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>General Running>Geoff Roes: Ultrarunning is Dead
You'll ruin your knees!
Just for discussion/fun, have you switched from road to trail racing, from sub-26.2 to longer? Reasons? How has it worked out?
1) Yes
2) If I have to explain it, you won't understand
3) worked out great... I spend lots of time thinking about it, wishing I could still do it.
""...the truth that someday, you will go for your last run. But not today—today you got to run." - Matt Crownover (after Western States)
Best thing is the world! You get up early, the sun breaking through the steamy Summer mists at daybreak. Out on the trails, you are alone with your thoughts and the gentle woods. Every spider web you run through is proof that you are the first in those woods that morning, charting the first footsteps through the virginal day.
I've had perfect prints of orb webs on my face a couple of times. Maybe it makes a person look badass. Maybe not.
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
Ostrich runner
I'm not sure I was ever much of a road runner. I was better in CC than track as a kid, and I've never done a road marathon. I vacillate on my interest in trail ultras longer than 50k. That said, having interesting terrain and sights is as much the goal for me as going fast. On the stuff I prefer to run, I have trouble imagining ever being able to navigate the various obstacles safely at the speeds I used to be able to run a 5k or hm on pavement. I guess that pretty much squares with what Roes is saying.
mta: I also find myself less interested in racing (and I think this is true of many of the better trail runners I know). More often, a group will just get together and run an ultra course just for themselves without all the hubbub of paying for a race.
I could always do with some foot and ankle strength.
Speaking of tough trails, one of the guys I sometimes run with runs this one every year. Not an utlra and, yet, only two guys went sub-3.
"If you have the fire, run..." -John Climacus
Just read the trail description, wow. I like trail running, but that makes me wonder whether there are some trails that are simply meant to be hiked, not run.
I've always done most of my training on trails. But for some time now I've had a tension between my goals of running faster marathons and running longer/faster ultras. I don't expect to give either up any time soon, though I can see that if I hit some really big marathon milestone -- say 2:50 -- I might skip a year or two of marathoning. Maybe it's silly, but I've always viewed my marathon time as my single most definitive metric as a runner. And truthfully, it is likely the distance I'm best suited for. But now I am eyeing 24-hour time... though I have yet to run one. (But then, that's typically an example of non-trail ultras.)
I ran 18 marathons before my first ultra, but now the tally stands at 74 marathons / 22 ultras, and I expect it to move more in the ultra direction.
Julia and TO, I have had my share of spills, too. But even A. Krupicka was out for a while after taking a nasty spill. It seems like part of the game, an unattractive one, at that.
I guess I'm lucky there. I don't fall. Ever. I trip all the time, kick every rock and root, but I always manage to recover.
I think that once those stabilizing muscles get stronger/ankles get more flexible, the balance shifts towards trails as far as being better for joint/repetitive stress type injuries...
Yes, absolutely. Everyone should do a fair amount of training on trails if at all possible, whether they race trails/ultras or not.
Fight The Future
just curious about trail running. I imagine it's not possible to have a "typical" trail, but if there were, what do you think would be the relative pace at which you run on a trail compared to your street pace?
It really all depends on the trail. It will always be a little slower, given the lack of a totally smooth surface. But for easy, relatively flat trail, maybe 0:30ish slower. "Typically" for me, on my local trails, a minute or two slower.
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I'm not following. Why would I benefit from training on trails if I never plan to race on one? Because I want stronger ankles?
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it's the fight in the dog. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
My blog is JT Running DC. It's awesome.
1. The extra stability you gain from working muscles you don't work on the road will actually help you even on the road.
2. Over time, less injury.
1. The extra stability you gain from working muscles you don't work on the road will actually help you even on the road.
2. Over time, less injury.
I see. Re #2, though, I remembered this thread from a couple years ago. The article raised questions about the idea that soft surfaces are better for preventing injury.
First Trail Run,12.9.17
"Best thing is the world! You get up early, the sun breaking through the steamy Summer mists at daybreak. Out on the trails, you are alone with your thoughts and the gentle woods. Every spider web you run through is proof that you are the first in those woods that morning, charting the first footsteps through the virginal dawn."
Ohhhhkay, I throw a ****fit every time I accidentally inhale a bug while running on the road. If I'm going to try trail running, maybe I will buy a motorcycle helmet with a good visor. Spider webs?
But seriously, I'll give it a try. maybe on one of the county forest preserve trails. But not with the Skechers I run in. Those things collect rocks in the soles so easily. A city in Chicago park called Horner Park, on Irving PK & California has a dirt trail, and I end up picking out a lot of mud & stones from the soles. Maybe the GoBionic trail shoes have a better sole configuration.
2018 Races: 1/20/17 Lakefront Half Marathon, Chicago | 2/10/18 Universal Sole Valentines Trail Run, Schiller Woods, Chicago | 4/28/18 Crazy Legs Classic 8K, Madison Wisconsin
There other great thing about trail ultras are the aid stations. Damn, I never want to leave those buffets.
I guess I'm lucky there. I don't fall. Ever. I trip all the time, kick every rock and root, but I always manage to recover.
I guess I'm lucky there. I don't fall. Ever. I trip all the time, kick every rock and root, but I always manage to recover.
Same for me, but it helps when I usually run the trails with a group of 6-12 people and if you fall you owe everybody pancakes. Keeps the concentration level higher. Pancakes taste much better if somebody else is paying for them.
I think you need to make an important distinction between injury risk, and stress on your body. Yes you can still get injured on trails, but you can get injured on the roads too. Over time though, you'll see less stress on your body running on softer surfaces, and probably find you're able to run more. (many people already were talking about their improved recoveries from trail runs vs road runs)
For example, today's run for me was 5 laps around a park that we ran XC workouts in during college. I was just feeling
beat up, and if I needed to do that run on the roads, I probably would have taken the day off. But I had this grass option available to me.
Now later, when I get an over training injury because I ran when I should have taken more days off, someone like this Doctor could say "SEE! running on trails doesn't prevent injuries" because I ended up injuring myself, but I feel like I would get injured much sooner if I didn't run on the grass.
Know thyself.

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text: "Kermode provides erudite and good-humored insights into Forster's artistic philosophies, plus deft analyses of the techniques of Forster's contemporaries, such as Henry James (whose style Forster disliked), Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford and Forster favorite Marcel Proust. Enlarging on Benjamin Britten's remark that Forster was our most musical novelist, Kermode shows how musical transformation and return of phrases was an art he practiced with success in his novels. Kermode makes the case that Forster's homosexuality was the reason for his long abstention from fiction and establishes that Forster placed himself in a cultivated minority above the working classes. Kermode is a delightful mentor for readers wishing to reflect not only on Forster's creativity but on the personal and social circumstances that restricted it."Publishers Weekly


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I'm Arthur Lorenzon and I'm doing the trace memory access of a program parallelized with OpenMP. The trace collects information from memory address accessed by any thread (reading and writing).
Analyzing trace output, I visualized that there are two addresses that are frequently accessed by both threads at certain times of the application, as follows:
- Thread 0 writes at address 0x26e1774
- Thread 0,1,2,3 perform read-only on this address for many times
- After several read accesses,
- Thread 0 writes this address and the others perform the reading.
- After reading this, finalize access to this address.
This behavior occurs for access to another similar address (0x26e1e44).
At the end of the application, occurs only reading both threads to the last address. There are many readings with no writing. After a while, the slave threads have no more access.
This behavior refers to the busy waiting? Fork-Join?
For simple conference, the code is as follows:
# include <omp.h>
# include
int main () {
# pragma omp parallel
printf ("Thread% d \ n", omp_get_thread_num ());
return 0;
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Australopithecus Was a Well-Adapted Tree Climber
by Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D. *
New research has confirmed that an extinct type of ape called Australopithecus afarensis, which includes the famous "Lucy" fossil, was a well-adapted tree climber. The research team conducted a detailed anatomical analysis of two complete shoulder blades of a fossil Australopithecince called "Selam," reported in the journal Science to be about 3.3 million years old.1
A number of studies in zoological anatomy indicate that the various species of Australopithecus represent nothing more than different varieties of an extinct ape kind.2 The fact that fully human remains have been found in rock layers as old as the ones containing Australopithecus fossils, further complicates the evolutionary story—a phenomema discussed at length by paleontologist Marvin Lubenow.2
Amazingly, it took 11 years for researchers to extract the fossil shoulder blades of Selam from the sandstone rock in which they were encased. Science study co-author Zeresenay Alemseged told LiveScience, "Because shoulder blades are paper-thin, they rarely fossilize, and when they do, they are almost always fragmentary." Alemseged also said that "finding both shoulder blades completely intact and attached to a skeleton of a known and pivotal species was like hitting the jackpot."3
Lucy, a fossil that was once widely promoted as a hypothetical human ancestor, had shoulder sockets that faced upward, a common feature of modern apes. The Selam fossil has the same type of sockets. This unique feature enables apes to dexterously climb and swing from tree branches. In contrast, humans have downward facing shoulder sockets at birth that gradually develop to face forward as they become adults. This position is also integral to the uniquely human walking gait.
Also in contrast to humans, ape shoulder morphology does not change during development. The authors wrote in Science, "Many of these traits change significantly throughout modern human ontogeny [development from an embryo], but remain stable in apes. Thus, the similarity of juvenile and adult fossil morphologies implies that A. afarensis development was apelike."1
The idea that humans evolved from apes by leaving the trees to walk across the ground in a largely bipedal lifestyle, is a central evolutionary paradigm. The authors of the recent Science paper wrote, "Scapular traits throughout African ape development are associated with shifts in locomotor behavior. This affirms the functional relevance of those characteristics, and their presence in australopith fossils supports the hypothesis that their locomotor repertoire included a substantial amount of climbing."1 If australopithecines were bipedal while on the ground, they did not walk like humans. And this recent analysis clearly shows that they were also well-adapted tree climbers with unique bone structures not found in humans.
No doubt this report was a setback for the evolutionary model of human origins that had postulated the idea that Australopithecines had largely transitioned to the ground from the trees. Indeed, another recent study evaluating fossilized food particles between Australopithecus teeth showed a diet of primarily tree-based food (tree leaves, fruits, wood, bark), compared to a small amount of grass.4
Even the highly subjective field of anthropology vindicates the scientifically accurate claim of the Bible—that man is created uniquely in the image of God.
- Green, D. J. and Z. Alemseged. 2012. Australopithecus afarensis Scapular Ontogeny, Function, and the Role of Climbing in Human Evolution. Science. 338 (6106): 514-517.
- Lubenow, M. 2004. Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
- Choi, C. Early Human 'Lucy' Swung from the Trees. LiveScience. Posted on livescience.com October 25, 2012, accessed October 31, 2012.
- Henry, A. G. et al. 2012. The diet of Australopithecus sediba. Nature. Posted on nature.com June 27, 2012, accessed October 31, 2012.
* Dr. Tomkins is Research Associate at the Institute for Creation Research and received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Clemson University.
Article posted on November 12, 2012.
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Examine Hay for Toxic Striped Blister Beetles
- Aug 1, 2014
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Striped blister beetles range in length from 1/2 inch to 1 inch, and are easily recognized by their characteristic stripes and shape and prominent "neck" area.
Photo: University of Missouri Extension
Striped blister beetles, which can be toxic to horses, are being seen in high numbers in alfalfa in some areas of the state, said University of Missouri (MU) Extension entomologist Wayne Bailey, MS, PhD.
The beetles produce a compound called cantharidin that remains toxic in alfalfa hay for at least four to five years after harvesting. Adult beetles generally do not appear in the first cutting of alfalfa. Risk exists mostly in second and third cuttings.
Beetles typically appear in alfalfa, soybean, and weed patches in July and August after emerging from the soil. They range in length from 1/2 to 1 inch. They are easily recognized by their characteristic stripes and shape and prominent "neck" area.
Bailey said striped blister beetle—which earn their name because they can cause blisters on the skin of humans and in the mouths of animals—problems often appear following years with large numbers of grasshoppers. This happens because at an immature stage, striped blister beetles feed on grasshopper egg pods in the soil.
"There will be high numbers of striped blister beetles after a year of high grasshopper numbers," Bailey said.
They move quickly in packs to protect themselves and to mate. "They drop to the ground as a protective behavior," Bailey said, and they scurry when they perceive a threat.
Blister beetles produce the oily, caustic cantharidin, which can cause animals to become sick or die. Bailey said studies from university researchers indicate that it takes between 25 to 225 striped blister beetles consumed in a 24-hour period to be lethal, depending on the size of the horse.
Signs of poisoning vary greatly, said Tim Evans, DVM, MS, PhD, Dipl. ACT, ABVT, veterinary toxicologist with the MU College of Veterinary Medicine. Signs include sores of the mouth and tongue, and abnormal breathing with jerking of the diaphragm. Horses might try to relieve the burning sensation by putting their muzzle and lips in water and blowing bubbles in the water, and they also might paw and stretch often to reduce abdominal discomfort.
Affected animals also might urinate more often than normal, and urine could be blood-tinged. Diarrhea might contain blood, mucus, or sloughed intestinal lining.
If you see signs of poisoning, consult a veterinarian and stop feeding the hay immediately, Evans said. A veterinarian can correct electrolyte abnormalities, provide supportive care, and help reduce the animal's pain.
Beetle populations can be controlled with foliar application of insecticides, Bailey said. Application guidelines are available online. http://ipm.missouri.edu.
MU Extension forage specialists Rob Kallenbach, MS, PhD, and Craig Roberts, MS, PhD, recommend the following management practices to lessen horses' risk of blister beetle toxicity:
- Feed horses with first-cutting alfalfa, which is usually free of striped blister bugs, Kallenbach said. Pure alfalfa stands that are flowering attract beetles most.
- Cut late-season alfalfa when 10% or less of the legume is in bloom, and keep alfalfa free of weeds.
- Avoid use of crimpers and conditioners, which crush hay and promote drying, Roberts said, and avoid running tires on windrows.
- Scout frequently. Not all fields, even on the same farm, will have beetles, Kallenbach said. Quietly walk through the field the day before harvesting and apply insecticide if needed, Bailey said. Noise causes the beetles to drop to the ground to hide.
- Horse owners should inspect hay before buying and check alfalfa for the presence of blister beetle prior to feeding. Evans cautioned that crushed beetles are generally unevenly distributed through contaminated hay, so it's important to inspect each serving of hay before feeding it to your horse.
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Well-supported Liriano lights-out vs. Cards
PITTSBURGH -- Now they can think about winning Game 2.
Trying to defuse the rampant excitement over a five-game series with the Cardinals hours before Monday night's opener, manager Clint Hurdle stood by "the process."Full Game Coverage
PITTSBURGH -- Now they can think about winning Game 2.
Trying to defuse the rampant excitement over a five-game series with the Cardinals hours before Monday night's opener, manager Clint Hurdle stood by "the process."Full Game Coverage
"We're best served by a one-at-a-time mentality," Hurdle said. "You can't think about winning the second game until you win the first game."
That requirement was met in sudden and masterful fashion, as the Bucs stormed to a 9-2 romp over the Cardinals in front of 32,084 -- a PNC Park record crowd for a non-holiday Monday night game.
Pedro Alvarez provided the sudden, ripping Jake Westbrook's first pitch to him for a three-run homer that capped a four-run first. The masterful came from left-hander Francisco Liriano, who pitched four-hit ball for seven innings, repelling every minor threat.
"A great feeling," Liriano said of seeing four runs score before there was even an out. "But it was so early. I had to keep from trying to do too much, take it one pitch at a time."
There's that "one at a time" mantra again. It will work only to a point on Tuesday, when the teams will play two games. One at a time, of course.
Alvarez took over the National League lead with his 27th home run, and another lead change could be in the offing on Tuesday, as this series continues with a traditional single-admission doubleheader.
Monday's victory edged the Pirates (62-42) within a half-game of the NL Central lead the Cardinals (62-41) have held for 91 days.
"The Cardinals are an amazing team. They've been where we want to go," said Andrew McCutchen. "We know they'll give us a good game, fight every at-bat and inning. We have to continue to keep coming out and playing hard."
The fans continue coming out. Monday's crowd, which essentially matched the average house for the previous 15 games, warmly and loudly welcomed the team back from a two-week absence.
"It was a breath of fresh air being back in front of our fans," McCutchen noted. "Felt like we'd been gone a month. It was good to come back home and be able to win like that."
McCutchen contributed the first-inning single that delivered the first run. He made an even bigger contribution in the seventh with another single -- not so much because it helped set up a put-away five-run rally off St. Louis' bullpen but because, as his second hit of the game, it virtually ensured victory: The Pirates are now 19-1 in home games when McCutchen gets at least two hits.
This was hardly the Bucs' most prolific offensive outburst, but it was one of their most efficient -- nine hits for nine runs.
"It's good to have it come together like that. We have not done it consistently -- not as much as the Cards -- but we know we're capable of doing it," McCutchen said. "We've done it before."
In the case of Westbrook, that was a literal observation: On April 16 the Bucs got to him for four first-inning runs, which were washed away by the rains that created Tuesday's doubleheader. The skies offered no clemency this night.
Westbrook invited trouble by walking the first man he faced, Jose Tabata, and hitting the second, Neil Walker. And trouble appeared: McCutchen singled in one run, and on the very next pitch, Alvarez homered for three more.
"I put us in a bad spot against a guy who is throwing the ball real well," said Westbrook, who called his night "a battle."
"That's now how you want to start it off. That first inning just crushed us," he added.
All the anticipation of the divisional showdown became an instant turning down of the pressure valve.
"That first inning definitely set the tone," said shortstop Clint Barmes, who, in consecutive at-bats in the sixth and seventh innings, hammered balls into the distant North Side Notch for doubles, the latter driving in two runs.
Liriano, winning for the 11th time in 15 starts since his delayed May 11 debut, retired the first 10 batters before consecutive singles with one out in the fourth by Carlos Beltran and Matt Holliday presented a challenge -- namely, Allen Craig and Yadier Molina, who were batting .485 and .391, respectively, with men in scoring position. Liriano fanned both right-handed hitters on vanishing sliders.
St. Louis' next two hits added up to a run: Tony Cruz, batting for Westbrook, led off the sixth with a triple and scored on Matt Carpenter's single. Two batters later the inning was over, with Beltran becoming Liriano's seventh strikeout victim and Holliday bouncing into a double play.
But St. Louis manager Mike Matheny was in no mood for the proverbial tip of the cap.
"I've given a lot of credit to the pitching lately," said Matheny, whose club is coming off a sweep in Atlanta, "and frankly, I'm just tired of doing that. I'll put our offense up against any pitcher out there."
"I've been watching that for quite a while now -- and watching is pretty much what I've been doing," McCutchen said of Liriano's mastery. "We don't get too much action when he's on the mound. He makes it easy on the defense. It's been a good run for him. He's been tremendous; real consistent."
Baseball people always reference "matchups." Well, the Cardinals do not seem to match up well with PNC Park, where they had been shut out in three of the four games prior to Monday night. Including this game, St. Louis has 28 hits in the last five games played on the shores of the Allegheny.
With Matheny needing to conserve relief arms for Tuesday, Marc Rzepczynski and Fernando Salas absorbed a breakout five-run barrage in the seventh, which featured the Pirates' first outfield sacrifice fly since May 27. It was delivered by Gaby Sanchez, and it was followed by run-scoring hits from Alex Presley, Barmes and pinch-hitter Starling Marte.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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Article wrote:A normal person is incapable of running their own wallet.
This is key.
To a point, it does not matter if the system really is "perfect." The point is that it will always be implemented by imperfect people, and this problem transcends trust in the exchangers or even bugs in the code.
Something that works perfectly, provided I do it perfectly, is still not very useful. Fastidiously managing a personal hot/cold wallet scheme to make sure that exchangers don't rob me blind means that i have to, unfailingly, do it correctly every time. I don't trust myself to do that, and trusting the average american to do that is simply ridiculous.
How many people can't remember their passwords? How many people don't backup their files? These are known problems to anyone who knows anything about tech support! Leaving aside the annoying hassle and complication of maintaining proper cold/hot wallet separation in the first place, the reality is that people would be losing their cold wallets routinely. This is obvious, because people are already routinely locking themselves out of their accounts and losing all their family photos/videos in HD crashes.
And plenty of people who know better just don't find the time or urgency to actually *DO* better. Just a couple of months I (luckily!) retrieved the contents of a HD that came from a laptop that a cat spilled water all over. It had the only videos and photos of a couple's newborn child (outside of the few they posted to Facebook). The father knew better, he works in tech support. He was sheepish about the whole thing and there was no sense in lecturing him because life just happens.
And if we think malware is bad now, what would happen if BTC actually took the world by storm? Backups and encryption cannot save you if someone has a keylogger on your system. Right now the incentives are lulz, DDoS bots, CCs, etc.. If the incentive was "steal ALL the monies!" I mean, wow. Scary!


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Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive
- Sotol Vista
- The view is one of the best in the park.
- overlooking Goat Mountain, The Santa Elena Canyon and Kit Mountain
Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive
- Sotol Vista
- The view is one of the best in the park.
- overlooking Goat Mountain, The Santa Elena Canyon and Kit Mountain
Over untold ages, the gritty Rio Grande River has worn its way through the limestone Mesa de Anguila, carving a narrow gorge 1,500-foot-deep.
The cut of Santa Elena Canyon can be seen for miles and miles
It must of been a rough life for the residents of the house. The house was on a small hill to keep from being flooded out with high water.
ÔÇöAccording to Indian legend, when the Great Creator made the earth and had finished placing the stars in the sky, the birds in the air, and the fish in the sea, there was a large pile of rejected stony materials left over. Finished with His job, He threw this into one heap and made the Big Bend
The name Big Bend is applied to the area surrounded on three sides by the Rio Grande, where this great river swings deeply southward into Mexico. All of the area in Brewster and Presidio counties south of the Southern Pacific Railway is commonly considered as the Big Bend country. Big Bend National Park lies within the southernmost tip of the area and is only a portion of the Big Bend country
Mule Ears Peaks, the name for these twin peaks requires no explanation
Pictured above:
one of the few tunnels in west Texas
Enter park through Maverick entrance (west end), and ride approximately 48 miles to Rio Grande Village, Boquillas Canyon, and Hot Springs
Pictured below:
Some (irrigated) large cottonwood trees on the Rio Grande Village Farm
Big Bend - Chisos Mountains
HOME OF HISTORIC STUDY BUTTE STORE This is the Big Bend's Walmart, as the nearest Walmart is more than 150 miles away in Fort Stockton. When was the last time you were 150 miles from a Walmart? When I am adventure riding, the further I am from a Walmart, the better the ride always seems to be.
Study Butte -(pronounced stoo-dee beaut)- named for a rancher who pronounced his name ``Stoody''
Study Butte/Terlingua (Tur-lin-gwa) owes its existence to the mercury mining (cinnabar) industry established in the area around 1900, now Study Butte and Terlingua (Tur-lin-gwa), are the homes to many retirees and adventurous motor bikers
The porch, upper left of photo
The mid-1880s discovery of cinnabar, from which the metal mercury is extracted brought miners to the area, creating a city of 2,000 people.
The only remnants of the mining days are a Chisos Mining Company ghost town of Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua, Texas cemetery
Goat Track Trail, Terlingua, Texas
Big Bend National Park - The Chisos
Looking up into the "Window" from western foothills of the Chisos Mountains, Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive
Looking up into the "Window"
western foothills of the Chisos Mountains
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Looking up into the "Window" from western foothills of the Chisos Mountains
There are things in Texas worse than a mere fifty miles of rock and sand. IÔÇÖd rather be broke down and lost in the wilds of Big Bend, any day, than wake up some morning in a penthouse suite high above the megalomania of Dallas or Houston.
-Edward Abbey
While most motorcycles will stay on the 112 miles of paved roads in the park, those with a dual sport motorcycle can enjoy over 150 miles of unpaved roads. Remember: stay on established roadways. No "off-road" allowed. All vehicles must be street-legal.
Standard Road Conditions:
Dagger Flat
Bumpy but ok for cars; very sandy near end of rd.
Grapevine Hills
Usually passable for all vehicles to trailhead
Hot Springs
Narrow road; no RVs, Trailers or wide vehicles
Old Maverick
Rough; often impassable after heavy rains.
Croton Springs
Slippery mud after any rain
Paint Gap
High-clearance past PG 3 campsite
Old Ore Road
High-clearance vehicles only
Glenn Springs
High-clearance vehicles only
Pine Canyon
High-clearance vehicles only; rough, rocky, & slow
Juniper Canyon
High-clearance vehicles only; rough, rocky, & slow
River Road East
HIGH-CLEARANCE (sand)
High-clearance vehicles only
Texas Tip
There are two "river roads" in the area of Big Bend National Park. One is the scenic paved state highway Texas FM170 (El Camino del Rio) connecting Lajitas to Presidio to the west of the park; the other is the fifty-mile primitive dirt road connecting Castolon to Rio Grande Village inside the national park.
River Road West
HIGH-CLEARANCE (sand)
High-clearance vehicles only
Black Gap Road
4x4 required! never maintained
North Rosillos Rd
Deep ruts and sand; little-traveled
Dirt Road Definitions
All Vehicles
These are maintained gravel roads where a standard 2WD drive passenger vehicle is able to travel at low speeds, on long, dry straight-of-ways, without losing control due to wash boarding, ruts, or dips. In hilly areas or in curves, the safe speeds may be significantly lower.
High Clearance
These are primitive roads where a high clearance 2WD vehicle is able to travel safely at low speeds on long dry straight-of-ways, without losing control due to wash boarding, ruts, or dips. All high clearance 2WD roads may be rocky with areas or soft gravel or sand that makes travel unsafe for sedans or RVs.
Four-Wheel-Drive (4x4) Roads
These are primitive roads where a high clearance 4WD vehicle, in four-wheel- drive, driven by a driver experienced in 4WD drive techniques, can drive the road without getting stuck. All 4WD roads may be rocky, with deep sand or gravel and steep hills.
Hi Bob
Bob's my buddy whom I bought my R100GS from. Last winter Bob sent some photo of dual sporting in the Big Bend area, and told me to stop on down to the Bend.
Heath Canyon, TX Abandoned International Bridge (La Linda Bridge)
AKA Hallie Stillwell International Bridge
La Linda Bridge is about five miles east of Big Bend National Park, but over a 100 mile round trip from the west entrance.
The closing of the bridge created the longest stretch of U.S.-Mexico border without a legal border crossing, almost 400 miles, between the Presidio, Texas-Ojinaga and Del Rio, Texas-Acuna crossings.
Closed and barricaded since 1997 by the U.S. Department of Treasury due to smuggling activity. . . Across the river lies the Mexican Abandoned mining village of La Linda, now owned by the Mexican goverment. There are no paved roads reaching La Linda on the Mexican side. La Linda began life as a fluorspar (mercury ore) mining town.
The bridge was built in 1964 by Dow Chemical to transport acid grade florspar ore from La Linda, Coahuila, to the railroad at Marathon. Dow sold the bridge to Dupont in 1972.
La Linda Linky
Jim Klas
BMW MOA Ambassador
Enjoy the travel photos at: klasjm.smugmug.com
Alright, my K75s have been my PMT for 9 years, I have 80K miles on my butt since 2000, 65K of which is in-and-around-town, so I don't mind pleading ignorance.
What's old-schooling?
www.advrider.com/ old-skool
3 entries found.
1 : adhering to traditional policies or practices
2 : characteristic or evocative of an earlier or original style, manner, or form
And from that Urban Dictionary
old school
Anything that is from an earlier era and looked upon with high regard or respect. Can be used to refer to music, clothing, language . . .motorcycles
Client: We have three PC's running MS-Dos 6.
Consultant: ...that's old school.
old school
Anything that refers to a previous generation of a subject/idea/object/etc. Typically, they are highly regarded and sometimes the very thing that started it all
Old School is in the Merriam-Webster, the (ing) suffix is the made up part. I make up words occasionally.
I like to see and photograph old things, like schools, churches, bridges, court houses. It will be a rare day when I take a photo of a new school, church or court house.
I also travel the same way I have been traveling for the last 32 years. I travel on an old Airhead, no cell phone, lap top, XM radio, Bluetooth or any of the other do daddies riders must have except for an older GPS.
I guess Oldschooling sounds better than oldthinging. I think "old's cool".


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Picks Up on 2012 Slip, Moves
to Top of PG Rankings
Cotuit Kettleers were ranked first on Perfect Game's list of the
nation's top summer college league teams at the conclusion of
regular-season play a year ago, but failed to close the deal by
getting bounced in the first round of the Cape Cod League playoffs.
forward to 2013, and the Kettleers again find themselves atop PG's
weekly ranking of the nation's top summer clubs. Through 10 games,
Cotuit is 7-3, and has replaced another Cape team at the top of the
heap. The Chatham Anglers (6-4) ranked No. 1 a week ago, but slipped
to No. 10 after losing four straight games.
rise to the top of the rankings is somewhat surprising, considering
the team has been besieged by defections to USA Baseball's college
national team, injuries and several projected top arms being shut
down for the summer by their college programs.
Tyle Beede (Vanderbilt) and Daniel Mengden (Texas A&M), both
tabbed as first-rounders a year from now, were lost to the national
team before the Cape season started, and the Kettleers suffered
another major blow when outfielder Brad Zimmer (San Francisco), the
best everyday prospect on this year's Cotuit club and another
possible first-rounder in next year's draft, left after seven games
to join Team USA.
is the younger brother of ex-USF righthander Kyle Zimmer, a relative
unknown who blossomed into the fifth overall pick in the 2012 draft
after a breakout 2011 summer season for Cotuit.
unexpected departure came on the heels of the Kettleers losing
catcher Aramis Garcia (Florida International), who was expected to be
the best catching prospect this summer on the Cape. After catching
every inning of every inning for FIU this spring, Garcia almost
immediately complained of a sore knee after joining Cotuit, and left
the Kettleers after playing in just one game this summer. He was the
Kettleers' No. 1 catcher last summer.
the Kettleers have been forced to plug on without the services of
righthanders Jordan Ramsey (East Carolina), Carson Fulmer
(Vanderbilt), Dusty Isaacs (Georgia Tech) and Wyatt Strahan (Southern
California)—all potential rotation pitchers who were shut down for
the summer before even joining Cotuit. Fulmer, a freshman
righthander, injured an eye in a freak training accident during NCAA
regional play, while the others were simply shut down after enduring
heavy workloads in the spring.
all has not been lost this summer for the Keyttleers, who managed to
pick up a number of key replacements, including the likes of Seton
Hill (Pa.) lefthander Alex Haines, the top prospect in the New
England Collegiate League last summer. Haines, a 6-foot-4 lefthander,
was expected to be an early-round pick in this year's draft, but
had a mediocre junior season and lasted all the way to the 33rd round, where he was finally taken by the Colorado Rockies.
afterthought status in the draft made him available to the Kettleers,
at least to start the 2013 summer season, and he responded in the
early going by leading the Cape with 14 strikeouts. He also had not
allowed an earned run or walked a batter in his first two starts,
spanning nine innings.
Kettleers also managed to secure the services of several other
players at the last minute who have been factors in the early going.
None may have contributed more to the team's success than
righthander/first baseman Mike Ford (Princeton), a holdover player
from 2012 who led the team in batting at .429, and also was 1-0, 1.92
in five innings on the mound.
lost a bundle so far," Cotuit coach Mike Roberts lamented, "but
I've also really been blessed with some of the replacement players
that we've managed to pick up. We'll just have to see if we can
stay healthy the rest of the way, and keep playing well."
Valley Holds At No. 2
by Cotuit and Chatham, a total of six teams from the Cape Cod League
occupy spots in Perfect Game's second Top 30 ranking of the 2013
season. Conceivably more teams from that league, regarded as the
nation's strongest, could be ranked except that a team must have at
least a .500 record overall to receive consideration. One Cape team
definitely on the outside looking in so far is defending champion
Wareham, which lost eight of its first nine games this season.
the Texas Collegiate League's Brazos Valley Bombers continue to
occupy the No. 2 spot in PG's Top 30.
Bombers (19-3) have gotten productive 2013 seasons at the plate from
Lubbock Christian (Texas) outfielder Brett Kauten, the NAIA leader in
home runs this spring, and two Texas junior-college products,
infielders Patrick McLendon (.357-2-16) and G.R. Hinsley (.289-2-17),
both of whom are moving on to Texas A&M in the fall. The Bombers
have also gotten solid performances from three starters, Middle
Tennessee State lefthander Zac Curtis (3-0, 0.49), Oral Roberts
righthander Guillermo Trujillo (2-1, 1.92) and Trinity (Texas)
lefthander Michael Walker (4-0, 0.63).
are ranked on the following criteria: won-loss record, league
dominance, depth and quality of professional-level talent and the
overall strength of the league.


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Evening: Depart on overnight flights from the USA.
Evening: Arrivals in Nairobi in the late evening. Meet your Study Leader on arrival and check in to the hotel.
Activity note: The drive from Nairobi to Amboseli will take at least 4 hours and part of the road is unpaved. 2-3 hour game drives at sunrise and in the late afternoon. There are no toilet facilities outside of the lodge
Breakfast: In the hotel.
Morning: Depart this morning by Safari Van for the Amboseli National Park.
Lunch: At the lodge in the Amboseli.
Afternoon: Meet your Study Leader for an orientation to game viewing and the wildlife of East Africa. Then put your new knowledge to work as you set out on your first game drive in the park. Before dinner, meet with an expert from the Amboseli Elephant Trust to learn about the majestic East African Elephant.
Dinner: Be welcomed to the Amboseli National Park with a dinner at the lodge.
Breakfast: In the lodge after the morning game drive.
Morning: As the sun rises, head out to continue the search through the varied wildlife habitats of the park. Later after a brief rest and before lunch, join your Study Leader for a presentation: "Understanding the Tribes of Kenya and Tanzania" with a focus on the culture and customs of the Maasai.
Lunch: In the lodge.
Afternoon: After lunch, head back out in search of big game.
Dinner: In the lodge.
Activity note: The drive from the lodge in Amboseli to the border will take at least 3 hours and part of the road is unpaved and can be rough at some times of year. The drive from the border to Arusha will take 2 hours and is paved.
Breakfast: In the lodge.
Morning: This morning we leave early, enjoying a scenic game drive through the western part of Amboseli to the Tanzanian border. Late in the morning we stop at the border for formalities and to change vehicles. We continue our drive from the border to the city of Arusha for lunch. The drive offers an excellent look into rural life in Kenya and Tanzania.
Lunch: In Arusha at a local hotel.
Afternoon: Located in the northern highlands of Tanzania, beneath the twin peaks of Mt. Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro, Arusha is the safari capital of the country. Guests embarking on the popular northern safari circuit all stop in the 'Geneva of Africa' to prepare for their journeys into the African bush. From its two-lane streets, the dramatic crater of Mt. Meru stands over the town like a majestic sentinel, its crater strewn with thick clouds, its slopes dark with verdant forest. Arusha's ideal location near the major national parks and its highland setting make it a peaceful idyll of relaxation before the start of an exciting journey. Built by the Germans as a center of colonial administration in the early 20th century, Arusha was a sleepy town with a garrison stationed at the old boma and a few shops around a grassy roundabout. From its backwater status amidst the farmlands and plantations of northern Tanzania, today Arusha is one of the country's most prosperous towns. The site for the United Nations Criminal Tribunal on the Rwandan genocide and the headquarters for the Tripartite commission for East African Co-operation, Arusha is a major center of Tanzanian diplomacy and international relations.
Dinner: At the lodge near Arusha.
Activity note: The drive from the lodge in Arusha to Lake Manyara National Park will take at 3 hours and the road is paved except inside the park. The drive from Lake Manyara National Park to the Lodge in Ngorongo will take about 3.5 hours and is also paved most of the way except part of the road is unpaved and can be rough at some times of year. While long, this day offers some excellent scenic driving and a unique look into rural East Africa.
Breakfast: In the lodge.
Morning: This morning we leave early, enjoying a scenic game drive through more of rural Tanzania and the Baobab Tree countryside. Lake Manyara National Park: We will visit this park located beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment, on the edge of the Rift Valley, to discover it's varied ecosystems, rich in wildlife and incredible numbers of birds. The alkaline soda of Lake Manyara is home to an incredible array of bird life that thrives on its brackish waters. Pink flamingo stoop and graze and give colorful specks against the grey minerals of the lake shore. Yellow-billed storks swoop and corkscrew on thermal winds rising up from the escarpment, and herons flap their wings against the sun-drenched sky. Even reluctant bird-watchers will find something to watch and marvel at within the national park. Lake Manyara's famous tree-climbing lions are another reason why we will visit the park however we can not guarantee their sightings. The only kind of their species in the world, they make the ancient mahogany and elegant acacias their home during the rainy season, and are a well-known but rather rare feature of the northern park. In addition to the lions, the national park is also home to the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world — a fact that accounts for interesting game viewing of large families of the primates.
Lunch: On the way at a local restaurant.
Afternoon: We climb the escarpment and continue to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, where agriculture, wildlife conservation and tourism co-exist in one of Africa's first experiments of multiple-land use. Upon arriving at the park gates learn more about the larger conservation area from your Study Leader. Prior to dinner take the time to enjoy the view of the crater floor from your rooms or from the terrace. The crater rim is a perfect viewpoint to observe the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere.
Dinner: At the lodge.
Breakfast: In the lodge.
Morning: Descend the slope into the Ngorongoro Crater in 4-wheel-drive vehicles to spend the morning observing wildlife on the floor of the crater. The 102 square miles of the Ngorongoro Crater are home to 25,000 mammals, many of which are resident due to the geographically enclosed nature of the crater. The crater is also home to the last population of black rhino in northern Tanzania.
Lunch: Stop for an adventurous picnic lunch in the Ngorongoro Crater.
Afternoon: Continue your time in the unique Ngorongoro crater on an afternoon game drive before returning to the lodge. Watch the unmissable Ngorongoro Crater sunset. The sun makes a dramatic exit as it sinks below the crater rim. Later enjoy an early evening Presentation: "The Crater Ecosystem and Conservation."
Dinner: Dinner in the lodge.
Activity note: The drive from Ngorongoro Crater Lodge to Olduvai Gorge is 2 hours on a non paved road. The drive from Olduvai Gorge to Seronera Wildlife Lodge varies according to how much game is seen en route.
Breakfast: In the lodge.
Morning: Depart early, with luggage, leaving the Crater Rim and make your way to the Serengeti. En route, visit the Olduvai Gorge Museum and learn about the Leakey's research and discovery of the earliest known species of humanoids.
Lunch: A box lunch is provided to eat at the Serengeti Visitor center picnic area. The area also has a nice walking path up rocky outcrops known as 'kopjes' for those looking to stretch their legs.
Afternoon: As you continue driving to the lodge, enjoy a game drive though the plains of the Serengeti. In February, this area can get very crowded with zebras, wildebeest and gazelles, often with young newborns; be on the lookout for wildlife, as this unfenced land is all part of the Serengeti ecosystem.
Dinner: At the camp.
Evening: Late evening Presentation: Stargazing – A Unique Night Under the African Sky led by your Study Leader. (weather permitting).
Breakfast: At the camp after the morning game drive.
Morning: Get out early to search for game and perhaps a fresh kill just as the sun rises over the Serengeti. Look for fresh tracks and see the Park come to life.
Lunch: Boxed lunch en route.
Afternoon: In the Afternoon before going back out on safari, stop at the Serengeti Visitor Center to experience an illustrated presentation about the "Circle of Life". After the presentation, return to the plains to follow the watering holes along the Seronera creek in search of antelope, and other creatures gathering to re-hydrate.
Dinner: Dinner at the camp in the Serengeti National Park.
Activity note: The drive between Moru Kopje and Speke Bay Lodge takes 4 to 5 hours and the roads could be particularly rough and dusty. There are no toilet facilities outside the camps, your Group leader will schedule a couple of stops to break this enduring journey.
Breakfast: In the lodge.
Morning: In the early morning depart the camp to enjoy a scenic drive through the Western Corridor to the shores of Lake Victoria. As we drive west watch for the abundant resident wildlife stopping along the way to observe new sightings. Keep a lookout for animals as you finish the drive to Lake Victoria. Arrive at your lodge on the shores of Lake Victoria.
Lunch: At the Lodge
Afternoon: Enjoy a nature excursion on this beautiful lake led by an expert guide. During sunset, both sky and lake explode with light.
Dinner: In the lodge.
Activity note: The drive between Speke Bay Lodge and the Kenyan border takes 3 hours and the roads are tarmac. The border crossing procedures could take up to one hour. There are no toilet facilities outside the camps, your Group leader will schedule a couple of stops to break this journey.
Breakfast: In the lodge.
Morning: After breakfast continue north to Kenya. As you drive on the main road, you will notice completely different local architecture passing through local villages. After crossing the border, continue to Migori where a charter flight awaits to bring you to the Maasai Mara. When you arrive in the Maasai Mara, the trip to the lodge is a morning game drive. Search for the creatures of the Mara before arriving at your lodge.
Lunch: At the lodge in the Maasai Mara.
Afternoon: In the afternoon set out on a game drive from your lodge/camp keeping a watch for many resident lion prides or the fastest of all cheetah.
Dinner: Enjoy dinner in the lodge.
Breakfast: In the camp after the morning game drive.
Morning: As the light brightens over the Mara, head toward the river to observe hippo, crocodile and birdlife. Depending on the migration, you may see wildebeest attempting the dangerous crossing. Later in the morning before lunch join a local Masai Moran on a nature walk through the edges of the Maasai Mara Park. Learn about local plant life and maybe observe some insects and lizards.
Lunch: At the camp.
Afternoon: There is a possibility that you will visit a Maasai Village en route today. It is truly a journey into timelessness, back to the way things have been for thousands of years. Some Road Scholars remain forever touched by the experience, the apparent purity, hopefulness, discipline, and pride of the Maasai people they shared this time with. However, we would like to prepare you for the reality of this visit. We hope you will understand that there is an element where you will be asked to buy their wares, trinkets, wood carvings, etc. at an improvised village market. The goods offered do not have prices on them. We have asked the Maasai elders to price the goods several times; however, they have not done so yet and do not understand why we are asking them to - to the extent where they think we are trying to westernize them. At this time, Road Scholar finds itself wanting to preserve the experience such that it is, however, would ask that you resist the selling pressure and stand firm and refuse purchase of any goods if you feel uncomfortable at any time. In the afternoon set out on your final game drive. Enjoy the sounds and sights as you say farewell to the Maasai Mara. Later join your Study Leader for a final wrap-up session and presentation.
Dinner: Final dinner in the Maasai Mara at the lodge.
Activity note: Today you will fly from Maasai Mara back to Nairobi.
Breakfast: In the camp after the morning game drive.
Morning: At dawn, embark on a drive toward the river to observe hippo, crocodile and birdlife. Depending on the migration, you may see wildebeest attempting the dangerous crossing. Late Morning - Board a small plane back to Nairobi
Lunch: In a local restaurant on arrival in Nairobi.
Afternoon: Check in to the hotel. The remainder of the afternoon is at leisure.
Dinner: Your choice to explore local fare. Suggestions will be provided locally.
Evening: At leisure
Activity note: We hope you enjoy Road Scholar learning adventures and look forward to having you on rewarding programs in the future. Please be in touch via the Road Scholar Social Network, where you can share memories, pictures, and comments. Best wishes for all your journeys!
Breakfast: At the hotel.
Morning: Depart for the elephant orphanage and learn about the conservation efforts here, you will also have the chance to feed the elephants. During a special presentation, learn about the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife Kenya efforts to increase the numbers of endangered Rothschild Giraffe at the Giraffe Center, where you will have the rare treat of hand-feeding these gentle giants and face them eye-to-eye from an elevated viewing platform.
Lunch: Lunch at a local restaurant.
Afternoon: Enjoy an afternoon at leisure to rest and pack prior to your flight. You have the use of your day room until 6 PM. We will be leaving for the airport shortly after this time.
Dinner: Your choice to explore local fare.
Evening: Coach departs to the airport with luggage.


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July 27, 2010
Twilight Merchandise Fail?
12 comments:
Are you supposed to paint it yourself? I'd totally give Bella a unibrow.ReplyDelete
I saw this online the other day - that's just the model. The final version is painted :) And, it will be on my tree this year!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2010 at 2:05 AM
AfterMyCar is totally right...i work at a hallmark and can confirm that it is JUST a model...the real *completed* version will be available july of next year (or october depending on when they decide to release it, but i'm sure a big seller like that one will be in july)...i already think this model looks better than the current ornament out though!ReplyDelete
I would love to have some Twilight stuff on my tree ; ) I'm not really sure about this though, but you guys say it looks better when it's done, so we'll see ; )ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2010 at 2:49 AM
I dont agree with the fail comment. I love the fact that they are making Twilight collectible ornaments. Im sure it will be beautiful when its painted! I bought this years and even though its not a work of art, its still has a place on my tree!ReplyDelete
Is it wood maybe?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2010 at 4:38 AM
Sorry, won't be hanging a Twilight themed ornament on my Christmas tree, that's just sad. Doubt the hubby would like it so much either. lolReplyDelete
Wait..is it even for your tree? It says it's an "ornament".
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2010 at 5:03 AM
I am sorry to all of you out there who buy this stuff, I feel sick and amused at the same time! The mech on this series is sick, and cheap, and all kinds of wrong. I get certain things posters, t-shirts, "action figures", But the rest of it is just a bunch of fat cats around a table thinking of new ways to seperate you from your money, and doing it with cheaply made products, made by god knows who for cents on the doller. They are as bad as the pound scum paps! If I wanted something of Twilight, (besides the movies/books) it would be a prop from the movie itself, other then that, no thanks I'll pass...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2010 at 6:23 AM
this is a prototype, I'm sure.ReplyDelete
I just wanted to shout out to all my favorite bloggers. Thanks for giving me something to look forward to everyday! :) Keep on keepin on xo you are amazingReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2010 at 4:32 AM
Aw come on ladies..Look at movies like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings..All those movies changed the face of Pop culture, just like Twilight. They all have tons of crap too!ReplyDelete
Enjoy the cheesey merchandise! Embrace your inner Twilight-ness. Some people like to have fun and buy ugly tree ornaments. I am happy to put that on my tree!
For the Twilight fans, Eclipse should thrill and excite to no end; for the rest of the world, it stands as the best of the three in the saga.ReplyDelete


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Cardpeek is a tool to read the contents of ISO7816 smartcards. It features a GUI to represent card data in a tree view, and it is extendable with a scripting language (LUA). The goal of this project is to allow smartcard owners to be better informed about what type of personal information is stored in these devices. The tool currently reads the contents of: EMV bank cards, Calypso public transport cards (such as Navigo, RavKav, and Mobib), Belgian eID cards, GSM SIM cards, the French Vitale 2 health card, some Mifare cards, and Moneo electronic purse cards.
A simple WebDAV 1.0 server.
An OpenGL library for image-based CSG rendering.


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BlackBerry Torch 9810 Pictures
RIM BlackBerry Torch 9810 happens to have a clear cut design similarity with the original handset. However, looking past the surface and deeper into its hardware, there's something beating much faster under the hood that's going to supply the handset some much needed processing power. It is packing on a serious 1.2GHz processor with hardware acceleration to really make it tangle with the other big guns in the industry. Moreover, it sports the same size 3.2" touchscreen but now with improved VGA resolution, 8GB of internal storage, and 768MB RAM. Other features include GPS, 5-megapixel camera with flash and HD video, Bluetooth 2.1, 1270 mAh battery, magnetometer, and an accelerometer.


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I had a vision of colourful flowers in the small pool here at the Swiss Oasis so, a couple of nights ago, when all the other guests were out, Ty and I set up the camera and I had some fun playing Ophelia floating amongst the flowers.
See more pics of this project here.
Puerto is still very much a fishing town, and lately the fishing seems pretty good, at least judging from the catch brought up on the Playa Principal, the main beach.
You just never know when you'll run into a juggling clown …
or a piggie at the market.
On the weekend the beaches here at Puerto Escondido are packed out with local families, all laughing, having fun, and playing in the surf.
The kids here get introduced to the water very young; many of the families with tiny babies were in the waves with these little cuties, enjoying jumping in the big surf.
One couple had their very small child quite far out in the water on a tiny inflatable device.
At Playa Manzanillo the waves have been high for the last few days – olas altas took a number of people off guard, including one granny sitting on a walk who was completely engulfed, and the oyster lady, who suffered a gigantic wave up her shorts and jumped up laughing.
The Babylon Cafe near us has a fabulous collection of painted wooden masks – I am coveting all of them … (click on the link below to see more of them).
And we discovered a sushi restaurant on the beach … not as good as the one we go to in Vancouver, but not bad (don't order a tequila drink, though – just juice, no juice).
Just a couple of days ago we discovered the Camino al Mirador, a walkway along the sea travelling from the Playa Principal to near the Playa Manzanillo.
It reminds me quite a bit of the Lovers Walk section of Italy's Cinque Terre hike, with the same concrete and stone walkways along a steep rocky shore.The cacti here are absolutely enormous – like trees, and some have very soft brown fluffy attachments, flowers, I suppose.
In spots, this walkway has broken down and bits of it can be seen in the ocean; in other areas, the concrete is starting to crack and deteriorate – Ty figures that it will only last another few years before it drops into the ocean.
Along its length anonymous artists have tagged the shoreline and street philosophers have inscribed their thoughts into and onto the rock.
On today's walk I floated some flowers on a small seaside pond,
while the female dog who joined us sat panting in the shade,
and installed 20 strands of coloured ribbon on a promontory viewpoint to watch them dance in the stiff breeze. These we left behind for passersby to enjoy.
Just another hard day at the office … Puerto Escondido is great – highly recommended!
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The Phillies escaped from New York with a series win as they defeated the Yankees in extra-innings, 4-3.
The Phillies escape both New York and the Yankees by winning the rubber match of their three-games series with the Bronx Bombers, winning the game 4-3 in extra-innings, in spite of Brad Lidge having his second straight blown save and his third blown save during an otherwise very successful road trip.
The Phils took a quick 1-0 lead in the third, as, with a man on, and two men outs, Jimmy Rollins hits an RBI double, scoring Carlos Ruiz, who had earlier singled. One batter later, Shane Victorino would give the Phils a 2-0 lead by hitting an RBI single, scoring Rollins from second base. The Yankees would get a run back in their half of the second, as, with one man on, and two men outs, Johnny Damon hits an RBI double, knocking in Francisco Cervelli, who had earlier doubled, cutting the Phils' lead to 2-1. The next batter, Mark Teixeira, followed with a single to left, sending Damon to home plate. But Damon would be cut down at the plate by a very strong throw from left fielder Jayson Werth, as Phils' catcher Ruiz blocked home plate, preserving the Phils' lead. The Phils would make it a 3-1 lead in the sixth as, with one man on base, and nobody out, Raul Ibanez hits an RBI double, scoring Victorino, who had earlier singled. In the Yankees' half of the inning, they would cut the Phils' lead down to 3-2 as Teixeira hits a ball that had broken his bat in half, that by all rights should've been the inning's first out, but some how instead landed deep in the left field seats for Teixeira's thirteenth home run of the season. In the ninth, the Phils handed the ball over to Lidge for the save. And, for the second straight day, Lidge blew the save opportunity, as, with a runner on second, and nobody out, he gave up an RBI single to Melky Cabrera, who knocked in pinch runner Ramiro Pena, who had taken over first base from Robinson Cano, who had earlier singled, then stole second, tying the game up at three-all. Lidge then buckled down, and kept the Yanks from doing any more damage, sending the game into extra-innings. In the eleventh, the Phils retook the lead, as, with one man on, and two outs, Ruiz hits an RBI double, scoring Chase Utley, who had earlier walked, to make it 4-3 Phils. Clay Condrey would then pitch a 1-2-3 inning to pick up the win.
Cole Hamels received a no-decision as he pitched six strong innings, giving up just two runs on eight hits, while striking out five. Chad Durbin got his third hold of the season as he pitched a scoreless inning, giving up just a hit. Scott Eyre recorded his seventh hold as he got out the only man he would face. Ryan Madson received his ninth hold as he pitched two-thirds of an inning, giving up no runs or hit. Brad Lidge blew his second straight save and his fourth save opportunity of the season, as he gave up a run on two hits, while striking out a batter. Clay Condrey picked up the win as he pitched two scoreless innings, giving up just two hits and a walk, getting out of a major jam in the tenth. His record is now 4-0 with a 2.19 ERA. C.C. Sabathia also received a no-decision as he pitched eight innings, giving up three runs on nine hits, while he struck out three. Jose Veras pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a walk, as he struck out two. Mariano Rivera also pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a hit, while striking out one. Brett Tomko took the lost as he pitched an inning, giving up a run on one hit and two walks. His record is now 0-1 with a 4.15 ERA.
The Phillies had eleven hits in the game, with Shane Victorino and Carlos Ruiz leading the way with three hits each. Raul Ibanez and Ryan Howard then followed with two hits apiece. Jimmy Rollins got the other Phils' hit. Rollins, Victorino, Ibanez and Ruiz each knocked in a run. The Phils will come home to Citizens Bank Park from a very successful road trip, which will include their starters throwing three straight jems against the Yankees in the new Yankess Stadium in which none of them walked a batter. They will be hoping that they can continue their winning ways at home.
The Phillies (24-18, 1st) come home to start a three-games home stand against the Marlins (20-25, 4th). The game will start at 7:05 pm Eastern at Citizens Bank Park. The Phillies' starter will be the Marlins tamer Jamie Moyer (3-4, 7.62), who is coming off a good start, even though a lost, against the Reds on May 20, in which he pitched six strong innings, giving up three runs on nine hits and three walks, while striking out two, in the Phils' 5-1 lost. He is still looking for his 250th career win, and hoping to keep his spot in the rotation. The Marlins will counter with Chris Volstad (3-3, 3.64), who is coming off a win against the Diamondbacks on May 20, in which he went six innings, giving up four runs on five hits and and a walk, while he struck out nine, in the Marlins' 8-6 win of the first game of a make-up doubleheader. He will be looking for his fourth win of the year. The Phillies presently have a game and a half lead in the National League East over both the Mets and the Braves. They will be seeing about increasing their lead in the East while putting the Marlins a further distance behind them.


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Did you see Eat Pray Love? I didn't, and even though I loathed the book, sooner or later I'm sure I will catch the film. I just won't hand over any of my own shekels to do it (even though, in a roundabout way, my cable company will pocket something). Today, let's return to my favorite book to movie obsession featuring a novel I will never read and its journey into a movie I'll never watch but I'm nothing if not a populist and I know that 9/10's of the modern world did read and will watch so here goes. Turns out, the wait is over. This time they've found their Dragon-Tattooed Girl for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. And if you haven't seen the headlines, there's a lovely young lady who's about to get a taste of Kristen Stewart's life. Nor does anyone have the faintest idea about whether 25-year old actress Rooney Mara is as flummoxed by the off-camera spotlight as Stewart, but let's hope she isn't, because this gal's probably looking at a minimum of four years of flashbulbs and scrutiny. And it's official – after what's been the most closely- followed casting conundrum in all of Hollywood (director David Fincher said he wanted an "unknown") they've finally found their girl. Plus, these franchises are so valuable (see Rowling, J.K. & Meyer, S.) that nobody signs on for just the one movie. They've already cranked up the machine to churn out three, and the actors (who also include Daniel Craig & Robin Wright) are aboard too. So who is Rooney Mara? (You will be seeing this question in print and on TV a lot in the coming weeks/months. Thus here's a quick intro to bring you ahead of the curve). Let's say you wind up at a party this weekend and someone turns to you and asks if you've been following this whole Dragon Tattoo book to movie thing. And even if you haven't – even if you did in fact find the book waaaay too gruesome, you can just point out that "everyone knows that kind of misogynistic violence is pure catnip to a Hollywood filmmaker ." And then return to your beer or your onion dip. Now, when the conversation turns to the girl who'll actually play the elfin goth computer hacker heroine, you're also prepared – with a little something extra. Certainly moviegoers will know that Rooney Mara is about to appear in the upcoming film The Social Network (a.k.a. the Facebook Movie). They might even know she was in that Michael Cera vehicle Youth In Revolt or the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street. Her sister Kate is an actress working a lot nowadays too. But again, those are movie facts and unless you're a total film geek, they are no more interesting than any other actor's CV. But there's something about her pedigree that will guarantee maximum interest from casual onlookers. Believe it or not, this chick's got major sports cred. For true. Rooney Mara hails from a very famous NFL family: one of her great grandfathers founded the New York Giants. And the other great grandfather ? He started the Pittsburgh Steelers. How's that for a dynasty? That's who Rooney Mara is. Now you know. With this in mind let's look at a few of our favorite action heroines. Voice your choice in today's featured poll and tell us which of these lovely ladies makes the best action hero:
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Holy cow, has our volume picked up! And from colleagues it's not just here, it's throughout the ED's of North Texas. Less than 3 years ago my ED occasionally held admitted patients. This morning, we were holding 27, and that's nowhere near the high for the last several weeks.
We have theories, but no facts, as to why this is occurring, and there's no end in sight (we're looking). One of my favorite quotes has to do with personnel management: "You ride your best horses to death"; in this instance, our staff are all thoroughbreads, and they're tired. Troopers, but tired.
Tangentially, this has made me have some uncharitable thoughts: who were the genuises in the mid to late 80's I kept reading about who had meetings and decided we had way too much hospital capacity, too many beds, and we needed to close them to avoid disaster. I'd like to have them carry urine samples in my ED, all day long. It's a fitting punishment.
And, again, we lack any prolonged surge capacity. We're running full, at top speed, all the time. We could handle something like a plane crash, but an epidemic (natural or manmade) would be nearly impossible to manage.
Where are the pointy haired fortune tellers who set us up? Send them to me, I have something for them to carry.


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8 tips to avoid winter driving wrecks
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2. Traction is everything. You control your vehicle with steering, braking, and acceleration. When it gets slick, go easy on the accelerator, but also on the steering wheel and brakes. If you jerk the wheel in wet snow, the car will likely continue to go in a straight line even if the tires are turned all the way to one side.
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4. Assume that other drivers are amateurs. This really depends upon where you live, but unless you're in some tiny town where you're acquainted with everybody and know who can drive well and who can't, don't give other drivers the benefit of the doubt. If you see another car coming, give it as much space as possible.
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6. Practice makes perfect. If you live somewhere where it snows a lot—or at all, really—it's not a bad idea to find a vacant parking lot in which to practice driving in the white stuff. Hit the gas, slam on the brakes, jerk the steering wheel. Slide the car and spin it around to see what those things feel like and how best to straighten out. This will help you learn your car's limits.
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Fielder carries Derby win into ASG
Prince of Monday not king of Classic, but makes splash
By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com
Prince Fielder won the State Farm Home Run Derby on Monday night at Busch Stadium, and he carried it over into Tuesday night's All-Star Game. It wasn't a big splash, but he'll take the second-inning pinch-hit, RBI double off American League starter Roy Halladay.
"To do that in the All-Star Game, I really enjoyed it. It was fun," Fielder told FOX after the AL defeated the National League, 4-3, on Tuesday night, extending its All-Star Game streak to unbeaten streak to 13, dating back to 1996.Fielder went from Derby winner to pinch-hitter and immediately left the game. It was pretty typical. Since '96, when an individual winner in the Derby was declared for the first time, the Big Bopper on Monday has only once been named the Most Valuable Player of the game on Tuesday. That honor goes to Garrett Anderson, then of the Angels, who defeated Cardinals great Albert Pujols in the Derby and then was named MVP of the AL's come-from-behind 7-6 victory over the NL at Chicago's U.S. Cellular Field. Back in 1991 at what was then called Toronto's Skydome, Cal Ripken Jr. led all Derby participants with 12 homers, but back in those days, the winner was declared by league and the AL bested the NL sluggers, 20-7. The next night, Ripken was named MVP of the AL's 4-2 victory. Long before he broke Lou Gehrig's Iron Man record of 2,130 consecutive games played, the Orioles' Hall of Fame shortstop was 2-for-3 in the game with a homer, a run scored and three RBIs -- the most by someone who paced the same summer's Derby. Justin Morneau of the Twins won the Derby last year at the old Yankee Stadium, while J.D. Drew of the Red Sox was the MVP of the AL's 4-3, 15-inning win over the NL. Two years ago at AT&T Park in San Francisco, the Angels' Vladimir Guerrero won the Derby and Ichiro Suzuki was named MVP of another AL victory. Morneau, who came off the bench last year, went 2-for-4 with two runs scored a day after he bested the Rangers' Josh Hamilton in the final round of the Derby. Morneau's pair of runs in the All-Star Game are the most scored by any player who won a Derby the previous evening. Morneau won the Derby finals, 5-3, but was out-homered overall by Hamilton, 35-22, on a night when the Rangers' slugger put on an impressive show by splaying long-distant shots all over the now-closed yard. The most hits among Derby winners? Anderson did it. He had three in that 2003 game in four at-bats, including two RBIs, a run scored and a home run. The night before, Anderson had bested Pujols in the Derby finals, 9-8. The collective All-Star Game stats of Derby winners from 1985 to present are as follows: 19-for-57 (.333) with three homers, eight runs scored and 12 RBIs in 25 games. Fielder and the AL will take it.
Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Bearers of Light and Life
IN the past days, two major events related to our Christmas celebration, which also speaks of volumes of some of the themes of Christmas, were held in the University. The first was the Lights-on Ceremonies last December 7 and the other one was the Annual Christmas gathering of employees sponsored by the USAFAPA last December 11.
These two events in a way speak to us about the meaning of Christmas. The lights-on more than beautifying the school with vibrant lights, points to us a deeper message about Christmas, which Christ is the true light.
Christmas is a time of hope since Christ as the true light has the power to dispel the darkness and gloom of the night.
Christmas time happens near winter solstice in the Northern hemisphere when the night time is at its longest.
The breaking in of Christmas, or the birth of Christ is a magnificent symbol to all believers that no matter how deep the darkness is, there is hope; and this hope is no other than Christ himself.
We might be overshadowed and consumed by deep and frigid darkness, but we need not be afraid for Christ is coming, Christ is the light.
Christmas reminds us that dark-ness does not have the final say in life; rather, it is light, who is no other than Christ.
As an Augustinian community we are called to be bearers of this light to others. We should not expect the world we live in to be devoid of its shadows and dark nights. Rather, we should be ready to live in a world full of darkness, and it is in that kind of world where our light shines the most.


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This quilt was so much fun to make! My local quilt guild issued a challenge of making a quilt with nothing but grays and one florescent color of your choice. My immediate thoughts went to "owls". I started sketching and it went from whimsical to realistic. I went outside and gathered a couple of pine tree branches and pine cones and then went to a friends who is a taxidermist and looked at an owl. It is always better to look at the real thing (if possible) when trying to draw it. This really got me excited. Well, all my sketches turned into this design. It was all hand appliqued and hand quilted. I added the metallic thread (which was really frustrating but worth it) to give it a little sparkle.
It goes to our quilt show in March where it will be judged. Wish me luck!


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I want to replace the valve guides in a set of heads.My choices are BMW original parts or Epco high temp guides,which are a little more costly.Any insights as to these valve guides.??? Thank You
I want to replace the valve guides in a set of heads.My choices are BMW original parts or Epco high temp guides,which are a little more costly.Any insights as to these valve guides.??? Thank You
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HI ,in the past I have taken my heads to my local car speed machine shop, they advised me not to disturb the old guides, but have them reamed and a liner,sleive installed!first time this was done they used my old valves ,that was about20 years ago, a couple of years ago I bought new valves ,300,000 plus km on the old ones,they once again installed a liner slieve,and all seems well, I understand this is popular in the uk on vintage/classic bikes and cars ,it saves the valve seat being recut at different angles,each time the guides are renewed,so far I have put over 200,000km on lined guides, also much cheaper hope this assists Jimmy
Sorry I dont know, but the company I used was Forest&Forest racing in Kitchener ontario,they build race cars and drag strip cars and all sorts of street mods , they also race tune motorcycles,just two brothers no web site,but always busy,they have machine repaired my 5th gear shaft and gear,p s I have just found out they have moved premises to Ayr ontario,check your local yellow pages for auto machine shops ,hope this assists ,Jimmy
Hello again,have done a google search under "scroll valve guide inserts"and all sorts came up try head shop for info,also this months" classic bike" a gentleman uses them on his Ducati ,again hope this assists Jimmy
I replaced the guides on my R75/6 with some "high temp" ones. Watch out because some of the are shorter than the BMW part. A little less support for the valve stem.
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There have been a lot of new models and textures datamined out of the current Cataclysm beta. Cities are getting face-lifts, bridges are being finished, and entire zones are getting made-over. Even the water in the game is getting overhauled.
The problem is sometimes things appear to get missed. Let's take the druid forms as an example. The old druid cat and bear forms were around long past their prime before finally being updated. The aquatic and regular flight forms for both night elves and tauren have the long, elvish ears instead of each race getting something more unique like the art above. The land travel form itself is nothing more than the cheetah monster model without any tweaks for either current druid race.
Another example is our old enemies, the murlocs. In Wrath we got cousins to the murlocs know as the gorlocs which have a newer and shinier model than their non-arctic brethren. We've even seen a few glimpses of deep-sea murlocs coming in the expansion which are also up to the modern modeling standards which put the old murlocs to shame.
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Bob Dylan has already gotten some attention for his rather violent video for "Duquesne Whistle," the first single from his Tempest album. Now, there's a "lyric video" for the same song that takes a cue from his classic video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues." In that iconic clip, Dylan holds cue cards with the lyrics from his song. In the new video, fans photographed signs with the song's lyrics.
The video was crowd sourced; fans submitted their photos to Instagram with the hashtag #DylanLyricPhotos.
Instagram is a social network that allows users to share photos with "followers." The photos, generally taken on a smartphone (but could be taken on a regular camera and imported to the phone) can be altered via Instagram's many filters, and are easily shared via Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.
(photos courtesy of Instagram) Catch the lyric video at Metrolyrics.
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Pryor condemned the ad as "disgusting" and accused the group of using the shooting to score political points.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group co-founded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, began airing the 30-second spot statewide Friday and will continue running it over the next two weeks. Angela Bradford-Barnes, the party's former chief financial officer, doesn't specifically name the late Bill Gwatney in the 30-second spot but referred to his death in a statement issued by the group.
"When my dear innocent friend was shot to death, I didn't blame guns. I blamed a system that makes it so terribly easy for criminals or the dangerous mentally ill to buy guns," Bradford-Barnes said in the television ad. "That's why I was so disappointed when Mark Pryor voted against comprehensive background checks. On that vote, he let us down."
The ad is airing as Pryor is running for re-election as the only Democrat in Washington from Arkansas, a state that has turned increasingly Republican in recent years. Though he doesn't have an announced opponent, the two-term lawmaker is widely viewed by Republicans as the most vulnerable Senate incumbent.
Gwatney died in August 2008 after he was shot three times by Timothy Dale Johnson, 50, at the state party headquarters in downtown Little Rock. Johnson was later killed by police after a chase. Johnson suffered from anxiety and insomnia, but police closed their investigation without answering why he killed Gwatney.
Pryor said the background checks measure he voted against last month wouldn't have prevented Gwatney's death.
"Mayor Bloomberg's attack ad politicizes the death of my friend by misleading people into thinking that his bill would have prevented Bill Gwatney's tragic death," Pryor said. "The fact is it wouldn't have, which makes Mayor Bloomberg's ad even more disgusting."
Though it stopped short of directly condemning the ad, the state Democratic Party criticized any efforts to use Gwatney's death for political gain.
"Bill Gwatney was a friend and inspiration to all Democrats. Not a day goes by that we don't think about his tragic death and miss him," Party Spokeswoman Candace Martin said in a statement issued by the party. "We don't believe it is right for any organization to politicize this tragedy."
Pryor has said a competing measure he backed would have done more to prevent gun violence by increasing penalties for straw purchases — in which someone legally buys a gun for a criminal or a person barred from owning one — and by requiring states, courts and agencies to report mental health records to the background check system. Both measures failed before the U.S. Senate last month.
The ad is the latest move by the group againt Pryor, one of five Democrats who voted against the expanded background checks measure. Pryor and Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska are the only Democrats who opposed the measure who are seeking re-election next year.
Bloomberg's group ran ads before the background checks vote, urging him to support the measure. The director of the group earlier this month said it planned to air radio ads and send direct mail pieces — with a focus on African-American voters— criticizing Pryor over the vote.
At the same time, Pryor has also been the subject of ads in recent months by conservative groups such as the Club for Growth hoping to unseat him next year.


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I have an Acer 7750G laptop with Ati Radeon HD 6650M graphics. Over the past few weeks I've been trying to enable accelerated graphics. Here is a report on my progress. Right now the internal LCD (LVDS) and VGA are working, HDMI is not.
First, I added the 6650M id to ati.c in chameleon (0x6741) and recompiled, using instructions from notshy.
Adding ATI card IDs to ATI.c
I placed the recompiled boot file on my EFI (boot) partition. This allowed me to boot with GraphicsEnabler=Yes, and to choose a framebuffer using AtiConfig=x, where x is the framebuffer name. None of the 6000 level framebuffers worked for the LVDS, but at least two including Cattail and Fanwort did work for HDMI with acceleration.
Using information from bbc9 and mucha,
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I edited the Cattail framebuffer using information from the video bios dump. I still couldn't get a working LVDS. Then are found this topic by k540kkk on using Ipomoea on a 6470M.
Using Ipomoea on 6470M
So using this as guide, I entered by own senseid and k640kkk's information into Ipomoea, and and rebooted. Now I'm getting a full screen accelerated image on my internal LCD, and VGA seems to be working. To make this work for you, add the boot file below to your boot partition, edit ATI6000Controller.kext using the information below and boot with the flags "GraphicsEnabler=Yes" and AtiConfig=Ipomoea. Any thoughts or comments are appreciated.
Personality: Ipomoea ConnectorInfo count in decimal: 3 Disk offset in decimal 531240 0000000: 02 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 29 01 00 00 20 01 01 03 0000010: 00 08 00 00 04 02 00 00 00 01 00 00 21 03 03 01 0000020: 10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 01 05
ATOM BIOS Rom: SubsystemVendorID: 0x1025 SubsystemID: 0x050e IOBaseAddress: 0x3000 Filename: BR039370.007 BIOS Bootup Message: Acer / Compal JE70_HR Whistler Pro DDR3 128Mx16 600E/800M PCI ID: 1002:6741 Connector at index 0 Type [@offset 44838]: LVDS (7) Encoder [@offset 44842]: INTERNAL_UNIPHY (0x1e) i2cid [@offset 44912]: 0x92, OSX senseid: 0x3 Connector at index 1 Type [@offset 44848]: HDMI-A (11) Encoder [@offset 44852]: INTERNAL_UNIPHY1 (0x20) i2cid [@offset 44935]: 0x90, OSX senseid: 0x1 Connector at index 2 Type [@offset 44858]: VGA (1) Encoder [@offset 44862]: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1 (0x15) i2cid [@offset 44962]: 0x94, OSX senseid: 0x5