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I was so looking forward to this weekend and I woke up sick. I went through the phases of denial (this will clear up after I take a shower), hunting for an easily explainable cause (I switched to 1/4 caf coffee too fast?), and braving it out (if I just get past this one appointment, I can come home and crash)...
Down to actually the coming home and crashing. So I'm not feeling very sparkly, but hopefully tomorrow will be better.
Furthermore, here in the US, it's Friday leading into a holiday weekend! AND... I "ate that frog" this morning, getting my Couch to 5K workout out of the way early. I feel, as usual when I blog post-workout... fantastic! See those bubbles?
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One of my major problems in past efforts at "maintenance" has been knowing when "done" is "done". You can get hooked on the numbers drifting downward, you know.
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|Some might enjoy this random fact-Richard Harrison told me that Yaniro soloed this thing with the aid of a circus net for a video project. The story goes, Yaniro was helped by R. Grandstaff & co. to throw in a couple of bolts both to the left and right so the net could be secured. Hard to believe, but while resting at the stance before traversing into the business, I spotted a couple of old chopped bolts right where they were supposed to be. Wacky. Also, if you head up to do this route and are wondering about the two old homemade bolts on the left just under the roof-those were used to approach the roof pitch for the FA-which was completed independently before the finger crack.
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|Just out of curiosity, is there a way to approach Desert Reality without doing the .12d pitch?
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Yes but it's kind of a pain. Aiding the finger crack is probably easier
I don't understand the recommendation to downlead the roof crack. You can walk off the top, there is a rap anchor up there a ways.
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|Yaniro soloed it for an IMAX film. They didn't go through all that for free.
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|People down-lead the roof when their second isn't following free-a pretty common occurrance. I bought the Yaniro vid-he's "soloing" by swinging around a lot while clipped into a cam or two. Bold, yes. Sketchy, yes. Soloing? ehhh....
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|Are most free ascents done as one pitch from the base or from a belay on top of the 5.8?
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|The first pitch is trivial. Linking the top 2 is the business, and I'd imagine most people do it that way since the stance below P2 is decent. Avoiding superfluous rope drag and having your belayer close enough to keep you tight-ish on the steeps seem like good calls, as well.
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|The 5.8 pitch is actually not trivial; the entire formation is less than solid. The entire 5.8 pitch is harmonic and most holds: flakes, blocks, etc make a lot of noise. It is apparent that rock comes off the first pitch regularly as there is a lot of scarring and compacted dirt where holds used to be. I highly recommend to keep all of your gear away from the fall zone of this pitch. We stashed all of our packs off far climbers right which proved to be very wise. Back up the summit anchor with a few cams as well. I used a BD .75 and a BD #4 but could have used a #3 or smaller as well. A bolted rappel is back and left of the summit anchor.


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Some people in the historic Dean Park neighborhood in Ft. Myers are launching a campaign to reduce the noise from the old bridge crossing Billy Creek. The people say the bridge is getting louder and more annoying, and they want a solution. The state Dept. of Transportation says there is only so much they can to to quiet the metal grate structure.
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"It is loud. It is very annoying," said Brian Murphy, who lives near the bridge. "The rumble is so constant that you can't have a conversation outside, without hearing the background noise."
The bridge has a metal grate, and vehicles that cross it cause a low rumbling sound, and if the grates are loose, a high-pitched clanging sound as well, according to Speas.
"We want to improve Dean Park, and we need to cut down on the noise to do that," Speas told WINK.
She says residents have made suggestions to the state DOT, including the use of rubber mats to muffle the noise. Deb Tower of DOT says: "It is an old bridge, but we are looking for solutions to the noise. But we do not have a timetable for that. We don't know that any one technology, like mats, might work. We are maintaining the grates very carefully, to cut down on rattling."
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The council's special study session on so-called "participatory budgeting" comes at the request of Councilwoman Marti Brown, who had initiated her own public event on the subject in April.
In January, when the council voted to hold a meeting on introducing the new budgeting method, Brown's idea received some resistance.
Mayor Osby Davis said he was uncomfortable with delegating the city's budgeting process to the public, as voters elected the council to undertake that very type of work.
Davis also questioned which funds would be assigned public review.
The participatory budget model typically designates a specified chunk of money for detailed public interaction.
Potentially, Vallejo could look to new revenue generated from the 1 percent tax hike measure narrowly approved by voters in November as Measure B.
Davis said promises were made by city leaders during the recent election.
"I've heard it from our finance director, we're going to have to start thinking about spending Measure B monies on things that are not reoccurring expenses," Davis said.
Brown said she could not imagine aiming the public budgeting process at the rest of the city's discretionary spending fund, which is "too stretched," and has "no fat."
"Forty nine point five percent of people voted against Measure B, myself included.
Councilman Robert McConnell, who also spoke out against the tax measure during his campaign last fall, said participatory budgeting is "a highly desirable process," an idea bandied about by the now-defunct Vallejo Charter Review Committee, of which he was part.
Assistant City Manager Craig Whittom, who is serving as acting city manager this month, said at the meeting that he did not believe the public budgeting method would be used for the city's entire $75 million general fund.
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Friday was a big day for Maria Kanellis. She is now a married woman. For those of you that do not know, her husband is ROH star Mike Bennett, whom she has been dating for approximately three years now. There were talks of WWE bringing him into their developmental program a while back, but nothing has surfaced since then, so the belief is that the ship has sailed on that.
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"Late night YouTube watching was a bad idea. So many boys pretending to be professional wrstlers. A pair of trunks and a ring don't make you a wrestler."
- Mike Bennett bashing fans who are amateur wrestlers
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Maria Kanellis is the latest professional wrestler to do a podcast show. She is doing the show with her fiancee and ROH star Mike Bennett, in order to raise their stock with wrestling fans. The couple has managed to get their show distributed through iTunes.
January 24, 2014
Mike Bennett made his official debut for ROH at Proving Ground, an event held in Boston. He worked a match against Daniel Puder, the former Tough Enough competitor and WWE star, and lost. Bennett is considered a young guy who should be with the company for the next several years.
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Broadcom chip promises 20Mp, 1080p mobile devices
Quell surprise
That the commenters on here all pile in to say how pointless 20mp on a mobile is. They are probably right, but the 1080p video capture is the cool thing here. The phone sensor is well capable of that..
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Don't they have to?
Aren't they legally obliged to unlock your phone at the end of your contract, for a reasonable fee?
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Great but unreliable
Just had an email to an @nlworld.com address bounce. Not at home so no idea if internet is down, but it wouldn't suprise me.
I have 50 meg and generally love it - I get full speed a lot of the time and it's great. Except when it goes down, which is generally a couple of times a month for at least a few hours (the last one a few weeks ago was over a day!!).
Philips cautious on 3D TV plans
Without glasses
Years ago (15 of them, probably!) I saw a demo of a Philips no-glasses 3D display, and it blew my fragile little mind (I was only little..). So they've had the technology for ages, but it really is a case of market demand + content availability.
It really was impressive, though.
Samsung i8910 Omnia HD
@AC: Great phone #
Reg Readers might not blink at having to install Google Maps, but most people (normobs) wouldn't know that it exists, let alone how to download and install it (no fancy on-device app stores in sight for samsung).
So installing nice bits of software on devices before shipping them is actually very important in selling the idea of what a smartphone can do.
TfL cans mobiles on the tube plan
It would be nice
to be able to browse the web whilst on the tube, but probably not worth any massive investment.
O2 to axe iPhone prices?
It can't be a phone!
@Shane Orahilly:
You obviously didn't notice the key words in text that you quoted.. the ones that said "for me", as in "they rule it out FOR ME as a phone".
Some people do require their phones to do these things! Once you have had a phone that does, it is very hard to move to a phone that doesn't.
Maybe we shouldn't call them phones, then you would be happy? How about multimedia computers? Oh.. Nokia already got that one ;)
Seriously though - a lot of people seemt to come on here and comment to the effect of "why on earth would a phone need a (camera/gps/radio/coffee maker) as long as it can make calls". There are plenty of phones out there which are perfect for those people, but some people DO want all the extra features, and believe it or not do actually use them!
And the other argument is usually "why do I want a camera on my phone when I have a perfectly good (compact/dslr/photo studio)?". Well because I don't want to carry about a massive camera, however I do always carry about my phone! And I appreciate that my phone snaps won't be stunning, but they do the job.
I will buy it if..
.. it has a decent camera (5mp) with VGA (or higher) video recording, can do turn-by-turn satnav, and can run apps concurrently (a slingplayer client would be nice also!).
BBC zombie caper slammed by security pros
To use your analogy, in this case the BBC did not break into someone's car - they found a car that had been broken into, and drove it back to the owner, then left a note suggesting that they lock it in the future.
Nokia N85 smartphone
Happy N85 owner
It's solid, functional, reliable (almost strangely so for an early firmware version these days), and the screen kicks ass (being OLED, the screensaver can permanently light up small bits of the screen with time/date/etc without using backlight, which is rather nifty).
It's basically the N95 in a smaller package, with small improvements all over. Although nothing earth-shattering new, the Fm transmitter / OLED screen / USB charging / newer operating system / keylock button / etc make it a worthy upgrade IMO.
(Didn't fancy the N96 at all - a monster with useless DVB, and 16gb of memory which i've put in the N85 with an SD card anyway).
The navi-wheel is useless though - turned that off after 5 minutes!
Sky hints at 3D TV launch
Hate to burst your bubble.. BBC did a trial of 3D broadcasting last year.
And who were the first to run a HD channel in the UK? Beeb I believe.
Just saying.
'Bart Simpson' punts Church of Scientology
A few years ago, some of the simpsons voice cast were on the BBC, but refused to do anything 'in-character' at all as this was against policy/not authorised.
Mr Groening isn't gonna be pleased methink!
Nokia N79 smartphone
replacing N73?
I'd say that the N79 is the successor of the N73, if anything.
N82 was "photography flasgship", whereas N79 is very much "mass market" like the N73 was.
Nokia coughs to ballooning batteries
case won't fit back>
I would have thunk that a battery would have to swell considerably less than "several times it's original size" for the phone cover not to fit on... in fact just a few percent would probably do it.
GPS phones threaten satnavs sales, says analyst
GPS on smartphone is good
I've been using my phone as my sat-nav for about 3 years, with TomTom Navigator running on my last 3 Nokia S60 phones (first with a bluetooth GPS, then more recently with the built-in GPS on my N95).
The screen isn't massive, but it's big enough for me. It also has the advantage of being connected, so it can look up traffic/weather/etc data on-the-fly without having to connect it to my phone via bluetooth. It is always with me, and can't get nicked from the car because it doesn't get left there.
TomTom have not updated their software for about 2 years now, however :(, which means out-of-date maps and none of the fancy mapshare features seen in their PNDs. They don't seem to see the market for smartphone GPS - every nokia N-Series phone released now comes with a built-in GPS.
Finally launched: Nokia's iPhone beater
5800 != iPhone. Why is that a bad thing?
I can't help to but laugh at most of the comments above!
First of all, everyone is comparing this to the iPhone. It's never going to be an iPhone. If it was the same as the iPhone how pointless would it be?
The 5800 is priced at £215 sim-free, before subsidy. The iPhone is £350 on PAYG for the 8gb version (PAYG is subsidised..).
This is the (mid-range) first in a line of Nokia touchscreen phones; there will be more expensive ones in the future which will probably cost more, onboard storage, better camera, larger screen etc - but this phone is, in theory, selling to a different segment of the market than the iPhone.
I say in theory but we all knew that the first touch-screen phone from Nokia would be compared to the iPhone, regardless.
I would like an iPhone, I really would, but it just doesn't do stuff that I currently use my phone to do (Slingplayer, TomTom, Half-decent camera, Video Recording, AD2P). I'll probably be going for an N85 for my upgrade.
(I would never buy the 5800, being the first phone to use a new version of S60(v5). Give it a while for for some decent app support to arrive)
OMFG, what have you done?
But it's crap.
U-Turn please.
The site used to have some character, now it just looks like a-n-other website.
Fixed-width really does suck, and the font is too small.
It feels like i'm not seeing as many stories on the front page without scrolling.
The selection of comment titles needs to come back as well.
Seriously! There was just no need!! WHY???
Virgin Media network collapses nationwide
24 hours
My connection just came back, after just about exactly 24 hours out (in Reigate).
We also had a couple of hours' outage on Friday! Not too impressive... although it's been a long time (years) since the last major problem. In my experience, i'd still take this over ADSL!
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Now that we know what's in store for the next major release of Apple's iOS, let's take a look at why users should look forward to iOS 6.
In case you missed it, Apple had a little media even yesterday. Of course, I kid. Yesterday was the keynote presentation at Apple's WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) and it has dominated tech news for the last week.--including the obligatory unveiling of all things magical, like iOS 6.
Apple revealed a vast array of new features and capabilities for the next iteration of its mobile operating system. Things like integrating sports scores and news, or movie and theater information into Siri will be welcome, but there are only a few things about iOS 6 that stand out for business users.
Apple is ditching Google Maps, and switching to its own home-grown mapping app. The best part about the change is that the new Maps app will include turn-by-turn navigation, Yelp integration, and real-time traffic updates. The Garmin StreetPilot app sets the bar pretty high, so it remains to be seen if the iOS 6 Maps app can live up expectations. But, there is no way to assign the Garmin StreetPilot app (or any other third-party mapping app) as the default, so it will be a vast improvement to at least have the default Maps app provide more useful instructions to get your from Point A to Point B.
The new iOS will most likely be made available this fall, coincidentally about the same time that you should expect the next generation iPhone hardware to hit the street
Siri is a work in progress. Despite attempts by naysayers to compare it to other voice-interaction capabilities, though, Siri is in a league all its own. However, it doesn't quite live up to how it's portrayed by Apple marketing and it still has some rough spots.
With iOS 6, Siri gets a couple of distinct improvements you might find useful. First, because of the aforementioned changes to the Maps app, when you ask Siri to find a restaurant or gas station it will be able to literally help you find it with turn-by-turn navigation. Another aspect of Siri in iOS 6 that you'll appreciate is the ability to open apps.
It was a disappointment when the iPad 3---I mean "new iPad"--launched with no Siri. When iOS 6 launches it will bring Siri capabilities to the new iPad, but not its predecessors. The iPad has established itself as a capable mobile computing platform for business, and the addition of Siri will make it even better. You will be able to ask Siri to set a reminder or make an appointment on your calendar from your iPad, just like on the iPhone.
Most of the "improvements" made by Apple are capabilities that already exist on other platforms. Android users have enjoyed things like turn-by-turn navigation for quite some time. A comparison by PCWorld illustrates how the different mobile platforms compare against each other. iOS 6 is not revolutionary by any means, but Siri adds an element that doesn't show up on paper in a comparison chart, yet sets it apart from other mobile platforms.
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1 Introduction In light of contamination of the Hart Senate Office Building, the Brentwood postal facility in Washington, D.C., and a few other buildings with Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) in the fall of 2001, Congress has allocated $50 million to the United States Environmental Protec- tion Agency (EPA) for research on issues relating to the safety of building occupants when a chemical or biological attack occurs. In response EPA has initiated a comprehensive research program focusing on build- ing security, building protection, and the safe and effi- cient decontamination of buildings when hazardous materials are deliberately introduced. Over the remain- ing time of the program (to the end of fiscal year 2005) EPA intends to provide research and technical assis- tance on methods, technologies, equipment, and tools required to protect built structures from deliberate attacks with biological warfare agents, chemical war- fare agents, and toxic industrial chemicals through the National Homeland Security Research Center's Safe Buildings Program. EPA is targeting the products of this program for use by building owners and managers, architects, emer- gency responders, decontamination crews, state and local public health officials, EPA program and regional offices, and other agencies involved in protecting human health and the environment. The Safe Building Program addresses three issues. 3 1. How can building occupants be protected during a terrorist attack that contaminates the indoor air? 2. How can contaminated buildings be safely, effi- ciently, and cost-effectively restored? 3. How can decontamination information be effec- tively conveyed to building owners and manag- ers, emergency responders, decontamination crews, and federal regulatory groups? The cornerstone of EPA's Safe Buildings Program is the Research Implementation Plan (RIP), a document that outlines the various research areas, proposals, and research timeframes for the program. It is designed to address all areas of building protection and decontami- nation needs, identify highest priority needs for imme- diate action, and determine how best to meet these needs. The plan comprises four research areas that are considered separately. 1. Detection research seeks to ensure that effective sampling and analysis tools are available to con- duct a thorough building decontamination. It will also develop monitoring techniques that can be used to detect an attack and provide safe re- occupancy of a building. 2. Containment research aims to develop methods
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