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A shoplifting suspect was arrested in Lawrenceburg Thursday after police say he held employees and customers at a local drugstore hostage for more than an hour.
Police said Robert Dillon, 36, stole from the Walmart on North Locust Avenue and was later found hiding in the store's bathroom.
Armed with a gun, Dillon took off in a maroon Ford Explorer when police arrived.
He led officers to the CVS Pharmacy on East Gaines Street.
When authorities entered the store, they found Dillon, still armed, behind the pharmacy counter demanding drugs from the pharmacist at gunpoint.
After a standoff lasting more than an hour, Dillon was eventually disarmed and arrested.
No one inside the store was injured.
Dillon faces charges of aggravated robbery, among others.
He was booked into the Lawrence County jail where he is being held without bond.
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We've essentially turned the hotel model on its head and blown the budget on each apartment, not on the lobby (although these are generally very nice too).
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BOURBON — In games as close as Culver Community's regional showdown with North White, outcomes are decided in inches.
Alex Graham's missed corner 3 was tipped once, twice, three times towards the rim in a hopper underneath the Culver basket, but the ball ultimately rattled out in a heartbreaking 70-69 overtime loss for the Cavaliers.
The Vikings eventually lost out in the Triton Regional championship to Marquette Catholic 79-49.
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SOUTH BEND — New game, new stakes, same result.
The last time Plymouth's Pilgrims faced Mishawaka back on Feb. 19, they claimed a 52-34 win on their home court at The Rock. Plymouth opened Class 4A Sectional play with a similar 53-34 victory over the Cavemen Wednesday night.
CULVER — Culver Community's boys basketball team attempted quality shots almost from the opening tip Tuesday.
Once the second quarter rolled around those shots really started falling.
The host Cavs rattled off 11 unanswered second-frame points to construct a double-digit advantage and nailed 9-of-11 tries from the floor in the third stanza to put away a 64-31 Class A Sectional 51 first-round win over LaCrosse at John R. Nelson Gymnasium.
Culver advances to a Friday semifinal bout against six-time defending sectional champion Triton at 6:30 p.m. Argos and South Central follow at 8 p.m.
PLYMOUTH — The Lady Pilgrims saved their best for last. Their last home meet, that is.
Plymouth gymnastics notched a team score of 103.25, just .4 of a point shy of the school record as the Pilgrims earned a split with Peru and Logansport in their final home meet of the season Thursday.
No. 3-ranked Logan won the three-way with a 105.5 score, while Plymouth placed just 2.25 back and Peru rounded out the meet with a 34.4 score.
"We're on our way to sectionals. We're at the peak," said PHS head coach Jana Lyon.
PLYMOUTH — It wasn't pretty at times but it was basketball, and it was senior night, and it was a win as Plymouth defeated Wawasee 52-42 in their final regular season home game.
"Tonight was an ugly game that's Wawasee's plan," said Plymouth head coach Ryan Bales. "They knew they were undermanned at a few positions and they had a great game plan. They slowed us down. Over the course of the game we started to gain some energy, we started to get some hustle plays and that was a great thing for our team."
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WALKERTON — It was only a matter of time before the Falcons made their run.
The trouble for Glenn was, when it came, it came too late.
Plymouth built a 28-12 halftime lead then held on during a furious second-half rally by the hosts for a 62-58 win over the Falcons in a Senior Night spoiler at The Aerie in Walkerton Tuesday night.
John Glenn's Drew McDonald led three Falcons in double figures with 17 points as Glenn clinched the NSC title at New Prairie Friday.
OD's Haley Collings put up 23 points over two regional games — including 15 points with 11 rebounds in the Lady Cats' tourney opener at Caston Saturday.
PLYMOUTH — After Saturday's loss to Penn, Plymouth head coach Ryan Bales had a special message for star forward Mack Mercer. The gist of it was: play bigger.
The 6-9 Belmont-bound senior took the message to heart Tuesday, charging out of the gates with nine first-quarter points on his way to a game-high 26 and putting in a stellar defensive performance on Culver Military's Devonte Campbell on the other end of the floor to lead his team to a 55-50 rebound win over the Eagles on Senior Night at The Rock.
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Going out is a sure bet for a romantic date. However, some nights, you just want that food to come to you. And, in Roxborough and Manayunk, there's a bunch of options. So Patch is asking: What's the best local place to get takeout?
There are certainly a lot of options in Roxborough and Manayunk, including: Chubby's, Frak's Steaks, Maria's Ristorante On Summit, Ruby Chinese Restaurant, Lennie's Hoagies, Wings to Go, Coyle's Cafe, Thai 2 Go, Dantonio's Pizza, Roma's Pizza, Zesto's Pizza & Grill, Jade Court Restaurant, China House, The Couch Tomato Cafe, Alex's Pizza, Fiesta Pizza II Inc, Lucky Garden Chinese Restaurant, Minas Pizza, All Star Pizza, Sorrentino's Deli, Roman's Pizza Pasta House, Tony Roni's Pizza, Barry's Steaks, Beijing Garden, Main Street Munchies, Tommy Gunns American Barbeque, Mike's Pizza, Moms Bake At Home Pizza, Santucci Brothers, Riverside, The Corner Grill, Papa John's Pizza, Machismo Burrito Bar, Primo Hoagies, Caputo's Pizzeria, Phoebe's BBQ, Right off Main, Pierogi Kitchen, Dalessandro's, Lucky Star Restaurant, Pina's Pizza of Roxborough, Dice's Deli and Catering, Han Dynasty, and Lisa's Kitchen.
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WINDHAM — A study of Windham schools concluded the district needs to put $16 million into building upkeep.
"In short, there is roughly $16 million worth of capital projects outlined for the next 20 fiscal years," business administrator Adam Steel said in a report provided to the School Board on Tuesday night. "On average, projects of between $750,000 and $800,000 will need to be performed each year to keep pace with the proposed plan."
The analysis came from Boston-based On-Site Insight; it involved looking at all the schools and the school district offices. Steel then took a look at how best it might work within district finances.
"It has really accomplished what I'd hope it would accomplish," Superintendent Winfried Feneberg told the board.
Feneberg said he wanted a 20-year plan to take care of the district's physical needs and capital assets.
He acknowledged the plan is separate from whatever capacity strategy that officials decide to pursue, but clearly tied.
"Both of those need to go in tandem," he said.
The board didn't move forward on any of the projects, but administrators set the table for more discussion.
Steel said he would recommend the board seek to establish a capital reserve fund in a future election cycle, with $675,000 to start and with money added annually.
He outlined a process where officials would each year review and schedule projects, possibly making adjustments based on available funding.
Another consideration would be whether multiple projects might be accomplished at a single school in a given year, he said.
School Board members didn't find any bombshells in the report.
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Meanwhile, the board heard a positive report on high school testing results from the superintendent and principal Ryan Kaplan.
Windham students beat the statewide performance across the board in reading, math and writing.


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Published on 14 February 2013 08:24 PM EST
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Mesa 9.1
represents a number of improvements to this open-source graphics stack that were made over the past six months, as far as end-users are concerned, there's still a number of shortcomings.
Shared earlier today were
Nine Exciting Features Coming To Mesa 9.1
. There's truly some great new features and work found in Mesa 9.1 made by both paid and volunteer developers. However, for end-users of the Linux desktop simply wanting their graphics drivers to "just work" and be on par with the proprietary graphics drivers, there's still a ways to go.
OpenGL 4.3
- The latest upstream OpenGL specification from the Khronos Group is OpenGL 4.3. Meanwhile, Mesa 9.1 is only in official compliance with OpenGL 3.1. Mesa is still
behind on desktop OpenGL support. For the next Mesa release in six months time we'll likely be at OpenGL 3.3 compliance, but OpenGL 4.0 is unlikely to be seen before 2014. Before OpenGL 4.0 support arrives to the open-source Mesa, it won't be surprising if Khronos has OpenGL 5.0. Unless there's some fundamental change to how Mesa is developed or the rate at which new OpenGL specifications are ratified, it will be quite a while before Mesa is caught up with the proprietary drivers that are already doing OpenGL 4.x. Even the Intel Windows driver is ahead in this area.
- This also concerns the kernel DRM and other areas, but there is still no viable open-source OpenCL support on the Linux desktop. There's been mild progress lately, particularly by Tom Stellard at AMD on improving the R600 LLVM GPU back-end, but the OpenCL support still leaves a lot to be desired. With Nouveau and Radeon Gallium3D, some basic OpenCL tests should be able to execute on the GPU, but this support isn't found in any "out of the box" way with Linux distributions and more real-world OpenCL tasks aren't yet readied on this stack.
S3TC / Floating-Point Textures / Patents
- Intel made progress on the patent/legal situation in that Mesa 9.1 they are now unconditionally enabling the OpenGL floating-point textures support for their Mesa DRI driver. However, the compile-time switch is still required for the Radeon and Nouveau drivers. Additionally, there still isn't any official S3TC texture compression support due to patents.
No More VA-API
- The Gallium3D
VA-API state tracker
was removed from Mesa. At least there is the VDPAU state tracker that is more developed within Gallium3D and is in a working state. However, this video acceleration is still done using GPU shaders rather than say the AMD UVD video engine.
- While multi-sample anti-aliasing has seen improvements in the Mesa 9.1 cycle where it is now available by default for the old Radeon X1000 series GPUs with R300g, it's still not available to all hardware generations supported by Mesa, it's basically only 2/4/8x MSAA, and the more advanced anti-aliasing modes are still not supported. Multi-sample anti-aliasing support has been common to Windows users for years and the proprietary drivers support more anti-aliasing modes not yet supported by Mesa/Gallium3D for enhanced image quality.
Performance Parity
- There's been some performance improvements made to the hardware drivers found in Mesa 9.1, but as a whole, the open-source graphics drivers are still slower than the proprietary graphics drivers from the different vendors as many Phoronix tests have illustrated.
Gallium3D LLVMpipe
- The LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver, which is commonly being used now as the default software fallback by Linux distributions -- including to run composited desktops like Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell -- still comes up short. LLVMpipe still doesn't have full GL3 support even though it's a software-based driver. LLVMpipe officially advertises OpenGL 2.1 compliance right now while the hardware drivers move ahead in the GL3 era. LLVMpipe also is still rather slow and mostly unusuable for ARM, even as the number of Linux ARM devices is on the rise. For more reasons why LLVMpipe still leaves a lot to be desired, read
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|Taieri Gorge Railway
Train travelling through the Taieri Gorge
|Eastern Otago, New Zealand
|Dates of operation
|New Zealand Railways Corporation
|Track gauge
|1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
|Dunedin, New Zealand
The Taieri Gorge Railway (TGR) is a railway line and tourist train operated by Taieri Gorge Limited based at Dunedin Railway Station in the South Island of New Zealand. The railway is a council-controlled trading organisation[1] (formerly known as a local authority trading enterprise) operated by a trust owned jointly by the Dunedin City Council and the Otago Excursion Train Trust.[2]
The Otago Excursion Train Trust was formed in 1978 to operate excursions on the Otago Central Railway line. In 1990 the line beyond Taieri was closed by the New Zealand Railways Corporation. The Trust then stepped in, in partnership with the Dunedin City Council to form the Taieri Gorge Railway Limited, purchasing the line as far as Middlemarch, along with some locomotives. The line beyond Middlemarch was lifted during 1991, and the trackbed handed over to the Department of Conservation in 1993. It is now the Otago Central Rail Trail, a major cycling tourist attraction in the area.
The railway is New Zealand's longest tourist railway and stretches along the former Otago Central Railway from the 4 km peg on KiwiRail's Taieri Branch, 18 km west of Dunedin, to Middlemarch, a distance of some 60 kilometres. Between Dunedin and the start of the line its trains operate on KiwiRail's Main South Line via a running rights agreement.
The line travels through spectacular scenery along the banks of the Taieri River, through numerous tunnels and climbing along the Taieri Gorge to the Strath Taieri. It crosses a dozen viaducts, including the southern hemisphere's largest wrought iron structure, and passes through ten tunnels.[3]
At Wingatui Railway Station, the original building and signal box from 1914 has been restored and is one of the best remaining island platform stations in New Zealand.[4] After the line passes through the 437 metres (1,434 ft) long Salisbury Tunnel, the longest on the line, it crosses Mullocky Gully over the 197 metres (646 ft) long Wingatui Viaduct, the largest wrought iron structure in New Zealand since it was built in 1887.[5] The 47 m tall viaduct's riveted lattice structure rests on seven concrete and masonry piers.
Shortly after Wingatui Viaduct, the route emerges from Mullocky Gully to join Taieri Gorge, and from then on follows that gorge above Taieri River to just east of Pukerangi. On the way the line passes former stations Parera, Mount Allen, Little Mount Allen, and Christmas Creek, crossing two curved viaducts at the latter two locations. Hindon, still operating as a crossing station, is typically one of the stopping points on the trip. Just before the station, the railway tracks share a combined road-rail bridge with Hindon Road, a local backroad.
Another popular stopping point for photo opportunities is the Deep Stream viaduct. Here the line slowly starts to climb higher and out of the gorge, passing over the Flat Stream viaduct, and "The Notches", a section of short bridges and cuttings through several rocky outcrops, on its way to Pukerangi. Between Pukerangi and Middlemarch, the railway only once more comes close to the Taieri River, where it crosses Sutton Creek over another combined road-rail bridge.
The train operates daily to Pukerangi and on summer Fridays and Sundays to Middlemarch. The TGR also operates the Seasider tourist train along the coast to Palmerston, north of Dunedin, with bus connections to the TGR at Middlemarch.
The railway owns eight former New Zealand Railways DJ class locomotives, six of which are currently operational and certified for mainline operation. They painted in a variant of the modified NZR 'International Orange' scheme carried by the class in the 1980s, where the low nose sides are painted blue instead of yellow and grey cab front. A seventh, DJ 3021 (ex-DJ 1202), is stored in the Middlemarch goods shed pending future restoration after it was purchased from its former home at Ranfurly station where it was statically displayed. The eighth, DJ 3044 (DJ 1204) was acquired from Mainline Steam in 2012 as a source of spare parts and has been dismantled, although most of the components remain intact. Both were painted in the modified 'International Orange' blue scheme and were in 'as withdrawn' condition.
TGR also operates one DE class locomotive, DE 504 (TMS DE 1337).[6] This locomotive was acquired from Otago Polytechnic in the early 1990s and is not mainline certified, instead being based at the TGR works depot at the 4 km peg. It previously carried a TGR-applied modified 'International Orange' scheme but was repainted in 2006 to its original livery of Carnation Red with the addition of 'wasp stripes' on the headstocks as it would have carried in the 1970s.
In 2013, TGR hired Silver Fern railcar RM 24 from KiwiRail and currently operates this on trips between Dunedin and Waitati. The railcar is currently on hire during the 2013-14 summer season from October to April and will be returned to KiwiRail in April 2014 on conclusion of the lease.
The TGR also operates shunting locomotive TR 111 at its Dunedin depot as its resident shunting locomotive. This locomotive was obtained by the Otago Excursion Train Trust in 2009 from enthusiast Reid McNaught, who had leased the locomotive to the TGR since 2006.
|In service
|In service, Mainline Certified
|Under overhaul/restoration
|Static display
|Builder's number
|Year built
|Leased/Purchased by the TGR
|English Electric
|TMS: DE 1337. Entered NZR service on 7 August 1952. Withdrawn on 11 October 1986. It was sold to Otago Polytech around the same time. In 1993 it was sold to the Taieri Gorge Limited and restored in their blue livery. It is used for work trains but can sometimes be seen on excursion trains. In 2006 DE 1337 was renumbered as DE 504 and repainted in red with white stripes.
|Pre-TMS: DJ 1202. Entered NZR service in January 1968. Withdrawn in April 1990 and moved to Ranfurly a year later. In 2000 it was sold to Taieri Gorge Limited and is currently stored at Middlemarch since 15 March 2000 as an unserviceable hulk.
|Pre-TMS: DJ 1204. Entered NZR service in February 1968. Withdrawn in April 1990. Purchased by the Mainline Steam Heritage Trust and moved to their Parnell depot. In 2011 it was sold to the Taieri Gorge Limitedand scrapped for parts for the six serviceable DJs operated by the TGR.
|February 2008
|TMS: DJ 3096. Entered NZR service on 20 February 1968. Withdrawn in July 1992 but kept as apart of the Tranz Rail Heritage Fleet. It worked at around Northland in November 1995. It was withdrawn in February 2008 and was then purchased by the Taieri Gorge Limited in the same month. Restored to working order in 2009 and repainted in its former Southerner Blue livery. On 19 August 2010 while hauling a Taieri Gorge Limited service near Flat Stream Viaduct, one of its twin turbo chargers that was allowing turbo cooling oil into its Caterpillar D398 V-12 which damaged the engine block. Further damage was made after a fire broke out by the hot turbocharger. It then spread to the DJ's fuel tank when the fuel level sight glass melted. DJ 3107 hauled the stressed locomotive to Pukerangi where the volunteer fire service put the fire out. It was moved to TGR's Dunedin maintenance depot for rebuilding. The rebuilt included a remanufactured Caterpillar D398 V-12 engine and repairs to the engine room. 1209 returned to service in early January 2012.
|March 1992
|Pre-TMS: DJ 1210. Named Otago Daily Times. Entered NZR service in March 1968. Withdrawn in March 1992. Purchased by the Taieri Gorge Limited in the same month. On 29 January 1999 it caught fire in the Taieri Gorge during an excursion. Overhauled with a new D398 V-12 engine and repainted. Returned to service on 20 October 2000.
|March 1992
|Pre-TMS: DJ 1221. Entered NZR service in June 1968. Withdrawn in March 1992. Purchased by the Taieri Gorge Limited in the same month.
|March 1992
|Pre-TMS: DJ 1222. Entered NZR service in June 1968. Withdrawn in March 1992. Purchased by the Taieri Gorge Limited in the same month.
|July 1992
|TMS: DJ 3286. Entered NZR service in October 1968. Withdrawn in July 1992. Purchased by the Taieri Gorge Limited in the same month. In 2011 it was repainted into the Southerner Blue livery and renumbered as DJ 1227 to replace DJ 1209.
|July 1992
|TMS: DJ 3424. Entered NZR service in January 1969. Withdrawn in July 1992. Purchased by the Taieri Gorge Limited in the same month. In 2006 it was repainted into the NZR Midland Red livery and renumbered as DJ 1240 for the Dunedin Railway Station's 100th birthday celebrations where it hauled excursions with visiting locomotives. In 2009 it was repainted back to blue but kept its pre-TMS number.
|August 1972
|October 2012
|Pre-TMS: RM 2. Entered NZR service on 14 December 1972. On 21 November 1975 it was involved with a cattle truck. With repairs done it was returned to service. On 23 December 1993 it was involved with a collision at the Telephone Road level crossing between Eureka and Ruakura. In 2009 RM 24 was refurbished at the Wellington Passenger Depot. In October 2012 it was leased to the Taieri Gorge Limited from KiwiRail and is now used on excursions.
|A & G Price
|TMS: TR 442. Entered NZR service in November 1963. Withdrawn and sold to Reid McNaught. In 2006 it was leased to the Taieri Gorge Limited. In October in the same year it was repainted into the NZR Midland Red livery and took part in the Dunedin Railway Station's 100th birthday celebrations. It was then sold in 2009 to the TGL and is now used for shunting duties.
'Scarrett' heritage carriages[edit]
All trains currently[update] include some of TGR's 11 ex-New Zealand Government Railways 'Scarrett' heritage carriages built between 1915 and 1923 in wood with open platform ends and gangways and 37 seats.[6] TGR has started retiring these carriages largely to provide bogies for the 56-foot stock which did not have their own when purchased by TGR. One, A 1327, was been sold to Mainline Steam in 2013 while two more, A 1005 and A 1467, were unsuccessfully offered for sale minus bogies on TradeMe in March 2013.
One of the carriages, A 1254, is owned by the Ocean Beach Railway and leased by the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society to TGR. This carriage will be returned to the OBR at the conclusion of its lease.
TGR has three steel-clad NZR 50-foot carriages, formerly used on Dunedin suburban trains. These have 30-37 seats, enclosed vestibules and covered gangways and were built by New Zealand Railways Department in 1930-33.[6] One of these is an AF class car-van with a small guard's compartment at one end while the other two are A class carriages. A fourth A class carriage was sold to the Weka Pass Railway in 2009.
'Jungle Gym' TGR panorama cars[edit]
TGR has three all-steel air conditioned panorama cars with open platform ends and open gangways similar to the 'Scarrett' cars, known locally as 'Jungle Gyms' due to the nature of their framework when under construction. These were designed and built by the OETT in 1987-92, with a "very distinctive shape to fit the tunnels".[6] Two of these carriages were built on Z class 'roadsider' van underframes while the third was built on the underframe of guard's van F 529.
In September 2007 the TGR announced that it had purchased 12 NZR 56-foot carriages formerly used on the Wairarapa Connection to replace its heritage wooden open platform cars[3] and its ex-Dunedin suburban NZR 50-foot carriages.[citation needed] The first of these, A2325, was prepared at a cost of $45,000 and was ready in September 2008. The company anticipated having three carriages in service by the end of 2008, and all 12 by 2013.[7] The upgrade included new seating, carpets, toilets and external paint. The railway intends to refurbish three carriages each year.[8]
Freight haulage[edit]
In the early 2000s the TGR investigated the possibility of introducing log haulage between Mount Allan and Port Chalmers at the end of the Port Chalmers Branch. However on 12 June 2007 it was announced that a cost difference of NZ$5 million existed between road and rail haulage in favour of road, and potential government subsidies were insufficient to close the gap. The announcement was met with disappointment by the Dunedin City Council, which favourably viewed the rail option as it was more environmentally friendly and would have reduced traffic congestion.[9]
It has since been worked out that with extra damage caused by the logging trucks on the Mosgiel to Port Chalmers road that it would have been cheaper to perform the operation by rail, but despite pleas by the local council, Wenita, the relevant company, said it had invested too much in the road option to change its plans.[citation needed]
The route's loading gauge restricts the maximum size of rolling stock that can operate on the railway; some freight wagons cannot use the line.[6]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Policies". Dunedin City Council Community Plan 2009/10 – 2018/19. 2, section 4. Dunedin City Council. 2009. p. 291. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ^ About the Taieri Gorge Railway (from the official Taieri Gorge Railway website)
- ^ a b Taieri Gorge Railway - 2006-2007 Times & Destinations - Leaflet by Taieri Gorge Railway Limited, March 2006
- ^ "Wingatui Station". Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand. Retrieved 2014-04-09.
- ^ "Along the way - Taieri Gorge Railway". Taieri Gorge Limited. Retrieved 2014-04-09.
- ^ a b c d e 'technical information' on TGR website, retrieved 2009-05-10
- ^ Stevens, Sam (13 September 2008). "New Taieri Gorge carriage on display". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
- ^ New Zealand Railway Observer, December 2008-January 2009
- ^ Simon Hartley, "Costs Rule Out Rail in the Long Run", Otago Daily Times, 12 June 2007.
Further reading[edit]
- Cunningham, Gerald (2011). The Taieri Gorge Railway: Guide to the Taieri Gorge and Seasider Rail Trips. Albany, Auckland: David Bateman Ltd. ISBN 978-1-86953-815-6.
- Dangerfield, J. A.; Emerson, G. W. (2010). Over The Garden Wall: The Story of the Otago Central Railway (4th ed.). Dunedin: The Otago Railway & Locomotive Society Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-473-17363-0. (soft-bound); 978-0-473-17362-3 (hard-bound).
- Hurst, Tony (2008). The Otago Central Railway: A tribute (5th expanded ed.). Wellington: transpress. ISBN 978-1-877418-05-1.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Taieri Gorge Railway.
- Taieri Gorge Railway
- Taieri Gorge Railway Photo gallery (private website)
- Otago Central Branch Railway (from private website 'Railways of New Zealand')
- Taieri Gorge Railway - New Zealand (well-edited YouTube video of the journey)


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The recently founded Safe Climber's Alliance has launched a campaign to make climbing at our cliffs safer than ever before. The campaign was launched as the result of a lawsuit brought about after a near-fatal climbing accident last year. While recreating on the cliff side, a crag visitor fell and hit the ground. There were no safety systems in place to protect him.
"I'm just like everyone else," said Dolt Dullard, who works at a tech firm in the Washington D.C. area and was the victim in last year's accident. "I just kind of go out and climb. Awareness and responsibility for my own personal safety is the last thing on my mind at the crag. I'm there to have a good time!"
Dullard stated that after years of climbing in the sterile environment of a climbing gym, he moved on to popular sport climbing cliffs. "The skills I learned in the gym really translated well to the sport crag. I'd show up with a rope, shoes, and chalk bag, then just climb to the top clipping the steel fixed draws before being lowered down. It was really simple and a ton of fun."
Last year, tragedy struck for Dolt on his first visit to the New River Gorge in West Virginia. It was a day like any other as he put his harness on in the parking lot and clipped his shoes and chalk bag to his gear loop with a locking 'biner. With a full Camelback on his back, and a grocery bag full of chips in hand, he set off on the one-minute approach to the Bridge Buttress crag. "We got up there and these guys were just finishing up a route and I'm used to waiting in line so we jumped on the opportunity to go next," he said. "I tied in and started up this crack in the wall and I got like 20 feet up and there was still nothing to clip! I panicked and slipped. When I hit the ground I heard my leg snap and the next thing I knew I was laid up in a hospital bed."
During his time in the hospital, Dullard had plenty of time to think about what had happened. "I found out later that no one had installed the safety gear on the climb. It was totally negligent on the part of the crag managers. I could have been killed and my blood would have been on their hands."
Legal counsel advised him to file a lawsuit against the negligent crag managers. "Come to find out, there was no one in charge at all. The cliffs were just out there in the woods and I was expected to approach them with knowledge and personal accountability. I couldn't believe it. They hadn't even installed a guard rail at the top of the cliff. What's to keep people from falling off!?"
Now back on his feet, the incident has spurred Dolt to take action. Through a kickstarter-funded project called "Think for Me" he was granted thousands of dollars to make sure the Bridge Buttress crag would be safe for all users. "I just want to make sure that what happened to me, doesn't happen again to someone else," he said. "I realized that someone would have to make it safe for climbers and no one else was doing it so I stepped up to the plate and started the Safe Climber's Alliance.
Thankfully, for visitors to the Bridge Buttress, it's almost impossible to get hurt now. "We've installed a staircase that leads from the road up to the wall. At the top, we put in a guardrail so you can take kids up there and let them run around, but most important to me is that we've equipped all the routes with the appropriate hardware."
Finally, the dangerouse route Marionette (5.11c) is safely equipped with fixed cams, nuts, and steel runners.
It used to be a dangerous move, with unreliabe self-placed gear at your waist, to reach the jug and get protection. Now it's possible to clip the 4-foot permadraw from below before committing.
While in the hospital, Dullard learned about how climbing was done in the old days compared to how it's done now. "They used to carry a lot more equipment and as they were going up, they would stick it in the rock like a bolt but it could come out later. We paid one of these old climbers to go through and place the gear with an attached swaged-cable runner and a steel carabiner. Now modern climbers can show up and just climb with no fear of injury."
"It was also really important to me that we had plenty of safe, easy routes for beginners to learn on. To learn how to lead climb, you need very easy and mind-numbingly safe climbs. Without these routes, you'll never learn to climb. I have no idea how they did it in the old days. It's one of life's great mysteries I guess."
On Monkey See, Monkey Do (5.5), climber's used to face a scary lean off the fence to place the first bit of gear. Now it's possible to stick clip the fixed cam.
"We're working on a way to elevate the clipping 'biner," said Dolt. "It can be tricky to clip when it's laying on the slab like that."
Dullard went on to stress the importance of safety in the community. "Safe crags with easy, well-protected routes are what people want. Before we had crags like this, almost no one climbed. Now thousands of people can climb 'cause it's easy to learn and requires no skill. It just brings such joy to my heart to come out here and see so many kids having a great time. We have birthday parties out here all the time and no one ever cries or gets hurt. It's a beautiful thing."
Little Jimmy celebrated his 5th birthday with hotdogs, cake, and an onsight.
Dolt notes that future projects may include installing padded flooring around the boulders and building a restroom with running water so folks can "wash the icky chalk off their hands."
Someday soon, the dangerous landing at the base of this boulder will be padded with a layer of chopped up car tires covered by a layer of thick foam.
Photos and text: DPM


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3.95/5 rDev -0.5%
Poured this inti a nonic pint. Drink by 3/01/14 can date.
This dark brown bodied beer contains blood red streaks in the corners. A three-fingered width of mocha foam towers out of the glass, amazing retention.
Milk chocolate and roasty aromas blast from the glass. Slight bready quality and spicy hop mingles with the roast. The yeast also adds a musty, chalky note to the nose.
Roasted malt leads the flavor profile, with a chalky milk chocolate gaining strength at mid-palate. The finish adds a bite of bitterness from a resiny hop. The malt also concedes some wheaty bread-like quality near the finish.
Decent medium heft to this beer, it runs a little too watery over the palate, more creaminess needed. Zombie Monkie also finishes dry thanks to the roasted malt and resiny finish.
Zombie Monkie is brewed to be a chocolatey porter with a definite biting edge. Thanks to the roasted malt and hop bite, this porter delivers a fun and intense drinking experience.
01-24-2014 21:48:16 | More by Pintofbrown
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04-06-2014 07:31:35 | More by Tiernan
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07-10-2014 18:51:21 | More by joemetric
3.75/5 rDev -5.5%
06-17-2014 23:54:28 | More by DaftPatrick
4/5 rDev +0.8%
02-01-2014 20:15:30 | More by warnerry
4/5 rDev +0.8%
10-19-2013 02:13:14 | More by SmellsofMahagony
3.5/5 rDev -11.8%
12-15-2013 01:40:32 | More by Dbrulet
4/5 rDev +0.8%
10-24-2013 03:25:41 | More by thaghost
4.29/5 rDev +8.1%
Serving glass: Poured from kickass can into imperial Pint. Tallgrass is really making some great looking cans and ridiculous stories to go with them. I love it.
Appearance: Extremely dark brown that appears black. Massive, creamy, light brown head that leaves some decent lacing behind.
Smell: Chocolate, roasted notes, light fruitiness, and some chalkiness.
Taste: Great roasted taste with chocolate, some coffee and smoke, and light fruity notes. The finish has some Pale Ale characteristics with light citrusy and floral notes. Not bitter at all, but definitely a unique finish for a Porter.
Feel: Medium body that is quite smooth and creamy. Light carbonation. Very nice dry finish.
Overall: Other than a unique finish, there is nothing over the top here; just an extremely well made Robust Porter. Another great new release from Tallgrass. 2013 has really been their year, with this, Wild Plum, and the sublime Ethos IPA.
10-09-2013 04:31:52 | More by bsp77
4.25/5 rDev +7.1%
10-13-2013 02:08:30 | More by bpfrush
4.41/5 rDev +11.1%
Poured from a cool looking 16 oz. can into a Surly tulip glass. Can says drink by 03/22/14.
Appearance: Pours a deep dark blackish brown with a slight hint of ruby. Moderate amount of bubbles and a solid three fingers of tan head with decent retention. Leaves a lot of creamy lacing around the glass.
Smell: A nicely roasty, robust, and sweet dark malt driven aroma with a big scent of chocolate. Dark roasted barley malts with big upfront hints of sweet chocolate and cocoa nibs. Hints of coffee, cream, burnt toast, caramel, toffee, biscuit, lactose, grains, nuts, and a little smoke. Sweet hints of burnt brown sugar. Solid hop backing with earthy hints of grass and subtle hints of citrus orange, lemon, and grapefruit. A really good roasty aroma.
Taste: As robust and good as it smells, big dark roasted malts with lots of sweet chocolate notes. Big taste of dark roasted barley malts with good notes of dark chocolate, cocoa nibs, coffee beans, cream, lactose, burnt toast, caramel, toffee, grains, biscuit, nuts, and some smoked malt. Sweet notes of burnt brown sugar. A surprisingly strong hop presence for the style with notes of grass, pine, and subtle citrus notes of orange, grapefruit, and lemon. Hops provide a nice balancing bitterness. A very good porter taste.
Mouthfeel: Body is on the slightly higher end of medium. Carbonation is moderate. Very creamy, silky, roasty, and smooth.
Overall: A really outstanding take on a Porter. Great roasty chocolate and coffee flavors with a solid backing presence of hops. Almost more of a Stout than Porter.
10-30-2013 07:06:17 | More by MattyG85
4/5 rDev +0.8%
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4/5 rDev +0.8%
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3.75/5 rDev -5.5%
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4.25/5 rDev +7.1%
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4/5 rDev +0.8%
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4.01/5 rDev +1%
Love the tactical grip can, Artwork is pretty cool too...
Pours an effervescent mahogany with 3 finger of mocha colored head. Nice lacing & good head retention
S: Mocha & coffee notes
T: Coffee, a touch of mocha, a touch lactic sourness is there too up front. Roastynesss, & more coffee as this warms, just modicum of caramel as well, dryness too. Finishes roasty, with cocoa sweetness, some drynesss
MF: Medium bodied, fairly firm carbonation
Easy to drink, really scratches the coffee beer itch, no FBS, but a very suitable substitute. I hope this stays in the permanent rotation
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4/5 rDev +0.8%
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Tallgrass Zombie Monkie from Tallgrass Brewing Company
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Pittsburgh Pirates @ Cincinnati Reds
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Nick Masset takes the mound today, and I've got to be honest, I'm kind of rooting against the guy. I say this not necessarily because I want him to fail, but because I think that eventually he will fail, and I'd rather it were during the Spring than during the season. I'm afraid that if he has a good Spring, he'll somehow (*cough* options *cough*) win the 5th starter spot and then turn back into a pumpkin once the season starts. I'd rather we just get the pumpkin stuff out of the way right now.
It's a home game, so most players are probably available, but look for RHP Sam LeCure, LHP Ben Jukich, and RHP David Weathers to get some work at some point today.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – Bring yourself to the game. Leave the cooler and backpack at home.
The NFL is tightening stadium security starting this preseason, limiting the size and type of bags fans can bring to the game.
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With the exception of medically necessary items, only clear plastic, vinyl or PVC bags no larger than 12 inches by 6 inches by 12 inches will be allowed. One-gallon clear plastic freezer bags also will be OK, as will small clear plastic bags about the size of someone's hand, with or without a handle or strap.
One clear bag and a small clutch bag will be allowed per person. Binoculars, cameras and smartphones also will be permitted.
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Our fans deserve to be in a safe and secure environment, Jeffrey Miller, the NFL's chief security officer, said Thursday. Public safety is our top priority. This will make the job of checking items much more efficient and effective.
Kidd court date for DWI in July
Jason Kidd, hired to coach the Brooklyn Nets just days after retiring as a player, has a pending court case in New York stemming from a drunken driving arrest. Kidd has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor DWI. Suffolk County prosecutors on eastern Long Island said Thursday afternoon that Kidd is due in Southampton Town Court on July 11.
NCAA begins Miami hearing
The NCAA in Indianapolis opened a key hearing in the massive infractions case against the University of Miami, with school officials, former coaches and the ACC commissioner on hand to defend the Hurricanes against allegations that could bring severe sanctions in the improper benefits case involving former booster Nevin Shapiro. Shapiro's claims of providing impermissible benefits to Miami athletes, recruits and coaches for nearly a decade are the root of the scandal, but the NCAA has been rocked by allegations that its investigators intimidated witnesses and that they improperly collected information using the subpoena powers of Shapiro's attorney in a separate bankruptcy case.
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Eastside graduate Justin Miller was named the National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete of the Year for Northeast Indiana. Miller, who was honored at the NFF Honors Dinner Celebrating Our Legends IX on Monday in West Lafayette, was one of eight regional scholar-athletes. The first Indiana Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award will be announced July 18. Miller, an All-NECC defensive back, had a 4.0 GPA and scored 2,050 on the SAT. He will study chemistry and pre-law at Wabash.
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Denver released Willis McGahee, their leading rusher. Philadelphia and quarterback Matt Barkley agreed on a four-year contract. Pittsburgh signed fourth-round pick quarterback Landry Jones to a four-year deal. Tampa Bay signed free agent receiver Derek Hagan. Tennessee agreed to terms with second-round pick receiver Justin Hunter.
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Submitted by Peter Montgomery on Friday, 5/20/2011 10:30 am
Ergun Caner, the former head of Liberty University's seminary, was demoted last year after media attention, including an article I wrote for AlterNet, forced Liberty officials to investigate glaring discrepancies in the "Jihad to Jesus" life story Caner had peddled after 9-11 to raise his profile in the evangelical world. Caner told some audiences that he had been raised in Turkey to be a jihadist and learned about America from watching television. In fact, he was born in Sweden (to a Turkish father) and raised in Ohio.
Caner, an engaging speaker and one-time rising star of the Religious Right, is headed to Texas, where Arlington Baptist College has hired him as its provost and vice president. Arlington Baptist College was founded by J. Frank Norris, an anti-evolution crusader who Caner describes as "one of Christianity's most courageous voices." Here's how the Associated Baptist Press describes Norris:
Norris, founder of both Arlington Baptist College and the World Baptist Fellowship, was a fundamentalist Baptist leader in Texas in the first half of the 20th century. The one-time editor of the Baptist Standard and longtime pastor of First Baptist Church in Forth Worth was nicknamed the "Texas Tornado" during a long-running feud with the Southern Baptists.Once loyal to the Southern Baptist Convention, Norris became alienated by the Seventy-Five Million Campaign, forerunner to today's Cooperative Program of unified budget support of both state and national Baptist conventions. He spent the rest of his days seeking to undermine the SBC, accusing Baptist schools of teaching evolution and tolerating "modernist" theories of Bible study.After his exclusion from his local association, state convention and the Southern Baptist Convention, Norris founded his own independent fundamentalist group, originally called the Premillennial Baptist Missionary Fellowship but renamed the World Baptist Fellowship after a split over his authoritarian leadership.
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Matthews will now be the first base coach and be responsible for outfielders and baserunning, while Clines will take over as the hitting coach.
"It's like everything we try to do -- we try to make progress, we try to do what's in the best interest of the ballclub," Cubs general manager Jim Hendry said Monday. "We felt we had to do things differently.
"We appreciate Wendell's efforts and the things he brought to the table, but we felt at this time it was time to make a change," Hendry said.
Kim, 54, was in his second season as the Cubs' third base coach, and picked up the nickname "Wavin' Wendell" for his aggressive baserunning decisions. In a game between the Cubs and White Sox on June 22, 2003, he shouldered the blame, saying he made a mistake sending catcher Damian Miller home in the seventh inning. The Cubs lost, 7-6.
"That's the most thankless job and the hardest job in baseball is the third base coach," Cubs manager Dusty Baker said the next day. "You make four or five great calls and nobody says anything, but you make a couple bad calls and that's what they remember."
Kim and Baker were also together in San Francisco, beginning in 1989.
"It was very difficult," Baker said Monday of the decision to fire Kim. "This is the second time it's happened to Wendell since he's been with me. You have to make tough decisions sometimes. It was equally tough with Gary Matthews."
Matthews, 54, joined the Cubs in 2003 as the hitting coach. He also had served as the hitting coach in Toronto in 1998 and Milwaukee in 2002.
"Obviously, Sarge is a guy who still brings a lot to the table," Hendry said. "He's very well liked and respected man in Chicago and in the clubhouse. We felt he could help in other areas.
"We felt Gene Clines is a quality, quality hitting coach," Hendry said. "We've had numerous calls in the last couple years from teams requesting to interview him as a hitting coach. He's declined to take those interviews even though they've been more prominent and higher-paid. I felt he was somebody we did not want to lose. We certainly wanted to try to make a change here."
The Cubs batted .268 in 2004 and relied on the long ball, leading the National League with a team-record 235 home runs. What can Clines do differently?
"It depends on the people who are brought in, but it's going to have to change," Clines said. "It's going to have to be a lot more fundamental type, doing the little things, and that's one thing I'm really going to hammer home in Spring Training.
"You've got to check your egos," he said. "We're all looking for one thing, all of us together, to win. You have to do the little things to win. You've got a guy at second base -- you've got to get that guy over."
Clines, 58, was the Houston Astros hitting coach in 1988, and spent six seasons as a hitting coach in the American League with Seattle and Milwaukee before joining the San Francisco Giants in 1995 as the minor league hitting coordinator. He moved up to the big-league team in 1997 and worked with Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent.
"They're very similar," Baker said of Matthews and Clines. "Sometimes you need a different voice. A lot of times, guys can say the same thing, but it will work in different ways.
"I wasn't disatisfied with Sarge, but I had Geno before in San Francisco, and know the quality that Geno brings to the table and the quality that Sarge brings to the table," Baker said. "There's a good chance that they'll be working together. It's just that Geno is more in charge."
"I don't think it'll be a big change philosophically," Hendry said. "Sometimes you just have a feeling that maybe a change in this regard will help."
"There won't be any outrageously different things," Clines said, "but there are some things that I'd like to bring in that I've done in the past and that I'd like to do differently and see if I can get a better response.
"Gary did a good job," Clines continued. "No matter what people are going to say, the last 10 days [of the season] were put under a microscope. All the things that were accomplished before is like a wash and it shouldn't be that way, but that's how people perceive it."
Clines said his No. 1 project is center fielder Corey Patterson.
"He and I have talked a lot," Clines said of the young center fielder, who batted .266 and set career highs with 24 homers and 72 RBIs. "It's just getting the confidence level back up. He was focused on too many other things. He was worried about his strikeouts instead of being natural and letting his natural ability take over."
Patterson whiffed 168 times, tying Sammy Sosa for the fourth-highest total in team history.
"There will be a lot of communication and a lot of patience," Clines said.
Pitching coach Larry Rothschild, bench coach Dick Pole and bullpen coach Juan Lopez will return in the same capacity in 2005. Sonny Jackson also will continue as special assistant to Baker.
"Dusty is a tremendously loyal man," Hendry said. "In a perfect world, you hate to have to make decisions like this. We both felt it was time to try to do something different. You walk a fine line where you don't want people to lose their jobs, but we felt if there were areas that needed improvement, we'd do it."
Hendry will interview candidates for the vacant third base coach job. One candidate to be considered is Triple-A Iowa manager Mike Quade.
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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