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Graduation 2012
In a great new location in the Admissions Office, our Department held the 2012 Graduation and Awards Ceremony.
Class of 2012 Classical Studies Graduates: (l-r): Tim Quigley, Wilson Fong, Jacqueline Miles, Jessica Stayton, Russ Walker, Zachary Mott, Kelly Field, Sam Angley, Kathleen Shippereit.
Professor Donahue, Chair of the Department, announced the Departmental Prize Winners:
- Andrea Williams, William J. Hogan Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Classical Studies
- Wilson Fong, American Philological Association Award for Outstanding Student in Classical Philology
- Jacqueline Miles, Classical Association of the Middle West and South Award in Classical Literature
- Robert Hoing, Department of Classical Studies Award in Classical Art and Archaeology
- Samantha Angley, Department of Classical Studies Leadership Award
We also read the traditional shoutouts:
Claire Brooks: "I plan to be an emergency room scribe at Sentara Hospital in Williamsburg next year before applying to graduate school to become a certified Nurse. Classical Studies was the best major because it was much more interesting than the sciences that I have taken throughout college. It provided me with great reprieve. I want to thank Professor Donahue and Chesley for their enthusiasm and for drawing me into a field of study that I have come to love."
Kelly Field: "After graduation, I will be heading for Law School (location still undetermined). I have two particular memories about the Classics department - first, I remember the moment (or series of moments) my freshman year, when I was struggling to figure out my major plans; I had entered college planning to be an English or Linguistics major, but by the time the first semester started, I was already in two Classics courses...at some point in the middle of one of those classes (Greco-Roman Mythology or Greek Art and Archeology - I'm not sure which, as I had them back to back), sitting up front in Andrews 101, when I realized that not only was Classics its own department, but I could (and would) major in it. Second is less a memory than a continuing pleasant experience from the start of every semester, walking into each of my Classics courses to find out which of the other majors I knew would be there with me, and never being disappointed by the company I found."
Will Fong: "I'm not sure that I have a favorite memory, but [Professor Donahue] and the [other] professors have made my college experience so incredibly special. The closeness that I felt with this department, both my fellow majors and professors, is something that I never expected coming into college and something that I will always treasure. I do want to give a special thank you Profs. Swetnam-Burland and Chesley for bringing me into the fold of the department and to Prof. Baron for taking time out of his retirement to teach me Latin composition this semester. I have thoroughly enjoyed our sessions and am much wiser for them."
Jacqueline Miles will be attending the University of Tennessee this fall to pursue a Master of Arts in Mediterranean Archaeology. She was inspired to continue her studies while on the Rome and Pompeii Trip with the department.
Zachary Mott will be moving to the Washington DC area to pursue a career in software engineering after graduation. He hopes to continue his studies of Latin and Greek, but he's not sure how he is going to do it yet. Maybe he'll become a Latin teacher later in life.
Tim Quigley: "Next year I plan to move back home to Massachusetts to pursue a career in Secondary Education. After a year, I intend to apply for graduate programs in Education or Classics to continue my schooling."
Kathleen Schippereit: "This summer I will be working as an intern at Berkeley Research Group, a healthcare consulting firm. Afterwards, I have been accepted to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland for a masters program in global health, and hope to use that degree to work in either hospital administration or public policy. Although I have not chosen to continue my studies in Classical Civilizations, I have greatly enjoyed my time in the department. Every class I have taken has been enjoyable, and has enriched my knowledge. I particularly enjoyed working with my academic advisor, Professor Swetnam-Burland, whose enthusiasm for classics was infectious. I greatly enjoyed all of Professor Donahue's classes as well, and would have taken more with him, had I had the opportunity. I feel lucky to have spent my 4 years here in a department in which I was able to explore my interests in classical studies."
Jessica Stayton: "I will be attending graduate school in Colorado, at CU Boulder, for a masters in Classics and Latin language. The things I'll remember fondly about the Classics department here are: the overall unabashed geekiness of the Classics faculty, which really influenced me and the other students to embrace our own geekiness. Also, the frequent use and love of Monty Python. And let's not forget Professor Irby's pomegranate sacrifice, and her daily cartoons."
Russ Walker: "How does the future matter as much when my passion now rests in the past? From the very first moment when I discovered the Classical Studies courses here and thought 'Wow, people actually study this and teach this,' and signed up for an amazing Greek and Roman mythology class, I was hooked. I needed to fulfill a language requirement, so I went straight for Latin. I needed to get history and philosophy, and I found them in this department. I had to fulfill math and… went elsewhere, but still my mind rested in the Classics. I changed my majors many times when I got here, but I believe I have found the right one, and here I am. The professors in this department are more than teachers, they are friends. And they are more than friends, they are teachers. I don't know what my my future may hold as yet, but I do know that I will never be able to nor want to forget the time I spent traipsing around Morton Hall at all hours, going to classes, doing research in the library, and just talking with some wonderful students and professors I have come to think of as some of the most important people I will have the honor of knowing."
And, of course, there was cake!


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In November a 40-year-old SEPTA passenger car broke down and burst into flames on the R5 route; a signal if ever there was one that the fleet of aging rail cars needs to be replaced. Well, the plans have already been in the works and my friend Anthony Campisi (aka A-Ton) has reported on the story of the new replacement cars for PlanPhilly (video of the new cars can be seen on his story page).
As shipments of Silverliner V regional rail car shells make it here from Korea next month, it will mark SEPTA's first major rail procurement in nearly 30 years.
SEPTA is hoping that the new cars will herald a better rider experience and help meet its growing ridership needs, adding about 4,200 additional seats to the current regional rail capacity.
But rail advocates worry that SEPTA's decision to sell off the older cars for scrap could put it in a bind if the Silverliner Vs have any manufacturing problems.
The authority has purchased 120 Silverliner Vs to replace 73 older Silverliner II and III cars, some of which date back to the 1960s. They point to brake problems that the Acela Express cars have experienced, which forced Amtrak to take them out of service in 2002 and 2005, and the fact that SEPTA has gone such a long time without designing and procuring a new class of rail cars.
The new cars are designed and built by Hyundai Rotem in Korea. The new cars will continue SEPTA's current regional rail seating configuration of rows of three-seats across from rows of two-seats. However, I'm personally more excited to see the double deck passenger cars arriving for the MBTA and SCRRA. As a former loyal NJ Transit rider I'm a huge fan of the double deck cars, especially when they are set up with only two seats per row, as they end the awkwardness of the middle-seat conundrum; i.e. whether to sit there and when to ask to sit in the middle seat.
However, the cars are outfitted with new aesthetic lines inside and some nifty communications systems designed by Info-Vision Technology. The front destination indicators in bright lights and color-coordinated series will be a welcome departure from the old plastic signs that slid into the front and side of the current rail cars.
In typical SEPTA fashion there are fears about just how well the cars will perform and whether all the old cars should immediately be phased out:
Though the CAC has not issued an official recommendation to SEPTA about the Silverliners, some members pointed out that Hyundai Rotem, the company that is manufacturing the Silverliners in a joint venture with Sojitz Corp., has never handled a rail project like this one before.
The Rotem venture was given the worst technical rating by SEPTA of all the bidders for the Silverliner V contract.
Because SEPTA doesn't have the yard capacity to store the older Silverliners, Mitchell suggested they lease storage space from a railroad.
Though freight railroads do this quite often, Bob Parker, president and CEO of the East Penn Railroad, an area short-line railroad, said that his company has never stored passenger cars before. He said that doing that is "a different sort of animal" and that it would present different liability concerns.
All-in-all, it is very exciting for Philadelphia and SEPTA, let's hope there are no fires on the new coaches.

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Halloween's focus may be on a youngster's costume and the candy he gathers as he makes his way through the neighborhood, but that doesn't mean the party can't start early with some tasty treats.
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Launched in 2005, Norwegian Cruise Line's Pride of America has a storied history that began long before she entered Honolulu harbour for the first time. Her made-in-America hull was purchased by Norwegian after American Classic Voyages, for whom she was intended, went bankrupt in 2001.
In a creative bit of rule-bending, her hull was towed to Germany where she was completed in Germany by the able workers at the Lloyd Werft. Because her initial hull was constructed in the United States, Norwegian received permission to register her in the United States, allowing her to complete closed-loop voyages that depart roundtrip Honolulu. Nearly every cruise ship is registered in a foreign country like Panama or the Bahamas, which would require them to call on a "distant foreign port" before returning to Honolulu; a tricky proposition at best, and impossible on a weeklong voyage.
Her entry into service was far from easy. But after a series of delays, growing pains and teething problems, Pride of America continues to ply the beautiful waters of the Pacific as she island-hops around Hawaii. The kinks have been worked out, the service issues resolved. What remains is a ship that is surprisingly Hawaiian, and a tribute to the diversity of the United States.
While we were able to photograph most of Pride of America's public areas, we weren't able to acquire any shots of her passenger accommodations. Detailed descriptions of the staterooms and suites onboard can be found on the Norwegian Cruise Line website.
The lowest entertainment deck aboard Pride of Aloha, Deck 5 is home to a number of lounges, public rooms and restaurants. Let's have a look!
Hollywood Theatre
Nightly stage shows are offered in the Hollywood Theatre, located all the way forward on Deck 5. The room tapers downward slowly into Deck 4, and is refreshingly proportioned.
The Hollywood Theatre isn't as large or towering as the multi-story theatres found on other ships this size, lending the room an uncommon amount of intimacy. The bright color scheme comes alive at night, where up to 868 guests can relax and enjoy the show at any given time.
Newbury Street Shops
Just aft of the Hollywood Theatre is Pride of America's shopping arcade, known as the Newbury Street shops. Bright and airy, these shops carry everything from sundries and NCL Logo wear to high-end watches and jewelry.
John Adams Coffee Bar & Atrium
Moving aft still is the John Adams Coffee Bar, located on the starboard side of the ship adjacent to the sweeping atrium, which was inspired by the design and décor of the US White House. Reception, Shore Excursion, and Concierge desks are all located here.
The John Adams Coffee Bar can seat 55 guests and is designed to resemble parts of Colonial America. It's also one heck of a cozy place to enjoy a delicious cappuccino or even one of the tasty Viennese pastries on offer.
East Meets West Asian Restaurant & Teppanyaki
On the port side of the Capitol Atrium is Norwegian Cruise Line's popular Asian specialty restaurant duo, East Meets West and Teppanyaki.
Here, guests can dine on sumptuous Pacific Rim-fusion food, while the separate Teppanyaki room provides for a more interactive experience as meals are cooked directly in front of guests.
There is a surcharge for both – $15 per person for East Meets West and $25 per person to dine in the Teppanyaki room – but these two are well worth your time and money if you crave a more international experience.
Jefferson's Bistro
Just aft of East Meets West lies Jefferson's Bistro, Pride of America's French-themed bistro that carries a $20 per guest surcharge.
The room takes its cuisine off of the popular Norwegian mainstay specialty restaurant, Le Bistro, and the décor is modeled after Thomas Jefferson's home library in Monticello.
Skyline Main Dining Room
All the way aft on Deck 5 is one of two complimentary main dining rooms aboard the Pride of America. With seating for 568, guests can enjoy a traditional, multi-course dining experience in this beautiful room, designed to resemble New York architecture at the height of the 1930's building boom.
There's also a staircase located near the front of the Skyline dining room that connects it with its upstairs cousin on Deck 6: the Liberty Main Dining Room.
Liberty Main Dining Room
Heading up the sweeping staircase from the Skyline Main Dining room located on Deck 5, we come to the beautifully-decorated Liberty Main Dining room, designed to resemble Colonial America. Healthy doses of Americana litter the room and include portraits and life-size statues of the founding fathers of the United States.
I've always thought this room looked a little…overboard… in photographs, but in person it works strikingly well. With seating for 418 guests, the Liberty Main Dining room is one of the formal dining venues aboard Pride of America.
Lazy J Steakhouse
Moving forward from the Liberty, we come to the Lazy J Steakhouse, one of Pride of America's additional charge speciality restaurants. As one might guess, this dining venue serves up "The Best of Texas" in terms of cuisine and décor. Beef, lamb, chicken, veal and of course seafood are on the menu here. 119 guests can be accommodated at a single time, and dinner can be had here for $25 per person.
Napa Wine Bar
The perfect complement to the nearby Lazy J Steakhouse, the Napa Wine Bar is done in wood with rough stone accents, and includes seating both indoors and outside on the adjacent promenade deck. Not only can you enjoy a fine glass of wine here, but wine tasting and other events are also held in this relaxing lounge.
Pink's Champagne & Cigar Bar
Located just forward of the Capitol Atrium on Deck 6, Pink's Champagne & Cigar Bar was inspired by Waikiki's Pink Palace and, accordingly, is done in tropical shades of pink and white. Martini's, cocktails and of course champagne are offered here each day, along with nightly piano entertainment and plenty of large windows so the Hawaiian coastline is never out of reach.
S. S. America Library
Names after the famous SS America, the SS America Library features memorabilia and artifacts from the historic United States Line ship.
Done in tasteful dark woods and accented with a variety of nautical touches, the library is a quiet haven and the perfect spot to pull up one of the many great books available here, crack it open, and watch the world sail past.
Mardi Gras Cabaret Lounge
Bold, bright and flashy, the Mardi Gras Cabaret Lounge can seat 198 guests and functions as the ship's secondary show lounge. Music, dancing, and other nightly entertainment such as comedy acts and the always-popular "Newlywed, Not-so-Newlywed" game show are featured here throughout the voyage.
With its own distinct style, this colourful room feels warm and inviting by day and night.
DECKS 7 to 10
These decks are solely for passenger accommodations.
The Aloha Café
Pride of America's casual buffet eatery is the Aloha Café, which conveniently features both indoor and outdoor seating.
Traditional Hawaiian décor is feature inside, while the outdoor seating area overlooks the ship's wake and is surprisingly spacious. After all, you're in Hawaii – why would you not want to sit outdoors?
South Beach Pool
The South Beach Pool is the main pool and hot tub area aboard the Pride of America. Designed to replicate the hip, fun vibe of Miami's South Beach, the South Beach Pool area features plenty of seating, a large swimming pool and four hot tubs. There's also a dedicated Kid's Pool located one deck up, on Deck 12.
Santa Fe Spa & Fitness Centre
All the way aft on Deck 12 is Pride of America's Santa Fe Spa & Fitness Centre. Operated by Mandara, the Santa Fe Spa offers guests a variety of treatments ranging from acupuncture to massage. Cool, New Mexico-décor adds a warm ambiance to the spa and the sea – and Hawaii – are never far from sight thanks to a number of large bay windows. Just aft of the Spa is the adjacent Oasis pool, located on the very end of the stern.
The fitness centre is just forward of the spa and includes all the usual workout equipment you might expect from a ship of this size.
Waikiki Bar
You can't beat the stunning views from the Waikiki Bar. Located at the stern of Deck 13, this panoramic lookout point is also an excellent watering hole, allowing guests to take in the beautiful Hawaiian sunsets as their ship sails off into the distance.
Diamond Head Auditorium
If you've looked up at Pride of America and wondered, 'what's that circular room on top of the bridge?', here's your answer: it's the Diamond Head Auditorium, and it can seat over 260 people.
Part of Pride of America's extensive conference facilities on Deck 13, the Diamond Head Auditorium is a refreshing change from traditional conference facilities, which typically find themselves located on a tucked-away corner of the lowest passenger deck. Other events can be held here too, as the entire facility has a capacity of over 600 guests.
Although my time aboard her was short, I came away with a new level of appreciation for this unique ship, which has largely gone unnoticed since her first few rocky sailings. She delivers a product that is distinctly American, but with the cool, funky flair that Norwegian Cruise Line is becoming known for.
For myself, perhaps the biggest revelation was how restrained her interior décor is. It's so easy to push the boundaries of good taste when you hear words like "Americana", but rather than fill the ship with the rah-rah colours of the red, white and blue, Pride of America's interior design team has pulled back on the reigns, preferring instead to pull from important places and historical events the necessary themes to mould the ship's public spaces around.
Uniquely suited to Hawaii, this is the only mega-cruise ship in the world that is able to complete roundtrip cruises from Honolulu. There's only one Hawaii, and just one Pride of America.
More information on Pride of America and her Hawaiian sailings can be found on the Norwegian Cruise Line website, or by visiting the complete Pride of America review on our sister-site, The Avid Cruiser.
11 Responses to Pride of America
Keith Henderson says:
Thanks for the article. I have seen her pull into Honolulu one morning th at I was in town for business and hope to have the chance to cruise with my wife on the POA.
Janna says:
Beautiful ship! Thanks for the photos and write up. Hopefully I'll have the chance to sail on her one day. I'll be on my first Non-Jewel class in May.
Tom says:
Just be prepared to spend 48 hours or more with the Norovirus which they do not advertise until you are 5 minutes from getting on the ship. If you are sharing a stateroom, be prepared for 6 days as your partner will catch it too.
Shane Jurgeleit says:
Looks amazing,going on the cruise March 2014 for our 25th Wedding Anniversary.
Can`t wait Can`t wait.
Dwight Stein says:
We are from Regina,Sask.,Canada the home of the CFL grey cup champions thr Saskatchewan Roughriders. I would like to give the captain on the Pride of America a greycup baseball hat from our city. We will be cruising on the Pride of America from 1 Feb to Feb. 7th. Is there any chance Icould give him this hat during the cruise.
Thank you for your anticipated reply.
Dwight Stein
Aaron Saunders says:
It's highly possible. I'd inquire with the Guest Services team once you are onboard; I can't imagine it would be a problem!
jeannette lockwood says:
Our 25 anniversary was in March 25, 2013. We could not go to Hawaii last year. We will be going may 1, 2014.My husband and I cant wait to get there. This is the first vacation to a island. Hope everything is beautiful as I dream off.
Gayle Jackson says:
Thank you for the introductory photos! Sailing April 26th. Looks impressive!
Sharon B says:
Thanks for the great pictures. It will help us find different areas of the ship when we arrive later this month.
Aaron Saunders says:
You're welcome; enjoy your cruise!
Stacy says:
My daughter is a cosmetologist on board. She said its a fantastic itinerary in one of God's prettiest designs!
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/b>PG � Kids 12 and older who love water sports in general and surfing in particular may stay awake through this slow-moving true-life saga. Based on the life of the late Santa Cruz, Calif., surfing phenom Jay Moriarty, the film dramatizes his relationship from boyhood with his surfing mentor and father figure Frosty Hesson.
We meet Jay as an 8-year-old (Cooper Timberline) in 1987, already obsessed with waves hitting the rocks off Santa Cruz. He gets washed away and Frosty (Gerard Butler) rescues him. That�s how they meet.
Jump ahead seven years and Jay (Jonny Weston) is now a 15-year-old and already a great surfer. He�s a good kid, too, parenting his irresponsible single mom (Elisabeth Shue), and working at a pizza joint after school.
He has a crush on Kim (Leven Rambin), but she�s a bit older. She ignores him in school and treats him as a mere friend outside school. Jay, whose own father abandoned the family, worships Frosty. Married with kids and issues of his own, Frosty isn�t eager to be Jay�s mentor.
One day Jay hitches onto Frosty�s van as the seasoned surfer heads out to a �secret� beach to catch a giant, near-mythic wave known as the Mavericks. Jay begs Frosty to train him to ride and survive the Mavericks and Frosty agrees, saying he wouldn�t want the kid�s death on his conscience. We follow his training � for ages.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Jay gets bloodied once or twice on the rocks and disappears under water for nerve-wracking stretches. He and Frosty encounter a shark, but it leaves them alone. Jay�s mother is pushed around by a man � perhaps their landlord � and Jay throws him out. A supporting character dies on-camera of a stroke. We see an implied drug purchase by a teen. A bully harasses Jay and refers to him as �trash.�
�Fun Size� PG-13 � Lots of high-schoolers will be amused by this raucous Halloween farce. It may be too crude for middle-schoolers. Parents may be disturbed that the story hinges on a young boy of perhaps 6 who wanders off on Halloween.
Wren (Victoria Justice of �Victorious� on Nickelodeon) is a nice teen in a Cleveland suburb. She�s a brain � her idea of a great Halloween costume is to go as Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Her dad died about a year ago, and her sugar-addicted little brother Albert (Jackson Nicoll) hasn�t spoken since. Her mother (Chelsea Handler) has taken to dating losers many years her junior. Wren�s equally brainy pal Roosevelt (Thomas Mann) adores her, but is afraid to admit it.
Out trick-or-treating with her best friend, April (Jane Levy), Wren must also watch out for little Albert, who goes as a mini Spider-Man with a bloody stump for an arm. April just wants to get to the party given by their school�s coolest hunk Aaron (Thomas McDonell).
But while they visit a haunted house, Albert goes missing. The rest of the film cuts among Wren and Roosevelt trying to find Albert, Wren�s mom having an awful time at her date�s parents� house, and Albert�s adventures with Fuzzy (Thomas Middleditch), a ditzy convenience store clerk, and Fuzzy�s ex-girlfriend�s drunk, nasty new boyfriend (Johnny Knoxville).
THE BOTTOM LINE: A child says the line, �You�re not my mommy, �rhymes-with-witch!� � Characters prank someone with fire crackers and doggie poop. Knoxville�s character physically threatens Albert. The script includes sexual innuendo � April offers to let a guy �touch my boobs� � and barely subtle jokes about child molestation. There is occasional crude language, mild profanity and toilet humor. An adult character drinks and drives.
�Cloud Atlas� R � Somewhere inside this huge, lumbering epic lurk two or three good little movies. But film buffs 16 and older will need a shovel to dig them out of the cinematic mulch in which they�re buried in this adaptation of David Mitchell�s novel.
It�s likely that the heavy-hitting cast, who all play multiple characters under much face-altering makeup, had more fun making this movie than audiences will have watching it. Even so, some teens 16 and older will find profundity in the nearly three-hour marathon that is �Cloud Atlas,� with its storylines that arc across the ages, linking characters through karma and genetics, and their quests to escape oppression, find love, and make the world better.
The film has three directors � Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski of the 1999 and 2003 R-rated �Matrix� trilogy, worked on certain story threads; Tom Tykwer, of the German thriller �Run Lola Run� (R, 1998), worked on the others.
Tom Hanks plays six characters and Halle Berry seven. Hugh Grant and Hugo Weaving play several villains. The storylines are: (1) 1849 in the South Pacific: an American lawyer helps an escaped slave (David Gyasi). (2) 1936 Scotland: a young musician (Ben Whishaw) leaves his lover (James D�Arcy) to work for a cranky, aging composer (Jim Broadbent) and creates his own piece, �The Cloud Atlas Sextet.� (3) 1973 San Francisco: a courageous journalist (Berry) learns dirty secrets about a nuclear power plant from a scientist (Hanks). (4) 2012 in England: a publisher (Broadbent) owes money to thugs and his brother locks him in a psychiatric hospital. (5) 2144, Neo Seoul: a genetically engineered waitress (Doona Bae) joins a revolutionary (Jim Sturgess) to fight this new slavery. (6) Post-apocalyptic Hawaii in 2321 and 2346: Hanks as a neo-Bronze Age goat herder and Berry as a visitor from an advanced human civilization.
THE BOTTOM LINE: On-screen violence includes stabbings, throat-slittings, gun violence, gun suicide, the whipping of a slave, and a character tossed to his death off a high- rise. A doctor poisons a patient in one storyline. A couple of sexual situations become semi-explicit, some with nudity. One romantic subplot implies a sexual relationship between two men in an era when public knowledge of it would make them pariahs. The script contains occasional strong profanity, and various characters drink, smoke and use marijuana.
�Paranormal Activity 4� R � Older high-schoolers may get a chill out of all the pent-up tension in this sequel, but some may feel shortchanged, horror-wise. It�s the language more than the rare, relatively understated violence that earns this fourth installment in the seemingly endless horror series an R, but the film still creates enough implied menace � and endangerment of children � to make it problematic for under-16s.
Set in the home of a nice family in an upscale Nevada development, it continues the story of the low-budget sleeper series �Paranormal Activity� (R), launched in 2007, in which Katie (Katie Featherston) became possessed, killed her boyfriend and stole her sister�s child. Now her demonic activities affect a new family living in Nevada.
The strange little boy Robbie (Brady Allen) from across the street comes to stay with the new family for a while after his mom goes to the hospital. Right away, neighbor teenager Alex (Kathryn Newton), our protagonist, notices odd things � noises in the night, falling chandeliers. Her little brother Wyatt (Aiden Lovekamp), who�s Robbie�s age, starts acting odd.
Alex and her pal Ben (Matt Shively) set up the laptops around the house to record the goings-on, but wait too long to check the videos. Duh! Nothing really violent occurs till near the end.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The mayhem includes a snapped neck, and a couple of victims thrown by an invisible force so violently it kills them. One character is nearly asphyxiated in a garage when a car comes on by itself. Demonic spirits are depicted near the end. Teen characters use a lot of the F-word. Adults drink wine. Alex fears her parents may divorce.
�Your Sister�s Sister� R � Too adult in its themes and content for under-17s without parental permission, �Your Sister�s Sister� is an ideal indie film for college-age moviegoers. They can savor its smart dialogue and likably flawed characters and feel rightly sophisticated for doing so.
The fine cast improvised much of the dialogue, working from writer/director Lynn Shelton�s outline. They give this romantic/familial comedy-drama great depth of feeling.
We meet Jack (Mark Duplass) and Iris (Emily Blunt) at a get-together to remember Jack�s late brother, who has been dead for a year. Jack gives an angry speech, revealing his still roiling grief. Iris, who was romantically involved with Jack�s brother, urges Jack to go to her father�s cabin to clear his �head space.�
But when he arrives, Jack discovers Iris� half sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) staying there, mourning over a break-up. They get drunk and have an awkward sexual encounter, though Hannah is a lesbian.
The next day, Iris, who secretly loves Jack (as he secretly loves her) shows up to visit. The question is whether to tell her what happened and how she might react. The results are predictable, but the journey is so worthwhile. THE BOTTOM LINE: The film includes one awkward and explicit sex scene, though there�s no nudity and everything takes place under the covers. Characters drink a lot of alcohol, and use a lot of profanity and sexually explicit slang. A central theme involves possible single parenthood and nontraditional family structures.


text: Fifty years ago today, Ivan Sutherland introduced the first graphical computer application: a drafting program called Sketchpad. At a time when computers were operated with punch cards and command lines -- and the mouse had not yet been invented -- Sutherland used a light pen to manipulate lines and shapes on a screen. With Sketchpad, you could draw perfectly straight lines, change the size of shapes without altering the proportions, and create "rubber band lines" you could bend and stretch -- many of the things you can do today with programs like AutoCAD and Adobe Illustrator. Sketchpad's legacy can't be overstated. It directly fed the creation of Douglas Englebart's oN Line System (the subject of the "Mother of All Demos"), which would influence, well, every graphical computing system that came after it, from the Xerox PARC Alto to the Apple Macintosh to the iPhone (see images above). Sutherland says he was just doing what came naturally. "I was a graduate student and I was at the right place in the right time," he tells us. "I said I wanted to draw pictures, and management said that'd be fine." But Sketchpad was ahead of its time in more ways than one. In building the application, Sutherland also created a predecessor to object-oriented programming, the model used today in programming languages such as Java, C++, and Objective-C. "It was the natural way to do graphics," he says. Later, at the University of Utah, he taught Alan Kay, creator of the SmallTalk language, which was a foundational influence on so many future programming languages. Sutherland's father was a civil engineer and young Ivan learned to read blueprints by the time he was in high school. He later took some engineering courses as an undergraduate at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon), but he was always frustrated by the process of drawing by hand, particularly how messy designs could get when you started erasing lines. The result was Sketchpad, which he started building in 1961 while working toward a Ph.D. at MIT. "You'll notice that when you erase a line in Sketchpad it disappears entirely," he says. Sketchpad is certainly his most famous creation (see video below), but in the years since, Sutherland has enjoyed a particularly fruitful career, spanning not only the graphics field but hardcore microchip design. After a stint at DARPA in the '60s, he worked at Harvard, where he developed the Cohen–Sutherland computer graphics line-clipping algorithm with Danny Cohen and invented the first head-mounted system for virtual and augmented reality with Bob Sproull. Then he moved on to the University of Utah, where he worked with Kay and several important graphics innovators, including Adobe co-founder John Warnock and Pixar co-founder and Disney president Edwin Catmull. Sutherland later landed at Caltech as the founding head of the computer science department, and it was there that he fell in love with circuit design. "Carver Meade at Caltech had figured out how to design integrated circuits," he says. "It seemed more interesting than anything I had ever done, so I started doing it." After CalTech, he co-founded a consulting company called Sutherland, Sproull and Associates with his brother Bert (an important computer scientist in his own right) and his former virtual reality collaborator Bob Sproull. According to Sutherland, this is when he made his most important contribution to science: logical effort, which enables chip designers to calculate how big a transistor should be used for optimal performance. "Logical effort also tells you a lot of what you don't need to do," he says. The concept is now taught in electronics courses. Sun Microsystems later acquired the company to form the basis of Sun Laboratories, which still exists today as Oracle Labs. These days he's a visiting scientist at Portland State University, where he and his wife Marly Roncken founded the Asynchronous Research Center (ARC) in 2009. "She's the important one. She's the director of the ARC," he says. "I just work here." Together, Sutherland and Roncken research and teach asynchronous or self-timed design, which they think will result in more efficient chip designs. "Most chips today are synchronous -- they take a fixed time for every small step, like soldiers marching, Sutherland explains. "But one could easily do easy steps faster and take a longer time for harder steps. In many calculations, including addition, hard cases are rare." That leads to big waste both in terms of space and energy. In asynchronous design, chips can sacrifice a bit of speed when calculating hard problems but still solve easier problems quickly. He wrote an article on the topic in a recent issue of Communications of the ACM. Having worked at several of the most important institutions in the history of computing, Sutherland has a few thoughts on what makes a successful research organization. First, you need an interesting problem to solve. Second, you need leadership, which he says is probably the most rare. And then you need money. He says that ARC has the first two, but he's worried about funding. Which is a shame because he's happy where he is. "They keep asking me if I want to add the word professor to my title," he says. "But I like that title. I have the best job in the world." http://www.youtube.com/embed/USyoT_Ha_bA1968: oNLine System (NLS) Inspired by Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad and Vannevar Bush's groundbreaking essay "As We May Think," Douglas Engelbart cooked up what he called NLS, short for oNLine System. On December 9, 1968, at an event in San Francisco, he and his colleagues from the Stanford Research Institute unveiled this creation with what became known as "The Mother Of All Demos." (see video below). NLS included the world's first computer mouse, hypertext, and even videoconferencing. http://www.youtube.com/embed/yvx4ObDBGZs1973: Xerox Alto Following in the footsteps of NLS, the Xerox Alto was the first computer to offer an interface built around a desktop metaphor. It went on to influence the first wave of commercial desktop GUIs, including its commercial successor, the Xerox Star (pictured above).1980: Fairlight CMI The Fairlight CMI was a digital sampling synthesizer used by musicians ranging from Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder to Coil and Ministry. Like Sketchpad, it included a light pen as part of its interface. Although the light pen has been, well, naturally-selected out of the user interface ecosystem, other UI aspects of the Fairlight live on today in audio trackers like Renoise. Photo: Joho3451982: AutoCAD Sketchpad never went commercial, but in the decades to come, computer aided design software, or CAD, would become big business. Pictured above is AutoCAD 2.0, released in 1985.1983: Apple Lisa and Macintosh Famously, the Xerox Alto would inspired the creation Apple Lisa, released in January 1983. It was followed soon by the Macintosh, a computer designed to quite a bit cheaper. The Lisa was eventually rebranded as the Macintosh XL before being discontinued.1982: Visi On Visi On was a graphical operating environment for IBM compatible PCs from VisiCorp, the company behind the first spreadsheet application, VisiCalc. It debuted in late 1983, shortly before the Apple Lisa.1984: X Window System Developed at MIT, the Windows X System was used by most Unix and Unix-like operating systems after its debut in the mid 1980s. Today, desktop environments like GNOME, KDE and Xfce are typically used atop X Windows. Photo: Liberal Classic1985: Windows Although Windows is often accused of ripping off the Mac, the truth is a bit more complex. Charles Simonyi joined Microsoft from Xerox PARC after building the first what you see is what you get, or WYSIWYG, word processor for the Xerox Alto. Simonyi went to work at Microsoft on the Masterplan (which eventually became Excel) and Word products, and he convinced Microsoft to buy a Xerox Star. Bill Gates saw the VisiCorp's presentation at Comdex in 1982 and immediately had Simonyi fly down to check it out, according to Jim Carlton's book Apple and Gates by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews. That year, Microsoft began work on Windows, originally called Interface Manager. Microsoft simultaneously began developing software for the Macintosh and got an inside look at what Apple was doing. That lead to the famous incident in which early Macintosh developer Andy Hertzfeld claims Gates told Jobs: "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it." Windows 1.0 was first announced in 1983, but it wasn't actually released until 1985. The original version was quite primitive compared to the Mac, using tiles instead of Windows. The Windows 8 start menu, with its tile based interface, harkens back to Windows 1.0. Image: Microsoft.1993: Newton The term "personal digital assistant" was first applied to the Apple Newton product line, which launched in 1993. In many ways the Newton was a embodiment of Jef Raskins' original vision for the Macintosh. The Newton helped popularize the use of the stylus as an interface, which was a big improvement over the light pen. Photo: Alex Pappajohn2007: iOS We've gone from the light pen to the stylus to the touch screen, which was populized by iOS, the name given to the operating system that runs on iPhones and iPads. Photo: Gonzalo Baeza H


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Desiring God Conference Opens With Talk on Idolizing Man
Although many of the false gods of ancient cultures are no longer worshiped, the first speaker of the Desiring God 2013 National Conference said Friday, there is at least one idol of old that continues to be worshiped today – man.
"The old gods are dead," proclaimed N.D. Wilson, an author and fellow of literature at New Saint Andrews College, during his talk titled, "Myth Wars: C.S. Lewis vs. Scientism." But, he said, human self-worship continues today, and has been around since Cain sacrificed his brother, Abel, out of pride and envy.
The first gospel preachers helped defeat paganism and idolatry, he said, by being humble, self-sacrificing and by following the example of Christ. Christians today who are concerned about "humanistic, pride-of-man idolatry," he said, should also take the same approach.
Wilson contrasted the views of H.G. Wells, whom he called "one of the prophets of modernistic scientism" and the "poet of meaningless destiny," and Lewis with regards to how the world began, and asked conference attendees to consider the consequences of both views. Scientism, which treats science as a "savior" of sorts, results in pride, he suggested, because it teaches that man has evolved from chaos and has survived as a species by its own strength. The view that God created man, on the other hand, inspires humility and gratitude.
"Survival of the fittest makes man the defending champion of reality," said Wilson. If humans were not created by God but have evolved and survived all these years, he added, then "we are as close to gods as we can get."
One of the pitfalls of idolizing man in this way, said Wilson, was exampled by Nazi Germany, which took survival to the fittest to the extreme by its practice of eugenics. During our "binge on the pride of man," said Wilson, The Holocaust was born.
"Every effective lie appeals to man with a false gospel release," said Wilson. He later added, "The good news of Christ's sacrifice is replaced with the good news of no guilt in the first place."
Lewis addressed the problems related to idolizing man and science in his "Space Trilogy" series of books, said Wilson. In the series he shows, among other things, the consequences of pursuing power and knowledge at all costs. A pursuit of power that begins as materialism, said Wilson, can ultimately devolve into what Lewis called "sheer devil worship."
It's not enough for Christians to turn people away from worshiping human achievement and science, he said, but rather the story of scientism should be replaced with the gospel. In order to make that possible, he suggested, Christians should do as Lewis did and learn to use stories to communicate their faith.
"Because you can say whatever you want, but you're not going to effectively replace the [scientism] narrative unless you tell something that sings," he said. "You tell the truth and it better be harmonic, because the world is. When you open your mouth and say, 'You know what, our story is better,' you can't then fail to tell it well."
Those who aren't oral storytellers, he said, should make sure the story of their lives communicates their faith.
The theme of this year's Desiring God conference is "The Romantic Rationalist: God, Life and Imagination in the Work of C.S. Lewis." The event, which began Friday and concludes Sunday, is being held in Minneapolis, Minn., and is being live-streamed via the Internet throughout the weekend.


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Place count in area: 130,
OSI/LPS Maps: 28B, 49, 50, 55, 56, 61, 62, AWW
Highest place:
Lugnaquilla, 925m
Maximum height for area: 925 metres,
Maximum prominence for area: 905 metres,
Places in area Dublin/Wicklow:
Ballinacorbeg 336m
Ballinastraw 284m
Ballycurry 301m
Ballyguile Hill 188m
Ballyhook Hill 288m
Bray Head Hill 240m
Carrickgollogan 276m
Carrigeen Hill 298m
Carrigoona Commons East 242m
Cloghnagaune 385m
Corballis Hill 258m
Cupidstown Hill 378.6m
Downs Hill 372m
Dunranhill 342m
Eagle Hill 296m
Killeagh 249m
Killiney Hill 153.5m
Kilmichael Hill 267m
Kilnamanagh Hill 217m
Knockannavea 400.8m
Knockree 342m
Mount Kennedy 365.9m
Slieveroe 332m
Westaston Hill 270m
Dublin Mountains:
Corrig Mountain 617.1m
Glendoo Mountain 586m
Kippure 757m
Knocknagun 555m
Mountpelier Hill 383m
Prince William's Seat 555m
Saggart Hill 396.9m
Seahan 647.3m
Seefin 620.6m
Seefingan 722.9m
Tibradden Mountain 467m
Two Rock Mountain 536m
Wicklow Mountains:
Annagh Hill 454m
Ballinacor Mountain 531m
Ballinafunshoge 480m
Ballineddan Mountain 652m
Ballycumber Hill 431m
Ballycurragh Hill 536m
Ballyteige 447m
Baltinglass Hill 382m
Barranisky 280m
Benleagh 689m
Black Hill 602.2m
Brockagh Mountain 557m
Brockagh Mountain NW Top 548m
Brockagh Mountain SE Top 470m
Camaderry Mountain 698.6m
Camaderry South East Top 677.3m
Camenabologue 758m
Camenabologue SE Top 663m
Carrick Mountain 381m
Carrickashane Mountain 508m
Carrig Mountain 571m
Carrigleitrim 408m
Carriglineen Mountain 455m
Carrignagunneen 561m
Carrigshouk 572.5m
Carrigvore 682m
Church Mountain 544m
Cloghernagh 800m
Collon Hill 238m
Conavalla 734m
Corriebracks 531m
Corrigasleggaun 794m
Croaghanmoira 664m
Croaghanmoira North Top 575m
Croghan Kinsella 606m
Croghan Kinsella East Top 562.1m
Cullentragh Mountain 510m
Cushbawn 400m
Derrybawn Mountain 474m
Djouce 725.5m
Duff Hill 720m
Fair Mountain 571.2m
Fananierin 426m
Gravale 718m
Great Sugar Loaf 501m
Kanturk 523m
Keadeen Mountain 653m
Kirikee Mountain 474m
Knocknacloghoge 534m
Lakeen 357m
Little Sugar Loaf 342m
Lobawn 636m
Lugduff 652m
Lugduff SE Top 637m
Luggala 595m
Lugnagun 446.2m
Lugnaquilla 925m
Maulin 570m
Moanbane 703m
Moneyteige North 427m
Mullacor 657m
Mullaghcleevaun 849m
Mullaghcleevaun East Top 795m
Muskeagh Hill 397m
Preban Hill 389m
Robber's Pass Hill 508.9m
Scarr 641m
Scarr North-West Top 561m
Seskin 344m
Silsean 698m
Sleamaine 430m
Slieve Maan 547.8m
Slieve Maan North Top 546.1m
Slievecorragh 418m
Slievefoore 414m
Slievemaan 759m
Sorrel Hill 599.5m
Spinans Hill 409m
Spinans Hill SE Top 400m
Stoney Top 714m
Stookeen 420m
Sugarloaf 552m
Table Mountain 701.7m
Table Mountain West Top 563m
Tinoran Hill 312m
Tomaneena 682.4m
Tonduff 642m
Tonduff East Top 593m
Tonelagee 817m
Tonelagee NE Top 668m
Tonlagee South-East Top 546m
Trooperstown Hill 430m
War Hill 684.8m
White Hill 631.1m
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Longitude: -6.239332, Latitude: 53.130482
, Easting: 317900, Northing: 210300
Prominence: 200m
, Isolation: 1.3km
, Has trig pillar
, GPS IDs, 6 char: Djouce, 10 char: Djouce
Bedrock type: Dark blue-grey slate, phyllite & schist, (Maulin Formation)
Djouce dominates the views of the Wicklow Mountains from Roundwood and Newtown Mountkennedy. The Old Irish word dígas is defined by the Dictionary of the Irish Language as 'high, lofty; a height'. There is a Sliab Digsa mentioned in the Metrical Dindshenchas, where the second element is interpreted as a woman's name. This shows that the meaning of dígas was already obscure by the time of the Metrical Dindshenchas (12th century) and a story was probably invented to account for the name. Djouce is the 93rd highest place in Ireland.
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Picture from group : Schisty rock on the summit of Djouce.
Schisty rock on the summit of Djouce.
Extremely busy summit, easily accessible with good views.
Short Summary created by simon3 17 Mar 2015
Djouce is fairly near Dublin and has good access from many sides. Its extensive views include much of north east Wicklow, the Irish Sea and nearer places such as the Great Sugar Loaf. Because of its attractions it is in 2015 the fourth most logged summit on MountainViews (after Carrauntoohil, Lugnaquillia and Slieve Donard).
The quickest way up is from the R759 to its SW where there are several car parks such as one at
. This will take around 90 minutes. Track 2113.
From the Old Coach Road (L1036) on Long Hill to the east there are also various places to start such as
which would take around 2.5 hours.
Perhaps the most popular and interesting route is from the north starting at Crone Wood Car Park
. A route including War Hill would take around 4 hours. Track 943.
It has an unattractive scar of a track from the summit east to the Wicklow Way.
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Wise Wicklow Way wanderers and their brilliant boardwalk
29 Jul 2010
On monday 26th July 2010 I drove out of Dublin to Enniskerry and headed for Roundwood turning right for the Sally Gap. I was endeavouring to do Paddy Dillons Walk No. 1 of White Hill, Djouce and War Hill. I parked on the right after Luggala Wood carpark, near the sign overlooking Lough Tay. A view worth driving for alone never mind the appearance of a reddish coloured hawk floating high on the warm summer breeze over the lake. I walked briskly along the forest path and stopped to view a second sign there. I should have gone down a path beside a stile nearly opposite the sign but erred and went along the forest path for nearly half an hour before turning back. I rued the loss of this hour but I did glimpse the mighty SugarLoaf when the horrid sitka spruce cleared for a few hundred yards. I returned to the sign, went down the bough covered path opposite and turned sharp left when it ended after a couple of hundred yards. This brought me to a wonder. I have to compliment and praise the wise people who designed and created the 'boardwalk'. What ever inspired them to place old railway sleepers side by side, end to end, cover them in chicken wire and staples for grip? Genius. I traversed the boardwalk over White Hill and with trusty stick braced myself against the ferocious gusts of wild wind blowing warm from the southwest in the gap between White Hill and Djouce. The wicklow way boardwalk veers suddenly to the right as one reaches the gravely trail to the top of Djouce. The views along the way are fantastic. Dublin Bay, Great Sugarloaf, Wicklow Harbour, The marvellous Wiclow Mountains all the way and further then Table Top, right over to Kippure. The vista from the Trig topped rock that is the zenith of mighty Djouce was breathtaking. The howling wind made sure that I was not without air for long! I clung to the Trig to take photo's and lingered for a good while over 'the sandwich' as I watched ships plough the waves of the Irsh Sea. I met but one family of Hikers, and that was at the start of the walk so I had the entire mountain to myself as I peered down at Poolbeg, Howth and beyond. Photo's don't do its grand views justice. I headed for Warhill but had to stop again to marvel at the 'Coffin' stone. I reckon it has to be a prehistoric tomb of sorts as other contributors have said. I sat in the sunshine for a break beside it and headed for War Hill across the boggy but passable gap, the wind still howling and the High Wicklow Peaks touching the clouds that threatened rain that thankfully never came. I intend to revisit this marvel of a mountain again God willing. (To end, I met a young Nordic couple as I left the 'hidden boreen' to the Wicklow Way and was delighted to spare them a wasted hour.).
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Picture from Homerclesse : A Snowier Trig Point
A Snowier Trig Point
Homerclesse on Djouce, 2010
19 Feb 2010
Just back from a quick hike up Djouce, on a very cold February Friday with snow clouds covering the higher Wicklow Mountains. I started at Ballinastoe Woods carpark and took a right just after the maps. Continuing on the road till I reached a telegraph pole - where I took a short cut up the side of the woods. Following this trail brings you eventually to the wooden board walk which traverses Djouce, White Hill and down to the J.B. Malone memorial. I headed right here and followed the board walk until it took a sharp right. It's a simple matter of following the trail directly up from the board walk till you reach the Tors, and the Trig Pillar. A fair few people where up here already, huddling behind the rocks for shelter. It was at least -10 with wind chill. Most had approached from the Djouce woods side. I headed down that way, back towards the Wicklow Way, headed right around the Mountan until I picked up the board walk again. I took a bearing for the edge of the woods in Ballinastoe and trekked back to the car, across the Heather Deserts. Bad views today, but definitely try again when it's clearer.
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Picture from padodes : Coffin Stone
Coffin Stone
padodes on Djouce, 2008
16 Nov 2008
The OSI map indicates the presence of a cairn on Djouce, slightly north of the trig pillar, but any trace of it would seem to have been obliterated. Since the Irish word 'dioghais', from which Djouce is derived, is usually taken to mean a fortified height, perhaps it might not be implausible to see in that a reference to the old cairn that once stood on top. More interesting today is the so-called 'Coffin Stone' on the lower NW flank of the mountain (O
1719 1050
). In the OSI map (and also in the Harvey map of Wicklow), for some unknown reason this feature is indicated as a Standing Stone, but any source I have consulted speaks of a Portal Tomb at this point. The enormous coffin-like slab is a capstone that would have rested on two tall stones or portals at one end, forming an entrance, and would have sloped down to a back stone, providing support at the other. The chamber formed in this way would then have been walled in with side slabs compacted with big stones and might or might not have been enclosed in a cairn. Today the portals appear to have fallen outwards, but perhaps they were not very high to begin with. What strikes me as unusual about this tomb is that it is almost hidden away among the hills, whereas so many of the megalithic monuments we are familiar with in Dublin and Wicklow are well within view of the fertile plains or valleys where the people would probably have lived. A boggy track leads from the top of Djouce down to the Coffin Stone and on to War Hill, but its start can be difficult to find in mist and fog. Here and there, the rusty iron posts of an old deer fence serve as a handrail, too, when you can see them.
The photo of the Coffin Stone is a HDR image, which managed to capture the scene despite very dense fog at the time. That's just my little plug in favour of the technique!
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drcot on Djouce, 2006
10 Feb 2006
Climbing last Sunday on Djouce, came across a couple of young "mountain bikers". It is hard to put your nose up to young fellows getting out into the air, escaping from their Playstations. I was tut-tuting at the environmental damage they were doing, as I tried to keep myself between the track guides, to prevent erosion, when suddenly I was confronted by 3 motorcylists scrambling between Djouce and War Hill.
To make it worse, there is a dedicated scrambling track on the other side of the road.
Remembering Mark Twain's famous comment that you should never underestimate the power of ignorant people in large numbers, I kept to myself I'm afraid!
I don't know if anyone patrols these areas for the National Park or Coilte - I suppose not. Its all a pity. I travelled on, and had a marvellous walk regardless.
This is a great site. Keep up the good work.
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GWPR on Djouce, 2003
2 Jan 2003
Saturday 22 Dec 2002 desperate to get a walk in before Christmas took over I approached Djouce from the boardwalk on the southern side, parking in the car park above the Pier Gates.
The day was very overcast with heavy mist and cloud with occasional breaks for fleeting glimpses of Luggala and the Sugarloaf. As I approached the summit the sun briefly appeared in the south creating the magical Brocken Spectre in the low lying cloud just under and north of me. Then the mist rolled back for a minute to reveal the reassuring summit trig point. A short enjoyable winters walk.Returning by the same route will take about 2 hrs in total.
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