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|Trad, 6 pitches, 900', Grade III
|YDS: 5.9 French: 5c Ewbanks: 17 UIAA: VI ZA: 17 British: HVS 5a [details]
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|Jesse Ryan on May 13, 2001 with updates from Greg D
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By Jim Amidon
Jun 25, 2001
|Really nice route another Sundance gem. The crack on the second pitch is wide and sustained. The last pitch of 5.9 is awesome, bring a minimum of a 3.5 Camalot and be ready to walk the dog........
By S. Kimball
Sep 17, 2002
|Jesse missed Sidetrack's primo pitch by joining Mainliner.Pitch #5 goes up a thin crack in blackish rock(5.9) to the bottom of an inverted "V" roof. Step into this from the left(5.8)then over the roof crack. IMHO Sundance's best 5.9.
By Charles Vernon
From: Tucson, AZ
Jun 20, 2003
Have to agree with Scott--the final 5.9 pitch is one of the best on Lumpy, and the real meat of the route--lots of awesome, steep and varied climbing on this pitch. The climbing is quite reasonable; the whole pitch seems easier than the 5.9 section on pitch two. Don't bail into Mainliner.
We combined pitches 1&2, as well as 3&4, which worked very well (minimal drag, good belays) with a 60 meter rope and a standard rack--I highly recommend doing it this way. (we had nothing larger than a #3 Camalot, which worked fine, though 3.5 and 4 would get used on the standard pitch 3). This route is, IMO, as good as Mainliner, and only a little harder--the first pitch is pretty runout at 5.8, though.
By S. Kimball
Jun 11, 2004
|Pitch #1 as described is a poor choice, better to climb the thin left arching crack a few steps west ,but still east of GRAPEVINE.When the crack ends faceclimb right on black incut holds to the belay.This is beautiful 5.8 and 9 climbing, protectable the whole way with small wires and tcu's.For what its worth D.Snivley and I did a variation to Pitch#2.Move out left and mantle up some large flakes then work up for pro in the regular line. Move out left and just before reaching GRAPEVINE jam an excellent 5.9+/10-, left facing red, dihedral that soon bends back to the normal route.
By John Keller
Jul 12, 2004
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|Just did this route over the weekend and I'm amazed that it isn't as popular as Mainliner. The full route is excellent. Kimball's comment about the start is the way to go. Rossiter has almost no description of this route but the topo is good. We used that and descriptions from two other books and it all worked out very well. Every pitch has good climbing on it. I thought pitch 4 was a bit harder than 6. The crack in pitch 5 is absolutely stellar. Just at the end of the crack there is a mini roof. After the roof the climb goes way left to get gear and holds then comes back right to enter the A roof from the left. It goes well but you'll need to extend the pieces at the end of the crack so avoid too much drag. The stemming in the roof was amazing and looks really hard but it was all there. As good as Mainliner IMHO.
By Errett Allen
Jul 13, 2004
|Better than Mainliner -- just as high quality but more sustained. Must do on Sundance. Pitch 5 is gorgeous and wild.
By kyle lefkoff
Sep 2, 2004
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|Climbed the first three pitches with Mike Alkaitis yesterday, then the next three pitches of Mainliner. I agree with Kimball's suggestion on the first pitch - start to the left. I would give this pitch an s rating. The combination with Mainliner provides six consistent pitches at the 5.8+/5.9 standard with splitter rock and excellent stances.
By Cale Csizmadi
From: Colorado Springs
Jul 14, 2005
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|We climbed the route this past weekend following the suggestion by Charles to combine the 1st four pitches into two pitches. This is definitely the way to climb this beauty. The final 5.9 pitch is one awesome lead!! I also thought this climb was better and more sustained than Mainliner-- IMHO :o)
By Luke Clarke
From: Golden
Jul 18, 2005
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|Best 9 on Sundance. Best 9 at Lumpy. Gillett's guide describes the same (excellent) start as Scott Kimball above. It's good small pro (RPs, a blue TCU) but at some easy points you're standing above your last placement and not seeing your next placement but the good holds lead to good gear.
By Will Butler
From: Boulder, CO
Sep 6, 2005
|I was [wondering] if anyone knows the name of the beautiful left facing, over hanging dihedral that can be done as a variation to the last pitch on climbers right. It was amazing climbing but it felt like it was rarely done. Thanks. - Will Butler
By SW Marlatt
From: Arvada, CO
Mar 16, 2006
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
Absolute agree on the 5th pitch - one of the nicest cracks you can imagine. We belayed at the top of the crack - short traverse left to a little, airy, very exposed perch, and worked up through the roof as a 6th pitch. The anchors here were a bit thin but ok (several small wires), but great position!
Wonderful route! You can bear off above the roof, or continue up and slightly right to top out (recommended).
By SirVato
From: Boulder
Jun 12, 2006
|I think I did the correct start but the only gear I saw was about 15ft up. I was planning on linking the first 3 pitches so I opted to skip it. Wouldn't have done much good anyways, since I got nothin' 'til about 60ft where I got 2 small wires. If you don't like really run out face climbing, I would definitely take the crack to the left.
By climber73
From: Fort Collins, CO
Apr 21, 2008
Between the small roof at the end of the hand crack on P5, and the final 5.9 roof, you don't need to go left. You can go straight up through the seams and broken crack systems at 5.8+R (not as hard as the short traverse on the face below the handcrack P5). The last piece of gear I was able to get was 5 or 6 ft over the lip of the small roof. I gunned for the top of the face and a solid #0.4 Camalot. This section is fun but committing. If you get through the 5.8 runout at the bottom without problems, this isn't all that much harder.
Fun route! Definitely more sustained than Mainliner... and the last roof is really fun with GREAT PRO! Don't bail onto Mainliner!!
By tooTALLtim
From: Boulder, CO
Nov 2, 2008
|P5 is awesome! Go straight up for the hot stuff.
By Bill Flaherty
From: Evergreen, CO
May 29, 2009
|Pitches 1 and 2 link very easily with a 60m rope - a good way to go. As someone noted, the first pitch is spicy. I took the thin, left-arching crack that others mention, then cut back right to the first belay stance along a prominent edge. The runouts aren't crazy, but many of the moves are on rounded edges/smears and you can't place gear everywhere you'd like it. It gets more positive as you get higher. While pitch 5 is a pretty amazing section of climbing, with an unflared crack(!), all in all, my vote goes to Mainliner as the better route.
By Ross Swanson
From: Pinewood Springs
Jul 20, 2009
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|Did the clean straight up small crack section on P5 below the slot, got in 3 small nuts, even so the last move was pretty scary, hardest move of whole route. Combining 1,2,3 w/70m just makes it to a ledge.
By Eric and Lucie
From: Boulder, CO
Jun 11, 2012
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a PG13
Someone should modify the description of this route to remove any suggestion to connect into Mainliner. Pitch 5 of SideTrack is the crux, the best pitch, and the main reason to do the route in the first place. Avoiding it by connecting with Mainliner seems like the strangest idea....
BTW, I think that one of the best 5.9 lines you can do on Sundance is to link the FIRST 3 pitches of Mainliner, followed by p5 of Sidetrack!
By Canon
Aug 15, 2012
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|All pitches are sustained and awesome. We linked 1-2 and 3-4 with a 60m. All the gear is there.
By Andy Hansen
From: Longmont, Colorado
Jun 9, 2013
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
|Classic Lumpy weirdness! Though the cracks are a bit more receptive to gear placements than say... George's Tree or J-Crack. The first pitch variation is heads up, but the gear is adequate and good - so when things look bleak, keep going. I thought most of the climbing clocked in around 5.8+ to 5.9+ most of the time. But the route is great!
By Jason Albino
From: San Francisco, CA
Jul 18, 2013
Climbed this on our first ever trip to Lumpy Ridge last week. Used a light/medium rack with a small group of nuts and cams up to a #4 (the latter used only twice - once on the P3 offwidth and once over the P6 roof).
Loved the route and definitely felt that we got our money's worth for the hiking effort out to this final western formation on the ridge. Would be definitely feasible to do two routes in a summer day on the Sundance formation assuming a ~9AM hour start and a decent pace. In relation to J-Crack on The Book (esp. its second pitch), our other venture on Lumpy, I found Sidetrack to be much less sustained and just a whole lot of fun.
We selected Sidetrack after debating between this and Mainliner, and I'm glad we chose the former! If Mainliner is half the fun of this climb, these routes would certainly make for an epic two-route-day affair.
The approach took us ~90 minutes from the parking lot at a semi-leisurely face and given the usual Lumpy final steep climber's trail to the wall after the main trail walking. I saw a reference in the comments to a cairn marking the junction from the hiker's trail to the climber's trail to the Sundance formation, but as of July 2013 there's an actual marked sign for Sundance off of the main trail, so no need to look for cairns at the junction.
With a 60m rope, we:
- Linked P1-P2 easily
- Did P3 in a single pitch
- Did P4 in a single pitch
- Linked P5-P6 easily
- Did P7/finish in a single pitch.
For P1, I saw another party meander a bit, but I aimed essentially straight for the obvious mini-roof from the ground, traversing a bit rightward for pro after setting gear in the initial left-leading flake. This line worked great and climbed much better than it looked, culminating with a really fun and well-protected move up-and-left on P2 over the mini-roof to the belay stance.
For P3, we had just come from Vedauwoo a few days previous, so the bits of offwidth here on the first half of the pitch felt rather mellow in comparison. I took a left-side-in approach to the wider parts and had few problems. Then if you have fairly big hands, the second half of the pitch will take locker hand jams and is a blast (my girlfriend, with much smaller hands, had no problems there either). Bring at least one #4 for the first 1/3 of the pitch (and perhaps 2 #4s and one #6 if you really want to button up the pitch/are unfamiliar with offwidth movements) - otherwise a tipped-out #2 *deep* in the wide portion of the crack might work, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you are confident on 5.8 offwidth.
I recommend doing the easier P4 in one pitch or linking P3-P4 but stopping there. There are great belay ledges after P3 and P4, and belaying at the end of P4 will set you up beautifully to link the gorgeous P5 (bomber hand jams and delicate moves to jugs) with the fun P6 (which includes an interesting, well-protectable with a #4, right-leading roof pull).
After the roof on P6, I romped up the easier 5.6 terrain to an arbitrary belay (there are many options), and then found a better-than-it-looks right-trending finish existing a chimney-ish area to what seemed like a good entry to the descent "saddle". As it turned out, this was a good idea and put us in prime position to directly reach the descent path. I would recommend this highly as opposed to continuing up to the true summit, since the climbing terrain above looked forgettable and this version saves a good bit of tedious descent.
From our endpoint on the climb, we hiked up-and-right and then erroneously headed down-and-right to the area we thought was the descent path. After bailing on that due to steepness and climbing back up to our departure point, we found the easement in the "saddle" on the formation and downclimbed down-and-left through large trees and spotted the first of 2-3 tree rappels. We ignored these raps and downclimbed the low 5th class short moves for ~10 minutes until joining the more obvious and cairned down-and-right trending descent path back to the base.
In retrospect, if we knew the correct descent path from the get-go off of the P7 exit we took, I would have set up some cairns linking that route exit point with the aforementioned easement in the saddle. Perhaps another party can do this to add safety to the descent.
Anecdotally, it seems like a great way to climb Lumpy in general would be to get the backcountry permit and bivy somewhere 2/3 up the hiker's trail for 4-5 days. This would avoid the same daily hike we did from the parking lot and assuming good weather, looks to be a *very* mellow backcountry excursion.
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By claytown
From: Boulder, CO
Aug 5, 2013
Excellent route. Fun and interesting the whole way, and you get to do 3 easy "OWs". Fully agreed with the crack start that angles left then back right across the slab... there are some runouts, but there is way more gear than it looks like from the ground.
As for the 5th pitch, the wavy hand crack, getting through the roof is easy with great gear. Above the roof, the gear is thin and well below you pulling the slabby moves, so don't blow it.
This was a great route, but I think it would be pretty spicy for a 5.9 leader since there are quite a few spots where you are 15' above gear and a bit of the gear is fiddley and/or Aliens & small nuts. Bring your RPs. I used them a few times. Excellent line.
By Chris Winter
From: Portland, OR
Aug 27, 2013
Sidetrack is an excellent route with cerebral climbing often times above delicate protection.
On pitch 4, we stepped right into the crux 5.9- stembox of Mainliner. For pitch 5, we stepped back left into the crux 5.9 finger crack/roof pitch of Sidetrack. With this minor variation, the route offers sustained 5.9 climbing for 4 of the 6 pitches - definitely recommended.
The crux 5th pitch on Sidetrack is pretty real. A techy finger crack leads into a stellar hand crack and then over a small roof where the pro gets sparse. The moves up to the base of the big roof are steep, and well above your last piece - pretty heady for the 5.9 climber, but it's all there. The roof itself is the icing on the cake - well-protected and straightforward.
By manel casanova
From: gillette
Sep 11, 2014
rating: 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a R
|Amazing route. Very interesting first pitch and incredibly beautiful 5th pitch. I climb the crack and the roof in a single pitch, and it felt powerful and totally aesthetic climbing. The guide says that is 5.9, but it feels to me more like a beautiful 5.10a.
By doligo
Jun 3, 2015
|This route is made for offset nuts. Make sure to bring a full set of HB brassies as well - I only had a couple. C3s would've been nice too. A #4 is not necessary, could probably get away without a #3 too. The top part of P5 is a steep jug haul well above your gear - really unusual kind of climbing for granite.


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Got my GB squirrel monkey today and finally had to decide exactly what I wanted to carry in it, which was a little harder than I expected. Ultimately I am happy with it though. With my carolina I usually only have it half full so its rattling and sliding everywhere, or pack it full of discs I probably wont throw and it feels like its full of bricks halfway through a hot summer round. The squirrel monkey feels like nothing on my quads and has more than enough drink capacity for me. So comment on my setup, post your own summer bag (if you have one), whatever. I am curious to see how many (if any) carry a lean bag for summer play.
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From the game report between the Kings and Spurs:
The pacers game has been likened to playoff style bball, does this mean that the high-octane offenses of Sacramento and Dallas are doomed to great regular season records but no rings?"It's a regular-season game, we play them three more times," Stojakovic said. "They play East Coast basketball - tough on the defensive end and patient on offense."


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We'll now look ahead to the future of the event and focus on working together to reach an agreement up until 2016
Jerez will host a MotoGP race in 2012 with further ongoing negotiations to thrash out a deal that will ensure continued racing until 2016
Agreement has now been reached that ensures the Grand Prix of Spain is at the Circuito de Jerez again in 2012. Negotiations will also continue to ensure the inclusion of the event on the MotoGP calendar for a further four years, a conclusion all parties want to happen.
The Spanish venue is the traditional first GP on the European round. Dorna Sports CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta was pleased to have completed the agreement with the city of Jerez for the upcoming season.
Ezpeleta said "We are delighted to confirm that the 2012 Grand Prix of Spain will be held at the Circuito de Jerez, a very special locale for the MotoGP World Championship."
The Dorna CEO added "I'd like to thank the Junta de Andalucía and Jerez de la Frontera City Council for their support in working toward securing this iconic event, We'll now look ahead to the future of the event and focus on working together to reach an agreement up until 2016."
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Tributes continue to pour in for Morris "Morrie" Turner, the beloved Oakland-born cartoonist who broke racial barriers in the 1960s when he became the first African-American to have a syndicated comic strip -- the gently humored, ethnically diverse "Wee Pals."
The self-taught son of a Pullman porter and protégé of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, Turner died peacefully at a Sacramento hospital Saturday, David Bellard, a family friend said. He turned 90 in early December and had been working on his strip and other projects up until Friday, when he went to the hospital.
He moved to West Sacramento several years ago to live with longtime companion, Karol Trachtenburg. His wife Letha died in 1994. He is survived by a son, Morrie Jr., daughter-in-law, four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Memorial services are pending.
When Turner created "Wee Pals" in 1965, the Oakland Tribune was one the first major newspapers to run it. At the time, characters of color rarely appeared in mainstream comic strips.
"Morrie was a pioneer with his 'rainbow power' message many decades before it became a household name," said Rick Newcombe, founder of Creators, the company that syndicates "Wee Pals."
The "Wee Pals" remain much the same as when they were created -- a group of friends who deal with racism, sexism and bullying. Turner's intention, his biography said, was "to portray a world without prejudice, a world in which people's differences -- race, religion, gender and physical and mental ability -- are cherished, not scorned."
Among the characters are several African-American kids, a neighborhood bigot, some "Girls Libbers" and, of course, Nipper, a boy, modeled on Turner himself, who typically wears a Civil War cap and has a dog named General Lee.
The youngest of four children, Turner began drawing cartoons in the fifth grade, according to his biography at Creators.com. After attending McClymonds High in Oakland and graduating from Berkeley High, he served in World War II, where, Bellard said, he was a mechanic for the famed Tuskegee Airmen and drew comic strips for military newspapers.
Upon his return to the Bay Area, Turner juggled a job as a clerk for the Oakland Police Department while freelancing cartoons to newspapers and magazines locally and in Chicago.
He admired Schulz's "Peanuts" and mulled creating a black Charlie Brown after turning to cartooning full-time in 1964. At one point, Turner asked Schulz, who was then a friend, why he didn't have any black kids in his comic strip, and Schulz told Turner to create his own. "He ran with that," Bellard said.
Even though the Civil Rights movement was gaining momentum in the mid-1960s, few papers would run "Wee Pals." That changed with the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The tragic event helped "Wee Pals" gain nationwide acceptance. The strip began appearing in more than 100 newspapers across the United States.
In the decades since, Turner wrote and illustrated books for children and received numerous awards, including the prestigious Sparky Award from San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum and named for Schulz; the Anti-Defamation League's Humanitarian award; the Boys and Girls Club Image Award; the B'Nai Brith Humanitarian Award; and the California Educators Award. He once made an appearance on "Mister Rogers." He was a regular guest at schools, where he shared his gifts with the next generation of young artists, Trachtenburg said.


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The 2008 Annual Report on the Environment was presented to the Board of Supervisors on November 17, 2008. Copies of this report are available from the Department of Planning and Zoning, Suite 730, Herrity Building, 12055 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia.
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ARLINGTON, Va. — In a white paper issued Wednesday the American Trucking Associations said it had demonstrated how the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's safety monitoring and measurement system, Compliance Safety Accountability, lacks sufficient data on the majority of the industry to render meaningful scores for most motor carriers.
The ATA said the FMCSA noted it has sufficient violation data to assess 40 percent of active carriers in at least one category but only enough to "assign a percentile rank or score" in at least one category to 12 percent of active carriers.
In fact, the vast majority of these carriers are only assigned a score in one category, the ATA noted. The agency contends this weakness is not problematic since "those carriers are involved in 83 percent of the crashes," the ATA said.
"This statement concerns us since FMCSA doesn't really know how many commercial motor vehicle crashes are occurring or who is involved in them. Many crashes simply don't get reported to the agency," ATA President and CEO Bill Graves said.
Previous research conducted by the University of Michigan Transportation Institute confirmed this limitation and, as the white paper highlights, FMCSA's self-assessment that most states do a "good" job of reporting crashes is questionable, the ATA said in a news release.
UMTRI's comprehensive analyses clearly demonstrate that some states do a good job while others do a poor job of reporting crashes to FMCSA. For example, UMTRI found several states report less than 75 percent of their truck crashes to FMCSA, the ATA said. Unfortunately, FMCSA has discontinued funding for the UMTRI crash reporting studies which provide more accurate and reliable assessments of state crash reporting, the association noted.
"Moreover, sole reliance on FMCSA's estimates does little to provide an understanding of how the CSA system lacks important safety data on the vast majority of the industry," Graves said. "This is critical because, as an analysis by the American Transportation Research Institute pointed out perceived safety risk is dependent on the amount of data available on each carrier.
"The foundation of CSA is scores that reflect measures of comparative performance," he said. "The fact that the government lacks data to score the vast majority of the industry in most categories calls into question not only the assumptions of those who don't have enough data to get scored, but those who do.
"Honest and candid dialogue about data limitations, what currently works with CSA and what doesn't will lead to both program improvements and highway safety gains."
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31 Years Ago: Billy Joel Releases 'The Nylon Curtain'
It tends to get lost in the shuffle in a discussion of his most popular work, but 'The Nylon Curtain,' Billy Joel's underrated masterpiece, was released 31 years ago.
By 1982, Billy Joel had established a solid reputation as a hit-maker. His previous four albums, 'The Stranger,' '52nd Street,' 'Glass Houses' and 'Songs in the Attic,' had all reached the Top Ten. But he was looking to make a more mature artistic statement with his music, one that looked at the Baby Boomers as they settled into adulthood in the Reagan years.
"Allentown" kicks things off proper, with the struggling industrial Pennsylvania city used as a microcosm for the decline of post-World War II optimism. 'Pressure' is about how the Boomers' refusal to grow up would soon come back to haunt them as they approached middle age and had to face tough situations.
The specter of the Vietnam War was raised in the 'Nylon Curtain's' centerpiece, 'Goodnight Saigon.' The song took the listener from basic training through the DMZ and the horrors of war, with the moving chorus singing the promise that they "would all go down together." Despite the adult themes, all three songs, which comprise most of the first side, were hit singles.
But it's the deeper tracks that make 'The Nylon Curtain' stand out among Joel's albums. Casual fans who mainly knew Joel as a balladeer were shocked by the f-bomb in the powerful 'Laura,' which takes the erotic torment from 'Glass Houses" 'All for Leyna' one step further. 'She's Right on Time' and 'Surprises' feature Joel's trademark innovative chord progressions and lovely melodies.
Musically, the album shows Joel paying tribute to late-period Beatles. His vocal phrasing on 'Laura' alternates between John Lennon in the verse and Paul McCartney in the chorus and bridge, as if he was recording his own version of 'I Got a Feeling.' Meanwhile, 'A Room of Our Own's' bluesy piano gives a nod to 'Abbey Road' and the cello in 'Scandanavian Skies' echoes 'I Am the Walrus.'
Joel's band, anchored by the criminally underrated drummer Liberty DeVitto, navigated the stylistic diversion with aplomb. Legendary producer Phil Ramone, who had worked with Joel on every album since 'The Stranger,' puts everything in their proper place and gives it his trademark radio-friendly sheen. It received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, but lost, for unexplained reasons, to Toto 'IV.'
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I'm as much against trading JO as the next guy but IF we were going to trade him, how about with the Bulls, who need the low-post presence and are under the cap.
No trade machine on this because I don't know exactly how I would like this to work out.
I would definitely want Hinrich and their number 2 pick. After that i don't know. I guess we could include Jack (as a salary/player dump) and ask them to include Gordon. Or we could ask them to include Nocioni or Deng as our backup 3s.
Since the Bulls are under the cap, they can absorb JO's contract fairly easy.


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DETROIT - How is Detroit going to get more ambulances on the street?
Mayor Dave Bing's answer to this question speaks to how desperate things are in the city.
Hearts are still breaking after 6-year-old Miguel Chavez was killed in a house fire on Tuesday. His younger brother, Julio, is still clinging to life in a hospital.
"It hurt. It hurts anytime you lose anybody, especially a child. It has an impact, a very negative impact," said Bing.
Detroit firefighters and medics are outraged that the city has fallen on such hard times that only a handful of ambulances are on the street. The ambulance dispatched to the Chavez family's home was 14 miles away. A closer ambulance was on a run for someone with back pain. The next closest unit was broken down.
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Bing says the ambulances will not be fixed because they are too run down.
"You know, you got 175,000 or 200,000 miles on a lot of the ones. They are on their last leg. We gotta get new vehicles," Bing said.
New ambulances are desperately needed but the mayor says there is no money for them and it is impossible for the city to get a loan to buy them. His plan is to get donations. He is asking for the money to improve safety in Detroit.
"I've been talking for the past six months with a lot of the business people, a lot of the philanthropic community to help us raise money so that we can go out and purchase a lot of EMS units," Bing said.
The mayor says he has been asking for donations for 1/2 of a year. However, no one is seeing the results. Local 4 is told there are 11 ambulances on the road responding to calls for help.
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My 47 year old husband had a total laryngectomy 1/2007 with a positive left margin (No risk factors). He had a rad/plat treatment to follow. He just had a VATS procedure for pleural bx, drain MPE, and pleurodesis (talc) 6/2008. The pleural bx are positive for squamous cell ca. So does my husband have NSC lung cancer or Stage 4 Laryngeal Ca with mets to pleura? Also, what chemotherapy drugs are used for this new dx? Any info on intrapleural chemo would be helpful? Your thoughts on staph enterotoxin superantigen. Should he have a PET/CT scan? Is the chemo given at this point just palliative? Any information regarding treatment plans would be very helpful. Thank you.
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Plumbing cross connections are actual or potential connections between a potable and non-potable or unapproved water supply and constitute a significant public health hazard and are controlled by the use of backflow prevention valves. This program protects the public water system from contamination by an unapproved water supply by requiring installation and testing of backflow prevention devices (double check valve assemblies and reduced pressure zone backflow preventers) installed on the public supply lines where they enter facilities, generally near the water meter on domestic lines and before the alarm check and siamese connection for fire lines. From January 2012 testing shall be by a certified tester with a valid backflow prevention device tester certificate (see below).
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Q2: What is the most common cross connection?
A2: The ordinary garden hose is the most common cross connection in that it can be easily connected to the potable water and used for hazardous applications such as connected to weed killer sprayers, fertilizer applicators, or left lining in a swimming pool. A reduction in the water pressure in the house could draw these contaminants back into the household plumbing system and the water main in the street.
Q3: What protection should I install on a sill cock?
A3: A hose bibb vacuum breaker should be installed on every sill cock.
Q4: What protection should I install on my garden/lawn irrigation system?
A4: An Atmospheric Vacuum Breaker should be installed and it should be at least six inches above the highest sprinkler head provided there are no downstream control valves (no zones to your system) otherwise use a Pressure Vacuum Breaker installed at least 12 inches above the highest sprinkler head. Please consult your plumbing code official for additional information and requirements for irrigation systems.
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A5: Yes a backflow prevention device is needed, please consult your plumbing code official for the required type for your particular system.
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Wow I haven't posted a long post in a while. I'm not really sure why. The school year starts up and I barely have time for working, running, friends and life, let alone writing. It's a personal flaw I've noticed throughout my life.
What I really mean by this is I'm definitely tardy on my "will post once a week to update the marathon training" promise from a couple weeks ago...whoops.
At least I can report that the running is going substantially better than the posting. After a summer/fall riddled with injuries I finally feel like I can run pain free for (relatively) sizable amounts of time. Rather than recap every mile and pebble of the last few weeks, I'm going to bullet point those with mileage totals and do a more in depth review of the last week (aka my best running week ever) and hope that this reminds me that it is, in fact, fun and awesome to post about running in addition to just doing the running.
*Note: I know these start totals are relatively low for a marathon I've been rehabbing a hamstring injury and so started off super cautious. I'm also not looking to finish in XX:YY:ZZ time or anything, just finish - hopefully doing something that resembles running the whole way.
Week 1: 18 miles. 4 runs, long run of 8. Everything else easy.
Week 2: 22.5 miles. 5 runs, LR of 10.7. Once again, everything easy.
Week 3: 18.3 miles. 4 runs, LR of 9.4. This week was sort of short on mileage by accident. I missed one run and was traveling during the weekend. I wish I could have run longer than 9 on Sunday but really barely had that much time. *sigh* Was getting frustrated that maybe I couldn't get the miles in with my current schedule...
Week 4 (also known as the last week)
Monday - After feeling totally bummed that I botched running while on my work trip I found a friend who also runs on that trip and asked him if he'd run with me in the afternoon before we left. I'm always scared to run with him. He's way faster than me and I worry I hold him back, but he's rehabbing a knee thing, so I figured between him being injured and me *needing the miles* it would work out okay.
Oh, it was COLD and Flurries, in Chicago. I have never run in snow before. I was not optimistic but it had to be done...
4.8 in between 42 and 44. I didn't start a clock b/c I figured this run was just easy miles to get it done but we looked at the start and finish times. I was sort of completely floored. I set the pace, I kept it easy. We chatted the whole time. There was a headwind for the first 2+ miles out. This is crazy fast for me for an easy run.
I was feeling good for the week...
Tues: First speed work since being hurt. I've done some easy/moderate miles here and there but nothing with speed at all. Today was a Fartlek and I was just itching to try going fast, even for 40-50 seconds at a time. 4.1 miles in 40:23. 6 lovely little bursts of speed that reminded me I really can push it when I want to.
Wed: Off, did some crosstraining (pushups/planks/dips, nothing fancy. Lots of foamrolling).
Thurs: My first ever 5 mile race (I know, weird - I've run way more than 5 miles a lot, just never registered for a 5 mile race until this day). It's a lovely race called the Feaster Five in Andover MA. I found it randomly online and was like, this will be a low key way to start the holiday...
So I don't think it really registered to me that there were 10,000 other people in this race until I got there and saw the crowds. Like I knew the numbers so I got there early and got in the portapotty line with plenty of time...but until I saw the crowd and the realized...yeah, it hadn't kicked in.
There was a 5K and a 5M. The vast majority of runners were doing the 5K (7,000 v. 3,000 for the 5M). From a logistical standpoint it was very well run with a couple of exceptions. They start both races at the same time, so the starting line just gets mobbed. I lined up at the 9:00 pace group sign and realized about 10 minutes too late that I was surrounded by some other runners and a LOT of carriages, dogs and kids...uh oh...next year I'll just line up at the 7:00 sign even though there is no way I can do that because I spent the first mile dodging walkers/carriages/dogs.
The 5M course stays with the 5K course until the first mile marker and then the 5K breaks off.
The 5M course starts flat and then joins with a long sustained hill. It's about 1.5 miles of climb. It's no joke. Nothing like Hell, but still, not a joke a the start of a 5M race. I was determined to hold a 10 min pace through this hill and I succeeded: Mile 1: 9:21 Mile 2: 9:45.
After the hill the course zigzags through neighborhoods. I have *got* to get better at tangents b/c I added a bit to the course here between weaving in and out of people and trying to hit the tangents. Liv and learn. Mile 3: 9:09.
At this point I realized there were only 2 miles left and I had a lot in the tank. I had been conservative to start b/c of the hills and the crowds and I just knew I could push it to the end. I also sort of decided I was done with this race and so even though I knew there was a shorter but steeper hill to end the course I decided to unleash and see what I could do. Mile 4: 8:45.
I was still feeling good in the last mile and then I got the only motivation I needed - the girl who was definitely in my AG who had been passing me back and forth through the first two miles, who I thought had gotten way too far ahead for me to catch her after the halfway point showed up to my right. She was still rocking around a 9:00 miles and I was now well into the low 8:00s. I blew past her, knew there was about a third of a mile left and had no intention of slowing for anything. So I didn't. I let it all out.
(Note to self for the future - the 5K/5M divider sign they have is NOT the finish, it's .15 miles from the finish. Luckily I still had enough left to crank it out, but yeah that messed with my head for a few seconds - I was like where is the finisher mat???). Mile 5+ 8:16
My little app (which is what the splits are based on) said 5.25 in 47:36. The race officials say 5.0 in 47:10. Either way I feel great and know I had a spectacular progressive race.
I left it all on the course in the last bit. It was amazing. I went over to get some water and a banana and realized that instead of medals they were giving whole apple pies for finishers. SCORE! So in addition to running an awesome race I got a pie to take to dinner that night. Total win.
Fri: Originally a SRD, but decided to do a mile in order to participate in the RW holiday streaking thing. 1.04 in 9:13, and it included a hill. I guess I was still a little speedy (for me).
Sat: 11.8 in 1:56:07. This run was really hard for me. I felt tired at the start, tired in the middle, had a brief reprieve around mile 5 and 6 and thought it would get better, but it really didn't. I only pushed it out because I kept thinking it would toughen me mentally to know I could persist when I felt like total crap. I even forced myself to get a little faster at the end all the while wondering why I was outside in 30 degree weather when my legs clearly didn't want to be anymore. I came home, took a warm shower, iced some old sore spots and feel better now, but I'd be lying if I said this one felt like a win. The only good thing about it was that I did it and it's done.
The good news is that gives me 26.5 miles for the week. Which feels much better and appropriate than when I started.
Happy running all, I'll leave you with a pic from the Feaster Five:


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ACCOMAC, Va. (AP) – Virginia State Police officials say the nearly four dozen arsons on the Eastern Shore since November may be the work of a group.
More than 40 arsons have been reported in Accomack County since Nov. 13, 2012.
Virginia State Police Sgt. Michelle Anaya told WAVY-TV that the agency is aggressively pursuing lead. She says that based on evidence that's been collected, there may be several individuals working in connection for the majority of the arsons.
Officials have stepped up surveillance and have brought in different types of state, local, and federal agencies.
No one has been injured and a majority of the structures destroyed have been abandoned.
A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest.
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When a father donates his kidney to save his daughter suffering from lupus kidney failure, he was repaid by denial of health and life insurance coverage! Insurance companies considered him a health risk. The New York Times picked up on the story as an example of how the Affordable Care Act might help patients. An extensive piece, it also raised awareness of lupus nephritis and the importance of kidney donation.


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A resolution will be adopted to commend the 2003 Kingstowne Faith 5K Run/Walk organizing committee for their efforts in producing a 5K run/walk and 100 meter Kid's Run to provide funds for those in need in the Franconia-Kingstowne area of Fairfax County. Nearly 500 entrants participated in the event sponsored by Inova HealthPlex Franconia-Springfield.
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text: Home Gallery Print (image) People For Good Bus Shelters People For Good: Bus Shelters Do Canadians really need to be any nicer? Published on Aug 15, 2011 Editor's Pick Toronto agency Zulu Alpha Kilo and Media Experts partnered with a number of media agencies to co-found a social movement in the Land of the Nice, a.k.a, Canada that encourages people to be nicer to each other. In a series of television spots, outdoor ads and posters, the campaign highlights all the ways people can be nicer to each other -- like giving up a parking spot or a seat on the subway. The television spots highlight how rare common courtesy has become, with the tagline, "If Good Deeds Were More Common, They Wouldn't Stand Out as Much." The spots and ads point you to the campaign's site, peopleforgood.ca, where good deeds are collected, shared and featured. The campaign also features an iPad app that throws out suggestions like "Start up a non work-related conversation" when shaken or tapped. There's also plenty of online conversation with people tweeting out the good deeds they did today along with the hashtag #peopleforgood. Rate this Ad You must be registered to rate the ad. Please Login or Register Now About CreditsDateAug 15, 2011Agency:Zulu Alpha Kilo Client:People For GoodMedia:Media ExpertsCreative Director:Zak Mroueh, Joseph BonniciInteractive Creative Director:Sean GanannArt Director:Mark Francolini, Mooren Bofill, Mark BoveyWriter:George Ault (English), Martin Belanger (French)Designer:Mooren BofillMedia Team:Mark Sherman, Richard Ivey, Giosi Nizzola, Mike RumbleSocial Media:Cory PelletierMobile App Developer:Thinkingbox Studio Artist:Mo Elabi, Whitney Taylor, Jose Silva, Dayle ShewardInteractive Programmer:Adam BrandejsAgency Producer:Bette MinottAgency Print Producer:Kate Spencer, Eileen SmithAccount:Mike Sutton, Laura Robinson, Joaquin ArcilaInteractive Planner:Ritchie EmslieProduction House:Radke FilmsDirector:Geordie StephensExecutive Producers:Eddie Weiss, Scott MackenzieProducers:Dwight PhippsMusic & Sound Design:Pirate RadioMusic Director:Terry O'Reilly, Steve GardnerEditing Company:Panic & BobEditor:John EvansCasting House:Fade to BlackPhotographer:Shereen MrouehSee more credits CategoryTVCViralWebsite GenreComedy/Dialog Latest Creativity News on Ad Age Yanagisawa Joins Blink, Sibling Rivalry Signs Margetson Your Wednesday Wake-Up Call: Amazon's Email Glitch, Bob Evans' Sale and Other News to Know Today Droga5 Appoints Severs as Chief Design Officer, Lietaer Joins The Community London Related work People For Good: Uplifting Story Zulu Alpha Kilo People For Good: Parking Lot Zulu Alpha Kilo People For Good: Bus Zulu Alpha Kilo


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SOUTHEND United have begun their search to replace the injured Michael Timlin.
The 27-year-old midfielder has been ruled out for the rest of the season after breaking his left leg during Tuesday night's 1-0 win at Leyton Orient in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.
And Blues are already looking at bringing in reinforcements on loan.
"It's very disappointing that Michael has picked up an injury like this because he's a very important part of the team, but we are actively looking to bring in a replacement," said a club spokesman.
"The loan window opens again today but we have one or two things to weigh up because we can only bring someone in for a maximum of 93 days.
"If we wait until February 15 then that would mean whoever we brought in would be available for the play-off final if we got there.
"So we therefore need to decide on the length of any loan deal we do and what level to bring them in from.
"We're particularly short of midfielders for the JPT where Michael Spillane and Marc Laird are both cup tied, but promotion remains the number one aim so we will have to see who is available and what we can do."
But Timlin will definitely not be figuring again this term after suffering a clean break of the tibia in the closing stages against the O's.
The former Fulham trainee will have an operation next week which will keep him sidelined for at least six months.
But he already has his sights set on returning a stronger player.
"I'm gutted that my season is over, but I will come back even stronger and more determined," said Timlin.
"I'm going to try and make sure I come back like a machine, but of course it's disappointing.
"It wasn't a bad tackle from their player at all and I think it was just his follow through that caught me, which is just one of those things that can happen in football.
"Since it happened I've had lots of nice messages of support already, which I really appreciate, and I'll be backing the lads all the way for the rest of the season and hope it can be a successful one for us."


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HealthDay reported that a six-year study published in Arthritis Care & Research suggests that women with lupus may be at higher risk of a hip fracture. Dr. Shu-Hung Wang, of the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan evaluated nearly 15,000 adults with lupus, -- 90 percent of them women.
LRI Scientific Advisory Board member Dr. David Pisetsky was interviewed for the HealthDay article to provide an unbiased perspective on the significance of the study results. "The number of people studied lends strength to the findings."
"The higher risk of hip fracture is not surprising, due to the nature of the disease," he said. "Lupus involves a malfunction of the immune system. Normally, the immune system makes antibodies in response to invaders; in lupus, the body can't differentiate invaders from normal tissue, so it makes autoantibodies that turn on the body, attacking normal tissue."
"The systemic inflammation affects bone," Pisetsky said. "Patients often are prescribed steroid medicine to relieve the inflammation, but the medicines can also affect bones adversely," he said. Although the risk to bones in lupus patients is known, the new study teases out details on the type of fracture risk, Pisetsky said.
For those reasons, experts in recent years have been focusing on using the lowest dose possible of steroids to control symptoms, Pisetsky said. To help preserve bone health, Pisetsky tells his lupus patients to get enough calcium and vitamin D and to take bone-maintenance drugs, if their doctor decides they are necessary. Getting regular exercise can help too, he said. With age, lupus patients should try to preserve their balance, which also can reduce the risk of falls.


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Let's just exclude contenders and include any team that is lottery/around .500/candidate to a playoff run.
It's funny, I just read this awhile ago. I think you'll find it amusing, as I did:
Michael Cunningham of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
It's amazing how similar it is to the claims about O'Brien not developing young players and using veterans ahead of them and how he says one thing and does the opposite, isn't it?As an organization the Hawks talked all summer about the importance of Jeff Teague becoming a major contributor. Then he got hurt in training camp and fell behind. It seems hes been playing catch-up ever since and hasnt always been afforded the opportunity to work his way through rough stretches or rewarded for his good performances. Certainly Larry Drew has given Teague more opportunities than his predecessor on the bench. But I think a fair interpretation of events is that, despite Drews stated desire to mold the Hawks into a defensive team and develop his young players, his decisions in this matter reflect a different tact. (Shoot, it makes me wonder how willing hed be to stick with the promising 'big' lineup if Jason Collins were a young guy. Would it just mean more Etan Thomas?) Since Drew's actions with Teague dont always match his words, I can only conclude that he is reluctant to reduce minutes for his two veteran 'shotmakers' with defensive deficiencies for the sake of finding more playing time for his most physically-gifted perimeter defender.
Anyway, forget Teague. First round pick Jordan Crawford has played 100 minutes this season. They're playing Mo Evans and... Damien Wilkins (!!!) ahead of him. When Joe Johnson was injured, Wilkins actually played big minutes in a couple of games. They actually signed Wilkins for that purpose. And it doesn't get much crappier than Damien Wilkins. THe other rookie, Pape Sy? He's yet to see a single second of NBA action.
New York Knicks
D'Antoni's dislike for young players is well documented. So even though they don't have many veterans, it's no surprise that journeyman Ronny Turiaf has beaten high potential prospects like Mozgov and Randolph for playing time, that Shawne Williams is playing ahead of Bill Walker and that Roger Mason has got more minutes than Andy Rautins.
Milwaukee Bucks
They don't really have any young players because they just get rid of them in the first place. They cut Tiny Gallon and already during the season waived rookie Darington Hobson to sign.. Brian Skinner. Larry Sanders played 330 minutes so far thanks to the injuries, but he was out of the rotation when the squad was healthy. Expect him to go back to the bench/inactive list once they're in full force again.
Philadelphia 76ers
2nd overall pick Turner is on the bench. Andres Nocioni plays more than Speights. They're starting Elton Brand and playing him heavy minutes. To open minutes to Nocioni and Tony Battie, they sent Craig Brackins to the D-League.
Toronto Raptors
This one is easy: Reggie Evans - starter; Ed Davis, lottery pick - D-League. They were playing David Andersen over Julian Wright too. Ah, and over Solomon Alabi, D-League for him too.
Charlotte Bobcats
Larry Brown rarely plays rookies, no surprise we haven't heard much about Sherron Collins - he's playing in the D-League too. Veteran Dominic McGuire got the nod over 2nd year Gerald Henderson.
Detroit Pistons
Monroe was nailed to the bench in favour of Charles Villanueva, Ben Wallace and Jason Maxiell. DaJuan Summers collects DNPs and plays garbage minutes. Tracy McGrady averaged almost 20 mpg in December. Hamilton and Prince keep getting big minutes. 36 years old Ben Wallace has now played the double of the minutes that the 15th overall pick Austin Daye got (729 vs. 336). I watched their last game: even Chris Wilcox played more than Daye or Monroe.
New Jersey Nets
Quinton Ross over Terrence Williams is very explanatory. Kris Humphries starts over Larry Summers. The other rookie, Ben Uzoh, has played 80 minutes. Even Sasha Vujacic, who arrived like one week ago, has already played more.
Cleveland Cavaliers
A team filled with veterans and some well in their 30s - Jamison, Mo Williams, Anthony Parker, Jamario Moon, Anderson Varejão.
First round pick Christian Eyenga? Hasn't even played a single minute! He's in the D-League. Manny Harris? 105 minutes played, all in garbage time. Samardo Samuels? D-League.
Washington Wizards
First round pick Kevin Seraphin has played 120 minutes, mostly of garbage time. Fellow rookie Hamady Ndyaye played 4 minutes. Even the relatively young Alonzo Gee was barely used - 127 minutes and then cut. Who's playing more than these guys? Hilton Armstrong. Trevor Booker got some burn early on, but now he's sitting down to open minutes to Josh Howard (a 30 years old in a 1 year contract), Rashard Lewis and Al Thornton.
I'll do the Western Conference later on... but don't expect to see different things.
Actually, I'm pretty sure I did this exercise last season too. Does anyone know if that post can be found? (actually the first time I did it was in another board and was about... Doc Rivers. Most Celtics fans were irked with Doc because he wasn't playing Rondo enough and didn't like rookies, etc).


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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Toronto Argonauts squared off in a pre-season tilt at Investors Group Field Wednesday night. While the Bombers lost 24-6, the action on the turf was only part of the attraction, as fans were eager to check out the new stadium itself.


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Mike Johnson And Yasmin Liang On Gender-Flipping 'Star Trek' And The Tie-In Comic's New Five-Year Mission [Interview]
Much like their (rightly) acclaimed Judge Dredd comics, IDW's handling of the Star Trek license has managed to exceed reader expectations with high production values and an uncanny ability to tell engaging comics stories within the limitations of a tie-in book. Over the last three years, IDW has shifted the comics focus to tell stories from within the world of J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot team's cinematic Star Trek reboot. With the new status quo firmly established, writer Mike Johnson and a team of artists are going to be taking the Enterprise and her crew into all-new directions, starting with a gender-flipped parallel universe. The two-part "Parallel Lives" debuted last week with Star Trek #29 and gives new readers a chance to take a tour with the finest crew in the fleet while seeing them in an all-new light.
We talked to Johnson and artist Yasmin Liang for more information about their two-part Trek adventure, and got an inside look at the ins-and-outs of how they approach working on a license with such heavy fan expectations.


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