to change the tab setting. Go to the Entries tab, and select the first level of heading. Find the Tab stop building block for the entry, and set the fill character to a blank (it's hard to see, but at the top of the combo box). Then uncheck the Align Right box, and add a small tab -- no more than two or three centimeters -- and click the All button to apply your changes to all levels of headings. Now, when you generate the ToC, the page numbers will be close to the entry, and you will have no need for dot leaders.
Alternatively, if you find the result unaesthetic (as I do), consider placing the page number first in the entry. Follow the page number building block with a tab and the Entry, and click the All button. The result is not only easy on the eye, but has the advantage of placing the information that you really want when looking at the ToC -- the page number -- first.
Avoid unnecessary decoration
Eliminating unnecessary formatting is a major element in professional design. Just as dot leaders should be avoided because you can do without them, so should any other formatting that doesn't serve the purpose of helping readers use the ToC. For this reason, I suggest avoiding altogether the Column and Background tabs for ToCs.
Multiple columns rarely make reading ToCs easier -- particularly when the page number is to the right of the entry -- because they can force a long entry to spill over into two lines and slow down reading. Sometimes, you may be tempted to use multiple columns so that the ToC takes up less room, but, even then, more than two is going to look sloppy unless you greatly reduce the font size.
In the same way, an unusual background color is only going to call undue attention to itself and do nothing to make the ToC more readable. You don't need it, so leave it out.
Edit contents styles
ToC entries use the Contents paragraph styles. If you look at the Hierarchical view of styles in the Styles and Formatting floating window, you will see that these styles are the children of the Index style, which in turn is the child of the Default style. In other words, the default ToC is going to look much the same as the rest of your document.
This resemblance is not a bad thing. After all, common formatting shows that two pieces of text are related. However, some changes in formatting, such as a change in text size, may be practical. Others, such as the use of a different font weight or another typeface, can make the ToC easier to identify at a glance.
For such reasons, you might want to edit the Contents styles used in your ToC. These styles will appear in the Styles and Formats listing after you generate the ToC for the first time. Editing these styles is quicker than manual editing, and any changes won't be lost when you update the ToC.
Use Writer's defaults for ToCs, and you risk looking design-illiterate. Modifying them will take time, but the result will be a document that is better-looking and more useful to your readers.
Still, nobody likes to do the same work over and over again. Instead, make your changes to ToC structure in your most basic template -- the one that you base other templates on. Then, you can make the changes once and, with luck, never have to edit them again.
-- Bruce Byfield (nanday)
Four Heading Levels, Excepting Title and Sub-Title, Are Good
"Three is a rather arbitrary number of headings, but it is usually enough to organize your document without being confusing aesthetically or practically. And that's three in total, including any title, sub-title, or chapter title that will be listed in the ToC. If you think that a subject needs more headings, ask yourself whether a re-organization can keep the number down -- almost always, it will."
This opinion is incorrect in fact and may be misleading in practice.
- Title and sub-title, while technically "heading" derived styles, are not included in the Table of Contents (TOCs), at least in Standard English. Further, OpenOffice.org does not include these styles in TOCs, by default.
- My experience, starting with FrameMaker twenty years ago, leads me to believe that four sub-levels in a technical document is reasonable, commonly necessary, and effectively differentiable. Separate chapters require a fifth hierarchical level and additional page styles to start chapters at the top of the right page.
Your opinion, expressed as expert advice above, would result in a document with a title and subtitle and only one level of heading. With the delineation of chapters, that would leave no levels of sub-heading available, resulting in an continuous block of text, broken only by paragraphs. This is not an effective design for any document longer than a page or so.
TOC vs Styles
I chose OO Writer over other options (MS Word and others) since I could more accurately format a document as required for a piece of academic writing. I have come across several issues which I have had to work around.
I have not been able to keep TOC item styles completely separate from document body styles. Adding numbering in the TOC also adds numbering in the document body, so if you don't want numbering on chapter titles but want numbering on the TOC then you need to find a workaround. My only option was to create a hidden header which was used as an outline style. Each chapter had 2 chapter titles, one with the normal visible header as I wanted it to be shown and not part of the outline, the other using the new hidden heading. When I need to update the TOC I "unhide" the hidden heading, update the TOC, "hide" the heading again, and export to pdf. The TOC has numbering, the content headings do not.
Also, I have not found a way to handle line spacing such that when a level changes the spacing is double, but if it remains the same the spacing is single. An example of this:
Chapter 1 Section 1.1 Section 1.2 Section 1.3 Section 1.3.1 Section 1.3.2 Section 1.3.3 Section 1.4 Section 1.4.1 Section 1.4.2 Section 1.5 Section 1.6
If there is a way to do that, it would be good to know for the future. I wish I could protect against manual changes, but given the arbitrary nature of the document format I've been limited to write in and OO Writer's own limitations, I can't.


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Enjoying one of California's best locations
Updated 11:50 am, Monday, July 14, 2014
What you'll see: From the Donner Summit Bridge on historic Route 40, the view of the High Sierra is one of the most striking you can find anywhere. Donner Lake is nestled in the canyon below, framed and backed by miles of Sierra granite and pines. It's a moment you will never forget.
Historic: Some call this the most important square mile in California: The historic route of American Indians, wagon trains, railroad lines, the Lincoln Highway and Interstate 80 at the Sierra Divide and the headwaters of the Truckee, Yuba and American rivers. Of course, it's the spot that some starving snowbound pioneers made infamous.
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Route 40: The short version is a 10-mile cutoff from I-80 that runs from Soda Springs, over the Donner Summit Bridge, down to Donner Lake (with a cutoff to Donner Memorial State Park) and to Truckee. A long version connects four legs on a series of back roads that stretch from Rocklin to Truckee. A detailed brochure, with mileages and highlights, is available from the Donner Historical Society.
Bridge view: You will pass a series of ski areas, top a ridge and then descend to Summit Bridge. Just after you pass the bridge, the parking area and lookout are on the left.
Donner Lake: Old Route 40 runs along the shore of Donner Lake, a gorgeous spectacle, full, deep blue and one of the prettiest lakes in California. It is three miles long, 328 feet deep and set at an elevation of 5,935 feet.
Donner Memorial State Park: Enter the state park and continue to the parking area adjacent to a picnic area and trailhead for China Cove Trail. The trail runs along the shore of the lake for pretty water views, then also cuts inland to the Donner Party campsites.
Of course: This is the spot where a group of pioneers got trapped by high snowfall, and when they began to starve, they resorted to cannibalism.
Ski areas: You'll pass the entrances to a series of winter ski areas for Soda Springs, Royal Gorge, Donner Ski Ranch and Sugar Bowl.
Cost: Access to old Route 40 is free; entrance to Donner Memorial State Park, $8 per vehicle.
Map/brochure: At state park entrance station, PDF at www.parks.ca.gov.
How to get there: From San Francisco, take Interstate 80 east for 81 miles to the greater Sacramento area and exit on the right, signed for I-80 east/Reno. Take that exit and continue on I-80 east for 92 miles to Exit 174, signed for Soda Springs/Norden/Donner Pass Road/U.S. 40. Take that exit to Donner Pass Road, turn right and drive 3.6 miles (you will pass Soda Springs on the right, then Norden) to Sugar Bowl Road (Donner Ski Ranch is on the immediate left; the road to Sugar Bowl is on the right). Continue straight on Donner Pass Road and drive 6.7 miles; descend (steep at times) over Donner Summit Bridge and continue along Donner Lake (on right) past the head of the lake to South Shore Drive (signed Donner Lake Memorial State Park). Turn right and drive a short distance to the park entrance. Continue on South Shore Drive into the park to China Cove and China Cove Trail.
Contacts: Donner Summit Historical Society, http://donnersummithistoricalsociety.org; Donner Memorial State Park, (530) 582-7892, parks.ca.gov.
- Tom Stienstra


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Come try out the Finger Lakes Trail by hiking a 12 mile section in Tompkins County with Barbara Nussbaum. This rugged hike encompassing several hills and significant climbs is on the Finger Lakes Trail Conference's Map 16, in case you have a map or wish to order one from the conference (here's their Web site to do that and find out more about them: www.fingerlakestrail.org).
We'll meet at the parking for the Stevenson Forest Preserve in Enfield which will be the end of our hike. We leave as many cars as possible there and car pool to the start of our hike on Gulf Rd in Alpine. From there we'll be walking eastward along the beautiful Cayuta Creek, through the Connecticut Hill Wildlife Management Area, past the Radio Tower and back to the parking for the Stevenson Forest Preserve which is owned by the Finger Lakes Land Trust.
Perhaps the outing will inspire participants to tackle the rest of this beautiful, 585-mile foot-trail stretching from Allegheny State Forest into the Catskills.
Bring raingear, wear appropriate footgear, pack a lunch and at least 2 liters of water.
Please email or call the hike leader before the hike date if you plan to attend as we need to arrange car shuttling. This hike may be postponed or modified in inclement weather.
|This hike will qualify for the Hike 100 Challenge with the North Country Trail Association.
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In the final race before the Sectional and State Championships, Canyon del Oro and Cholla met Ironwood Ridge for a triangular meet on Ironwood's 5K course at Riverfront Park. The CDO boys narrowly beat Ironwood Ridge, 28-31, with Cholla scoring 78 points. In the girls race, it was Ironwood Ridge 21, CDO 40, Cholla 79.
The boys started out conservatively, all bunched up at the mile mark. Over the next mile, the pack spread out. The top finishers for CDO were Drew Garcia and Jordan Hellebuyck going 1-2 (16:42 and 16:48). Jacob Bruno was 6th (17:30), Jacob Rischar was 9th (18:08), Augie Bruno was 10th (18:09), Mike James was 11th (18:11), and Tim Ronan was 15th (18:46). The top finishers for Ironwood Ridge were David Fernandez 3rd (17:04), Cal Skilsky 4th (17:08), Brett Willman 5th (17:18), Brandon McKay 7th (17:42), Tyler Peterson 12th (18:32), Silvano Whiteside 13th (18:38), and Jacob Scott 14th (18:39). Josue Rodriquez of Cholla was the lone runner from that team to break up the Dorados and Nighthawks with an 8th place performance (17:46).
Unlike the boys, the girls wasted no time in going to work. Melanie Zibrat (IR), Bridgette Doucet (CDO), Kristin Powell (IR), Molly Latin (IR), and Sarrah Boughan (CDO) flew through the mile mark in six minutes. The girls finished in that order with Melanie finishing just ahead of Bridgette (19:11-19:12). Kristen was 3rd (19:29), Molly 4th (19:46), and Sarrah 5th (20:18). The next best performers for Ironwood Ridge were Ally Olson 6th (20:28), Ashley Simpson 7th (20:39), Sarah Bock 8th (20:39), and Anna Burrous 9th (20:53). For the Dorados, it was Barbara Bruno 12th (22:06), Claire Keepers 15th (22:51), Shannon Cottrell 22nd (24:52), and Melissa Silva 26th (25:36).


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GeometryGroup Class
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/** @attribute ContentPropertyAttribute("Children") */ public final class GeometryGroup extends Geometry
<GeometryGroup> Children </GeometryGroup>
Composite geometry objects can be created using a GeometryGroup, a CombinedGeometry, or by calling the static Geometry method Combine. A CombinedGeometry creates a composite geometry from exactly two geometry objects. A GeometryGroup, on the other hand, creates a composite geometry from any number of geometry objects.
GeometryGroup uses the FillRule property to specify how its geometry objects are combined. See How to: Control the Fill of a Composite Shape for more information on using FillRule.
Geometries can be combined in several ways: using a GeometryGroup, a CombinedGeometry, or the Combine method of the Geometry class.
A GeometryGroup creates a composite geometry from one or more Geometry objects.
A CombinedGeometry uses a specified boolean operation to combine the area described by two Geometry objects.
The static Combine method of the Geometry class behaves in exactly the same manner as the CombinedGeometry object.
It is worth noting that a GeometryCollection is not itself a composite geometry, but is used by the GeometryGroup class to store Geometry objects.
This example shows how to create composite shapes using Geometry objects and display them using a Path element. In the following example, a LineGeometry, EllipseGeometry, and a RectangleGeometry are used with a GeometryGroup to create a composite shape. The geometries are then drawn using a Path element.
<!-- Displays the geometry. --> <Path Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="1" Fill="#CCCCFF"> <Path.Data> <!-- Creates a composite shape from three geometries. --> <GeometryGroup FillRule="EvenOdd"> <LineGeometry StartPoint="10,10" EndPoint="50,30" /> <EllipseGeometry Center="40,70" RadiusX="30" RadiusY="30" /> <RectangleGeometry Rect="30,55 100 30" /> </GeometryGroup> </Path.Data> </Path>
// Create a Path to be drawn to the screen. Path myPath = new Path(); myPath.Stroke = Brushes.Black; myPath.StrokeThickness = 1; SolidColorBrush mySolidColorBrush = new SolidColorBrush(); mySolidColorBrush.Color = Color.FromArgb(255, 204, 204, 255); myPath.Fill = mySolidColorBrush; // Create the line geometry to add to the Path LineGeometry myLineGeometry = new LineGeometry(); myLineGeometry.StartPoint = new Point(10, 10); myLineGeometry.EndPoint = new Point(50, 30); // Create the ellipse geometry to add to the Path EllipseGeometry myEllipseGeometry = new EllipseGeometry(); myEllipseGeometry.Center = new Point(40, 70); myEllipseGeometry.RadiusX = 30; myEllipseGeometry.RadiusY = 30; // Create a rectangle geometry to add to the Path RectangleGeometry myRectGeometry = new RectangleGeometry(); myRectGeometry.Rect = new Rect(30, 55, 100, 30); // Add all the geometries to a GeometryGroup. GeometryGroup myGeometryGroup = new GeometryGroup(); myGeometryGroup.Children.Add(myLineGeometry); myGeometryGroup.Children.Add(myEllipseGeometry); myGeometryGroup.Children.Add(myRectGeometry); myPath.Data = myGeometryGroup; // Add path shape to the UI. StackPanel mainPanel = new StackPanel(); mainPanel.Children.Add(myPath); this.Content = mainPanel;
The following illustration shows the shape created in the previous example.
Composite Geometry
More complex shapes, such as polygons and shapes with curved segments, may be created using a PathGeometry. For an example showing how to create a shape using a PathGeometry, see Create a Shape Using a PathGeometry. Although this example renders a shape to the screen using a Path element, Geometry objects may also be used to describe the contents of a GeometryDrawing or a DrawingContext. They may also be used for clipping and hit-testing.
This example is part of larger sample; for the complete sample, see the Geometries Sample.
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The FillRule property of a GeometryGroup or a PathGeometry, specifies a "rule" which the composite shape uses to determine whether a given point is part of the geometry. There are two possible values for FillRule: EvenOdd and Nonzero. The following sections will describe how to use these two rules.
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* Cypriot president says Russia can "save" island
* Island hobbled by exposure to debt-wracked Greece
* Russia's Putin quoted as saying stands ready to assist
By Michele Kambas
NICOSIA, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Debt-hobbled Cyprus limped closer to an international financial bailout on Wednesday, saying it had won Russian assurances that Moscow would join in international efforts to salvage the island's finances.
The Mediterranean nation, one of the euro zone's smallest economies, applied for aid from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund last June.
Talks are complicated by the sheer size of the bailout, which could equal the 17.5 billion euro size of the Cypriot economy, and German misgivings about the island's commitment to financial transparency because of its close ties with Russia.
Cyprus, shut out of financial markets for almost two years, got a 2.5 billion euro bilateral loan from Moscow in late 2011.
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation with Cypriot President Demetris Christofias on Tuesday, a statement from Cyprus's presidency said.
"President Putin assured me that the Russian Federation is ready to contribute with the European Union in the financing of Cyprus," the statement quoted Christofias telling Cypriot reporters during a visit to Belgrade.
"I strongly believe that this assistance can save us," Christofias said.
It is not clear what form any Russian assistance might take. Cyprus has already asked for a five-year extension in repaying its 2.5 billion euro loan to Moscow, to 2021 from an initial 2016.
Last week, European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn told Reuters he believed it was only fair Russia make a contribution to the bailout effort because of the significant Russian business presence on the island.
Christofias, the EU's only Communist head of state and a fluent Russian speaker, said he spoke to Putin by phone on Tuesday evening. A government source said Putin made the call.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was quoted as saying on Monday that Russia could provide support to Cyprus under certain conditions but the island itself and the European Union would have to take the biggest share in a potential bailout.
Cyprus has been toiling under financial stress since its two largest banks sought state support after losses on an EU-sanctioned writedown on privately-held Greek sovereign debt.
Shut out of markets, it has been increasingly relying on high-yield short-term borrowing.
Unless a bailout were settled soon, the island could start causing wider problems, according to former euro group Chairman Jean-Claude Juncker.
"If we don't definitively solve the problem case of Cyprus, there is a contagion risk even from this very small national economy," Juncker was quoted as telling Austria's Kleine Zeitung in an interview published on Wednesday.