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Summitt is moving too fast. New Moon is going to be an undertaking that will require lots of post-production and then for Summitt to rush Eclipse into the movie fold could bring to the screen a mediocre film.
Peter Jackson had one year between pictures and those were fantastic because of editing time.
Maybe it will work out, but with the impending strike looming on the horizon, even New Moon is threatened.
You can not rush a good story. Eclipse and Breaking Dawn are going to require detailed writing and adaption time to get it right, not to mention a better screenwriter. Otherwise, we will end up with another catastrophe like Twilight.


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Town Square
No power on Thanksgiving
Original post made by Jim, Midtown, on Nov 22, 2012
Comments (10)
a resident of Crescent Park
on Nov 22, 2012 at 10:50 am
This marks the second day I've had power outages, and I'm in Crescent Park, not Midtown.
Yesterday my power went out for a moment, and then right back on, enough to "blink" all my clocks and power-cycle all my computer and network stuff. Is the City going to pay me when something electronic breaks from all this nonsense?
Now today as well, and in Crescent Park too ... what the you-know-what is wrong with Palo Alto power? And why do they have to lie about it on the City web page?
And then, if you call the number to report power outages, they will not pick up or let you report unless your phone is from a verified Palo Alto prefix. I happen to have a cell phone that I keep with my old Mountain View number on it so they do not even do me the respect of answering the line.
No, Crescent Park was not mentioned in their outage report. I don't know, maybe it
was just a surge or transient on the line, but they do not even seem to know about it.
This is crappy service in my opinion. I don't get many outages, but then they start turning off and on my power daily and pretend it did not happen, it tends to bother me.
Power outage in Midtown Thursday, November 22
Most customers were restored to power at 8:22 AM, except for about 40 customers. Utility crews will continue to work and make repairs to restore power to the remaining customers still without power.
At 6:40 AM on Thanksgiving morning, a power outage occurred in Midtown impacting nearly 2,000 customers. The cause is currently unknown; however a three-person utility crew arrived on scene at about 8 AM to assess the situation and begin repairs.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 22, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Don't worry, our infrastructure is fine. Nothing to see here.
No need to rebuild or improve.
No need to put un/underemployed Americans back to work.
Nothing to see here.
Carry on.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Nov 22, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Are you guys serious? To imply it is intentional? Gimme a break! We probably have the most reliable supply here than any place on the planet! Have you ever spent any time in a city where it is common to lose power several times a day? That s an infrastructure issue. Stop whining and if you have sensitive electronics its your responsibility to put them on a ups, not the city's! Get off your high house!
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 22, 2012 at 8:54 pm
There was also a power cycle(off and on in 1 sec) on Wednesday around noon. No doubt this was a sign of impending failure, but I doubt anyone in the Utility dept paid any attention.
30 years ago, the utility dept was staffed by competent professionals, now I am appalled at the lack of technical knowledge in the current utility crews. I don't think the Utility Dept is qualified to maintain the infrastructure.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Nov 22, 2012 at 9:04 pm
We get our share of them, too. It is still better than PG and E. They once let us go for three days without power. I could not cook, the house was freezing cold, and I had a little baby. They told me to just wait my turn, and that everyone should have a generator for such times. So we went and checked into a hotel, and then deducted the bills from the PG and E bill that month. PG and E threatened to turn off our power permanently and send our bill to collection! They dropped it when we got a lawyer to send them a "friendly" letter, though.
I doubt you would have to go that far with PA Utilities.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Nov 23, 2012 at 9:28 pm
> Are you guys serious? To imply it is intentional?
Bob, I'm serious ... but nowhere did I imply this was intentional. I'd just like to know what is going on and if it will stop.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 26, 2012 at 10:59 am
I do believe Midtown residents have been disproportionately affected in recent outages, though the numbers are small, so it would be hard to prove statistically. I think we've seen two more outages than many other Palo Alto locations in the past year. I live right on the edge of the affected area and my neighbors across the street were not affected. I suspect there are some issues in the grid that makes Midtown more susceptible, and it would get attention in, say, Professorville. This needs to be investigated and we should see a plan to address it. We might need to organize to press the legal buttons to make this happen.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 26, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Any update on the cause of the outage? PA Weekly, have you investigated this outage?
a resident of Downtown North
on Nov 26, 2012 at 3:36 pm
As Utilities Communications Manager, I'd like to address a few points in the comments above. This commentary will be long, but if you have an interest, you can get the full scoop.
First I would like to extend appreciation to those commentors who correctly noted that our reliability is actually better than most places. I realize, however, that is slim consolation to someone who wakes up Thanksgiving morning with no power!
1) "LIES ON WEBSITE" I'm not sure what the commentor who claimed this was referring to, but I AM sure no lies were posted. We are a municipal utility that has neither incentive to nor interest in misrepresenting facts to our community-owners. What can and does happen is we report what we know at any given time...and if new information develops we then change our postings accordingly.
2) "PALO ALTO'S ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE" is poorly maintained by inept crews. We have both a blessing and a curse...the blessing is that foresighted founders started this Utility in 1900 and as a result we've had local control and lower rates for over 110 years. The curse is that the system is old and has needed a lot of upgrading to handle the burgeoning electric demands of modern society. Our system improvement program has been aggressive, but as we work our way around town upgrading equipment, there will always be areas with older equipment that can fail before we get to it.
3) MORE OUTAGES IN MIDTOWN than elsewhere...the equipment in Midtown definitely was ready for replacment and as it happens we have a major capital improvement project underway right now upgrading the equipment that serves this area. (Indeed, a couple of blocks are scheduled for PLANNED shut downs this week for this very work to be completed.) The result should be greatly improved reliability.)
4) Finally, WHAT HAPPENED ON THANKSGIVING, if you want the full "technical" scoop it is that a part (cradled elbow)was in an underground vault which filled with water during recent rains. The water entered the elbow which caused the termination to fault and triggered the outage. Two points to note are that we are changing the specific type of elbows used in these vaults so this particular reason for an outage will be eliminated AND moving these vaults above ground is a significant part of the electric upgrade process I was referring to in item 2 above.
I hope this is helpful to some readers. I can be contacted directly any time via email at email@example.com
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Fehr begins camp tour by visiting O's
Union head discusses drug testing, game's international impact
By Spencer Fordin / MLB.com
Emissaries from the union have already visited six other teams, but Fehr said he plans on backtracking and meeting with those clubs himself at some point. Fehr met the media after his 90-minute closed-door session on Thursday and displayed his normal scholarly precision when asked about a wide number of topics currently affecting the game.
Now that the league and the players have achieved labor peace, he said, these annual meetings are a little different.
"They're different in the sense that you're not talking about the economic negotiations," he said before digressing into a point-by-point discussion of oustanding issues. "But you still go through the Basic Agreement and things that have happened under it, what's going on with the pension plan and changes that have happened there. Obviously, we talked about the Mitchell Report and recommendations. There were some questions about the hearings that have gone on."
Fehr was at one of those hearings as recently as Wednesday, when he joined union heads and commissioners from all four major American sports to discuss the future of detecting performance-enhancing drugs. While he welcomed the hearings and hoped some good would come out of them, Fehr said the issues are something that transcend sports.
"When you deal with these kind of issues, there's a danger of doing two things," he said. "There's a danger to focus on a given industry or a given incident where the most recent spate of publicity has been or to view it as narrow in some fashion. To the extent that we have problems -- with steroids or with human growth hormone, with supplements or with any of these kinds of things -- recent evidence has suggested that these things are very widespread and they don't have much to do with sports.
"That's not to minimize the problems that sports have had, but they don't have very much to do with sports. To the extent that Congress is going to consider what to do about it, I think they at least have to pay attention to those kinds of issues."
Fehr was also asked if the four leagues -- MLB, the NFL, the NBA and the NHL -- would ever have similar testing procedures, and he said they may resemble each other without being totally identical.
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"In football, they play once a week. In basketball and hockey, they play half as many games as we do. We have effective competition on almost 200 days in a row, not counting the postseason. So it's a different world."
When asked specifically whether the union would consider allowing for blood testing, Fehr reiterated that to his knowledge, there is no efficient test that can detect human growth hormone. He said the union would consider it as soon as one was brought to his attention, but he also noted that it has to be validated first by the scientific community.
Fehr was also asked about the recent comments by star players in support of blood testing and whether he'd prefer if they went through proper channels, but he laughed and said that's not something he tries to control.
"You should see a meeting if I would try and tell players, 'By the way, I'm going to give you a directive not to say something or not to talk to somebody,'" he said. "They'd react as you are now: They'd be laughing. We don't do that.
"The owners have gag rules and they have millions of dollars in fines if people step out of line. We've always thought those things are fundamentally anti-American, anti-democratic and don't have any place in unions."
Fehr touched on the Mitchell Report and said that he hoped Major League Baseball would respect Sen. Mitchell's recommendation that no discipline be handed out to those named in the Report. He said it wouldn't make much sense to follow the recommendations on how to clean up the game and to ignore the ones regarding discipline.
Finally, Fehr touched on the future and the increasingly international profile of the game.
"There's all kinds of issues going on. The next big thing we have to see is the next [World Baseball Classic] is only a year from now," he said. "It will be played in 54 or 56 weeks, or something like that. Based upon the success we had last time, we're looking forward to an enormously successful event. We're really starting to expand overseas, and as you know we've got games played next month in Beijing as well as in Tokyo. And more and more international players.
"I'd like, one day hopefully, for baseball to have the same international regard as some of the other sports do. It's been predominantly in the Americans, North America, the Carribbean and a Japanese sport. But that's beginning to change."
Spencer Fordin 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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Monday dawned cloudy but very warm so Ty and I decided to visit the nearby Mayan ruin site of Dzibilchaltun, about 15 kilometers north of Merida. On our last visit to Merida seven years ago, we had ridden bikes to this place; unfortunately, on that occasion Ty's bike had crapped out, leaving him with only one working pedal to get back home, not a very happy scene. So, this time we decided to take public transport. One website we read recommended taking a hired combi (minibus taxi) from San Juan park south of the main plaza, so we jumped aboard a city bus, walked a few blocks to the park, and negotiated a (ridicuously large) fare with a sleepy driver to take us out to the site. We knew that we'd agreed to pay way too much when the driver jumped up from his prone position on one of the back seats and made the sign of the cross while gazing heavenward in thanks before hopping into the driver's seat and heading down the road.
We were amazed at how much farther north the city had expanded in seven years; what before had been large tracts of undeveloped land was now miles and miles of new shopping malls, big box stores, and auto malls along a ten lane highway. After turning off the main Merida-Progreso highway, our driver pulled over to pick up a couple of local people who were also heading towards Dzibilchaltun. I watched steaming in the back seat as the driver took money from them (and in Spanish told them how much we were paying as they all laughed) for what was supposed to be the private ride for which we'd negotiated a huge sum of money. If he'd asked us, we would have let them ride with us for free; but when he took money from them, that was too much. When we reached the site, I mustered my Spanish to tell the driver off; demanding to know how much the others had paid him for our ride, I deducted that amount from what we paid him.
The last time that we'd visited this place, we had been the only ones on the site. Today, though, there were several tour groups, likely from one of the cruise ships that comes into nearby Progreso on Mondays and Wednesdays. Once again, I was surprised to hear so many American accents all in one place (the last time this happened was in St Lucia on cruise ship day). It is still possible to climb the structures here and from the top of one small pyramid, we caught a beautiful breeze and could see far in all directions.
Down at ground level it was very hot and humid. After walking around the open chapel and through the main plaza, we headed towards the large cenote (fresh water sinkhole) in which many of the visitors were swimming, watching them from a nearby structure.
Although these waters seem clean, since there are fresh water organisms in Mexico which can give serious disease, neither of us swam.
As we climbed the stones, Ty's flip-flop broke – damn! However, ingeniously, he was able to repair it using one of my string bracelets and a small piece of wood – huzzah! – enabling him to continue our walking tour.
Many small, almost invisible, lizards zoomed out of our way as we walked. Larger ones, almost the same colour as the ground, sunned themselves on the warm rocks.
We climbed the most important structure on the site, the Temple of the Seven Dolls, whose four entrances face east and west, and from there we had a great view across the most important structures of the area.
Since the site's Museum wasn't open on Mondays, we headed back out to the parking lot, trying to figure out how to get back to the city. After having paid a fair bit of coin to get there, and a fair bit to get into the site, we were not inclined to pay for a taxi back. One of the drivers told us that a local bus would be coming from the village in fifteen minutes so we made our way out to the main road and, amazingly, only waited for a couple of minutes before the big old bus approached, for which we paid a twentieth of what it had cost to get there.
From Yucatan Today: "Dzibilchaltún" means the "place where there is writing on the stones," referring to the many memorial stones found at the site. There were settlements here from 500 BC until the Spanish conquest, around 1540 AD. It covers an area of about 19 square kilometers, with somewhere around 8400 structures in the round enclave. It is believed there may have been a population of as many as 40,000 inhabitants, making it one of the largest cities of Mesoamerica. […]
The Temple of the Seven Dolls is also known as the Temple of the Sun, a square structure which was the focal point of the city. This second name may come from the phenomenon which takes place twice yearly, at the spring and fall equinoxes, when the rising sun is visible through one window and out the other, a tribute to the incredible mathematical knowledge of the Mayas. The temple is connected to the rest of the site by a sacbé, or "white road," so called because they were originally coated with white limestone, built over stone and rubble fill.
The more well known name, Temple of the Seven Dolls, comes from the seven small coarsely made effigy dolls found in the interior of the temple. The one-story square building has a central chamber surrounded by a corridor. There are four entrances with windows alongside each one, facing east and west. It may have been used as an astronomical observatory. The roof was like a tower, which projected upwards from a vaulted ceiling. There are steps on all four sides of the building, which was built on a pyramid-shaped pedestal. There are eight stucco masks on the frieze of the temple, as well as serpents and glyphs, and beads, sea animals, and feathers, all made in carved stucco. It wasn't until the 1950s that archaeologists discovered the temple buried under another building: for some reason around 800 AD, the temple was filled with rocks and then covered by another larger building. The remains of this second structure still partially cover it."
Once back in Merida, we stopped for lunch at a newly-opened German restaurant downtown, a nice change from tacos …
Ty's improvised shoe repair lasted until a couple of blocks from home, whereupon he had to replace the disintegrating stick with a fresh one he'd had the presence of mind to put in his pocket.
Such are the small joys of life on the road …
The large cactus near our casita is blooming; huge white flowers open in the night and, as soon as the sun hits them in the morning, close and die. While the blooms are still open, clouds of large and small bees enjoy them.
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How Many Apples Can a Woodchuck Chuck?
Woodchucks, also known as groundhogs, live in burrows but can and do climb trees. They're particularly fond of apples. Photographs by Corey Eilhardt
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck,
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Woodchucks don't chuck wood, except in tongue twisters and insurance commercials.
Woodchucks (Marmota monax), also known as groundhogs or whistle pigs, are rodents, as are more than half of the world's mammalian species. They belong to the same family as the squirrel, although woodchucks live underground and squirrels nest in trees. The English name of this common North American mammal derives from the Alogonquian wuchak.


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The big cling I got with this set, half of the design came off when I pulled off the plastic cover. And the clings don't hold on as well in my EZ storage books. I will think twice about buying the clings. It's to bad because I love Inkadinkado.
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>General Running>dog boarding
Censored for spam.
My understanding is that dog boarding is a 10 minute major as they pretty much have no ability to control the puck.
The highest use of human freedom is to commit to something -- C.S. Lewis
I better not learn Spuds was doping...
Come all you no-hopers, you jokers and roguesWe're on the road to nowhere, let's find out where it goes
I dunno, I hear water boarding is a pretty awful experience, so how can dog boarding be enjoyable?
Dogs have cold slimy noses, and they slobber.
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
Rodents do it better.
My leg won't stop mooing.
i think i've got a calf injury.
Ostrich runner
I was hoping this was similar to water boarding and included videos.
I was hoping that I would learn how to surf on my dog, which would really help if I ever get too tired late in a run.
"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem." Emil Zatopek
I used to surf on my dachshund.
That's longboarding.
You'll ruin your knees!
I thought this was about a new interrogation technique
""...the truth that someday, you will go for your last run. But not today—today you got to run." - Matt Crownover (after Western States)
Imminent Catastrophe
"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"
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Dogs have cold slimy noses, and they slobber.
I have no idea how they keep them from icing over in the middle of Winter anywhere in Alaska.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Okay, do you think dog breath is a good thing?
If they have been eating mint, perhaps.
Demon of Bad Decisions
Okay, do you think dog breath is a good thing?
On your significant other, no.
On this, I can live with it.
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Soon, it really won't matter what's on TV for you -- you'll be busy snapping pix of your new baby. And when you're done with that, you'll be 50 and it will be time to learn shuffleboard and bridge and to acquire a taste for Moxie and say things like "I never let my kid do that" or "this generation is dumber than a sack of hair."
Ok. I don't have a TiVo so I have no idea what kind of withdrawals you're going through.


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Halladay leading by example
Veteran pitcher hoping to elevate team's performance in '08
By Jordan Bastian / MLB.com
Halladay made quick work of the Pirates at Knology Park, spinning five shutout innings in his typically swift fashion. Spring Training games don't count for much in the grand scheme of a baseball season, but that doesn't matter to Halladay. With roughly two weeks remaining before Opening Day, Halladay is getting serious.
That is the type of attitude that Halladay hopes the Blue Jays can maintain throughout the upcoming season. Earlier this spring, Toronto's top starter and quiet clubhouse leader said he believed that the Blue Jays lacked a sense of urgency a year ago, playing with different levels of intensity against different opponents.
It's an issue he hopes has been eradicated in light of the Jays' desire to compete for a playoff spot.
"I think the guys that have been here in the past," Halladay said, "are starting to get -- not frustrated -- but we're tired of finishing the same every year and not really seeing that progression that we'd like to see. That, with the fact that we're bringing in guys that play the game the right way, I think that makes a big difference."
Halladay was referring to offseason additions like third baseman Scott Rolen and shortstop David Eckstein -- players who have each captured a World Series title in their career. Similar to Halladay, Rolen and Eckstein try to lead by example, with a dedicated work ethic, speaking up and providing input only when deemed necessary.
Toronto, which has finished in third place or lower in the American League East in 13 of the past 14 seasons, wants to make a run at the Yankees and the Red Sox in the division, which is a daunting task. Over the past few years, the Jays have acquired a cast of veteran players -- such as designated hitter Frank Thomas, Rolen and Eckstein -- to complement a relatively young core.
Last season, when a wave of injuries took a drastic toll on Toronto's roster, the club relied heavily on young pitchers like Dustin McGowan, Shaun Marcum and Jeremy Accardo. Now, as those players, along with other young players on the roster, have gained experience in the big leagues, the Blue Jays hope they can realize that sense of urgency Halladay has discussed.
"As an organization, I think everybody knows that we're not in a rebuilding process, that we're trying to win," Halladay said. "For those guys, knowing that you may be young and you may be here, but we're trying to win and it's not going to be a learning process as much as a rebuilding team, I think that kind of changes the attitude for them a little bit.
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"They realize that it is our responsibility to start winning games and not just progress ability-wise."
It's still only spring, so it's hard to really gauge whether or not there is a difference in the team's mentality, but Toronto general manager J.P. Ricciardi has liked what he's seen so far.
"This has been a really good camp in a lot of ways," Ricciardi said. "Probably more from a -- I don't want to [say] this the wrong way, but there's a lot more professionalism and a lot more sense of urgency this year in the way everybody is going about their business."
Halladay said it'll be easier to see if things are really different once the season is under way. The pitcher wants the Blue Jays to approach games against teams like the Orioles and Rays the same way they'd approach series against the rival Red Sox and Yankees.
"For me, it was just a matter of treating every series like we do Boston and New York," Halladay said. "We go and play those guys so well and then there's kind of an emotional letdown when we play some of the other teams. For me, we just can't afford to do that in our division. We have to have an attitude of trying to bury teams every chance we get.
"It's just professionalism," he added. "You have to play the game the same way every time out. It's a matter of doing your job and taking care of your responsibility on the field, and that comes down to the little things. I think that's part of guys getting older and being more professional and realizing how important those things are. Hopefully, we're getting more to that point."
If that attitude change isn't apparent, Halladay said he's willing to speak up in the clubhouse, holding Toronto's players accountable, considering what's at stake.
"I think I would, as well as a couple other guys," said Halladay, who took home the AL Cy Young Award in 2003. "That's something that everybody is conscious of at this point, and I just think we have the right guys for it, I really do."
That type of mind-set was evident in Halladay's appearance against Pittsburgh on Saturday. In what could've been used as a time to toy with his pitch repertoire, Halladay said he approached the start like he would any start during the season.
During his five innings of work, Halladay was in top form, inducing nine outs via ground ball, striking out four and walking none. The Pirates managed just four singles off the right-hander and didn't have a runner advance beyond first base until the fifth inning.
"I told [catcher Gregg Zaun] today, 'We'll just pitch like normal from here on out,' Halladay said.
Jordan Bastian 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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Wasatch Range (Central) > Rocky Mouth Canyon Peak > Climber's Log
Rocky Mouth Canyon Peak Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Great Day
Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2016
|It was surprisingly cool on the way up for a 104 degree day in the valley. The stream was an awesome surprise in Big Willow. The summit was very peaceful. Met a cool guy at the top, which was another surprise. A nice dayhike.
|Posted Jul 27, 2016 2:23 pm
|via Big Willow ...
Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2015
|with WMC group organized by Alex. great to see Lone Peak and others from a new vista. Bells Canyon too.
|Posted Aug 15, 2015 10:36 pm
|Via Bells Canyon
Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2015
|Climbed the north side, then went down the south side. This was also my last of the SL County 10,000' summits.
|Posted Jul 26, 2015 9:22 pm
|Ryan Borzea
|via Big Willow
Date Climbed: Jun 13, 2015
|Great Hike and awesome views!
4.75 miles / 5100' ele. gain via Big Willow
|Posted Jun 13, 2015 10:55 pm
|Good Trip
Date Climbed: Oct 25, 2007
|Good time with good friends.
|Posted Sep 12, 2013 10:10 pm
|Via Hidden Valley Park
Date Climbed: Nov 8, 2015
|11/8/2015 With Ben Stokes and Donovan Lynch. After Rocky Mouth we made an attempt on Lone Peak's North peak. Backed off of North Lone about a 100' feet from the top due to snow on the slabby granite. Not worth it with the slick conditions and all that exposure.
7/31/2013 Started at the trailhead at Hidden Valley Park. Very pleasant hike in parts and not so much in others. Despite a couple of route finding issues and incessant bushwhacking I reached the summit in 3 hr 20. Much faster on the way down, didn't make the same mistakes twice. 5 and half hours RT. Like AjaxHiker before, this peak completed my list of the 31 - 10,000 ft. central Wasatch Mountain peaks that have enough prominence to qualify.
|Posted Jul 31, 2013 4:14 pm
|Late fall via Big Willow
Date Climbed: Oct 31, 2011
|This was to be the last nice day before the snow came, so I had to get one more hike in. Nice hike though the trail is severely overgrown in some spots. Outstanding views of the Bells Canyon area peaks from the summit. This peak completed my list of 31 Central Wasatch peaks over 10k' with at least 200 feet of prominence. Still many new places to visit!
|Posted Nov 1, 2011 2:41 pm
|Bushwacker's Paradise
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2011
|Great climb, but the main trail from Hidden Valley Park is very overgrown after the avalanche sign in Little Willow Canyon. After the first stream crossing in Big Willow Canyon, pay special alert to red and orange blazes on the trees. We missed them at one point and ended up far north on the canyon too soon and spent 1 hour bushwacking back to the trail. Even when on the trail, it is extremely overgrown and you must pay attention until you get to about 9000 feet, then there are rock cairns that will take you to the south saddle of RMCP. Once there, it is a standard Class 2 trip to the summit. Some minor scrambling the last 100 feet to the summit. Register was still present. Great views of Bells Canyon
|Posted Jul 16, 2011 9:32 pm
|Exactly 12 times
Date Climbed: Mar 14, 2005
|3/14/2005, 2/1/2003, 1/19/2003, 12/14/2002, 8/3/2002, 6/15/2002, 11/3/2001, 9/8/2001, 5/28/2001, 4/28/2001, 7/8/2000, 10/9/1999
|Posted Dec 20, 2010 6:49 pm
|Big Willow Trail
Date Climbed: May 9, 2009
|Didn't know this peak had a page or name until WasatchVoyage contacted me. I did put a register up there, I guess it melted down 5 feet of snow to a perfect spot. I loved this climb. Pics and map at http://www.willhiteweb.com/draper_utah/rocky_mouth_canyon_peak/trails_204.htm
|Posted May 26, 2009 3:30 pm
|I love the hanging meadow
Date Climbed: Sep 15, 2007
|Came up Big Willow and made the summit in 2 hr 35 min. Traversed over to Bell Mtn from here via the northwest coulior (lot's of loose rock) and then the ridge, came back via the bowl and then the north ridge. This is a very fun approach but gets up there in exposure, loose rock and has some 4-5th class moves. Definetly harder than the south ridge of superior I did the week before. The actual summit of Bell's mountain is very pretty and has excellent views for such a rarely visited peak.
|Posted Sep 16, 2007 9:54 pm
|Via Big Willow
Date Climbed: Dec 8, 2017
|My 2nd time at the summit on 5/22/07. 1st time on 07/12/06. This time with Brent, Lana and Kim. Beautiful climb through varied landscapes. Snow above 8,600' and at the summit it was snowing lightly! Caution: 5200' elevation gain is not to be taken lightly. 3rd ascent to summit on 6-11-07. Very little snow along the trail now. 10-25-07 brought me for the 4th time to the windy, snowy summit. With Anne, Kim and Lana. Snow above 7,000 feet. 5th time as above noted and 12" of fresh powder, 30 degrees, light snow and 100' visibility above 9,000'. With WMC members Cheryl, Sharon & Lana. 6th time on 12-3-08 with Anne. Plenty of snow above 8,000' - snowshoes a must. Great climb and fabulous views from the summit. 7th on 4-18-09 w/ Dave, Robert & Brent. Huge snows from 4 days earlier, much slide evidence. In clouds on top - again! 4+48 up and only 2+40 down. #8 1-12-10 Solo for last 3 hrs with continuous trailbreaking in uncooperative snow. 6+00 up to the ferocious winds on the summit and 2+30 down. Very tough climb today. #9 8-28-10 W/ Brent, Dave & JP Lewis. 3+15 up, 2+43 down. Much wind, gusting to 40 mph at least. #10 1-22-11 w/ Brent but solo to the top. 5+31 up, 15 degrees & wind on the summit. Missing key members of hiking group. 3+01 down. #11 5-10-11 W/ Dave. Snow as if in February! Both west & east peaks. #12 6-4-11 w/ Anne. Much snow, needed crampons. #13 11-5-11 Very tough early winter conditions, thus 6+50 up (but 3+10 down). Crazy. #14 1-10-12 Fresh snow plus a rarely-used trail equals tough soloing to the top. (Where were my hiking friends today?) 5+32 up but 2+43 down. Snowshoes mandatory above 8,500'. #15 7-21-12 Solo. Trail very overgrown with brush above the stream crossing. Long pants recommended! 3+09 up, 2+20 down. #16 8-18-12 Very overgrown in spots. #17 8-25-12 WMC adventure. #18 9-27-12 Solo. 3+14 up 2+35 down. Fall in full colors on the maples. #19 8-17-13 3+12 up 2+17 down. To say the trail is overgrown is an insult to the word hyperbole. If nothing else, wear long pants and pay close attention.#20 5-24-14 WMC on a soggy day but 4+08 up. IVD #21 4-5-16 Solo, Solid snow after 2nd streamlet crossing. Very hard to follow the "trail." Microspikes to summit base then snowshoes. Lots of small slide evidence. Zero rocks showing on the summit. 4+17 up. #22 10-28-16 W/ Yadahzoe. Windy but warm, so snow on the trail. 4+24 up. Some kind soul has improved the trail by trimming and lopping and by fastening red metal markers on key trees up to the hanging canyon. #23 11-22-16 Solo. Snow, lots of it. 7+ hrs up because I forgot to take snowshoes! Won't make that mistake again - I hope. #24 11-25-16 Solo. A Black Friday event done mostly in white, deep white. A quick-moving storm had dumped at least 12"+ of new snow and I'd never have made it without snowshoes. Breaking trail in 12" to 18" of new snow is tiring. Therefore 6+56 to the wind-blasted summit. 2+40 down. The wind never let up... #25 11-18-17 W/ Yadahzoemtn. 12" new snow Snowshoes at 9,250'. 6+48 up. #26 12-8-17 W/ Brent. Wore microspikes from the overlook to the summit. 6+03 up. Cold but sunny.
|Posted May 23, 2007 11:36 am
|Via Big WIllow
Date Climbed: May 24, 2006
|I did this with Ammon Hatch. So far the only peak I have done where I really didn't know anything about the trip, all I did was follow all the way to the summit. Super fun hike.
|Posted Jun 19, 2006 1:22 am
|Joseph Bullough
|via Bells Canyon
Date Climbed: May 26, 2006
|Traversed over to Rocky Mouth Canyon Peak after climbing Bells Cleaver. Ascended the south ridge, then descended the north ridge back into Bells Canyon.
|Posted May 27, 2006 6:49 pm
|Ammon Hatch
|Via Big Willow
Date Climbed: May 23, 2006
|Went up to collect info to put up the mountain page. A standard wasatch-foothills hike. Good trail until about mid-canyon, but it was still easy to follow. Once I hit snow it got more difficult to see, so I just went straight uphill.
|Posted May 24, 2006 8:37 pm


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McAllister to begin playing catch soon
By Mark Emery / MLB.com
CLEVELAND -- After a Thursday examination of his right middle finger, Zack McAllister will begin playing catch in about three days.
McAllister went on the 15-day disabled list on June 3 with a right middle finger sprain. Manager Terry Francona said the injured starter is "doing really well."
"We want to be cautious with him, and we will continue to be," Francona said. "He's making progress. He can already tell, just by even like touching it and moving it and things like that. And he got a good examination and we'll continue to monitor that."
In 11 starts this season, McAllister is 4-5 with a 3.43 ERA. He gave up a season-high five runs on June 2 against Tampa Bay, during which he had difficulties throwing his curveball.
"Now, we are going to be cautious with him, because this isn't something to play around with," Francona said. "And if we do treat it correctly and accordingly, he should be just fine, and that's the whole idea."
Tribe closer Perez nears rehab assignment
CLEVELAND -- After three weeks away from live action, Chris Perez will probably be back on the mound in a Minor League park later this weekend.
The injured Indians closer threw a bullpen session on Friday and will likely make a rehab appearance on Sunday, Tribe manager Terry Francona announced before the opener of a three-game weekend series against Washington on Friday.
"[He] did real well," Francona said. "[He] didn't command great, which I don't think is a surprise, because he hadn't been off the mound much."
Francona said the club hadn't yet decided which Minor League affiliate Perez will pitch for. The closer went on the 15-day disabled list on May 27 with mild tendinitis in the rotator cuff of his right shoulder.
In 17 outings this season, Perez owns a 4.32 ERA and has converted six of eight save opportunities. Over his last 2 2/3 innings, Perez had allowed seven runs on five hits (three home runs) and five walks.
Perez's problems have spread away from the ballpark, too. Earlier this month, Perez and his wife were charged with misdemeanor drug possession when a package of marijuana was delivered to their rental home in Rocky River, Ohio. On Monday, the two pleaded not guilty.
The only Minor League affiliate that plays at home on Sunday is Class A Lake County.
"We'll sit with him -- we already have a little bit -- and determine what's in his best interest, and where," Francona said. "Hopefully, he's to the point where maybe it's only once. We'll see. We'll kind of see how he does. Because he wasn't down that long, I don't think getting back is going to take a really long time."
Francona: Asdrubal to return as quick as possible
CLEVELAND -- Indians fans who are uneasy about Asdrubal Cabrera being confined to the bench shouldn't have to worry much longer. The two-time All-Star is doing everything he can to put himself back on the field.
Cabrera was removed from the lineup halfway through the June 3 game in Yankee Stadium. A day later, the shortstop was on the 15-day disabled list with a right quadriceps strain. Tribe manager Terry Francona said Cabrera hasn't been careless or lazy when it comes to his recovery.
"He is doing really well," Francona said. "We can't put a day on it, just because it's a muscle, and when it is ready to be healed, it's going to be healed. Saying that, the day you see him out there, I'd be willing to bet it's probably as quick as humanly possible."
Cabrera had been hampered by the quad discomfort in the weeks before his strain. In 53 games this season, he's batting .254 (52-for-205) with 18 doubles, two triples and five home runs. Cabrera has 25 RBIs, 28 runs scored, 14 walks and 54 strikeouts. He has also been successful in five of six steal attempts.
In 50 games at shortstop, Cabrera has made three errors while participating in 29 double plays. He owns a .983 fielding percentage.
"He's doing everything in his power -- from sitting in the chair playing catch, to, you know, everything," Francona said. "He's been so diligent and so conscientious that he'll be back as quick as humanly possible. And I think that original three to four weeks is probably pretty, pretty close."
Francona saw positives during tough stretch
CLEVELAND -- A two-game winning streak might not be cause for celebration, but the Indians were certainly excited to just let the loss column be for awhile.
Prior to taking the final two contests in Texas, the Tribe had dropped eight straight and 16 of the past 20 games. For manager Terry Francona and his players, that grind was no simple one to handle, which made it nice to return to Progressive Field following a pair of wins.
"It helps, certainly. We show up every day to win," Francona said. "When [losses] start building, everybody feels it, myself included. But you have to be able to weather those things and come through them. Those things wear on you. It's human nature. If they didn't, that means you don't care. And we take what we're doing very, it's very personal. I know this is the way we make our living and everything, but it's so much past that, we care so much about it that it hurts -- it hurts a lot. I like this team so much. For their sake, and our sake, I want them to have results, you know, the results they're looking for."
On May 21, Cleveland began a portion of the schedule that brought 22 games against opponents with winning records, all to be played in a span of 23 days. The Indians went 6-16 in that stretch and were outscored, 119-90. They entered Friday trailing Detroit by 4 1/2 games in the American League Central.
"I saw nothing during that streak that made me think that this isn't going to be a good team," Francona said. "We fought through it. There were times when we found a way to lose as opposed to a way to win, but I didn't see guys giving up, things like that. It gave me reason to want to continue believing in them. First of all, that's what I want to do, but there was nothing that happened that made me feel any different."
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"The one thing, I guess, that sticks out to me, and it's just so hard not to like it, is that every ball he hits, he runs to first base like his pants are on fire. And it's hard as a manager not to really like that, because it's just, it's a good feeling." -- Francona on second baseman Jason Kipnis
Smoke signals
• It was determined that Lou Marson will not need surgery after the catcher's Wednesday meeting with Dr. James Andrews. Marson has been on the 15-day disabled list since April 25 with right shoulder inflammation.
"He's shut down for a little while and we'll get him back, try to get him back to where he can start over again, hopefully with better results," Francona said.
Before the recent discomfort, the catcher made four rehab appearances between May 31 and June 7, going 1-for-9 with two walks and two strikeouts.
• The Indians have been busy this week signing their selections from the 2013 First-Year Player Draft. On Friday, the club announced that sixth-rounder Casey Shane, 19th-round pick Matthew Whitehouse and 24th-round draftee K.D. Doane had agreed to terms. A day earlier, Cleveland announced the contracts of Silento Sayles, a 14th-round selection, and Paul Hendrix, who went in the 18th round. Nine of the Tribe's 39 picks have now been signed.
• On Thursday, Cleveland signed free agent Clay Rapada and assigned him to Triple-A Columbus. The 32-year-old lefty was released by the Yankees on June 4. In 10 appearances for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, he went 1-0 with a 4.66 ERA. He also had four walks and four strikeouts in 9 2/3 innings of work.
Mark Emery is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Meningitis is a bacterial infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord (meninges).
See also:
The most common causes of meningitis are viral infections that usually get better without treatment. However, bacterial meningitis infections are extremely serious, and may result in death or brain damage, even if treated.
Meningitis may also be caused by:
Types include:
Acute bacterial meningitis is a medical emergency, and requires immediate treatment in a hospital.
Viral meningitis is milder and occurs more often than bacterial meningitis. It usually develops in the late summer and early fall, and often affects children and adults under age 30. Most infections occur in children under age 5. Most viral meningitis is due to enteroviruses, which are viruses that also can cause intestinal illness.
Many other types of viruses can cause meningitis. For example, viral meningitis can be caused by herpes viruses, the same virus that can cause cold sores and genital herpes (although people with cold sores or genital herpes are not at a greater risk of developing herpes meningitis).
Recently, West Nile virus, spread by mosquito bites, has become a cause of viral meningitis in most of the United States.
Symptoms usually come on quickly, and may include:
Other symptoms that can occur with this disease:
Meningitis is an important cause of fever in children and newborns.
People cannot tell if they have bacterial or viral meningitis by how they feel, so they should seek prompt medical attention.
Physical examination will usually show:
For any patient who is suspected of having meningitis, it is important to perform a lumbar puncture ("spinal tap"), in which spinal fluid (known as cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF) is collected for testing.
Tests that may be done include:
Doctors prescribe antibiotics for bacterial meningitis. The type will vary depending on the bacteria causing the infection. Antibiotics are not effective in viral meningitis.
Other medications and intravenous fluids will be used to treat symptoms such as brain swelling, shock, and seizures. Some people may need to stay in the hospital, depending on the severity of the illness and the treatment needed.
Early diagnosis and treatment of bacterial meningitis is essential to prevent permanent neurological damage. Viral meningitis is usually not serious, and symptoms should disappear within 2 weeks with no lasting complications.
If you think that you or your child has symptoms of meningitis, get emergency medical help immediately. Early treatment is key to a good outcome.
The meningococcal vaccination is recommended for:
Some communities conduct vaccination campaigns after an outbreak of meningococcal meningitis.
Swartz MN. Meningitis: bacterial, viral, and other. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 437.
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Braves trying to attract Burnett
Atlanta has heavy competition for free-agent righty's services
By Mark Bowman / MLB.com
Sixteen years ago, the Braves lured Maddux to Atlanta, despite the fact that the Yankees provided a greater financial offer. Now Atlanta finds itself in a position where it's hoping history repeats itself.
The Yankees made the biggest splash during this year's Winter Meetings on Wednesday, when CC Sabathia agreed to accept their seven-year, $160 million offer. Still hungry to further improve their rotation, the Bombers then provided A.J. Burnett with a five-year offer that one source believed to be worth $85 million.
This obviously provided reason for concern for Braves general manager Frank Wren. But before attending a dinner on Wednesday evening, he remained hopeful that he'll prove successful in his attempt to lure Burnett to Atlanta.
"We think that we're still in it," Wren said. "We have no reason to believe that we're not."
Wren didn't talk about the specifics of his recent negotiations with Burnett's agent, Darek Braunecker. Braunecker confirmed that the two parties prolonged their dialogue Wednesday, and he also said they are now three viable suitors for Burnett. Those teams are the Braves, Yankees and an unidentified club.
"We've cut the field to a manageable number," said Braunecker. "And now we can move further ahead with full-scale negotiations."
Braunecker is unsure when Burnett will make a decision.
While it's unknown whether they've done so yet, it's believed that the Braves have been prepared to offer Burnett a five-year, $80 million contract. Atlanta is in a desperate search for an ace, and if it doesn't land Burnett, the Braves likely aren't going to find a comparable option to fill the top spot in their starting rotation.
Thus, there's certainly a chance the Braves will once again attempt to trump the offer made by the Yankees. But at the same, they aren't going to get into a bidding war that forces them to extend an offer beyond their responsible financial means.
Burnett and Derek Lowe remain the only two available free-agent starters who could legitimately be considered aces. The Braves haven't pursued Lowe, and there remains no indication that they plan to do so.
Wren said that he staged some meetings to further explore the possibility of landing other starting pitchers via the trade and free-agent markets. When asked if any of these starters could be considered "an ace," he replied, "I'll let other people make that evaluation."
A current evaluation of the Burnett pursuit could easily lead one to believe that it will come up empty, much like the Jake Peavy trade negotiations that the Braves ended a month ago.
Seemingly always intent on using his no-trade clause to steer him toward the Cubs, Peavy never seemed excited about the opportunity to come to Atlanta and serve as the key piece to the Braves' future. This is an opportunity that might also seem disinteresting to Burnett, whom some believe gained comfort pitching in the shadows of Roy Halladay in Toronto.
If he chooses to sign with the Yankees, Burnett would provide himself an opportunity to win while once again staying outside of the spotlight that will shine on Sabathia. In Atlanta, he would serve as the key piece to the efforts that the Braves are making to revive their winning ways.
Wherever Burnett lands, there will be fans and media members who will criticize providing such a financially lucrative five-year contract to a pitcher who has completed 200 innings just three times during his eight full Major League seasons.
But it's pretty safe to assume Burnett would encounter a much higher level of scrutiny in New York than he would in Atlanta. If looking for a comparison, one only has evaluate the difference in the ways Carl Pavano and Mike Hampton were treated during their injury-plagued stints with the Yankees and Braves, respectively.
Before the Winter Meetings conclude on Thursday, Wren will continue his pursuit of Burnett and also explore other options to improve his rotation. In addition, he said that he's still attempting to improve his bench and land a power-hitting outfielder.
Mark Bowman 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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Canada Stocks to Watch: BlackBerry and More
By Carolyn King
BlackBerry Ltd. has agreed with Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. and the other investors in its recent $1 billion convertible debenture issue that the investor option to purchase up to an additional $250 million of convertible debentures be extended to Jan. 13. If the option is exercised, the purchase of the additional convertible debentures will be completed on or before Jan. 16. The smartphone maker said it has been in quiet period since the initial closing, and the extension will enable it to provide updated financial information to prospective investors after the release of its fiscal third-quarter results next Friday.
Birch Hill Equity Partners Management Inc. is selling more than 28 million shares of DHX Media Ltd., a producer of kids' entertainment, for a total of about C$133 million. DHX, which won't get any of the proceeds, said it expects shareholders to benefit from enhanced trading liquidity.
Theratechnologies Inc. has reached an agreement with EMD Serono to regain U.S. marketing rights to Egrifta, a treatment to reduce excess abdominal far in HIV-infected patients with lipodystrophy. It said this "will give us the platform we need to accelerate growth and drive profitability," adding that it's evolving into an integrated specialty pharmaceutical entity.
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This time, however, the company won't be vacuuming personal information: At its Google I/O developer conference on Wednesday in San Francisco, Google plans to deploy a series of sensors to collect data about environmental conditions in the Moscone West conference center over the course of the event.
"Using software built with the Google Cloud Platform, we'll be collecting and visualizing ambient data about the conference, such as temperature, humidity, air quality, in real time," explained Michael Manoochehri, developer programs engineer at Google, in a blog post. "Altogether, the sensors network will provide over 4,000 continuous data streams over a ZigBee mesh network managed by Device Cloud by Etherios."
[ For more Google news, read Google Combines Storage For Gmail, Drive, Photos. ]
In addition, said Manoochehri, the sensors will detect noise-level fluctuations and count footsteps in certain locations to provide a picture of how attendees move about the conference area.
Conference attendees might have their own real-time biological systems to detect and respond to temperature, humidity, air quality, noise and crowds, but Google's goal isn't to graph the obvious; it's to promote the development of software and hardware for its Cloud Platform. Having constructed a set of cloud services, Google would like to see more tenants move in.
Google's approach to working with developers is notably different than Apple's. Apple, in keeping with its preference for control, requires third-party developers to join its MiFi program to develop authorized accessories for iOS hardware. In the context of Android, Google has opted for a more open road: It offers an open Accessory Development Kit, based on the Arduino open-source electronics prototyping platform, to help developers come up with Android-compatible hardware without the need for a license.
Google is taking a similarly open approach with its Cloud Platform: The Cloud Platform code for the sensor project, the Arduino sensor hardware designs, and the data collected will be open source and publicly available after the conference, according to Manoochehri.
Google is working with O'Reilly Media's Data Sensing Lab to deploy some 525 sensors at the conference. Although Google is pitching its Cloud Platform as a foundation for potential sensor-oriented innovation, Data Sensing Lab is participating to promote the sensor hardware on a broader level: Generating interest in the Internet of Things contributes to O'Reilly Media's publishing, events and DIY hardware businesses.


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You've had your second, third and fourth servings of turkey, resolved a political argument between your conservative aunt and democratic cousin and scored a touchdown in your "just a tad too zealous" family football game. Thanksgiving 2013 has officially been a success; a Thanksgiving for the family record book — which is what your ultra competitive family refers to as a photo album. It's time to relax with a Thanksgiving night movie, but what to watch? We compiled a list of old classics, new favorites and a few cinematic treasures as synonymous with Thanksgiving as turkey and feuding in-laws that the entire family can enjoy.
1. Home Alone
There's no better way to ease into the Christmas spirit than by enjoying the heroic antics of a child continually outsmarting two comically dimwitted criminals. Plus, after spending the day with your entire family, who among us, hasn't had the very same wish as young Kevin McCallister?
Put on your red hoodie, break out the Reese's Pieces, and relive the nostalgia while introducing the next generation of "phone home fanatics" in your family to the delightful cinematic magic of E.T.
NEXT: Mean Girls, The Mighty Ducks and more!
3. The Muppet Movie
Are you in the market for some much needed tranquility after a hectic turkey day? Someday you'll find it, the lovers, the dreamers and you — while watching this classic, heartwarming movie.
4. Pitch Perfect
If you're looking for a new Thanksgiving night movie that the whole family will enjoy, we have the perfect movie for you
; the Pitch Perfect movie. While on the surface this Anna Kendrick future classic may appear to skew towards a younger, female audience, this movie has been rated awesomely suitable for people of all genders aged 8-888.
5. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
After a long day of fun, food and family you may find yourself in full-on "Captain pajama nap mode." You want to watch a feel-good film you can enjoy while your brain slowly drifts into auto pilot. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is the perfect movie for the family to gather around and collectively fall asleep to.
6. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
An excellent Thanksgiving day choice, but I'd be careful with younger viewers. My sister had nightmares about turning into a blueberry for weeks after her first viewing. She's a very panicky 22-year-old.
7. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
No Thanksgiving movie list would be complete without mentioning this 80s odd couple, road trip classic starring comedic heavyweights Steve Martin and John Candy.
8. Safety Not Guaranteed
Begin a new Thanksgiving tradition by adding the 2012 indie darling Safety Not Guaranteed to your post-gobble-gobble movie list. Starring Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza, New Girl funnyman Jake Johnson and The League's Mark Duplass, this quirky tale of a time traveling outcast looking for a partner to go back in time with will make the perfect compliment to your Thanksgiving meal. Guaranteed.
9. Mean Girls
For a more fetch way to end Thanksgiving 2013, look no further than this Tina Fey penned, 2004 classic starring a pre-Notebook Rachel McAdams and Lindsay Lohan at the apex of Lohan-ity.
10. The Mighty Ducks
If you really want to hammer home the movie's theme that "Ducks stick together" you'll also watch the Mighty Ducks 2 and 3 while you and your family form a "Flying-V" and incessantly quack like there's no tomorrow. If your neighbors complain about the noise, invite them to partake in the quacking! They're obviously just jealous of all the fun!
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Editorial: The right decision on herbicide spraying
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 12:00 AM
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a resident of Woodside: Skywood/Skylonda
on Mar 22, 2012 at 3:30 pm
Thank you for this important and helpful Editorial ! I would like to add some information with regards to Caltrans and DPW Director Porter's comments. Since beginning this effort to end broadcast, roadside herbicide spraying, we have supported the mowing and maintenance work for these roads, as MOWING has always been done with or without the spraying and is MOST effective for visibility and reducing fire danger. Drive on Hwy. 84 now and notice the Scotch Broom growing into the roadway and actually hitting cars and blocking road signs. Spraying would do nothing for this: it needs to be MOWED. We live in a watershed, these chemicals pose serious health risks on the coastside and the bayside where all the roads drain into creeks, the ocean, or the bay. For these reasons that the supervisors supported with their vote, Caltrans needs to end the spraying in San Mateo County now.
With regards to Mr. Porter's assertions of higher costs for mowing, he has claimed that without spraying, the DPW would need to mow 2-3 times more often which we have NEVER requested. The DPW will save thousands of dollars NOT spraying and can continue mowing within the existing budget, as the supervisors have advised. On my road, when it was sprayed and since it has not been sprayed, it has only ever been mowed once a year. Many residents in other areas that were sprayed and on roads not sprayed (Pescadero area) have reported the same: Mowing is done once a year and that is all that is necessary. I commend the DPW for all the crucial road work that they do throughout the year which makes it possible for many of us to live in the unincorporated county areas. I thank the Almanac and the Board of Supervisors for representing all of us working to protect the public's health and watershed by ending this unnecessary toxic risk ! I urge people to contact Caltrans to do the same.
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Secret Eating Society's Offal Tacos at Maker Faire
Offaly Good Secret Tacos
I spent a good chunk of this weekend geeking out with geeksugar at the 2008 Maker Faire. While there I noticed a booth called "Secret Eating Society" and told geek she'd know where to find me if we got separated.
The Secret Eating Society is a group of Bay Area foodie hipsters who are putting out a quarterly journal of adventurous eats. (There's no word on where you can buy the journals, but you can send them an email and I'm sure they'll let you know.) They also have events around the area, including this booth at Maker Faire. Their booth was selling offal tacos — whole roasted pig and braised lamb cheeks — as well as hibiscus-mint coolers.
To celebrate the fact that Cinco de Mayo was just around the corner — not to mention the fact that I actually love weird meats — I ordered one of their tacos. And as much as I hate to say the pun you're all thinking, the braised lamb cheeks taco was indeed "offally" good.
So tell me, what do you think of a secret eating society? Would you join if it was in your area?


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The Harvard Art Museums are not alone in renewing their permanent exhibition galleries. This evening brings together representatives of three university museums to talk about recent or planned reinstallations of galleries dedicated to the ancient and Byzantine worlds. Their presentations will provide a glimpse of the factors that influence how museums reinvent themselves and will highlight different ways of making objects from the past speak to the present. A faculty response and a panel discussion will follow.


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Obamas attend kids' concert
WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia are rocking out with hundreds of kids from military families and Washington-area public schools at the Kids' Inaugural Concert.
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I am currently working on a small project. I'm not looking for recruitment at the moment, rather just spreading word and ideas about my upcoming programming endeavors.
Project Overview
My current project, Dedicated, is a small dedicated server which consists of 5 categories:
- Server handling
- Client handling
- Error handling
- Configuration
- Allocation
It has been under-development for nearly 2 months, and has performed well. It was written in the C language. I intend to make sure the build doesnt produce one error or warning. Also, throughout all of the code I have error checking and improvise no memory leakage.
Project Details
» The Server handling category is the most crucial. I handle all incoming connections and data received with select(). Once a client connects, a new hash will be created within a dynamically created hash-table. The Server allows x amount of clients to connect, which is set to 8 automatically or manually if ran with the configuration options.
» The Client handling category handles all client information. It consists of a hash-table that is dynamically created. Each time a new client is stored, all other pertinent information is included in their node. Including IP, port, socket, name, etc
» The Error handling category is more crucial than anything else. With detailed consideration, I have created a custom error handling system. This system works like fprintf(), whereas the first parameter can either be a warning or error. If found as an error, it will free all memory used [discussed in Allocation handling].
» The Configuration category is handy in almost any program. I allow people to see a detailed look at the configuration options by using the help command:The current version my Dedicated is 0.1.3, and is solely maintained by me. I allow configuration files that look similar to the following:Code:usage: dedicated [options] dedicated options: --config-file=file configuration file --debug debug allocation run-time --hunkSize=n custom hunk size [MB] --slots=x connection slots --conntype=TCP connection type, i.e., UDP/TCP --port=10110 server port number --version displays version --help for helpThe debug flag displays all allocations being made, including the free instances. This can be handy if any Segmentation Faults occur.Code:# # Dedicated Configuration # # Define a custom port # All ports can range between 5000 and 50000 #port "10110" # Server Connection Type # TCP or UDP #conn "TCP" # Maximum amount of client slots # Between 0 and 32 slots "6" # Run in debug mode # Set to 1 or run with --debug flag #debug "1"
» The Allocation category was by far the most difficult. It has a working strategy, and has deemed useful in this project. The hunkSize option allows you to set an amount of space you want to pre-allocate. When the program is first executed, it splits the bytes in two and allocates memory to 2 heaps. If one heap exceeds its limit, it automatically switches to the other.
The allocation system works as it partitions out blocks of our memory heap, so we can re-use the same memory without further allocation from the core. Also, for error checking, I store all allocations made in a table so that I can check for duplicate addresses. Once freed, the memory can be used again appropriately. This alone took over 1 month to accomplish.
Overall, the project runs as a server. Clients can connect, and stored in a hash table. I can look them up, send data to them, and free the hash when finished. With allocation in mind, I created one function that will free all existing memory used within our heap for good practice. If anything fails, the program can automatically free all memory including the heaps.
When any error occurs, and I send a FATAL message to the program, all allocations will be freed accordingly. When executed with Valgrind, I receive little to no errors during run-time and when exited it reports no memory leaks or mallocd blocks.
Another addition was to allow input from the server locally. So far, there are 2 commands that work: connections and quit. If ran in Debug mode, you can use the allocation command which will print the current amount of allocated bytes being used.
The projects development is coming along nicely. It has been tested on Slackware 10.0 and GCC 3.4.3. With flags -O2, -Wall, -ansi, -pedantic, -pedantic-errors, and -std=c89 . No warnings and no errors. As of the time being, Im out of ideas at the moment. I will soon purchase a UNIX Network Programming book to further improve my current operations. If anyone has any comments, or ideas, for my project please let me know. All feedback is welcomed.
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Club Tijuana's remarkable run continued Wednesday with a 1-0 victory against Copa Libertadores champions Corinthians in Guadalajara, Mexico.
In three games, Tijuana has not allowed a goal and leads Group 5 of the South American soccer championship tournament with nine points — five more than second-place Corinthians. Three games remain and the top two teams in each group advance to the Round of 16.
Javier Gandolfi scored 21 minutes into the second half.
"The team keeps giving me surprises," Tijuana coach Antonio Mohamed said. "We are proud of beating the world champions, we were fair winners.
"In this team, each player would risk their lives for the other. We never give up. This is the proof that we want to keep making history."
U.S. national team members Joe Corona and Greg Garza contributed to the win. Corona played all 90 minutes for Tijuana and Garza entered the game in the 85th minute to help close out the win. National teamer Edgar Castillo did not play in the match.
The loss was the first for Corinthians in 16 Copa Libertadores games, according to foxsports.com.


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February 11, 2010
Remember Me Cab Scene - SMOOOCH!
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- Jessica.February 11, 2010 at 4:12 PM
"your really weird" :LReplyDelete
love Emilie :D
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 4:32 PM
they acted this scene so naturally. i'm liking so far the chemistry of rob and emilie.ReplyDelete
I'm dying with all these clips there releasing - it's too much.ReplyDelete
I'm sorry y'all, but if they keep this up we will see the whole movie or all the good parts before it comes out in a month.
Finally someone else that only had a 'meh' reaction to the shower scene! Agreed, I liked this one a lot more!ReplyDelete
@ fanficzombie- Agreed, this is a very good scene and natural like anony 11:32 said:)) I wonder if Rob will have a leading lady that the chemistry doesn't come across the screen?! He's very natural at making his audience feel like he's that character and loves whoever he's with.ReplyDelete
- muffinknickersFebruary 11, 2010 at 7:19 PM
reeeeeeally? i didn't feel the chemistry all that much, but admittedly i'm not really fond of Emile. i wasn't that captivated with the way she played her character Ally. but at least Rob redeems everything, so i'm still excited as hale for this movie.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 7:19 PM
I'm starting to actually like Emilie! She's natural and funny :) And the line "you're really weird" made me giggle a little.ReplyDelete
Rob's always awesome, but I think that in RM he'll prove us how talented he is- and that he's not just a pretty face(very, very pretty)on the screen of a blockbuster movie.
I definitely loved the script and I'm sure the movie will be even more amazing. Can't wait until March!
I liked it, cute ^.^ReplyDelete
read the script and even though i love rob, he's too way dorky to play tyler! his character is suppose to be Mr. Cool (aka Badass).ReplyDelete
tyler's suppose to be confident and a bit cocky, but rob's protrayal of him is too shy!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 10:41 PM
i've read the script too and i think rob is doing tyler exactly how he was written in the scriptReplyDelete
@ muffinknickers: Same here.ReplyDelete
mo, i disagree. tyler's cocky, a manwhore, and super confident. rob's protrayal of tyler makes him a bit reserved, shy, and awkward.ReplyDelete
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Charlotte, NC (SportsNetwork.com) - The Carolina Panthers re-signed quarterback Derek Anderson to a two-year deal on Friday.
Anderson will serve his fourth year as Cam Newton's backup. He appeared in four games last season, but did not attempt a pass.
The nine-year veteran was initially drafted by Baltimore in 2005. Anderson's best season came in 2007 with the Cleveland Browns, when he completed 298- of-527 passes for 3,787 yards, 29 touchdowns and 19 interceptions to earn his lone Pro Bowl appearance. He spent a season with the Arizona Cardinals in 2010 before first signing with Carolina.
The Panthers also signed free agent tight end Mike McNeill to a two-year deal. The three-year pro appeared in 28 games over the past two seasons with St. Louis, where he recorded five catches for 36 yards.


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Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by ALF, Oct 1, 2012.
Yvonne walked in and the every one said "Fuck! It's the chick from Chuck!"
i kind of felt sad when Isaak died. He was a bad bad guy for sure but he seemed to be not as despicable as other Dexter big bads. He kind of had a nobility to him, some depth.
I'm going to die! You can't save me! I have minutes to live... Bugger. tell me? can you bury me with my boyfriend since it's almost impossible to get me to a hospital on time? Thanks. Cheers. You're a mate."
(9 hours later, on Dexter's boat approaching the burial point.)
"Yup, any second now, there's absolutely no saving me now, it's a good thing we never tried, we'd still be trying to find parking at the hospital and I'd surely be dead and anxious..."
(4 hours later)
"Yes I can feel death coming. My time is up. It's the final curtain, this was the best choice, I had nothing to live for...."
No shit.
I was figuring they did that just to cover the boat in blood so when he got back to the dock he could be surprised by LaGuerta and a dozen uniforms with evidence all over him. Alas, that is the sort of constant game-changing that has been missing for the last few seasons.
I've got a feeling that LaGuerta's investigation will continue on into next season. Either way I hope someone kills her...she's soooooooooo annoying.
She figures it out but the proof keeps eluding her.
She announces Publicly, so Dexter sues her, and she winds up owing him millions and millions of dollars.
She wasn't this annoying on Ugly Betty, but then I have no respect for people with spray on tans...Almost the entire cast is orange.
Nor was she on Oz. This character is intentionally written to be unlikable.
i've been waiting for LaGuerta to die since season 1. at least she quit flirting with Dexter. always thought that was odd for some reason.
Haha I felt the exact same thing.
But over to the ending scene with Hannah;
Did anyone else get the impression that she didn't like Dexter opening up like that?
I got the feeling that she was attracted to Dexters nonchalant attitude, but when he opened up, that disappeared. Now all she sees is someone clingy, someone too emotionally involved.
It's obvious that Hannah has huge emotional problems, she probably hates herself. That's probably why she wasn't afraid when faced with Dexters knife. She doesn't believe she deserves to live
I didn't buy her story into the ex-husband trying to force her into an abortion.
What I think happened is that the ex-husband cared too much, and in her world she doesn't deserve affection, so she killed him.
Now Dexter is doing the same thing as her ex-husband, and therefore he will be her next target.
She can't stand that someone can love someone like her
Dexter and Deb looked especially orange in the scene where they were in the car talking.
As for taking time to go out to sea instead of the hospital I guess you can assume that he thought he would be too easy to kill if he got admitted to the hospital but still...you'd think it would be worth a try.
Dexter removes Victor's bullet, saving his life and discovers that his dark passenger still gets a high from just cutting, and not all out killing, and therefore rededicates his life surgery at Seattle Grace Mercy West Death.
I'm pretty sure they were trying to imply that Dexter's boat was docked very close to the shipyard. But your point still remains; it was pretty dumb.
Spoiler: In the novels...
...Brian kills her.
Guess I was wrong about what I posted earlier. Don't think Hannah is planning on killing Dexter.
Of course, if she ever finds out about what he did to her dad, then maybe... But I don't think they will go that route.
I have a suspicion that she will go after Deb, not succeeding though, and then Dexter will have to off her after all.
I wonder who will take out LaGuerta
so, who's side do you think Matthews will take? On one hand, he wants his pension back, and helping to catch the Bay Harbour Butcher would be a great career choice, but on the other hand, LaGuaerta could stab him in the back again.
He and Dexter have strong ties, he might have suspected that something was off with him, given his past and whatnot. But again, he told Laguerta about Brian, he told her about the old crime boss. Would be stupid if he suddenly wants to help Dexter after all of this, so I think he'll side with her.
Wonder how Dexter will get out of this one
Matthews and Harry could have made up the code together.
He kills criminals the police are too slow and clumsy to take care of.
It's possible that Matthews was feeding Dexter jobs the whole time.
Yeah, it is possible. But why would he then put LaGuarta on Dexters trail?
Unless he did it in order to create a situation where Dexter had to kill LaGuarta to be free.
And who knows, if Dexter doesn't feel bound up by his code any longer, then I suppose it is possible.
But the code has helped him from being caught before. If he turns his back on it, he will get caught.
Maybe the last episode of this show will be Dexter strapped up on a table, then given a lethal injection by the State?
Killing LaGuerta wouldn't even be breaking the code. The first rule is not to get caught.
Unless he wants Dexter to kill LaGuerta, then Matthews can swoop in to personally catch the Bay Harbor Butcher as the win of a lifetime. Two birds, one stone. But after seasons 5-6, that would be overthinking the show.
^^ I don't know, that's sounding much better than the snoozers I've been sitting through the last few weeks. Although he seems to enjoy his retirement.
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Yesterday (February 2) actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead at age 46 in his Greenwich Village apartment. Famous for roles in films as diverse as 'Capote' (for which he won an Oscar) to 'The Big Lebowski,' one of his finest moments was playing legendary rock critic Lester Bangs in 'Almost Famous.' That film and that performance made a big impact on Radio.com's Jeremy Larson, who wrote the following post.
Philip Seymour Hoffman defined a rock legend, and, for better of for worse, made a lot of people want to be sardonic, surly rock writers. It was an emblem of what Hoffman could do best: make the uncool incredibly cool.
One of the greatest things about Cameron Crowe's movie Almost Famous is its tireless pursuit of something pure. It tries to ferret out those moments where – finally unburdened by social or moral strictures – a certain kind of clarity appears and defines your formative years. The film highlights a group sing-a-long to "Tiny Dancer" on a bus, losing your virginity to a trio of hippie Band Aids, and finding out that reporting the honest-to-god truth about a band is the best kind of journalism. It's about finding the moments that make nostalgia so addictive as we get older. It's a really good movie.
You have the young kid William Miller, a bastion of naiveté, whose sheltered upbringing and overbearing mother make his encounters with sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll one of cinema's biggest cannon balls into the deep end. As a precocious rock writer cutting his teeth interviewing bands and struggling to get published, the movie shines a light on one of his idols, a veteran writer and editor at Creem magazine, Lester Bangs. He's introduced as someone who hates The Doors, loves The Guess Who, and gets his rocks off playing Iggy Pop at the crack of dawn on the radio.
— Jeremy D. Larson, Radio.com


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On a brighter note my boys started off the season with a nice 4 nil win in the League cup
On a brighter note my boys started off the season with a nice 4 nil win in the League cup
I wonder if they look to Dempsey now for around $10 mil.
They've spent $36 mil so far on Giroud/Podolski/Cazorla, after the RVP/Vela sale, they have to be close to $28 mil or so in money going out.
Spending $8 mil in the offseason isn't going to appease a lot of the fans.
Now if they sell Song for $20 mil to Barcelona, they better spend more money, or else the rioting could begin.
I know this is a Premier League thread, but I simply can't believe what PSG did. If you remove PSG from Ligue 1, the league net gained 67 million dollar this year. But, because of PSG's crazy spending, they actually lost 128 million as a league. PSG spent almost 200 million on transfer fees. Wow.
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Didn't help them much in there first game but i agree Silva, Moura, Lavezz and Ibrahimovic (he may be old but still class) they are some signings. Will take a bit of time to gel tho.
Can only see Lyon getting close to them really.
Look out for them in the Champions League.
The bottom line is that I want to win trophies with Arsenal, not with anybody else. I know you can win trophies in many countries and in many ways, but I want to do that in our way and in an Arsenal shirt.
'I'm sure I could win things at another team in another country, but would it feel like our trophy, my trophy? I'm not sure it would. Anything we win here will come from the heart and that's what I want. It's my dream and I see no point in speaking about other teams when I have these dreams. I think other people know that about me; I'm just hungry to win with Arsenal and that's it – Robin van Persie, February 2011
Dempsey is refusing to play for Fulham and has been fined.
Arsenal has sold Song to Barca but don't know for how much yet.
RVP signed a 4 year deal with Man U (I just threw up in my mouth).
Soccer starts tomorrow morning at 7am and I cannot friggin wait!
We in the US think of the big market teams hoarding for players....but European soccer to me is the joke.
I mean why bother with any league.....just make a super league instead of a Champions League.
Other than Dempsey and a few GK, are there any other Americans playing in the EPL?
Mind the gap, Robin
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This video would be awesome if 70% of the goals weren't scored by players no longer at Arsenal
God it was good to see Liverpool get flogged 5-0 first game of the season and to a team that will finish in the bottom half too.
Has anyone played "Football Manager"? It seems pretty intense.
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Clarkson University Sponsors Summer Robotics Camps for Middle School Students
[A photograph for media use is available at http://www.clarkson.edu/news/photos/robotics-camp-2011.jpg .]
Clarkson University provided local middle school students with an opportunity to hone their robotics skills this summer. Approximately 50 students attended three regional camps that were offered in the Lisbon, Gouverneur and Norwood-Norfolk school districts.
The students built their own robots and tackled six challenges in the Lego Green City. The robots were required to plug a hole in the dam, install a solar panel, start a wind turbine, build a new smoke stack, take trash to the landfill, and power a home with alternative energy.
In addition to the challenges, students learned to use a variety of sensors. Touch sensors were incorporated to keep the robots from crashing into the different challenge structure. Light sensors helped the robots find their way around a circle. Sound and ultrasonic sensors were also used to perform tasks.
The camp culminated in a competition modeled after the FIRST Lego League robotics tournaments.
Kyle Fulk, a member of the Norwood-Norfolk Central District robotics team, appreciated the time to perfect his programming techniques. "I'm finding out what will work best and what I need to pay attention to make my robot perform better," said Fulk.
Herman-DeKalb Central School fifth grader Garrett Willard helped his teammates adjust the angle of a lifting arm. "Sometimes you just have to keep trying to see what will work," said Willard.
Barbie Foster, a seventh grader at St. Lawrence Central School, summed up the experience, saying, "It was awesome. I'm coming back next year."
The camps were coordinated by Clarkson's Office of Educational Partnerships. The camp instructors were Clarkson undergraduate students Christopher Lane, an aeronautical engineering major, and Joshua Dawes, a mechanical engineering major, and SUNY Potsdam chemistry major Daniel Brouwer.
Funding for the camps came from St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES through a New York State Extended Day grant.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in six alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
Photo caption: Clarkson University student Joshua Dawes (center), a junior mechanical engineering major, assists Carson Smith (left) and Joshua Lampett during a summer robotics camp at Lisbon Central School.


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ROME - We're just a few hours away from the start of the conclave as the cardinals will march single file into the Sistine Chapel (which is one of the more extraordinary workspaces in the world).
We'll be in for a wait, of course, but it's a wait that is steeped in history.
Think back over the ages about the crowds that gathered in the piazza and waited for the same news that thousands and thousands will await here. And what a setting.
I studied a lot of art history in college and I had a professor who became very emotional as he described Bernini's work here at the Vatican, and in particular, St. Peter's basilica.
At the time I thought it was just his art history professor quirkiness and that he was a little over the top. And then, years later, I wished he had been at my side when I finally laid eyes on the basilica myself.
I felt the goosebumps rise as I came through the massive doors and walked past the Pieta, and then by the time I turned the corner and looked up the apse toward those towering spiral pillars around the altar I had tears in my eyes.
(I should perhaps mention here that I am not Catholic, so this was something beyond an attachment to my faith.)
But from the basilica out to the piazza and through the circular colonnade, it is a spectacular in which we find these men trying to find a way forward for a church that critics would note has not been as beautiful as its headquarters.
The faithful can only hope the cardinals will feel the divine inspiration that seems to have guided Bernini with such clarity.
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Fingernail Injury Ring Removal
Remove rings immediately after a fingernail injury, because it is difficult to remove the ring if the finger becomes swollen. Sometimes, the finger becomes so swollen that the ring must be removed with a ring cutter. The following will help you remove a ring from a swollen finger.
Ring Removal
- Elevate the finger above the heart and apply a cold compress for 15-20 minutes.
- This helps reduce swelling.
- Lubricate the ring:
- Apply soapy water to the ring.
- Ask another person to pull the skin tightly away from the ring, and then try to twist the ring off gently.
- Stop if this causes pain or skin damage.
- If this does not work, loop a piece of thin string or ribbon under the ring on both sides of the finger. Ask another person to grab the ends of both strings. Have the person pull equally on the ends of each string, while you gently twist the ring.
Reducing Finger Swelling
In order to reduce finger swelling, you may wrap a wide rubber band around the finger. Start at the tip of the finger and wrap towards the ring. Overlap the edges of the rubber band as you wrap the finger. After 5 minutes, remove the rubber band and try to remove the ring.
Do not wrap the finger with a rubber band if:
- You have finger pain
- You are over 60 years old.
- You have diabetes.
- You have peripheral vascular disease.
Seek medical care immediately for:
- You are unable to remove the ring
- Severe finger pain
- Pale finger
- Blue finger
- Finger numbness
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Poll Reveals American Attitude Towards Climate Change, Support for Clean Energy
Whether you believe climate change is occurring or not, according to a Duke University poll, the percentage of Americans who think climate change is occurring has reached its highest level since 2007. In recent years, the climate change debate has been a hot topic not only among scientists and experts in the field, but among political party lines.
As part of an ongoing effort to inform the climate policy debate, through assessment of public opinion on policy alternatives, researchers at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy and Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions conducted a national survey on climate change and responses to various actions that can be taken in order to influence change.
"Whether in response to extreme weather events like mega-storm Sandy or the improved economy, public opinion has clearly rebounded from its low point of a couple years ago," said Frederick Mayer, associate professor of public policy and political science and poll conductor.
Other key findings of the poll include:
â—ª The percentage of Americans who agree there is solid evidence of a changing climate has steadily increased since 2010. The Duke poll found 50 percent of Americans are convinced the climate is changing and another 34 percent say it is probably changing an increase from other recent polls.
â—ª 54 percent feel climate change is primarily the result of human activity (the highest level in the past couple of years).
â—ª There are strong partisan differences in the perceived seriousness of the problem. About half of Democrats say it is "very serious" while 35 percent of Independents and 17 percent of Republicans agree.
Getting public support for regulating greenhouse gas emissions and requiring utilities to switch to lower-carbon fuel sources is an important step in the process that will influence policy makers' decisions.
"Although there appears to be little prospect for tax or cap-and-trade legislation in the current Congress, there is a clear opening for stronger regulation and investments in clean energy," says Mayer.
Although Democrats are more willing than Republicans to support all policies, the preference for a regulatory or clean energy approach is shared across party lines. Bipartisan support for regulating greenhouse gas emissions and for clean energy requirements shows a united front. These findings reflect a reinforced backing behind investments and research that will hopefully lead to policy changes, which encourage the growth of a clean energy industry.
Read more at Duke University.
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Paul grew up on his family's dairy farm just outside Pittsburgh. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Gettysburg College in 1957 and a medical degree from Duke University, in Durham, N.C., in 1961. He later served as a flight surgeon for the U.S. Air Force (1963–65) and the Air National Guard (1965–68). In 1968 Paul moved to Brazoria county, Texas, where he established a successful practice in obstetrics and gynecology.
Paul was inspired to enter politics in 1971 when Pres. Richard M. Nixon abolished the Bretton Woods exchange system. Paul believed that the abandonment of the last vestiges of the gold standard would lead to financial ruin for the United States. Though he was unsuccessful in his initial run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1974, his opponent resigned before completing his term, and Paul won a special election to complete it. He lost the seat in the subsequent general election, only to regain it two years later. He chose not to seek reelection in 1984 and instead campaigned—unsuccessfully—for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. He broke from the Republican Party to run as a Libertarian in the 1988 presidential election, ultimately winning more than 430,000 votes. He returned to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in 1997, though his votes were often at variance with the majority of his party; for example, in the early 2000s he voted against authorizing the Iraq War and the USA Patriot Act.
Paul's presidential campaign platform remained libertarian in spirit. It focused on free-market economics, a radical reduction in the size of government, increased privacy protections for individuals, and a reduction of U.S. participation in international organizations. His views are outlined in Freedom Under Siege (1987) and A Foreign Policy of Freedom (2007).