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Swan, one of this year's six Avenidas Lifetimes of Achievement honorees, has left her mark on the Midpeninsula garden scene, both public and private. She has designed the Stanford Hospital gardens and taken on many private projects.
Swan left her hometown of Lexington, Ky., after graduating from college in 1956 to teach school in Coronado, Calif., where she met her husband, Ben. After moving to Swarthmore, Pa., so he could finish his degree at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, the two moved back to California. They have lived in the same Palo Alto home for 48 years.
While raising her three children, who all attended Palo Alto High School, Swan volunteered for the Palo Alto PTA. She also started doing flower arranging as a volunteer activity for the Committee for Art at Stanford, creating flower displays for the The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts (formerly known as the Stanford University Museum of Art), the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery and various fundraisers in the area.
But she got her big break arranging flowers and revamping the gardens at the official Stanford presidential home, Hoover House.
"The gardens at Hoover House are seen by so many people because that's where they entertain all of their donors," Swan said. "So the donors wanted to know who did their flowers and who did their garden."
This exposure helped Swan develop a wealthy clientele throughout the Bay Area, for whom she went to the flower market at 4 a.m. to purchase and condition flowers and then to their houses to decorate and plant.
But she soon realized that many projects needed more than just a garden re-do.
"I'd get there (to a client's house), and the driveway would be in the wrong place or the deck was in the wrong place, and I would recommend a landscape architect. So I called a landscape architect friend two or three times, and by the third time he said, 'You need to go get your landscape architecture degree.'"
She started taking night classes at the University of California Berkeley in between tending to Hoover House and other clients' gardens.
Hoover House was also the catalyst for Swan's involvement in the Stanford Hospital gardens project. Helen Bing, a major Stanford donor who often had dinner at the house, was serving on an art committee at the hospital at the time.
"(Bing) walked in to go to her first meeting and saw that the landscaping was terrible. She called me and said, 'If my husband Peter says yes, will you come re-landscape this hospital? It's a mess.'"
That was 1989. Every year since, Swan has worked on re-landscaping some portion of the gardens, projects that are completely paid for with donations from Bing. Most recently, Swan worked on the main entry way to the new hospital.
"It's probably the most rewarding thing that I do," Swan said about the hospital gardens. "You do a lot of beautiful private gardens. I do gardens in Hillsborough and Woodside and all over the Bay Area. But those people, I think because they're wealthy, they don't see them as much."
She also designed the UCSF Cancer Center courtyard garden and the Earth Sciences Courtyard at Stanford.
But Swan's gardening expertise is not just for the wealthy. She also volunteers at local nonprofit Gamble Garden and the Palo Alto Garden Club, giving lectures and teaching gardening classes.
"They (participants) have access to me without hiring me," she said. "If they just want ideas, they can come to my classes."
Swan has also raised money for Gamble Garden for the past 10 years by taking donation-based tours to famous gardens in England, Wales, Scotland, Italy and France.
She continues to design and landscape, with no plans to slow down anytime soon.
"All my other friends are traveling and playing bridge and going for walks and things like that, and I don't ever envy them. That's how I know I'm doing what I want to do. I just love what I do. It's all a challenge."
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SNAP THE GARDEN ... UC Master Gardener Judith Cody will offer a free horticultural photography workshop, "Photographing the Garden: Roses, Flowers & Veggies!," from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 12, at Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. Emphasis will be on close-ups shot under natural light. Information: email@example.com
E-WASTE COLLECTION ... Ohlone PTA and the Green Team will be accepting all kinds of electronic waste from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 12, at Ohlone Elementary School, 950 Amarillo Ave., Palo Alto. Information: Earthcarerecycling.com
TREE WALK ... Arborist James Allen will lead a free tree walk through the Community Center neighborhood from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 12, meeting at the Lucie Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Information: www.canopy.org.
BACKYARD CHICKENS ... Jody Main, food and garden writer, will offer two classes on "Backyard Chickens" from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 12, at Common Ground Education Center, 559 College Ave., Palo Alto. Class meets at Common Ground then carpools to Main's garden in Woodside to see the hen house and yard set-up, nesting boxes, water, feed, etc. Cost is $39. Information: 650-493-6072 or www.commongroundinpaloalto.org
ULTIMATE SHARE ... Neighbors will come together from 11 a.m. to noon on Sunday, May 13, for a Mother's Day Garden-Craft-Bike-Music Share at Common Ground Education Center, 559 College Ave., Palo Alto. Participants are asked to bring homegrown fruit and vegetables, eggs, herbs, honey or flowers; crafts to swap (and demos on rose beads, packaging and more), bikes that need minor maintenance; and a Scrapaphony — a workshop on making musical instruments. The sharefest is free, and people are asked to bring a bag to take home goodies. The event is sponsored by Acterra, Barron Park Green Team, Midtown Green Team, Barron Park Garden Network, Barron Park Association, Common Ground, City of Palo Alto Community Gardens, Slow Food South Bay, Transition Palo Alto and Transition Silicon Valley. Information: email@example.com or 650-493-6072 or www.commongroundinpaloalto.org
GREEN, NOT BROKE ... At the Midtown Residents Association general meeting, experts will be on hand to talk about "Repair/Remodel: Going Green without Going Broke" beginning at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15. Speakers include Kristen Flynn, a certified green building professional; John Messerschmidt, design/build contractor; Mike Balma, solar-energy consultant; and Lorna Fear, certified in infrared thermal imaging. The meeting takes place at Friends Meeting Hall, 957 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto. Information: www.midtownresidents.org
ALL ABOUT GARDENS ... Sandy Scott, owner of Frog Song garden in Point Arena (associated with the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden) and a lifelong gardener and plant collector, will address the De Anza Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 17. The group meets in Room 12 of the Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Information: www.deanza-ars.com
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Thanks for doing a grand job of writing up your experience of YAPC::Europe last week. Being an organiser I did get to see many talks and several I wanted to see I forgot to arrange cover with other organisers so I could see them. Your review has given me some pointers as to which talks I should follow up on.
However, one minor point. YAPC::NA will be in Houston next year not Boston


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A corporate resolution: admit the smartphone problem
Resolutions to change behaviour are common at this time of year, but they usually involve exercising more or smoking less. Now, some companies are resolving to wean employees from their electronic devices.
Atos, an international information technology company, plans to phase out all emails among employees by the end of 2013 and rely instead on personal communication. And starting in the new year, employees at Daimler, the German automaker, can have incoming email automatically deleted during holidays so they do not return to a flooded inbox. An automatic message tells the sender which person is temporarily dealing with the employee's email.
No one is expected to be on call at all hours of the day and night, switching off and observing quiet periods after work is important, "even if you are on a business trip," said Sabrina Schrimpf, a Daimler spokeswoman, referring to the company's recently released report, Balanced! — Reconciling Employees' Work and Private Lives.
Disconnecting can be more challenging for business travellers who frequently work across time zones and put in long hours.
And there is a ripple effect, said Leslie A. Perlow, a professor of leadership at Harvard Business School and the author of Sleeping With Your Smartphone. "These guys fly in the middle of the night and send emails back to colleagues" who wait up, ready to respond.
A study conducted last spring by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project found that while mobile phones were valued as a way to stay productive, there were downsides to being available at all times. The nationwide survey of 2254 adults found that 44 per cent of mobile phone owners had slept with their phone next to their bed and that 67 per cent had experienced "phantom rings," checking their phone even when it was not ringing or vibrating. Still, the proportion of phone owners who said they "could live without it" has gone up, to 37 per cent from 29 per cent in 2006.
Sam Chapman, chief executive of Empower Public Relations in Chicago, said he used to feel phantom vibrations and frequently read and sent email on his BlackBerry in the middle of the night. He slept poorly, did not feel refreshed in the morning and considered himself addicted.
"I wanted to make sure that what happened to me didn't happen to my employees," he said.
So Chapman adopted what he called a BlackBerry blackout policy. He and his staff of about 20 turn off their BlackBerrys from 6 pm to 6 am on weekdays and completely on weekends for all work-related use, with rare exceptions. "When I'm well rested, I show up to work ready to go, hit it hard, and then stop and become a human being," he said.
He maintains that regimen while traveling, and said the policy had increased company productivity.
Perlow agreed that companies could improve their bottom line by encouraging employees to turn off their devices at times.
"Being constantly on actually undermines productivity," she said.
Harder than it sounds
But it is not always easy. When Michelle Barry, Mark Jacobsen and a third partner created Centric Brand Anthropology, a Seattle-based company that advises clients on brand strategy, design and culture management, they gave serious thought to the issue.
"From the beginning, a huge priority for us was to have a good balance between work-life," said Jacobsen, Centric's vice president and creative director. "Yet we have found that very difficult to do while working with large multinational clients," which often require international travel and constant availability.
Being a start-up compounded those challenges.
"Just because you can email at 2 am, doesn't mean it's a good thing," he said.
Centric encourages employees to prepare a week before a trip, designating a colleague as back-up, informing clients about their travel plans, warning that contact may be sporadic and trying to avoid deadlines immediately after they return. Employees are also encouraged to take spouses or partners on longer assignments and to build in downtime, said Barry, the company's president and chief executive. When travelling herself, she said, "I make a commitment to myself not to stay up all night answering emails" and to limit it to about 30 minutes. She jots down after-hours thoughts using pen and paper.
Momentum growing
Experts say there is no firm data for how many companies have policies restricting the use of electronic devices outside the office.
"The companies I know actively encourage workers to stay connected after hours and on weekends," said Dennis J. Garritan, a managing partner of the private equity firm Palmer Hill Capital and an adjunct professor at Harvard Business School.
"It's positioned as a win-win," he said: Employees remain aware of what's going on and feel less overwhelmed when they return to the office, and the company benefits because employees are more engaged and productive even when away.
Wayne Rivers, president of the Family Business Institute, a consulting firm in Raleigh, NC, said many companies "value employees who answer their phones at 1 in the morning." In most cases, it is left up to each worker "to manage his life balance issues and exercise the discipline necessary to avoid exhaustion and burnout."
Christopher R. Bennett, senior transport specialist for the World Bank, who spent about five months travelling for work in 2012, found his own way to cope.
"There is a reason they are called 'CrackBerries,"' said Bennett, who refused to accept a BlackBerry when it was offered several years ago. "What I have observed from my colleagues who have BlackBerrys is that because of the pressures of work, especially as we deal with different time zones, they are continually checking and responding to emails. At home. At dinner. At the gym. On weekends. They never switch off. Since I have such an addictive personality, I didn't want it."
Stuart Fisher, head of the personal and work stress counseling unit for the World Bank, said that while the bank did not have an official policy restricting the use of electronic devices outside of work hours and had not found it to be a problem, it viewed the issue in the broader context of promoting a healthy work-life balance. Devoting "sufficient time to themselves is imperative," he wrote in an email.
He added, though, that in a global organisation, "ready access to staff is critically important, not just to ensure the success of the various missions and projects, but also for accountability purposes as our staff members travel to remote, austere and potentially hazardous environments in the poorest areas of the world."
Sherry Turkle, a professor of the social studies of science and technology at MIT and author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other, said she thought more companies would adopt similar policies.
"I'm optimistic, because I think that everybody is feeling the pinch," she said. Employees are too busy using devices to have the conversations that matter and are necessary to get business done, she said.
"I don't use the metaphor of addiction," said Turkle, who is also a psychologist. "We're not going to give it up. We shouldn't give it up. It's more like food, and being on a digital diet. The questions we should ask are, 'What are the healthy choices?"'
In December 2011, Brazil passed a law that makes it legal for workers who deal with emails after hours to claim overtime pay. Volkswagen, German telco Deutsche Telekom and consumer goods maker Henkel have also introduced measures to curb after-hours emails to reduce the pressure on workers to be always on call.
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Wow 30Roses - you've done it again! What an incredibly generous offer! (I'm familiar with them so I won't be participating - I just wanted to tell you that I think you're a good doobie, and a credit to this community!)
Hey y'all - take advantage of this opportunity! These are some of the most beautiful rose fragrances you'll ever smell!


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ROSWELL, Ga. – Roswell Mayor Jere Wood said he got his Christmas present early when word came that General Motors bought the 228,000-square-foot UPS building at Mansell Road and Warsaw Road to house a new division that will develop a range of technological improvements for its cars.
The UPS building (formerly the Herman Miller manufacturing plant) had been an information technology facility for the company until the operation was shut down in 2009.
Published reports say the Roswell site will be one of four technology innovation centers to create new GM technologies rather than depend on outside sources for vehicle technology, such as improved GPS systems and safety features.
"I was pleased, to say the least. This will mean a lot to the city – for our local businesses, for our local realtors and for the entire community," Wood said. "I believe this is only the beginning for Roswell. I expect 2013 to be a year of new opportunities for the city, and this is just the first."
Although GM is not commenting – a formal announcement is expected after New Year's once details are completed – Roswell was apparently one of several cities along the Eastern seaboard under consideration for the deal.
"The GM purchase of the facility off Mansell Road demonstrates North Fulton and Roswell's position as the leading Southeast hub for corporate business and lifestyle," Wood said.
One of the key components of the deal was Roswell's Opportunity Zones, which had been expanded this year to include the UPS property.
Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Brandon Beach said the state has allowed the creation of Opportunity Zones to stimulate business growth in depressed areas. For each new job created in one of these zones, the company receives a $3,500 tax credit for five years. For GM, the tax break means $3.5 million for five years, or $17.5 million.
Beach also pointed out these businesses receive the payroll tax holiday for 10 years. So for each incremental new employee, those new positions will incur additional tax breaks also of a five-year duration.
So the businesses they attract will also have incentives to stay as they grow.
"These are high-tech, high-paying jobs," said Beach. "The effect of these jobs will ripple throughout North Fulton communities. If an executive wants an equestrian lifestyle, there is Milton. If he wants a golf community for his family, there are Country Club of the South, Windward or The Manor.
"One thousand jobs is a big win," Beach said. "North Fulton is poised to lead the region out of the recession. When you add the quality education offered here, the infrastructure and fiber-optic capabilities for high-tech and information technology usages, the talent pool and the quality of life here, it is incredibly strong.
"We are poised for success in 2013," Beach said.


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Pacific Southwest, Region 9: Superfund
Serving Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands, and Tribal Nations
Pacific Coast Pipeline
State: California(CA)
County: Ventura
City: Fillmore
Congressional District: 26
Other Names: Fillmore Texaco Refinery
Bulletin Board
On 10/13/17, this website will no longer be updated. Site information will be migrated to the new web page at: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/pacificcoastpipeline .
EPA appreciates your patience through this transition. If you have questions, please contact EPA staff listed below.
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Description and History
NPL Listing History
NPL Status: Final
Proposed Date: 06/24/88
Final Date: 10/04/89
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From 1920 to 1950, the 55-acre Pacific Coast Pipeline site was operated by Texaco as an oil refinery. During this time, refinery wastes were deposited into unlined waste pits. The largest waste pit was located on the western boundary of the site. In 1980, Texaco requested permission from the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (LARWQCB) to use refinery wastes to resurface on-site service roads. During site investigations, the LARWQCB detected lead at the site. Between 1981 and 1984, Texaco performed an environmental assessment of the site. Soil and groundwater were found to be contaminated with heavy metals and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The Santa Clara River is located within 1 mile of the site.
Soil contaminated with lead and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) was excavated in 2013 and 2014 and disposed in two on-site burial pits, which were covered with caps. Land use restrictions are in place; the property can be used only for commercial and recreational use.
Drinking water wells have not been affected by contamination from the Site. Before serving water to the public, water purveyors test it to make sure it meets all federal and state drinking water standards.
Contaminants and Risks
Contaminated Media
- Groundwater
- Soil and Sludges
Soil: The lead and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soil have been cleaned up; cleanup levels established in EPA's Record of Decision (ROD) Amendment have been met.
. There is no risk for commercial and recreational use for this site.
Groundwater: The groundwater is contaminated with benzene. However, no one is drinking or otherwise exposed to the contaminated groundwater so there is no current risk to residents and businesses.
Initial Actions
In 1986, Texaco excavated the main waste pit and other smaller areas and transported the soil to a federally approved hazardous waste storage facility.
Cleanup Ongoing
Entire Site: Texaco, and now Chevron, conducted an investigation into the nature and extent of contamination at the site under EPA oversight. A cleanup remedy was selected in 1992 that called for pumping and treating the groundwater. In 1995, two extraction wells were installed to pump groundwater contaminated primarily with benzene and treat it with a carbon treatment system. A soil vapor extraction system (SVE) was installed to remove contaminants from two hot spots. The treatment systems reduced the amount of benzene in groundwater but were unable to clean up the groundwater to drinking water standards. EPA approved the shut down of the systems in 2002. Additional investigation of soil and soil gas was done at the site subsequent to the groundwater Record of Decision (ROD). In 2011, the ROD was amended and new groundwater and soil cleanup remedies were selected.
Remedy Selected
The fourth Five Year Review Report (2016) determined that the remedy at the Pacific Coast Pipeline Superfund Site is currently protective of human health and the environment. There is currently no exposure to the contaminated groundwater as no one is drinking or using groundwater impacted by the Site.
Ground Water Cleanup Selected
A multi-phase cleanup approach is addressing the groundwater contamination at the site. This cleanup remedy is expected to reach drinking water standards in the southern plume in 25 years. The northern plume, which has less benzene, will be cleaned up using Monitored Natural Attenuation, which will take approximately 50 years to reach the cleanup goal. Specifically, the remedy includes:
Air Sparging: Air is being injected into the groundwater in the southern plume to stimulate naturally occurring bacteria to break down the benzene. This phase started in summer 2015 and continued.
Groundwater Circulation: After the air sparging, pumps will circulate the groundwater in the southern plume to move underlying sulfate-rich waters into the benzene plume. The sulfate will boost bacteria, which will continue to break down the benzene in the groundwater.
Monitored Natural Attenuation: This phase involves relying solely on the naturally occurring bacteria to break down the benzene. Groundwater sampling of monitoring wells will confirm the effectiveness of this process. This phase started in the northern plume in 2013 and will start in the southern plume following completion of the groundwater circulation, estimated to be in 2022.
Soil Cleanup Completed
42,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil were excavated from various locations across the former refinery property. This soil was disposed of in two on-site consolidation areas, which were capped.
For both groundwater and soil at the former refinery property, institutional controls have been implemented under the ROD Amendment. The institutional controls are land use covenants that limit use of property to commercial and recreational use and prohibit use of groundwater until cleanup levels (drinking water standards) are achieved. The two covenants were filed with the Ventura County Recorder's Office in 2016.
Potentially Responsible Parties
Potentially responsible parties (PRPs) refers to companies that are potentially responsible for generating, transporting, or disposing of the hazardous waste found at the site.
Texaco Inc. owned and operated the property during most of its operation as a refinery and pumping station and is the responsible party at this site. Chevron Corporation merged with Texaco Inc. in 2001, and Texaco Inc. became an indirect subsidiary of Chevron Corporation. �Chevron Environmental Management Company, another indirect subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, manages the site cleanup on behalf of Texaco Inc.
Documents and Reports
Community Involvement
Public Meetings: On Tuesday, March 19, 2013, EPA and Chevron conducted two Public Site Tours for 90 Minutes each at 3:00pm and 5:30pm. The purpose of the tours was to discuss the site history and cleanup progress to date..
On February 28, 2013, EPA conducted an Open House which included brief presentations on the Site cleanup progress, Agency for Toxic Substances Disease and Registry (ATSDR) working with the community and a presentation on the CA Cancer Registry recent East Fillmore Cancer Assessment results. Presentations are available in the above "Documents and Report Section" under Community Involvement.
On April 14, 2016, the Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry (ATSDR) released a Health Consultation Report . The consultation can be found on this page under "Documents and Reports" Technical Document Section and is available in the Superfund Records Center and Public Information Repositories.
Public Information Repositories
The public information repositories for the site are at the following locations:
Fillmore City Hall
250 Central Avenue
Fillmore, CA 93015
Fillmore Library
502 2nd Street
Fillmore, CA 93015
The most complete collection of documents is the official EPA site file, maintained at the following location:
Superfund Records Center
Mail Stop SFD-7C
95 Hawthorne Street, Room 403
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 820-4700
Enter main lobby of 75 Hawthorne street, go to 4th floor of South Wing Annex.
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EPA Site Manager
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San Francisco, CA 94105
EPA Community Involvement Coordinator
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San Francisco, CA 94105
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The Official Jorts Thread: What do we know about him?
Not a whole lot.
I believe this article has been posted before, but this is a focal thread on Jorts. Considering how much we need him as a position player, I'd appreciate any comments, assessments etc. from those who've seen him play, as I have virtually no access to College Hoops without paying for cable here in Japan.
Perhaps no player has been a more pleasant surprise in this year's NCAA tournament than Kentucky's Josh Harrellson. The Wildcats' center was a valuable piece all season, but his increased production in the tournament has been a huge factor in Kentucky's run to the Final Four, as he's averaged almost 15 points and 9 rebounds per game while shooting 76% from the field.
Harrellsona former Junior College recruit--was nowhere near the NBA radar prior to this season after only seeing the floor in blowouts as a juniorplaying just 88 total minutes all year. However, with the departures of DeMarcus Cousins, Patrick Patterson and Daniel Orton to the NBA, and Enes Kanter being ruled ineligible, Harrellson was thrust into the starting center role for the Wildcats. Without much depth at the big positions, he's been able to play through some of his struggles this season, and now he's peaking at the right time, helping his team to victories and catching the attention of NBA scouts.
From a physical standpoint, Harrellson isn't exactly what scouts are usually looking for from an NBA center. At 6'10 and 275 pounds, with a frame that could still use some tightening up, Harrellson has the strength and bulk needed to compete on the interior, and while he is a better athlete than he appears at first glance, he lacks the length and athleticism of a prototypical NBA big man.
Harrellson has earned praise from the Kentucky coaching staff this season for his commitment to improving his conditioning, enabling him to play increased minutes than what was initially expected from him. He'll need to continue to work hard on his conditioning level and maximizing his explosiveness to limit the disadvantages he'd face physically against NBA caliber centers.
On the offensive end, Coach John Calipari has creatively found ways to take advantage of Harrellson by using him in ball-screen actions and dribble handoffs to free his teammates for shots. He's comfortable catching the ball on the perimeter and shows good decision making skills, as evidenced by the fact that he has as many assists as turnovers this season, which is rare for a big man and ranks him 4th amongst all centers in our database in assist-to-turnover ratio.
Harrellson will never be a player who will get many post-up opportunities (only 7% of his possessions this season have been in the post) or really have any plays called for him, but he's been very efficient with his touches, scoring over 1.1 points per possession on the season, and shooting an impressive 61% from the field. He also shows great activity and effort on the offensive glass, grabbing 5.2 offensive rebounds per forty minutes pace adjusted (3rd highest of all centers in our database), and utilizing both hands to finish around the rim on put-backs.
In order to really enhance his appeal to NBA coaches on the offensive end, Harrellson will likely need to prove that he's capable of knocking down mid-range jump shots, which would keep defenders more honest and make him more of a pick-and-pop threat. He's taken less than one jump shot per game so far this season, and has only connected on 28% of those attempts, but he has a decent release and looks to have the potential to be a serviceable mid-range shooter if he puts in the work.
Defensively, Harrellson will always be at a disadvantage athletically, but he does his best to overcome some of his limitations by playing with a great motor and being extremely physical. He stands his ground in the post and makes it difficult for players to establish post position. Once they have the ball, he continues to fight hard and challenge shots and generally shows good instincts. His average length compared to NBA centers will be an issue though, as will his lack of lateral quickness when defending pick-and-rolls and having quicker big men face him up.
While Harrellson will need to continue to perform in the pre-draft process to hear his name called this June, his play in the tournament has solidified him as a player that NBA scouts need to seriously evaluate. Teams are always looking for extra size, and Harrellson's motor, toughness, passing, rebounding ability, and production at the highest level of college basketball will earn him plenty of looks this summer as teams look for extra big men to fill out their roster.
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Jorts & Shumpert Combo Mix.
A lot of question marks surrounding Jorts. I expect very little from him. He's on the wrong team if he wants to learn first hand from a versatile veteran. That, and MD will detest his role.


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The 49 fouls called between the two teams kept both squads walking from free-throw line to free-throw line and rarely left an opportunity for either offense to get moving.
Russellville (6-5) fell behind 16-10 after the first quarter and 39-28 after a long second quarter. The Cyclones, typically greedy from the 3-point stripe, were held to just one 3-pointer throughout the entire game.
Russellville drew close on a layup by sophomore Marquis Rhode, 43-41, but Van Buren (10-1) answered with a 3-pointer to go up 46-41. By the close of the quarter, the Cyclones trailed 54-47.
Both Co-Chese Temple-Laws and Rhode fouled out in the fourth quarter. Temple-Laws left the game with six points on the 23rd foul called against Russellville. Rhode left near the end of the game with 10 points — second in scoring for the Cyclones.
Tony Jones hit a layup that cut the score to 60-54, but Van Buren ended the game on a 9-0 run to close out the victory.
Russellville was led by Andy Campbell with 19 points and eight rebounds. Tony Jones had eight points. Cody Underhill had five steals during the loss.
The Cyclones will open 7A/6A-Central Conference play on the road Friday against the Conway Wampus Cats.


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With any new motion-sensing device, you're bound to run into a developer's project that simply doesn't grasp how to properly use it. Last week, it was Hulk Hogan's Main Event, a completely disconnected – and awful – "wrestling" game that was better left sitting on retail shelves. This week, sad to say, we've run across yet another Kinect title that had potential, but squandered it due to too many errors in development. That game is Blackwater.
Now, it's easy to compare an independent development like this to, say, Modern Warfare 3 or Battlefield 3 and say it absolutely pales in comparison. Even on its own merits, Blackwater can't justify its existence, mainly because it plays so hideously, whether you brave the effort using motion controls or try your luck plugging in an Xbox 360 controller. Either way, you're facing an uphill battle that isn't worth your time or money.
The game focuses on a squad of commandos who fight to save some Middle Eastern cities from terrorists while dealing with a storyline "ripped straight out of the headlines" – you know, if the headlines came from, say, the absurdness of National Enquirer. Seriously, Blackwater's story has so many holes in it, it would barely qualify as a straight-to-cable production for Steven Seagal. And what's more, unlike the other military games, we never really feel any connection with our characters, nor what drives them. Because of that, we could really give a damn whether any of them survive the continuous ambushes they run across.
Upon starting up Blackwater, it's noted that the developer, Zombie Studios, used Unreal technology for the in-game engine. Once you get into it, however, you'll really have to squint to even notice. Character models are completely lackluster, whether it's an innocent guy getting up in your face, the soldiers fighting the battle, or the generically designed soldiers you keep running across. The environments are equally bland, mostly consisting of terrain you'd find in any given second-grade military simulation. That's not mentioning the unacceptable frame rate and glitching problems – it's as if the game shipped without going through a test phase.
The audio is just as laughable. The dialogue teeters on movie-of-the-week quality, with characters barely driven by what's happening in game. The music is just below average, without any good military themes to back up the action. Also, all the guns sound the same – even the more powerhouse rifles fail to leave their mark.
All this would be fine if the game had any sort of redeemable gameplay, but this is where Blackwater fails the most. No matter which option you choose, you'll find a dull, slow-moving experience, one that will leave you completely frustrated.
Now, let's say you just use a regular control pad. The left analog stick controls the on-screen cursor, and the right moves your character – or rather, inexplicably GLIDES your character – in and out of cover. This would be a novel concept, if it were done right, but it's not here. See, even behind cover, enemy soldiers shoot you, and sometimes they're so dumb as bricks that they don't deserve to hit you, but they do anyway. As a result, you'll die, even if you manage to perform the right actions. Aiming takes too long when it comes to reticule movement, and there's no quick reload option. You have to hit the button every time.
With the Kinect, Blackwater is even worse. Trying to maintain a steady movement with the cursor is ridiculous, and even when you shift your body properly to get into cover, the game doesn't always read it accurately. As a result, you bite the big one, even if you've got your game plan figured out. It's as if you've got lightning reflexes, but are always stuck swimming through molasses.
Oh, and one side note – the game has no checkpoints. So even if you do get a good way through the stage, if you die, you start all the way over at the beginning again. Thanks, guys. Way to be fair.
As for online functionality, the only thing Blackwater features is leaderboard support. You can challenge friends to their best scores in the game, but when we tried to do so, they were practically empty, save for a few patient types who didn't go bonkers playing the game. Other than that, there's no direct competition. For a $50 effort, that's bound to leave many folks upset. Especially when, for $10 more, they can have a military shooter that comes with everything they could possibly hope for, online and off.
Blackwater is just a tired, miserable mess of a game. Whether you use a controller or the Kinect, you'll find that the gameplay simply never measures up, and the presentation lacks the dedicated work to attract hardcore military fans. If you must have a desirable Kinect shooting experience, go with Child of Eden. No, it's not military-based, but we guarantee it's a hell of a lot more fun.


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CARSON, Calif. – Saturday's match had all the elements of a dramatic feel-good performance: a desperate final stretch punctuated by a late flurry that resulted in an LA Galaxy goal.
While joyous in the moment, the Galaxy were not in a celebratory mood afterward.
"We're happy we came away with a point but we're not satisfied with the result," Galaxy goalkeeper Bill Gaudette said.
The Galaxy were able to salvage a 1-1 draw against FC Dallas after Pat Noonan buried a stoppage-time equalizer. Brek Shea had put the visitors up in the 61st minute when he converted a penalty kick but Noonan's goal helped cap off a somewhat desperate final half hour.
RECAP: Late Noonan goal gives LA 1-1 draw vs Dallas
GOAL: Noonan levels it late
The result helped extend the Galaxy's unbeaten run to three matches as the club heads to Seattle for a midweek match.
With the Galaxy down a goal, head coach Bruce Arena made three substitutions – Adam Cristman, Chad Barrett and Pat Noonan came into the game to help spark the team's offense. While it took some time, the goal finally came and all three had a hand in it.
Cristman won a ball inside the box, knocking it over to Barrett, who in turn fed Noonan. The veteran bagged his first Galaxy goal, slipping the ball into the back of the net from the top of the penalty area.
Noonan said the three substitutes were just following orders.
"Create some energy, get into some good spots and try to get on the end of some crosses," Noonan said of his instructions heading into the match. "That's kind of what it is – you're throwing guys forward and they have guys they have to bring back so it's kind of launching balls forward and getting balls in the box and fortunately we got one."
That the Galaxy did not score earlier, though, was a bit of misfortune. Landon Donovan hit the post in the 11th minute, while FC Dallas 'keeper Chris Seitz made two critical saves to keep the Galaxy from going ahead late in the first half.
Early in the second half, though, the Galaxy saw perhaps their best opportunity of the match sail wide when Robbie Keane knocked a penalty kick to the right of the goal. That Keane and not Donovan took the penalty kick was odd – not since June 2007 had a player other than Donovan taken a penalty kick for the club.
"I just told Robbie I wanted him to take it. He did everything right except he just mis-hit it a little bit," Donovan said. "He's a guy who's taken many penalties and made many penalties and I'm sure the next time he takes one it will go in."
Arena said he was not immediately sure what sort of conversation the two players had on the field before the penalty was taken but said the miss was simply that.
"I'll be honest with you, if any team has the choice of Robbie Keane or Landon Donovan or (David) Beckham taking penalty kicks, you're real happy," Arena said. "The easiest thing to do in the aftermath is to be critical... There aren't many better players in the world to take penalty kicks than Robbie Keane or Landon Donovan. We missed it."
For his part, Donovan said he wanted Keane to get back on the scoresheet. Keane has not scored a goal since March 31 and although he's had two assists in that span, Donovan admitted getting Keane a goal would have been a good thing for the club.
"It's been a little while since those guys have hit the net," Donovan said. "We're trying to get them more chances. We're not doing a good enough job of getting them chances in front of the goal so I thought it would help a little bit."
Whether it was misfiring, mismanagement or just plain misfortune, the Galaxy overcame the circumstances to earn one point, ensuring that the night was not a complete failure.
"It was sort of one of those nights and we needed one of those to fall our way if we were going to win the game," Donovan said. "But still a good effort to get something out of it."
Luis Bueno covers the LA Galaxy for MLSsoccer.com and can be reached by email at email@example.com.


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I checked the FAQs and the forum, but did not see mention of this. Will there be a shuttle running from the rally site to local sites? (downtown, hotels, etc) It worked well in Bloomsburg but not sure how spread out the Salem "metro" area is.
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The course will examine different approaches to multicultural religious education in churches, faith-based schools and other pastoral contexts. It will also consider the implications and challenges of different public policies in Canada on multiculturalism and equity in diverse ministerial settings especially in separate school boards. One of the important goals of this course is to help students to acquire cultural proficiency and cultural intelligence and other skills needed to function effectively in a pluralistic society. Students will be led to a deeper appreciation of diversity and acquire tools to interact, and communicate with people from diverse backgrounds. The course will creatively identify healthy and hopeful approaches for teaching and ministry in a multicultural context in which cultures, races, genders and religions are embraced as potentially powerful and transformative variables in the process of evangelization. Teaching method: Weekly lectures and tutorials; quantitative and qualitative approaches in cross-cultural learning, assigned weekly reading, focused group discussion, and seminars. Means of evaluation:Class participation: 10%; Book Review: 20%; Reflection Paper: 20%; Seminar Presentation: 20%; Final Integration Paper: 30%
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Loyal Canadian BlackBerry users who refuse to give up their keypad will finally have a chance to upgrade to a newer version.
A number of retailers and wireless carriers across the country began accepting presales for the BlackBerry Q10 physical keypad smartphone on Tuesday. The device is expected to arrive in stores by the end of the month.
The new model, which sports both a keypad and a touchscreen, has been highly anticipated by some longtime BlackBerry fans.
Both Rogers Communications and Telus say presales are underway for the device, but neither would provide a date for when the Q10 would be available. Bell will begin preorders on April 19, the company said.
All three companies are selling the phone on a three-year contract for $199.99. Telus and Bell said they will sell the phone without a contract for $700.
Rogers will sell the phone for $649.99 without a contract, and will be the only Canadian carrier that offers the BlackBerry Q10 in a white version, as well as the more common black model.
Retailers Best Buy and Future Shop said they are also taking preorders at its stores.
When the Waterloo, Ont.-based smartphone maker revealed its new phones in January, several analysts were critical of BlackBerry's decision to stagger the release of the touchscreen and keypad versions.
Earlier this week, presales for the BlackBerry Q10 began in the U.K. at Carphone Warehouse and Phones4u.
The timeframe for a U.S. release hasn't been announced, though it's expected sometime in May or June.


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It's a big weekend for openings and closings at LACMA. Two major exhibitions are in their final days—Sunday is your last chance to see California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way" and Robert Adams: The Place We Live.
Robert Adams, Longmont, Colorado, 1979, Yale University Art Gallery, purchased with a gift from Saundra B. Lane, a grant from Trellis Fund, and the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund
California Design has been on view for eight months, and that means we've gotten a lot of great blog posts out of the show. Here's a look back at some of our favorites:
- Installation: Leading up to the exhibition, we watched "the Clipper" trailer load into the Resnick Pavilion; looked at the installation of the Eames living room; and we did a Q&A with Architects Hodgetts + Fung on their exhibition design for the show
- Artworks up close: individual blog posts on the Swinger camera and the one and only Barbie—plus an inside look at how our curators found some of the objects on view (hint: eBay)
- Connections between California Design and other exhibitions: including Fracture: Daido Moriyama, the recently closed In Wonderland, the Huntington's Pacific Standard Time exhibition on Sam Maloof, and a fascinating connection to Watts Towers
- LACMA and LA design history: we looked back at some incredible graphic design done at LACMA in the mid-60s, and made some related catalogues available in our Reading Room; we also looked back on the old Pasadena Art Museum's influential California Design exhibitions of the 1950s and '60s
Installation view, California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way," October 1, 2011–June 3, 2012, photo © 2012 Museum Associates/LACMA
In conjunction with California Design's closing weekend, we've got one last film series to go along with it. Grand Designs: Mid-Century Life in the Movies explores modern living through four terrific classics. Friday night it's Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey in Desk Set followed by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in The Long Long Trailer. Saturday night starts with the rarely screened English version of Jacques Tati's wonderful My Uncle, followed by the iconic James Dean in Rebel without a Cause.
LACMA members get an added treat this weekend: exclusive access to the new exhibition Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol. Photographer/filmmaker Lockhart photographs and a five-channel film installation on the work of Israeli dance composer and textile artist Noa Eshkol, who developed a unique notation system for dance practice in the 1950s. The exhibition is open to members only on Saturday from 11am–4pm and all day Sunday. It opens to the general public starting Monday. Lockhart will be in conversation with curator and art historian Sabine Eckmann on Sunday afternoon—free and open to all.
Sharon Lockhart, production still from Five Dances and Nine Wall Carpets by Noa Eshkol (detail), 2011, five-channel film installation (35mm film transferred to hd, sound), © Sharon Lockhart, 2012
As with every weekend this summer we've also got free concerts every night. Friday it's Jazz at LACMA with drummer and composer Alphonse Mouzon. Mouzon is a charter member of Weather Report and has also collaborated with titans of jazz like Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Sonny Rollins, and more. On Saturday, San Francisco-based Grupo Falso Baiano brings traditional and modern Brazilian choro music to Latin Sounds. And the weekend concludes with UCLA Camarades performing pieces by Schoenberg and Korngold during LACMA's Sundays Live chamber music series.
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Fourth-place Washington has flown under the radar so far and, in case there are a few slips among the leaders, is ready to step up a level or two. Fifth-place Colorado, ranked No. 21, is also hanging around.
"This trip separates the girls from the women," Cardinal coach Tara VanDerveer said. "We have to play well both nights. USC is dangerous and UCLA plays a big lineup. At this point, I think we're talking about having five teams from our conference in the NCAA tournament. There is all the makings of a great tournament at the end of the season."
Stanford (11-1 in the Pac-12, 22-2 overall) has six games remaining on its regular season schedule, four on the road. The most important one is Friday's matchup with the Women of Troy (5-7, 8-15) because without a win at the Galen Center, Sunday's game in Pauley Pavilion against the Bruins (10-2, 20-3) won't mean as much.
The Cardinal faces its tightest race in many years. Should it continue to win, that 13th consecutive title becomes one of the hardest to obtain. Since losing at home to the Golden Bears (11-1, 21-2) on Jan. 13, Stanford has won eight consecutive games by an average margin of 16.6 points.
The Cardinal handed UCLA a 75-49 setback in its first game following the loss and then survived a scare from USC, winning 75-66 two days later.
There's no margin for error, no time to ease the foot off the pedal and nowhere to go but down. All eyes, as in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and places east and north, are focused on the road ahead.
"We feel like we have been scrapping and scraping every game," VanDerveer said. "We have to prepare for everybody."
Stanford enters the weekend with a few dings. Toni Kokenis remains questionable and Erica Payne is day-to-day.
Alex Green, who saw her first action in 15 months, could prove a factor down the stretch though she's not quite in basketball shape.
"She's doing well," VanDerveer said. "She loves to play defense. She's quick, she can get on the ball, she's aggressive, and she's strong. She's just not in great basketball shape and we're working to get her in shape as best we can."
Bonnie Samuelson scored a career-high 19 points in Stanford's win over Arizona State last Sunday and has reached double figures in two of her last three games.
"It was great for her to get her career high," VanDerveer said. "And for her, that wasn't even her shooting as well as she's capable of. She missed some open ones. But it was really great to see her get her rhythm going, get her shot going."
Samuelson owns the record for most 3-pointers within a 30-second point during a Stanford practice.
"She can make 20 3-pointers in 30 seconds," VanDerveer said. "That's pretty good. She has people passing her the ball but still, she doesn't miss."
Mikaela Ruef and Joslyn Tinkle each recorded a double-double last weekend, suggesting the Cardinal is beginning to find different sources of offensive production aside from National Player of the Year candidate Chiney Ogwumike.
"In the next month we'll need more from Taylor (Greenfield), Jasmine (Camp) and Tess (Picknell)," VanDerveer said.
Of course, there is always Ogwumike.
"Chiney is being talked about as player of the year, and looking at her stats, if you were to look at Chiney compared to Jayne Appel, compared to Nneka (Ogwumike), I think Chiney has been more consistent than anybody we've ever had," VanDerveer said. "I don't want to jinx her, but I don't even look at her stats. I go to the other people. Mikaela had a double-double, Jos had a double-double. It's a given that Chiney has one, and if she doesn't it's because I was able to take her out and get her some rest. She's also not in the top five in terms of minutes played in the conference games. The more rest we can get her the better, I feel."
Ogwumike has reached double figures in scoring in every game this season, something that her older sister Nneka (the WNBA Rookie of the Year) nearly accomplished last year. Nneka reached double figures in 35 of 36 games.
"Chiney is a really special player that comes out excited and motivated every single game," VanDerveer said. "It's more usual that someone would have an off night, and we can't afford that and I think Chiney knows that."
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This Aug. 17, 1969 black-and-white file photo shows music fans seeking shelter is a grass hut at the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, N.Y. where the sign above reads "Have a Marijuana." (AP Photo, File)
by Alicia A. Caldwell and Nancy Benac
WASHINGTON (AP) — It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of "Reefer Madness" to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of "Just Say No."
The next 25 years took the nation from Bill Clinton, who famously "didn't inhale," to Barack Obama, who most emphatically did.
And now, in just a few short years, public opinion has moved so dramatically toward general acceptance that even those who champion legalization are surprised at how quickly attitudes are changing and states are moving to approve the drug — for medical use and just for fun.
It is a moment in America that is rife with contradictions:
—People are looking more kindly on marijuana even as science reveals more about the drug's potential dangers, particularly for young people.
—States are giving the green light to the drug in direct defiance of a federal prohibition on its use.
—Exploration of the potential medical benefit is limited by high federal hurdles to research.
Washington policymakers seem reluctant to deal with any of it.
Brent Miller posess for a photo in one of the grow rooms of his medical marijuana grow operation in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Richard Bonnie, a University of Virginia law professor who worked for a national commission that recommended decriminalizing marijuana in 1972, sees the public taking a big leap from prohibition to a more laissez-faire approach without full deliberation.
"It's a remarkable story historically," he says. "But as a matter of public policy, it's a little worrisome. It's intriguing, it's interesting, it's good that liberalization is occurring, but it is a little worrisome."
More than a little worrisome to those in the anti-drug movement.
"We're on this hundred-mile-an-hour freight train to legalizing a third addictive substance," says Kevin Sabet, a former drug policy adviser in the Obama administration, lumping marijuana with tobacco and alcohol.
Legalization strategist Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, likes the direction the marijuana smoke is wafting. But he knows his side has considerable work yet to do.
"I'm constantly reminding my allies that marijuana is not going to legalize itself," he says.
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Adirondacks > Mount Haystack > Climber's Log
Mount Haystack Climber's Log
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|The edge
Date Climbed: Oct 7, 2005
|start up with alain
|Posted Mar 14, 2007 6:24 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 25, 1972
|life is good
|Posted Jan 21, 2007 3:40 am
|Great Range traverse attempt
Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2006
|Last peak for me in a very long day - the 1200ft rise to Marcy just looked too tiring after 13 hours of hiking. Haystack's open, windy summit was a good one to finish on; wish my camera had captured the weird green tinge of the rocks.
|Posted Aug 14, 2006 2:00 pm
|The Ogre
|Haystack as part of Great Range traverse
|Tagged Haystack as part of a one-day solo Great Range traverse from the Garden. Perfect weather, perfect view of Marcy and the Great Range. One of the finest views in the East.
|Posted Jul 16, 2006 4:52 pm
|Misty Mountains
|Climbed at end of series starting from Ore Bed over Saddleback and Basin. Rain pelting me from Saddleback on. Beautiful day anyhow.
|Posted Apr 20, 2006 8:57 pm
|Route Climbed: Garden to Slant Rock and summit Date Climbed: December 23rd, 2005
|Great day for a winter ascent with Mike F. on his 46th! Deep snow, cloud cover, low temps, and high winds made for a great adventure. This was my second ascent of this peak - my first was in 1993 and Haystack was my first ascent of any high peak in the ADK. Beautiful mountain.
|Posted Dec 27, 2005 5:41 pm
|Seth Maciejowski
|Route Climbed: Range Trail Date Climbed: October 2000
|Snowy fall day in october. We climbed from opalescent brook up to skylight and over marcy to Haystack then stayed at slant rock leanto in the valley. There was a lot of ice and snow making the going somewhat treacherous in spots. A great peak though with precipitous drops on all sides. Highly recommended.
|Posted Oct 17, 2005 10:25 pm
|Route Climbed: Range Trail: Haystack-Basin-Saddleback Date Climbed: July 31, 2005
|On a beautiful day, this mountain is an undistilled joy to climb. The Little Haystack/Haystack combination works well aestheically because whichever one you're on gives you a hawk's eye view of the other. Don't be daunted by the dropoff between the two; it only takes 20-25 minutes to negotiate; if you've come a far as Little Haystack you might as well go for the big one. Panther Gorge is positively vertiginous; it drops off clean out of sight; you may want to shout out in fear - I did! The shear, vertical cliffs between Panther Gorge and Phelps trail are incredible - they look like the walls of a giant quarry - be sure to check them out. Being on Haystack gives you the best view of Marcy and Skylight anywhere. But the best thing of all that Haystack gives you is several hundred feet of mountain above the treeline, a weird and otherworldly experience, which for me is the gold standard of hiking.
The sole of my right hiking shoe became loose from the rest of the shoe during the approach up the Phelps Trail, making for a disconcerting flapping whenever I took a step. I considered tying it back together with a piece of rope, fearing I would get tripped up at some critical moment of rock scrambling, but ultimately just left it alone. I think the glue is drying out in my old boots. I'll just keep epoxying them back together.
|Posted Aug 1, 2005 2:59 pm
|Route Climbed: Phelps Trail Date Climbed: 8/24/96 and Feb 15, 99
|Solo from The Garden side, both times
|Posted Apr 28, 2005 4:25 pm
|Route Climbed: from the garden Date Climbed: 8-04
|I love this peak.
|Posted Sep 20, 2004 9:01 am
|Route Climbed: trail Date Climbed: july 1992
|First non-class1 trail peak - did it after Marcy - good times - until we took a wrong turn and accidentally did saddleback and basin too without water.
|Posted Sep 2, 2004 2:14 pm
|Route Climbed: john brooks Date Climbed: may 2003
|A very good 2 day-hike with few people and a lot of snow in late may
|Posted Feb 23, 2004 7:42 pm
|Route Climbed: ADK Range Trail; trail up the north side Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2001
|In spite of the fact that it was getting late in the day, My friend and I continued our hike from Basin to Haystack because I told him I did not want to trek in from the Garden again just to get Haystack. So we plodded on, up a rocky trail, over little Haystack, and finally up the rest of Haystack, one of only a few ADK mountains that are truly above treeline. The views were outstanding but I ran out of film on Basin. We got back to the Garden over an hour after sunset.
|Posted Aug 7, 2003 10:17 pm
|Route Climbed: range trail Date Climbed: march 2 2003
|overcast,wet drizzly day
|Posted Mar 3, 2003 10:41 am


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My wife and I recently moved into our first home. In our previous apartment I was using an Ethernet cable to my gaming PC because the wireless interference from all the networks gave me horrible speeds. I purchased a D-Link DIR-655 to go with my Asus N13 wireless-n card I had lying around. At this point in time, there is no good way to run an Ethernet cable from my gaming rig to the router. In the future I might try to run Ethernet upstairs through the walls but that's going to be a challenge. I can see 18 other wireless networks from my house (much more than I thought there'd be), and about 10 of them are wireless-n (also more than I thought there'd be, hence why I went wireless-n in the first place).
I had 12Mbps service at my apartment, now I have 30Mbps service. Signal strength is ~65% (4 of 5 bars on the windows icon = "Good") but doing a bandwidth test on speedtest.net, I'm getting 8-12Mbps download, 10-26ms ping, and 3-4Mbps upload. The download speeds are obviously only half of what I can get if I throw an Ethernet cable down the stairs and hook up to the router directly, but its roughly as good as I had at the apartment.
I play Warframe with by brother who lives 6 hours away (brotherly bonding time). But I've noticed that if I play on wireless, I get awful in-game lag. As soon as I throw the Ethernet chord down the stairs and hook it up (again, only a temporary fix), lag is gone. I'm not sure why this should be the case if my download/upload/and ping are all at reasonable levels.
Anybody have any ideas on:
a) why this is happening
b) what I can do to fix this. (monitoring software, changes I should make on the router, etc)
Networking is not my strong suit, so please speak in Layman's terms.


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One good game doesn't satisfy Beckham
By Scott Merkin / MLB.com
"These questions are ridiculous," Beckham said with a smile, belying his slightly bothered nature. "I mean I have one good game. I know I can hit. I was happy last night. I'm going to continue working the way I've been working.
"Whatever happens at the end of the year is what I worked for and what I deserved. That's all. I'm not going to put any numbers [on it]."
Beckham hit his first homer off of Ubaldo Jimenez to give the White Sox a 2-1 lead in the eventual 7-2 victory. It was the two following singles to right, though, that impressed manager Robin Ventura.
"Just the way he did it, kind of the way the at-bats progressed," Ventura said of Beckham's final two singles. "That kind of stuff is more promising and looks better than just one home run. That's something that can get him started. It has to start somewhere, and that's something that builds confidence."
The patience shown by Ventura has been appreciated by struggling hitters such as Beckham and Brent Morel. But as Beckham explained Wednesday, the team playing well overall stands as the most important factor.
Eventually, players such as Beckham hope to get hot and take pressure off of players such as A.J. Pierzynski, Paul Konerko, Adam Dunn and Alex Rios, who have been the team's driving forces on offense. That hot streak also would take the focus off of Beckham's game-to-game results.
"Usually this is a conversation you have in Spring Training, but apparently my season started a month later," said Beckham, who finished 0-for-2 with a run scored and a stolen base during Wednesday's 6-3 loss to the Indians. "Last night was good, a good start to May and hopefully the rest of the season."
Danks not feeling pressure of new contract
CHICAGO -- The first month of the 2012 season didn't exactly go as John Danks would have liked. Actually, it was nothing close to what the left-handed ace had envisioned.
Although he closed April with a 2-3 record, Danks' ERA sits at a rotation-worst 6.23 and he has given up a team-high 31 hits and 15 walks over 30 1/3 innings. But for those who think pressure from the five-year, $65 million deal Danks signed during in the offseason is weighing on his shoulders, the affable but driven hurler smiled and politely said Wednesday that theory couldn't be further from the truth.
"I haven't even thought about it. It never comes up. It's a non-issue," Danks said. "I obviously understand the questions and what not, but that hasn't been the issue one time."
When it was pointed out to Danks that the struggles could have happened even if he was earning $400,000 or $500,000 per season, he quickly brought up his 0-8 start to the 2011 season.
"I did it last year," Danks said. "It truly is a non-issue."
The real issue for Danks simply is to find greater consistency, starting with his trip to the mound in Thursday's series finale against the Indians. That consistency doesn't fall upon one pitch in particular.
"Everything is kind of coming and going," Danks said. "We've been working hard and doing the things we need to do. But I would like to start seeing some results."
Peavy remembers pal Seau as 'amazing man'
CHICAGO -- By the time Jake Peavy arrived in the big leagues with the Padres during the 2002 season, Junior Seau was completing a legendary 13-year run with the San Diego Chargers.
"When I got out there, he was larger than life," Peavy said of Seau, who was found dead in his Southern California home Wednesday morning from a possible self-inflicted gunshot wound.
"He was obviously a great player, and I'm sure he'll be remembered as that," Peavy said. "But Junior was a great person and a lot of fun. He was a happy person. When he walked in the room, it changed. Junior Seau in San Diego was larger than life, as he should have been. It's an awfully sad day for any of us who got the chance to know him."
Peavy last crossed paths with his friend this past winter, with the two playing golf in the same "circle of friends and athletes." The White Sox right-hander also felt for Seau's family, whom he knows a little bit.
But what happened to Seau and former Bears safety Dave Duerson in February 2011 showed once again that athletes put on pedestals for their on-field ability deal with the same issues and problems off the field as everyday people.
"It certainly brings you back down to understand we are all human beings," Peavy said. "We all go through difficult times and good times as well as the average person does. I just hope people will remember Junior the way I choose to remember him. That's a happy-go-lucky, fun-loving guy who made other people's lives better with the charity work he did, and Junior was an amazing man.
"Just a tough day for anybody who has been around Junior and his family as well. It's just disappointing for anything like this to happen to anybody. Somebody you know and you've been around and shared some good times with, it's a sad day."
Ventura: Player/manager role 'too much work'
CHICAGO -- Before Robin Ventura was officially hired as White Sox manager, general manager Ken Williams spoke of considering Paul Konerko as the rare player/manager candidate.
While Konerko certainly possesses the baseball acumen to handle the job, a smiling Ventura said Wednesday that Konerko couldn't do the job now while still playing regularly and at a high level for the White Sox.
"I know he couldn't do it. He could be a manager down the road, but he couldn't play and do that," Ventura said. "There's just too much work to do."
Ventura said that he couldn't have played and managed either and was surprised by the people who did both at the same time successfully.
"It's a little different now," Ventura said. "It'd be hard for someone to do it now."
Third to first
Robin Ventura said Wednesday that Dylan Axelrod is in line to start one of Monday's split-doubleheader games against the Indians at Progressive Field, assuming he's not previously needed in relief.
Addison Reed has made 11 consecutive scoreless appearances to start the season, tying him with Matt Karchner (1995) for the second-longest streak by a White Sox rookie reliever at the season's outset since 1921. Sergio Santos has the record at 12.
Philip Humber is 0-5 with a 5.61 ERA over his last 10 starts at home after Wednesday's 6-3 loss to the Indians. He's also 1-3 with a 5.98 ERA against the American League Central since last season.
The White Sox are 3-8 over their last 11 home games and 2-4 on this homestand.
A.J. Pierzynski caught his 1,452nd career game, moving him past Mickey Cochrane for sole possession of 34th place on the all-time list. He's tied with Ron Karkovice for seventh on the White Sox list at 918.
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Space Auction: You Can Buy Buzz Aldrin's Toothbrush or An Armrest That Has Spent More Time on the Moon Than Any Other Armrest
The bidding started at $9,000 for an already used toothbrush formerly wielded by one Buzz Aldrin while in space. The auction house selling a variety of space-related memorabilia estimates that prices could reach $24,000 for this 6.5 inch piece of plastic "used throughout the mission, including in the Lunar Module Eagle while on the moon." With two weeks left to bid, there is lots of room for a possible bidding war for Aldrin's tooth cleaner. As of now, someone has thrown down $10,755, presumably in order to yell: "I own you!"
A signed armrest from Apollo 17 is also available to any interested parties. This unwitting piece of furniture was part of the "last manned lunar landing to date and the mission where the most time logged on the moon." So this armrest in "very fine condition with expected light wear and minor soiling" has probably spent more time on the our little moon than any other armrest. Its parents must be thrilled.
Other items to purchase a childhood toy tin plane belonging to Neil Armstrong, Armstrong's awesome actual space suit, Mission Command pilot Richard Gordon's signed hair-comb, forty-year-old packets of space brownies and space peaches worth an estimated $5000 to $1,500 respectively, probably not for consuming but for continually admiring.


text: review: total tennis vs newks vs saddlebrook vs clubmed sandpiper my wife and I have been to all three of these. She is trying to get to be good enough to get her teaching certificate. I'm not really looking for improvement, just an active vacation where I hit a ton of tennis balls. Here are my thoughts: Total Tennis The tt experience is very dependent on your pro because IMO, they have the widest range of ability with their pros. This is especially true in the summer where they bring pros from colleges and other areas. The setting for the outdoor courts is beautiful and peaceful, especially in the fall. Lodging is somewhere between rustic and spartan but the rooms are clean. I believe the chef may be CIA trained and the food is very, very good. I've always been in the strongest group there and I've never seen anyone stronger than a strong 4.0 though I'm sure they get 4.5s from time to time. I should add that TT, with the right pro, is a great value. Newks Newks is all about fun. The pros are fun, they have a great attitude and they make sure everyone has a good time on and off the courts. The food is solid, instruction is solid and the after-tennis is is the best of the three resorts. The rooms are very nice, the rates very reasonable, particularly when they have 2-1 for deals. I played with strong 4.5s when I was there. We had a fabulous time at newks. Saddlebrook We recently spent our anniversary at Saddlebrook. It was very expensive compared to the other two. We paid a little extra for a suite and it was beautiful, by far the nicest of the three resorts. The resort itself is beautiful, with lush palms, a beautiful pool, spa and outdoor hot tubs. I had heard that the tennis is very demanding, meant to get some aerobics in before we went but just didn't have time. The first day was pretty easy, I was a little sore getting to the court for day 2. The 2nd day our pro really worked me. One of the things I noticed here were the lack of breaks...its non-stop tennis, two people picking up balls while the others hit. My wife and I were really hurting starting day 3 and the pace quickened right off the bat. For some reason, after lunch that day I started feeling better and I was good to go for the rest of the stay. However, the pro did get me to a point on the last day where in the middle of a drill I was so tired I could no longer hit a backhand over the net. I think they look for that moment and work with you once in you're in that state. From what I could see, Saddlebrook has the best pros and they really care about your experience. They took the three other players on my court for privates with the tennis director. He worked with my wife on her backhand slice. At the end of the day, I had 3 balls and I was trying to help my wife with the stroke, he saw us working on it and he spent another 20 minutes with us, working with three balls. This was after everybody had left the courts. Then he offered to hit with me but I was too tired. This was above and beyond anything we expected or could imagine. You have to pay for the food at saddlebrook but our package included breakfasts and two dinners. The breakfast were absolutely great, better than most nyc restaurants. We ate at the on-property steak house. The food was very good, again as good as some nyc steakhouses. Without the package, the steak house would have been as expensive as a nyc steak house. We ate in the sports bar one night, the food was very good and reasonably priced. We went to saddlebrook for our anniversary, thinking it was a splash-out, expensive luxury vacation but given the level of instruction, commitment to excellence and the beauty of the resort, we're going back. btw, this was the only resort where I saw 5.0/5.5 level players. Unfortunately, I wasn't strong enough to play with them and ended up on the next strongest court, a 3.5 court. Our pro made up for it by working me very hard and he also played in against me, so in the end, it didn't really matter. ************************ updating with clubmed sandpiper ************************ sitting in the airport, flight delayed, thought I'd add this short review of sandpiper. If you're a tennis player with young kids, this is a nice choice. Lots of activities for the whole family, great staff (tennis and non-tennis) and the food and drink is good, not great. we visited years ago, when our kids were much smaller and there was a basic tennis facility. This has been replaced with a full-fledged tennis academy, with beautifully maintained har-tru and hard courts. There are daily clinics included in the price. each clinic lasts one hour, people self-rate, I'd say advanced was anywhere from 3.5-4.5. Additionally, they have a daily, 3 hour intensive clinic for $210, five hour junior clinics for $200 and private instruction for $100/hour. I dunno about you, but I think $100/hour is pretty expensive. I watched the tennis director of the academy give two lessons, one to a 4.5-5.0 and another to two young beginners and decided that $100/hour was a bargain for this level of instruction. My middle kid has been playing for a about year, we signed him up and he had an incredible lesson. My oldest did the 3-hour and 5-hour clinics and enjoyed them both. I attended the daily clinic, played a little after the clinic and played in the daily doubles competition. the doubles comp is open to all levels, as such it was really social tennis rather than competitive. Still, we managed to setup some good matches. If you're a tennis player with young kids, this is definitely a place to keep on your radar.


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I found this bone in my back yard in the same place that I found almost a whole raccoon skeleton scattered. It's a vertebrae I think, but too big to be a deer, could it possibly be from a bobcat or bear?
It is a mammal pelvis (the two pelvic bones, or 'os coxa'). It's too small for a bear or a deer. The best match I could find among American mammals is badger (bothf size and shape). Definitely not skunk.
I hope this helps.
PS: I have prepared an image of badger pelvis side-by-side with your specimen, but the upload image button doesn't work. Maybe later.
I'm trying again. Inserting a photo still doesn't work, so let's see what happens if I attach the file.
I'm thinking more of a raccoon pelvis. here are some pictures to compare.


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I'm now starting to think Woodson's coaching capacity will only allow him to produce a "middle of the pack" team over a full season. Notice how we are starting to resemble his former ATL Hawks. Not horrible but not really great either... just good enough to compete. His strong talk at the beginning of the season has fallen off and it seems the players have tuned him out to a degree. I don't understand his love for Melo at the PF spot for this long. The guy made his name in this league playing SF, so I don't get it. Novak SHOULD NOT be a rotation player but yet he his and his defense has got to be the worst in the league. Way too many jumpshots and I'm starting to think Felton isn't happy with the way the offense is run. Woodson allows everyone to bring the ball up court and do whatever. IMO this takes Felton out the game and we need him to be locked in. We have the lowest points/assist ratio in the league!! No ball movement and a coach who isn't adjusting during the game.
I had a really bad feeling last night when I saw the look on Woodson's face as the team was getting anal raped. He is now a clueless coach and when he gets back to the Garden it will be fire and brimstone if he doesn't get these guys back on track. This is NYC... we don't care nothing about your feeling bro.


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hi sat. i was in a slow bike control class where we used clutch gas and brake at the same time i had smoke and burning smell.i have 2003 r1150rs w/93k.is the clutch shot?anyone know how much dealer charges for replacemnt?thanks for any input! brian
hi sat. i was in a slow bike control class where we used clutch gas and brake at the same time i had smoke and burning smell.i have 2003 r1150rs w/93k.is the clutch shot?anyone know how much dealer charges for replacemnt?thanks for any input! brian
Yikes, these Beemer dry clutches REALLY don't handle that type of abuse well. If you were smelling it it was abuse. At the dealer, clutch replacement could easily be north of $2,000. Parts for a DYI, done right is around $500-700. Far from a beginner job, but easily doable if you're mechanically inclined.
Hopefully you still have some life left in it. Mine's >110k mi. and at last measurement (pull the starter) it still had 40% of the usable friction material remaining. If it still acts normal, keep riding until it slips in the higher gears with a roll-on at the torque peak. If you're curious, pull the starter to have a look. Wear limit is 4.5mm IIRC
thanks for info.
BTDT Similar course last year.
The instructors gave everyone a heads up prior to starting regarding this issue
The trick is to keep the revs lower than you would with a wet clutch and don't do for an extended period of time.
I also took a few breaks and went on cooldown runs.
You are most probably fine, all the dry clutch participants in my course were.
Ufda happens..........
Need your R11xx Hall sensor rewired? PM me.
ok ill keep my fingers crossed thanks for replying
did you ride the bike home? did the clutch operate as it normally would (in spite of any funky smells)?
if both answers are "yes", you're fine... until those 2 answers change to "no'.
most likely you ate up some clutch life, but did not kill it.
Ride Safe, Ride Lots
+1 on that. Don't mess with it unless it starts to slip, in 5th or 6th gear, steady loading like going up a hill. If it doesn't slip then you're good. You may have decreased the life of the clutch some, but no good way to tell that right now.
I have used my 94 RS for many ERC classes I have taught, and ridden it in the Wisconsin UBBC (Ultimate Bike Bonding Course, cop course for civilians) and my clutch did just fine. All depends on minimal slippage. Throttle up and steady, use the back brake to control speed and smoothness, balance.
Get trained! The best "performance" upgrade you can get is YOU. Visit msf-usa.org for training info.
no slippage just the funky smell.so ill go with everything ok then!appreciate feedback!
This is from the BMW Brochure for the 2013 R1200 RT-P
The primary difference between the two designs is that the dry clutch operates at the end of the engine crankshaft before the primary gear reduction. The wet clutch design operates after the primary gear reduction. Meaning, that for a given RPM on a dry clutch design, the same RPM on a wet clutch design will be turning that wet clutch surface approximately half as fast (feet-per-second at the plate surface). Conversely, if you have been trained to ride a wet clutch motor, you will need to greatly reduce the RPM on the dry clutch motor to keep from over-heating it. How long would any wet clutch last if you grey-area slipped that clutch at 5,000 rpm?
"The two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why" -- Mark Twain
I believe it's meant for those motor officers coming off a Harley who are used to the wet clutch. Further in the brochure BMW says they will warranty the clutch for 12 months.
"The two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why" -- Mark Twain


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Clarkson University Professor Tom Langen to Lead Panama Workshop on Mitigating Environmental Problems from Development
Clarkson University Biology Professor Tom A. Langen understands the value of knowledge gained from success, as well as from missteps, and he'll travel to Panama City, Panama, later this month to share his insights at a two-day workshop and symposium focused on mitigating environmental problems that arise from development.
Langen, who teaches biology and psychology, is no stranger to Latin America. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Costa Rica, working as a visiting professor in the Conservation and Wildlife Management Program at the country's National University.
"Demand for this type of workshop is growing. We expect to see about 75 participants," he says.
The 16th Conference of the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation, set for September 21 and 22, will focus on environmental challenges such as roads, dams, canals, wind turbines, and power lines. For developing countries, this presents an opportunity to learn from what has gone right and not so right in other nations.
"It's meant to be practical information and training. Scientists, grad students, government ministers and environmental watchdogs will attend," he says. "Lots of new roads are being built in Latin America. They're seeing very rapid changes regarding canals, roads, wind turbines, water development, etc. We'll talk about environmental impacts but the emphasis is on solutions and ways to manage the impact."
There's a great opportunity for humans, development, and nature to coexist just by changing routine, he indicates. For example, there's a highway in Costa Rica that goes through a national park. The builders let trees grow beside the road, forming a green canopy over the road where monkeys, birds and insects can travel. In other spots, a short tunnel under a road offers safe passage for puma, ocelots, deer, wild pigs and more.
Langen will be joined by colleagues from Canada, Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico. They have experience working with roads in national parks, on wind farms and canals, and on oil development projects.
"We've put on similar workshops together before," he adds. "This is our fifth one. We did previous ones in Mexico and Costa Rica."
After the symposium, Langen will head to Saranac Lake to teach in Clarkson's new Adirondack Semester. After Christmas, he'll head farther south – to Costa Rica with a class of Clarkson business students.
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Newsday: Greg Logan had the Islanders Insider which was his own state of the team from owner to prospects by position with lot's of speculation on trades and how the players have performed along with what could be ahead this summer with the draft if the standings hold and the Islanders select in one of the top two spots if they finish 30th.
Head coach Scott Gordon was the only quote in the last paragraph.
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Straight-forward and a solid review of the players in detail but aside from talking about every number possible Mr Logan did not bring up man games lost to injury which is the biggest number to define this season.
That should not have been left out.
What stood out beyond that was his speculation on whether Bailey would have been better off in juniors given his one goal in thirty odd games and that he introduced Columbus Marc Methot into the mix for a possible trade.
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Marc Methot, as far as I can tell, is a 3rd pairing d-man. Is that the best we can do for Doug Weight? If so, then lets keep him. We need at least a top 4 d-man to go with Streit. This proposed trade is unacceptable.ReplyDelete
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Morrow solid except for one stretch in fifth inning
By Adam Berry / MLB.com
DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Blue Jays right-hander Brandon Morrow said he felt good about his 5 1/3-inning start Saturday afternoon, even if he would have liked to pitch a full six innings and even if his statistical line didn't look all that great.
Morrow gave up five runs on eight hits and a walk while striking out two in Toronto's 10-5 loss against Atlanta at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium. He had been cruising until he recorded the second out of the fifth inning, having retired nine straight batters. Then the Braves put six straight runners on base and scored four runs.
"It looked like he ran out of gas a little bit. Early on, he was sticking it pretty good," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "Maybe he did run out, get a little bit tired. It was a little humid. Overall, good."
Indeed, Morrow said, the Florida heat and humidity got to him a little bit, especially given how cool it's been most of the spring, but he also said the Braves simply "singled me to death" when they compiled four straight two-out base hits in the fifth inning. If anything, he said, maybe that was good preparation should he run into long innings during the regular season.
"There's going to be innings like that during the year. You're going to have to bear down and, if you're getting tired, trick your body into getting through it," Morrow said. "Mind over matter kind of thing, sure."
Morrow has given up 13 earned runs on 21 hits and four walks with eight strikeouts in 15 innings this spring, but he said he's been happy with his work overall. His next start will be his last of the spring, and he'd like to keep his pitch count around 85 so that he can throw 100 in his regular-season debut.
Other than that, Morrow would like to pitch more or less the way he did Saturday. But it would help if the weather cooperated.
"Mother Nature flipped the switch on us, went from winter to summer in 48 hours," Morrow said. "My legs were getting a little tired."
Janssen wants to be 100 percent for Opening Day
DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said Saturday that Casey Janssen should be ready to break camp with the Blue Jays and be their closer on Opening Day. But Janssen wasn't quite as certain.
Asked if Janssen will head north with the club next week, Gibbons responded, "I don't see why not, if there's no setbacks."
Janssen, who had minor shoulder surgery in November, said several times he is still "working toward" being ready for the Blue Jays' season opener on April 2. But he stopped short of saying he had doubts about his Opening Day availability.
"Not doubt. I don't want to give false hope," he said. "I'm probably more a little on the conservative side. I want to."
He admitted he was sore a day after his perfect Grapefruit League debut -- the kind of normal soreness most pitchers feel when they ramp up their pitch count and velocity in Spring Training, but not something he'd experience the day after an 11-pitch outing in the middle of the season.
"I think [being able to pitch on Opening Day is] everybody's hope. At the same time, like I said earlier, I want to be good," Janssen said. "I want to be in on all my pitches. I want to be able to throw a backdoor curveball whenever I need to, so if it's the first outing and there's a runner on second and I need to hit on that pitch and I'm still trying to figure it out, it would potentially cost us a loss or something like that. I think it's only fair to them, and I've got to be honest with myself."
Janssen is scheduled to pitch again Monday, but he was unsure when his next appearance after that will be. He said he felt good Friday and appreciated Gibbons' vote of confidence in him, but he doesn't want to come back unless he's 100 percent healthy and capable of throwing all his pitches at any time.
If Janssen isn't ready, Toronto will turn to Sergio Santos as its closer to begin the season. Santos, who had season-ending surgery last July, hasn't flashed excellent command this spring, but he's throwing hard and, more importantly, seems to be completely healthy.
"Sergio's throwing the ball really well, and he's done it before," Janssen said. "I think we've got all the confidence in the world in him. If it doesn't work out April 2, then I don't think we'll miss a beat."
It's less clear where Santos will work when Janssen assumes the ninth-inning role. Gibbons said he could "mix it up" with any number of relievers in the eighth inning, and he wouldn't hesitate to use Santos in a higher-leverage situation earlier in the game.
"The thing we've been watching is how healthy he is, and that's behind us. Now it's just bringing it all together with his command and stuff like that," Gibbons said. "But yeah, I've got no problem bringing him in in the middle of the game going into the season."
Lawrie working his way back from strained rib cage
DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Blue Jays manager John Gibbons was hopeful Saturday that first baseman Edwin Encarnacion -- day to day with a jammed index finger -- will be back in the lineup Monday, when Toronto will begin using as much of its regular lineup as possible on an everyday basis.
He was not quite as optimistic about third baseman Brett Lawrie's return from a strained muscle in his rib cage.
Gibbons said Lawrie, who hasn't played since March 2, felt good after hitting off a tee and taking ground balls Friday. Lawrie is still working through the program the club set up for him, but Gibbons noted that the third baseman needs to be in a game by the beginning of next week to be ready come Opening Day.
Since there is some degree of uncertainty, it would be reasonable to have Lawrie play in Minor League games the rest of the spring so the Blue Jays can backdate his disabled-list stint to March 22, making Lawrie eligible to return April 6. Gibbons mentioned the idea Saturday morning but said he hasn't heard from general manager Alex Anthopoulos about it.
"I don't know what Alex wants to do with that," Gibbons said. "He didn't really talk to us about that, how he wants to approach that."
Right-hander Dustin McGowan, working his way back from another operation on his right shoulder, faced five batters in a Minor League game Saturday morning.
Worth noting
• Lefty Aaron Loup continued his excellent spring Saturday, allowing just one hit while striking out a batter in a scoreless seventh inning to lower his Grapefruit League ERA to 1.13. Loup has allowed just one run on six hits while recording eight strikeouts in eight appearances. Gibbons said he has been impressed by Loup this spring.
"These guys all talked about him coming in. They said this guy can really, really pitch. He's steady. You can't rattle this kid," Gibbons said. "Everything they said has come true. I've seen the exact same thing."
• The Blue Jays won't send many of their starters to Fort Myers, Fla., to face the Twins on Sunday. Outfielders Rajai Davis, Anthony Gose and Colby Rasmus are expected to make the trip, as is catcher Josh Thole. Most of the other Major Leaguers will get the day off, but not left-hander Mark Buehrle, who will pitch in a Minor League game at Toronto's Minor League complex.
Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.