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Planning the Trip
After climbing Cloud Peak in 2007 my wife Julie and I decided to try Black Tooth Mountain since it's the only other 13'er within easy driving distance of South Dakota. It also looked a lot more adventurous!We checked the topo map and thought of starting at Willow Park Reservoir. When we finally got hold of a Bighorn National Forest ranger on the phone she told us there was only ATV access to Willow Park and Penrose Park. She suggested we drive up the Little Goose Road but said there was a major stream crossing at Little Goose Campground and that a crew was in the process of clearing logs from the road so we couldn't make it all the way to the trailhead. Since we wanted to drive there in our Corolla that left Bighorn Reservoir as the nearest starting point, and she told us we could park next to a gate at the lake's mouth.
Rocker Paully's route description and trip report were our only sources of detailed information, so we printed them out and took them along. We gave ourselves five full days because we didn't know exactly what to expect on the cross-country portions of the route. This gave us an opportunity to perfect our new light-weight backpacking strategy.
We drove nearly all night on August 7th then parked to sleep a couple hours on the Red Grade Road above the town of Big Horn (south of Sheridan) before making the final drive to the trailhead. We turned off of the Red Grade Road and drove to Park Reservoir with no problem, and then we took the road that climbed up to Bighorn Reservoir. It became far too steep and rocky for a compact car, but with several spinouts and encounters with rocks we managed to meander our way up. Then we ate granola and packed our packs and were ready to start.
Day 1
The trailhead at Bighorn Reservoir is very confusing, and we got off to a terrible start. The topo map shows a trail going around the west side of the lake and continuing on to Cross Creek Reservoir, but the Solitude Trail that we wanted to take branches off between the two reservoirs. We also found a prominent trail along the east side of Bighorn Reservoir that appeared to be a shortcut to the Solitude Trail, so we took that instead. It branched several times and we ended up in a bog along the south side of the lake. We found a road that crossed the creek to the west and took the road to Cross Creek Reservoir, but we never found the Solitude Trail. The road ended at Cross Creek Reservoir so we headed east cross country up a steep, rocky hillside in hopes of intersecting the Solitude Trail. It was a rough route over a boulderfield and several brushy creeks, but we finally found it. (On the way back we found where we had gone wrong. The key is to stay on the most well-beaten trail east of Bighorn Reservoir rather than dropping down to the lakeshore.)Once on the Solitude Trail it was easy traveling into the higher mountains. We passed a group on horseback and a boy scout (with two adults) who had been at the Little Sioux Scout Camp when the tornado killed several scouts earlier in the summer. But for the rest of the trip, until we returned to Bighorn Reservoir, we didn't see another soul.
After about three miles on the Solitude Trail things became confusing again because the trail was not as indicated on the topo map. Near a point at 10,370 feet elevation the trail does not continue heading south over a pass but instead turns east and drops down to cross the head of East Fork Little Goose Creek before climbing back up to Highland Park. The benefit of this "new" route is that it stays at a more constant elevation and crosses a nice source of water.
Highland Park is amazing in being so large and flat--and it became an obvious landmark for the rest of our trip. It also provided the first good view of Black Tooth Mountain and the other dark, jagged peaks that surround it! We took the trail south across the park toward Highland Lake, and eventually the trail dropped steeply down to this lake. We continued on the trail until it crossed the creek that exited the lake, but then things became confusing again. The trail to Highland Lake is not on the map, and it seemed to be heading toward Kearney Lake which was not where we wanted to go. We wanted to head south to Princess Falls that drain the Sawtooth Lakes (west of Penrose Peak).
We headed south cross country and ended up in some rocky crags in the forest. Several times we came upon a large trail and followed it for a while only to have it disappear again. Soon the waterfall came into view so we headed in that direction and ended up on a trail again. Before crossing Kearney Creek we stopped and camped for the night.
Day 2
August 9th was a long day of cross country hiking and climbing. We began by crossing Kearney Creek and locating a trail/route that ascends the west side of Princess Falls up to the Sawtooth Lakes. The ascent wasn't too difficult and provided a spectacular view of Highland Park. But we encountered a problem above the waterfall when the trail ended at a creek that required wading and climbing over logs. Once again we were off the trail and making slow progress. (On the return we found a better way farther west.) Eventually we found a trail again, but it wasn't consistently good.The Sawtooth Lakes are beautiful, as is the jagged sawtooth ridge above them to the east. The west side of the canyon is also a sheer wall, and we watched several rockfalls crash down. The curvature of this canyon blocked our view of Black Tooth Mountain most of the day, but there was plenty to see. There are ten sawtooth lakes in all, and we climbed and traversed around all of them. The upper ones still had some ice cover. Eventually the trail disappeared entirely, and we also had to cross some snowfields.
We hoped to camp at the uppermost Sawtooth Lake, but it was a small icy mess in a deep, steep depression in the middle of a giant boulderfield. It had nothing to recommend it as a campsite. Above it was a steep field of layered ice--probably the last remnant of a former glacier. Flat ground was hard to find, but we maneuvered the boulderfield to the base of Black Tooth Mountain and moved enough black sand to pitch our tent near a stream. We were perfectly positioned for our summit ascent the next day.
Weather was a concern, and we had a brief hail storm that drove us into our tent for a while. But then it cleared up and was a pleasant evening. The rocks were full of pikas and marmots. I left Julie and made a late climb southward up a ridge toward Hallelujah for a better view of Black Tooth Mountain above and the Sawtooth Lakes below, and I returned after dark by flashlight.
Day 3 - Black Tooth Mountain
We left our camp with a day pack and crossed a small snowfield to begin our climb up Black Tooth Mountain by the Northeast Ramp described by Rocker Paully. The steep ramp is formed by a dike of mafic rock that erodes faster than the surrounding gneiss. It appeared from below to be the best route, but it was hard to determine its difficulty without being on it. The ramp was steep and required considerable route finding in places, but there were only a few spots that were exposed and difficult to climb. We had to be careful not to knock rocks on each other. Another option was a snowy ramp just to the east, but we decided to stay on dry rock.Rocker's report mentioned a rope anchor, and we brought a short rope along in case we needed it. After ascending a steep, narrow chute where I had to give Julie a boost we found it. (On the way down I even convinced her to downclimb it without the rope.)
Above this steep chute the slope was not as steep and the terrain was more open. It was just a rocky scramble up to the twin summits of Black Tooth. The east summit looked higher, but we knew it was the west one we were after. The view from the summit was spectacular, especially of the flat-topped Cloud Peak to the south and the many lakes in valleys to the west. We hurried to eat lunch and take photos because the weather was threatening and a storm was predicted for later in the day. We had achieved our main goal.
Downclimbing the ramp was no more difficult than ascending it, and we reached our tent in the early afternoon. After packing up and photographing a friendly marmot we started down the canyon, this time taking a snowfield on the west side of the canyon to avoid the difficult boulderfield around the highest Sawtooth Lake. In several places we took a different route around the lakes than we had on the way up.
Since we were tired from three long days of hiking and still had a couple days remaining, we stopped well before dark and camped at the third Sawtooth Lake on a perfectly flat spot of ground next to a giant boulder. The storm had passed without much action and the sky was clear and deep blue. As we began to feel rested the idea of climbing Penrose Peak, looming in the crags above us to the southeast, got into our heads, and we planned a route to ascend it the next morning.
Day 4 - Penrose Peak
From the third Sawtooth Lake we climbed a boulderfield heading northeast around the base of a cliff to gain access to what looked like a nice sloping ramp up Penrose Peak. The boulders became large and hard to cross, but travel became easier on the ramp and included some grassy areas. The peak was obscured by many false summits, or rather by endless hummocky boulderfields. The rocks became very large once again and were steep in places. But we continued climbing up to the south until the large summit cairn came into view.
Penrose Peak provided a unique and spectacular view of Black Tooth Mountains and surrounding peaks, of the Sawtooth Lakes, and of Highland Park and all the lakes to the north. The distinctive plateau of Cloud Peak was even visible over a pass. It was difficult to leave the peace of the summit and return to the endless boulder crawl that awaited us. There was no other option on the first part of the descent, but when we got to the meadow farther down the ramp we decided to descend to the lowermost Sawtooth Lake rather than the third one to avoid the boulderfield we had first climbed in the morning. It was definitely a better route even though we had to take the trail back up to the third lake to retrieve our tent and gear.
In the afternoon we descended the Princess Falls down to Kearney Creek and tried once again to find a trail from there to Highland Lake. But once again the trail appeared and disappeared, and we spent most of the time following a GPS track. When we arrived at Highland Lake we met a large moose browsing in the bushes by the creek, hardly bothered by our presence..
We filled all our water bottles at Highland Lake in preparation for a dry camp then made the steep ascent to Highland Park. We crossed the park in the low evening sunlight, often looking back at the looming black peaks behind us. We camped at the pass at the north end of Highland Park and found some trees to the west of the trail to shelter us from the wind
Day 5
Highland Park was a fun place to wake up since it provided a clear and early view of the rising sun and a spectaculr view of the high summits. The hike down the Solitude Trail seemed longer than on the way up because we were so tired from four days of hiking and climbing. But we still felt like we had the whole mountain range to ourselves. We crossed East Fork Little Goose Creek and descended the trail toward Bighorn Reservoir. Once again it was difficult to tell which of several trails to take, but the main one (not on the topo map) led us along the east side of Bighorn Reservoir to our car. This time Bighorn Reservoir was crowded with fishermen and people taking short strolls.Driving down to Park Reservoir was more difficult than driving up, and we got high centered once and had to build a rock ramp to get the car moving again. We wished we had just hiked from Park Reservoir (adding 1.5 miles and 500 vertical feet) to avoid this hazard.
We drove to the town of Buffalo and stopped at a ranger station for a forest map, hoping it would have updated trails from the 1967 topo map. But the newly-printed maps had all the same trail errors and were no help at all. We consoled ourselves with big ice cream cones at a little ice cream stand! We drove to Rapid City for the night then paid a visit to the tiny town of Faith to see the exhibit of Sue the Tyrannosaurus before heading home to Siouxland.


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MLB News and Notes May - 27
Brian Giles goes on DL; Hoffman says arm's better
May 26, 2007
SAN DIEGO (AP) -Padres right fielder Brian Giles went on the 15-day disabled list on Saturday with an annoying bone bruise in his right knee.
To take his place on the roster, the Padres recalled infielder-outfielder Paul McAnulty from Triple-A Portland.
Giles missed five straight starts before the Padres decided to sit him down. The move was retroactive to last Sunday. Giles said he originally hurt his knee when he ran into a door in the outfield wall at Wrigley Field in mid-April, and tweaked it several days later chasing a fly ball at Colorado.
``From that point on is when I started feeling it pretty good the rest of the way,'' Giles said. ``But it was always playable until the last seven to eight days, and then it was a grind just to go out and play catch. There were a couple of times where it bit me pretty good. It just wasn't getting any better.''
Giles hopes to be activated in time for a home series against the rival Los Angeles Dodgers starting June 5.
``It's a bone, so it's hard to tell,'' Giles said. ``Hopefully we can calm it down and be ready to go then. It's a weird injury. It's not like a muscle where I can shoot it up or something. Bone's a little different.''
Giles, the older brother of Padres second baseman Marcus Giles, was hitting .276 with one home run and 12 RBIs.
McAnulty made the opening day roster but was optioned to Portland on April 18.
Meanwhile, closer Trevor Hoffman said his right arm ``wasn't very cranky'' a night after manager Bud Black held him out of a save situation. Hoffman, baseball's all-time saves leader with 495, said Friday night that his arm was sore after pitching in three of the previous four games.
He said he'd be available Saturday night if needed.
``I don't want to turn it into a big deal because it's happened over my career a lot of times, just trying to be smart within the realm of the workload,'' the 39-year-old Hoffman said. ``Was I capable of pitching last night? Absolutely. Was it a smart idea to recognize that my arm's a little cranky and another day would have benefited instead of possibly throwing and then taking a couple of steps back and then having to deal with more irritation? What's the saying, discretion is the better part of valor?''
With the Padres leading 8-6, fans who had been expecting Hoffman to come trotting out to AC/DC's ``Hells Bells'' instead got Scott Linebrink jogging out to Metallica's ``Enter Sandman.''
``They're kind of going, 'Whoa,' `` Hoffman said.
Linebrink said he's come to enjoy the show when Hoffman enters a game.
``That's a tough crowd. I guess you've got some hard-core AC/DC fans,'' said Linebrink, who prefers country music. ``A lot of people come to the yard to see that, so I can see how that would be a bit of a letdown.''
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Tigers' Polanco leaves game with oblique injury
May 26, 2007
DETROIT (AP) -Detroit Tigers second baseman Placido Polanco left Saturday's game against Cleveland after the sixth inning because of a muscle spasm in his oblique and is day-to-day.
Polanco went from sprinting to stopping awkwardly when third base coach Gene Lamont signaled for him to stop after Gary Sheffield's single. Polanco then scored on Magglio Ordonez's sacrifice fly.
``When they held me at third base, I felt something in my ribs, but it wasn't a big deal,'' Polanco said after the Indians beat Detroit 6-3. ``But when I slid at home plate, I was out of breath for a while and I couldn't talk or breathe. But it's nothing major or nothing bad.''
Polanco, who said the ribs on his left side were sore, hoped to play Sunday night in the series finale. Tigers manager Jim Leyland doubted he would have the second baseman in the lineup.
He is hitting .326 with a homer and 26 RBIs and is among league leaders with a .447 batting average with runners in scoring percentage.
Re: MLB News and Notes May - 27
Soria placed on 15-day DL; LaRue activated
May 26th, 2007
Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) - Kansas City Royals pitcher Joakim Soria was placed on the 15-day disabled list with right shoulder inflammation prior to Saturday's game against Seattle.
The move was retroactive to May 23.
Soria, who took over the closer role early in the season, is 1-2 with 10 saves and a 3.57 ERA.
According to the club's website, Octavio Dotel and Zack Greinke will assume ninth-inning duties in his stead. Pitcher Ryan Braun was recalled from Triple-A Omaha for Saturday's tilt.
Also, Kansas City activated from the 15-day disabled list catcher Jason LaRue, who got hit by a pitch from Todd Wellemeyer in the second inning of a 17-3 loss to Oakland on May 10, and designated catcher Paul Phillips for assignment.
Re: MLB News and Notes May - 27
Rangers make roster moves
May 26th, 2007
Arlington, TX (Sports Network) - The Texas Rangers made several roster moves on Saturday.
The club optioned outfielder Kevin Mahar to Triple-A Oklahoma, and selected the contract of outfielder Marlon Byrd from Oklahoma to fill that spot on the roster.
Mahar hit a paltry .167 with one RBI and two runs scored in seven games this season for the Rangers. Byrd has appeared in 44 games for the RedHawks, hitting a team-best .358 with six home runs and 32 RBI. He last appeared in the majors in 2006 with the Washington Nationals.
In a related move, Texas also designated catcher Miguel Ojeda for assignment. Ojeda has spent the entire season with Oklahoma, batting .216 with two homers and nine RBI in 28 games.
Re: MLB News and Notes May - 27
Tigers disable Rodney
May 26th, 2007
Detroit, MI (Sports Network) - The Detroit Tigers have placed relief pitcher Fernando Rodney on the 15-day disabled list because of biceps tendinitis.
The move is retroactive to May 21, meaning the right-hander will be eligible to return June 5.
Rodney has appeared in 19 games this season for the Tigers, posting a record of 1-4 with one save and a 4.71 earned run average. He has 18 strikeouts in just 21 innings.
The Tigers have recalled pitcher Zach Miner from Triple-A Toledo to fill the roster spot.
Miner will join the Tigers for the second time this season. The righty made one start on May 17 at Boston and took the loss in a 2-1 decision after yielding two runs -- one earned -- on six hits in 5 1/3 innings.
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Notes from Saturday's AL games
May 26, 2007
LOS ANGELES: The Angels improved to 57-52 against New York in the regular season since the start of 1996. They're the only AL team to hold an edge over the Yankees in the Joe Torre era, and have also beaten them twice in the first round of the playoffs. ... Chone Figgins went 0-for-4, dropping him to .131. He's also made five errors in 23 games since coming off the disabled list.
NEW YORK: RHP Phil Hughes (hamstring) has a sprained left ankle, MRI test results showed. He hurt himself during an agility drill in Tampa, Fla., on Friday. ``We'll evaluate it in the next couple of days,'' Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. ... RHP Mariano Rivera pitched a perfect ninth as the Yankees tried to keep their closer sharp. He has only three saves this season, including two in a doubleheader sweep at Texas on May 3 - that was his last save.
CLEVELAND: LF David Dellucci, whose tiebreaking homer in the eighth lifted the Indians to a 6-3 win at Detroit, said a Roman Catholic nun has helped him hit his way out of slump. Sister Dulce, a missionary in Baton Rouge, La., gave Dellucci three tips in a phone conversation Friday. ``Loosen up,'' Dellucci recalled her saying. ``Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Bring God with you.'' ... With starters Cliff Lee and Jake Westbrook spending time on the DL this season, manager Eric Wedge said the contributions of RHP Fausto Carmona (5-1, 2.77) have been big. ``Arguably, he's been as important to us as anybody on our roster, `` said Wedge. ... In his last 10 games, CF Grady Sizemore is hitting .383 with three homers, a triple, nine RBIs and has scored 13 runs.
DETROIT: 2B Placido Polanco left the game after the sixth inning because of a muscle spasm in his oblique. He went from sprinting to stopping awkwardly when third base coach Gene Lamont signaled for him to stop and later scored on Magglio Ordonez's sacrifice fly. ``When they held me at third base, I felt something in my ribs, but it wasn't a big deal,'' Polanco said. ``But when I slid at home plate, I was out of breath for a while and I couldn't talk or breathe. But it's nothing major or nothing bad.'' Manager Jim Leyland said he doubted Polanco would play Sunday night, but Polanco was hoping he would be available. ... RHP Jason Grilli limped off the field after a line drive connected with his left knee. X-rays were negative, and Grilli said he expected to be ready if needed Sunday night.
TAMPA BAY: LHP Scott Kazmir, who is scheduled to start against the White Sox on Sunday, has only two wins in his last 16 starts despite a 3.53 ERA. Devil Rays manager Joe Maddon expects Kazmir's luck to turn. ``I know he is going to get on a roll and I know he is going to pitch real well. He is going to find his rhythm and he is going to find his tempo,'' Maddon said. Tampa Bay's opening day pitcher this season, Kazmir is 2-2 with a 3.81 ERA. ... 3B Akinori Iwamura is expected to come off the disabled list on Monday. Iwamura is on the 15-day disabled list with a left hamstring strain.
CHICAGO: 1B Paul Konerko is back with the team after missing Friday's game for personal reasons. ... The White Sox leave town on Sunday after playing 14 straight games in Chicago. They played a three-game series at Wrigley Field against the Cubs on May 18-20. ... The White Sox rank last in the American League with a .234 batting average, but they have had 10 hits or more in five of their last six games. ... White Sox closer Bobby Jenks is tied with Tampa Bay closer Al Reyes for the longest active save streak in the American League with 13 in a row. ... When the White Sox have more hits than their opponents they are 18-2.
TORONTO: Ace Roy Halladay will return sooner than originally expected to the rotation, Thursday against the White Sox. Blue Jays manager John Gibbons wasn't yet willing to announce whose spot Halladay will take. ... C Gregg Zaun, out with a broken right thumb that was surgically repaired April 26, has resumed taking batting practice. Zaun will begin a minor-league rehab assignment next week. He will be a designated hitter to start and eventually will get behind the plate. Gibbons said Zaun could be back for Toronto's next road trip, which begins June 8 in Los Angeles. ... With rookie Adam Lind struggling, Matt Stairs started again in LF. He's been primarily a DH, 1B and RF in his career, but Gibbons doesn't mind putting Stairs somewhere new. ``Just a good baseball player,'' Gibbons said.
MINNESOTA: Joe Mauer is still not ready, though manager Ron Gardenhire said the catcher is running at about 75 percent. He'll have to get back to full range of motion in his strained quadriceps before he returns. ``He's going to tell us. We can't tell him,'' Gardenhire said. He said there's not a target date for Mauer to come back. ... SS Jason Bartlett (sore neck and shoulder) was out of the lineup for the fifth straight game, but he's expected to return Sunday. ... LF Rondell White (strained calf), who has been working out in Florida for the past month, is running better, according to general manager Terry Ryan. White hasn't played in any minor-league games yet, and the team doesn't have a timetable on his return. ... After arthroscopic surgery to repair damage in his left knee two weeks ago that made it difficult to walk for several days, Gardenhire has resumed throwing batting practice.
SEATTLE: Manager Mike Hargrove said he'd settled on a starter for next Tuesday's game against the Angels, but would not say who, or even if he's a lefty or a righty. ``He might be ambidextrous,'' he said. A replacement is needed for LHP Horacio Ramirez, on the DL with left shoulder tendinitis. ... Starter Felix Hernandez, who was removed in the sixth inning Friday night with stiffness in the lower back, was fine on Saturday. In the middle of a 23-game stretch, look for Hargrove is rest his regulars as much as possible. After they got a big lead over KC on Friday, both Jose Vidro and Ichiro Suzuki were lifted. ``If I'd had more people on the bench where I'd have given more people time off, I would have. But you can't totally empty your bench in the sixth inning,'' Hargrove said.
KANSAS CITY: RHP Gil Meche, who experienced stiffness in his lower back while getting shelled in Friday night's 10-2 loss, was fine Saturday and is not expected to miss his next start. The Royals put RHP Joakim Soria on the 15-day DL with right shoulder inflammation and recalled RHP Ryan Braun from Triple-A Omaha. They also reclaimed catcher Jason LaRue from his injury assignment and designated catcher Paul Phillips for assignment. LaRue was in the lineup for Saturday night's game against Seattle.
OAKLAND: 3B Eric Chavez returned after a three-day absence because of tendinitis in his triceps. He was orginially not in the starting lineup, but deemed himself ready to play and was a late addition in place of Marco Scutaro. Chavez struck out in his first at-bat and had one hit in his last 14 at_bats. ... The A's went up against LHP Brian Burres on Saturday seeking to improve their record against lefties to 12-7. Their 11 wins against southpaws were the most in the AL.
BALTIMORE: Miguel Tejada hit his second homer in three games Saturday, a two-run shot against Joe Kennedy. He hit two homers in his first 46 games. ... Chris Gomez got his eighth start of the season, the seventh at first base. He walked his first times to the plate, keeping his .294 batting average intact. ... Ten of the Orioles' previous 11 games had been decided by two runs or fewer, and the exception was a three-run win over Toronto. Baltimore was 3-8 in that span. ... Baltimore came into the weekend with an AL-best .988 fielding percentage and were tied with Minnesota for fewest errors (21).
BOSTON: RHP Mike Timlin pitched one inning in a rehab appearance Friday night for Triple-A Pawtucket. He walked one batter in a 16-pitch outing. The reliever has been out since May 3 with tendinitis in his right shoulder and is scheduled to make another appearance for the PawSox on Sunday. ... SS Julio Lugo stole his 14th base Friday night and has not been caught stealing this season. He is the first Boston player to be successful on his first 14 steal attempts since Leon Culbertson in 1943.
TEXAS: RHP Brandon McCarthy is still scheduled to make his next start Wednesday in Oakland despite leaving Friday night's start against Boston after two innings due to a recurring blister on his right middle finger. McCarthy's availability will be determined in a bullpen session on Monday in Oakland. McCarthy has been putting ointment on the finger to toughen the skin, but the blister reopened on the humid night that included a rain delay of almost two hours. McCarthy issued four walks and gave up four runs in the abbreviated stint, blaming the blister for his control problems. ...The Rangers will call up RHP Mike Wood from Triple-A Oklahoma to start Tuesday night against the A's. Wood is 3-1 with a 2.58 ERA in six starts for Oklahoma and 0-1 with a 7.02 ERA in three starts for Texas. ...RHP Kevin Millwood will be on a 70-pitch limit in his rehab start for Double-A Frisco on Sunday. Millwood is on the DL for the second time this season because of a left hamstring strain.
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Notes from Saturday's NL games
May 26, 2007
PHILADELPHIA: LHP Michael Zagurski, called up from Double-A Reading on Friday, appeared in his second straight game Saturday, pitching 1 1-3 scoreless innings to protect a two-run lead. He pitched a scoreless inning in his debut Friday night. ``Being a left-hander has really helped him,'' said manager Charlie Manuel of the early appearances by the rookie. ``The last two games he's responded really well for a guy who two weeks ago was in A-ball.'' Zagurski pitched at Class A Clearwater before moving up to Reading. ... RHP Antonio Alfonseca earned his first save since Sept. 13, 2002, for the Cubs at Cincinnati.
ATLANTA: Manager Bobby Cox was ejected for the second straight game for the first time since May 20-21, 2003, at Cincinnati. He has 130 career ejections, one behind John McGraw's record. John Smoltz also was ejected by first base umpire Ron Kulpa after he joined Cox's complaints about Kulpa calling a ball hit by Willie Harris foul that landed near the right-field line. ... With two hits Saturday, SS Edgar Renteria is hitting .332 with 27 RBIs. He has hits in 27 of his past 31 games. ... 3B Chipper Jones missed his third straight game after having a cortisone shot in his sore right thumb on Wednesday night. Cox said he hopes Jones can play on Sunday.
CHICAGO: After the game, RHP Carlos Zambrano turned the tables on reporters, announcing that he was going to ask the questions. ``How many wins do I have? Five. How many does the (NL) leader have? Seven. I read something the other day that I may be hurt. I don't know why you guys put that in the paper. I'm not hurt. I don't feel pain. I feel good,'' he said before rattling on. ``I'm throwing 90-92, and you can pitch in the big leagues with that if you locate your pitches. My agent just sent me a text message saying that last year by this time I had three wins. So I feel good. Don't worry about my ERA. My ERA will come down sooner or later. I've never had a good start, but this year is different.'' ... 2B Mark DeRosa went 1-for-3 against Dodgers LHP Mark Hendrickson and is hitting .600 with two homers against him. ... The Cubs improved to 2-3 on their six-game West Coast trip, which ends Sunday. ... C Michael Barrett got the day off and 3B Aramis Ramirez was set to take Sunday off. ... The Cubs don't face the Dodgers again until Sept. 3 in Chicago.
LOS ANGELES: RHP Brett Tomko saw his first action out of the bullpen since April 30 and tossed a perfect ninth inning. He was demoted from the starting rotation Wednesday. ... CF Juan Pierre will bat leadoff against right-handed pitchers, while SS Rafael Furcal will be in the top spot against left-handers, manager Grady Little said. ... Furcal sat out Saturday because of stiffness in his right knee, which began Friday night, but said he expected to return Sunday. ... 2B Jeff Kent was supposed to get the day off, but was used as a pinch-hitter in the eighth. He struck out with the bases loaded. Kent went 2-for-3 with a home run and drove in four runs in Friday night's 9-8 victory. ... RHP Jason Schmidt made a brief pre-game appearance in the clubhouse, saying he still had the flu and was feeling too weak to throw the simulated game that he missed Friday. ``He looked kind of weak and we don't know when he'll be able to work,'' Little said. Schmidt has been on the DL since April 15 because of right shoulder inflammation.
NEW YORK: With OF Shawn Green sidelined with a broken right foot he got in the ninth inning Friday, the Mets started Carlos Gomez in right field on Saturday. Green will be evaluated in New York on Monday. ... RHP Orlando Hernandez, who started Friday for the first time since April 24 because of shoulder bursitis, reported no problems after allowing two hits in six shutout innings. ``It's sore, but nothing out of the normal,'' said Hernandez, who's expected to make his next start Thursday against San Francisco. ... RHP Jorge Sosa, who starts on Sunday, has a 2.08 ERA in six previous appearances at Florida.
FLORIDA: Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez was back in the dugout Saturday. He missed most of Thursday's game with Philadelphia after a second-inning ejection, and was suspended for Friday's game against the Mets. ``Who's the new guy?'' quipped injured OF Cody Ross when walking past Gonzalez before the game. ... RHP Josh Johnson (elbow) will make a rehab start in Jupiter, Fla., on Tuesday and said he hopes to be in the Marlins' rotation in the next couple weeks. ... 2B Dan Uggla has started and batted second in all 49 Marlins games this season. ... 3B Miguel Cabrera's home run off Mets closer Billy Wagner on Friday was his first in 61 at_bats. He went a career-long 66 at_bats without a homer last July.
PITTSBURGH: C Ryan Doumit was tested for a concussion on Saturday, a day after he was hit in the head by Ryan Freel's bat at the end of a swing. Doumit did well on the test, but wasn't cleared to play. ``I feel good, though,'' he said. ``All is clear. All is well.'' Manager Jim Tracy isn't sure how long he will be out. ... LHP Tom Gorzelanny played catch in the outfield before the game and reported no problems. ``He gripped it fine,'' Tracy said. Gorzelanny bruised his left thumb on a comebacker Thursday night, but he's expected to make his scheduled start on Tuesday against San Diego. ... The Pirates sent nine batters to the plate for four runs off Bronson Arroyo, their biggest first inning since they also scored four at Wrigley Field on Sept. 4 last year. The big first inning came after they sent 12 batters to the plate for eight runs in the 10th inning on Friday night - their biggest inning in more than three years - for a 10-4 win.
CINCINNATI: RHP Bronson Arroyo is having trouble getting through the first inning. Last Monday, he threw 49 pitches to 10 batters and gave up four runs against the Nationals. On Saturday, he threw 34 pitches, faced nine batters and gave up four runs to the Pirates. ... OF Josh Hamilton expects to head to Triple-A Louisville to start playing on Monday. Hamilton went on the 15-day DL with an inflamed digestive tract. He will play in the minors until he's eligible to return on June 3. His stomach is fine, but his conditioning has slipped. ``I did some wind sprints and felt whipped after I did them,'' Hamilton said. ... Reliever Bill Bray has had another setback. He broke the tip of the index finger on his pitching hand during spring training. He started a rehabilitation assignment with the Reds' farm club in Sarasota, Fla., on Sunday, but had to quit pitching because of a sore shoulder. The Reds said on Saturday that he has a mild case of shoulder tendinitis.
WASHINGTON: RHP Jesus Colome hadn't allowed a run in 10 2-3 innings, including a perfect eighth inning in Friday's 5-4 victory. But manager Manny Acta said there's no temptation to make him the permanent setup man and demote Jon Rauch, who has allowed seven runs in his past four innings. Rauch was 3-for-3 in save chances while closer Chad Cordero was on the bereavement list earlier this month. ``I don't give up on my guys after four bad outings,'' Acta said. ``Just a week ago people were wondering if we were going to take Rauch out of the closing role and now that he's struggling as the setup we're not going to go through the same thing. He's going to bounce back.'' ... LHP Micah Bowie, who won his first game as a starter since 1999 on Friday, allowed two runs in five innings. His previous outing was his first in the rotation and he said he ran out of gas, lasting 3 1-3 innings and 69 pitches and getting a no-decision in a 4-3 victory. ``I think I doubled anything I'd done in the last I don't know how many years,'' Bowie said. ``It's nice once you start stretching out a little bit, you have a little more endurance.'' ... RHP Shawn Hill, on the DL with a shoulder injury since May 12, threw 30 pitches in the bullpen and could begin a rehab assignment if there are no setbacks.
ST. LOUIS: A day after criticizing Juan Encarnacion's baserunning, manager Tony La Russa inserted Scott Spiezio in RF and the cleanup spot and left Encarnacion on the bench. La Russa said the fact Spiezio was 8-for-17 against the Nationals with a homer and seven RBIs last year was the deciding factor. ... RHP Anthony Reyes has allowed 34 runs in 10 starts, with 19 runs coming in the first two innings. His eight consecutive losses to start the season are one shy of the franchise record set by Danny Jackson in 1995, and he's the first pitcher in the majors to lose 10 straight decisions since Cleveland's Fausto Carmona lost 11 in a row from April 20, 2006 to April 13, 2007. ... Albert Pujols' fourth-inning homer Friday night was his first in 12 games at Busch Stadium. He was 17-for-37 during a nine-game hitting streak that raised his average to a season-best .287. ... Jim Edmonds had homered in consecutive games and had an RBI in the past four games after getting one homer in the first 36 games.
COLORADO: C Yorvit Torrealba likely will have Sunday's game off, with Chris Iannetta slated to get the start. ... Manager Clint Hurdle is going to keep using 3B Garrett Atkins, who entered the game in a 1-for-19 slump and 7-for-57 (.123) over his past 17 games - dropping his average from .270 to .221. Jeff Baker is getting his chances, too, but Hurdle believes in Atkins. ``Bake is playing an important role and learning a role,'' Hurdle said. ``To pull the plug on Garrett, I'm not a fan right now. Based on two years, all we've talked about was how he could hit. Fifty games into the season, all people want to talk about is how he can't hit. I'm not one of them.'' In addition, Hurdle plans to stick with a regular lineup for a while now that 2B Kazuo Matsui is healthy and back to playing regularly, saying he wanted to ``give it some legs.'' ... Hurdle is pleased with the work being done by OF Brad Hawpe on his swing with hitting coach Alan Cockrell. ``He has a high-risk, high-reward swing,'' Hurdle said. ``They're spending a lot of time trying to simplify his swing.''
SAN FRANCISCO: Manager Bruce Bochy wasn't sure whether slugger Barry Bonds would play Sunday's series finale. ... 1B Ryan Klesko's offensive production is keeping him in the lineup. ``He's swinging well. It's hard to get his bat out of there,'' Bochy said. That meant Rich Aurilia had the night off. ... CF Dave Roberts, recovering from elbow surgery May 11 to remove bone chips and spurs, could begin some light throwing as soon as Sunday or perhaps Tuesday following the team's day off Monday. ``He's doing well. He's hitting,'' athletic trainer Dave Groeschner said. ... INF Kevin Frandsen graduated earlier in the day from San Jose State with a degree in finance, one of about 1,400 undergraduate business majors. ``It's nice knowing it's done,'' said Frandsen, who finished his last two courses online during the offseason. ``I don't have to worry about setting up graduation plans. I will have that diploma soon.''
HOUSTON: The Astros have been outscored 53-8 in their six-game losing streak, 31-5 in their past three. ... RHP Roy Oswalt, who starts Sunday's series finale, is 6-0 in seven career starts against Arizona with a 1.98 ERA. ... Manager Phil Garner stayed with the same lineup for the second night in a row. ``We scored three runs,'' he explained. Houston scored a total of five runs in the first five games of its losing streak. ... Morgan Ensberg's second home run in five at_bats was overlooked late in Friday night's 13-3 loss. He was not introduced as a pinch hitter in the at-bat and never was added to the lineup on the Chase Field scoreboard. ... The Astros have Memorial Day off, then play at home against Cincinnati on Tuesday. RHP Jason Jennings returns from the DL to make the start for Houston.
ARIZONA: Manager Bob Melvin said LHP Randy Johnson is a go for his next scheduled start Wednesday in Philadelphia. Johnson missed his scheduled start Friday night because of forearm tendinitis. The Big Unit played catch in the bullpen before Saturday night's game. ... The Diamondbacks placed INF Jason Smith on the 15-day DL because of a burst appendix. He had been designated for assignment but his appendix attack occurred before official word reached the MLB office. That meant he had to go on the DL, retroactive to May 19. ... After scoring one run in two games against Colorado, the Diamondbacks outscored Houston 22-4 in the first two of the four-game series against the Astros. ... OF Jeff Davanon has been shut down after a setback in his recovery from shoulder and ankle surgery. ... 3B Chad Tracy, sidelined with left rib cage soreness, hit off a tee before Saturday night's game.
Re: MLB News and Notes May - 27
Halladay set for Thursday start
Sat, May 26, 2007
By Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS -- Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay will return to the rotation next week and come off the disabled list earlier than originally expected.
Manager John Gibbons said before Saturday's game at Minnesota that Halladay will start at home on Thursday against the Chicago White Sox, one day less than three weeks since he had his appendix removed. The procedure was initially supposed to keep him off the mound for at least one month.
But Halladay, who is 4-2 with a 4.37 ERA in eight appearances this season, responded well to the appendectomy and felt good after throwing 65 pitches in a simulated game on Friday. He'll have five days of rest before making his first start since May 10.
''He's one of the best pitchers in the game. We want to run him out there,'' Gibbons said.
The next question for the Blue Jays is whose spot will be given up for Halladay, but Gibbons was coy on the subject.
''When we decide to make a change, we'll let you know,'' he said.
Rookie Jesse Litsch, who didn't finish the fifth inning in Friday's 4-3 loss to the Twins, is scheduled to make his next start on Wednesday against the New York Yankees. Tomo Ohka, Saturday's starter, could be the odd man out.
Re: MLB News and Notes May - 27
Mets: Gomez could miss a few days
Carlos Gomez doesn't believe the strained left hamstring he sustained last night will keep him out for long, according to the New York Daily News. "I don't think I will be out for a long time - maybe two or three days," Gomez said. "I felt like it stretched - not pulled. That's why I can walk now. I feel only a little pain when I do squats. I feel like normal."
Red Sox: Beckett set for Tuesday return
Josh Beckett threw 70 pitches in a side session on Saturday. Afterward, he pronounced himself ready to start Tuesday's game, according to the Boston Globe. He had his blistered finger bandaged as a precaution. "Obviously, we want to be smart with this thing," Beckett said.
Giants: Durham leaves with abdominal injury
Ray Durham left Saturday's game with a strained abdominal muscle and is listed as day-to-day, the AP reports.
Diamondbacks: Johnson on schedule for Wednesday
Bob Melvin says Randy Johnson is a go for his next scheduled start Wednesday in Philadelphia, the AP reports. Johnson missed his scheduled start Friday night because of forearm tendinitis. Johnson played catch in the bullpen before Saturday night's game.
Re: MLB News and Notes May - 27
Baseball Today - May 27
Sun, May 27, 2007
By Associated Press
Monday, May 28
Cleveland at Boston (7:05 p.m. EDT).
Cliff Lee faces off against Curt Schilling in a matchup of division leaders.
-Chase Utley, Phillies, drove in three runs in Philadelphia's 6-4 win over Atlanta.
-David Dellucci, Indians, hit a tiebreaking two-run homer to lift Cleveland over Detroit 6-3.
-Carlos Delgado, Mets, hit two home runs and had five RBIs in New York's 7-2 win over Florida.
-Kenji Johjima, Mariners, hit his first major league grand slam to help Seattle defeat Kansas City 9-1.
-Aaron Cook, Rockies, pitched a complete-game five-hitter to lead Colorado past San Francisco 6-1.
Barry Bonds' slump continued in San Francisco's 6-1 loss to Colorado on Saturday. The slugger went 0-for-4 with four groundouts for his fifth straight hitless game. He hasn't homered since May 8 and has gone 41 at-bats and 61 plate appearances without a homer, remaining 10 shy of tying Hank Aaron's career record of 755. During that stretch of 14 games since the homer, Bonds has drawn 20 walks with seven intentional free passes, struck out eight times and is batting .122.
Colorado won their fourth game in a row with a 6-1 victory over San Francisco. This marks the first time in franchise history that Colorado has won four straight without a home run.
Pittsburgh scored four runs in their best first inning of the season in a 9-5 win over Cincinnati on Saturday, one day after they rallied to victory with their biggest splurge in three years. The Pirates scored eight runs in the 10th inning for a 10-4 victory in the series opener.
Ichiro Suzuki stretched his hitting streak to 19 games in Seattle's 9-1 win over Kansas City on Saturday. ... Arizona dealt Houston their seventh straight loss, beating the Astros 5-4. ... Cincinnati has lost a season-high five in a row and 19 of 24 overall following a 9-5 loss to Pittsburgh. ... Texas has lost four straight and nine of 12 overall following a 7-4 loss to Boston.
Derek Jeter's 19-game hitting streak came to an end for New York in a 3-1 loss to Los Angeles on Saturday. ... Orlando Cabrera's career-best hitting streak was stopped at 15 games for the Angels in the win.
''We hoped for one hour for the wind to pick it up or Santa Claus to pick it up and move it somewhere to play this game, but the weather was pretty ugly.'' - White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, on his team's game against Tampa Bay being rained out on Saturday. The game is rescheduled for August 27 at 1:05 p.m. in Chicago.
Re: MLB News and Notes May - 27
Braves 3B Chipper Jones (thumb) is not in the starting lineup; Martin Prado is starting at third.
Yankees CF Johnny Damon (leg cramps) is not in the starting lineup; Melky Cabrera is starting in center.
Yankees C Jorge Posada is not in the starting lineup; Wil Nieves is the starting catcher today.
Mets C Paul Lo Duca is not in the starting lineup; Ramon Castro is the starting catcher today.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy said Barry Bonds, who often sits out day games after night games, will start in this afternoon's game
Cubs 3B Aramis Ramirez (rest) is expected to get the day off today.
White Sox C AJ Pierzynski (rest) is expected to get the day off today.
Re: MLB News and Notes May - 27
Marlins SS Hanley Ramirez is not in the starting lineup; Alfredo Amezaga is starting at short.
Braves C Brian McCann is not in the starting lineup; Jarrod Saltalamacchia is the starting catcher.
Phillies LF Pat Burrell is not in the starting lineup; Michael Bourn is starting in left.
Re: MLB News and Notes May - 27
Pirates option Rogers, recall Sharpless
May 27, 2007
CINCINNATI (AP) -The Pittsburgh Pirates optioned right-hander Brian Rogers to Triple-A Indianapolis before Sunday's game against the Cincinnati Reds.
Rogers had no record and a 13.50 ERA in a combined two innings over three appearances since being recalled from Indianapolis on Tuesday.
The Pirates recalled right-hander Josh Sharpless, who arrived in Cincinnati in time for Sunday's game. He had a 1.50 ERA in 14 games as a rookie with the Pirates last season.
Sharpless was 1-0 with three saves and a 2.96 ERA in 16 appearances with Indianapolis this season.
Re: MLB News and Notes May - 27
Cardinals send Reyes to minors
May 27, 2007
ST. LOUIS (AP) -Anthony Reyes, who won the World Series opener for the St. Louis Cardinals last fall but has lost 10 straight regular-season decisions, on Sunday was optioned to Triple-A Memphis.
Reliever Todd Wellemeyer will take Reyes' spot in the rotation Wednesday at Colorado. The Cardinals recalled left-hander Troy Cate from Memphis to fill the roster spot.
Reyes is 0-8 with a 6.08 ERA in nine starts and allowed five runs and eight hits in 5 2-3 innings in a loss to the Nationals on Friday. He was 5-8 with a 5.06 ERA as a rookie last year, but made a name for himself with eight dominating innings against the Tigers in the Series opener.
Reyes is the first Cardinals pitcher to lose 10 straight decisions since closer Dennis Eckersley lost 10 in a row from April 4, 1996 to Aug. 26, 1997. Team records going back to 1957 show no starters with losing streaks of that length.
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Wood and Shade
Find the Mark of the Empress and the Heartroot of Kypari Kor. | Find the Mark of the Empress |
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"Rending daggers of the great ones shall be bound with WOOD and SHADE." Hmm.I've learned a lot about the Kor'thik mantid in my time here. I know that they maintain shrines within their settlement, Kor'vess.
One is a heartroot of the very tree that they inhabit. The other is a dark pillar, connecting them with their queen.
These shrines are the wood and shade. If my predictions are right... the daggers should react in their presence.
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waiting for govt to fall NEW DELHI, Aug 12 As uncertainty crept in over the fate of the five-month-old Atal Behari Vajpayee government following the threat of withdrawal of support by the AIADMK, the Congress stated it was keeping a close watch on political developments. The Congress, which does not want to be perceived as having triggered a political crisis, today claimed that some party leaders were in touch with the AIADMK. "As a responsible political party, we are keeping a watch on the sequence of developments," the party spokesperson, Dr Gijra Vyas, said today. Having stated that the party was ready to form a government in the event of collapse of the BJP-led coalition, the Congress preferred to remain a spectator. Dr Vyas said that officially there was no contact with the AIADMK but some leaders have been in touch with the political party in Tamil Nadu, which threatened to review support to the ruling coalition at the Centre over the Cauvery water issue. The Congress President, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, continued to hold informal discussions with senior party leaders and Congress Working Committee members on the latest political situation. Party sources said that while some CWC members preferred to join the fray in formation of an alternate government another section advised that the time was not yet ripe for the Congress to strike. The Congress leadership is likely to summon a meeting of the CWC at a short notice tomorrow in the event of the AIADMK carrying out its threat, the sources said. Much would depend on the outcome of the meeting of the AIADMK and its allies scheduled to be held at Chennai tomorrow. Many Congress members were of the opinion that the AIADMK supremo Ms Jayalalitha may take a strong stand specially in the light of the fact that even as Chief Minister, she had gone on hunger strike over the issue. GUWAHATI (PTI): The Congress will "step in" if the AIADMK withdraws support and the Vajpayee government falls "for which there is every possibility," senior Congress leader Rajesh Pilot said here today. "According to my information, the AIADMK is going to withdraw support after tomorrows crucial meeting convened by Jayalalitha," Congress Working Committee (CWC) member, Mr Pilot told PTI. "In that case do you think that the Congress will keep quiet? we will definitely step in", Mr Pilot said. Earlier, at a press conference, he said Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was "silent" on the Srikrishna Commission report on communal riots in Mumbai in 1992-93 and said "it is sad that the government had sidelined the report which amounts to attacking the judiciary". "The Prime Ministers silence on it is intriguing," Mr Pilot said alleging that there was a "move to shake the basic democratic values." Attacking the Prafulla Kumar Mahanta government in Assam, the former union minister said that they had "failed" on all fronts and the "failure" to contain insurgency was due to "lack of any transparent policy" on the matter. "The Bodo accord is null and void and the economy was crumbling and that is why we have demanded Presidents rule in the state," he said. Mr Pilot, who was here to attend the state Youth Congress convention which ended yesterday, said he supported the Assam Governments demand for central reimbursement for security-related expenditure in the state in line with Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab. Former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma said the North-East MPs forum had been formed under his chairmanship to adopt a common approach to the problems of the region and raise them in Parliament. A 10-member executive of the forum has been constituted with three members from Assam. The forum had submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister demanding implementation of the special package of Rs 7300 crore for the North-East as announced by former PM H.D. Deve Gowda. The memorandum also demanded spending of 10 per cent of the budget allocation of each ministry for the North-East, reimbursement of security-related expenditure by the Centre and reorganisation of the North Eastern Council, Mr Sangma said adding that the Prime Minister had assured him that he would consider the demands and implement them. Assam Pradesh Congress Committee President Tarun Gogoi held the CBI responsible for the Governor not according sanction to prosecute Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta in the multi-crore LOC scam. "It is surprising
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Afghanistan harder than Iraq
Taliban making peace overtures
One million AIDS patients in India have no access to treatment
One gets life term for Vienna gurdwara attack
Canadian varsity honours Kalam with doctorate
Ex-girlfriend behind Pak plane bomb hoax
Gunmen kidnap schoolchildren in Nigeria
Afghanistan harder than Iraq
Washington, September 28 Obama, who inherited the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan said Afghanistan has been "very hard stuff" but insisted that the US has not yet failed in that country, if not succeeded. "I knew it was hard a year ago, and I suspect a year from now, I will conclude that it's still hard, and it's messy. Number two, when you tick off these metrics that have quote-unquote 'failed' - well, they haven't failed yet. They haven't succeeded yet," he said. He said the US troops had succeeded in creating a line of security around Kandahar, but "there's no doubt that Kandahar is not yet a secure place any more than Mosul or Fallujah were secure in certain phases of the Iraq War". In an interview to the Rolling Stone magazine, Obama said success has been seen in recruiting and training Afghan security forces, though the overall objective of making the country completely secure was still distant. "I will also agree that Afghanistan is harder than Iraq. This is the second-poorest country in the world. You've got no tradition of a civil service or bureaucracy that is effective countrywide," he said. Arguing that the allies have been very successful in taking out the middle ranks of the Taliban, he said, however, pulling out was not a viable option at present. "I don't know anybody who has examined the region who thinks that if we completely pulled out of Afghanistan, the Karzai regime collapsed, Kabul was overrun once again by the Taliban, and Sharia law was imposed throughout the country, that we would be safer, or the Afghan people would be better off, or Pakistan would be better off, or India would be better off, or that we would see a reduction in potential terrorist attacks around the world. You can't make that argument," he said. Obama said his administration had examined every option including having a smaller footprint in Afghanistan, and would chose the option that is best for the country.
Taliban making peace overtures
Kabul, September 28 US General David Petraeus, who commands more than 150,000 NATO and US troops in Afghanistan, said many small insurgent groups had already made "overtures" to NATO forces about quitting the fight. "There have already been 20 or so overtures from small groups around the country," he told AFP, referring to a programme aimed at reintegrating mid-level Taliban commanders and grassroots fighters back into Afghan society. He said NATO supported efforts by President Hamid Karzai to open peace talks with the Taliban leadership and in some cases had helped the process along. "Reconciliation with senior elements of the Taliban is the province of the Afghan government," Petraeus said in an interview with AFP. Reconciliation focuses on opening a dialogue with the Taliban leadership, and reintegration on encouraging fighters to rejoin their communities. AFP |
One million AIDS patients in India have no access to treatment
Geneva, September 28 The joint report issued by the World Health Organisation, UNAIDS, and UNICEF said India had made progress in scaling up access over the years, but said given its robust generic drug industry it could have done
better. India has done well in scaling up access to the ARV therapy over the last seven years, says a senior WHO official, suggesting there is still a huge gap to address. The universal gap between those needing urgent ARV treatment for HIV/AIDS the world over and those unable to have any access climbed to over 15 million people and there is an urgent need for funds to the tune of $10 billion, says Rifat Atun, a senior official of the Global Fund which is the main provider of assistance to countries afflicted with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. India now ranks third in scaling up access, after South Africa and Kenya during the last five years. However, it needs to cross some distance for ensuring universal access for all its HIV/AIDS patients. Around 3,20,074 have received ARV therapy in India at the end of last year as compared to 2,34,581 patients to the previous year. Between 1.1 and 1.4 million HIV/AIDS patients have no access for ARV therapy in India. Given the number of health professionals and the state of the art generic drug industry in India, the performance on the HIV/AIDS front could be far better in comparison with other low-income countries in Southern Africa, say analysts. India must consider issuing compulsory licenses for ensuring free access to second and third-line treatment for HIV/AIDS patients whose number is steadily climbing. Compulsory licencing enables a national government to revoke a licence issued to a patent holder and thereby, allow other parties to produce and sell a patented product for non-commercial purposes. Several industrialised nations resorted to compulsory licensing to enable their national health departments to procure medicines at low prices so as to provide free of cost in government hospitals. India is yet issue a compulsory license despite its rising HIV/AIDS patients who now need second and third-line treatment. In 2006, Thailand issued compulsory licence for the production of patented drugs for its HIV-infected population. Later, Brazil also issued compulsory licence for the production of patent-drugs produced by an American pharmaceutical company despite enormous pressure from the US. Ultimately, the decision to issue a compulsory license depends on the national government, says Mariangela Simao, a senior UNAIDS official. Unless there are liberal aid commitments from rich countries to tackle HIV/AIDS on a war footing, the number of patients suffering from this deadly disease is expected to climb up over 15 million people by the end of this year, the three agencies suggested. The latest report by the WHO, UNAIDS, and UNICEF indicates that significant progress has been made in several low and middle income countries in scaling up access to over 5 million people at the end of last year.
One gets life term for Vienna gurdwara attack
Vienna, September 28 The 35-year-old man was accused of murder and two counts of attempted murder. His lawyer immediately said he would appeal. Four of his five accomplices aged between 29 and 46 received jail terms of 17-18 years for complicity in murder and wounding, while the fifth was given a six-month sentence. Sant Rama
Nand, 57, and another guru, Sant Niranjan Dass, 68, were visiting from India when they were attacked as they gave a sermon at the temple in Vienna on May 24,
2009. Nand died and Dass was wounded after being hit by two bullets in the abdomen and the hip, while another 16 persons were also injured in a melee as worshippers tried to subdue the attackers. The assailants used a gun and knives in the attack, which sparked riots in India's Punjab state. Before the ruling the main accused told the court he remembered nothing about the attack. He had been seriously wounded in the head after the attack and psychiatrists said his memory lapses were credible. The temple at
Pelzgasse, where the attack occurred, said it had received threats from another Viennese Sikh temple in connection with the visit by the two Indian gurus. Opened in December 2005, it has protested the caste system that remains popular among some Sikhs and has been accused of not strictly following Sikh traditions.
Canadian varsity honours Kalam with doctorate
Toronto, September 28 Conferring the doctorate, Chancellor of the university Prem Watsa said: Dr Kalam is recognised as one of India's most progressive mentors, innovators and visionaries for his scientific and humanitarian work... We are very pleased to confer the honorary doctorate in engineering on Dr Kalam. After receiving the honour at a special ceremony, Kalam also delivered a public talk entitled the Strategic Policy Development in the Canada-India Corridor. Earlier, in 2008 at the Ontario-based university he shared his insights on the growing ties between India and Canada in furthering global development. As the 11th President of India, Kalam made it a top priority to turn India into a developed nation by 2020. As one of India's most distinguished scientists, Kalam has previously been awarded two coveted civilian awards, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan, along with the highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna. PTI |
Ex-girlfriend behind Pak plane bomb hoax
London, September 28 A 28-year old Canadian of Pakistani-origin was briefly detained after the plane carrying 273 passengers, including three hapless Indians, made an emergency landing at Arlanda following a call alerting security agencies that the man was carrying explosives. The passengers faced a long haul at the Stockholm airport as the Swedish police pulled out the youth and searched the aircraft for hours for the explosives. The Canadian man was briefly arrested in connection with the allegations but then released without charge after no explosives were found aboard the plane, flying from Toronto to Karachi. While, the plane was let off the unfortunate man faced another long ordeal. Though he was cleared to go home to get married he failed to find an airliner to take him back. By the time he was cleared to fly back home, word about the alleged terror plot had spread and the airliners refused to take him as passenger, a Swiss newspaper said. The report said the girl who is still to be identified was unhappy with their separation, a Swedish newspaper reported today.
Gunmen kidnap schoolchildren in Nigeria
Abuja, September 28 The children numbering 15 were abducted in Abia state on Monday and the kidnappers are demanding for a ransom of 20 million naira ($130,000), the Abia State police spokesman said. Kidnappings in the region have become widespread in recent times with ransom demanded by the abductors before the victims are set free.
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Extramural Research
Mount Sinai Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research (2003-2010)
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- Publications: (2003 - 2010)
- Publications: (1998 - 2004)
Center Director: Mary S. Wolff
Project 1: Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem (Community-Based Participatory Research)
Project 2: Pesticides, Endocrine Disruptors, Childhood Growth and Development (Birth Cohort)
Project 3: Genetics of Phthalate and Bisphenol A Risk in Minority Populations (Individual Susceptibility)
Project 1: Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem
Project 3: Genetics of Chlorpyrifos Risk in Minority Populations
Project 4: Prenatal PCB Exposure and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Adolescence and Adulthood
Project 5: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms of Environmental Toxicants: PCBs and Pesticides
The Mount Sinai Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research was established in 1998 as an interdisciplinary Center to address the neurodevelopmental impacts of pesticides, lead and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls). The flexibility and infrastructure of the Center program made it possible to shift the focus to newly emerging toxins in the second 5-year cycle. The goals of the Center are to elucidate mechanisms of neurodevelopmental impairment in inner-city children and to investigate relationships between exposure to environmental factors, inner-city toxicants, genetic differences, fetal growth and development.
The three current projects in the Mount Sinai Children's Center address endocrine disruptors, chemicals that disrupt healthy bodily function by imitating or blocking the normal flow of hormones, and other factors in the urban "built environment" neighborhood characteristics, access to healthy food and safe play spaces that appear to influence the risk of obesity, early onset of puberty in children, and possibly neurologic function. The projects utilize precise measures of physical activity, obesity and biomarkers (found in urine and saliva) of environmental exposures as well as measures of individual susceptibility genetic polymorphisms in ED-related genes.
Environmental Exposures and Health Outcomes
Primary Environmental Exposures: Endocrine disruptors and factors in the urban built environment
Primary Health Outcomes: Body size, physical activity, neurodevelopmental impairment, biomarkers (urine and saliva), determinants of puberty including age at each stage of breast development, maternal and child stress.
Project 1: Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem (Community-Based Participatory Research)
This community-based participatory research (CBPR) project is studying childhood obesity in relation to structural features and endocrine disruptor (ED) exposures in the urban built environment of East Harlem. The specific objective of this project is to assess accessibility to physical activity resources and to healthy foods.
Project 2: Pesticides, Endocrine Disruptors, Childhood Growth and Development (Birth Cohort)
The objective of this research project is to complete a continuing prospective epidemiologic study of an ethnically diverse birth cohort of infants born at Mount Sinai.
Project 3: Genetics of Phthalate and Bisphenol A Risk in Minority Populations (Individual Susceptibility)
The objective of this research project is to study seven genetic polymorphisms in the enzymes that activate and detoxify organophosphates and other pesticides in the population of mothers and infants enrolled in project Pesticides, Endocrine Disruptors, Childhood Growth and Development (Birth Cohort).
Project 1: Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem
This project is examining the built-environment, or neighborhood characteristics, associated endocrine disruptor (ED) exposures, and their effects on child growth and development. The project looks at differing levels of chemicals from things like plastic and their effect on children.
Project 2: Exposure to Indoor Pesticides and PCBs and their effects on Growth and Neurodevelopment in Urban Children
This project is a prospective epidemiological study to characterize associations between maternal exposures to EDs including pesticides, plastic, and vehicle exhaust during pregnancy and infant development in a birth cohort. Measuring these levels in pregnant women and their children shortly after birth and measuring the children's development will helps researchers chart exactly how and why EDs have the effect they do.
Project 3: Genetics of Chlorpyrifos Risk in Minority Populations
Investigators are continuing in this project to develop measures of individual susceptibility, focusing on metabolism of EDs. Studies of susceptibility factors in concert with environmental exposures and in relation to development are being undertaken with families in Project 2. These studies look at the genetic and molecular level effect of EDs on children and how they can be identified.
Project 4: Prenatal PCB Exposure and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Adolescence and Adulthood
Subjects are a sub-cohort 162 African-Americans from the Collaborative Perinatal Project (CPP) cohort enrolled at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (CPMC). The aim of the phase 2 project is to evaluate the relation of prenatal PCB exposure to neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 39 and over the life course through that age in the same sub-cohort studied in phase 1.
Project 5: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms of Environmental Toxicants: PCBs and Pesticides
Our final research project is an experimental neurodevelopmental study that is intended to elucidate the mechanism by which PCBs and other environmental agents adversely affect neuroendocrine and early reproductive development. Using a female rat model, this project will examine the role of developing GnRH neurons and their neuronal and glial inputs in the neuroendocrine dysfunctions that occur in organisms exposed to environmental toxicants.
The Mount Sinai Children's Center is also conducting the World Trade Center Pregnancy Outcome Study following a cohort of women who were pregnant on 9/11/01 and were directly exposed to airborne toxicants at the WTC site. Among the factors being measured are child development, environmental exposures, maternal and child stress.
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The main goal of the Mount Sinai Community Outreach and Translation Core (COTC) is to develop, implement and evaluate strategies to translate scientific findings on childrens environmental health into information that can be used by the local community, policy makers and clinical professionals.
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Tennessee firing Dooley was inevitable
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Given the embarrassing 41-18 rout the Volunteers suffered Saturday at the hands of Vanderbilt, a lot of Tennessee fans figured he wouldn't make the bus ride home.
Dooley could see it was inevitable. Winless in the SEC and assured of his third straight losing season — a first for Tennessee since William Howard Taft was president — the desperation on his face as quarterback Tyler Bray threw one miscue after another in Nashville was evident, as was the look of depressed resignation when the Commodores put the game out of hand.
Many Vanderbilt fans hadn't gotten home from their celebration party when the news of Dooley's firing broke.
"Derek and I met early this morning, and I informed him that I believed a change in leadership, despite the positive contributions he has made to the overall health of the program, was in the best long-term interests of Tennessee football," Vols athletic director Dave Hart said through a written statement. "We will immediately begin the search for the best possible candidate to assume this leadership role."
Dooley's fate seemed sealed after the Vols lost to Missouri in overtime, although two wins against Vandy and Kentucky might have extended his tenure, at least for a while.
He had certainly been given the benefit of every doubt. Tennessee was a mess when Dooley arrived. The firing of Phil Fulmer still sparked passionate debate among Vols faithful, and the Lane Kiffin fiasco was like a blow to the head.
But the young new coach offered promise. He was polished, professional, and possessed a boot-strap work ethic and inspirational demeanor. He had worked for Nick Saban, which is like being trained at the feet of Zeus in the SEC. And he also sprang from legendary stock.
Father Vince Dooley was a conspicuous presence at many of his son's games, often standing in the back of the room during press conferences studying stat sheets as if they were the Rosetta stone. The elder Dooley even wore orange, a visual affront to those Georgia fans who still viewed the Dooleys as one step removed from royalty.
Derek Dooley was given a lot of leeway in his first couple of seasons at Tennessee. The Kiffin hangover lingered through the first year. The second year, injuries and a brutal accident of scheduling left the Vols reeling.
But the third year was to be the charm. The freshmen first coached by Dooley were juniors now, including Bray who was mentioned in the same sentence with the word "Heisman" in and around Knoxville. A wide-open passing game was supposed to put incredible numbers on the board for the Vols, and a vastly improved defense would lead to a wealth of wins. Plus, Tennessee had constructed one of the most post athletic centers in the nation to attract and retain the nation's best recruits.
An opening victory against North Carolina State in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Classic only heightened expectations.
But then losses to Florida, Georgia, Mississippi State, Alabama and South Carolina in a six-game stretch deflated it all, and sent Vol fans over the edge.
Throw in the fact that Hart didn't hire Dooley, and the outcome was evident for all to see. The loss to Vandy simply expedited the timing.
"I am sorry we could not generate enough wins to create hope for a brighter future," Dooley said through a statement of his own. "Although progress was not reflected in our record, I am proud of the strides we made to strengthen the foundation for future success in all areas of the program. During the last 34 months, I've given my all for Tennessee, and our family appreciates all this University and the Knoxville community has given us."
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In celestial mechanics, perihelion precession, apsidal precession or orbital precession is the precession (rotation) of the orbit of a celestial body. More precisely, it is the gradual rotation of the line joining the apsides of an orbit, which are the points of closest and farthest approach. Perihelion is the closest point to the Sun. The apsidal precession is the first derivative of the argument of periapsis, one of the six primary orbital elements of an orbit.
The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchos noted the apsidal precession of the Moon's orbit;[1] it is corrected for in the Antikythera Mechanism (circa 80 BCE) with the rather exact value of 8.88 years per full cycle, correct within 0.34%.[2] The precession of the solar apsides was discovered in the eleventh century by al-Zarqālī.[3] The lunar apsidal precession was not accounted for in Claudius Ptolemy's Almagest, and as a group these precessions, the result of a plethora of phenomena, remained difficult to account for until the 19th century when the last unidentified part of Mercury's precession was precisely predicted in Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.[4]
There are a variety of factors which can lead to periastron precession, such as general relativity, stellar quadrupole moments, mutual star–planet tidal deformations, and perturbations from other planets.[5]
- ωtotal = ωGeneral Relativity + ωquadrupole + ωtide + ωperturbations
For Mercury, the perihelion precession rate due to general relativistic effects is 43″ per century. By comparison, the precession due to perturbations from the other solar system planets is 532″ per century while the oblateness of the Sun (quadrupole moment) causes a negligible contribution of 0.025″ per century.[6][7]
From classical mechanics, if stars and planets are considered to be purely spherical masses, then they will obey a simple r−2 force law and hence execute closed elliptical orbits. Non-spherical mass effects are caused by the application of external potential(s): the centrifugal potential of spinning bodies causes rotational flattening and the tidal potential of a nearby mass raises tidal bulges. Rotational and tidal bulges create gravitational quadrupole fields (r−3) that lead to orbital precession
Total apsidal precession broadly in order of importance for isolated very hot Jupiters is (considering only lowest order effects)
- ωtotal = ωtidal perturbations + ωGeneral Relativity + ωrotational perturbations + ωrotational * + ωtidal *
with planetary tidal bulge being the dominant term, exceeding the effects of general relativity and the stellar quadrupole by more than an order of magnitude and thus can help us in understanding their interiors. For the shortest-period planets, the planetary interior induces precession of a few degrees per year and up to 19◦.9° per year for WASP-12b.[8][9]
Newton's theorem of revolving orbits[edit]
Newton derived an intriguing theorem showing that variations in the angular motion of a particle can be accounted for by the addition of a force that varies as the inverse cube of distance, without affecting the radial motion of a particle. Using a forerunner of the Taylor series, Newton generalized his theorem to all force laws provided that the deviations from circular orbits is small, which is valid for most planets in the Solar System. However, his theorem did not account for the apsidal precession of the Moon without giving up the inverse-square law of Newton's law of universal gravitation.
Perturbation theory[edit]
The expected rate of apsidal precession can be calculated more accurately using the methods of perturbation theory.
General relativity[edit]
An apsidal precession of the planet Mercury was noted by Urbain Le Verrier in the mid-19th century and accounted for by Einstein's general theory of relativity. To first approximation, this theory adds a central force that varies as the inverse fourth power of the distance.
Einstein showed that for a planet, the major semi-axis of its orbit being , the eccentricity of the orbit e and the period of revolution T, then the apsidal precession due to relativistic effects, during one period of revolution in radians, is
where c is the speed of light.[10] In the case of Mercury, half of the greater axis is circa 57,9 million kilometers or 57,9 · 109 m, the eccentricity of its orbit is 0,206 and the period of revolution 87,97 days, or 7,6 106 s. From these and the speed of light (which is 3 108 m/s), it can be calculated that the apsidial precession during one period of revolution is = 5,028 · 10−7 radians, 2,88 · 10−5 degrees or 0,104 arc seconds. In one hundred years, Mercury makes circa 415 revolutions around the Sun, and thus in that time, the apsidal perihelion due to relativistic effects is circa 43 arc seconds, which corresponds almost exactly to the previously unexplained part of the measured value.
Long-term climate[edit]
Because of apsidal precession the Earth's argument of periapsis slowly increases; it takes about 112,000 years for the ellipse to revolve once relative to the fixed stars. The Earth's polar axis, and hence the solstices and equinoxes, precess with a period of about 26,000 years in relation to the fixed stars. These two forms of 'precession' combine so that it takes about 21,000 years for the ellipse to revolve once relative to the vernal equinox, that is, for the perihelion to return to the same date (given a calendar that tracks the seasons perfectly).[11]
This interaction between the anomalistic and tropical cycle is important in the long-term climate variations on Earth, called the Milankovitch cycles. An equivalent is also known on Mars.
The figure illustrates the effects of precession on the northern hemisphere seasons, relative to perihelion and aphelion. Notice that the areas swept during a specific season changes through time. Orbital mechanics require that the length of the seasons be proportional to the swept areas of the seasonal quadrants, so when the orbital eccentricity is extreme, the seasons on the far side of the orbit may be substantially longer in duration.
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- ^ Toomer, G. J. (1969), "The Solar Theory of az-Zarqāl: A History of Errors", Centaurus 14 (1): 306–36, Bibcode:1969Cent...14..306T, doi:10.1111/j.1600-0498.1969.tb00146.x, at pp. 314-17.
- ^ Einstein, Albert. "Explanation of the Perihelion Motion of Mercury from General Relativity Theory" (PDF). Retrieved August 6, 2014.
- ^ David M. Kipping (8 August 2011). The Transits of Extrasolar Planets with Moons. Springer. pp. 84–. ISBN 978-3-642-22269-6. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
- ^ Kane, S. R., Horner, J., & von Braun, K. (2012). Cyclic Transit Probabilities of Long-period Eccentric Planets due to Periastron Precession. The Astrophysical Journal, 757(1), 105.
- ^ Richard Fitzpatrick (30 June 2012). An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-107-02381-9. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ Ragozzine, D., & Wolf, A. S. (2009). Probing the interiors of very hot Jupiters using transit light curves. The Astrophysical Journal, 698(2), 1778.
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- ^ Hawking, Stephen. On the Shoulders of Giants : the Great Works of Physics and Astronomy. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Running Press. pp. 1243, Foundation of the General Relativity (translated from Albert Einstein's Die Grundlage der Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, first published in 1916 in Annalen der Physik, volume 49). ISBN 0-7624-1348-4.
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Burney's OC All-American Men's Hoops Squad
G Kalin Lucas (OL St. Mary's/Michigan State) – Arguably the best point guard in the nation, so I suppose he's good enough to run the point for my squad of OC'ers
G Ray McCallum, Jr. (Birmingham DCD/UofD-Mercy) – All I can say is: WATCH OUT for this phenom, who I'm saying will dominate the Horizon League this season as a true frosh…anybody who knows Burney knows he likes to lather himself up in some of that rich and buttery RMJ cornbread and they'll be plenty to go around very soon over in TITAN LAND!
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