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Darbee's record at the utility puts one in mind of the record of recently deposed Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt: each man cut corners and spent money in ways that squandered decades of public good will, doing lasting damage to their companies and customers.
Darbee appears to have been a victim of the investigation into the explosion of a gas line in the Bay Area city of San Bruno. That investigation has uncovered shoddy record-keeping and maintenance by PG&E. But the company's missteps run much deeper than that. On the political front, PG&E wasted tens of millions of dollars on a poorly crafted 2010 ballot initiative to protect its own monopoly. The measure lost despite the fact that its opposition had virtually no money. Election results showed that the PG&E measure had done worse in the areas it served than areas it didn't. To know PG&E under Darbee was not to love it.
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Consumer activists and even state officials had been urging Darbee's ouster for some time. The California Public Utilities Commission president Michael Peevey released a statement that, in the language of bureaucrats, could be read as a grave dance.
"While obviously the company under his leadership has been responsible for several poor and consequential decisions, Mr. Darbee's commitment to PG&E and its constituents is unquestioned. The CPUC urges the company to return to its roots by hiring the most technically competent person."
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Posted by jaga on August 03, 1998 at 14:28:40:
In Reply to: Re: Who owns the Land? posted by jaga on August 03, 1998 at 14:15:48:
: : When you sit down to purchase your property, learn how to keep it your personal property.
: : Land patents are grants from the government. That is a benefit from government.
: : Why would anyone want a benefit from government.
: : When you buy your home, you plot of ground, simple donot register the with the State of:
: : There is no law anywhere that coerce anyone to register their property with the State of:
: : The State of: is a nul tiel corporation of the United States. When you register your property with the State of:, you simply entered into a constructive trust, an operation of law, a fraud.
: : Why would anyone want to their property over to a second party, and enter willingly, and intentionally a a fraud.
: : When you register your property you have entered into a cestui que trust. You no longer have any form of title, you are simply now a vassal to the State of: who now bonds the property, and charges you for the privelege, This charge, of course, they call it a property tax. It is an excise tax imposed upon without full disclosure.
: : What to keep your land free and clear.
: : Take it out of the registry. You can proceed on an ejectment motion in the County where the State Of: seat of government is, or you can learn about a straw purchase.
: : Allodial, land patents, are fine terms, but the only way to own your land, is to come out of Babylon, take back your life, your liberty, and property.
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: : : : : What proof exists that municipal entities(courts)
: : : : : will grant you a tax-free land patent?
: : : : Some of you may enjoy the following read.
: : : : http://www.civil-liberties.com/books/colony.html
: : : Thanks for the reference. We have a bad feeling about the question though. It asks about Municipal entities "GRANTING."
: : : As far as we know, all granting in the form of land patents was done by the federal gov't. If you want to know what the original patent on your land says, write or phone your nearest BLM office, and follow directions.
: : : We obtained copies of two three patents originally issued during the Grant Administration. Interstingly, two were for Mexican Grant lands under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the other was a Railroad Patent. Of the first two, one covers the lands, the other covers the lands and all improvements thereto.
: : : NEVER attempt to file for a new patent. It's a done deal from long-long ago. What you are is an assignee, if anything, but be careful, the City of..... or the County of..... may be an assignee, in which case the rules change.
: : : There is an outfit in Morgan Hill, California that has done tremendous research into the issues of political status and property rights, including patents, that could be of mor help on this subject than we could hope to be. We intend to request their materials real soon, but need to put some eggs together in a financial basket first.
: : : Hope this tidbit helps - some.
How do I tell the county Santa Cruz, Ca. to take a hike in regards to their zoning "laws" and "civil" penalties for noncompliance ?Help me please I'm in aworld of hurt! Thanks, Jaga
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Tinsel is soooo 90's and it just looks awful against the cylinder head and wtf did you do to its manafold, inlet manafold is manky and the exhaust manafolds gasket needs replacing, and my dad can't help throwing things, he picked up that bad habit when he was in the home, a porter use to climb into the bed in the early hours of the morning and abuse him, saying it was the best way to clear his bowel, it traumatised him to no end!!
Jeez, I'm surprised you noticed my hair, I done it myself, nice isn't it and Bubba is off "servicing" sumtin somewhere so Mellow is picking me up from the quilt making session later today, she is getting a head start and will be wearing no underwear, just hope I don't get one of them hot flushes of mine!!
Will you bung some heat under that pot, I'll have some stew when I get home..
Just getting my eyebrows done and from there me and the girls are going shoe shopping, oh how I love my shoes!! Will you be fixing that engine soon, I chipped a nail this morning while trying to prop my mirror up against it while donning my lipstick, if I'm in bed when you get home, no drunken romps,,,,,,, you never talk to me afterwards or even cuddle, you acheive and go straight to sleep,,,,how hurtful!
I had no udder choice but to hit you over the head, ,,, I hate it when you use your teeth.................. you KNOW how sensitive I am..
me nipple rings are attached to me testical clamps, you KNOW that sooooo I can't tke 'em off.....JEEZ
It's sooooo cold my nipples hurt!!
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Yes, my dear, I can drive....but I want you to do me a little favour while on the trip,,,,good girl,,,,you know what daddy likes.......
Oi, stop using me fooken eye liner to write on bathroom walls, I'm sick of all these calls I am getting from men who call themselves BUBBA and they keep asking me to spoon with them.....Whatever that means!!!
My thistle, my sweetie, giver to all and acceptance from none, I am back from a three week banter with god and I'm partied out, oh, and keep this to yourself,,,God has a nipple ring and a prince albert...
Thanks for the info, I'm still working on what I use, I jumped on the melatonin as I had planned on using it soon, so far so good, thanks
Thanks for thinking about me u r so sweet. Just been busy with work n therapy lately. My parents have been in town for a couple of wks now so that has been great. How about you sweetheart how have u been? How r u feel in these days?
Are you trying to get me in more trouble with MORE jewerly! ........another weakness/addiction!
I see dead people!!
HEY! I see you! Lol
Hope you're feeling better!!!!!
are we still going to Mexico or what??
lol yes you need to start that thread. I started my confession thread on members only thread so you might can put it there or in life thread.
Hey girl...hope you're feeling better!
Rosethornes, Don't you know I'm always in "VIOLATION". Just ask the administrator. LOL! (I'm laughing but is it true?)
Cheaters! lol I am having major withdraws from apparalzyed here! Poor simon.
lol! gunslinger's comment is in violation! hahaha
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are you stalking me? you crazy bitch! i haven't been able to log onto apparylzed for the last day of so. i get a error message instead. i had just read a post simon had put up about this and now i have it. if you see any way to resolve it on my end please let me know or perhaps you can tell simon about me.
husband has been gone 3 weeks but comes home tomorrow. we just talked and he had a few cocktails and i'm exhauted just listening to him. i guess this is my last night to sleep without snoring. yeah!
tomorrow i'm heading to orlando to an independence expo. i'm meeting up with a friend which i met at summer camp. it's something different to do and i'm in the market for a new w-c. dr just wrote me a script yesterday so now i need to figure out what to get.
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Nobody will ever be surprised when James Harrison makes a list like this. I'm somewhat surprised that Mundy made the list after just those 2 personal foul hits this season, and then being benched in favor of Will Allen.
I also find it funny that the players who voted in this, at least according to this article, weren't named. Guess somebody is afraid of some payback should they play any of these guys.
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Putting Opatija back on the musical map…
Oliver Condy reports from the Kvarner Festival in the stunning Croatian coastal town of Opatija
Opatija may be an unfamiliar name to most today, but from the middle of the 19th century until the First World War, this beautiful coastal town, tucked away in the north of Croatia on a stretch of coast known as the Kvarner bay, was regarded as one of Europe's finest and most luxurious holiday destinations. From the moment of its 'discovery' by the wealthy merchant Iginijo Scarpa in the mid 1840s (the grand Villa Angiolina, named after his wife, dates from 1844), Opatija became the place for wealthy Austro-Hungarian businessmen and nobility to relax, each attempting to out-do each other with increasingly grand villas.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the 14-kilometre long 'longomare' or promenade stretching from Volosko in the east to the village of Lovran was built, along with various bathing areas, creating a resort that rivalled anything to be found on the French riviera. With rail links from Vienna and Budapest built soon after, Opatija was marketed as the place to relax and, as was the fashion, to convalesce (recent research has even found that bacteria grow at a slower rate here than anywhere along the Croatian coastline...).
Where nobility flock, however, artists, musicians and writers surely follow. And Opatija became a cultural centre where many great composers came to find inspiration. In 1905, Gustav Mahler spent the Easter holidays here writing his 'Tragic' Symphony No. 6, and Puccini and Léhar are known to have spent time enjoying the climate and no doubt playing an active part in the town's flourishing music scene. Many Jewish composers also made their way from Austria and Hungary to Opatija, including the Hungarian operetta composer Emmerich Kálmán. What did these composers get up to? We'll perhaps never know – two world wars and decades of neglect have since put paid to the town's historic archives.
A stroll into any of Opatija's Viennese-style hotels reveals huge, ornate ballrooms and concert halls in which music would be heard perhaps every evening. Certainly in Opatija's enormous Kvarner Hotel, concerts took place twice a day before 1918 in the extraordinary Crystal Hall, built in 1909 when the hotel's café burnt down. You can still see crumbling statues of angels playing flutes and violins above the entrance to the hall, evidence of the importance of music during Opatija's golden age. Even a major concert hall was half-built, the amphitheatre in the Angiolina Garden – minus its planned roof – now used for outdoor concerts, cinema screenings and more.
The Kvarner Festival is determined, however, to put Opatija back on the musical map. Founded just three years ago by the Austrian conductor Michael Fendre, the festival showcases a wide range of music – mostly classical, but with a smattering of jazz and folk – performed by world-class artists including the terrific Accordone who delighted their audience with a spell-binding concert of traditional Italian music last night. Nigel Kennedy is due to play tonight, and tomorrow, the Purpur Orchestra, featuring members of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, will give a concert of Vaughan Williams, Mozart, Haydn and the early 19th-century Croatian composer Luka Sorkočević.
At present, the festival's only venue is the Kvarner Hotel's mighty Crystal Hall but, as Fendre tells me this morning, his plans are long term, including a drive to tie the programme into Opatija's considerable musical heritage. Music by Mahler, Puccini and a series of concerts by former visiting Jewish composers is planned. There are dozens of potential venues, including hotel ballrooms and the town's early 20th-century church – the challenge is to convince visitors from the UK, France and Germany to make the trip. As I gaze out of my hotel window over the glistening, sun-lit surface of the Mediterranean, the ancient harbours, colourful and dramatic villas and hotels, and the giant Magnolias and bay trees that dominate Opatija's shoreline, I get the feeling that it shouldn't be too hard a task...
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The number of layoffs in Singapore is unknown, but the company's Singapore spokesperson Ms Rasa Buckley said that it is "much less" than the 150 layoffs affecting its San Francisco office.
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Isolation in Industrial Systems
In 2019 more than 2.5 million industrial robots will be in operation worldwide, according to a forecast of the international federation of robotics. An industrial robot typically consists out of a control cabinet, a robot arm and a Human Machine Interface (HMI) Panel. To guarantee safe operation of the complete robot system, the different robot components and its interfaces need to be isolated to each other.
Isolated Power Supplies for PLC I/O Modules
The training starts with an overview of an analog input module. Typical components and their voltage supply levels are shown. Next, possible power topologies like push-pull, flyback or flybuck with their advantages and disadvantages are discussed.
How to add Industrial Ethernet to Computer Numeric Control (CNC) Router Machine
CNC routers use step and direction signals to control each stepper motors. In addition motor information (position, temperature, fault) gets transferred from stepper motors back to control unit. This must be done in star topology and a mix of proprietary interfaces. Simple open real-time Ethernet (SORTE) enables 4 µs cycle time on industrial Ethernet and replaces step/direction signal and motor feedback info into a single Ethernet cable that is also wired in line topology.
Learn Different Solutions to Design a Field Transmitter Ultrasonic AFE
A common method to measure process parameters in plants is based on sound waves. This method is used in: level, flow and displacement field transmitters. It works based on measuring the time of flight (ToF) between when the pulse, generated by a piezo electric crystal, is sent and received back by the piezo.
Designing a Multi-Channel 4-20mA Analog Input Module
This training helps to understand relevant parameter of a 4-20mA analog input module, such as surge protection, handling miss-wiring, broken wire detection, isolation or protection of the module against over-current at power and signal inputs.
Design, Protection, and Technologies for Analog Outputs
Analog outputs in industrial automation come in a variety of configurations that each must deliver strong precision while passing stringent EMI /EMC certification tests. This session will address these systems and their challenges by explaining each configuration, and explaining example designs
TI-RSLK Module 1 Running code on the LaunchPad using CCS
The purpose of this module is to learn software development methodology and understand how to set up an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), to then import and export Code Composer Studio (CCS) projects, as well as critical debugging information to understand the memory usage and performance of the software on the processor.
TI-RSLK Module 2 – Voltage, current, and power
The purpose of this course is to review basic electronic components and the electrical properties needed to interface sensors and actuators to a microcontroller. You will learn how to measure reactance of a capacitor and use your project to measure current and voltage. The electrical properties of the capacitor will help you design circuits that "filter" or remove noise from your robot.
TI-RSLK Module 3 – ARM Cortex M
This module serves as a brief introduction to the ARM Cortex-M microcontroller, assembly programming language and some debugging techniques. Understanding how the processor works is essential for the design of embedded systems, such as the one used in your robot.
TI-RSLK Module 4 – Software Design using MSP432
This module is an introduction to C, a general-purpose programming language, in addition to the concepts of compiling and debugging using the MSP432 and TI Code Composer Studio™. Debugging skills are a valuable tool when developing complex systems involved with robotics.
TI-RSLK Module 5 – Battery and voltage regulation
The purpose of this module is to learn how to power your robot. To run the robot (motor and other systems) you will need batteries and a regulator to provide constant voltage. Understanding the relationship between voltage current and power is an essential component of robot system design.
TI-RSLK Module 6 – GPIO
In this module, you will interface a line sensor (infra-red sensor) to the microcontroller and learn how to write software to initialize GPIO pins. The line sensor is a simple and accurate sensor for solving robotic challenges.
TI-RSLK Module 7 – Finite state machines
This module will demonstrate how to use finite state machines as a central controller for the system.
TI-RSLK Module 8 – Interfacing input and output
The purpose of this module is to develop interface switches and an LED so the robot can effectively detect wall collisions. Many sensors and actuators deploy LEDs, so understanding how they operate will be important to building your robot.
TI-RSLK Module 9 – SysTick timer
In this module, you will learn the fundamentals of SysTick timers and pulse width modulators (PWM), including how to measure pulse times and period with a logic analyzer and amplitude with an oscilloscope. It is important to understand the concept of PWM as we will use it to adjust power to the motors.
TI-RSLK Module 10 – Debugging real-time systems
This module provides an intro to how flash memory operates, including debugging techniques for real-time systems and how to generate periodic interrupts using SysTick. Minimally intrusive debugging is essential for real-time systems to evaluate performance while the system runs in real-life situations.
TI-RSLK Module 11 – Liquid Crystal Display
This module will show you how to display characters and provide real-time debugging on an LCD screen. An LCD on your robot provides a convenient way to observe what it is thinking.


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WEST POINT, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Montel Harris rushed for a career-high 351 yards and seven touchdowns, Matt Brown scored twice before leaving the game with an injury as Temple beat Army 63-32 on Saturday for their fifth straight win in the series.
Temple (4-6) snapped a four-game losing streak, all coming in the Big East, by beating the nation's top rushing team at its own game, gaining 534 yards rushing on 57 carries. Army (2-9), which finished with 407 yards rushing on 62 carries, has lost 16 straight against Big East competition.
Harris, who had 36 carries, scored on a 60-yard run and a 1-yard run in the second quarter, a 1-yard run and a 37-yarder in the third, and a 2-yarder, a 3-yarder and another 37-yarder in the fourth to come within one of the NCAA record set in 1990 by Howard Griffith of Illinois against Southern Illinois.
That spoiled Senior Day for Army's 22 seniors, though fourth-year quarterback Trent Steelman left Blaik Field for the final time with more academy records in tow.
Steelman rushed for 139 yards and scored three times, giving him five straight 100-yard games and 44 career rushing touchdowns, both school records. Glenn Davis held the record of 43 rushing touchdowns during his stellar career on Army's great teams of the mid-1940s.
It also was Steelman's 12th career 100-yard game, one more than the record held by Tory Crawford for most by an Army quarterback, and Steelman boosted his season rushing total to 1,152 yards, a season record for an academy quarterback.
The Owls built a 28-10 halftime as Harris gained 173 yards on just 16 carries, either bulling his way past defenders or racing untouched as the Army defense repeatedly broke down as it did earlier in the season in losses to Northern Illinois and Wake Forest.
Harris scored his first two touchdowns after Brown had reprised his performance from two years ago at Michie Stadium, scoring on runs of 12 and 36 yards to stake the Owls to a 14-0 first-quarter lead.
Army came out in the second half with a vengeance. The Black Knights scored in four plays that took just 63 seconds. Raymond Maples broke a 24-yard run and Larry Dixon followed with a 43-yard dash down the left side to set up Steelman's 1-yard touchdown.
Maples added a two-point conversion to move Army within 28-18, but Temple responded by driving 75 yards in 11 plays that took 6:15 off the clock. Clinton Granger's quarterback keeper for 24 yards on a third-and-5 play kept the drive alive and Harris scored from inside the 1 on another third down for a 35-18 lead midway through the third.
Steelman's 56-yard touchdown run gave the Black Knights renewed hope, but Harris quickly dashed it, scoring on runs of 37 and 2 yards for a 49-24 lead just one play into the fourth quarter.
Two years ago, Brown, subbing for injured star Bernard Pierce, rushed for a career-high 226 yards on 28 carries and scored four times in a 42-35 victory at Michie Stadium.
The 5-foot-5, 165-pound Brown scored was unstoppable again early Saturday, but after Army moved to 14-7 on Steelman's 7-yard run early in the second, Brown limped off the field moments later holding his left hamstring. When Dixon's 37-yard run set up Eric Osteen's 37-yard field goal, the Black Knights closed within 14-10.
With Brown relegated to spectator, the Owls didn't skip a beat as Harris, the Owls' leading rusher on the season, took over. He scored 47 seconds later on a 60-yard run, scampering untouched into the end zone for a 21-10 lead.
Temple left the field at halftime with a 28-10 lead compliments of 259 yards rushing on just 23 carries
Both coaches are tinkered with their lineups. Temple's Steve Addazio didn't name his starting quarterback until late in the week, and Granger acquitted himself well.
Army's Rich Ellerson gave Eric Osteen a chance at place-kicker in place of Daniel Grochowski, who had two kicks blocked last week in a 28-7 loss at Rutgers. Osteen hit a 37-yard field goal in the second quarter, the first of his career.
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Hi Steve,
Some questions/comments about UP's version of Regeneration (page 73), but these issues all apply to Regeneration in the core book as well.
1) Comment: The Resurrection extra on Regeneration gives a misleading description when it says "At nine ranks you can check to recover from death each round." Looking at the table below it's clear that at eight ranks you can check to recover from death each round. Nine ranks lets you do this as a standard action, which is really no different in the vast majority of cases because you come back Unconscious and Disabled and won't get to take actions anyway. So this should probably be changed to say "eight ranks" instead because writing "at nine ranks" implies that eight ranks won't do the trick.
Next issue:
Resurrection says "At ten ranks, you get a recovery check instantly whenever your condition becomes dead. If successful, you don't die." However, the table below lists 10 ranks in Resurrection as Regenerating in "no action."
2) Is 10 ranks in Regeneration meant to both give you a check to avoid death in the first place whenever your condition becomes dead and a check each round, with no rest for a recover action, to resurrect if you do fail that first check and die?
3) Comment: Given the above, the Total Regeneration example probably isn't quite accurate, because if it includes 10 ranks of Resurrection corresponding to 36 pp (36 pp rather than 35 pp due to the errata), then it ought to include something about "not dying in the first place" in accordance with the description for Resurrection 10.
Regeneration Resurrection questions/issues
Ask M&M 2e rules questions that your fellow gamers can't answer. Only Mutants & Masterminds Line Developer (and creator) Steve Kenson can post replies. He visits the boards in between projects and convention appearances so please be patient!
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80s Christian Rock / Metal Music – The Monster (Original Extended AUDIO) – Pastor Brad
Hi, I'm Brad. I'm a husband, daddy, musician, youtuber, pastor, author--and a few other things depending on what day of the week you talk to me. But at my core, I'm a Jesus follower. That means I do my best to allow Jesus to be the author and perfecter of everything I do. I'm all about following Jesus step by step and hopefully helping others who are on this journey with me.


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I originally posted this trip to the New England Over 40 Hiking Group on Meetup.com a couple weeks ago. I haven't had any takers. The feedback I am getting from the NEO40 members is the trip is too early in the season for most of them.
So, I thought I would post the trip here for my fellow hangers to enjoy. I prefer small groups on multi-day events. Therefore, I am limiting attendance to six people. Please contact me by PM if you wish to attend. I will add you as my guest to the Meetup.
You can also sign up directly on the NEO40 Meetup site by clicking here.
Here is the trip description.
Spend Patriot's Day weekend backpacking 27.8 miles along the Appalachian Trail in Massachusetts. This trip takes us through the heart of the Berkshires including Mt. Greylock, 3,491 Ft, the highest point in Massachusetts.
Saturday April 13
We meet at the small gravel lot where the AT intersects Blotz Road in Pittsfield, Mass. We will leave some vehicles at this location and carpool approximately 30 minutes North to the trailhead on Pattison Road in North Adams.
Hiking South on the AT, we ascend steeply to Mt. Williams, 3,110 Ft. at 3.1 miles. Continuing along the ridge, we summit Mt. Greylock at 5.4 miles. Here we will explore the WWI memorial. The AMC's Bascom Lodge doesn't open until May, so there will be no services available on Mt. Greylock.
Continuing South on the ridge, we'll descend slightly to the Mark Noepel Shelter where we will spend the night. In addition to the shelter, this facility includes tent platforms, a privy and a spring. Total mileage for the day is 8.7 miles.
Sunday, April 14
Continuing South along the AT, we reach the town of Dalton at about 5 miles. Just south of Dalton an area know as "The Cobbles" offers scenic overlooks. We''ll traverse North Mountain a woody boggy highland area before reaching our destination for the day, Crystal Mountain Campsite at 9.0 miles. The campsite has a water source and a privy. According to reports on Whiteblaze.net, a bearbox was recently installed.
Monday April 15 (Patriot's Day)
Heading south on the AT on our final day, We reach the town Dalton at approximately 5 miles. A short climb takes us to Day Mountain, were we'll enjoy some views of the town. A short descent and climb takes us to Tully Mountain, were we'll enjoy more views. Our trip ends at 10.1 miles, when we reach the parking lot on Blotz Road. From here we'll carpool back to Pattison Road in North Adams to retrieve the vehicles we left there.
Be Safe
Please be prepared with adequate shelter, food, clothing and equipment for a multi-day backpacking trip. This trip is intended for experienced hikers able to hike 10+ miles per day over mountainous terrain.
This is an early-season trip. You can expect temperatures to dip below freezing at night. You'll need a sleeping bag rated for 20 Deg F or better. Rain gear is required. And, of course, no cotton clothing or sleeping bags.
This is black bear country. Please bring line and a stuff sack large enough for your food, toiletries and other odorous items so that we can hang them out of reach. We don't want any close encounters of the ursine kind!
If you are an experienced hiker, but new to backpacking you are welcome to join us. However, you need to contact the leader before RSVPing, so that you are fully prepared and know what to bring and what to expect.
Be Considerate
Due to the nature of the event, attendance is limited to six people including the leader. Folks need to plan ahead in order to attend. If you sign up for this trip and then bail at the last minute, you deny someone else the opportunity to enjoy this trip. Therefore, PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS HIKE UNLESS YOU KNOW FOR SURE YOU CAN ATTEND.
As a condition of your voluntary participation in this activity you acknowledge and agree to the following: this activity involves inherent risks that can cause property damage, injury, illness, disability, and/or death to participants and/or others; you assume all risk associated with this activity; you are responsible for having the necessary knowledge, skills, abilities, clothing, and equipment to safely participate in this activity; you know and will follow the Hiker Responsibility Code described at www.hikesafe.com; the leader(s) of this activity are volunteers; and you release, hold harmless, and indemnify the leader(s) and all members of this group from any and all claims for property damage, injury, illness, disability, and/or death - including those caused by negligence and/or other reasons.


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A lot of people ask me for recommendations of Pain Centers. In 2007, the American Pain Society selected 6 centers as the best in the United States. The following is their newsletter explaining why they selected them.
Honoring Multidisciplinary Pain Care
After 30 years of leadership in pain management, the American Pain Society initiated a Clinical Centers of Excellence (CCOE) in Pain Management Awards Program to recognize and reward top-quality clinical care in pain management.
This was an ambitious effort for APS and took the time and talents of many individuals. APS wishes to thank the CCOE program development committee—co-chairs Russ Portenoy and Deb Gordon, and committee members Christine Miaskowski, Judy Paice, Lori Reisner, Michael Byas-Smith, Robert Jamison, and Steve Weisman—as well the final review committee, co-chairs Judy Paice and Dennis Turk and committee members Michael Byas-Smith, Steven Weisman, Lonnie Zeltzer, and Mark Jensen.
APS would also like to thank the staff for its administrative oversight and Endo Pharmaceuticals for providing the vision and financial support to create this program.
APS is extremely proud to recognize its first group of CCOE award recipients. The following 2007 CCOE award recipients exemplify the many multidisciplinary clinical programs throughout the United States.
NYU Medical Center, Hospital for Joint Diseases, Bellevue Hospital Center, Comprehensive Pain Management Center, New York
The Rosomoff Comprehensive Pain Center, Miami
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Pain Management Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston
UCSF Pain Management Center and UCSF PainCARE, Center for Advanced Research and Education, San Francisco
James A. Haley Veterans Affairs Hospital, Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program, Tampa
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Div. of Pain Management, Cincinnati
NYU Hospitals Center: NYU Medical Center, Hospital for Joint Diseases (HJD), Bellevue Hospital Center, New York
The NYU-HJD Comprehensive Pain Management Center may want to consider highlighting the word Comprehensive in its title because this integrated inpatient-outpatient program epitomizes all things comprehensive.
In terms of patient care, the center's evidence-based multimodal care targets both physical and psychosocial function by combining analgesics, physical therapy, psychological approaches, and pain interventions. Several times a day, pain physicians, psychologists, and pain nurses follow patients to treat pain and focus on physical and psychosocial function.
No patients are overlooked. If they don't speak English, communications sheets come in 40 different languages; if they are deaf or hard of hearing, there's a sign language interpreter on staff.
In terms of staffing, pain management consults are available 24/7 from a staff that includes physicians, psychologists, pain management nurses, a palliative care team, physical and occupational therapists, a holistic nurse practitioner, a pastoral caregiver, pharmacists, and clinical social workers. Meanwhile, complex inpatient and outpatient cases are presented at weekly interdisciplinary meetings.
"Intradisciplinary and multimodal access is integrated into a spectrum of acute and chronic pain management to optimize pain control, clinical outcomes, and patient satisfaction," says Christopher Gharibo, MD. "This is enhanced by clinicians' ability to use the vast multidepartmental resources within our institution."
The center's pain management policies and procedures are both "general and specialized." They include
a pain management documentation systems that includes pain outcome tracking
incorporating pain education into nurse and physician orientation and follow-up programs
instituting hospital-wide "pain awareness weeks," institution-specific analgesic pocket cards, successful CME programs, and quality-improvement programs
developing analgesic pathways with other departments for, among others, patients suffering from addictions or post-operative pain.
Last, the center outreaches to the community to provide comprehensive pain care to the indigent, addicted, and prison populations, as well as to a treatment center with a predominantly Asian patient base. It has also provided clinical and administrative consulting services to a local mental health center.
Research programs center primarily on the mechanisms, effects, and treatments of pain. For example, clinical investigations include phase 2 and phase 3 analgesic drug trials, neurophysiological testing of patients with neuropathic pain, and assessment of cognitive behavioral techniques in postoperative and cancer pain. Laboratory investigations, meanwhile, focus on sustained hypersensitivity in rats' DRG cells and developing a single neuron model for preliminary drug screening.
The gathered knowledge is published in peer reviewed publications and is featured at CME conferences and media outlets such as the Internet, radio, and television. Faculty also share their knowledge with colleagues at local and regional meetings, as well as at APS, AAPM, and ASA meetings.
The Rosomoff Comprehensive Pain Center (RCPC), Miami, FL
Since RCPC's founding in 1974 by Dr. Hubert Rosomoff—a founder and former president of APS, past-president of AAPM, founder of the Southern Pain Society (SPS), and longtime champion of pain medicine—the center has developed a reputation of excellence nationally and internationally. Consider these developments:
RCPC's innovative approach serves as a model for other national and international programs. The RCPC has helped establish a pain center in Cali, Colombia; Lima, Peru; and Cairo, Egypt, and has been consultant to Pain Centers both nationally and abroad. The center regularly receives visitors, medical students, fellows, and residents to learn its techniques. Data are reviewed and outcome results published regularly.
The center serves as a consultant on pain management for government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels.
RCPC rehabilitation nurse Renee Rosomoff was recognized by UCLA Pain Library as one of six nurses worldwide for her contributions to pain medicine. She served as president of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses and SPS and as an APS Board Director. She received the APS and the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses Distinguished Service Awards and the SPS President's Award for Excellence in Pain Management.
RCPC educates professionals and the general public about pain diagnosis, treatment, costs, access, risk, and safety issues through community centers, public events, and through national and international media outlets including radio, television, and the Internet. Collectively, the faculty has presented at more than 2,500 local, national, and international meetings.
RCPC staff has written more than 750 combined scientific and lay publications. RCPC has been featured in numerous periodicals and magazines, including People, Prevention, Life, Tennis, U.S. News & World Report, Medical World News, Good Housekeeping, TIME, and the AARP Bulletin.
The RCPC employs a full-time integrated team—including physicians, psychologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, massage therapists, biofeedback technicians, ergonomic engineers, rehabilitation aides, case managers, an acupuncturist, vocational counselors, and nursing assistants—that interacts on a daily basis to provide treatment throughout patients' stays, which average 4 weeks. The staff is multilingual, multicultural, and receives ongoing education and training in cultural sensitivity.
Staff members address patients' physical, functional, behavioral, socioeconomic, and medical issues concurrently. For example, patients are tapered from narcotics and other dependency-inducing drugs, and are provided alternative treatments and other medications, as needed. The medical director and clinical staff hold twice-daily multidisciplinary rounds to review and adjust care. Patients are team-conferenced on a weekly, if not more frequent, basis. Patients treated range in age from 14–103. They are barely functional mentally and physically, have up to 42 surgical procedures, and are taking up to 1000 mg of methadone per day.
Evaluations and treatments at the RCPC are individualized to patients' needs and conditions. The multidisciplinary evaluation process spans up to 3 days of assessments and screening by pain medicine physicians, nurses, physical therapy, occupational therapists, massage therapists, psychologists, and a vocational counselor.
Pain Management Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Staff from BWH Pain Management Center say that patients who enter their facility get fully immersed in multidisciplinary pain assessment and treatment—not a surprising description from a staff that includes massage therapists and physical therapists. In fact, the center's staff comprises experts from diverse backgrounds ranging from anesthesiology, neurology, orthopedics, internal medicine, pharmacy, psychiatry, psychology, and nursing to physical therapy, dentistry, acupuncture, and massage therapy. Together, they stress a unified approach to evaluation and management of pain problems.
As such, the center serves as a model of interventional and noninterventional treatment approaches. These include psychotherapy; medication management; biofeedback; physical and occupational therapy; neural blockade procedures; radiofrequency lesioning and chemical neuroablation; and implantation of spinal cord stimulators, intrathecal pumps, and epidural portacaths.
The center receives national and international referrals, including from other tertiary care center pain programs. Among its offerings
patient-centered care for a wide variety of acute and chronic medical pain conditions
state-of-the-art approaches to procedural and implantable techniques
biobehavioral therapies and complementary medicine methods such as biofeedback, hypnosis, acupuncture, massage, and mind/body techniques
evidence-based patient selection criteria for treatment protocols
weekly team meetings and case conferences
rigorous surveys and electronic diary data collection to determine efficacy of therapy
interpreter services and indigent care
domestic violence counselors.
According to BWH Pain Management Center officials, the center is a model of innovation and excellence. The center, for example, uses longitudinal medical records, note scanning, and electronic diary technology, and implements a developed system of assessment of risk/benefit potential to tailor treatment to patient profiles. On the legislative front, BWH Pain Management Center staff was invited by its state governor to participate on a special commission on drug abuse. Staff representatives, meanwhile, are developing Massachusetts legislative policies favorable to pain management.
The BWH Pain Management Center staff is committed to advancing scientific knowledge. Staff members contribute an average 15 publications a year, sit on editorial boards of four pain journals, and frequently grant interviews to local and national press, among other things.
The BWH Pain Management Center offers a superb educational program in pain medicine, and maintains a highly competitive fellowship accredited by the American Council on Graduate Medical Education. Each year, eight fellows graduate from the program, which is a key teaching site for approximately 35 residents per year and has hosted trainees from other national and international educational programs. Upon completion of the program, many of the graduates of the BWH Pain Medicine fellowship continue as leaders in their field, both in academics and private practice settings.
The center actively collaborates with other Boston-area healthcare systems, such as the Dana Farber Cancer Institute to provide state-of-the art pain and palliative care services, Partners HealthCare to improve access to pain services for all of its patients, and the BWH Spine Center whose aim is to bring evidence-based practice to a cost-conscious outcome-based model of care for patients with spinal and musculoskeletal disease.
UCSF Pain Management Center (PMC) and PainCARE, San Francisco, CA
Meet Pamela Pierce Palmer, MD PhD, director of PainCARE, UCSF's Center for Advanced Research and Education and Professor, UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care. An internationally respected physician and a leader in peripheral inflammation mechanisms and opioid receptor signaling research, Palmer became director of UCSF's Pain Management Center (PMC), working with healthcare leaders worldwide to advocate for improvements in research, patient care, and pain education for healthcare practitioners. Five years later, with the help of a challenge grant from The Mayday Fund and other key supporters, she and her staff launched PainCARE to intensify these efforts.
"The PainCARE-PMC collaboration is transforming the conventional treatment center by integrating state-of-the-art PMC clinical care with research, training for healthcare professionals and patients, and active community, media, and government outreach to foster true collaboration between patients, policymakers, and....healthcare providers."
PMC faculty develop patient care policies and education programs for UCSF and teach "everywhere," from community hospital grand rounds to major international conferences. David Lee, MD, has been the medical director of the PMC since 2005, and also heads the ACGME-accredited UCSF Pain Management Fellowship program and is a key part of the collaboration's success.
In 2003, Dr. Palmer and her staff began a significant expansion of UCSF's continuing education offerings. At the request of the associate dean and associate chief medical officer at UCSF Mount Zion, they created the Challenges of Managing Pain Symposia, a live lecture series that has helped physicians across the San Francisco Bay Area to comply with California's law requiring 12 CME credits in pain management and end-of-life care. Now also teleconferenced to multiple sites in California, this series will soon reach even further through streaming video. In 2005, Dr. Palmer and PainCARE staff also launched the only intensive web-based pain management education program of its kind in the country, the UCSF Postgraduate Certificate in Pain Management-Online. This program is part of an international pain education program developed with the Universities of Sydney and Edinburgh.
PMC and PainCARE faculty, often with UCSF staff, educate patients and their families on disease processes, treatment options, and coping strategies. PMC staff also tap various UCSF facilities and resources, such as its Integrative Medicine center, to provide patients access to complementary therapies—acupuncture, biofeedback, massage therapy, and stress management—and services such as nutrition counseling, social work, and occupational therapy.
Likewise, PMC patients are referred to healthcare consultants both inside and outside of UCSF, including UCSF's internationally respected migraine specialists, neurologists, orthopaedic surgeons, and internal medicine practitioners. PMC and PainCARE serve about 10,230 patients a year, of which 7,294 are treated for chronic noncancer pain. Each patient's case is reviewed by a multidisciplinary staff to ensure that the best combination of therapies is provided. "Each patient is reviewed by our team…and patients are encouraged to attend free programs on pain and coping presented by treatment staff," according to PMC officials. "PMC's anesthesiologists, neurologist, psychologist, nurses and physical therapist have extensive experience with multiple pain conditions, from back pain to cancer, musculoskeletal, neuropathic, and post-surgical pain."
James A. Haley Veterans Affairs Hospital, Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program (CPRP), Tampa, FL
Outcomes-driven and interdisciplinary: This approach to pain treatment allows the CPRP to maintain "a proactive, responsive, and constantly evolving program." It's so proactive, in fact, that CPRP officials believe they were the first pain program to routinely implement clinical pathways to guide treatment and to measure pain treatment satisfaction as a primary outcome.
To treat returning Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers, the CPRP recently implemented three innovative programs to provide comprehensive symptomatic and prophylactic treatment to those injured in combat or during deployment. Meanwhile, the CPRP developed a pain outcomes instrument requested by more than 800 clinicians and researchers in 36 countries and initiated a preliminary validation of actigraphy as an objective pain outcomes measure.
"Consistent with the military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, our latest research efforts focus on the assessment and treatment of pain in returning military personnel who experienced combat-related polytrauma or other deployment-related injuries," says Clinical Director Michael E. Clark, PhD. He adds that current research funding of CPRP principal investigators is in excess of $1.4 million.
Since its opening in 1988, CPRP has treated more than 32,000 active duty, veteran, and veteran family members for pain. Each year it serves about 3,900 patients, mostly on an outpatient basis.
This evidence-based program has for 17 years systematically collected outcomes data to monitor its success and guide its program development. "We utilize an active rehabilitation strategy with a strong cognitive-behavioral focus to treat pain, and our success in this area is reflected in our multitude of national awards… and continuous CARF accreditation," Clark says.
Within the Veterans Administration (VA) community, the CPRP's reputation for excellence has led to its position as a national VA pain treatment referral center and as the premier VA pain resource center. It serves as a model of clinical care, program development and implementation, cost offsets, and resource needs for other VA and non-VA healthcare systems in the United States and abroad. The CPRP also provides intensive training to VA pain providers and multidisciplinary treatment teams, and shares its materials on policy, program, treatment, and validated outcomes with other facilities worldwide.
CPRP's core team comprises physicians (neurologists, physiatrists, an anesthesiologist, Pain Fellows, and medical residents), pain psychologists, ARNPs, RNs, LPNs, a registered dietician, rehabilitation therapists (physical therapists, occupational therapist, kinesiotherapist, vocational therapist, and recreational therapist), and a social worker. Extended team members include a chiropractor, acupuncturist, and pharmacist. Moreover, key members of the CPRP also
participate in VA and non-VA national pain advisory groups, committees, and task forces that focus on enhancing pain care
conduct local, regional, and national education seminars
consult with health systems and facilities
provide training to interdisciplinary pain management teams.
Division of Pain Management, Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Kenneth R. Goldschneider, MD FAAP, director of the Division of Pain Management, knows why his pain management program, which last year made about 11,000 visits to children suffering from acute pain, gets consistent high marks in patient satisfaction. "We simply have the most wonderful team of inspired, compassionate pain practitioners, who are creative as well as focused on the kids and their families," he commented.
Another reason is that they put safety first . The division collaborates with its hospital safety committee to track the in-hospital use of Naloxone, a medication used to counter the effects of opioid overdose, and its relation to sedation and respiratory depression. As a result, Goldschneider says, the division has improved its physician ordering, pharmacy practice, and nursing policy and practice. "Our policy and treatment paths are based on literature reviews and expert consensus," he says. "Our staff includes NIH-funded investigators who conduct clinical trials in evidence-based treatment of pediatric chronic pain."
Another reason is innovation. The division's Procedural Management Program (a sedation service) undergoes regular reassessments by families, physicians, and the nursing staff with the goal of improving its current care models. Among other things, the program aims to lower the distress suffered by children with cancer, hematologic diseases and other chronic illnesses by
focusing on schedule design that maximizes clinic flow and reduces NPO time
training the oncology clinic nurses in recovery room skills and limiting the number of anesthetists and proceduralists to enhance continuity of care and improve communication and standardize treatment
serving children undergoing radiation therapy and patients with Epidermolysis Bullosa undergoing whirlpool debridements
An interdisciplinary approach to care is also seen in its Chronic Pain Clinic, where core staff comprises pain APNs, pain physicians, psychologists, and physical therapists. Patients and families at the clinic receive an initial assessment by the entire team as well as follow-up care which remains integrated via weekly team meetings. The clinic collaborates closely with the orthopedics, GI, Neurology, and PM&R departments, and is integrated with Hemangioma and Vascular Malformation and Epidermoloysis Bullosa clinics, both which are themselves interdisciplinary.
The division's accomplishments have captured the attention of others, from other divisions within their own hospital, to other institutions and media outlets. For example, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, which has recently begun their own pain program, visited the division to observe its structure, philosophy, and operations. Meanwhile, the hospital's director of palliative care has been working with programs nationwide to glean the best ideas for providing palliative care. Division APNs design many of the the nursing pain education efforts at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Division members also consult on or design hospital policies on pain assessment, treatment, and side-effect management.
Meanwhile, several Division members have been featured in segments and articles on pediatric pain in USA Today, The Washington Post, ABCNews.com, and local newspapers, radio, and television shows. Members also are editing an upcoming book on practical pediatric pain management, which provides practical recommendations to help primary care physicians better treat and advocate for their young patients.
These programs represent the many clinical programs throughout the United States that overcome difficult challenges to provide exemplary multidisciplinary pain care to their patients.
APS also recognizes the following programs as 2007 CCOE Honorable Mentions:
Beth Israel Medical Center, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care (DPMPC), New York
UW Health, UW Health Pain Care Services, Madison
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Adolf Meyer Chronic Pain Treatment Program, Baltimore
University of California, Davis, Division of Pain Medicine, Sacramento
University of California, San Diego, Center for Pain Medicine
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Pain Medicine, Houston
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Richard Barrett Pain Management Center, Lebanon, NH
Oregon Health & Science University, Pediatric Pain Management Center, Portland
CCOE Gala, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
APS believes that a special award deserves a special celebration. To mark this milestone and honor the 2007 award recipients, APS will host a gala at its Annual Scientific Meeting in May. On Thursday, May 3, a gala celebration will take place at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
During the evening recipients and hundreds of guests will enjoy a cocktail reception and dinner and countless wonders of the Smithsonian, such as the Hope Diamond. Guests will be served cocktails and hors d'oeuvres in the Gems and Minerals Halls, whose walls are lined with some of the finest jewels in the world. A harpist will play soothing background music, as time for dinner approaches. Guests will then be escorted by a strolling string trio to the Rotunda for dinner.
The evening's presentation will include remarks from the APS leadership, an award presentation, and acknowledgement of industry partners who have supported this magnificent program. The evening will commence at 7 pm and conclude at 10:30 pm.
Please show your support and commitment to multidisciplinary pain care by attending this prestigious event. Tickets can be purchased online for $100 per person. The funds collected are for cost recovery. This is not a fundraising event. Transportation to and from the museum will be provided.
APS would also like to acknowledge the following companies for their generous support of this program: Endo Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Inc., Abbott Laboratories, Cephalon, Inc., King Pharmaceuticals, and Merck & Co., Inc.


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With both teams having a bye next weekend, this result was always going to be key in terms of whether they had a positive spell off the field.
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For Brumbies:
Tries: Toomua, Mowen
Con: Lealiifano, Toomua
Pen: Lealiifano 3
For Crusaders:
Tries: Guildford, Ellis, Dagg
Con: Carter 3
Pen: Carter 3
Brumbies: 15 Jesse Mogg, 14 Henry Speight, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Christian Lealiifano, 11 Joe Tomane, 10 Matt Toomua, 9 Nic White, 8 Ben Mowen (c), 7 George Smith, 6 Fotu Auelua, 5 Sam Carter, 4 Peter Kimlin, 3 Dan Palmer, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 Ben Alexander.
Replacements: 16 Siliva Siliva, 17 Scott Sio, 18 Leon Power, 19 Colby Faingaa, 20 Ian Prior, 21 Robbie Coleman, 22 Pat McCabe.
Crusaders: 15 Tom Taylor, 14 Tom Marshall, 13 Robbie Fruean, 12 Ryan Crotty, 11 Zac Guildford, 10 Dan Carter, 9 Andy Ellis, 8 Luke Whitelock, 7 Matt Todd, 6 George Whitelock, 5 Sam Whitelock, 4 Luke Romano, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Corey Flynn, 1 Wyatt Crockett.
Replacements: 16 Ben Funnell, 17 Joe Moody, 18 Dominic Bird, 19 Jordan Taufua, 20 Willi Heinz, 21 Adam Whitelock, 22 Israel Dagg.
Referee: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Andrew Lees (Australia), James Leckie (Australia)
Television match official: Matt Goddard (Australia)


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