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Mopah Point Climber's Log
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|2nd Ascent
Date Climbed: Jan 8, 2017
|This time solo. Perfect weather. The fixed rope on the crux has been removed. The slings up there are in poor shape. Also, at least one trip report mentions a decaying sling on a "detachable" rock above the first class 3+ climb. On my descent, I tried to move it, and it's really solid, despite appearances. The sling not so much, but I think the rock it's on is good otherwise. I'm not sure a rappel there is really necessary, however.
|Posted Jan 9, 2017 5:56 pm
|First Mophah, then Umpah
Date Climbed: Jan 18, 2014
|A small group from LVMC. Up the usual way to Mopah, then up the east face of Umpah.
|Posted Jan 21, 2014 12:02 pm
|East Face
Date Climbed: Jan 20, 2013
|Fun route up the east face. Part of our group climbed Umpah Point afterwards.
|Posted Jan 22, 2013 4:28 pm
|East Face
Date Climbed: Jan 15, 2011
|Jack Kieffer and I led a Sierra Club DPS group of 11 participants up this and Umpah.
Fun 3rd class with a bit of exposure here and there. Beautiful day. Pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewhengst/sets/72157625721289549/
|Posted Feb 2, 2011 5:53 pm
|Michael Graupe
|East Face
Date Climbed: Dec 28, 2010
|Very enjoyable scramble. The Turtle Mountains are amazing!
|Posted Jan 4, 2011 6:33 pm
Date Climbed: Jan 8, 2004
|Posted Feb 8, 2008 8:32 am
|Dave Daly
Date Climbed: Feb 4, 2006
|This was a VERY enjoyable hike with some fun desert scrambling (3rd and 4th class) to a lofty summit. There is a summit entry that records an ascent that tackled the North Buttress, which involved 2 pitches of 4th, one pitch of 5th, and the remaining section to the summit was 3rd class (the actual start was not detailed enough in the description). Fun desert outing.
|Posted Feb 20, 2007 6:44 pm
|Another Easy Day
Date Climbed: Feb 18, 2007
|After tagging Umpah the previous day, Mopah was a real treat with more Class 3 and 4 fun; no difficult sections encountered although many detachable holds no longer exist. Curious as to who tied a rap sling on a large ROCK; whoever uses it may also be using a hearse soon after. Great time in the desert!
|Posted Feb 20, 2007 5:18 pm
Date Climbed: Mar 30, 2006
|Lots of crumbly flow-banded rhyolite rock near tight notch -- if you try anything different (i.e. not cleaned by previous climbers), watch out; entire sheets of rock may exfoliate.
Climbed with BW, NN, Dr Ed, and the Siberian. Took us perhaps 2 hrs plus change to do this peak, on peak top by ~8:30AM. It was just a mild day (mid 70's), but the sun was bright, and it felt warm and dry as there is virtually no shade. By the time we were down Umpah and out the southern wash (for variety), we were all a little thirsty. In other words, if you climb this in warmer weather, watch out.
link: Mopah/Umpah/OldWoman
|Posted Apr 2, 2006 9:06 am
|Route Climbed: East Face
Date Climbed: Mar 30, 2006
|Fun climb. One of the best of the desert peaks.
|Posted Apr 1, 2006 3:52 am
|Route Climbed: East Face Date Climbed: December 31, 2005
|What a good looking little mountain. The east face route was surprisingly enjoyable and aesthetic.
Very short. Car-to-car'd Mopah and Umpah in around 6h20m.
Good time.
|Posted Jan 3, 2006 12:06 pm
|Bob Burd
|Route Climbed: East Face Date Climbed: Dec 11, 2005
|With Matthew, below. Hats off to whoever found this interesting route. Trip Report
|Posted Dec 23, 2005 11:47 pm
|Route Climbed: E Face
|Another wonderful desert experiance.
|Posted Oct 16, 2005 1:48 pm
|Mike Zimmerman
|Route Climbed: East Face Route Date Climbed: February 2, 2002
|The view was great of Umpah Point to the south, Castle Rock, the other Turtle Mountains, to the east the Colorado River and out into Arizona. Weather was clear, no wind and temperature in the upper 60's. We, Matt Haynes, John Paterson and I, climbed the East Face Route of Mopah which was a California Mountaineering Club trip.
|Posted Apr 9, 2005 11:22 am


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text: Johannesburg - Gordon Igesund's position as coach of the national team has not been threatened by Bafana Bafana's elimination in the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), according to the SA Football Association (SAFA). South Africa were knocked out in a dramatic penalty shootout defeat against Mali in Durban on Saturday night. "Yes, we did set the objective for the coach of taking the team to the semi-final stage, but you have to aim high," SAFA president Kirsten Nematandani said on Monday. "More important was the manner in which Bafana performed in the AFCON, improving to a level that exceeded our expectations since Gordon took over as coach six months ago. "And if this level of performance is maintained, there is no reason why Igesund should not be entrenched as the Bafana coach for the 2018 World Cup." Nematandani said Bafana held their own against one of the top sides on the continent as they had played with a great deal of "skill, honour and determination" in their quarterfinal clash on Saturday. He said what Igesund had achieved thus far was worthy of a great deal of praise. "I believe Igesund remains the best man in the country for the position of Bafana coach," Nematandani said. "We can only hope this continues as Gordon assumes the next critical challenge of taking Bafana to the 2014 Soccer World Cup in Brazil." Nematandani said South Africa had already made the ongoing AFCON tournament a resounding success, but joined Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula in calling on the public to support the competition until the final on Sunday, in spite of the host team's elimination. "We must demonstrate our stature as true sportsmen, and support the semi-finals and final to the hilt no matter which teams make it to the finale," he said. "Ultimately we could be judged by this very factor."


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State Sen. Joe Simitian spoke to an adoring Palo Alto City Council Tuesday about the plan that he, Rep. Anna Eshoo and Assemblyman Rich Gordon presented earlier in the week. Their proposal acknowledged that financially, the state simply cannot afford to add two more rail lines to the corridor, when the existing two tracks and occasional "passing" tracks could suffice, much as Baby Bullet trains share the rails with local trains today. Such a "blended" system could allow high-speed rail trains to arrive in San Jose for a brief stop before continuing on to San Francisco with its full load of passengers, who would not have to change trains.
City Council member Nancy Shepherd told Simitian that the announcement "struck a good note" and gives her the feeling that the city is finally getting heard. Larry Klein, who chairs the council's Rail Committee, said the plan is "constructive" and he congratulated Simitian for putting the plan together.
Klein's support was significant since he led the council in adopting a "no confidence" stand on the rail project in its present form.
If such a plan is adopted by the rail authority it would be a tremendous boost for Caltrain, which would finally be able to electrify its engines and complete at least some of the grade separations necessary to run truly high-speed trains. And the neighboring cities of Menlo Park and Atherton, as well as Palo Alto, would be able to breathe easier, without fear that property owners along the corridor would lose portions of their back yards to eminent-domain takings by the rail authority.
Combining use of the Caltrain tracks would eliminate a host of other negative impacts that would come with building an additional two-track high-speed rail line between San Jose and San Francisco, including years of major upheaval caused by construction of the lines in the cities along the route.
Speaking for himself, Eshoo and Gordon at his initial presentation, Simitian called the plan a "first step in a new conversation" that intends to create "high-speed rail done right." He noted a series of critical audits of the rail project by various state agencies and the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, which found a series of flaws in the rail authority's business plan, ridership analysis and revenue projections.
"Frankly, a great many of our constituents are convinced that the High-Speed Rail Authority has already wandered so far afield that it is too late for a successful course correction."
"If high-speed rail isn't done right" it simply won't get done at all, he said.
Another key change recommended by the three legislators was for the rail authority to run Peninsula trains at grade and forget about elevated structures such as aerial viaducts. And they endorsed the plan for the new rail system to run through the existing Caltrain corridor.
"Given the current financial straits at the federal and state level, amassing the funds to build this across California will take time," Gordon said. "In the interim, there will be funds spent on high-speed rail and I believe it's imperative for the High-Speed Rail Authority to guarantee that whatever funds are spent are spent in a way that enhances and upgrades our existing intercity and regionalized transportation system in California."
We expect there will be much more discussion of this alternative plan in Palo Alto and other Peninsula communities. But it is hard to dispute the issues raised by the legislators, which many local residents have been speaking about since shortly after Measure 1A passed in 2008. Rather than listening to the public, the rail authority board often has disputed the comments, which has not made them many friends on the Peninsula. Eshoo acknowledged as much:
"I really believe they have squandered a great deal of goodwill on the Peninsula by not honoring our communities," she said. "Each community is unique, each community has its own history, each community has its own traditions and they're proud of it and they're entitled to this source of pride."
This proposal is an opportunity for the rail authority to acknowledge local concerns about their plan to build — at great expense — an unnecessary second set of tracks between San Francisco and San Jose. There may be many hurdles to overcome, but this is only the beginning of what should become a much longer and productive discussion. Regardless, for Palo Alto, it is the first positive news about high-speed rail in many months.
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Bentley will race the 600bhp Bentayga at Pikes Peak
Wait, what? Bentley confirms its first official entry in the 'race to the clouds'
SRT Viper again – haven't we already heard all about that?
Yes, but not this one. This one is called
the TA, which stands for Time Attack. The name is derived from the fact that a
good chunk of Viper owners buy their cars to use almost exclusively on the
growing number of private and public racetracks – over 150 at the last count –
across the US. Twenty five per cent of all Viper owners admit to taking their
cars to a circuit. 100 per cent, we suspect, said they enjoyed every minute of
So what have they done to the car to make it a TA?
Lots of swapping of key componentry. The standard SRT and GTS are already pretty handy around a track, but the TA is designed to take everything to the next level. Most areas, other than the fifth-gen 8.4-litre engine, which remains untouched because it really doesn't need any more power, have been reworked in some subtle way.
Such as?
Such as the engine cross brace is now carbon fibre instead of aluminium, the front and rear sway bars are now solid instead of hollow, making them over 30 per cent stiffer than standard, and the negative camber of the front and rear has been increased to improve track tyre wear. The brakes have been upgraded to lighter two-piece Brembo rotors and calipers that have a bigger bite.
The TA uses the same two-mode Bilstein suspension system fitted to the GTS, but there is less of a difference between the road and track settings as befits the mission of this model. Wheels on the TA are Sidewinder IIs, which are 31lb lighter than the standard wheels, shod with Pirelli P Zero Corsa tyres. These have the biggest contact patch of any production car made today.
The final touch, which is pretty much the only one you could guess from looking at the models side to side, is the aero. By adding a relatively modest – for a Viper – carbon fibre front splitter and rear bootlid spoiler, downforce at 150mph has increased by almost 700 per cent to 278lb. Downforce at the TA's max speed, which at 193mph is 13mph lower than the SRT and GTS thanks to all that extra drag, is 460lb compared with the standard car's 75lb.
But what about the weight, it's got to be lighter, right?
Wrong. Other than the aero, the other area where the TA exerts more pressure is the weighing scales. Largely because of those solid sway bars, it weighs 12lb more than the SRT model.
How can I spot if a Viper is a TA?
To make sure no one is in any doubt which Viper you are driving, it is available in only one of three colours: 93 will be painted in TA Orange, 33 in Venom Black and 33 in Bright White.
I think I can guess what it's like, but I've got to ask…
It's better than you could imagine. We drove it around a tight autocross course and then the wide-open curves of Willow Springs Raceway. On the first track, despite its size, it immediately felt tighter, crisper and more precise than the last Viper we drove. There has been a raft of general quality improvements and detail refinements to all Vipers for the '14 model year that shine through. But it was the turn in and neutrality of the thing that impressed there.
On the big track, it felt instantly less threatening, more manageable and just more fun than ever before. You have a greater sense what all four tyres are up to at all times, so you can add and subtract mountains of speed much more easily. I want to say it felt more benign, but that sounds ridiculous in a 640bhp child-eating monster like this, so I won't. It's still not an easy car to drive fast, but if you want that you are looking in the wrong place. Some people make you want to be a better person. The Viper makes you want to be a better driver.
Should I buy one?
For us, this is the quintessential Viper. The full-fat, no excuses, hair-on-fire car that the Viper is, was and always should be. You could buy one of the other versions and would probably be very happy with it. But it's the TA that's the bullseye for us.
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Madeleine police 'reach dig site'
British police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal have reportedly arrived at a potential excavation site near where the youngster vanished seven years ago.
The large area of scrubland in Praia da Luz on the Algarve, where three-year-old Madeleine disappeared in May 2007, has been cordoned off and local police officers with dogs have been stationed at the site.
Police are expected to use ground-penetrating radar equipment to search the area, looking for disturbed earth, according to reports.
Scotland Yard, which is carrying out its own investigation into what happened to Madeleine, refused to comment on reports that British officers were at the scene and said the force was "not prepared to give a running commentary" about the case.
The apparent development came two weeks after Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said officers are working through every credible line of inquiry in the search for the missing girl.
He said: "In the forthcoming weeks we are going to be going to a substantial phase of operational activity on the ground in Portugal.
"It's something that you would expect in any major inquiry.
"A thorough serious crime investigation works systematically through all the credible possibilities, and often in an investigation you will have more than one credible possibility.
"Therefore, just because we're doing a substantial phase of work in the forthcoming week doesn't mean that it's going to immediately lead to answers that will explain everything."
The Portuguese have also reopened their inquiry into Madeleine's disappearance and, while they are working with the UK force, they have refused to set up an official joint investigation.
The area cordoned off today has been searched before.
One line of inquiry for Scotland Yard is a lone male paedophile who staged a series of sex attacks on young British girls while they were on holiday in the Algarve.
They are looking at nine sexual assaults and three "near misses" on British girls aged six to 12 between 2004 and 2006, including one in 2005 on a 10-year-old girl in Praia da Luz, where Madeleine vanished two years later.
Hundreds of people have already made contact with police in response to appeals for help to find the attacker.


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"Enjoying a pre-Valentine's Day outing, Robert Pattinson was spotted leaving the Groucho Club in London after a late night out on the town.Poor Robert! See the rest of the pics at Gossip Girls.
According to on-the-scene sources, the "Twilight" stud made his way to a cab around 3AM, and while some people didn't know who he was, others ran up to have their pictures taken with the rising British actor as he made his escape."
February 14, 2009
Robert Pattinson Grouchy at Groucho's Last Night
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Not true! He had been at The Albany to watch his friend Bobby Long perform. Friends say he really had a great time listening to Bobby. He was really sweet with fans who were in the audience allowing them to take pictures. C'mon get the facts before posting.ReplyDelete
Is it just me or is this photo altered? it looks like he has 6 fingers...ReplyDelete
it's just the angle his hand is in you are seeing the inbetween his fingers which makes it look like he has 6 fingers.ReplyDelete
you would be peeved too if after a good time the paps would not leave you alone and you couldn't even sneeze in peace.
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WASHINGTON — I can spot U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton from 50 paces, judging solely by the length of his stride.
I'm able to pick Sen. Mark Udall's voice out of a din, and I can quote some of Sen. Michael Bennet's favorite one-liners by heart.
No, I'm not a stalker. Yes, I need a hobby.
Hopefully by now, you've read at least one of my dispatches from the nation's capital over the last five months and know that I'm the Herald's politics intern in Washington, D.C.
So it's actually my job to know these things. And believe me, it comes in handy.
When I first applied for this internship, I was a Jersey girl with almost no experience covering politics and no real knowledge of Colorado. I was approaching my senior year at American University in D.C. and didn't want to graduate without ever setting foot in the Capitol, so I figured the Herald would be a good fit.
Now, a few months later, I'm a college graduate and a real politics wonk. And maybe, just maybe, an honorary Coloradan.
I've covered events that most people only dream of: an inauguration, a State of the Union address, the White House Easter Egg Roll, the White House Science Fair and Prince Harry's visit to Capitol Hill.
But it's the Centennial State angles of these stories and others that stick out the most in my memory:
Cowboy hats sticking out above a sea of heads at a Colorado meet-up in a D.C. bar before the inauguration.
Banging on Bennet's office doors late at night with another Colorado reporter after the State of the Union until the senator opened up to give us a reaction quote.
Interviewing Mancos student Easton LaChappelle at the science fair after he'd shaken hands with the president.
Panicking when Udall boarded a senators-only elevator as I was trying to get a quote from him about the 2014 elections. Breathing an almost-sigh-of-relief when he yelled "but I want to talk to you!" over the other senators' heads as the doors closed.
But my job entailed more than that. I spent most of my days wandering the Capitol complex and, more often than not, getting lost in some back hallway on my way to a hearing.
I reported on many issues that directly related to Colorado and the West: wildfires, drought, hydropower, national forests and energy.
I faced a learning curve that often felt as steep as the San Juan Mountains with most of these topics — I distinctly remember asking one press secretary to define exactly what a "conduit" is for a hydropower story, and probably drove another crazy when it took weeks for me to grasp that "wilderness" is basically a legal term — but now I can talk forest management and all-of-the-above energy strategies with the best of 'em.
But the fact that I had the opportunity to report on these topics at all is a testament to the Herald and the Journal and their readers.
Most newspapers don't have a Washington correspondent — and it's likely that if they did, they wouldn't trust some of the biggest stories in the country to an intern.
But these papers do — largely because readers want those stories in their hometown newspaper.
Thank you.
Your interest and appetite for national politics has not only given me a front-row seat to history, but also showed me how truly fascinating — and upon occasion, frightening — it can be to cover government.
As I leave Ballantine Communications and pass the baton on to future interns, I will take with me four notebooks full of Colorado facts and figures. From the Gunnison sage-grouse to failed federal gun control legislation, I've amassed a wealth of knowledge about the Centennial State that, I hope, means I can now call myself an honorary Coloradan.
And it's all thanks to your desire to read about how federal politicians, practices and policies relate to Durango.
In Washington, one of the biggest catchphrases is "all politics is local."
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Stefanie Dazio was the Durango Herald's Washington intern during the spring semester. She graduated this month from American University.


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Arsenal end trophy drought with FA Cup win
Arsenal ended its nine-year trophy drought on Saturday, coming from two goals...
Rain delayed the start of Saturday's semifinals at the $2.23 million Barcelona Open tennis event.
When play finally got underway, second-seeded Spaniard Rafael Nadal and countryman Nicolas Almagro both made quick work of their opponents.
Nadal, a seven-time Barcelona champion, topped fifth-seeded Canadian Milos Raonic 6-4, 6-0 to extend his winning streak at this tournament to 38 matches.
The French Open king Nadal reached his sixth final in as many ATP events this season. He lost to Novak Djokovic in last week's championships match at the Monte Carlo Masters, but captured his 53rd career title at Indian Wells in March.
Meanwhile, the fourth-seeded Almagro dropped one fewer game in his 6-2, 6-1 dismantling of eighth-seeded German Philipp Kohlschreiber.
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Lenox police train to learn how to use Tasers
LENOX -- First came the sizzling, rapid-clicking sounds accompanied by intimidating, arcing electrical sparks. Then, a police officer yelled "Taser, Taser!"
Down for the count went Officer John Willey, groaning, but quickly recovering from the impact of the shock to his system.
Willey was the first of three volunteers who played roles as "victims" during a four-hour Taser training session held over the weekend for the Lenox department.
Manufactured by Taser International, the electroshock unit causes neuromuscular incapacitation by disrupting a person's voluntary control of their muscles through a nonlethal jolt of electrical current, according to the company and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
"I'm the most junior man in the department and felt obligated to do it," Willey explained moments after arising from the floor of the Town Hall auditorium, where the session was conducted. "It was incapacitating, very painful over my whole body. My muscles are tight right now."
He said he had no regrets about volunteering: "I'd do it again." On his regular shift Monday after working two weekend tours, Willey said he felt no lingering effects other than some muscle soreness. Part-time Lenox officers Eric Kirby and Thomas Scherben also were "Tased" during the session.
Funded by a $5,000 anonymous donation to cover the cost of three Taser units, cartridges and training materials, the Lenox force has joined a half-dozen other Berkshire County departments authorized by the state's Executive Office of Public Safety to use electronic control devices (ECDs).
The Tasers, deemed less dangerous than pepper spray, are designed for rare, last-resort uses in extreme situations against suspects who become aggressive, ignore repeated verbal and visual warnings, and refuse police orders to surrender.
The devices deliver a targeted shock to the nervous system in order to briefly disable individuals. Recovery is swift, within minutes, but use of the units against "susceptible" individuals is avoided -- youths under 17, adults over 70, pregnant women or people in obvious ill health.
The training session on Saturday morning was led by Lee Police Sgt. Jeffrey Roosa, a Taser instructor certified by the Municipal Police Training Commission, and was attended by eight full-time members of the 10-man Lenox police force, including Chief Stephen O'Brien, as well as several part-time officers and emergency first-responders from the Lenox Fire Department. Roosa has trained Lee police officers as well as several officers in other communities.
"Hopefully, we're just adding another tool to our arsenal to keep police officers and combatant individuals safe," O'Brien said. "We're not trying to hurt anybody with this, we're trying to do this in the safest, most non-injurious manner possible."
"It's on the same level as a baton," said Roosa, "but much less intrusive. A lot of times, just the threat of a Taser will accomplish the goal without having to deploy it."
The Lee department, which has had the Taser units for 21 2 years, has not deployed them but has displayed them on occasion as a deterrent, he said.
"It's going to greatly reduce officers' injuries because they won't have to go hands-on with people," Roosa said. "It's not a 'magic bullet' by any means. But when used correctly, it's going to greatly assist us in getting people into custody. Just having it is a big deterrent."
Inevitably, injuries to suspects are reduced as well, according to O'Brien. He said that the department has prepared policy guidelines for Taser use and also revised its use-of-force policies, which detail how the police can deploy the units to subdue combative individuals actively resisting arrest or an officer's commands.
Each on-duty patrol shift, normally two officers, will be assigned to carry the units, with the third held in reserve as needed.
O'Brien, in his 19th year with the Lenox department and his ninth year as chief, said he could recall several incidents that would have called for use of a Taser, including a suspect who "put his head through the windshield of a cruiser and wanted to fight, so you've almost immediately reached a stage when a Taser would be appropriate."
"But what we're focusing on is a deterrent by displaying the Taser itself," O'Brien said. "I really want the officers to concentrate on the stages of warnings" before the electrical current would be aimed at a suspect, carefully targeted to avoid frontal attacks and vital areas.
The device would not be aimed at a citizen in a stairwell or other location where an injury could occur.
"We have to deploy this in a place where it's safe for the suspect as well as the police officer," said O'Brien. "The whole object is to avoid injury to anyone and to defuse a confrontation."
To contact Clarence Fanto:
or (413) 637-2551.
On Twitter: @BE_cfanto
Taser guidelines. . .
Here are several highlights from the seven-page policy manual governing the use of electronic control devices (ECDs) by the Lenox Police Department:
-- ECDs will be made available as a less-lethal use of force option, and may be used only by authorized and trained personnel.
-- The device will be carried in an approved holster in a cross-draw configuration on the side of the body opposite the service handgun. It will be carried fully armed with the safety on in preparation for immediate use when authorized.
-- In drive stun mode, the device is a pain compliance tool rather than an electro-muscular disruptor. It may be deployed as a pain compliance technique in response to an active resistant person. When fully deployed, discharged cartridges become an electro-muscular disruptor.
-- Firing the device-cartridge to deploy electrodes is a defensive tactic. It may be used in response to an assaultive person
-- Intentionally firing the device at the head or the neck is a deadly force countermeasure in response to a lethal threat. ECDs are not a substitute for lethal force. Officers are not expected to respond to a lethal force threat with a less lethal force option such as an LCD.
-- Deployment is prohibited in a punitive or coercive manner or on a handcuffed or secured prisoner absent overtly assaultive behavior that cannot be dealt with in any other less intrusive fashion.
Source: Lenox Police Department
Taser deployments
The following Berkshire County police departments are approved by the state to deploy electronic control devices under specifically-defined circumstances:
Adams, Dalton, Lee , Lenox,
North Adams, Pittsfield,
Source: Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety.
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DoJ May Foil Apple, Publishers' E-Book Pricing Plot
Mar 8, 2012 12:46 PM PT
The United States Justice Department is reportedly investigating Apple and five of the largest U.S. publishers, accusing the companies of colluding to control the price of electronic books. The five publishing companies facing DoJ action include Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group; Penguin Group (USA); Macmillan; and HarperCollins.
Several of the parties have held talks to settle the antitrust case and avoid a potentially damaging court battle, The Wall Street Journal reported.
"This is an ongoing matter, and we can't comment further," Deputy Director Gina Tallmona, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice, told MacNewsWorld.
However, Tallmona pointed to testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's competition subcommittee last December, which first revealed the investigation. The testimony was given by Sharis Pozen, acting assistant attorney general in charge of the DoJ's antitrust division.
Pozen and Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, told lawmakers then that their agencies were looking into the tech industry for possible antitrust violations.
Apple's Bite Into Publishing
Apple's arrangement with the publishers was devised by the late Steve Jobs, then its chief executive, in advance of the release of the iPad. Jobs suggested moving to an "agency model" that would allow the publishers to set the price of a book, whereby Apple would take a 30 percent cut. Apple further stipulated that publishers could not let rivals, including Amazon, sell the same e-book at a lower price.
Publishers have maintained that Amazon, which had sold many bestsellers at deeply discounted prices to encourage consumers to buy its Kindle e-book reader, was making it hard for other book retailers to compete.
"This is really what this has been about -- getting people hooked on your hardware even if you don't make the money selling the content," Bruce Abramson, J.D., Ph.D., president of Informationism, told MacNewsWorld. "By and large, Apple wanted to come with a distribution system that fed its revenues, and Amazon wanted to come up with a distribution system that fed its revenues."
Antitrust or Changing Market
The issue at present is not so much whether Apple, or even Amazon, dominates the market, but how the publishers dominate the market, and how they are collaborating to respond to the changing role of content, Abramson suggested.
"What we are seeing is a collection of incumbent players who want to keep their existing business models going in a rapidly changing technological environment," he noted. "The distribution channels are changing, and the content creators and publishers are scrambling to stay relevant."
The key that makes Apple a critical player is that it introduced a new type of contract, and Abramson noted this is different from the contract Amazon had with the Kindle, as well as different from what publishers had with traditional retailers. Each was looking for the best method to capture market share.
The changing market has been a boon to new authors, tech analyst Jeff Kagan told MacNewsWorld.
"The industry is transforming. It used to be an old-fashioned industry that worked the same way for a hundred years," he said. "Then the e-book came about and transformed the industry."
While there is the issue of the price-fixing, the lower prices have allowed new authors to find a voice in the market, said Kagan.
"The market is transforming itself, and while the publishers are looking at this from yesterday's methods and are looking backward, that will only work with existing big name authors," he added. "New authors and those breaking in could benefit from an evolving business model."
DoJ May Nix the Model
How the business model evolves depends on what the DoJ's investigation finds and whether it slams the book shut on some of the changes.
"There is enough there for the government to investigate," noted Abramson, "but unlike with most lawsuits, the government investigation doesn't have to be fully successful in finding what it wants -- but to get the companies instead to change the way they do business. [The DoJ officials] have to make it uncomfortable for the players involved to back down."
This is the investigative truism, he said. "I do think something will give. The way things happen is that the government pushes, and the companies will respond. Some companies look to fight to the wire, but if the wake -- in this case the deal with Apple -- creates more headaches than it solves, they'll abandon it."
Amazon declined to comment for this story, and Apple did not respond to our request for comment.


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Advocacy Program Helps Ease ER Visits at Kenmore Mercy
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May 2, 2012
Navigating through healthcare can quickly become a confusing and frustrating experience for the layperson, especially under the stress of a medical emergency. Kenmore Mercy Hospital, a member of Catholic Health, is working to change that and recently established a patient advocate program dedicated to facilitating a low stress visit to the Emergency Department.
Staffed by hospital volunteers, the program enhances communication and comfort. Volunteers serve as a patient-family advocate. They act as liaisons to communicate between the patients, their families or visitors and the healthcare providers. In addition, the volunteers provide comfort and compassionate listening while protecting patient confidentiality.
"These volunteers don't practice medicine," said Lynn Overbeck, CAVS, director of Volunteer Services. "Their role is to be advocates for our patients and their accompanying caregivers, to help relieve unnecessary anxiety, and see that patients' needs are taken care of adequately and promptly."
Kenmore Mercy is currently recruiting volunteers for the Emergency Department Patient Advocate program. Special training is provided, including learning about Emergency Department policies and procedures, as well as tips for communicating and interacting with people in stressful circumstances.
Hospital officials recently broke ground on a new Emergency Department that will nearly double the size of its existing ER and bring state-of-the-art emergency services to individuals, families and businesses throughout the region.
"The building of our new Emergency Department will help us to provide more efficient and effective emergency care services for our patients," said Overbeck. "But, the patient advocate program will help us to better care for them."
Become a Volunteer
Individuals interested in volunteering for Kenmore Mercy should contact Lynn Overbeck, CAVS, director of Volunteer Services at (716) 447-6188.


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Houston Dynamo goalkeeper Pat Onstad and defender Andrew Hainault were called up by the Canadian national team for its May 24 friendly against Argentina in Buenos Aires, the Canadian Soccer Association announced today. Onstad and Hainault will leave on Monday and are expected to miss the Dynamo's May 22 game against D.C. United.
The match for Canada against Argentina will be the first between the two countries and will be played in Estadio Monumental, home of famed club power River Plate.
Onstad, 42, has made 56 international appearances for Canada but has not played for the national team since August 2008. He was called into a Canadian camp earlier this year but missed the January 31 match against Jamaica due to back spasms. If he misses the D.C. United match, it will break a streak of 51 consecutive starts for the Dynamo in Major League Soccer play, dating back to September 7, 2008, which he also missed due to national team duty.
Hainault, 23, has made 16 appearances for Canada, including the match against Jamaica earlier this year. He is in his second year with the Dynamo after establishing himself as a starter in 2009.
The Dynamo, currently tied for second place in the Western Conference, will return to action on Saturday, May 22, hosting D.C. United at Robertson Stadium at 7 p.m. Their final home game before the league breaks for the FIFA World Cup will be held on Saturday, May 29, when Houston hosts the expansion Philadelphia Union. Special 4-packs featuring two free soccer balls are available at HoustonDynamo.com.


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Misplaced Nail
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Q. Two days after my farrier shod my mare, she became lame on a front hoof. I pulled the shoe and put a boot on her until he could return. However, when I pulled the shoe, I saw that he had put two nails in too high. She is painful and won't put any weight on it at all. How long will this go on?
Richard, via e-mail
A. Lameness and infection caused by a misplaced nail can have serious consequences if not treated appropriately.
It's not that the nail is driven too high, it's that the nail is placed too deep, where it invades the sensitive laminae. The nail damages the laminae, and seeds the area with bacteria. The nail itself acts as a foreign body leading to an infection. Upon removing the shoe, the suspected nail's entrance will be located inside the white zone on the bottom of the foot. A pain response is confirmed when hoof testers are used over the nail hole.
The next (and most important) step is to explore the tract where the nail entered using a thin, small loop knife and following it until drainage is established. The foot is then placed in an Animalintex poultice that is soaked in hot water. The poultice envelops the whole foot, including the coronary band, and it is attached using brown gauze, a cohesive bandage, and duct tape. This will soften the affected area and promote drainage. The poultice is changed every 24 hours.
When the horse shows no signs of lameness, and no further drainage is observed, a gauze pad saturated with 2% iodine is placed over the tract. The foot is bandaged for a few additional days to dry out the tract. When the tract is dry, the shoe can be carefully replaced making sure to avoid placing nails in the area that was treated. Whether to use antibiotics for hoof wall infections is determined by the attending veterinarian.
About the Author
Stephen E. O'Grady, DVM, MRCVS
Stephen E. O'Grady, DVM, MRCVS, was a professional farrier for 10 years prior to obtaining his degree in veterinary medicine. He learned farriery through a formal apprenticeship under Hall of Fame farrier Joseph M. Pierce of West Chester, Penn. After graduating from veterinary school, O'Grady did an internship in Capetown, South Africa. Then he joined Dan Flynn, VMD, at Georgetown Equine Hospital in Charlottesville, Va., as an associate for five years. Since that time, he has operated a private practice in Virginia and South Africa, with a large portion of the practice devoted to equine podiatry. He has published numerous articles and lectured extensively on equine foot problems. His web site is www.equipodiatry.com.
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Just When South By Southwest Couldn't Get Any More Obnoxious
They go and get more obnoxious. OK Go's (of course OK Go's) Damian Kulash re-enacted the "surprised kitty" with an audience of 700 people on a "how to create viral content" panel. Hopefully what followed was a re-enacment of this.
Damian Kulash is a microcosm of SXSW. Both were associated with music at one point, and now both have morphed into some amalgamation of music and internet videos. It's safe to say that the music part is way less self-indulgent, and way more entertaining.


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Wreaths for veterans, Toys for Tots, gifts for injured animals at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum and a story about Yara, a girl from Walnut Creek who raised money from bake sales to send to victims of Hurricane Sandy with her friends and teammates from Aquanuts will warm your hearts this week.
DAR wreaths
The Anne Loucks Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Martinez is lending its support to help the Wreaths Across America Sacramento Valley National Support Committee place a wreath on more than 12,000 graves of veterans at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon, noted Peggy Ransdell, in a news release.
Laying of the wreaths ceremonies are held simultaneously across the nation each year to remember and honor the memory of all fallen heroes.
Wreaths Across America is seeking support to buy 12,000 wreaths from Maine for each veteran. Visit www.svncsc.org before Nov. 25, to buy a wreath for a fallen veteran. Enter CASVC001 as the sponsoring group and designate Sacramento Valley as the cemetery.
The annual tradition of placing wreaths will take place at 9 a.m. Dec. 15, at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road in Dixon. It is open to the public.
The Anne Loucks Chapter of DAR was formed in Martinez in 1927. Most members are from the Diablo and San Ramon Valley areas of the county.
The board of directors includes Susan Keen Busenius, regent; Judy Onopchenko, first vice regent; Kay Ernst, second vice regent; Kathy Nielson, chaplain; Diane McLean, recording secretary; Leslie Pfeifer, corresponding secretary; Mel Tilkin, treasurer; Danielle Zazueta, registrar; Ann Costello, historian and Carol Berry as librarian.
For more information about this chapter visit http://anneloucks.californiadar.org.
Gifts for the animals
More than 5,000 injured and orphaned animals are cared for each year in the Lindsay Wildlife Museum and hospital. Additionally, there is lifelong care for more than 100 resident wildlife ambassadors at a cost of more than $100,000 each year.
They depend on the generosity of caring community members to donate vital nutrition, medical care and supplies.
A gift can help provide pain medications to treat 100 injured songbirds; organic soil, shredded bark and pine shavings provide animals something to dig, bury or sleep in; cat trees provide great "furniture" for mammals to climb; special formula for hand-feeding baby squirrels ($28 is enough formula to feed a litter for two weeks); a set of stainless steel pins are needed to fix a fracture in a larger animal such as a hawk, eagle, or fox; vaccination series for orphaned raccoons; specially-formulated diets for 60 nestling, fledgling and adult hummingbirds and more.
Classes on birding, wildlife rehabilitation, Fun with Fungi and Newt Walk are available and might be enjoyed as gifts for the family.
Visit http://wildlife-museum.org or call 925-935-1978 to make a donation or learn more.
Toys for Tots
The time has come again! The Edward Jones Investment office in Martinez is serving as a drop-off location for the U.S. Marines Toys for Tots program, said Jeni Waters in a news release. Community support and local donations will ensure the best year ever to bring gifts to kids in our neighborhoods.
Marines will distribute the toys to kids in need during the Christmas season.
Residents are invited to bring new and unwrapped toys for children of all ages to Edward Jones Investment, 608 Las Juntas St., in Martinez, through Dec. 18. Drop-off hours are 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday. Call 925-370-0184 or email Jeni at firstname.lastname@example.com with questions.
Ooh, the support!
The Martinez Recreation Department's eighth annual Restaurant Tour in October — at which 157 visitors tasted culinary samples from 20 downtown restaurants — raised $2,355 to support the Oohs, Aahs and Giggles program, a free performing arts series for children, noted Robin Agostino. Winners of "Best Restaurant" were Ashley Affeiro and Arash Pakzad of Barrel Aged.
Resident Terri Bowman and her husband, Dick, and cousin, Rock Huddelston of Oakley, were among visitors, and Terri said, "(They) were very impressed on how charming the downtown is and loved the small-town atmosphere."
Artists Market
Great fun and great one-of-a-kind professional quality gifts, refreshments and entertainment will be offered at an Artists Market, sponsored by Civic Arts Education and the Clay Arts Guild this weekend at two locations. Visitors can shop a variety of artwork handcrafted by the artists from Civic Arts Education's programs.
The opening receptions at Civic Park and the Shadelands Arts Center are from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, and the sales continue from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday (until 5 p.m. at Civic Park).
The Shadelands campus at 111 N. Wiget Lane in Walnut Creek will feature paintings, photography, glass, gourds, jewelry, textiles and more. There will be a special shopping area for kids who get to decorate their own wrapping. A special cookie decorating session takes place at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
The Clay Arts Guild will feature live music and artist demonstrations at their opening reception Friday at Civic Park Studio, 1313 Civic Drive in Walnut Creek. Quality functional and display wheel-thrown ceramics will be available, including sculptures, dinnerware, Stoneware, raku, salt- and pit-fired items.
For more information, call 925-943-5846 or visit www.arts-ed.org and www.clayartsguild.com.
Santa at the ranch
Santa will welcome arrivals at the Rodgers Ranch Holiday Boutique from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 1-2, at 315 Cortsen Road in Pleasant Hill.
Rodgers Ranch board member Sarah Young has donated her stuffed bear collection to sell, benefiting Friends of Rodgers Ranch and the Pleasant Hill Historical Society. There will be additional unique gifts for sale.
For more information call 925-937-3677 or email email@example.com.
Aquanuts aid victims
Nov. 13 was Walnut Creek Aquanuts team member Yara Elian's, 10th birthday. She kept talking about the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and how cold people in New York and New Jersey must feel because of the freezing weather and the dire situation.
She decided that this year — as a part of her birthday celebration — to gather her friends and organize a cookie/lemonade sale to raise money for those on the East Coast suffering from the effects of the storm.
Aquanuts friend, Lydia Avramenko of the San Francisco office of TNS Global, informed Yara that her company was matching donations to the Red Cross, along with retailer Gymboree, which got Yara and her brother, Zachary, 8, both very excited.
First, Yara, Zachary and Yara's teammates from the Walnut Creek Aquanuts held a bake sale. The Aquanuts and their coaches helped raise $157 in just three hours, and Yara's friends held another sale raising $127.
As a result, the kids raised more than $284, which was doubled by Gymboree and TNS Global to a $580 donation. Yara brought a part of the sum raised by her team and friends ($90) to the Gymboree store in Walnut Creek, and another check for $200 was mailed to TNS Headquarters in Pennsylvania.
Happy Birthday, Yara, and great thanks for remembering others!
Hearts for Hope
Youth Homes "Hearts for Hope" gala attendees recently raised more than $112,000 for work with abused and neglected foster youth. Funds are also raised through the Youth Homes Auxiliary Thrift Shop at 15-C Vivian Drive in Pleasant Hill.
Benefactors and sponsors acknowledged at the gala included Hanna Global Solutions, Gemmer Asset Management LLC, Tom and Libby Edwards, Lorna H. Martyn, Mechanics Bank, Pleasant Hill Coin and Jewelry Exchange, Shell Oil, WildPackets Inc., Brad Holsworth of Burr Pilger Mayer Inc., First Republic Bank, Kaiser Permanente, R&D Commercial Properties, Wells Fargo and many others. For a complete list of benefactors and information about how you can help foster youth, visit www.youthhomes.org.
"Good Neighbors" is compiled by Faith Barnidge. Send club and organization news, Scouting items, notices of awards and other submissions to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Passwords modified on Active Directory are propagated through the Identity Manager-Identity Synchronization for Windows deployment as described below (See Overview for illustration):
The user resets the password on Active Directory by using the Change Password option in the Task Manager dialog of Windows.
Identity Synchronization for Windows detects the change and sets a password invalid flag on the corresponding user entry in the Identity Synchronization for Windows-managed Directory Server.
The user connects to Directory Server for the password change to be complete (see On Demand Synchronization in the Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 Installation Guide.)
Identity Manager's pwsync command also detects the password change and propagates it to all other Identity Manager-managed resources, except Directory Servers.


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slightlyobsessed wrote:wanda wrote:I also have another question. so if Ian and Wanda had sex, would they still be able to have a baby. even though she's a soul, but in a human body?
I going to say absolutely. Just like the body has blood coursing through it enabling it to survive, all of the faculties are still in place for conceiving and bearing children. Though the genetic makeup of any offspring, I think, would be based on the human's DNA, rather than Wanderer's.
Yeah, I don't think that a soul inside a human body alters the body in any way, so they should be able to have a baby. Do you think they will in the sequels?


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Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by Dream, Jul 28, 2012.
^Probably. Or else PS is holding out for the best monetary deal possible!
Singer- Let's discuss the pay now
McKellen- 2 million
Stewart- 2 million.....and one penny
Singer-You're shrewd business man Patrick.
His wording is interesting. He says he and Ian are under contract with Fox not to say anything. Than he says he does not know anything and is not being coy. Hmmmm not sure what that would mean? A contract from the older films?
His people are probably still negotiating. Talking about it before its finalized could undermine his people's leverage.
Being disappointed with First Class (the characters, especially Xavier, were too undeveloped), I'm not excited by expanding the scope and cast (even with some being older versions of the same characters) even more. Time travel seems a bit too fantastical compared to the tone of the first two films and while The Last Stand was disappointing, depowering Rogue and Magneto and killing Xavier were some of the better elements I'd rather not have ignored or reset. Better to further develop the First Class characters in the past (eventually adding Cyclops, Jean Grey and Storm) or continue with Iceman, Colossus, Angel, Kitty Pryde (and maybe Jubilee with Storm, Beast and Logan as advisers) in the future.
If they really want to do DoFP and be close to the comics, Beast would be best as the character inhabitting his past body (Hoult and Lawrence were the best parts of FC).
How was Charles underdeveloped in First Class? I would say that Charles, Erik, and Mystique were arguably the heart and soul of the film and received equal treatment in terms of character development. The core of Singer's story in First Class was the Magneto/Xavier relationship and that comes out in spades in the film.
Xavier's "death" was already reset by the scene after the end credits.
To me it seemed like they only had a few scenes together; some of Xavier's scenes were good but I disliked how he was basically given the idea of forming the team, the plane and Cerebro by the government, and therefore found other mutants easily (and their training was condensed to a montage); that he and the rest of the film didn't address the actual civil rights movement (implicitly suggesting the early '60s, aside from the Cuban missile crisis, was mostly about partying) also made them both seem a little too lightweight.
Brief and vague enough to be ignored ; a lot more would have to be included to try to justify it.
This might please you then
Alan Cumming up for returning
Nothing concrete, but still nice to know...
Well, I stand corrected.
He doesn't say anything about difficulties with the make-up. Either I'm misremembering, it was just a fan rumor, or he's willing to deal with it this time around.
It's also possible that they could just mocap Nightcrawler this time around. No uncomfortable makeup for Cumming to deal with, then.
I'm up for Cumming return (ripe accent and all).
That works, too, although I'm not 100% how authentic it'll look in comparison to the make-up he had previously. But I don't care, if they can get him back, I'll be thrilled.
Still waiting for Kelsey Grammer...
Why not, seems the wish list keeps getting checked off at this point.
So he's up for returning. I wonder if they need him back for the sake of the story they've adapted or if they could get him for a fair price they'd put him in and write him into existing scenes with a few lines.
Normally we'd most likely all be talking/complaining about how over crowded this feels with mutants, right? But somehow this feels natural and not forced for this story.
On the famous Days of Future Past cover Nightcrawler is shown as being "slain". They could still obviously still use Kurt somehow though, just not in the future scenes.
Yeah, which is why I mentioned "how they adapted" this story. Cummings may be up to return but is it needed? A throw-a-way line would mention his fate. Heck some nod to that poster on the cover of #141 would be cool also.
If he returned maybe a scene showing him being slain doing something brave?
Maybe show him in a Sentinel encounter or something, yeah.
Something like this. I remember finding this a few years ago online (photoshop job, obviously.) Still pretty cool though
^If they did that it'd be awesome to see a montage of them dying, sorta like the order 66 sequence in ep III.
Why do you assume the story will be adapted even remotely close to the original comic? Smart money says there will be major changes.
^ Of course it will be different. I was just pointing out for the sake of it that in the actual story Nightcrawler is dead. We've already discussed in the thread that it is very possible the actual story will be altered as story demand requires it to be.
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We finally had to say goodbye to the garden.
The pumpkins are harvested, and all that remains in the plot are dried vines and black plastic that needs to be pulled up. I hate to admit it, but I am hoarding a few tomatoes that are extremely overripe. I cannot stand the thought of not seeing them in the counter bowl.
Now we are onto apples. There have been a few apple pies, galettes and now a very easy apple cake. I got everything ready to quickly put together this cake, because somehow we have gotten incredibly busy. I do not know how this happens, but night after night we seem to be racing around to get everything done before bedtime. Nonetheless, the kids managed to help me for a couple of minutes each. Clay, 7, mixed some butter with brown sugar and speared it onto the bottom of the cake pan. Molly, 9, and Emma, 11, measured and mixed the batter. It is different than most cake batters, easier than ever. This is one we put in the kid Rolodex, it is so easy. Anyway, the hardest part is getting enough apples on the bottom of the cake. Slice the apples pretty thin then layer them closely. I fit two large apples onto the cake. We baked the cake for an hour, let it cool for a few minutes then inverted it onto a cooling rack so the apples are on top. Peel the parchment paper off then enjoy this moist, flavorful cake.
My children eat a lot of apples, I guess most kids do. Emma eats them with peanut butter for breakfast, Molly has cinnamon apples in her lunch box, Clay will take a whole apple anytime. I make a chicken dish with sausages and apples, and desserts with apples are at the top of the list. Even though I am teary about the tomato demise, I am happy to make a weekly Tarte aux Pommes or other apple treat.
As for the taste, this cake is sweet and very tender. Molly picked at hers a bit, but the rest of us cleaned our plates and had seconds for breakfast the next morning. Our cake did not last long, but I think it would keep for several days.


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Date: November 09 2012
South Africa batsman JP Duminy has been ruled out of the rest of the Test series against Australia and for the foreseeable future after rupturing his achilles tendon in a training mishap on Friday.
After enjoying the rub of the green to take a vice-like grip on the three-Test opener, the Proteas luck took a spectacular turn for the worse when classy run-maker Duminy suffered a post-stumps training mishap and was taken to hospital.
The 29-year-old had been running around with teammates after bad light forced an early end to the day's play, with the visitors reaching a commanding 2-255 at stumps on day one at the Gabba.
Duminy was writhing in pain and had to be helped off the field after slipping on the wet surface.
The devastating long-term injury potentially throws a spanner in the works for world No.1 South Africa who wanted to utilise Duminy's offspin in the Test, after cutting leggie Imran Tahir and opting for a four-pronged pace attack.
MRI scans later revealed the worst for the left-hander and team manager, Dr Mohammed Moosajee confirmed Duminy would take no further part in the series.
"At first assessment JP said he heard a loud clicking sound and it felt like he had been hit by an object. The diagnosis of an achilles' tendon rupture was confirmed by the MRI scan this evening and he will undergo surgery to re-attach the tendon on Saturday morning," said Moosajee.
"Injuries of this nature are caused by a sudden contraction against the direction of movement by the calf muscle as was the case during his sprint.
"We will only be able to gauge further down the line on an expected recovery date, but injuries of this nature have been known to take up to at least six months before the player can resume playing cricket.
"He is obviously disappointed, but JP, being JP, is trying his best to stay positive, he says everything happens for a reason."
Twelfth man Francois du Plessis will assume the fielding duties from Duminy, who will return home as soon as possible.
South Africa say they will name Duminy's permanent replacement in the tour squad in due course.
Until the mishap, all the luck had gone the Proteas' way as Hashim Amla (90 not out) and Jacques Kallis (84 not out) took charge after both receiving lives.
Kallis began to trudge off when he top-edged a catch off fast bowler Peter Siddle (0-58) on 43, only to be called back when replays revealed a no-ball.
And Siddle was again left ruing his fortunes when he dropped a caught and bowled chance offered by Amla on 74.
Opener Alviro Petersen played down the potential disruption to their bowling stocks without Duminy's point of difference and showed faith in their pace attack featuring Test debutant Rory Kleinveldt.
"We are pretty comfortable with our bowling attack," he said.
While Australia opted for three quicks and spinner Nathan Lyon - who nabbed Petersen for 64 on Friday - the Proteas surprised by ditching Tahir.
"We thought Rory could offer some more on that wicket. It wasn't as hard as we thought it could be and it probably lessens the load on (allrounder) Jacques Kallis.
"We thought Australia's got enough left-handers for JP to play a role with the ball if needed."
Petersen put on a brave face when reminded of the lazy loft to mid-on that ended his promising innings and a 90-run second-wicket stand with Amla.
"I would probably play that shot again but maybe next time I would be more decisive by hitting it into the stands," he said.
The prolific Amla passed 5,000 Test runs during his 205-ball, five-hour knock featuring six fours and a six, ensuring he averages 50.55 in his 64th Test.
He found a perfect foil in Kallis who thumped eight fours and a six in his 136-ball, three-hour effort.
They have put on 136 runs for the third wicket.
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gonski wrote:HI, ejd
In my code there are two places I can not use parallelism.
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do l=1, list
Here race condition exits. the aforementioned new directives can solve the problem. Another way is to create a temporary variable to store f(j), and combine them later. With this treatment, parallelism is acceptable for this part of code. Therefore the new directives mentioned seem not important to me now.
I changed the loop variable to be "k" instead of "l" (because I have a hard time telling the difference between your i's and l's. Also, I am not sure where the initial values of "i" and "j" are coming from (did you mean to index particlei and particlej by "i" and "j" or by "k"?). My comments therefore, are somewhat dependent on exactly what the code looks like.
You can make "i" and "j" firstprivate (or private - depending on the code) and that gets rid of the first problem. I am assuming force is a constant calculated outside the loop and is shared. The second problem is the update of "f". If the values of "i" and "j" are unique, then you don't have a problem updating "f". However, you indicate there is a problem with "f", so I assume they aren't unique. In that case, you have to protect the updates of "f" (in different iterations of loop) from each other. You could use a critical region around both updates or a critical region around each update - but it would most likely be pretty slow (slower than sequential). Another way which may be faster, depends on how unique the numbers are and how the compiler (and runtime) implement atomic. If the numbers are fairly unique and the atomic isn't just a critical (but a compare and swap), then this could be faster than sequential.
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!$omp parallel do shared(particlei, particlej, f, force) private(k) firstprivate(i,j)
do k=1, list
!$omp atomic
!$omp atomic
gonski wrote:Case 2
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do i=1, n ! to create a link list
In this case, as too many variables in the code are relevant to k and spreading everywhere, I have to use sequential running here.
Do you have any good idea on this point?
Working on linked lists is hard to do with OpenMP through V2.5. Version 3.0 is adding tasking which makes it far easier to work with linked lists - though there are several things you have to watch out for. If you are using an Intel compiler, they have a version of tasking (taskq) in it that you could use now - though it is nonconforming to the new spec and isn't implemented by anyone else but Intel. This is the best I can suggest with the code you have shown. Maybe someone else has some ideas.


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National Home and Hospice Care Survey, 2000 (ICPSR 3791)
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The National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS) for 2000 examines home health agencies and hospices and their current patients and discharges. These surveys were designed to provide information for those who establish standards for, plan, provide, and assess long-term care services, both in the home and in inpatient settings. Data on agency characteristics were obtained through personal interviews with the agency administrators and include the number of home health and hospice patients served in the last 12 months, type of facility ownership (i.e., profit, nonprofit, government, other), Medicare and Medicaid certification, number and type of staff, and the hours they worked. Data on a sample of patients currently receiving home health and hospice care as well as a sample of discharges were obtained by interviewing staff persons most familiar with the care provided to these patients. Respondents were requested to refer to medical or other records whenever necessary. No patient was interviewed directly. Information for patients currently receiving services and discharged patients includes services provided and provider type, type of residence, referral source, medical diagnosis, type of care (home health or hospice), type of aids used (eyeglasses, dentures, walker, cane, oxygen, hospital bed, etc.), daily living activities that required assistance, and billing charges and expected payment source(s). The discharge diagnosis for discharged patients was also recorded. Demographic variables for both types of patients include sex, age, race, Hispanic origin, and marital status.
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U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics. NATIONAL HOME AND HOSPICE CARE SURVEY, 2000. ICPSR03791-v3. Hyattsville, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics [producer], 1999. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-06-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03791.v3
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