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This weekend saw the fifth season of HBO's True Blood's come to a close with an episode called "Save Yourself," a reference to (vague spoiler ahead!) the fact that much of the cast is scattered and in various dire situations.
As all True Blood episode titles are inspired by song titles or lyrics, it seemed obvious that a song titled "Save Yourself" would – in the show's tradition – score the end credits. But which "Save Yourself" would they choose? There are several songs with that title: blues-rocker Jonny Lang, Americana singer-songwriter James McMurtry, indie rocker Sharon Van Etten, thrash metal legends Overkill, guitar-god Michael Schenker and noted True Blood fan Snoop Dogg all have songs by that name.
So it was something of a surprise when the song turned out to be by '90s industrial rockers Stabbing Westward. Many of the musical decisions on the show go to Music Supervisor Gary Calamar, but that wasn't the case with this selection. "That one was picked by Alan Ball and he was very happy with it, so I left it alone," Calamar tells CBS Local.
As longtime True Blood fans know, Alan Ball was the show's creator, "show runner," and creative leader. And as fans also know, he's relinquishing his position after this season (and even posted a "thank you" video to fans).
The other musical selection of the episode came at Merlottes. The bar's owner, Sam Merlotte, was preoccupied (behind bars in the Vampire complex, actually) so Lafayette took advantage of a rare opportunity to play music that he wanted to hear. "The song at Merlottes when Lafayette is mixing his drinks was 'Dazz' by Brick, a band out of Atlanta," Calamar tells CBS Local. "The song was released in 1976. I wanted it to be Lafayette's music and be something completely different from what you would usually hear Sam Merlotte play at the bar."
Season six of True Blood will most likely air in the summer of 2013. Calamar reports that the next soundtrack album will probably come out at the same time.
Did you catch the extra bonus scene from the episode? Watch it here.
— Brian Ives, CBS Local


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An Init System for Linux with a unified configuration file
A time synchronization daemon which keeps your system time accurate.

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Special session could dump ag tax
By Don Davis
Forum News Service
REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. -- Gov. Mark Dayton says he is willing to overturn a new sales tax on farm implement repair when the Legislature next month meets to appropriate money for disaster relief.
Dayton told reporters after he spoke at Farmfest today that he and legislative leaders are looking at a Sept. 9 special session to provide state funding for local governments in 18 counties that were affected by late-June storms and flooding. The money would match federal funds being sent to help local governments rebuild.
While Dayton had insisted that only disaster relief be considered during the one-day session, he said he now is willing to allow lawmakers to overturn the farm tax.
Revenue Commissioner Myron Frans said farmers are paying $2 million a month in the sales tax on farm implement repairs. The tax took effect July. 1.
Dayton called it a bad tax; it was inserted into a bill being debated during the Legislature's last moments. Other services that are taxed under the new law would not be affected by the special session action, Frans said.
Rep. Paul Torkelson, R-Hanska, was happy with the possibility that the tax will be removed from law.
"They never should have been put in the law in the first place," Torkelson said.
House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, said Dayton's reversal in seeking to overturn the tax showed that "just one month after Democrats' new taxes took effect, they are now admitting Republicans were right."
Torkelson was disappointed that another tax likely will remain on the books until lawmakers return to St. Paul for their next regular session in February. That is a tax on things farmers and businesses store in warehouses.
Since the tax does not begin until April, Dayton said there will be time next year to remove it. Still, he said, if someone comes up with a way to replace revenue obtained with that tax, he could be convinced to include that in a special session agenda.


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Telesis Takeover Puts Member Business Lending on Trial
After years on a regulatory watch list, NCUA and the California Department of Financial Institutions finally pulled the plug last week on the $318 million Telesis Community Credit Union, placing the Los Angeles-based credit union into conservatorship. The NCUA was appointed conservator, ending a troubled saga.
News Update, April 2, 2012, Telesis Management Taken Over By Premier America
Exactly what triggered the agencies' move against the credit union at this time was not entirely clear, but the credit union had been under close examiner scrutiny for its large exposure and losses on out-of-state business loans, primarily within its CUSO operations.
Last year Telesis lost $4.6 million and its capital ratio had fallen to 5.48% from 9.61% in 2007 as the California housing bust and subsequent recession hit hardest. In 2010 Telesis lost $11 million, the same year the California credit union paid its now-ousted president/CEO Grace Mayo $2.1 million, according to IRS 990 forms.
The collapse of Telesis into conservatorship set off a firestorm of internal industry debate and angst, as well as well-orchestrated and fierce attacks from the bankers' associations about the efficacy of credit union business lending.
The conservatorship of Telesis also comes as Congress is about to undertake key votes on proposed legislation lifting the credit union member business lending cap.
The conservatorship of Telesis, which serves 36,700 members, marks the second credit union taken over due to business loan troubles. The now $1.4 billion Texans CU in Richardson was seized in April 2011 and is still being run under conservatorship. Telesis was the third federally insured credit union conservatorship so far in 2012.
In assessing the Telesis aftermath, much attention was being focused last week on Mayo, once a visible advocate before lawmakers in Sacramento and Washington in support of credit unions taking on more business lending powers.
Mayo served on several committees of the California/Nevada Credit Union Leagues and was first elected to the CUNA board in 2004 serving until February 2008.
Publicly available biographies show Mayo joined Telesis in 1986, at a time the credit union had $600 million in assets and 41,000 members with 10 branches. It now has dropped to $318 million in assets and four branches.
Mayo also chaired Business Partners, a multi-owner member business lending CUSO with 15 equity owners' nationwide managing assets of $1.5 billion. She also served as chair of CU Vehicles LLC, the holding company for Autoland Inc., described as the "largest vehicle purchasing CUSO serving hundreds of credit unions nationally."
Mayo received her bachelor's degree in business management from University of the Pacific, graduate degree in financial management from UCLA, and a certification in commercial lending from the University of Louisiana. In addition, she attended the executive development program at Stanford University School of Business. She was a frequent industry speaker.
The California league said she was an ex-officio director and had been a member of the Applied Research Institute 2000-2005, Competitive Environment Task Force 2000-2005, Government Relations Committee 2000 and 2005-2007, Technology Task Force 1997, Facilities Review Committee 1998, and Renaissance Task force 2001.
Lamenting the Telesis fallout in a blog posted last week, Charles Bruen, president/CEO of the $920 million First Entertainment CU of Hollywood, called the conservatorship a sad day in the industry's stature, both in Los Angeles and across the nation.
"Picking up The Los Angeles Times and reading these headlines: 'Telesis Credit Union Fails' or 'Chatsworth Credit Union Demise Ignites Pay Business Loan Debate' can't be good for any credit union." He added that it eroded member and public confidence in all credit unions.
The Telesis "cloud dims the light for everyone starting with the staff, the CUSO partners, the local credit union community and then the entire credit union movement," he said.
Like other industry observers, Bruen noted also that the media coverage has been on "how the banks will use the Telesis failure as exhibit A in their case against granting additional MBL powers to credit unions."


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Pelfrey realizing potential with Blanco
Mets starter, catcher proving to be productive pair
They come from opposite ends of the baseball world, one a journeyman catcher from Venezuela, the other an enigmatic pitcher from Kansas. One is 38 in the twilight of his career, the other 26 trying to fulfill the promise of a first-round draft pick.
Somehow, catcher Henry Blanco and pitcher Mike Pelfrey have hit it off and become a productive battery for the New York Mets.
Blanco was an afterthought free-agent signing over the winter, a backup catcher the Mets thought might bring some savvy to a young pitching staff. Pelfrey was an up-and-down right-hander, often battling himself as well as the other team.
Together, they have clicked. Pelfrey won his first four starts and added the first save of his career in a 20-inning marathon against St. Louis. He pieced together a stretch of 24 consecutive scoreless innings and had a Major League-best 0.69 earned run average in the final week of April. And he was effusive in his praise of Blanco, who massaged him along.
"He's pretty unbelievable back there," the pitcher said. "I'm probably not as good as he made it look. One of the big things is we talk between innings. That's big for learning. Henry Blanco is a student of the game, and it's meant the world to me."
From Blanco's perspective, it's all about communication.
"We work on the same page,"' the catcher said. "We talk all the time. It keeps him focused on the game. I try to help him out wherever I can. He throws the ball great. Sometimes you have to remind him to be aggressive. He's finally realizing that."
Pelfrey was the ninth pick in the first round of the 2005 Draft after starring at Wichita State University, where he was the only two-time winner of the Missouri Valley Conference pitcher of the year award. He went 12-3 with a 1.93 ERA in his senior year and was viewed as a can't-miss prospect.
But he struggled at the start, going 3-8 in his first full season. Pelfrey was sometimes rattled, and opponents took advantage of that. Blanco has helped him keep his eye on the prize when he's on the mound. As soon as the pitcher misses with a couple of deliveries, the catcher pays a visit to the mound.
"If he goes 2-and-0, I want to make sure he doesn't go 3-and-0," Blanco said. "I give him a moment to catch his breath."
It's a little thing, but it has been big for Pelfrey. He is working quicker this season and throwing with confidence.
"He's in a rhythm," manager Jerry Manuel said. "He's not talking those laps around the mound."
The most memorable laps for Pelfrey came a year ago when he was so frustrated following a dismal outing in Colorado that he ran laps outside the ballpark after being lifted. In another start in San Francisco, he committed three balks. Those episodes are in his rearview mirror now.
With newfound maturity, Pelfrey is confident enough to throw his sinker or his splitter in almost any count.
"He's learned to use both sides of the plate," Blanco said. "I've gotten to know him a lot better. He's becoming a complete pitcher."
So complete, in fact, that he became the first pitcher since John Candelaria in 1988 to earn two wins and a save in the span of five days. He was also the first full-time Mets starter to earn a save since Dwight Gooden did it against Chicago on Sept. 19, 1989.
Pelfrey's save came when the Mets ran out of pitchers in the 20-inning game. He had already thrown a bullpen session and lifted weights when he volunteered to relieve in the marathon. It helped that Blanco was catching at the time.
"It was either me or [outfielder Jeff] Francoeur," Pelfrey said. "Francoeur was the only one who wanted it to be Francoeur."
Hal Bock is a freelance writer based in New York.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Atlanta Dream selected Penn State University guard Alex Bentley with the No. 13 overall pick in the 2013 WNBA Draft on Monday night, and took University of Georgia guard/forward Anne Marie Armstrong with the 31st pick.
The 5'7″ Bentley is a three-time First-Team All-Big Ten selection and a two-time member of the league's All-Defensive team. She became just the fourth player in Big Ten history to amass at least 1,500 points, 500 assists and 300 steals, joining a group that includes WNBA vets Katie Smith and Tamara Moore.
Bentley averaged more than 14 points per game in each of her final three seasons at Penn State, finishing her career with 1,786 points scored, which is eighth in program history. She also finished her career ranked second in school history in steals (325) and tied for sixth in assists (567).
As a senior, Bentley was named one of seven finalists for the Lieberman Award, given to the nation's top Division I point guard, after averaging 14.1 points, 3.5 assists, 3.4 rebounds and 3.4 steals per game, leading the Big Ten and ranking sixth nationally in steals. She was also the recipient of the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, presented by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the nation's outstanding female collegian 5'8″-and-under who excels athletically and academically. She also led the league in steals as a junior en route to earning honorable mention All-American honors.
"I'm very excited to join the Dream and to help them reach their goals," said Bentley. "I wasn't expecting to have the opportunity to play for such a great team. It will be an honor to play alongside Angel McCoughtry and the rest of their players. It's ironic that I'm going to the Dream, because I've been saying that this whole experience has been like a dream to me. I've been dreaming about having this opportunity since I was a little girl.
"I hope to be able to just be who I am as a player. I like to get up and down the court, and I like playing defense. I'm very competitive, and offensively I can distribute the basketball and look to get my teammates open shots, but I can score as well."
Armstrong, a 6'3″ native of Norcross, Ga., helped Georgia reach the Elite Eight this season, averaging 7.2 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.3 assists. She became the 34th player in Georgia history to score 1,000 career points, and finished her career with 1,015 points.
As a junior, she earned first team All-Southeastern Conference honors by the league's coaches after averaging 11.5 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.0 assists. She also was a two-time Miss Georgia Basketball who helped Wesleyan School win three states titles in basketball, three in volleyball and four in track and field (three individual, one team).
The two-time Eastern Conference Champion Atlanta Dream will tip off its sixth season in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) on May 25 at Philips Arena.


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Apple observers noticed that CEO Steve Jobs' health dramatically decreased in 2008. Mr. Jobs reportedly has received a liver transplant and is currently recovering, eagerly awaiting a return to Apple at the month's end.
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Apple's CEO and cofounder hopes to put his health problems behind him
Founding one of tech industry's biggest players -- Apple -- and personally turning the company around in the late nineties was nothing compared to the challenge that Apple CEO Steve Jobs faced in 2004. Battling a rare and deadly form of pancreatic cancer, Mr. Jobs recovered thanks to surgery and reassumed his leadership role at the company, integrally helping to conceive, develop and release hit products such as the iPhone and MacBook Air.
Last year, though, many observers took note that Mr. Jobs looked sickly at public appearances. Sure enough, in January of this year he took
medical leave
, announcing he would be gone from Apple on medical leave until the end of June. In his absence Apple Chief Operating Officer Timothy Cook took over many of the day to day duties.
Now details of Mr. Jobs' medical battle, veiled in secrecy, have at last emerged. According to a
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Mr. Jobs received a liver transplant in Tennessee two months ago. Mr. Jobs had earlier this year had relocated from California to Tennessee, a state known for having a shorter waiting list for organ transplants. At the time
had reported that Mr. Jobs was applying for a liver transplant.
Apple spokespeople contacted by the
to seek confirmation of the sourced reports refused to comment, merely reiterating that Apple "continues to look forward to returning at the end of June, and there's nothing further to say." According to the
report, COO Cook may take over additional roles to help Mr. Jobs during his recovery.
Earlier this year it was discovered that Mr. Jobs was receiving hormone therapy. Reportedly he was unable to digest food properly and receive nutrients. The liver is an integral part of hormone production, and also produces bile, needed for digestion. The liver is very sensitive to toxins, and can be damaged by chemotherapy, which Mr. Jobs likely received during his cancer treatment.
Liver transplant recipients have a 58 percent chance of surviving 15 years. Liver transplants have been performed since 1967; the liver was the second organ to be successfully transplanted, with the kidneys being the first.
Mr. Jobs is currently 54. Apple fans are eagerly awaiting
his return
, as he has always pushed the company and given it a
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NEW YORK – The MLS Disciplinary Committee has suspended FC Dallas forward Blas Pérez one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for endangering the safety of his opponent when he elbowed Jordan Harvey in the 29th minute of the April 21 game against Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
Pérez will serve his suspension this Wednesday when FC Dallas hosts Real Salt Lake at 7:30 p.m. CT.
Fines collected will be donated to the charitable partners of MLS W.O.R.K.S. and the MLS Players Union.


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By James T. McKenna | June 11, 2008
The U.K. Defence Ministry and CAE are building the capability for multiple crews and helicopters to train jointly. They plan to link the Royal Air Force's Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility built by CAE to the nation's high-speed JMNIAN secure data highway. That would allow Chinook, Merlin and Puma aircrews training at the facility at RAF Benson to participate in networked training and mission rehearsal exercises with U.K. defence forces at bases around the country. CAE is already providing distributed mission training on-site at the facility for U.K. helicopter aircrews in the form of exercises called "Thursday Wars." For related news


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By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN, AJN editor-in-chief
I just finished reading a report, released earlier this month from the Pew Research Center, on the rise of e-reading—whether on e-book readers like Kindles and Nooks; tablet devices like iPads; cell phones; or computers. The report details the results of surveys of nearly 3,000 adults ages 16 years and older conducted in December, 2011, and then again in February, 2012, about their reading habits.
Prior to the 2011 holiday season, approximately 17% of adults had read an e-book in the previous year, but in the post-holiday survey early the next year, following holiday gift giving, that number had jumped to 21%. While printed books still dominate (in December, 2011, 72% of Americans reported that they had read a printed book in the past 12 months), e-reading is growing more popular. And it seems that those who read e-books are spending more time reading "since the advent of e-content": in particular, 41% of tablet owners and 35% of e-reading device owners say they are reading more now.
Format follows function. One question asked in the December 2011 survey was which format was better for a variety of reading situations. E-books scored slightly higher than print books for reading in bed (45% vs 43%), but considerably higher for reading while traveling or commuting (73% vs 19%), availability of broad selection of content (53% vs 35%), and "being able to get a book quickly" (83% vs 13%). I concur on all points. (Reading with a child and sharing books with others were notable exceptions, with traditional print books still highly favored for these activities.)
I wasn't especially keen on getting an e-reading device, but my family gave me one as a gift. It proved itself when snowstorms left me stranded in Puerto Rico while I was on a winter vacation (see my blog post). The hotel's paperback supply quickly became depleted. However, with my trusty Kindle, I just downloaded more reading material.
I love the portability of having scores of books at my disposal—and the option to get just about anything else I want, from newspapers to journals. Now, I take my iPad, which has a Kindle app that allows me to access books I downloaded on that device; it's also backlit, which means I don't have to keep a light on if I read in bed. I only take my Kindle if I plan to read on a beach, since it's not backlit and doesn't have any glare.
AJN now has an iPad app and many journals are developing them as well (we hope to eventually have applications to fit other e-reading devices too). I'm wondering—are many of you, our readers, reading e-books? Are you using the iPad, or do you prefer computers (used by a surprisingly high percentage of survey respondents), Kindles, Nooks, or other devices? We'd love to hear how you're reading.


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Doping body to go easy on riders who tell all
THE Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority believes more riders who might have been involved in - or know of - illegal drug use are giving serious thought to confessing or providing information for the agency's investigation into cycling.
To encourage them to step forward, ASADA says it will offer ''substantial assistance'', should their evidence show they have breached the anti-doping laws.
''It has been presented to us that there are people thinking about coming forward,'' the ASADA chief executive, Aurora Andruska, told Fairfax Media. ''What we are keen to do is to encourage them to come and talk to us.
''The message we are trying to give is: 'Come and tell us what your involvement is before someone is telling us about you.'''
ASADA, which has called for anyone who has any information to contact it, began its investigation into doping in Australian cycling last month.
It was launched after the United States Anti-Doping Agency released the findings of its investigation into Lance Armstrong and five former associates.
Named in that evidence was former Australian professional rider Matt White. A day later, White admitted to doping, from 2001 to 2003, as a US Postal teammate of Armstrong, who has been banned for life and stripped of all his results since August, 1998 - including seven Tour de France titles.
White was subsequently axed as Cycling Australia's national men's road team coach and head sport director of the Australian Orica-GreenEDGE team.
Soon after, Australian cycling was thrown into more turmoil when another former Australian professional rider, Stephen Hodge, resigned as Cycling Australia vice-president on the eve of White's sacking at CA. Hodge admitted to doping in the last six years of his career when on the ONCE and Festina teams.
CA has appointed retired NSW Supreme Court chief judge James Wood to review its governance, practices and anti-doping policies. And Orica-GreenEDGE has requested top anti-doping consultant Nicki Vance to review the team's procedures, riders and staff.
The ASADA investigation will determine whether there have been any potential anti-doping breaches by Australians in light of evidence in the USADA report.
Andruska said she would like the ASADA investigation to be ''wrapped up quickly''. However, she added: ''The reality is that there will be people that will talk to us, others will mention their names to us, then we will be trying to approach them to see if they will be prepared to come and talk.''
Andruska said anyone who broke doping rules but gave evidence could receive reduced bans, as did those who testified against Armstrong. ''If people do give us information - and they are actively cycling and a sanction could potentially apply to them if they give us information - that can lead to what they call 'substantial assistance','' Andruska said.
''That is what happened in the outcome of the work by USADA, where sanctions that normally would have been two years were reduced to six months. We are going to be looking very favourably to that kind of approach, as well.''
However, Andruska said there would be no amnesty - anyone guilty of a breach would not escape punishment.
She said the inquiry's aim was to learn how involved Australian riders became in doping and to stop up-and-coming riders from doing the same.
''People would really like to know there has been a thorough investigation and that we have got to the heart of what has been going on, particularly around Australian cyclists.
''That young people have been put in a position to dope, or not be part of the team … I never want to see any young Australian ever be put in that position. I want to see that they compete on their talent and the work they put into it, and do it without thinking that the only way to do it is to dope.''
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Elk Mountains > Cathedral Peak > Climber's Log
Cathedral Peak Climber's Log
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|South Couloir
Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2017
|Perfect day with great conditions. This mountain is real deal with some realy nice snow lines. Amazing views of Maroon Bells and other 14ers in Elk Range.
|Posted Jun 12, 2017 8:10 am
|Cathedral Peak
|Hiked up Cathedral Peak in late spring, early 2000s.
|Posted Jan 22, 2017 12:57 pm
|Brad Snider
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2016
|Loved the climb and the view from the summit. Hike to Cathedral Lake is a classic in itself. Snow couloir lots of fun, final summit scramble loose but not too bad. Summit was a special place.
|Posted Jul 28, 2016 8:35 pm
|Wished I had ice tools
Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2011
|This was the year after the big snow in Colorado and the couloir was completely full of very hard snow, crampons barely sunk in. We climbed up and down in ape-like fashion to use ice ax pick, as the other end wouldn't go in. Very grateful to be alive after that one!
|Posted Jul 26, 2013 4:41 pm
|Standard Route
Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2012
|Had the whole mountain to myself!!! Absolutely shocked for a Sunday and saw no one. Spent an hour on the summit catching a burn! :o)
Cool mountain. Elks are da shit!
|Posted Aug 26, 2012 10:59 pm
|Nemesis Mountain
Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2012
|Everyone has their nemesis mountain, and Cathedral is mine. After two failed attempts, I finally got up Cathedral, but at a small price. 100 feet below the summit I put both hands and all my weight on a solid looking rock, and a 100 pound boulder crashed into me, busting up my hand a bit. Nothing too bad, but it was obvious this mountain did not want to make it easy for me.
|Posted Jun 9, 2012 9:03 pm
|Matt Lemke
|Fantastic snow climb
Date Climbed: May 20, 2012
|Beautiful day and a beautiful mountain! One of my favorite summit views.
|Posted May 21, 2012 5:27 pm
|Standard couloir route
Date Climbed: May 12, 2012
|Still decent snow in the couloir in this bad snow year, but was a little thin. Started up the couloir a little late (8-ish). Was mashed potatoes on the way down. Weather was great despite the forecast! I measured the angle twice at 38 degrees. Someone higher up measured 48 - I don't know about that.
|Posted May 13, 2012 9:51 am
|Matt Lemke
|Re: Standard couloir route
|Yeah...48 is correct. The upper half was definently over 45 by a little bit
|Posted May 21, 2012 5:29 pm
|Re: Standard couloir route
|I suppose so. I've heard 48 degrees a few times. It was one of my first couloir climbs, so I'm not the best judge. It just didn't feel like it got much steeper than the 38 degrees that I measured.
|Posted May 29, 2012 10:27 pm
|Standard Route
Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2011
|Climbed Cathedral via standard route. Rotten snow in the gully made it more interesting. Overall, nice hike/snow climb, great views. Click here to see the Cathedral Peak picture album.
|Posted Jul 11, 2011 11:14 pm
|Eric Holle
|Spring, Standard Route
Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2011
|Great spring condidtions for a snow climb! Absolutely beautiful day and a super fun route!!
|Posted Jun 13, 2011 12:08 am
|standard route
|I did this once and probably wont do it again. Not that its a bad route, and I love the elks, but the gully was a bit gnarly
|Posted Jan 24, 2011 10:22 am
|Standard Route
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2009
|Climbed with Colin, Scot, Craig and Amanda. Good snow in the gully still, but there was some rock on the snow and you can tell its been getting some rockfall, bring a helmet. The ridge was nice, closer to the crest had a few easy class 3 sections, but its mostly class 2. There is a nice trail through the talus in the basin, its a little tricky to find, but worth it!
|Posted Jun 29, 2009 10:16 am
|Skied the Pearl
Date Climbed: May 15, 2008
|Climbed to top of Pearl. Sun super heated snow so turned around before summit. Skied the Pearl. Rough snow.
|Posted Nov 5, 2008 11:38 pm
|East Face Couloir
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2008
|With a 3am start I was feeling a little sluggish, but once above the lake and eyeing the couloir....
Ended up being a great day!
|Posted Jun 24, 2008 1:32 am
|Twice including winter
Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2006
|6/17/06 - This was my first snow climb and it was a blast! Traversed on to "Electric Pass Peak" on the gnarly, rotten ridge. The rock was falling apart and the scree was extreme. I wouldn't recommend this unless you have a lot of experience on serious junk rock and scree. It is dangerous, especially on the Cathedral side.
3/5/2016 - Climbed the standard route from winter closure at Ashcroft. Very stable, late spring-like conditions. Added on neighboring Malemute for dessert and descended back to Ashcroft via Montezuma Basin.
|Posted Mar 28, 2008 8:29 pm
|Route Climbed: South Couloir
Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2007
|Climbed this peak w/asphazell. A great snow climb and white-knuckle down-climb. I had to face-in due to the slick snows steep grade...mucho fun.
|Posted Jun 15, 2007 12:29 am
|Ryan Kowalski
|First Snow Climb
Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2007
|My first snow climb was a smashing success, a great route on good snow and great weather.
|Posted Jun 12, 2007 5:48 pm
|South Couloir
Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2007
|Climbed with Altitude14er. Great snow climb in one of my favorite ranges!
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Women are such bitches. When they are firefighters, what they do is, they work along with their colleagues to put out fires. How bitchy is that!
Firefighters on Wednesday, responded to burning garbage receptacles in Meah Shearim. When some of the locals realized one of the firefighters was a woman, they began pelting her with whatever objects they could find. She was injured in her back lightly after being struck with a bottle.
Serves her right. Bitch.
The very first comment there sees this clearly.
There is no shortage of men capable of firefighting. Women are unnecesary and it is untznius for them to do it.
Exactly! Nobody needs women to put out no stinkin fires, and they need to stay indoors so that real people can get on with things.


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2013 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees Honored at Homecoming Game
October 19, 2013
The 2013 Athletic Hall of Fame honorees received medals at the CU October 19 Homecoming Football game.
The Cheyney University 2013 Athletic Hall of Fame inductees were recognized at a banquet planned in their honor on October 18 and in front of the crowd attending the home game in O'Shields Stadium the next afternoon. The 2013 committee chairs were Don Hackney and Greg McNeil.
Nearly 300 people attended the banquet which was held at the Concordville Inn. According to Co-Chairman McNeil, "We were excited with this year's turnout. The banquet is a great Cheyney University tradition where we can honor athletes and their outstanding accomplishments. The honorees are recognized for their achievements, either while at Cheyney University or afterwards. This year's honorees Bill Ellerbee and Ed Williams, for example, accomplished a lot after they graduated."
Former basketball players dominated the roster this year. Honoree Bill Ellerbee, '70, was head basketball coach at Simon Gratz when his 1990-91 team was named national champion in the final ESPN high school poll and the 1992-93 team finished with a 31-0 record and was named national champions by USA Today. During his career, Ellerbee coached some outstanding players including Rasheed Wallace, Aaron McKie, Levan Alston and Lynard Stewart and was named Philadelphia Public League Coach of the Year in 1991, State of Pennsylvania Coach of the Year in 1993 and 1997, and National Coach of the Year by ESPN in 1993. After retiring from Simon Gratz, he was assistant coach for four years at Temple University under Hall of Fame coach John Chaney.
Another basketball standout, Ed Williams '63, member of the All-State team and Wolves MVP, played for four years at Cheyney and, as team captain, broke the conference scoring record and record for field goals and foul shots in a season, tallying 381 points in 15 games. Williams was also successful off the court, and was the first CU alumnus to be named chief academic officer in the School District of Philadelphia.
Jamal Springfield, a Chester High product, graduated from Cheyney in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in recreation and leisure studies. He was a four-year starting guard (1993-97). He led the team in assists. In 1995, he was named PSAC Defensive Player of the Year while leading the conference in steals. He also led the Wolves to the PSAC championship during the 1995-96 season.
Daryl Coates played football for the Wolves in 1981 and 1982 earning All-PSAC honors as a wide receiver in 1982. He is currently serving the Philadelphia community as the executive director of the Philadelphia Anti-Drug/Anti-Violence Network.
Patricia Bartley-Walker played basketball for Hall of Fame coach Vivian Stringer during her days at Cheyney. She was a three-year starter and captain during her senior year. She was also a marvelous tennis player. Bartley-Walker graduated from Cheyney in 1976. She went on to coach for Cheyney's tennis, volleyball and Division 1 basketball teams. In addition, Bartley-Walker teaches at CU and operates the Society's Promise program, a mentoring program in Chester
Tanya Slayton-Barnes, a 2003 alumnus, earned varsity letters in four sports (basketball, volleyball, track and tennis). As a senior, she received the Presidential Award.
Two athletes were recognized posthumously. Ronald Ford, '63, was point guard and team captain for his final three years at CU, and briefly played professionally and coached at Overbrook High School for several years. His wife, Cristal, accepted his award. And finally, the late Vernon Greer, a member of the Wolves' basketball team for two seasons, was honored. He was instrumental in leading Cheyney to the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) championship during the 1971-72 season. Greer went on to become a teacher and assistant women's coach at Camden High School in Camden, N.J.


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Another reason that has mentioned to me on occasion is that most Americans don't know that George III was the full title of the king who fought the war of independence. Apparently you mostly just refer to him as King George (ignoring the other five Georges).
Here's an American view of the British Monarchy, from the post-roman era to the present:
I think one or two monarchs are missing..
It's not like most of us Americans can remember our own "royalty" all that well, either -- I'd bet money less than 50% of the population can correctly order the Presidents. (Myself included...history used to irritate me because it was so lackadaisically bounded.)
George Washington, Monroe Doctrine, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Andrew Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt, Mr. Wilson [colossus.net], Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Richard Nixon, Henry Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Al Haig, Ronald Reagan, Charles Philip Arthur George Bush, William George Clinton, George W. Bush


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Siri thinks Hurricane Sandy is a hockey team
On Tuesday, Google added voice search to its iOS app, inviting comparisons with Apple's native voice assistant, Siri. Many have noted that Google's voice-search function delivers web-based results faster and more definitively. But the most embarrassing contrast for Apple so far must be the one that web developer Dan Nguyen pointed out on his blog this week.
With the East Coast digging out from the deadly superstorm, Nguyen asked both Google's mobile app and Siri the same question: "How much damage did Hurricane Sandy do?" Google misheard him, transcribing the question as "How much damage did Hurricane Sandy too?" But it still managed to instantly deliver relevant results, beginning with Google's crisis map and official state-by-state emergency info.
Siri, bless her heart, got a little confused. Apple's voice assistant heard him ask the nonsensical question, "How much damage did hurricane you do," and racked its algorithmic brain for a few seconds before responding, "OK, the Hurricanes appear to be in first place in the Southeast right now." To back up its claim, it pulled up the standings for the Southeast Division of the National Hockey League, which did indeed show the Carolina Hurricanes in first - albeit with a 0-0 record, since the league is out of commission indefinitely due to a labour dispute (which Siri did not see fit to mention).
Forbes' Anthony Wing Kosner confirmed the results on his iPad 3, although in his case Google transcribed the question correctly.
I gave it a go several times on my own iPhone 5 and actually found Siri to be better than Google voice search at understanding my question. Google first thought I said "Hurricane San Diego," then thought I said "tip" instead of "do." Yet it brought up the relevant emergency info each time. Siri heard me properly on the first try, and replied exuberantly, "Hey, the Hurricanes are in first place in the Southeast!" (Again, the enthusiasm is a little misplaced, since the team has yet to play a game.)
Google's instant superiority in returning web-based results is not limited to Hurricane Sandy. And it highlights the clear comparative advantage that Mountain View holds over Cupertino when it comes to software and data (think Apple Maps).


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1. What did you think of Alice's bribe? What does it say to you that she not only had that much cash handy, but that she thought it would take that much money to bribe the officer?
2. Did you ever think Bella wasn't going to make it in time to save Edward?
3. How did you respond when Edward assumed they were both dead?
4. Edward pretty much gave up the moment tiny, little Jane approached. What was your assumption about Jane when you first saw her - be honest!
5. Bella assumed that Edward was being nice, but not romantic, by protecting her as they made their way down the tunnel. What did you think of the way he was holding her and protecting her?


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Location: Environmental Microbial & Food Safety Laboratory
Project Number: 8042-12630-008-14-S
Project Type: Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Feb 27, 2009
End Date: Feb 26, 2014
To develop comprehensive experimental data sets for testing and improving manure-borne pathogen fate and transport models suitable for nutrient management planning and environmental risk assessment.
Field experiments will be performed at the OPE3 field site and the Patuxent runoff site to: (a) evaluate the effect of the buffer strip status on its retention efficiency, (b) develop model parameters and evaluate model performance, and (c) evaluate the phosphorus in runoff as a natural indicator of E. coli. The edge-of-the-field conditions will be simulated at the Patuxent site where the manure suspensions will be maniflolded to the simulated vegetated buffer strips with varying soil type, initial soil moisture content, vegetation status, and slope. The rainfall will be simulated to cause runoff that will be collected at the bottom of the strips. Concentrations of E. coli and P will be measured in the runoff transport. Appropriate complementary soil, hydrologic, and microbial measurements will be carried out. The field-scale transport will be studied at the OPE3 site after manure application in accordance with Maryland agronomic rates. E. coli contents will be monitored in manure, in soil, in runoff using automated samplers, in groundwater, and in the first order creek separated from the field with a riparian zone. All experiments will be performed with participation of USDA employees. Cooperator will participate in modeling, data analysis, and publication of results.


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Richard Branson Headed to the Bottom of the Ocean
Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson is adding "undersea exploration" to a growing list of fantastical business ventures that already includes trans-continental air travel, space tourism, and pay-as-you-go cellphone usage. Noting that "more men have been to the moon than have been down further than 20,000 feet [underwater]," Branson unveiled the Virgin Oceanic in Newport Beach today. And while it may look like a billionaire's plaything, this little sub is hardcore.
With an operating depth of 37,000 feet, or seven miles, the eight-foot-long Virgin Oceanic is built to withstand 13 million pounds of pressure. Branson's plan is to pilot it on five missions over the next two years, beginning with the Mariana Trench in the Pacific, then continuing on to dives in the Atlantic's Puerto Rico Trench, the Diamantina Trench in the Indian Ocean, the South Sandwich Trench in the Great Southern Ocean, and finally the Molloy Deep in the Arctic Ocean. If he makes it back alive, he'll have broken 30 Guinness world records, including the five deepest dives in history.
What would such a dive look like? We've included video of a computer simulation — though the animators have conveniently forgotten to include the giant fish with the dangling headlamp that swallows the entrepreneur for lunch. [Virgin Oceanic via PopSci]


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There is no cure for allergies to fish or shellfish, so people who develop allergies to seafood must avoid even small traces of the foods that cause them to react.
It's crucial that people with a severe allergy to seafood carry epinephrine (brands include EpiPen, Auvi-Q, Allerject) with them at all times, as well as other medications, such as antihistamines and inhalers, that may be recommended by their allergists.
It's also important to remember that epinephrine is considered an emergency measure – not a treatment – so people should avoid taking unnecessary risks. But with a few simple precautions, people with allergies to seafood should be able to lead full, normal lives.
What's Safe?: It's possible to be allergic to just one or two forms of fish or shellfish – for example, some people can eat lobster but not scallops, while others can eat cod but not salmon. But because there is a high level of cross-reactivity within the food groups, many need to avoid either fish or shellfish in all their forms.
It is important to note, however, that the key allergens in fish and shellfish are completely unrelated, so even if you are allergic to shellfish, finned fish might be just fine. (There are people who are allergic to both fish and shellfish, but this is rare.) If you're unsure of what's OK and what's not, make sure to talk it over with your allergist.
Acceptance: Most people with seafood allergies develop them later in life, which can be tricky, because they may be accustomed to eating without restrictions. "But I've never had a problem with seafood," is a common refrain, so sometimes people take unnecessary risks and try to eat the food that has caused them to react. But once you have a seafood allergy, it's very important to avoid the allergen altogether, as the allergy can worsen with more exposure.
Know What You're Eating: Seafood comes in many different forms.
Shellfish can include mollusks such as clams, mussels, and oysters, as well as crustaceans such as shrimp, lobster and crabs. Other forms include squid (the main ingredient in calamari), octopus, prawns, periwinkle, limpets, abalone, cockles, quahogs, snails (or "escargot"), langoustines and sea urchins. The most allergenic type of shellfish is shrimp.
There are many different types of fish, including anchovies, bass, bluefish, catfish, char, chub, cod, eel, flounder, grouper, haddock, hake, halibut, herring, mackerel, mahi-mahi, marlin, monkfish, perch, pickerel, pike, pollock, rockfish, salmon, sardines, shark, smelt, snapper, sole, sturgeon, swordfish, trout, tuna, turbot, whitefish and more.
It is very important that you understand the different names of the food you are allergic to, and carefully read all food labels so you can avoid them.
See: Label Aware
One thing to be cautious of with seafood allergies: imported foods. Not all countries have the stringent labeling requirements of the United States, Canada and the European Union. Don't take chances if you suspect fish or shellfish could be ingredients of an import.
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Society and a submarine constrain characters in French classics
This week, we begin en France.
The Earrings of Madame de …
Not rated, 100 minutes. Now available on Blu-ray and DVD.
The Damned
Not rated, 105 minutes. Available
Tuesday on DVD and Blu-ray.
In the first of this pair of notable French classics, the Criterion Collection gives a new digital Blu-ray restoration to The Earrings of Madame de …, Max Ophuls' 1953 treatise on society's hypocrisy and convention.
Around the turn of last century, the unnamed Madame (Danielle Darrieux) pawns a pair of expensive earrings given to her by her husband, General Andre (Charles Boyer). The jewels make their way through various owners (much like the love passed around in Ophuls' Le Ronde). Eventually, Madame's new lover Baron Donati (Vittorio De Sica) obtains them and then innocently gives them to her again.
The initial act sets off a chain of events geared for Ophuls' commentary. And he smoothly delivers with the help of his trademark roving camera.
The new remastered Blu-ray DVD includes an introduction by director Paul Thomas Anderson, three interviews totaling about half an hour with three of Ophuls' collaborators, a 17-minute analytical "visual essay" by scholar Tag Gallagher, and a five-minute interview with source novelist Louise de Vilmorin. Plus: an 80-page booklet with essays by noted historian and scholar Molly Haskell and by costume designer Georges Annenkov, and an English translation of de Vilmorin's novel.
The Cohen Film Collection has remastered for high definition and has given a belated DVD and Blu-ray debut to The Damned (Les Maudits), an overlooked 1947 gem from renowned suspense director Rene Clement.
At the end of World War II, a motley group of Nazis of varying nationalities board a submarine in Oslo, Norway, and head to South America for refuge. On board are die-hard believers, black marketeers, spurned lovers and various other outcasts.
The U-boat makes several stops, including one to kidnap a country doctor (Henri Vidal) to tend to wounded passengers. Clement ratchets up the suspense, as colliding forces work against each other in claustrophobic settings.
The DVD also holds an excellent 54-minute documentary on Clement and his career.
Shane (****1/2) Warner Home Video brings to Blu-ray one of the great all-time Westerns. Laconic Alan Ladd stars as the title character, a quiet, mysterious drifter who finds his way onto the isolated ranch of Joe (Van Heflin) and Marian Starrett (Jean Arthur) and their impressionable young son, Joey (Brandon De Wilde).
Shane befriends the family and even settles into the community, all while a battle over area land rights escalates. Before long, hired gunslinger Jack Wilson (Jack Palance) arrives in town. Fights, gunfights and ambushes all play out in the story, from the novel by underappreciated Western writer Jack Schaefer.
Director George Stevens perfectly captures Shane's sense of separation, made more apparent by the Starretts' loving home. Quentin Tarantino in Django (and other directors elsewhere) borrowed from Stevens' staging of Jack Wilson's gunning down an innocent homesteader (Elisha Cook Jr.). Loyal Griggs won an Oscar for his evocative, mood-setting cinematography.
Not rated, 118 minutes. The DVD includes commentary from the associate producer and George Stevens Jr., the director's son.
Three Faces East (***) This 1930 manufactured-on-demand disc from the Warner Archive Collection might look its age, but it offers much in the way of a complex plot and an interesting cast.
Veteran Roy Del Ruth directed this World War I espionage thriller, with Constance Bennett playing a German spy sent to England to ingratiate herself into the home of the head of the admiralty. There, she works with the butler, played with Teutonic rigidity by famed actor-director Eric Von Stroheim. Their code phrase is "Three Faces East."
The stage-bound, static film betrays its roots in Anthony Paul Kelly's source play, but it does deliver several third-act surprises that will keep viewers engaged. Not rated, 71 minutes.
On the Road (**) Sam Riley plays Jack Kerouac stand-in Sal Paradise, Garrett Hedlund is Dean Moriarty, and Kristen Stewart is Marylou in this good-looking but often unfocused rendition of Kerouac's hard-to-film novel.
When the two men meet, despite earlier romantic alliances, they decide that the three of them, including Marylou, should hit the road. They travel across the country in search of some undefinable experience. They stay in motion long enough for an impressive cast to make appearances: Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Elisabeth Moss, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge and others.
Rated R, 124 minutes. The DVD includes eight minutes of deleted scenes.
And, finally, from this week's TV arrivals:
Southland: The Complete Fifth and Final Season This cop show that was too real, too gritty to last on network TV that then found a home on cable now departs before the body count grows higher.
Ann Biderman created the ongoing story about a close-knit group of South Los Angeles police officers, played by Michael Cudlitz, Shawn Hatosy, Ben McKenzie and Regina King, who also directed an episode this season.
Before closing, the officers again deal with daily and deadly crises: Cooper (Cudlitz) feuds with his new partner, and later in the season they are kidnapped; rival gangs attend a drug dealer's funeral; Sammy (Hatosy) fights divorce while losing confidence in his partner Ben (McKenzie); Lydia (King) juggles her work and her new position as mother.
Not rated, more than 7 hours. The DVD set also includes 25 total minutes of deleted scenes and the four-minute "making of" featurette "Shooting in Progress."
The Thick of It: Seasons 1-4 Scotsman Armando Iannuci created this sublime, rapidly paced political comedy, which served as the inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film In the Loop and the current HBO series Veep.
The Thick of It's four seasons ran on the BBC from 2005 to 2012, and the series is now available from BBC Home Entertainment. It arrives in a boxed set with all 21 episodes plus two hourlong specials on seven discs.
Iannuci set his series in the offices of the bogus British Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship. Within it lies a coven of two-faced, sniveling, pandering bureaucrats.
Iannuci never assigns party labels, instead letting their actions reveal the hypocrites, as everyone comes off as hilariously self-preserving, changing opinions with the wind. Over everyone rules Malcolm Tucker — in one character's words, "the prime minister's enforcer."
Peter Capaldi, recently named as the latest Dr. Who, plays the foul-mouthed, fast-talking, incredibly clever Tucker as he berates, cajoles and threatens with the weight of higher office behind him. The series' now familiar faux-documentary use of handheld cameras, quick editing and cast improvisation help The Thick of It maintain a steady, fast rhythm — one that escalates further when Capaldi enters a scene. With series regulars Chris Addison, Joanna Scanlan and James Smith.
Not rated, 12 1/2 hours. The set includes, for every episode, commentaries, bonus (deleted) scenes and behind-the-scenes stills. Plus: a 21-minute "Script to Screen" featurette, and the series' scripts on PDF, accessible via computer.
Also available Tuesday on DVD: The Company You Keep, Emperor, Hatchet III, Olympus Has Fallen.


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Maddon 'excited' for all-East ALCS
Skipper compares his Rays to Red Sox as Game 1 inches near
By Bill Chastain / MLB.com
After celebrating their 6-2 clinching win over the White Sox in Game 4 of the American League Division Series, the team flew home on a charter and enjoyed a day off Tuesday in advance of the AL Championship Series, which begins Friday night when the Rays will host the Red Sox at Tropicana Field.
"Just to get to this point is a tribute to what our guys have done all year," said Maddon via a Tuesday afternoon conference call. "The fact that it's the Red Sox makes it even more interesting. We've played them so often this year, between Spring Training games and the regular season, and now, the playoffs. But for us to get to this particular juncture is an important step for us. We'll just play our games.
"I like the fact it's the American League East, it speaks to the division's strength. But again, we're just very pleased we're able to advance at this point."
The Rays went 10-8 against the Red Sox in 2008. At Tropicana Field, the Rays held an 8-1 advantage, twice sweeping the Red Sox, while at Fenway Park the Rays went 2-7 and got swept twice.
Fortunately for the Rays, they will have four games at Tropicana Field during the best-of-seven series by virtue of being a division winner and the Red Sox being the Wild Card team.
Maddon noted that a seven-game series is unique and has a life of its own.
"One of the first things I said to the guys in Detroit when we clinched the division was to understand that something bad is going to happen [during a playoff series] and we're going to face difficult moments, and you have to fight through them, because once today's over, you have to move on, kind of like we've done all year," Maddon said.
Maddon used the 1960 World Series won by the Pirates as an illustration to his team. In that Fall Classic, The Pirates won four games by a total of seven runs while getting blown out by the Yankees in their three losses by a margin of 35 runs.
|"The fact that it's the Red Sox makes it even more interesting. ... It speaks to the division's strength."
|-- Rays manager Joe Maddon, on the impending ALCS matchup
Throughout the regular season, the Rays and Red Sox produced many exciting moments. Maddon believes fans are in for more of the same in the ALCS.
"I think you expect a lot of what you saw during the regular season," Maddon said. "A lot of tight games, and both sides have good starting pitching and bullpens -- offensively, they probably have a little more hitting ability overall, but we have that ability to hit in the clutch. I just think you're going to see a lot of the same, what you saw during the year."
A nice aspect of where the Rays are heading into the ALCS is the fact their everyday lineup is intact and relatively healthy for the first time in a long time.
"We're getting all the components back," Maddon said. "Hitting Carl [Crawford] in the five hole is very intriguing with B.J. [Upton] starting to find his niche again -- that matters because now you have [Akinori Iwamura], him, Carlos [Pena] and [Evan Longoria], and I like Carl feeding into six, seven and eight, because those guys at the bottom, obviously, can really drive in a run."
Maddon later added: "It's all about the other team's pitching, and they have such good pitching, but right now I like our guys' at-bats -- they've been having good at-bats."
Both teams are familiar with one another, which Maddon said should balance out.
"It's pretty even based on the familiarity of the two groups," Maddon said. "The number of times we have played against each other. The fact we've broken through up there a little bit [with two wins at Fenway Park] and the fact they got their win down here [at Tropicana Field]. So it's really a very evenly balanced series."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Morning Ledger: Taxes, Health Care Dominate Debate
Mitt Romney came out swinging last night, delivering a strong performance in a somewhat wonkish debate with President Obama. There weren't many fireworks, but it was heavy on policy. On health care, the Journal's Jerry Seib says Romney "presented perhaps the best and most cogent explanation yet of what is similar and what is different between himself and the president on health care. Overall, he moved himself toward the center."


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Official figures suggest that anti-social driving practices such as hogging the middle lane and tailgating are not being punished enough.
Last August tailgating and other "careless driving" offences were made punishable by a £100 fixed penalty and three points on your licence, but figures show few motorists are being pulled up on these habits. (Read the full article here: http://bit.ly/1iNPIdG)
We want to hear from you! Do you think more needs to be done to combat these offences or do you feel it's too hard to enforce sufficiently?


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Urine collection - infants refers to the method of getting a urine sample from a baby for testing purposes. It is usually done in a doctor's office, but can be done at home.
Thoroughly wash the area around the urethra using soap, or cleansing wipes that your health care provider gave you. Clean from the front to the back on a female infant, and from the tip of the penis down on a male infant.
You will be given a special bag to collect the urine. It will be a plastic bag with a sticky strip on one end, made to fit over your baby's genital area. Open this bag and place it on the infant.
Put a diaper securely over the bag. For active infants, this procedure may take a couple of attempts -- lively infants can displace the bag.
Check your baby often and remove the bag after the infant has urinated into it.
Drain the urine into a sterile container and give it to the health care provider as directed. Do not touch the inside of the cup or lid. If at home, place the container in a plastic bag in the refrigerator until you return it to your health care provider.
There is no preparation for the test. If you collect the urine at home, you might need a couple of extra collection bags.
There is no discomfort.
The test is performed to get a urine specimen from an infant.
Normal values depend on what tests will be performed on the urine after it is collected.
There aren't really any risks. Rarely, the infant might get a mild skin rash from the adhesive on the collection bag. Bag urine specimens aren't best for urine cultures because they can become contaminated.
Try to return the specimen to the health care provider as soon as possible.
In children under age 3, the discovery of a urinary tract infection is very important, as it may be a sign of a problem with the structure of the urinary tract. However, even with proper cleansing, collecting urine with a bag is not recommended for evaluation of urinary tract infections. There is a high likelihood of contamination with bacteria from the skin and (in girls) the vagina. In these cases, a catheterized urine sample is better because it is more accurate.
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George Kinsey is charged with capital murder in the June 26 attack that killed Brandon Prince, 39, and Nathan Young, 22. A judge on Wednesday ordered that Kinsey be appointed a public defender, though it wasn't immediately clear if one had been assigned.
Authorities said the victims were outside a house on North D Street when Kinsey walked by and exchanged words with the men. Witnesses told police the men confronted Kinsey, who attacked them with the machete.
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While Guns N' Roses' "Greatest Hits" made an eye-popping gain on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week (No. 3, thanks to 25-cent pricing at digital retailers), the band's original lineup won't be performing those hits when they're inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 14. Or so says Slash, quite assuredly.
Slash's remarks, which he made to Canada's newswire QMI Agency after some proding (via NME), left little room for interpretation. "Either it hasn't hit me yet or maybe it's been so long since I had anything to do with Guns N' Roses that I just don't really get it," Slash said. "And we're not playing. I would imagine that they asked us to play but I know that we're not playing."
On the other hand, former GN'R drummer Matt Sorum told Billboard, "there's no real plans" for the seven members who will be inducted to perform together – but he's hopeful, noting that the uncertainty of it all is "in tradition, Guns N' Roses style."
"We're all sitting at the same table, so it should be cool," Sorum said last week. "After we get a little bit of food in us, hopefully someone will get up and want to play, but I don't know. I'm not the guy to ask. I just hope it works out."
GN'R's resident guitar god may not perform at the Rock Hall inductions in Cleveland, but what's to stop Axl and his new lineup, who have been heavily touring this spring?


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- Russia, U.S. disagree on how to hold Syrian leader accountable for getting rid of chemical weapons
- Republicans in Congress criticize the Obama administration over Russian negotiations
- The president's defenders say the naysayers are playing politics with national security
Dispute between Russia and the United States over the terms of a path to rid Syria of its chemical weapons has caused fissures in the latest round of diplomatic efforts.
Disagreement between the two chief negotiators over the repercussions of a potential failure by Syria to comply has the potential to unravel an agreement.
Syria is supposed to begin the process of turning over its chemical weapons stockpile next week, but Russia and the United States disagree on how to hold Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad accountable.
In short, Russia doesn't want to punish Syria militarily for failure to turn over its weapons stockpile and Washington wants to keep the threat of military action front and center.
The United States and its allies insist a plan before the U.N. Security Council be moved under Chapter VII, which means the use of military force remains on the table "should diplomacy fail."
But Russia objects.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Labrov said on Monday that Secretary of State John Kerry is misunderstanding the deal, according to Russia's state-run Itar-Tass news agency. It shows Kerry's "unwillingness to read the document."
With that major sticking point, it begs the question: Is the United States back to square one, where al-Assad still possesses chemical weapons, fighting -- and dying - continues in the Syrian civil war and the Obama administration still lacks international consensus?
'The diplomatic advantage'
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers indicated that that's the case.
"Not one ounce of chemical weapons came off the battlefield, but we've given up every ounce of our leverage when it comes to trying to solve the broader Syrian problem, because we've taken away a credible military threat," Rogers said on CNN on Sunday.
An advocate of military action, Rogers argued that not only is the United States in the same place it began when President Barrack Obama said it planned to enforce its "red line" on chemical weapons use, he said the United States is in a weaker position after negotiations with Russia.
Through negotiations, some Republicans say the administration has given "the diplomatic advantage" to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The top Senate Republican, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, told reporters on Tuesday that he's "skeptical of a game plan that will lead to an outcome and it looks more like, frankly, an effort to guarantee Assad stays in power."
Facing a reelection challenge, McConnell added that "Russians now have more influence in the Middle East as a result of their intervention and the administration buying their solution than they've had since the 1970s."
Tuesday's op-ed pages are filled with similar sentiment, criticizing the current U.S. standing in the negotiations.
Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense for policy for President George W. Bush, argues that the U.S. policy has emboldened other dictators.
In a harsh op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled "A very productive chemical-weapons attack," Feith said, "clever dictators will realize that they can barter their chemical-weapons arsenals to buy time to crush an insurrection and then rebuild the arsenal after the population has been pacified."
Much of the skepticism comes as much from a deep distrust of the U.S. negotiating partner as it does from a place of philosophical disagreement with Obama.
In a CNN.com opinion piece, Robert Hutching, also a former Bush administration official, did not mince words.
The former chair of the U.S. National Intelligence Council said, "(T)he administration's cautious approach has unraveled, and the president has wholly lost control over U.S. policy," he wrote.
He said negotiating with the Russians means "the opportunities for delay and obfuscation are endless, and we will wind up having allowed the al-Assad regime to escape any retribution or indeed any consequences at all for its use of chemical weapons."
Masha Gessen, a journalist and author of a biography of Vladimir Putin also said al-Assad and Putin have won this round.
In a New York Times op-ed, Gessen said difficult negotiations will batter the United States and disarmament would be expensive and difficult.
"The civil war in Syria will continue to rage, claiming more lives and robbing the Syrian people of hope with every passing day. Ultimately, the United States and its good-faith partners will have to admit the chemical-disarmament project has failed, as Syria lies in ruins — still ruled by Assad," Gessen wrote.
While opinionated experts are sharply critical, the American public, however, appears to support the president's current path. A CNN/ORC International poll from a week ago said seven in 10 opposed U.S. intervention and 61% supported the president's plan to try negotiating with the Russians.
'Significant gain'
A defender of the president took to the Senate floor Tuesday, criticizing naysayers for playing politics with national security. Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin, said, "Removing weapons of mass destruction from the hand of a brutal dictator... is the direct result of American leadership."
"Speculation as to motives, or about potential winners and losers, or who's up and who's down, miss the point," he added. "A month or a year or five years ago, an agreement to eliminate Assad's chemical weapons would have been seen as a significant gain."
At about the same time the United Nation's Security Council is meeting to hammer out the details of the Syrian resolution, Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.
While topic of discussion at the United Nations is likely to be around repercussions if Syria fails to comply, especially since Russia sits on the Security Council and has the power to override any agreement, Senator Bob Menendez, chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, insisted that U.S. force remains on the table.
"I'm looking forward to keeping the use of credible force on the table, because that's the only reason we've gotten to this point, even to this possibility," he said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
But as of now, the Senate has no intention of reviving the congressional resolution calling on the use of force.


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I'm writing a next Generation Fic, and it involves a few scens in the Hospital Wing.
Do you think she'd still be the Matron, or would they have replaced her?
And on other staff, would Filch still be around, or would he be a ghost?
What about other subjects, who do they have, does anybody know, or do i have free reign?
I know that's a few questions, but I'll love anybody's input!


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To provide photographers with a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles, reviews, and analyses of photographic equipment produced by DxOMark, renown websites, magazines or blogs.
Pentax has revamped the DA Limited lens range adding a rounded diaphragm opening and new HD coatings for improved rendering, transmission and lower ghosting and flare. Read on to find out how well the new HD DA 21mm f3.2 pancake model performs.
Announced in June this year, the K-50 is an accessibly priced environmentally sealed DSLR featuring a built-in stabilization and a 16-MPix APS-C size CMOS sensor. As Pentax has yet to introduce a full-frame DSLR to the range the K-50, like others before it, can benefit from one of the largest lens ranges designed for the smaller APS-C sensor. The result is an appealing and unsurpassed range of compact and highly portable primes and zooms. We have analyzed the optical properties of 28 different models in total from Pentax as well as third-party makers, mounted on the new K-50, to help you in your selection either when buying new for the first time or when simply choosing which lens to take with you on your next shoot.
Compactness has become a key factor for the hybrid cameras, but Pentax anticipated this trend with some nice pancakes launched a few years ago.
We go on our first round of reviews of Pentax pancake lenses with 2 more extremely compact lenses.
Here is a new series featuring the results of Pentax prime lenses mounted on the compatible camera with the best resolution thus far, the Pentax K5. (But as usual, you can consult DxOMark to see the results for these lenses when mounted on other compatible camera bodies, such as the Pentax K7 or Km.)


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I am a new SAP Basis Administrator. My management has told me install secutiy patch MS 08 -037 for all of my SAP servers. So actually i dont know how to install this , (i mean download the related items) . Could any1 tell me how to do this task and which file from which link i should download? My server is microsoft windows advanced server 2000 sp 4


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AgustaWestland has handed over an AW139 to the Beijing Public Security Bureau's Fire Fighting Department. The helicopter will carry out firefighting and disaster relief missions around Beijing and also assist the Beijing Police with law enforcement operations.
The manufacturer has also delivered a pair of AW139s to an operator in the Quinghai Province of China. One of the helicopters comes equipped with a multi-role VIP/utility package, including a rescue hoist and FLIR camera. It will be based in Gulmud in western China, operating from an elevation of 9,200 feet (2,800 meters). The other AW139 will operate from Chengdu in the Sichuan Province of southwest China. AgustaWestland announced the deliveries at last week's China Airshow in Zhuhai.
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Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf: European Banks Slow Asset Sales
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, a beneficiary of European banks' pressure to sell U.S. assets, said his old world competitors are less active sellers than they used to be.
Wells Fargo has most recently bought the energy lending business from BNP Paribas. But "it's probably fair to say there's been a little less activity" Stumpf told investors.
Europe's banks had been pressured to make deals by regulators anxious to see them bulk up capital. But funding in Europe has improved and a number of deals have already been done.
Still, it's not as if Wells Fargo is running out of targets overall: "We hungry for assets," Stumpf said.
The bank has been itching to pull the trigger on deals for much of the past year, though Stumpf said yesterday that he's not looking to go abroad.


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Sending voice and text messages to friends is easy with Messages on Xbox One. You can send messages to friends, people you recently played games with, or other people who have gamertags.
To send messages to one of your friends through Xbox One:
Note SmartGlass with a smartphone is a great way to quickly enter text messages.
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Mitchell beginning to make big league push
By Scott Merkin / MLB.com
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The fact that Jared Mitchell's Spring Training jersey number changed from 82 to 29 in the past two years is one indication the organization's top pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft is getting closer to the big leagues.
His work with the bat in the last instructional league session is more tangible evidence, although Mitchell is not likely to break camp with the team as an extra outfielder.
"Whenever the organization feels I'm needed, I'm ready to go," Mitchell said. "However I can help that team or any team, I want to win. That's all that matters to me. At the end of the day, we all want to win. That's what it's all about."
"Stranger things have happened, but I don't see us taking him come the end of spring," said White Sox general manager Rick Hahn, who agreed with Mitchell in that simple repetition at the plate has helped him improve. "Instead, he'll be playing on an everyday basis at [Triple-A] Charlotte, pushing us to hopefully bring him up based on his performance as the season goes on."
Lack of veteran backup catcher not an issue
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Between Tyler Flowers and Hector Gimenez, the White Sox have a combined 119 career games played behind the plate and 293 total at-bats. But general manager Rick Hahn reiterated Wednesday that he's comfortable with the catching combination even without a veteran option.
In contrast, the White Sox have veteran possibilities in Matt Thornton, Jesse Crain and Matt Lindstrom to support second-year hurler Addison Reed as closer.
"You like to have backup plans for everyday guys at every other position but realistically that's not something that happens," Hahn said. "Very few teams have another above-average Major League impact shortstop if theirs go down unless you've got depth in the Minor League system and you were going to promote a guy before you feel he's ready.
"So while there may not be this sort of hedge you have in the bullpen for Tyler, that's not atypical and we do like some of the guys we have in house. Gimenez, again, people haven't seen a lot but he has got a lot of praise from our pitchers and our coaching staff as well and the versatility he brings. The kid [Bryan] Anderson is still 26 years old and a left-handed bat and has potential to help us if need be."
The switch-hitting Gimenez, 30, is scheduled to be in camp Friday after dealing with visa issues. Anderson, a non-roster invite, has 44 career at-bats.
Classic won't disrupt Crain's spring routine
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Jesse Crain's participation in the World Baseball Classic, marking his third time pitching for Team Canada, won't alter his early routine in White Sox camp.
"Maybe I'll get one game earlier than normal. I don't think it affects me very much," Crain said. "I'll get three games in before I go, so it's not going to be too much different.
"Whenever I go out there, whether it's Spring Training or in a regular game, I go out with the same intensity no matter what. You still have that competitive attitude when you go out there."
Crain reports to Team Canada on March 3, with his decision to play being influenced by Canada having its training camp in Goodyear.
"The good thing is I'll be right next to the facility and stay in touch with [pitching coach Don Cooper]," Crain said.
Third to first
• John Danks will throw his first Spring Training bullpen session Thursday morning, with Hector Santiago, Gavin Floyd, Jose Quintana and Matt Lindstrom also part of the left-hander's group.
• White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper will move from jersey No. 21 to No. 99, in memory of Kevin Hickey, the popular White Sox batting practice pitcher and former player who passed away during the 2012 season.
Tyler Flowers switched from 17 to 21, while Jordan Danks is back at 20. Danks wore 20 when he came up last year but gave way to Kevin Youkilis upon his arrival and moved to 7. Jeff Keppinger has his familiar 7 this season, so Danks returned to 20.
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Does anyone else have this game?
For the entire game I've had the shaders at max and using hardware shadow mapping. Now on one level when it says caching shaders, it doesn't CTD, it doesn't crash, it reboots my computer. Yes, it REBOOTS my computer midway.
I cannot think of anything in shader code that would cause a system to reboot much less C/C++ code. The only thing that will cause a reboot is a triple fault in the CPU which, to me, is a major game killing bug and possibly OS killing bug that the folks that coded the game would not allow through.
My specs:
AMD 3200 XP+ 2.3 GHz
1GB Corsair RAM
3 drives - total of 340 GB of storage
BFG Tech GeForce 7800 GS AGP 256MB
Even the configuration util that comes with the game says I should have no issues and recommends the max settings.
Any ideas?
I'm in the process of updating the game but none of the update readme's say anything about this issue.


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Introduction to PHP Objects, Part 1
Pages: 1, 2
Member Functions and the
$this Reference Variable
Please note that, at least by convention, developers rarely access member variables directly. Rather, it is the job of the class to provide functions that modify any member variables that the developer may need to modify. With that said, let's create a new class,
counter, that creates two member variables,
$step and
$count, and member functions to work with them.
class counter {
var $step;
var $count;
function getcount() {
return $this->count;
function getstep() {
return $this->step;
function changestep($newval) {
$this->step = $newval;
function step() {
$this->count += $this->step;
function reset() {
$this->count = 0;
$this->step = 1;
Now, let's take a look at what is really involved in the example above. First, we declare the two member variables
$step and
$count, which you have already seen in prior examples. Next, we begin the creation of five functions:
reset(), and
step(). The code contained within these functions is very simple, but there is one thing that probably seems a bit alien -- the use of the seemingly-undeclared variable
$this. The variable
$this is available from anywhere within any PHP class and is created by PHP when an instance of the class is created. Basically, the
$this variable is a reference to the created instance itself, just as
$myobject was a reference to the
foo_object class. As you can see through the use of the
$this variable, you can access variables within an instance of a class, from within the instance itself.
Now that we are dealing with functions, let's take the example class we have created above and put it to a semi-useful purpose.
Also in PHP Foundations:
$ticker = new counter();
while($ticker->getcount() <= 20) {
echo "The value of the ticker is " .
Can you follow the code above, looking at the class definition? First, we create an instance of the class and store a reference to it in the variable
$ticker. Next, we call the member function
reset(), which resets the counter to its original state and sets the step-count to 2 (meaning that it will count by twos). Then, we loop until the ticker has reached the value of 20. The result will be the following output:
The value of the ticker is 0
The value of the ticker is 2
The value of the ticker is 4
The value of the ticker is 20
More to Come
Now that I've covered the very basics of object-oriented programming in PHP, I suggest you work with them a bit and make sure you understand them completely before moving on! In my next column, I'll be discussing some more advanced topics, including object inheritance, special member functions, and more!
John Coggeshall is a a PHP consultant and author who started losing sleep over PHP around five years ago.
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Please could anyone help with the identification of these butterflies photographed in Sabah?
Number 1 looks like a Chocolate Pansy ( junonia iphita ) and Number 2 could be Cupha maeonides.Number 5 is possibly a day flying moth.
Thanks for that. I will have a look on the web for these genera. I am surprised that I couldn't find the 3rd butterfly on any sites as it looks so distinctive. I hadn't considered moths!!!