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Saidykhan, editor-in-chief of the now-banned private biweekly The Independent, was detained for 22 days without charge by the Gambian National Intelligence Agency (NIA) during a brutal government crackdown following a purported coup plot. He said he was tortured during his detention and brought a lawsuit at the Nigeria-based Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) demanding compensation for illegal detention and torture.
On Thursday, a panel of four judges ruled in his favor in a lawsuit filed by the Ghana-based press freedom group Media Foundation of West Africa. The court ordered the Gambian government to pay Saidykhan damages of US$200,000. The ruling is final without possibility of appeal, the foundation's executive director, Kwame Karikari, told CPJ.
"We applaud this
ruling by the ECOWAS court of justice in favor of Musa Saidykhan, who is one of
many Gambian journalists who have been illegally arrested and treated like
criminals for doing their job," said Africa Advocacy Coordinator
As a member state of
ECOWAS, the
In the court papers, Saidykhan alleged that NIA agents administered "electric shocks on his body including his genitals" in order to extract a self-incriminating confession of involvement in the purported coup. NIA agents also allegedly threatened to bury him alive in a graveyard near the detention center.
"As a result of the physical, mental, and psychological torture inflicted on me, I am left with scars on my back, legs, arms, and a bayonet cut on my left jaw," Saidkhan stated in his affidavit.
Saidykhan fled into exile
after his release and resettled
in the
Thursday's decision follows a June 2008 ECOWAS ruling ordering the Gambia to release and compensate reporter "Chief" Ebrima Manneh, who has disappeared in government custody since his July 2006 arrest by NIA agents. Authorities have continually denying holding Manneh despite several sightings and have done nothing to abide by the court decision.


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Dental Hygienist
Oasis Dental Care have a fantastic opportunity for a parttime Dental Hygienist to join a wellestablished practice in Woolston, Southampton.
Hours to be worked: We are flexible to the hours that are worked Monday to Saturday but the following would be preference.Monday (8-12), Tuesdays (3-7), Wednesdays (3-7).
Woolston is a busy private three surgery practice. Hygiene patients are currently seen by the associate so there areexisting patientsto transfer to your book.This is a growth role so initially you may work once a week with the view to increase this to twice a week.
It's a fantastic time to join Oasis as wehave recently been welcomed to the BUPA group making us the largest dental provider in the UK.
Our practices pride themselves on providing clinical excellence with an exceptional level of patient care. We can offer modern working environments. You will be supported both operationally and clinically by professional team members including Registered Practice Managers, Dental Nurses and Reception Teams allowing you to focus on 100% dedication to your patients care.
If you are asking yourself the question 'why join Oasis' allow me to highlight just some of the incentives:
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- Most enjoy modern equipment such as digital X-rays
- Opportunities to develop your personal career
- Opportunities to relocate to other practices, with an easy transition process.
Oasis Dental Care can provide a long and fulfilling career with continued training, support and development that includes structured on-boarding programmes, corporate inductions, central support and annual company events and conferences.


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Joely Joel needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 72 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
I am a digital media professional (ABC Digital, Hulu) and recent MBA graduate from Stanford. I am working to launch a digital media startup now--Rexly.com. It is a consumer-facing data aggregation/content recommendation site. Feeds/follows of media consumption, algorithmic recommendations, social discovery, etc.
Anyone who uses Facebooks, iTunes, Netflix, Pandora, Hulu, and/or Amazon. Male and female, anywhere from 18 to 35. Likely concentrated with males in their mid-20's through early 30's, tech savvy early adopters.
The current logo is a nautical compass with a speech bubble "tail" (see the included image). It is meant to communicate "social discovery." I am open to a new logo thats play with, expands upon, reinterprets this idea.
- discovery/exploration
- trustworthy
- fun!!!
- A logo for the top header of Rexly.com, that looks good big, but also looks ok small (or a small portion of it could be a favicon)
- The logo should consist of an image and text that says "REXLY" (all upper case, or all lower case). It's ok if the image & text are combined and centered on the "X" (as in the sample logo), or if the image and text are separate (i.e. the image on the left, and stylized text on the right)
- I am open to compasses, vinyl records, speech bubbles, and more.
- I want slate blue, but am open to greens. As long as you use "trust colors"
- Combo of a compass/speech bubble: I am open to any traditional or modernized compass imagery, whether it's more like a nautical compass (as in the example) or a hiking compass (with a red pin)
- Combo of a vinyl record/speech bubble: The speech bubble "tail" could come off the outer edge of the vinyl, or off the edge of the center label.
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Fox Ignores The Cost Of Defunding Health Care Reform
Blog ››› ››› THOMAS BISHOP
Fox News ignored important facts about the Affordable Care Act to falsely claim that House Republicans could simply defund the law, however economist have found that defunding the healthcare law withholds funds that actually lower the deficit in the long term.
On the November 8 edition of Fox News' Hannity, host Sean Hannity asked Republican strategist Noelle Nikpour whether House Republicans "could fight to defund Obamacare" instead of conceding that "Obamacare is the law of the land." Nikpour responded, "Yeah, they can."
In fact, the Congressional Budget Office has reported that "defunding the healthcare law would cost billions." In a letter to Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, it was reported that defunding the healthcare law would "reduce the deficit by about $1.4 billion dollars in fiscal year 2011 but would increase deficits by a net amount of $.5.7 billion over the 2011-2021 period."
Forbes contributor Carolyn McClanahan found that while Republicans have been successful in defunding parts of the Affordable Care Act, "most of the success in defunding have been in good parts of the law" -- sections that limit the law's ability to "repair the system and help control future costs."
The Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee proposed additional cuts in its 2013 draft budget, according to McClanahan:
- Community Health Centers - $300 million
- Prevention and Public Health Fund - $1 billion
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research - $150 million
McClanahan added: "Every dollar spent on public health and prevention saves $5.60 in health spending, so the $1 billion cut in the prevention and public health fund will cost $5.6 billion."
Hannity has previously claimed that it is "disinformation" to claim that repeal of the Affordable Care Act would expose women to unfair and discriminatory treatment by insurers. In fact, the law bans insurance companies from its current practice of charging women higher premiums for the same coverage as men, and forbids insurers from listing pregnancy as a pre-existing condition.
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Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers used the Republican response to Barack Obama's State of the Union to unleash the party's latest attack on the president's health-care law, signaling her party will use it to bludgeon Democrats this election year.
"No, we shouldn't go back to the way things were," McMorris Rodgers said. "But this law is not working."
"Republicans believe health-care choices should be yours, not the government's," she said.
On Wednesday, Republicans are scheduled to begin a three-day policy retreat, where health-care alternatives will be on the agenda.
Rebutting Obama's speech, McMorris Rodgers said the real gap Americans face is "opportunity equality," versus the income inequality the president underscored.
See recap of live blog of Obama's speech.
Republicans are stepping up their efforts to repeal and replace Obama's health-care law. This week, a trio of Republican senators offered their own alternative to the Affordable Care Act. It remains to be seen whether the House will embrace the legislation.
See the full text of the Republican response here.
— Robert Schroeder
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In early April of 2009, the greater part of the Nitro Snowboards team assembled at The Canyons resort in Park City, Utah for a private, high-caliber park event—SNOWBOARDER Magazine's fourth of five Super Sessions of the year. According to the dictionary in my computer, the adjective "super" is defined as, "With outstanding or excellent qualities; exceptionally large or powerful; and greater than what is normal." The noun "session" is defined as, "A period of time during which people are involved in doing something together." And that's what snowboarding is all about—excellence and togetherness; I couldn't have said it better myself.
Evan LeFebvre –
A Super Session is in effect a smaller, more select version of Superpark—SNOWBOARDER Magazine's flagship event. It's a more intimate affair than its big brother, and smaller in attendance, but not in impact. The premise of these events is to bring out a relatively small group of riders to a mountain with a top-tier park crew, and once there the focus is on pushing the art and science of designing and constructing snowboard parks and raising the bar of what riders are capable of doing on their snowboards.
At this Super Session we had eighteen invited boarders on the roster. The Nitro constituent was more eclectic than the lineup for that "We Are the World" song, and stacked like a chimney. The super roster consisted of Eero Ettala, Bryan Fox, Austin Smith, Will Tuddenham, Jon Kooley, Markus Keller, Anton Gunnarsson, Yuji Suzuki, Andreas Wiig, Janna Meyen, Ben Bilocq, Knut Eliassen, Joe Mertes, Ricky Tucker, Sébastien Toutant, Cheryl Maas, Jonah Owen, and Tobi Strauss; and then I snuck my boy Cody Rosenthal in there for good measure—a heavy list to say the least.
Coming in as the largest ski and snowboard resort in Utah and one of the five largest in the United States, The Canyons is indeed massive, but it still manages to maintain a hidden-gem feel. The Can has a vertical rise of 3,190 feet and eight mountain peaks, the highest of which tops out at 9,990 feet. There are seventeen lifts in total, which access 163 trails, a pair of well-manicured terrain parks, and a whopping 3,700 rippable acres—there is a lot of shredding to be done. Due to its large size, it rarely gets overcrowded and there's elbow room aplenty. That wouldn't really be an issue for us, though, as it was a private event, so we wouldn't have any random heroes snaking the jumps or weekend warriors riding across landings unseen.
The Canyons is just a short jaunt down the road from the aptly-named park heavyweight, Park City. Since hosting the Olympics in 2002, Park City has invested heavily in its parks and recreation department and has become a major and world-renowned player in the game. But not content with shredding in the shadows, The Canyons has been steadily and notably upping their park ante over the past few years. With the addition of Steve Duke at the helm of the ship, they are edging their way closer to the heels of their rivals.
Duke expands on their advancement in that arena, saying, "A couple of years ago The Canyons was forced to reorganize their parks department. They've had a long history of building parks at the resort—The Canyons actually had one of the first terrain parks in Utah. They've been a leader in the terrain park world in the past, but it was time to revamp the terrain parks department and do it right." An integral part of that restructuring was hiring an experienced park manager with a strong background in building parks. Steve came to The Canyons from nearby Brighton Resort with five years experience, and he's also the co-owner of KAB Rails, to boot—a terrain park design and consulting company based in Salt Lake City. Steve continues, "The other parts of the restructuring were dedicating a full-time staff to maintain the entire park during the day, getting the whole mountain ops department back on board with the terrain park scene, and increasing the new feature budget. With all of the restructuring accomplished, we now have the tools it takes to build fun terrain parks and step up to the bar that has been set by our neighbors."
Our Super Session took place on the upper mountain in the Respect Terrain Park—the big boy park. Steve and his hand-picked crew had put in work, and the run allocated to us was littered with options. From top to bottom, we had a swinging log spine that resembled a crude wooden field goal; a big-ass tranny-finder hip over the park crew shack; a skate-style quarterpipe complete with metal coping; a poppy dual-lipped table with a precisely-placed pine tree smack-dab in the middle of it; a massive corrugated tube set up like a spine; a menacing step-down jump with three different take-offs and a hefty knot-ridden log jam sticking out the front of it; and a perfectly-sculpted 80-foot kicker rounding out the bottom of the course.
There was a recurring theme of timber throughout the course, and as Steve explains, "We'd been playing around with trees all year. We would ride around the mountain chipping, sliding, and jumping over random trees while we were shredding. Whenever we would see a downed tree that could be slid, the handsaw came out and the branches disappeared. So for us, it only seemed fitting to use trees as a focus for the Super Session features." Aside from all the heavy stuff and photo-driven features, the lap was fun as hell, and the more everyone rode through it, the more fun little lines developed. Norwegian-American ripper Knut Eliassen expounds on the setup a bit: "The gnarliest feature was the park cliff with the log jam sticking out of it. The best obstacle was the tabletop with the pine tree sticking out of it—that, and just taking runs through the park, cruising. We made so many little hits and jibs all the way through…so fun!" It's not all about fear factor and meat helicopters, and no matter how good you are at stunt airing, mini-shredding around is still the jam.
On a more serious note, when you do push the limits and start building next-level stuff for riders, the consequences and potential for injuries become heavier with every push of the cat's blade. Unfortunately, while taking his first run into the aforementioned "park cliff" on day one, our friend Joe Mertes landed inches shy of the tranny, compressed on the knuckle, and broke his back. More specifically, he broke two of his vertebrae, sustained a few other minor injuries, and was rushed in an ambulance down to a hospital in Salt Lake City where he was treated immediately. Bryan Fox was up top judging speed and contemplating his first attempt at tackling the beast with Joe right as he dropped in, and as Bryan explains, "That was fucking harsh, man. Watching anyone get hurt blows; watching a good friend get hurt is fucked. That really bummed me out. We were both standing there going, 'Is this enough speed?' Joe sent it, and he paid the price. He was probably thinking, 'Fuck it. Get some!'" After spending the spring on his back, Joe is healing up nicely, and will have already been snowboarding by the time this hits the printer.
Accidents will and do happen, but on the whole, everyone made it out in one piece and our time at The Canyons for this Super Session was fun and well spent, and some really extraordinary stuff went down as well, the most notable of which would inarguably be young up-and-comer Sébastien Toutant's impressive aerial assault. Watching him pick apart the course was like watching a real live video game; everything landed perfectly. The most unanimously outstanding move was a real doozy—a switch frontside double cork 1260 across the 80-foot expanse of the bottom kicker. I'm not sure if that one has been done before or not, but it's the first time I've seen that many things happen consecutively while someone was flying through the air on their snowboard. That shit was crazy.
There's no doubt that jumps will get bigger and more life-threatening, and there's no doubt that riders will send themselves across them in attempts at adrenaline and glory. There's also no doubt that as long as we're able, we'll be there along the way doing whatever we can to foster the progression of snowboarding by putting the right people together in the right places and enabling them to do what they do best, be it building, boarding, or documenting.
Many thanks to Steve Duke, Dan Schoppee, Eric Hansen, Jerry Romney, Tony Hagadorn, Zack Argyle, Mary Ellen Jones, Jonny Hall, Andy Marston, Daryle Young, Dan Black, Tim Semple, and everyone else at The Canyons for making this session as super as it was.
This content was originally published in the December 2009 issue.


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Frieze Art Fair
October the 15th.
Regent Park, London, UK
Wow, it's been long time since last post. Every time I tried to write about something new, I stopped my intentions as thought it wouldn't be good enough. I consider myself a perfeccionist and over exigent, which only blocks my willings to update you with my stuff and things i've seen recently.
On the last few months I've been fighting against myself; against this part of my brain that wouldn't let me simply express without fears.
I always say that the most difficult task for an artist is to go back to that kid we once were who didn't have a filter already of what to show and say or what not to. What happens next to that kid is ACADEMICISM. He's grabbed into the society and is prohibited with certain things. He doesn't have a "no" until he's abstracted with the mass to what is consider proper behavior. He's taught to draw first and then paint. He's taught which are the geometric forms; that the sun is yellow and the sea is blue; which is the skin color and which the shape of the moon.
Back to what concerns me today: it's been long since I hadn't had a free day and today I allowed me to stay at home (maybe because of my throat ache). I've decided to let my snobbish side weaken a bit.
It's been a week and 2 days since I arrived at London. I spent my first day walking around The Frieze Art Fair and found it so inspiring that I had to return on the next day.
Although it was huge and crowded I managed to pick my own selection to which i played being an art collector and able to buy them.
These are my highlights (sorry for not putting the name of the artist in most of them):
Georges Condo
Long, isn't it? So I'll better go back to work and start saving for next year's Frieze...
As I say to everyone since the economical crisis that's going on around the world, art is the nowadays best investment. You just need to have the right eye to catch upcoming talents.
While a fashion victim spends her salary on a Chanel bag from ss 2012 collection that is only gonna be the new item for 6 months, an art collector spends it on an original piece of art that's unique and personal and nobody will ever have unless he sells it (and no need to sell as a "second hand" item for less than he bought it).
Welcome to the Art Market new era!


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Posted Friday,
June 25, 1999
David Irving
A POPULAR lecturer and revered "authority"
within the Holocaust-denial movement, Irving
established a reputation as a chronicler of World
War II history before adopting the extreme tenets
of Holocaust denial. At the CODOH
site, visitors can find portions of several of
Irving's books, information about how to purchase
them, and issues of his "Action Report" newsletter.
Now Irving has a Web
site of his own, listed under the name of his
British publishing company, Focal Point
Publications (FPP). Echoing the depiction of
Bradley Smith at CODOH's site, the FPP site
presents Irving deceptively as a historian fighting
for intellectual freedom.
The FPP site contains a biography
of Irving, copies of his correspondence,
and transcripts of his speeches.
His biography paints him as an intellectual, the
author of over
30 books. He is pictured as a father figure,
sitting with the youngest of his five daughters.
The text of over 20 letters penned by Irving to
various newspapers, published and unpublished,
appears in the correspondence
section. Of the seven transcripts of his speeches
at the site, two record talks Irving gave at IHR
conferences. At a 1989 IHR convention, Irving
announced to loud applause his total "conversion"
to Holocaust denial, declaring "I too now believe
fully in the myth of the Holocaust!"
of the site entitled "The
Legal Battles" and "The Controversies" offer a
biased account of Irving's conflicts with
organizations that he feels have violated his
rights. He provides extensive documentation of his
action against Penguin Books and Holocaust
historian Deborah Lipstadt, his "illegal
expulsion" from Canada, and the attempts of
Public Prosecutors" to jail him for denying the
Holocaust. Irving also devotes space to the
Martin's Press Scandal," in which that
publisher cancelled its contract to publish his
1996 book
Goebbels: Mastermind of
the Third Reich in the United States
after his ties to the Holocaust denial movement
publicized. Chapters from this book and some of
Irving's other works, such as the as-yet
unpublished second
volume of Churchill's War, can also be found at
his site.
The Focal Point Publications site includes a
catalog that sells "rare books": titles by
Irving such as Apocalypse
1945: The Destruction of Dresden and
Nuremberg: The Last
Battle. As with many other Internet book
sellers, customers need only specify the books they
want from a menu on their computer screen; type in
an address; provide a credit card number and click
on a hotspot to submit this information. Irving's
book catalog highlights the importance of the
Internet to extremists as a way to sell items that
would not normally be available in mainstream
The Institute of
Historical Review (IHR)
Campaign for Open
Debate on the Holocaust
* As the ADL is aware, if they had only visited
their local Barnes & Noble, or clicked on
Mr Irving's books are freely available over the
counter in thousands of US bookstores (despite
their efforts).


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Embedded Linux Junior Engineer - £40,000 - ASAP
- Recruiter
- Computer Futures
- Location
- Oxfordshire
- Salary
- £25000 - £40000 per annum + BENEFITS
- Posted
- 28 Feb 2013
- Closes
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- Sector
- Engineering
- Function
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
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Computer Futures are urgently seeking a number of Junior Embedded Linux Software Engineers to work for a market leading client based in the Oxfordshire area. This role is paying up to £40,000 for the right candidates - but ideally you will have only 1 - 2 years commercial experience.
The Company is enjoying a period of sustained success and are now looking to expand their already successful team.
The sucessful candidates main dutys will be:
- Embedded Linux software Development (C/C++)
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Other desirable skills include:
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This position is paying up to £40,000 and comes with an excellent benefits package that include Pension and Health Care.
This role is very urgent so suitable candidates will be interviewed immediately
Don't delay- email me you most recent CV for further information on the company and role.
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September 2013 Readers' RidesPosted in Features on July 17, 2013
Frank the Tank
Vehicle: 1997 Toyota Land Cruiser FZJ80
Owner: Mike Gibson, Richardson, TX
Tires & Wheels: 285/75R16 BFGoodrich All-Terrains on factory 16x8 Toyota rims
Suspension: Old Man Emu coils, shocks, and steering stabilizer
Drivetrain: Factory automatic transmission, fulltime transfer case, and solid axles
Performance Mods: Factory 4.5L I-6
Other Doodads: ARB front bumper, Rocky Road sliders, Iron Pig Off Road rear tire carrier, Gamiviti roof rack, Mombasa Gen1 rooftop tent, Optima battery, DDM Tuning HID headlights, Hella 4000 lights with HID conversion
Funniest Wheeling Incident: I was going to pick up dinner and decided I'd cut through a flat grassy field when I accidently ended up in a mud pit. I was completely sunk up to the frame and had to be pulled out. I learned to always be ready for the unexpected, always have a strap with you and look where you are going.
Does everything work the way you want?: Yes, it is my daily driver
Anything you would change?: Adding dual batteries and a few more electronics
Anything to add?: The photos were taken in the Four Corners area by Mike Gibson Photo
Vehicle: 1979 Dodge Van
Owner: Bob Mitchelly, Green Lake, WI
Tires & Wheels: 36x12.5x15 Super Swampers on 15x10 aluminum rims
Suspension: Lift springs front and rear
Drivetrain: 727 automatic transmission, NP208 transfer case, Dana 44 axles from a Dodge truck
Performance Mods: Chrysler 400ci V-8 with headers
Other Doodads: Custom bumpers and paint, much more
Funniest Wheeling Incident: I got stuck in the grass at a car show before the front driveline was in the van
Does everything work the way you want?: Everything but the A/C
Anything you would change?: Finish the interior (maybe a waterbed)
Vehicle: 1965 International Travelall 1100
Owner: Daniel & Dave Preston, Apple Valley, CA
Tires & Wheels: 37x12.5R16.5 Goodyear Wrangler MTs on steel wheels
Suspension: 6-inch Wagoneer springs in front, 4-inch Suburban springs in rear, Rough Country shocks
Drivetrain: SM420 transmission, divorced NP202 transfer case, 8-lug Dana 44 front, 14-bolt rear
Performance Mods: 350 SBC, block hugger headers Other Doodads: 8,000-pound Ramsey PTO winch, 1410 rear driveline
Does everything work the way you want?: It is getting there
Anything you would change?: Rockwells, 42s, hydro-assist
Anything to add?: Her name is ROCKSANN
Vehicle: 1979 Chevy Custom
Owner: Alex Johnson
Tires & Wheels: 19.5x44x15 Super Swamper Boggers on 15x14 steel wheels
Suspension: 12-inch Super lift springs, 3-inch body lift
Drivetrain: TH400 automatic transmission, NP205 transfer case, Dana 60 front axle, Corporate 14-bolt rear axle
Performance Mods: 489ci big-block with Eagle rotating assembly, Brodix BB2 Plus heads, custom camshaft
Does everything work the way you want?: Yeah, it makes 632 lb-ft of torque at 3,600 rpm
Anything you would change?: I would put flame throwers on the exhaust
Anything to add?: I would like to give a shout-out to Boss Steen Swamp Raceway in New Hebron, Miss.
Float Like A Butterfly
Vehicle: 1976 Ford Bronco Sport
Owner: Dave Langham, Lee's Summit, MO
Tires & Wheels: 37x13.5x15 Pit Bull Rockers on
Suspension: 31⁄2-inch Tom's Bronco Parts suspension with 2-inch body lift
Drivetrain: C4 automatic, Dana 20 transfer case, Dana 44 front axle with RCV axleshafts, shaved Ford 9-inch rear with Yukon 31-spline axleshafts, 4.88 gears
Performance Mods: 302ci V-8 out of an Explorer with Chevy throttle body fuel injection
Other Doodads: Custom bumpers, Ramsey winch, cage, BC Broncos rear corners guards
Funniest Wheeling Incident: I was waiting for the vehicle in front of me on a trail at Superlift Off Road Park in Hot Springs, Ark., when I learned the hard way that I was next to a hornets' nest. I was swatting like crazy and got a nice welt under one eye. Folks thought I had gone crazy when I jumped out of my Bronco.
Does everything work the way you want?: For now
Anything you would change?: Add a doubler or Atlas for lower crawl ratio
Vehicle: 2006 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon
Owner: Pete Humbarger, Topeka, KS
Tires & Wheels: 305/70R16 Mickey Thompson MTZs on 16x8 Mickey Thompson Classic Locks
Suspension: Rubicon Express 31⁄2-inch short-arm lift
Drivetrain: Stock 4-speed automatic and NP241 transfer case, Dana 44 axles with factory locking differentials and rear Superior axleshafts, 4.56 gears
Performance Mods: 4.0L I-6 with cold air intake
Other Doodads: Skid Row engine and transmission skidplates, Hanson front bumper, Warn 9.5Ti winch, Expert Offroad rock rails, Currie steering linkage, Rock Hard rear bumper
Does everything work the way you want?: Yes
Anything you would change?: Gas tank skidplate and stronger front axleshafts
Vehicle: 1996 Toyota Tacoma
Owner: Ken Dunnagan, Florence, OR
Tires & Wheels: 33x12.5R15 Goodyear Wrangler MT/Rs on Mickey Thompson Sidebiter wheels
Suspension: 3-inch Revtek lift
Drivetrain: Marlin Crawler clutch and flywheel
Performance Mods: 2.7L K&N cold air intake, Taylor throttle body spacer, LC Engineering pulleys, Doug Thorley header, and Aero Turbine exhaust
Other Doodads: Bedliner, shaved tailgate, prerunner spare tire mount
Does everything work the way you want?: Yes
Anything you would change?: Supercharge engine, All-Pro front bumper
Anything to add?: This truck is dedicated to my brother
Rocky Mountain High
Vehicle: 1998 Jeep Cherokee
Owner: Zach Mashek, Denver, CO
Tires & Wheels: 35x12.5R15 Goodyear MT/Rs on 15x8 black steel rims
Suspension: 51⁄2-inch Rubicon Express long-arm suspension
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Owner: Rob Green, Dickinson, TX
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Wheeling Incident: Throwing mud all over my 3-year-old, who was strapped in his car seat. He didn't think it was that funny.
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BAKER, Donald R.
BAKER - Donald R. 83 of Bath, NY died Sunday, April 20, 2014. Born May 20, 1930 in East Aurora, NY to James H. and Mildred M. Baker. After 43 years of service with NYSEG, Don retired in 1991. A Marine Corps veteran of the Korean Era, he was life member and chaplain of the Marine Corps League, Raider Detachment. He held board positions with Corning Crossroads, Three Rivers Development Corp., Campbell Central School, Corning Hospital, Founders Pavilion and Corning Bank & Trust Co. He was active in the East Aurora Kiwanis, American Legion Post 362 and Rotary Clubs in Corning and Sullivan Co., NY.
He is survived by his loving wife of 60 years, Nancy (Almeter) of Bath, children, Margaret of Arkport, NY, Michael of Fairview, NC, Patrick of Glenwood Springs, CO, Mary Pengelley of West Palm Beach, FL, Kathleen Starkey of Manitou Springs, CO and Dennis of Lakeside, CA, daughter-in-law, Deborah of Painted Post, NY, 16 grandchildren, sister, Janet Schonblom of Penfield, NY, and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by son, Timothy, and siblings, Elizabeth Bellinger, Eleanor Wokasien, James, Raymond and Roger. Visitation will be held Friday, April 25, 2014, 10:00 AM at his church, St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Campbell, NY, followed by Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00. Burial with military honors will be held in Hope Cemetery, Campbell, NY. Online condolences may be made at www.fagansfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, Don requested donations be made to the Marine Corps League Scholarship Fund @ National Headquarters, PO Box 3070, Merrifield, VA 22116-3070. Masses are welcome.


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Three Decades After Gay Murder Spree, Killer Dies in Prison
Arnold V. Mulholland, the confessed killer of three gay men in a series of stabbing attacks in 1989, has died in prison, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Mulholland, 50, was serving three consecutive life sentences.
Mulholland was "found unresponsive in his cell" on June 8, the Philadelphia Inquirer article said. No cause of death has been released.
The victims were all killed in June of 1989 after bringing Mulholland home, the article said. According to the report, Mulholland was working as a prostitute at the time; the Philadelphia Gay News recalled in a special article looking back over decades of gay news headlines that Mulholland declared gays to be "sick," even though he was reportedly having sex with men for money.
Mulholland's murder spree took place during a larger trend of anti-gay violence in the Philadelphia area that claimed the lives of at least five more gay men, the Philadelphia Gay News recalled.
NewNowNext reported that the killings prompted a "Save Our Streets" demonstration in which 250 people protested the outbreak of homophobic violence.
Mulholland was arrested after a fourth man jumped from a window to avoid being killed, the Inquirer reported. He then pled guilty to the three stabbing deaths in order to avoid the death penalty. Several years later he told the Inquirer that he "regretted" the crimes.


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Ron Hornaday Jr. scored a milestone 50th NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win Saturday in the Kentucky 225 on a cold night of racing at Kentucky Speedway.
Hornaday held off the late-race charges of runner-up and polesitter Austin Dillon during the final 10 laps. Dillon, who protected his lead in the series points standings, pulled to within two-tenths of a second of Hornaday but could get no closer.
The air temperature at the start of the race was 48 degrees, and the track temperature was 53 degrees.
Hornaday led the final 11 of 150 laps on the 1.5-mile speedway after leader Todd Bodine pitted. The key to Hornaday's win came on his last pit stop for four tires and fuel. Hornaday led four times for 42 laps.
Hornaday talked more about his 50 wins than his late-race duel with Dillon, a 21-year-old in his second full season in the series.
"It will mean a lot when I sit on the front porch in the rocking chair with my grandkids and I can tell them that I won 50 races," Hornaday said. "Austin is an up-and-coming star, and at age 53, I beat him."
Hornaday has three wins at Kentucky Speedway. His first career truck win came at Tucson (Ariz.) Raceway Park on April 8, 1995—the same month Dillon turned 5.
Dillon tried to catch Hornaday over the final 15 miles but finished 0.438 seconds back.
"We gave 'em hell at the end, but the old man whipped my tail," Dillon said. "I gave it everything I had on those last laps."
Dillon extended his lead in the standings to three points over third-place finisher James Buescher with five races remaining.
"We took on right-side tires on the last two green-flag stops, but it wasn't good enough to hold off 2 (Hornaday) and 3 (Dillon)," Buescher said. "It was a good points night."
There were a track-record 18 lead changes among 11 drivers.
Rookie Nelson Piquet Jr. and Brian Ickler in Kyle Busch's Toyota rounded out the top five.
Ty Dillon, Austin's younger brother, finished 18th in his first NASCAR national series race.
"It was awesome, a blast," Ty Dillon said. "We actually ran out of gas twice. We came here to learn, and I felt like they all knew we were here."
Rounding out the top 10 were Ricky Carmichael, Bodine, rookie Cole Whitt, Dakoda Armstrong and David Starr.
The next race in the series is Oct. 15 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, also a 1.5-mile track.


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On May 17th my good friend and climbing partner, Lucas Dunn, passed away on Tahquitz Rock. Writing has always been a way I've worked through things in my life and after the accident members of our little community reached out with similar experiences.
It's such a familiar place. The wind lashing at my back. Cold granite against uninsulated skin. Pressing my arms into my core as I hold a belay device with a frozen hand, the other clenched in a pant pocket. I have yet to correlate this part of the climbing experience with anything positive. Many of my happiest moments on big climbs came because of anxiously waiting on belay ledges, but I could never put it out. Not like traffic or a bad movie. The emptiness and void tore at my soul and the loneliness stripped away my ego and left me reminding myself why I was on the Hulk in the first place. I needed to be there.
It has been almost a month to the day since my friend Lucas passed away while descending the Vampire at Tahquitz Rock, in the sleepy town of Idyllwild. It was a breezy and cool morning in mid-May, cold and chaotic at the high belays. While loose rock caused the tragedy, I can't help but remember the wind while tied into those bolts. I was so relieved to have gotten up that pitch of climbing, and with only short cruxes after amidst moderate crack climbing the route should have been in the bag. In the captains chair, facing an environment that made me uncomfortable, I opted out. Something I am prone to doing. In the middle of June, two-and-a-half pitches up the Sunspot Dihedral, I wouldn't get that choice.
Climbing had been a part of my life for the better part of 11 years, and for one reason or another has been woven into my DNA. The accident didn't stop me from doing what I loved any more than it stopped me from eating. Indeed, it seemed that once my appetite stored up some calories I was ready to head back up to climb.
Unfortunately, 'climb' is not a singular thing you can do, like Buy or Win. A big hike up a peak is no less 'climb' than a 10 foot plastic boulder problem in a high school gym. I could waltz up the same easy routes I'd always done, but once it came to a runout or loose section I couldn't help but put two and two together. I couldn't help but consider the consequences of a slipped foot at this instance or if that block came loose. Though objective and rational I was constantly faced with these damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't situations and having to reconcile mortality on a Sunday afternoon tromping up an easy climb with my Mom.
I knew, objectively, that I was safe. I knew that I loved to climb. The brain and the heart are two VERY disconnected organs. The f*#kers could never agree on anything.
If you don't have a bucket list, make one. I don't mean to say that in any, we're all gonna die, sort of way. While that phrase has lost no truth in 10,000 years of being spoken, what I'm getting at is you should make SURE to do some things on it – NOW. Somehow a bucket list has come to mean a list of things you do as you're dying.
I call bullsh#t. A bucket list should be something that, when faced with a few free hours or couple hundred bucks extra in your bank account, you indulge by doing something that you actually want to do. Start a garden, get shot out of a cannon, whatever.
Up until recently, I had piggybacked on my climbing partners 'list'. Of course, it was all climbing, but what else interested me? If I was going to delegate a portion of my life to accomplishing some goal, of course I would spend my twenties doing all of the ones under the folder 'rock climbing.' So in some way, I was eating my Spinach and Broccoli. Lucas had, written out, all of his climbing goals. There weren't many, but they were PROUD for a kid his age. At 21 he had impressive goals, but more importantly he was on the track to completing them – even a bit ahead of schedule.
Back track two years. Another freezing belay, another buffeted granite buttress. This time it is the classic Red Dihedral route, on the incredible Hulk formation in the High Sierras. Relatively moderate, but incredibly sustained, this was a massive step up for both of us. When looking back at the routes I was really proud of, the climbs that defined who I was and my style… a surprising amount of them I suffered through with Lucas leading charge. I'd gotten pretty good at getting through those hard days, and had a few tricks up my sleeve. For this belay in particular, I had built it just before a short crux section, a favorite trick of mine.
The Red Dihedral was hyped by none other than superman climber Chris McNamera as "a HUGE day" if done the popular way, Car-to-car. It was about as hard as I could climb, at sea level and right off the deck, but losing 50 pounds of baby fat had given me some confidence. That, and a teenage ropegun.
A few hours earlier, we had bushwhacked up an intermittent trail for four hours to reach the formation. The day started out looking Huge, and sitting at a cold belay with sand draining slowly through the hourglass only added to its 'hugeness.'
Sometimes I would just stare at the rock, when tethered to a belay. I would pick a spot and disect the grains of the granite, absorbing myself in the immediacy of what is in front of me and tuning out the noise of the obvious racket all around. A great coping mechanism, really. Finding a spot, the eyes dial in to the diorite, feldspar, quartz. Small mites appear, where were they before? Were they always here? They have six… no eight legs. They seem to run around without any appearant agenda, oblivious and aloof to their spectacular position three hundred feet up a cliff.
Suddenly, from somewhere above the wind and I, I hear it.
Off Belay!!
The locking carabiner is quickly detached – I'd been holding the gate with my fingertips to start spinning as soon as I heard the call. A bit of OCD, a speed climbing habit, or some task to focus on to take me out of the reality of my position. I hurredly perform all of these tasks, not thinking outside of their immediacy, until the rope tugs at my harness and pulls me up towards the summit and glory while my fat ass drags me the other direction.
"Climbing, Lukasz!"
Two years after climbing the Red Dihedral, I was back with a different Luca(s).
Positive Vibrations and The Salathe Wall. Positive Vibrations and The Salathe Wall.
That was the mantra playing out in my mind for the six weeks I spent living in Idyllwild. Like Lucas, I had a list. It was his list, and I'd be damned if I let him down.
Every decision I made was to make those goals happen, it seemed. Stay out late and drink with the locals, or early bed time for a morning run? Laundry or a hard bouldering session? My girlfriend had left me a few months earlier and I traded an apartment and domestic life for a trailer in the mountains. Each morning I'd wake up, resenting the dawn, I would remind myself that this was MY choice to be here. I was here for a reason.
The day of the accident was a training day. To do those big climbs we had a perfect training ground, The Vampire. Sustained, but with distinct cruxes – not unlike the tall granite walls we were heading out to do that summer. A week before, I had another training day, climbing Super Pooper to Price of Fear. For Lucas, everything had a natural progression – this led to that led to this.
I was working at the hiking shop for the Pacific Crest Trail hiker season. It's a short window, lasting about six weeks from late April to early June, depending on the snow that year deposited on high mountain passes. It was my last 6 weeks working for the company, after spending 7 years down in San Diego at another location, and the plan was to follow the hikers north to the high mountains after the through hiker season ended, and take whatever I had saved up with me to buy enough beer and cliff bars to live a few months among the bigger peaks. Early June Lucas and I would climb The Salathe Wall on El Capitan, and early July we had booked to climb Positive Vibrations on the Incredible Hulk.
A few days after the accident I promised myself I would do those things. It was time to start the natural progression, and finish the goals we set out to do.
If there were any doubt of climbing being a part of my genetic makeup, that was washed away after receiving all of the support from the community in the wake of Lucas' death. THIS was home to me. I would sit in my trailer after work, exhausted and still trying to put the pieces together, and read wonderful message after wonderful message on facebook, email, even hand-written and left on my windsheild. For a guy who always thought himself as a bit of a loner it was, to say the least, humbling.
One such character was a friend-of-a-friend, a typical climber that fits no stereotype. Lukasz was driven, a humble man with a modest lifestyle and rich qualities. Not a bad climber, either, and my lone day climbing with him was out at Red Rocks as he climbed on .12's in the Gallery with a big grin.
The die-hards, you can't keep them off the rock. As soon as we started talking, inevitably it came out that I had scores to settle. I knew I wasn't ready to lead the pitches I was preparing myself for on Positive Vibrations, and Lukasz had mentioned wanting to try the Sun Spot dihedral, a huge corner system rising just to the left of Positive Vibrations. A touch harder, but I could have the confidence of a top-rope to allow me the experience without the consequence.
I knew I wanted to climb the Salathe Wall and Positive Vibrations, but I also realized that I wanted them on my terms – I wanted to do Lucas proud and lead those cruxes. Those days will come soon enough.
"Climbing, Lukasz!"
The rope above was tugging hard. We both knew we were in for some tough work ahead and had to move.
Lukasz had just climbed the third pitch of the Sun Spot Dihedral route. The first two pitches are shared with Positive Vibrations, but are not too difficult and have this big, distracting dihedral above you to take the mind off any supposed cruxes. This pitch, however, busts left – away from the windy furrows of the 'Vibes and off to the arcing corner system that makes the Sun Spot up above.
Somehow, back at the trailer 3 weeks ago, I had told myself I would just be top-roping today and could just enjoy the climbing. Now, faced with a 15-foot traverse without protection, harder than any pitch I'd tried since the accident, I feel a sharp sting. Hubris, I think.
Three hundred feet up, seven hundred to go, and I realize I may have f*#ked up.
I claw my way out an alcove and up under a roof, big and dead horizontal, that cuts left across a steep slab with only a down-pointing flake for your hands and naught for your climbing kit to slide into. Just before I pull the last piece of protection that keeps me onto the right-most end, I put it together – the swing, the helmet not doing sh#t, a crash, lowering in the wind, helicopter, hours passing by.
There is a saying I jokingly have with friends, when the moves get somewhat spicy. You see, unlike my parents generation, or theirs before, I don't have to worry about a draft. Not really. This undercling, this is my vietnam. This is my chance to do the thing that is scary. Of course it's bullsh#t, and not at all a good analogy – more of a funny thing. However, in fight-or-flight lizard brain mode, you don't really consider the intracacies of that fallacy. Instead you pull fiber off the bone and crank on the cold stone like you're garroting Charlie.
A moment later, there I was, firmly wedged in the hand crack that signaled the end of the traverse.
At least I knew I could do it.
I had a moment of confidence as well, on the Red Dihedral, with the other Lucas. It was on my first hard lead, when I had climbed myself into a corner that I had to climb out of, both literally and figuratively. Of course, climbing to me is MADE of these moments, when you have to act and react to stimuli and be fully engaged.
Trivial as it was, I got pretty damn scared on the smooth 5.9 laybacking. Pulling out of it, I realized that I could get up the cruxes, that if I could do one maybe I could do them all.
A funny thing happened just before I joined Lukasz at the belay atop pitch 3. I started to actually ENJOY the climbing. It was fun. It was engaging. Had the situation been a bit different, I could see this as almost being a blast.
I wonder often how the whole climb must have felt for Lukasz. You see, I had been living and traning at altitude for 6 weeks for a very similar climb. Lukasz came from a conference in Japan the day before, flying into berkely then crashing in Lee Vining. Hardly an ideal pre-race ritual.
Looking up at the long, sustained fourth pitch I could sense his day was catching up with him. As he fought his way to the top, disappearing soon into the tightly packed corner systems, I was left alone at the belay yet again.
Being with Lucas as he was passing, I had to tell myself that life was bigger than what it was. That there was a deeper meaning to who he was, to who I am, and to what way I lived my life. So much of it had been fight-or-flight thinking, self preservation if you will that allowed me to wrap my brain around what had just happened.
Do this, hold that, wave this. Just do the thing, do the thing, do the thing you have to do. Don't think about why or what, do it. It is so common in climbing, but like Miyomoto Musashi wrote "when you know the way broadly, you will see it in all things."
Somehow I got through that morning. If I could get through that accident, I could get through the next crux. I knew it.
I'm snapped awake again by a tug at my harness.
"On Belay!!"
screw-screw-screw CLICK!!
"Climbing, Lukasz!"
Right in front of my face is 5.11 climbing, with 170 feet of 9-something milometer rope out. Lukasz had to fight for this pitch, and he is a monster. Falling down low, with so much rope stretch, will likely deposit me back on this ledge for the first 15 feet, and despite all the objectivity in the world it is not a pleasant idea to take long top rope falls way up here.
Pulling hard, digging deep, I started moving – right off the belay I am nothing but frozen sinew and fear. I strain at each reach and claw out the gear buried in the high sierra granite. Just like the pitch before it was right at my limit, it scared me, and from the crucible I came out finding the delicate steps and jams to be a beautiful dance across stone. That same fear turned itself into affirmation of who I was, of what I was – that this climbing stuff, it isn't that bad.
At the belay above, again I was left to my own devices. For hours this cycle repeated itself.
Coming to the end of the difficult climbing, it was clear the route was in the bag. There was a lot left, a circuitous ledge system above and some supposed variation Lukasz wanted that would take the last pitch of the Positive Vibrations to lead to the summit ridge.
Waning from Jet Lag, I let Lukasz take a breather as I set off on the easy pitches, leading to a cold dank alcove. We traded off the sharp end of the rope so Lukasz could navigate the final pitch of Positive Vibrations, above and around the corner that made my little alcove I sat in. Just as he pressed up onto the block a few feet above me, he turned down to say a few words that were obscured by a stiff breeze. Apparently things changed rapidly where he was, or so I guessed he had said, as the sun shone strong on his back and face as he glanced down to me. Judging by the angle of the shadows I knew we had to move.
That same cold alcove, that same cold belay – I find it all over. I found it on the Mithril Dihedral on mount Russel, I found it on the Leaning Tower, I found it on the Red Dihedral. With each of those there was a moment, when the sun arced high enough overhead to light the nooks and crannies that had avoided it thus far, when you are bathed in warmth and comfort for the first time that day. Long routes require early starts, and early starts push the loving rays of sun on North-Facing routes until well into the afternoon.
Time erases some memories but immortalizes others. I'm reminded now of a moment on the Red Dihedral, just before the final crux fingercrack. We had froze and sweat our way up the lower corner and were faced with this tall, thin obstacle with a prominent crack splitting it. Just as Lucas led up into it, confidently jamming and pulling through it, the sun shone bright on our backs, illuminating our smiling faces and seeing us to the summit.
That cold alcove, waiting for Lukasz, that was the worst one. All around me the rock was unsettled, loose, laying about carelessly without regard for life below. It was dank, chilled, and stank of old urine. Looking up above, just a few feet away, I saw a steep rock wall. We had told ourselves that the hard work was over, and that the summit was all but guarunteed. Looking up at the steep, presumably blank wall above, then looking back down the trail that lead to my car… it could not seem further away.
What after this pitch? What if, as I'm leading, I get off route and step on a loose boulder? What if the confusing ridge puts me off-route, eating up time, and we are stuck up here in the dark? Could I see rocks falling, or the end of my rope after the rappel?
Just as my mind reeled from one catastrophe to the next, I felt a familiar tug on my harness.
Losing a friend will certainly help you understand how important relationships are. In between my time in Idyllwild working at the shop and my summer in the sierras I went on an overnight backpacking trip with my little brother in the San Jacinto mountains of Southern California. I've enjoyed getting to know him better the last few years, and had been meaning to find something we could do together besides climb. Lucas passing away helped me turn that "been meaning" part into reality.
We hiked out to Red Tahquitz and set up a camp on the very tip top of a peaklet, overlooking the gorgeous desert divide, carumba, Saddle junction and even the peak. Just a few weeks earlier I had run the ridge that makes the divide, passing through several forms of mountain ecosystem while following a path that lopped back and forth, East and West along the skyline. That evening, with my brother, the sun shone bright yellow, then orange, then red, then pink.
That first night, sitting on top a ridge looking down on a mountain that had been such an instrumental part of my life, I had clarity. I had clarity that this was what I did, that this was what I loved. That climbing is only my way of interpreting a beautiful world that I deeply wanted to know, that I intimately wanted to be a part of. Without Lucas' list I had my own, I know what it is I am seeking in the mountains.
Later that summer the ridge, the peak, and almost all that I gazed upon would be ravaged by an incredible mountain fire. Fortune gifted me an evening with the Goddess before the Phoenix took her away. I will remember that night the rest of my life.
I waited.
This time I heard no 'on belay.' The wind must have drowned him out.
I jammed my fingers in the awkward, flared cracks in my little alcove and went to follow Lukasz, yet again. Yet again I asked myself if I could top out this next obstacle.
Both hands on the little pinnacle, press, feet up. As I stood and unclipped the bolt, I wondered at the change in color right in front. So much of that day had been spent staring at granite that I started to notice nuances – this rock was different. It was yellow. I turned around and saw why, as the sun painted the rock from low on the horizon beautiful autumn colors. Following the vistas back, forth, and down took my breath away; below was a thousand feet of air, looking all down the Positive Vibrations route sweeping away beneath. Climbing this penultimate pitch would put us at the end of the Red Dihedral, on to familiar ground.
I turned back to the rock and looked for my way, and saw it weave and trend right across the most gorgeous rock I had seen in my life.
Hand jam after hand jam, this was the last hard climbing, but it wasn't hard. It was secure. It was warm. The deep jams comforted.
Every time I had to move my feet I was forced to look down at the route Positive Vibes. I was supposed to be here, but not like this. I'm with the wrong Lucas.
When people leave your life unexpectedly it takes a long time to really understand what it means to be without them. Even to this day I will pull out my phone as if to text something funny to Lucas. No longer distracted by fear, wind, cold, I realized that I was ON Positive Vibrations, but not with Lucas. Eight, ten, twelve weeks of my life I had spent preparing to climb this route, with Lucas, and leadthis pitch. Here I was, but Lucas was nowhere to be found. The reality was, he would never be there, not like before. So many months I had envisioned being up here with him, and being there without put pencil to paper. I understood what had happened, I understood what life was going to look like.
I knew I could go on, I knew that if I could get up Sun Spot Dihedral I could cross any obstacle that came my way. I also knew, just then, that I had to do it without my friend.
I danced my way up the best and worst pitch of my life, leaving tears and saving memories.
It was late in the evening when Lucas and I got back to our cars after climbing the Red Dihedral. It was unsaid, and our ego's may have been looking too far forward to realize it, but we did something amazing that day. For us. We pushed hard, jumped into the arena and overcame. It is so hard in life to step out of your comfort zone, especially when there are sunny climbs in Tuolumne meadows a stones throw from the road. These are the moments that define you, that you live by. The rock stripped us bare and we built ourselves back up, a bit longer in the tooth and no worse for wear.
Having a beer at the Woah Nelly deli just before closing, Lucas with an Apple Juice, life was good. Life is good.
Lukasz on the approach to the Hulk
Lucas on Roller Coaster in Joshua Tree


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Seattle hires Wilson as minor league coach
The Seattle Mariners have hired former catcher Dan Wilson as the
roving minor league catching coordinator for the organization.
The Mariners announced the hiring on Tuesday. Wilson will work
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with catchers at all levels of the organization beginning with
spring training and continuing through the season. He will travel
to each of Seattle's minor league affiliates to work with
The 44-year-old Wilson spent 14 seasons catching with Cincinnati
and then spent the majority of his career in Seattle. He caught
more games than any player in Mariners history and ended his career
with the sixth-highest fielding percentage for a catcher in major
league history.
Wilson was an All-Star in 1996 and was inducted into the team
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Roster weaknesses: Every team has them, and the draft is often the best way to address them. With the 2014 NFL Draft fast approaching, NFL Media's Daniel Jeremiah will be taking an up-close look at the main areas of weakness -- and the prospects who could fix them -- for all 32 squads in the league. Be sure to catch "Path to the Draft" on NFL Network at 7 p.m. ET Monday through Friday for more in-depth analysis.
The 2014 NFL Draft is -- really, I promise -- almost here. On Thursday, the world will finally learn, after months of hype and anticipation, exactly what the Houston Texans have decided to do with the No. 1 overall pick. Of course, that still remains a mystery for now, but I do know one thing: The team absolutely must nail this selection.
Houston has to do some serious building if it wants to keep up with Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts. After capturing back-to-back AFC South titles, the Texans faltered badly in 2013, sputtering to a 2-14 record -- and, thus, possession of this pick. While they might like to trade down -- perhaps to solve their pressing quarterback issue -- I think they'll have a hard time finding a partner, meaning they'll likely have to make a choice at No. 1.
Of course, there are more issues on this roster than one pick can fix. Here are four positions of need for the Texans -- and some prospects who could fill them:
1) Quarterback
After seven years with Matt Schaub atop the depth chart, Houston needs to find a new quarterback. Schaub is in Oakland, having been traded to the Raiders following a dismal 2013 campaign, and the rest of the signal-callers on the roster (Ryan Fitzpatrick, Case Keenum, T.J. Yates) are really backup types. I don't see a quarterback prospect who would merit being drafted first overall, but the Texans could trade down for either Johnny Manziel (Texas A&M) or Blake Bortles (UCF). Bortles is probably a better match for coach Bill O'Brien, but Manziel is a better prospect.
Alternately, Houston might want to wait until the top of the second round. Pittsburgh's Tom Savage and LSU's Zach Mettenberger are two traditional drop-back quarterbacks who would fit well in O'Brien's system.
2) Outside linebacker
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Former first-round pick Whitney Mercilus is a promising young player, but the Texans still lack a premier pass-rushing outside linebacker to complement all-world defensive end J.J. Watt. South Carolina's Jadeveon Clowney is the top player in the draft and should be taken at No. 1 by Houston. The team should not be distracted by buzzy Buffalo product Khalil Mack; yes, Mack is better in coverage, but that isn't a good reason to pass on Clowney, who is simply too special as a pass-rusher.
Should the Texans choose to trade down and take a quarterback in Round 1 instead, Marcus Smith (Louisville) would be a great fit on their defense.
3) Defensive line
If Houston wants to boost the talent level and depth on the defensive line, Princeton's Caraun Reid and Alabama's Ed Stinson would be good mid-round options. Reid would offer a bit more upfield pass-rush ability, while Stinson is stouter against the run.
4) Right tackle
The Texans must address this position in the draft, and Alabama's Cyrus Kouandjio -- provided he checks out medically -- would be a great pick at No. 33. Kouandjio has the strength to dominate in the run game, and he's athletic enough to hold up in pass protection.
So what will the Texans do with their first-round pick (No. 1 overall)? Here's what NFL Media's analysts see happening, according to their mock draft projections (click here for Mock Draft Central):
Daniel Jeremiah: Jadeveon Clowney
Bucky Brooks: Jadeveon Clowney
Charles Davis: Jadeveon Clowney
Matt Smith: Jadeveon Clowney
Chase Goodbread: Jadeveon Clowney
Follow Daniel Jeremiah on Twitter @MoveTheSticks.


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Uttarakhand's new Lokayukta Bill a fraud on people: Khanduri
Uttarakhand Assembly passes new Lokayukta Bill
New Lokayukta Bill tabled in Uttarakhand Assembly
Uttarakhand Assembly session resumes today
Fire in Mumbai-Dehradun Express, nine passengers killed
Discussion on Lokayukta Bill deferred in Uttarakhand Assembly
Anganwadi workers to be covered under group insurance scheme soon: Bahuguna
Icy winds sweep Uttarakhand as hill state receives heavy snowfall
Uttarakhand HC orders re-examination of stamp duty case involving Ramdev
Local youths to be given priority in recruitment to SDRF: Bahuguna
Uttarakhand to get control of 41 irrigation canals
Vikasnagar(Dehradun) SDM suspended for not acting on mining mafias
Congress denies rumours about ousting Uttarakhand CM Bahuguna
Khanduri's Lokayukta to be repealed: Congress
Fake passport: CBI court to frame charges against Ramdev aide Balkrishna
Cong MLA surrenders before police in firing case, gets bail
Foot Over Bridges to be Constructed Over Main Crossings in Dehradun
Firing at minister's residence: Case lodged against unidentified person
Security in the Assembly during the session
Congress MLA opens fire at minister's residence, 2 injured
92 foreign nationals among 4,120 missing in Uttarakhand calamity...
Bank locker found at Kedarnath, Rs. 1.90 cr recovered...
Rajaji Park likely to become tiger reserve in a month
Extra vigilance on violence in Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand
Rishikesh - Karnprayag complete survey of railway alignment
Hemkund Sahib tour will start from September 21
TEN KG Polythene seized, draws a fine of four thousand
Prayers Resume At Kedarnath Temple
Farmers Training in Dehradun
The Battle Of Words
BCom student who burned himself
Restricted Kedarnath Yatra by chopper may begin in Oct: Uttarakhand CM
In contradiction to statements complicating kink
Orders To Shoot
Uttarakhand - tough on border patrol, highway closed three hours
DAV - Siddhartha Rana, president of ABVP wins
SGRR LIVE: NSUI president made
Secretariat of Union Election Date
SDM 30 lakh to the families of Arora
NASA returned to the students of Unison World
Students taught the tricks of Personality Development
Lying Silence In Asaram Ashram
Food Bill will become load on our economy: BC Khanduri
Prayers to resume at Kedarnath shrine from Sept 11: U'khand CM
Relief Operations Come To a Standstill
Uttrakhand Cong demands Rs 5k cr package from Centre
Ragini to Learn Tamil and Telugu
GEP to be introduced in U'khand next year
Country Needs Urgent Tech Solutions In Energy Sector: Pranab
Rains lash Uttarakhand; CM Vijay Bahuguna visits Chamoli to review relief work
Increase the scope of Atal Awas Yojana
Rains continue to lash U'khand, 8 houses damaged in landslips
ND Tiwari slams Uttarakhand govt for not ordering
Action against mining mafia
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