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-Seedbox: P4 3.1GHz, 1gb ram, gigabit network card, Server v. 1.10.51
-Personal: C2D 3.8GHz, 3gb ram, gigabit network cards, Server v. 1.10.51
Network: Cat. 6 (gigabit) cables, gigabit cisco router.
Issue: When playing back video on my seedbox (and running no other programs, to test this problem) I get occasional drops in audio transmission - in relatively silent scenes where there is only the sound of two people talking and very little background noise the audio cuts out between sentences (when there is only the barely audible buzzing of background static), which is no problem in itself, but when it goes to resume the audio (someone starts talking again) it can't register quickly enough causing the first (half)second of speech to get cut off all the time.
I assumed it might be a bandwidth or resource conserving measure, but ctrlaltdel-panel resource and network manager shows under 20% CPU usage, 60% ram usage (1.5gb pagefile not included) and 1 - 1.5% network usage. Also worth noting is that I get no such audio cutoff that I could notice when playing back the same video on my Personal rig. I though I should ask anyway if there's a parameter anywhere that sets the media server to cut audio transmission below x db or anything like that to preserve resources/bandwidth on weaker computers.
EDIT: Missed the debug, uploading it now - was a few weeks long, so cut it down to within an hour of playback. Seedbox is ip 192.168.1.3 and personal is ip 192.168.1.2.


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IHearChains wrote:Dale Jordal wrote:IHearChains wrote: Maybe the biggest impact will be on giving a better impression to all the non-golfers that drive by there, who will now see something way more interesting and attractive than a mudhole.
My thoughts exactly, I've had something very similar planned for poles 7 & 13 at our course. Both poles are near a major road ( #7 Hwy 69 & #13 Golf Course Road ) and very much in view for the public. It was also planed to make the poles a little more diffiucult as they are some of the lower scoring poles,m however it was as much for show and attenstion as anything.
That was going to be this years projects, however the money I had for landscaping block now has to be used to add some new tee boxes due to a change in our " woods " ( Most of our trees are now gone )
Wow that is too bad, What happened to the woods, disease or bug infestation or something else?
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Published: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
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Walt Disney World has unveiled plans for a major expansion of the Downtown Disney shopping destination, which will be renamed Disney Springs to signal its transformation into "a unique destination that will treat guests to significantly more shopping, dining and entertainment amid beautiful open-air promenades, meandering springs and waterfront charm," according to a news release.
Unlike the parks, there is free parking and no admission charge, so the complex has to rely on pizzazz to separate visitors from their dollars.
Disney Springs will double the number of shops, restaurants and other venues, resulting in more than 150 establishments.
The destination will include four outdoor neighborhoods interconnected by a flowing spring and lakefront. In addition to a new gateway with a water tower and grand entry, the complex will feature a Town Center with shopping, dining and a promenade and a commercial district called the Landing, with waterfront views. Additionally, it will include the Marketplace with an over-the-water pedestrian causeway and an expanded World of Disney store, and a West Side with entertainment options and "a series of new elevated spaces that provide both shade and an overlook to the activity below," the release said.
Construction is scheduled to begin in April, with new areas opening in phases. Disney Springs is expected to be complete in 2016.
The shopping destination, which opened in 1975, has been in flux since the nightclub zone Pleasure Island closed in 2008. Downtown Disney encompasses three areas, the original Marketplace, Pleasure Island and the new West Side.
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PLEASANTON -- A wind turbine project slated for the Altamont Pass cleared a major hurdle Thursday, paving the way for a real-world test of a new "shrouded" windmill designed to be less lethal to birds and bats.
The three-member East County Board of Zoning Adjustments unanimously approved a conditional use permit for Ogin Inc. to build the first phase of 40 shrouded turbines in the Altamont Wind Resource Area east of Livermore. The experiment will gauge the impact of the wind technology on four raptor species -- the golden eagle, burrowing owl, American kestrel and red-tailed hawk -- over the course of at least a year.
"It was important that we do our homework," said board chairman Jon Harvey. "It's an experiment by which any project that follows this will be a precedent, for better or worse -- and probably the better."
Barring an appeal to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the Sand Hill project's four-megawatt initial construction phase could break ground as early as this summer, the first repower of turbines on the Altamont Pass since a 2005 settlement agreement among wind energy companies, environmental groups and the county.
"It's groundbreaking in that it is a repower with a new technology," said Sandra Rivera, the county's assistant planning director. "It has the potential for providing more information on efficient wind technology with less impact to birds than the technology there now."
Ogin will replace 73 conventional windmills with the shrouded turbines, which have two concentric covers around the blades to make them, in theory, less accessible to approaching birds and bats.
The company chose the Altamont Pass for the experiment because it's one of the world's most studied areas for impacts and also among the most deadly -- thousands of birds die from collisions with windmill blades every year.
"From a study point of view, it's perfect," said independent researcher Shawn Smallwood, who has been counting fatalities for Ogin since 2012. "That corridor is the worst in the Altamont for killing birds."
An initial mortality study will conclude in 2015 and will be extended if the turbines prove safer.
Ogin has plans to install 330 more shrouded turbines in the future, depending on results and a peer review of the data collected from the study, which was approved by the Altamont Scientific Review Committee.
The project has the support of Audubon California, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the conservation group Defenders of Wildlife. Ogin has said they won't move ahead with further construction phases if the turbines aren't effective in reducing fatalities.
"In order to gain an acceptance of expanded wind energy ... we need innovative solutions," said Ogin's director of business development, Peter Pawlowski. "Our turbine is part of that solution."
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Saturday, 05/28/1994
Laguna Seca Raceway, Monterey, CA
Set 1: Rift > SampleSample in a Jar, Foam, Bouncin'Bouncing Around the Room, Stash, HorseThe Horse > SilentSilent in the Morning > SlothThe Sloth, Maze, Cavern
Set 2: Axilla (Part II) > It's Ice > Tweezer > Lifeboy > Reba[1], Fee[2] > Llama, YEMYou Enjoy Myself[3]
Encore: Poor Heart
[1] No whistling.
[2] Trey sang verses through megaphone.
[3] Les Claypool on bass and Fish on vacuum; no vocal jam.
· Theme from Popeye tease in Tweezer
· Dueling Banjos tease in Poor Heart
· Gimme Some Lovin', Dueling Banjos, and Yankee Doodle teases in You Enjoy Myself
Noteworthy Jams: It's Ice (highly recommended), Reba (highly recommended)
Average Song Gap: 2.84
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Les Claypool (Guest)
Notes: This performance was part of the Laguna Seca Daze Festival that also included Sausage, Gin Blossoms and Freddy Jones Band. Trey teased the theme from Popeye (Sailor's Hornpipe) in Tweezer. Reba did not have the whistling ending. Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. YEM featured Les Claypool playing on a second bass guitar and Fish on vacuum, and included a band-accompanied bass duel between Mike and Les and a Gimme Some Lovin' tease from Page, Dueling Banjos teases in the jam segment, and a Yankee Doodle tease. YEM ended without a vocal jam. Dueling Banjos was also teased before and during Poor Heart.
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5 Stash
5 Rift
5 A Picture of Nectar
3 Hoist
3 Junta
2 Lawn Boy
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
1 The White Tape
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This show was part of the "1994 Spring Tour."
The second set has many individual highlights that don't create a very succinct whole. It's Ice is average. Tweezer, Reba, and YEM are all very quirky. At one point Tweezer reaches this place that, if I were to attempt to describe, I'd call Phishgrass + folk music from the alps. That probably isn't very close, but it gets different in the middle of the jam. The Reba is the highlight of the show. Despite not having the best peak, it is a very unique version that warrants multiple listens. YEM with Claypool is pretty fun. Claypool definitely adds some new flavor to it.
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LONDON -- Linebacker Patrick Willis said the 49ers' bye week has come at a "perfect" time, following an 11-day trip capped by a 42-10 win here over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The 49ers (6-2) spent Sunday night in London before flying home Monday amid the United Kingdom's travel chaos, a result of an overnight storm with high winds.
"This week will be good for everybody to get their bodies back and for us to get ahead," Willis said.
Their five-game winning streak is the league's second-longest current streak, behind the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs (8-0). All five of those 49ers wins have come by double-digit margins for the first time since 1995.
No one was complaining about the bye breaking up any momentum before their next game, Nov. 10 at home against the Carolina Panthers. After that homecoming is another set of back-to-back road games: at New Orleans and Washington.
Rather than outright dismiss his team for this week, coach Jim Harbaugh said "opportunity practices" will be held Tuesday and Wednesday.
Those sessions could afford the 49ers more opportunities to evaluate three players -- wide receiver Mario Manningham, cornerback Eric Wright and defensive tackle Tank Carradine -- in their final eligible week on reserve/injured lists. All three are expected to be added to the active roster next week, and the 49ers will have to make corresponding moves to create room for them.
Left tackle Joe Staley said he'll take advantage of the break to rest a body that was one of the few not on last week's injury report. There were 14 other starters listed with ailments, including all three defensive linemen -- Justin Smith (shoulder), Ray McDonald (biceps) and Glenn Dorsey (hamstring) -- who rested most of Sunday's second half.
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9.2-2 Burglary in the First Degree -- § 53a-101 (a) (3)
Revised to November 1, 2008Note: This instruction is for crimes committed on or after March 1, 2008. For the instruction for crimes committed before that date, see Instruction 9.2-2A in the Archive.
The defendant is charged [in count __] with burglary in the first degree. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
a person is guilty of burglary in the first degree when such person unlawfully (enters / remains in)1 a dwelling at night with intent to commit a crime therein.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Entered/remained in
The first element is that the defendant knowingly and unlawfully (entered / remained in) a dwelling. A person acts "knowingly" with respect to conduct or circumstances when (he/she) is aware that (his/her) conduct is of such nature or that such circumstances exist. <See Knowledge, Instruction 2.3-3>.
"Dwelling" means a building that is usually occupied by a person lodging therein at night, whether or not a person is actually present. Therefore, a structure that cannot possibly be occupied as a lodging cannot be a dwelling. It need not, however, be actually occupied by any person at the time of crime; it does not lose its character as a dwelling merely because it is temporarily unoccupied, if such occupancy at night is its usual state.
You must also determine whether the defendant unlawfully (entered / remained in) the dwelling. A person unlawfully (enters / remains in) a dwelling when (he/she) is not licensed or privileged to do so. To be "licensed or privileged," the defendant must either have consent from the person in possession of the dwelling or have some other right to be in the dwelling.
[To "enter" a dwelling the intruder need not necessarily place (his/her) entire body inside the dwelling. Inserting any part of (his/her) body, or an implement or weapon held by (him/her), within the dwelling is sufficient to constitute an entry as long as it is without license or privilege. It does not matter how an intruder may actually have entered; if (he/she) did so without license or privilege, (he/she) has entered unlawfully.]
[A person may have entered a dwelling lawfully, that is, (he/she) had the right or had been given permission, but that right is terminated or the permission withdrawn by someone who had a right to terminate or withdraw it. You may find that the defendant "unlawfully remained" in the dwelling under these circumstances.]
Element 2 - At night
The second element is that the defendant (entered / remained in) the dwelling at night. "Night" means the period between thirty minutes after sunset and thirty minutes before sunrise.2
Element 3 - Intent to commit a
The third element is that the defendant intended to commit a crime in that dwelling. A person acts "intentionally" with respect to a result when (his/her) conscious objective is to cause such result. <See Intent: Specific, Instruction 2.3-1.>
Even if the defendant never actually committed a crime in the dwelling, if the evidence establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that (he/she) was there with such intention, this is sufficient to prove that the defendant unlawfully (entered / remained in) the dwelling with the intent to commit a crime therein. Furthermore, the necessary intent to commit a crime must be an intent to commit either a felony or a misdemeanor in addition to the unlawful entering or remaining in the dwelling.
In this case, the state claims that the defendant intended to commit <insert crime>. <Refer to the count in which this crime is charged or, if uncharged, give the elements of the crime.>
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant 1) unlawfully (entered / remained in) a dwelling, 2) it was at night, and 3) (he/she) had the intent to commit a crime.
If you unanimously find that the state
has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of the crime of
burglary in the second degree, then you shall find the defendant guilty. On the
other hand, if you unanimously find that the state has failed to prove beyond a
reasonable doubt any of the elements, you shall then find the defendant not
1 Do not instruct on both "unlawful entering" and "unlawful remaining" if the information and the evidence could support a conceptual distinction between the two. See "enters or remains unlawfully" in the glossary.
"The time of sunrise and sunset on any given day is a matter that falls within
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resort to easily accessible sources of indisputable accuracy and therefore may
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By Angela Roy of Mommy PR
I bet you never thought you would be reading how to build a nut house. With kids, it's always something, right?
We have been feeding our backyard squirrels for a while now. It's something that I remember doing with my late grandpa. He would be swarmed by the local wildlife just eating out of his hands. I would just sit in amazement as they acted like house pets to his every move. Ahh, the memories.
Anyway, I wanted my girls to build some "Nut Boxes", just little containers to hold squirrel feed; nuts, corn, sunflower seeds, etc. (You can also make these boxes to hold trinkets, craft supplies, jewelry, or candy. They are very versatile.) I made this affordable for anyone, because all the items are from The Dollar Tree (you know, the place where everything under the sun is only $1).
You will need:
- Popsicle Sticks- I bought 2 bags of 100 sticks ($2)
- Glue- ($1)
- Peanuts- ($1)
- Leaves, Pine Cones- Free, just let the kids pick items from outside
- Bird Topper- Optional ($1 for pack of 2)
Your total cost should only be $5
Step 1:
Lay two sticks down, about the length of the Popsicle sticks apart from each other, and glue 10 sticks across them to build a base.
Step 2:
Glue one stick along each side slightly overlapping each end atop the end of another stick. Continue until you reach the depth you want for your container.
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While your box is drying, make another "base" as in Step 1. This will be your top. Let the kids really use their imagination on this part. Pine cones, birds, rocks, etc. Whatever you want as your top.
Step 4:
Allow to dry and then fill with your favorite foods for the animals or your other furry friends. This can be dog treats for Fido, nuts for the squirrels, or even candy for Grandpa.
An extra you can do; If you get the plain Popsicle sticks, you can let the kids paint something on the sides. Also, we are leery of leaving a full box outside. We learned that the birds and squirrels sure are stronger and more nosy than we thought. They ate both boxes and dumped them on the ground! (see photo below) We keep joking that soon we are going to see them so fat they will be dragging their bellies across the grass.
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The Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, OH
Set 1: Night Speaks to a Woman, Sleep Again, Sand, Shine, Dark and Down, Invisible[1], Alive Again, Come As Melody, Sample in a Jar[2], Dirt[2], At the Gazebo[2], Pebbles and Marbles[2], Chalk Dust Torture[2], Money, Love and Change, Tuesday, 46 Days, Push On 'Til the Day
Encore: First Tube > Cincinnati[3]
[1] Trey and Les on acoustic.
[2] Trey solo acoustic.
[3] No intro.
Notes: Tea Leaf Green opened. This setlist is unconfirmed as recordings of the performance do not circulate. A pre-recorded version of "70 Volt Parade" was played over the P.A. as the band took the stage. "Invisible" featured Trey and Les on acoustic guitars. Trey performed "Sample" through "Chalk Dust" solo acoustic.
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Here are the states with the biggest changes in weekly unemployment benefit applications. The state level data is for the week ended Feb. 9, one week behind the national data:
States with the biggest increases:
Kansas: Up 2,344, due to layoffs in transportation manufacturing. It was the only state listed with an increase above 1,000.
States with the biggest decreases:
California: Down 4,830, due to fewer layoffs in agriculture and services
New York: Down 4,401, due to fewer layoffs in transportation, construction and educational services
Oregon: Down 2,211, no reason given
Pennsylvania: Down 2,020, due to fewer layoffs in construction, transportation, entertainment, restaurants and retail
Wisconsin: Down 1,670, no reason given
North Carolina: Down 1,463, due to fewer layoffs in machinery, computer equipment and construction
Massachusetts: Down 1,349, due to fewer layoffs in construction, hotels and administrative support


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I�m back from my trip to Jackson Hole, Wy., and I�m not in traction. No body cast, no gimpy limping, not even any (visible) bruising.
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It's time for the Blue Ridge Barbecue and Music Festival
Published: Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 10:08 p.m.
TRYON Bring your appetite and some folding chairs to the Blue Ridge Barbecue and Musical Festival on Friday and Saturday at Harmon Field in Tryon.
We can all use some fun that doesnt cost a fortune and thats exactly what the Blue Ridge Barbecue and Music Festival delivers, says Dale Musselwhite, festival chairman.
The entire family can enjoy a full-line up of live music, a juried craft show, kids activities, a stroll through Hog Heaven where 80 cookers are vying for trophies, cash prizes, and bragging rights plus all the festivities that have built the festival a loyal following during its 17 years of operation.
Of course barbecue and music are the main attractions.
More than 75 cookers from all over the U.S. will compete for prizes. Festival-goers can stroll through Hog Heaven to see the teams at work and pick-up some cooking tips. Several of the competitors also will have their award-winning barbecue for sale. Hot dogs, drinks and other festival fare will be offered at family-friendly prices, as well.
The live music on the Main Stage will include headliners The Belleville Outfit and Geoff Achison on Friday night. Saturdays lineup kicks off with Rock and Roll Reunion, followed by Gary Ray and the Heartwells from Atlanta; South 85; the distinctive sound of the Nouveaux Honkies; champion fiddle player April Verch who appeared at the Opening Ceremonies at Winter Olympics; Seth Walker from Austin, Texas; and Scoot Pittman from Charlotte.
The Riverside Stage on Saturday has a full lineup of acoustic acts, including the Honeycutters.
Nowhere else but the Blue Ridge Barbecue are you going to go to see this scope and caliber of music for $7, says Musselwhite.
Childrens events
Kids at the barbecue can join in a game of water-balloon bowling, help set up a Domino disaster or try their skill with marbles. They can dress up in the princess tent and the costume tent, create art with survey tape and put their mark on a mural, plus so much more.
The barbecue will have carnival rides on site for an additional cost of $10, which provides festival goers with unlimited rides on Friday from 3 to 7 p.m.
The second annual Rubber Ducky River Race down the mighty Pacolet River (will be held) on Friday and Saturday, Musselwhite adds.
For $5 per duck to enter, proceeds from the friendly race will benefit Harmon Field Youth Sports.
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I've just woken from a dream during which the phone rang. As I woke, I caught the faint whiff of perfume.
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It's four weeks today and I miss you dreadfully, Susan. I'm aware my mind's playing all sorts of tricks with me, but I know I'm not alone and it's very comforting.


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By Amanda Kim Stairrett, 1st Inf. Div. Public AffairsFebruary 6, 2012
FORT RILEY, Kan. (Feb. 6, 2012) -- The Chief of Staff of the Army discussed with Kansas reporters the 1st Infantry Division's preparations for deployment as well as the impact of looming force reductions for the Army during a press conference Friday.
Gen. Raymond T. Odierno was at Fort Riley to assess the week-long command post exercise that is preparing the 1st Infantry Division's headquarters for its first deployment to Afghanistan.
Almost 3,000 military and civilian personnel from five nations and every branch of the Armed Forces were involved in the exercise, known as Unified Endeavor 12-01. They took part from Fort Riley to Germany, and from Fort Knox, Ky., to Suffolk, Va.
The cooperation between all signified the "joint, multinational nature of our mission in Afghanistan," Odierno said to members of the Kansas media during a Friday press conference.
The "incredibly realistic" exercise walked the division's leaders and soldiers through the mission they are set to conduct in Afghanistan, Odierno went on to say. "It's clear to me from what I've seen this week they will continue to do an incredible job as they prepare to deploy to Afghanistan."
While at Fort Riley, Odierno also addressed the Army's upcoming reduction of forces and possible rounds of Base Realignment and Closures, or BRAC.
The Army will begin a process this year and going to 2017 to reduce its forces by about 80,000. While the number of Soldiers must go down, the Army must do it right and take care of Soldiers and their families, Odierno said.
Many will be cut through natural attrition, and the leaders will try to limit forcing Soldiers out, he added.
The Army has to balance that process with ensuring it has the "right size force to continue the mission in Afghanistan over the next few years," Odierno said. Spreading the reduction out through 2017 will also mitigate the risk of unknown contingencies that could occur in the next few years, he added.
Odierno couldn't make Fort Riley-specific predictions relating to the cuts, but said every installation would be affected in some way.
"But I follow that up by saying you can see the investment we have made at Fort Riley," Odierno said. "Fort Riley is considered to be one of our enduring installations and it's one of our installations where we feel we have an incredible capacity to train, a capability to take care of our Soldiers and that will certainly be a large consideration as we go through this process. So, this is a place, obviously, that we will continue to have a large contingent of Army forces for a very long time to come."
The first two units to be cut from the Army's rolls are two Europe-based brigades (in 2013 and 2014), and leaders are analyzing where other units will face reductions.
Defense Department officials have also requested from Congress BRAC rounds in 2013 and 2015, Odierno said. Congress must approve the process before an installation is reduced.
"Whether they approve that or not, we don't know," Odierno said. "I will say, though, that the Army did well in the last BRAC round."
If it was approved, he went on to say, it would probably be some small adjustments around the edges.
Odierno also mentioned the Army will see reductions in its civilian and contractor workforces.
"Now again, none of those decisions have been made, but that will have to occur for us to meet the budget requirements that we have," Odierno said.


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Cerro Pedernal Climber's Log
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|Evening scramble
Date Climbed: May 26, 2016
|A quick evening hike/scramble between climbing in El Rito and trying to climb in Brazos. Great views of the Abiquiu area and southern Sangres. Trip report.
|Posted Jun 3, 2016 4:08 pm
|Cerro Pedernal
Date Climbed: May 7, 2012
|Hiked on a stormy and windy day. Luckily, all of the worst weather stayed away. This is a cool mountain and nice hike.
|Posted May 10, 2012 1:04 pm
|Temoline Canyon Route
Date Climbed: Jan 21, 2012
|Fun times going cross country in deep snow! Hard work with a great reward at the top!!!
|Posted Jan 22, 2012 11:19 am
|Fun day hike
Date Climbed: Apr 23, 2011
|Lots of fun zones: slow four-wheeling up the approach road, steep climb through trees, flat pleasant meadow, hopping around loose scree, the four-step crux (if you can climb a 10ft ladder, you can climb this), a nice walk along the summit ridge finished by a beautiful view.
|Posted Apr 23, 2011 8:27 am
|Jeremy Hakes
|GREAT summit!
Date Climbed: Oct 16, 2010
|What a great peak! It lives up to its profile!
|Posted Oct 17, 2010 10:59 pm
|Cerro Pedernal
Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2010
|Second time up Cerro Pedernal. Nice hike, great views!
|Posted Aug 23, 2010 1:02 pm
|Nice Axe!
|Great climb!
Date Climbed: May 10, 2009
|I was so surprised at how fun this summit was! Highly recommend it!
|Posted Sep 16, 2009 4:22 pm
|nice hike and views
Date Climbed: May 10, 2009
|finally climbed it after seeing it all the time driving to/from colorado. highly recommended! it was a short scamper for us since we drove to the end of the 4WD road.
|Posted May 11, 2009 9:18 am
|Temolime Canyon
Date Climbed: Nov 25, 2006
|Grew up in Los Alamos, so this was good to finally get up there! Scenery is amazing and the long summit plateau offers great vantage points.
|Posted May 24, 2007 6:25 pm
Date Climbed: Feb 20, 2006
|Totally fun and spectacular mountain with a great summit. A bit of a chilly wind this time of year. I would be hard pressed to call the crux class 4. Just a stiff and short class 3.
|Posted Feb 21, 2006 7:42 am
|Route Climbed: Temolime Canyon Route Date Climbed: July 23, 2005
|Climbed with my husband, Ed.
|Posted Jul 25, 2005 6:15 pm
|Ed F
|Route Climbed: Temolime Canyon Route Date Climbed: July 23, 2005
|Climbed this great peak on a daytrip from Taos. The high desert here is enchanting.
Trip Report: Cerro Pedernal
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A Response to "Blood" editorial, "The Price of Drugs for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia"
Cancer Medicines Are Worth It
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Cutting edge cancer treatments offer patients hope in their battle against devastating diseases. They typically treat some of the most severe or rare diseases, where previously there were inadequate options. Since 1980, life expectancy for cancer patients has increased by about three years and over 80 percent of those gains are attributable to new treatments, including medicines.
The authors of the Blood editorial, "The Price of Drugs for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia," note that the 10-year survival for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients has increased from less than 20% to more than 80%, but question whether the cost of cancer medicines is worth it.
When considering cost, the tremendous value of medicines in the larger healthcare system cannot be overlooked. According to recent data from IMS Health, spending on oncologic medicines represented less than 1% of total national health expenditures in 2010. Additionally, only 14% of cancer-related costs are attributable to pharmaceuticals. But these medicines have significantly improved quality and length of life and contributed to a stronger understanding of complex cancers. This continual progress leads to us closer to future new treatments and, hopefully, cures.
The authors express concerns about the out-of-pocket costs for patients. We share that concern; the purpose of insurance is to spread the risk of a substantial loss over a large insured population so that sick patients are not burdened with inordinately high costs for life-saving or life-improving treatment. However, in contrast to other aspects of patient care, cancer medicines are often subject to greater cost-sharing. As one response to this disproportionate cost-sharing, biopharmaceutical companies offer patient assistance programs and support the Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA), which has helped nearly 8 million people to date.
The authors also inaccurately characterize the differences in pricing across countries. While they do exist, cross national price differentials are not as large as alleged and remain roughly in line with differences in per capita income. Another issue the authors misrepresent is patent settlements, which can benefit patients by bringing generics to market before the patents for brand-name medication expire.
Making centralized decisions about the average value of a new treatment at launch would have a chilling effect on innovation and physicians' abilities to customize care for individual patients. A case in point: the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) applied its cost effectiveness analysis and recommended restricting access to the CML treatment Gleevec, blocking access for many patients with this condition. Under pressure, NICE eventually reversed its initial recommendation, but it serves as an example of how such policies can conflict with patients' needs.
Policies like that used in the UK fail to recognize that progress does not happen with one breakthrough, but rather incremental stepping stones. Each new cancer medicine, whether it extends a life by six months or three years, reflects the cumulative nature of medical discovery. In addition, as each new medicine is used in the real world – earlier in the disease stage and in combination with other medicines – its full value is realized. This step-by-step transformation has led to increased survival, improved patient outcomes, and enhanced quality of life for CML patients and many other cancer patients.
As the study's authors point out, CML is no longer a death sentence for most patients. In fact, they have close to normal life expectancy. This progress would not have been possible without a substantial investment in drug development. We need thoughtful policies that support continued innovation and promote access and affordability for patients.


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"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."
-- Oriana Fallaci
The famed Italian journalist had more of that elusive art than most of the world leaders and celebrities she covered. Not only did she have a devastating way with words, but she was as equally fearless in the halls of power as she was in the trenches.
When she died, it has been said, the art of the interview died with her.
Hailed as "a dissecting interviewer of the powerful," Fallaci was a controversial figure whose heroism and fatal flaws are the stars of "Fallaci," a new play by Lawrence Wright. Directed by Oskar Eustis, this tale of Fallaci's last days makes its world premiere at Berkeley Rep on Friday through April 21 before heading to New York's Public Theatre.
Wright is no stranger to complex subject matter. First he penetrated the secret world of al-Qaida in the book "The Looming Tower." Then he exposed the inner workings of the Church of Scientology in the New York Times best-seller "Going Clear." Now the celebrated New Yorker writer is paying homage to the gutsy life and work of this iconoclastic reporter.
"She made journalism look sexy, thrilling and exciting," the Pulitzer-winning reporter says during a recent phone interview. "She had a formidable intelligence, she could plumb the depths of your soul and she could bring world leaders to heel. Her writing was like the tide -- it pulled you in, it was irresistible."
The daughter of a cabinetmaker in Florence, Fallaci was a study in contradictions, a celebrity reporter turned war correspondent who spent years on the front lines from Vietnam to the Middle East.
She cut a glamorous figure with her high cheekbones, glam eyeliner and the omnipresent cigarette dangling from her mouth, but she was all grit underneath. That unusual blend of style and steel is part of her mystique.
"Her concept of 'truth' is so mutable. She fiercely scavenges for it in interviews even as she manipulates it in her own life. Her contradictory nature, her inconsistencies, are so human and reflect her personal fragility," says Susie Medak, managing director of Berkeley Rep, where Concetta Tomei ("China Beach") will play the lead role.
"What I love about his play is that he enjoys all the contradictions. He loves everything that is messy about Fallaci's humanity."
No matter the milieu she was covering, Fallaci knew how to hold feet to the fire. She interviewed everyone from Clark Gable and Orson Welles to Henry Kissinger and Fidel Castro, and she never deferred in the face of authority. She was tough and incisive -- even when those qualities fell out of favor.
"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon," she once said. "I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born."
More than once, she shaped history, changing the course of foreign policy. She never worried about losing access or making enemies. She just called it like she saw it. The Los Angeles Times dubbed her "the journalist to whom virtually no world figure would say no."
"She had a reputation for being a bulldozer, but people still wanted to be interviewed by her," Wright says. "It was a rite of passage, it meant you were a man, that you could take it. When Fallaci wanted to interview you, it meant you had arrived."
Fallaci got her start in journalism delivering newspapers for the resistance, fighting against Benito Mussolini's repressive regime, as a child in World War II Italy. She went on to become a lookout for the resistance.
"It was a courageous thing to do," Wright says, "and she loved that spirit of resistance, fighting the Nazis, knowing that the truth was on her side."
Her tenacity in uncovering the truth never wavered. Danger did not faze her. She was shot three times and left for dead during the student riots before the 1968 Summer Olympics. Still, she put herself in harm's way time and again.
Kissinger described his encounter with Fallaci as the most disastrous conversation he ever had. Not only did he tell her that Vietnam was a "useless war," but he also called himself "the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse." That did not sit well with public opinion.
"An interview is a dance, a seduction. Fallaci knew how to catch people off guard," Wright says. "They often told her things they didn't intend to. She knew how to penetrate the veil they put up."
Like Fallaci, Wright has a reputation for being intrepid. His hard-hitting expose of Scientology has earned him a spot on the celebrity circuit, including a hilarious stint on "The Colbert Report." That boldness serves him well in capturing Fallaci's weaknesses as well as her triumphs.
Fallaci, who died of cancer at the age of 77 in 2006, remains an icon to many, particularly as a woman unafraid to assail the old-boy network. Alas, her legacy is mixed. Toward the end of her life, she drew notoriety for her vitriolic screeds against Islam. Her combative nature, the key to her genius as war correspondent, was also the chink in her armor.
"In the end, she was not fair-minded," Wright says. "In some ways, the play is my way of arguing with her. I admire her immensely, but I can also see her flaws."
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A party political broadcast on behalf of the Rory Leave McIlroy Alone party will follow shortly, but first a Christmas tale from the studios of LMFM radio in Drogheda.
A little over a year ago, at a time when like so many of my fellow Irishmen and women I was between jobs, I did some work with the good people at LMFM.
For two weeks over the Christmas holidays I was their mid-morning talk show host and, believe it or not, some people actually listened.
That, I suspect, was mostly down to the guests as the likes of Niall O'Dowd of this parish dropped back home to talk about life in the fast lane of publishing in Manhattan and other more trivial matters, like Joe Sheridan's goal for Meath against his beloved Louth in a certain Leinster football final.
Tommy Smyth of ESPN fame, another Louth man, and his lovely wife dropped in another morning to talk football and emigration and 9/11.
We had the great Brush Shiels singing "Fairytale of New York" to us down the phone line.
Paddy Goodwin, a local solicitor who prefers to play guitar, and Ireland's biggest Birmingham City fan Darren Hughes talked Christmas music with Ken "Glam" Murray of Spiders nightclub fame.
Dave Fanning and the wonderful comic actor Joe Rooney spoke of their favorite Christmas movies.
And a great man by the name of Shane McEntee came into studio for our review of the sporting year that was 2011 when he shared the chair with Paddy Carr, well known to local GAA fans in these parts, and the very witty Meath footballer Cian Ward.
Now Shane is a man I had known a long time, so he was comfortable company that morning.
As a young reporter, years ago now, I had watched him playing football for Nobber although never as well as his brothers Gerry or Andy.
In my time, I had seen him coach and manage various underage and senior teams in Meath, mostly with some success.
And I had always witnessed his passion for the GAA in general and Meath in particular, so I asked him that day if he really did ask the stewards to lock the gates and "make them watch" when the Kerry fans started to leave Croke Park early as Sean Boylan's charges hammered their football heroes in the 2001 All-Ireland semifinal.
Shane would only grin and laugh when that question was put to him that day, a grin and a laugh so wide and powerful that I can still see it clearly, even now when so many are still crying for the same Shane McEntee.
A year down the road from that day, I was back in the LMFM studio last week to again review the sporting year, 2012 this time.
This time I had a friend to remember, a man by the name of Shane McEntee who took his own life in such tragic circumstances and was buried on Christmas Eve when the rest of the country was preparing to celebrate.
It was hard to believe that the man who had grinned so happily a year earlier was being laid to rest that day as we stood in our thousands on the main street of his native Nobber.
His brother Gerry, the toughest of a tough bunch of Meath footballers in their day, told it as it was from the pulpit in the family's parish church as he poured scorn on those who had chosen to abuse Shane, publicly and online, for his role as a member of the governing party that is Fine Gael.
Gerry told those who had belittled and besieged his brother, those whom the family believe helped push him towards the crudest and cruelest deed of all, to be ashamed of themselves.
At a time when Ireland is openly and rightly debating the excesses of the Internet age and the cyber bullying that cost two Donegal sisters their lives, also by suicide, it was sobering and heartbreaking to see the ramifications so close to home.
I felt for Shane McEntee and for his family, both on the Friday before Christmas in Nobber and on the Wednesday after the festivities in the LMFM Studios in Drogheda.
And that's where Rory McIlroy enters the equation.
No debate about the sporting year of 2012 could fail to mark McIlroy as one of the stars alongside the Donegal footballers and Jim McGuinness and Katie Taylor and Jason Smyth.
Nobody in their right mind could question any decision to honor McIlroy for his feats on the golf course in the season that ended in the middle of December.


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In the April issue of Beverage World you might recall a story on emerging wine markets that I wrote. Among the markets mentioned was Portugal, a country that is becoming more widely recognized for its variety of wines that are specifically crafted with food in mind.
Last month, I attended a Wines of Portugal event at the Paramount—one of London's premier spots to enjoy a cocktail wile also getting to enjoy a 360-degree view of the city.
The afternoon was an opportunity to sample a selection of the "50 Greatest Portuguese Wines" chosen by Olly Smith, a British television presenter, wine expert and foodie and writer who appears regularly on BBC1's "Saturday Kitchen."
The theme of this year's event was "Great Value."
Smith writes: "Portuguese wines are a treasure trove of undiscovered gems. 'Great Value' is my theme for this year's '50 Great' and there's never been a better time to explore the excitement of Portugal's outstanding flavors across their vineyards."
There are 250 grape varietals in Portugal that are grown in diverse microclimates resulting in a wide range of wines. Because the wines are so food-friendly, Smith also grouped his selections by cuisine—sushi and sashimi, seafood, roast lamb, barbecue and dark chocolate.
There wasn't enough time to sample all 50, but the ones that I did get to sip really showed the wide range of wines available from the country—all priced reasonably, between £7 to £30, demonstrating great value for the quality.
FP, 2012 produced by winemaker Filipa Pato from the Bairrada region was among my favorites. It was light, fresh and flavorful without being too powerful. Another fwas Beyra Quartz, 2011 by Rui Roboredo Madeira, which reminded me of summer in a glass and dining al fresco.
Winemaker Francisco Figueiredo was present and sampling his Arenae, 2010 from the Lisboa region, one of the smallest D.O.Cs in Portugal right by the ocean. Producing only 12,000 to 15,000 liters of this wine a year, the winery uses a smaller bottle (half-liter) to have more to sell, Figueiredo told me. Retailing for £9 this wine was quite different from the rest, getting its salty flavor from the ocean. The perfect food pairing for this wine, according to the winemaker—oysters.
One of the bolder labels of the 50 was a wine from Fita Preta Vinhos—a red wine with a bright pink, almost metallic label called Sexy. Offensive? Maybe, but Nuno Maçanita, who was there representing the wine, said it's the best-selling wine in the winery's portfolio. Now being imported to the U.S., Sexy retails for £13 (about $20) and is described by Smith as "fruit-driven" and a "wine that's made ready to drink." If it brings attention to Portuguese wines or the region, Alentejo, then who can argue?
Though Portugal is known for blending its wines, there were some single varietals among the 50. Two I sampled were Casa Cadaval Trincadeira Vinhas Velhas, 2009 from the Tejo region made with 100 percent Trincadeira grapes and Julia Kemper Touriga Nacional, 2009 from the Dão region made from Touriga Nacional grapes. Both wineries have very small production runs making them that much more special.
But no matter what your personal preference, there was great wine for a good value in a great location—There's not much sexier than that.