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After 161 games for the Reds the final game does matter, looks like we are sitting at about the #13 pick in next years draft. A win could bump us back a handful of spots today, I may have my fingers crossed for a Volquez blow up today!
After 161 games for the Reds the final game does matter, looks like we are sitting at about the #13 pick in next years draft. A win could bump us back a handful of spots today, I may have my fingers crossed for a Volquez blow up today!
Looks like the Reds 1st round pick will be protected just in case they decide to go after a good FA.
"Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that."
I cannot remember the last time I was actually happy with a Reds loss.
I would have preferred a slugfest with Bruce getting his 100 RBI's (and Votto his 30th HR), but I'll take it. Now I hope they can make some great offseason moves and use the stench of this season to give the organization and team motivation to turn it around in 2012.
So, we're drafting 13th or 14th? We finished with the same record as the White Sox. There are 12 teams with worse final records than the Reds, so it looks like we're 13th or 14th depending on what the tiebreaker is with the Pale Hose.
We are picking 14th according to MLBtraderumors.com link to the reverse standings. The Whitesox had a worse record than the reds last year. That is the tiebreaker.
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* Cincinnati Reds
*All 15 teams that finish in the lower half of the standings have protected first round picks in the following year's draft.
*If two teams have the same record, the higher draft pick goes to the team that finished with a lower winning percentage in the previous season.
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VERY early names to watch:
Nick Williams HS OF
Trey Williams HS 3B
Joey Gallo HS 3B
Devin Marrero ASU SS
Taylore Cherry HS RHP (local)
Appel and McCullers are the two top arms available at this point. I'd like to see another pitcher this year, or a guy with light-tower power.
Go BLUE!!!
Really looking forward to the draft. It's much deeper this upcoming year.
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We've had countless discussions on here about the religious colloquialisms and sayings that others say that we tolerate (e.g. many don't mind something like, ("I hope you get better soon - I'll pray for you", or something as simple as "bless you" after a sneeze). But what about the other end of the spectrum?
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When I'm pointing out contradictions and lack of logic in scripture, and am told "you can't comprehend the actual interpretation because you're not a believer," or " Your mind is too limited to ever understand gods nature."
This of course, on the heels of their failed attempts to make any fucking sense at all, explaining their own interpretation.
"It's 'god's'™ will" when somebody dies. Well, my friend, you've just removed free will from our equations.
When I was a Christian, I struggled a lot with the fact that God would never speak to me. I'd never hear his voice, feel his presence, or receive any of the joy, comfort, or guidance that a relationship with God was supposed to bring. More than once, when I talked to people at church about this, I was told:
"Maybe God just wants to teach you to rely on Him."
How does that make sense in any way?! If I reached out to a friend, and this friend simply ignored me, the only lesson I have to learn from that is that I CAN'T rely on them! How in the hell is that supposed to teach me TO rely on them? It makes no goddamn sense.
As a child I was fascinated by religion. I went to every church with in walking or bus range. Read many versions of the Bible. Had a large collection of different Bibles. Also read about the old religions with their many gods of different powers. Hades is considered by most to be like the Biblical hell. Well it wasn't it was were you went when you died, good bad or indifferent. It just had different places for different people. In your statement you say " how in the hell is that supposed to teach me" hell is a noun not a verb. If you believe in a hell then what else do you believe in? A good atheist if that term can be used would not use hell in that contexts.
We all analyze that's what got us where we are. I've never thought of hell as being a slang term. Don't use the term myself but have certainly heard others use in mainly crude ways. I guess that if one uses it that way it may be classed as slang. Thanks for enlightening me.
so i ask: "isn't it strange that in the bible people heard so often god's voice, while nowadays god stopped to manifest himself to his believers?"
and i always get this answer: "it's because we are living in bad, selfish times: we are unable to hear god's voice".
don't you agree? :D
Well, now-a-days, if a person hears voices in their head, we have treatments available. Treatments bought to us through Science. No gods. No magic. Just science.
All they offer is annoying childish nonsense.
Hello Rob The different religions of the world may be based on varying factors that are formulated by the way they survive. Being an atheist Is not a convection that all religions are bad It is a disbelief in their religions. I have friends that are religious and I never condemn their belief. If you read some of the many religious text you will find that they have some wise comments to make. That does not make me believe in their God. Saying it is childish nonsense is nonsense. Most of the books were written by Intelligent people, because they have a belief does not detract from their wisdom.
They may be intelligent, but I can't help question why they let themselves drop all critical thinking and rationality when the subject of their religion is raised. If they're not rational regarding their religion, then why should I trust their rationality (and their intelligence) regarding anything else?
That's impossible to explain. I have meet very intelligent people who are religious. It makes no sense to me. I could be they were raised that way and it became a habit. Few people seem to try and explain their beliefs. I don't think they think it need explaining. I don't think I've ever tried to explain why I'm an atheist because I don't think it needs explaining.
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not suspended, but de-activated.
When asked why he wasn't at the game it's because Jim told him he didn't have to come.
At first this was just a minor blip to me about covering up Jamaals abscense, but now it's just getting sad.
Believe me, I understand that the team would like to avoid any negative headlines about any of our players least of all Jamaal.
So I understood the injury story.
However once you've been called on it, the worst thing you can do (btw it is what O'Brien is doing) is continue to lie about it but change your story all at the same time.
Not to mention insulting a player from another team. Listen to his radio show and listen to what he says about Stephen Jackson. Now I realize that bashing Jackson will probably earn him some points around here but if this is ever proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was "suspended" then he just basically called Stephen Jackson a liar when he was the one lying.
The best thing he could have done and should have done from here on out is "no comment". Yes, guilt buy default but then you avoid the old ancient proverb of keeping silent and making everyone thing you are a fool vs. opening your mouth and proving it.
Believe me, my tolerance for O'Brien is at rock bottom right now because I am still hopping mad at that Pheonix game.
Oh well here is todays article
Indiana Pacers coach Jim O'Brien said Thursday his version of Jamaal Tinsley's absence from Wednesday's game "is the story I'm sticking with."
O'Brien said before and after Wednesday's win over Golden State that Tinsley was inactive because of an injured left knee.
Several people with knowledge of the situation, however, said Tinsley was "suspended" and "disciplined" after an incident during the team's film session the previous day.
Thursday, O'Brien said he "deactivated" Tinsley.
"As an NBA coach I have the ability and the right to deactivate any player I want," O'Brien said after practice Thursday. "I deactivated Jamaal and Ike (Diogu)."
Diogu was at the game; Tinsley was not.
Tinsley practiced Thursday and appeared to move well during the team's light workout. Afterward, he declined an interview request through a team spokesman.
Most players this season, including Tinsley, have attended games and practices when injured.
"Not if I tell him he doesn't have to show up for the game," O'Brien said, when asked why Tinsley wasn't there. "It's not the first time this year a player was deactivated that wasn't on the bench or here. That's totally up to the head coach. . . . What I told you (Wednesday) is the story I'm sticking with."
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The woman in the black, sparkly Cher-like jacket shivered and bounced her skinny legs in shorts and bright tennis shoes on a cold Christmas eve morning. Next to her a red-haired and bearded man glared at me, or maybe at my camera. His arms were crossed in his overalls and checkered Paul Bunyan shirt.
What you looking at? Although we did look somewhat alike, there was no question of asking him for an interview.
There was a local businessman dressed in neat slacks and shirt. A retired couple who once ran a well-known local business were jolly in green and red. Grandmas chattered. Couples whispered. Some people scrunched themselves up to hide from everybody. Joyous children ran in the cold between older adults who lined up around the building all day last Monday, Dec. 23.
There were 612 special Christmas meals given out, anchored by a turkey, ham or chicken and including all the fixings. That's just off from a record year last year when 654 meals were served. (Attendance and home delivery to shut-ins for the Fort Bragg Lions' free Christmas Day dinner for seniors were both up, with 406 meals served.)
Many people in the Food Bank line wore "new" coats they found there from the humane society's State of the Ark thrift shop or the Outdoor Store's coat drive. There were jeans and sweatshirts and gray hair.
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Yet the actual Food Bank line was much longer. Many of the clients waiting are invisible and those are the people I wanted to feature. Shut-in seniors and disabled people of all ages get their food picked up by In-Home Supportive Services workers. I spot several IHSS workers in line, including Alycia Heater who was at the Food Bank getting food for a shut-in senior, as well as for her three children, ages 1, 3 and 5.
This was how to interview the invisible, talk to the busy working woman.
"There are a lot of older people who don't get out," said Heater. "Some never get out and they don't drive anymore. Many live on fixed incomes. The Food Bank and Senior Center are very important to the whole survival of many people."
In addition to IHSS and the whole mom job, Heater also works part time as a bookkeeper, a job she used to do in Sacramento full time for considerably more money.
I asked her why the line was so long, why so many old coast residents and some newer people needed food this Christmas.
"There aren't a lot of employment opportunities here on the coast. And the cost of housing is way out of line with the economic base. I can rent an apartment in Ukiah for $400 and have a chance at a job, or rent a studio here for $900 per month," she said.
In an area where clerks, laborers and most working people can't afford to live, workers are predictably in short supply.
Having an extra good Food Bank in an area working people really can't afford makes a big difference, said Heater.
"I can get some staples here and save money so I can buy the rest of what we need," she said.
The people who stay at home don't get to pick through the Food Bank's offerings, but many of their workers are quite diligent. One man has me looking for certain books for the shut-in veteran he works for.
The 2010 U.S. Census showed 30 percent of those aged 65 and older in the U.S. live alone. For women aged 85 and older, that number grows to more than half. And the census reveals that the number of people living alone grows every year.
Heater and others who pick up food for shut-ins have told me that they are often the only person the shut-in person sees. Yet, these needs go deeper than just food.
"Sometimes they don't want me around, even though I'm bringing them food. Some are paranoid and sometimes there are reasons for distrusting people. Usually we talk for a while and they get comfortable," Heater said.
These are older people who often have no family and are desperately trying to stay put. An old hippie can no longer get into his tree house. An aging and increasingly frail father shares his small trailer with his mentally disabled son. Two older women share a 20-foot trailer with a man, an arrangement no longer desirable to one of them. There are people who lose track of time, or who think everybody is stealing from them.
The Food Bank is one link in a mostly invisible chain for these rarely visible people, many of whom once played meaningful roles in the community. County Adult Protective Services spends much of its time protecting seniors from the frailties of age, as well as from others.
Heater's clients have ranged in age from 35 to 88. Mental and physical disabilities among younger people are often tougher than for seniors, who have more programs dedicated to them by multiple agencies.
In addition to weekly meals, the Food Bank offers special monthly boxes of highest quality foods, just for seniors who qualify by age and income. The Food Bank distributes about 230 senior boxes monthly about 150 here at the Fort Bragg Food Bank and the remainder through food pantries in Point Arena, Leggett and Laytonville.
On Tuesday, Santa in the person of Stan Halvorsen arrived, along with elf Glendie Johnson, giving out presents to about three dozen kids. The huge, full Christmas dinner was quite a weightlifting task for any client, much less for those like Heater picking up for themselves and shut-ins.
Food Bank Executive Director Nancy Severy has no count of the invisible people in line, but may start doing that this year.
"It's a pretty important feature of what we do because we don't have a comprehensive home delivery system. But any client can send another person (a proxy with a signed note from the client) in their stead if they are sick, disabled, without transportation or otherwise unable to come pick up their own food," said Severy.
As the New Year moved in, with the newspapers' Season of Sharing fund drive at an end, lines had not gone away, but the atmosphere was festive. A local grower had brought some very tasty, small and very ripe oranges in. The Food Bank is in need of money, food, clothes and other contributions to help it through the winter, which has been early and cold so far, and the rest of the year.
"Our wonderful community has always been there for us and we just need to remind people that the need never really slows down here," said Severy.
Season of Sharing
Since 1996, the Advocate-News and The Mendocino Beacon have raised roughly $301,543 for the Food Bank through the Season of Sharing fund drive. Since 1999, the nonprofit Community Foundation of Mendocino County has administered the drive as a courtesy to the newspapers. Every penny donated goes directly to the Food Bank.
"There are many nonprofit organizations in our area, all very worthy of support, but the Food Bank addresses the most basic problem facing hundreds of individuals and families hunger," said Publisher Sharon DiMauro.
"The goal is to give the Food Bank money it can use through the year, not just during the holidays. It doesn't matter a bit whether a person contributes through our fundraiser or directly to the Food Bank, the main thing is to contribute and if you're able, to give year-round."
This week's donors
The names of donors who contribute through the newspapers or CFMC's website are printed each week, unless they ask to remain anonymous.
Next week, the names of everyone who donated to the 2013 campaign will be reprinted.
As of press time Tuesday, donations from Benjamin and Pamela, Sasha and Oliver Graham, Bruce and Karen Smith, Terrence and Johanna Knaus, Arnie and Terri Parks, Linda Jupiter, Martha Buck, F&F Group, Richard Messier, Eileen Lopate, Susan Warner, Steven and Deborah Farmar, John Garratt, Patricia Sinkay, Susan Fullbright, Sharon and Jim DiMauro brought the Season of Sharing fund drive total to $20,000.


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UCC College BonspielFriday-Saturday or Sunday (TBD), February 9-10, 2018
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A bonspiel for college students that meet USCA College Curling eligibility rules (see 4th page). Open format (teams may be composed of any mix of men and women). All teams must start the bonspiel with 4 players. College curlers from UCC will be available to fill out partial teams. Three game guarantee with full draw. Six events. Six end games.
Limit 16 teams. Each school guaranteed 1 team, more if space permits. Unless indicated otherwise by the school, multiple teams from the same school will be entered according to date/time entry is received (online, below).
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The Survivors
A decade ago scores of new cigar brands went on sale. Most are gone, but the few that remain have built a comfortable niche in the industry
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When Wood entered the cigar market in 1996 he couldn't rely on it as a sole income source and was forced to make ends meet as a driver for actors and producers in Hollywood. He also owned a stake in a Beverly Hills cigar bar. "It was difficult," he says, sitting behind a simple table at his modest booth at a recent trade show. His sister serves as spokesmodel and greets tobacconists, and a neighbor helps him take orders. His company, Burlwood Group Inc., has three full-time workers. "I can remember the days when I didn't have cable TV because they shut it off. I couldn't pay the bill. I'd like to say the company is rich. It's doing well. Now I have a beach house and things are good."
Wood survived in the shadow of the industry giants by treating small orders with respect. "Smaller retailers, that maybe couldn't get an account with Fuente, found us, and stuck with us. Mom-and-pop tobacconists," he says. "A lot of cigar companies that got in during the boom wanted to cash in. They weren't willing to send out the two and three boxes a month to the little customers. There were a lot of cigar companies that didn't want to mess with that."
Like many smaller cigar companies, Wood doesn't make his own cigars. The Toraño family makes his Black Pearls and La Perla Habanas in Honduras and Nicaragua.
Wood still specializes in small orders, finding a receptive ear in cigar shop owners with crowded humidors. The little shipments aren't feasible for bigger companies. Some cigar shops, says Wood, "can't do 10 different sizes, they can't do a bunch of everything, but they can take three or four of our best cigars. We make cigars one at a time, and we sell cigars one box at a time."
Rubin, now 44, was an importer of bolts, nuts and screws made in China and Taiwan, and had success with a product built to meet hurricane codes. As business grew, he and his father sold the company for a comfortable sum that allowed Rubin's father to retire and gave Rubin the freedom to pursue a new field. "I just decided that whatever I did next was something I would enjoy, something I'd have a passion for. Something that wasn't a commodity."
A passionate smoker who has enjoyed cigars since his early 20s, Rubin incorporated Alec Bradley in 1996, naming the company after his two sons, and served a one-year consulting contract with the buyers of his company before selling his first smoke. He had no history in the business save for the fact that his father and grandfather once sold cigars and candy in New York City.
"Our original business plan was to provide cigars to golf courses. Our first product was called Bogie Stogies," he says. "Being a Florida boy, I didn't realize half the country doesn't play golf six months out of the year," he recalls with a laugh. "It was a bad business plan."
Rubin next tried selling Gourmet Dessert Cigars—flavored, handmade, Cuban-sandwich-style smokes—for around $2.50 each. The Florida-made cigars kept the company above water, but times were lean. Rubin didn't draw a salary, and the company was losing more money than he realized.
"On April 19, 1999, my partner left," he says. Rubin looked over the books and was shocked. "We were almost bankrupt. I went home that day and I said to my wife 'I don't know if I can pull us out of this mess.' "
Rubin decided to stick it out one more year, and try to make enough to at least get his company out of debt. That summer, he met Rafael Montero, who told Rubin that Hendrik Kelner, the maker of Davidoffs, could make him a cigar brand. Rubin asked Kelner to put his famous name on the smokes, and they created a brand named after one of Kelner's factories, Occidental Reserve by Henke Kelner. (It was later renamed simply Occidental Reserve.)
Famous name or not, breaking into the saturated 1999 cigar market wouldn't be easy. Bargain bins were bursting with unwanted smokes, and established brands, such as Macanudo, were no longer back-ordered in the millions. Rubin sent out 500 sample packs of Occidentals to retailers, making no mention of price. "We just asked them to smoke it," he says. Rubin then told them they could have the cigars in bundles for just over $1 each, and the cigars would have a suggested retail price of $2.50. Orders came in. It was a ridiculously low price for a long-filler cigar made by one of the big names in the business, but it was the only way for a desperate Rubin to get the brand accepted.
"I put it all on the line. We were coming off a flavored cigar with no other brands. This had to work," he says.
Occidental Reserve allowed Rubin to pay his bills and eventually get out of debt. Alec Bradley showed its first profit around the end of 2000. "Things are doing particularly well [now]," he said in September. "August of this year was our best month in our history. Our growth is in double digits."
Montero is still employed by Rubin, and Kelner makes four of his premium cigar brands, which include Pryme, Alec Bradley Trilogy and Alec Bradley Havana Sun Grown. The Toraños and Nestor Plasencia make some of his cigars in Honduras, as does Tabacos Puros de Nicaragua in Nicaragua.
Rubin plans on selling "a couple of million" cigars this year. "We're a profitable company, we still put a tremendous amount back in the business; we're growing the business. You have to have a long-term approach to this business. We feel [customers] always get more cigar than what they pay for."
Kiki Berger began making cigars in Nicaragua in 1996. "When I first got here, it was the time the Sandinistas had just left," he said in Nicaragua in 2003. "The country was just starting to boom. I went from a little factory to building a bigger one."
Unlike many of his boom-time counterparts, Berger showed his devotion to his craft by investing in his business and setting roots in Nicaragua. (He even married a Nicaraguan woman.) He planted a field of tobacco directly next to his factory on the Pan American Highway in Estelí, Nicaragua, and built a curing barn.
"The only way you can have good quality tobacco is, number one, you have to grow it, and, number two, you have to cure it. I look at Padrón," he says, referring to his more famous neighbor, who often invites him over for coffee or drinks. "And I look at his success. You have to copy the best."
Berger once focused on making cigars for other companies, whichincluded boomtime brands such as Cupido, but now he's spending most of his efforts on his own products, specifically his Cuban Crafters brand.
Berger proudly shows off his property to visitors, highlighting outdoor seating areas he's having built to allow workers or guests some moments of relaxation. He's outfitted an office with two old barber's chairs, which he plops into, kicking out his feet, a plume of cigar smoke pouring from one of his dark puros.
Of all the brands to survive the cigar boom, one of the most unlikely has to be Graycliff. Scores of new brands were driven from the market when older, established brands were able to increase production, and consumers realized that the famous brands were often cheaper than the newcomers. But one of the most expensive cigar brands created during the boom is still on sale today.
Graycliff cigars are made in Nassau, the Bahamas, and they debuted in 1997 in the United States with eye-popping prices, up to $26 for one cigar. Few things are cheap in the Bahamas, and importing tobacco results in steep import taxes. Labor is also costly when compared with Central America.
Enrico Garzaroli created the brand after he came to Nassau by way of Como, Italy, in 1974, and bought the Graycliff mansion. The landmark was created in the 1720s, and Garzaroli turned the palatial retreat into a posh restaurant and hotel featuring exquisite dining and first-class service, building a wine cellar with a stunning array of bottles from around the world. "I tried to have wines the people had never heard about," he says. "The food is only a piece of the puzzle."
Garzaroli is a huge man with a personality to match, and a zest for the good life. He'd long loved cigars, and fashioned Graycliff into one of the world's more cigar-friendly places. Ashtrays seem to cover every flat surface. The restaurant did a large business selling Cuban cigars, and once had its own Casa del Habano. A dispute with the Cubans led Garzaroli to create his own cigar factory right behind his hotel. With the aid of Avelino Lara, who once ran Cuba's famed El Laguito factory, Garzaroli set up a small cigar factory featuring retired Cuban cigar rollers.
It wasn't easy to sell such a pricey smoke in 1998 and 1999. "What I was producing was more than I could sell," says Garzaroli. "People wanted to pay ten cents on the dollar."
He resisted discounting his smokes and called on an attitude honed from running a first-class restaurant: Be picky in the face of tough times. He also was able to subsidize the cigar segment of his business with his core business, and always had strong sales in the Bahamas, both in his restaurant and in the Atlantis Hotel.
"We had pretty good faith," he says. "A lot of cigars on the market were pure garbage. So I said, 'Soon these fellows are going to disappear.' "
Despite the high prices, Graycliffs are still selling in the U.S., and last year about 1.2 million cigars from the Bahamas were sent to the United States. Garzaroli, who is now 60, also sells in Italy, Switzerland, Russia and other international markets. "It's not that we have a million dollar buyer, but we have a lot of very good persons that put them in the hands of the right people," he says. "Now the cigar company is almost even with the restaurant sales."
Oliva Cigar Co. seems poised to step up into the ranks of the more established cigarmakers. The company has been making cigars for only 10 years, but the family (which is not related to Tampa's Olivas, who grow and broker tobacco leaf) has been growing tobacco for decades.
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Well I am 9 weeks along and seeing my regular OB and a specialist who are doing sonograms at practically every visit. Baby is developing fine and growth is where it should be. I am feeling ok...although I already had to adjust my anti-seizure med once(Keppra)by half a pill increased in the morning because I started getting eye twitching again and felt like I was going to seize all the time for a few days. It has helped however I have also had very bad fatigue with this pregnancy and Im wondering if its from the Keppra or if I may be iron deficient because Ive had some shortness of breath today and I sleep 12 hrs a night and am still tired. I also have had a lot of tension headaches with this pregnancy. I take a prenatal everyday and have since before I became pregnant as well as extra 1mg of folic acid everyday but I wonder if im missing something. The fatigue is so bad I feel half asleep pretty much constantly and its very hard to try and do schoolwork feeling this way. I just want to lay around and even my appetite is diminished at times because I would rather sleep. I still force myself to eat and eat healthy however. I will post some sono pics as soon as I can and I would like to start tracking my belly growth once I reach the end of the 3rd month(in about 3 weeks! ). Im hoping some of the fatigue will subside though ugh. Hope you all are well and *hugs* from me and baby -Lupie Britt*
P.S. They are going to try and guess the gender at my next appt march 15th and I was also told I have a small tear in my placenta monday at my appt and was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this? They said it can happen as the placenta is growing and moving etc and usually heals itself so not to worry. It still makes me feel weird knowing that though. I had a tiny episode of spotting one day last week but no pain or anything that seemed out of the ordinary. Please anyone who has a story Id love to hear it


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Urban Vision: American Works on Paper, 1900–1950
Urban Vision: American Works on Paper, 1900–1950 will explore artistic interpretations of the city. As city dwellers learned to negotiate a rapidly changing environment, the spectacle of metropolitan life became an important focus for artists in the early 20th century. Images of the construction of the massive skyscrapers that came to define New York and Chicago will be paired with scenes of human expression in these urban spaces. The exhibit will bring together 25 etchings, lithographs, and engravings from the IMA's print collection by such well-known artists as George Bellows, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, and Isabel Bishop. Also presented will be the visually compelling work of the lesser-known Gerald Kenneth Geerlings, whose prints have not been on view at the IMA since the 1970s.


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|Sport, TR, 1 pitch
|YDS: 5.7 French: 5a Ewbanks: 15 UIAA: V+ ZA: 13 British: MVS 4b [details]
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|Jim Cormier on Aug 1, 2001
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By Old Fart aka Dave Bohn
Dec 31, 2001
|This route is a total sandbag and has serious goundfall potential for a true 5.7 leader! I'd have given this route 3 bombs if I could have!
By ClimbandMine
Feb 8, 2002
|The route is a bit of a thinker, but the moves are no harder than 7+ if you stay a fuzz right of the bolt line. And the bolt placement wasn't horrible. Just gotta know how to climb slab, my man. Could be worse - could be Point of Rocks, Texas. 80-90 foot 5.9 slab pitches on 2 rusted 1/4" bolts to manky homemmade anchors. Eep.
By George Bell
From: Boulder, CO
Feb 10, 2002
|I agree with Old Fart, this route is friggin' desperate for a 5.7! It would be madness to recommend this to a newby 5.7 leader. Getting to the first bolt is quite technical (for 5.7), but even if you slide off you probably would just skid down onto the starting boulder (hopefully). After that, I thought it was very well protected, but the crux move after the third bolt has gotta be at least 5.8 (in my humble opinion)! This face is considerably harder than the crack to its right (Emergency Entrance).
By Todd Pett
Feb 12, 2002
|I have to agree with George that this route is under rated. A 5.8 rating is more appropriate.
By Old Fart aka Dave Bohn
Feb 14, 2002
|Re: Dave's comments. Slabs are my speciality and I love runout slabs; I grew up climbing ALL the great Apron "Death Climbs" in the Valley back in the '70s so I do know what I'm talking about. Try "Deep Throut's" 3rd pitch; 150'of very sustained 5.9 with one 1/4" at 75'off the belay which is also a single 1/4". Remmision is an OK climb for a skilled climber to set a toprope for some friends to jump on but to call this an "Easy or Moderate" climb for a new leader just out of the gym or used to areas like with "Beginner Friendly" bolting like the "Monastery" is inviting an accident. I climbed the route mostly left of the bolts because it seemed I could have clipped several of them out of the crack climb to the right(Admission),so maybe that upped my rating beacuse I thought it in the 5.8+ vs area. Actually, deliberatly or not , I and many of my friends feel that ALL! of the Infirmary routes ,upper and particularly lower, are massively sandbagged more so at the moderate grades. As another prominent poster to this site always says "Apply the Gold Standard".
By Scott Conner
From: Lyons, CO
Feb 21, 2002
|This thing 'looks' about 5.7 from the ground but I was definitely sweating a bit once I got to the bulge. It's thin and I would have to agree that 5.7 is a tad light. The offwidth to the right was much easier for me.
By ClimbandMine
Mar 1, 2002
|Sheesh, I didn't mean to start a firestorm or offend anyone. I just don't think we really need to apply Monastery or Sport Park grading everywhere we climb. But then again, my first leads were at Donner Summit, CA (not known for soft grading) and my first 5.6 lead in Colorado was Calypso, and first 5.7 was Bastille Crack. That's what the guidebooks called 'em, and I'm not going to argue. Same with Remission.
By Tony B
From: Around Boulder, CO
Jun 27, 2002
OK, I admit, slabs are my weakness- my achillies heal- especially when you are dealing with chunky granite as well. I guess that it all looks like it will break off to me. I'm better off on the Flatiron sandstone. Anyway, I have climbed a lot of slabs. A good lot. Some from 5.2 to 5.11.
I don't climb at the Monastery or Sport Park, but I've done 450+ routes in Eldo, 100 in the Flatirons, and about 200 in Boulder Canyon. I can say with absolute certainty that most of the routes I have done are harder than 5.7, but not necessarily harder than this slab, at least not with my belly to the bolts or to the left (I did not go way right).
5.7? Sheesh, uh, guys, it is not 5.7 in my book. It was harder going left than right, and I went left on the first have-at-it. I felt like there was a single 5.10 move with what I did, but I probably missed a hold or something.
By Jeff St. Pierre
Jul 13, 2002
|Hey, fun lead, a bit sandbagged. Not a dangerous climb if you ask me. Not that you did, but, you just have to know how to climb slabs, and more importantly "fall" safely on slabs. I bad lead fall probably wouldn't constitute more than a little rock rash. I led slightly right of the 3rd bolt, but went back and topped it to the left. It's easier to the right. I don't consider myself a great climber and I'd put the climb at a 5.8, but, I should also tell you that I have a long reach, my partners don'at always agree with my ratings. You can stand safely balanced just about anywhere up the route... so for less experienced leaders "Don't PANIC". Of course, there is the calf burn issue, and... in the dead heat of summer.... climb QUICK!
By pete cogan
Aug 7, 2002
|Here's one reason why these comments are so valuable. Whether it's truly 5.7 or not, the consensus is it could be much harder, and therefore not a great lead for a 5.7 leader. That's helpful information. If I had read these comments before I had tried to lead this route, I wouldn't have bothered -- 20 foot falls, even on bolts, do not thrill me. For the record, I thought the early moves harder than 5.7.
By Anonymous Coward
Sep 11, 2002
|I have climbed this route a few times now, and I feel it is well worth the effort (I love slabs though). 5.7 *might* be a little light rating, but it's very doable, everything is actually pretty solid as far as slabs go. If you want fear and loathing, try 'Panic in the Grey Room' which is the bolted slab face to the right of Remission. It's listed as 9+/10a. It is *definitely* a 5.10 route, super thin and very demanding. I have yet to lead it, I generally lead the 5.7 crack to the right of it and which shares the bolt anchors at the top.
By chris parks
May 31, 2003
|This was an [exhilarating] face climb. [Definitely] harder than 5.7, but there is enough working room on the face to make it 5.7 like wandering over to the crack to the right, then wandering back to the left..... the first bolt can be clipped to protect that weird high step move to get onto the slab. Being about a 5.7 climber it made me feel much better. [The] runouts were not that bad either because they were on easy terrain.
By Ernie Port
From: Boulder, Colorado
Jul 20, 2005
|This is a good [finale] for an evening in this area. This route is good, but not great and I agree it is a bit sandbagged. Depending on which side of the bolts you go, this route could be anywhere from 5.8 to 5.10. It will make you think, but the angle is not that severe and sustained as Panic in the Gray Room...fun lead.
By Bo Johnston
Jan 11, 2006
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|Fun route with an excellent and well protected crux about half way up. I did need to hold onto the crack on the right once on the way up but it seemed to be on at that point.
By Jason Anderson
Sep 4, 2006
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
I felt this route was 5.9 by going right into the dihedral at the steep part. The initial step up also felt at least 5.8+.
I climb 5.11 face, 5.10 crack, and 5.10 slab. Slabs scare me, but partly due to runouts. I climb at a lot of sport areas, but maybe 15% trad at Eldo and nearby places.
By Kat A
From: Bart and Lisa Ville, CO
Oct 21, 2007
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|The low angle of this slab is misleading, along with the posted 5.7 rating. I really enjoyed the climb but questioned why there such was a runout, even if it was on easier terrain (it looks like it would be a really ugly fall). Not recommended for 5.7 leaders.
By RockinGal
From: Boulder CO
Mar 26, 2011
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|If you know how to climb slab, this is a good route. Thought provoking for a few moves. I led it to the right of the bolts, though not in the crack. My partner led it to the left of the bolts. Definitely harder than the 5.8+ in Gillett's guide (rated 5.7 here) next to the 5.6 farther left.
By Julius Beres
From: Boulder, CO
Jun 28, 2011
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|I didn't mind the runout at the top as much, but this, like most of the other routes in the area, has a stupid high first bolt, and the move getting to it isn't trivial for the grade.
By Ben Boykin
From: Cheyenne, WY
Mar 31, 2012
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|I'd suggest a small TCU in the horizontal crack below the first bolt (unclip the rope from that after you've clipped the first bolt), and a #3.5-4 Camalot with a long sling after the 3rd bolt, placed in the big crack to the right. Yeah, I guess the run-out doesn't bother some people, but I don't like it so much.
By Hiro Kurotsuchi
From: Colorado
Jun 28, 2012
Call me a wimp and someone used to Boulder Canyon grading, but I'd give this 5.10. My partner who likes slab and like me leads easier 5.10 routes AND loves slab, bailed off this one. I led it, it was challenging slab climbing, only made easier by the low angle. Of course, then I was worried about all the rash which would result if I fell between the fairly widely spaced bolts (for a 5.7 route!). Groundfall potential before the first bolt too - not great for a 5.7 lead.
A 60m rope will "barely" reach the bottom of the detached slab below the route. Be VERY careful how far back you stand if you are lowering someone and definitely pull to the halfway mark if you are going to rap. Tie those end knots both for rap and on the belayer end of the rope!
There are huge slabs to sit/stand on below the route. Bring your BBQ! Pretty exposed though, so bring the your beach umbrellas too. ;)
As a 5.10 route, I think it's quite good. Had me really concerned about cheesegrating, but there was just enough there that I didn't think I'd have to bail. Good slab practice to build our confidence. Enjoy!
By Dankasaurus
From: Lyons, CO
Oct 19, 2012
|To the BoCan dude Hiro who rates this a 5.10: You are indeed a major pussy. Go back to Tonnere Tower.
By Richard M. Wright
From: Lakewood, CO
Oct 29, 2012
|To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: "Cynicism is the [first] recourse of an unimaginative mind". An initial TR burn on Remission may be a good idea if you feel unsure of the stances. Once you know where to step, it feels roughly 5.8+/5.9. Panic in the Grey Room is loads more technical, thin!
By Justin Brunson
From: Broomfield CO
May 25, 2014
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|The crux is so very tense...3 stars for all of the swears I muttered while committing myself to those moves. The bolts are exactly where you need them, just move thoughtfully (and I'm the kind of person that wishes every route had an extra bolt or two).
By Travis Provin
From: Boulder CO
Aug 30, 2016
Ben Boykin has a great suggestion if you want to protect this route even more. A small Alien below the first bolt and a #3 or 4 BD cam about halfway up in the big crack. However, with just the bolts, this route is pretty safe.
On a lighter note, it's a damn fun route! My favorite of the day, such awesome moves on tiny holds.


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Then there are the bad: show off, consider sharks either a nuisance or a scared of them, spear for the photo or coverage, have no respect towards the ocean, pillage it as they please...
Friday, March 13, 2009
Diver grapples (Murders) with 12ft tiger shark
Then there are the bad: show off, consider sharks either a nuisance or a scared of them, spear for the photo or coverage, have no respect towards the ocean, pillage it as they please...
11 comments:
- WhySharksMatter said...
It's easy to say that he overreacted, you weren't the one in the water with a 12 foot long tiger shark right next to you while you.
Not everyone has the same experience with sharks that you and I do. The important thing here is that it SEEMED TO HIM like he was acting in self-defense.
Also, I'm a little troubled by you using the word "murder" to describe an action done to a fish.
- Felix Leander said...
Hi David - while I was expecting this kind of comment from someone, I sure did not expect this to come from you - and honestly a little disappointed considering your work with these animals.
If by action done to a fish you mean, stabbed, drowned (towed by the boat) and nailed with a spear seven times over a 2 hour time period...I am a little troubled by you minimizing the situation...plus, the title plays off the hysteria the media has created - the divers also did not "grapple", or "wrestle" with the shark.
In any case, we obviously have different views about the spearos (who claim remorse - yet are smiling with their trophy) involved and the fish that killed.
Probably another good topics and debate for your blog...
- Paul said...
Hi Felix, I could agree with more on this. Why take the tail and jaws as trophies unless you wanted to show it off just like the photo you posted. I hope the truth comes out.
It is always said to see such a amazing creature killed.
- Jifa-ZA said...
David, you seem not to have read everything about this story. These guys played it as over experienced divers, even stating that, all together, they totalled 60 (sixty) years of experience with sharks!
If you're shocked with 'murder', let's call what they did a butchery. A 2-hour butchery, for the sake of bringing back a Tiger shark's jaws and dorsal fin, and then look like heros and make money from interviews.
Sorry, but to me, whatever angle you look at it from, it stinks badly... and much worse than shark rotten flesh!
- Wolfgang Leander said...
What a primitive f....ck-face, this killer!! This is all I can say. Sick, sick, sick....
- Jack said...
Are you guys a bunch of idiots or something? I'm all for the wildlife, really I am, but why don't you guys look at it from these diver's perspectives: one of them sees their buddy being surrounded by a tiger shark, goes over there and when he sees it about to charge, he spears it in the gills. Subsequently he tries to shoot it in the brain to end its life quickly. He spent 2 hours in the water trying to kill it. He was feet away from that beast. In case you didn't know after putting a rod through its gills that shark was mortally wounded, he could have gotten up to his boat safely and let that shark endure an agonizing death that would have taken much longer than 2hrs. But nonetheless bottom line is he had to kill that shark in order to save his friend, like most divers I'm sure he appreciates all marine wildlife and as he stated, "Down in my core I really felt the shark was there to feed. I didn't want it to come to that." This guy's an experienced diver and I'm sure he didn't want it to come to that, but for a human friend I'd say he did the right thing. And as for the pics it looks more like he's squinting in the sun than smiling and as for the souvenirs the guy just wrestled one of the most deadly, all powerful predators of the seas for two hours. It is miraculous he made it out of there alive, I'd keep those for souvenirs too. Sorry to rant but are you guys serious? Are your thought processes really: "Oh I'm the ultimate wildlife lover, how dare he kills a shark! He should have let his friend die or at least seen if the shark would take a bite out his friend first."
In case any of you want to read the published article about the ordeal instead of scrutinize the pictures, here you go:
- Felix Leander said...
Sorry Jack - experienced diver and someone that has been around sharks would have not had to kill this one - pretty obvious by what you write that you have never interacted or dove with them. I think you have been watching too much Shark Week...
- Wayne & Tanya said...
Sorry to all of you but JACK is right! Sure it is a shame to kill the shark, but it is still a shark. Whne you choose between a human and an animal i choose the human. We eat animals. That shark was a danger to anyone who enters the sea. You all think you are so much better than the guy who killed it. I want to see you in the water with no cage and being circled by a tiger shark of that size. I can garantee you will be wishing you had a spear gun!
- Felix Leander said...
Wayne - stay out of the water - sharks are KILLING MACHINES.
We are in the water with Tiger Sharks and other species without cages...enjoy the photos:
We never said we are better than those guys that killed the shark and the lied about it on national television that it was out of self-defense.
Do a little research before speaking your mind.
- Elliott John Osborne said...
Yes, I must say that everyone here that disagrees with Felix is quick to say "Yes kill the shark, to save the human." Yet there is no way to be sure that anyones life was really in danger, and after all it IS the risk these guys took to swim with these sharks. How about they carry something to repel the shark or deter it, if they possess this "so-called" respect for the creature. Obviously as you can see in Felix's pictures, swimming in close proximity of these sharks did not prove fatal, perhaps due to their actual experience. Lets also keep in mind these 2 guys are swimming filming what? And what is their profession? They are underwater hunters armed with semi-automatic spears, with plenty of ammo. If you think they were in that water to do anything else besides murder that shark, I am afraid you are mistaken. He most likely shot it in the gills so he could get some nice shots while the sharks life dwindled away. I've seen the footage, and these guys have no business being in the water if their fear of sharks only leads to their death. Just as my uncle switched to a camera after his first time hunting as a teen, I hope you see that there are those armed with cameras and respect and those armed with spears and fear...A photograph, proof of your daring encounter and curiousity and respect for the wild, and the other a trophy of the creature itself, your disrespect for its life, and proof of your fear and lack of respect and consideration for its existence.
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The defending World Series champions knew that each and every opponent, particularly National League West foes, would compete fiercely in an attempt to deny them further success. The Giants faced one of those upset-minded challengers Monday, the Colorado Rockies, and outlasted them, 4-2.
The Rockies arrived at AT&T Park with five consecutive victories and, despite the season's early juncture, might have considered themselves just a little more legitimate by extending that winning streak. But the Giants relied on Hunter Pence's three-run homer early, Buster Posey's RBI single late and clutch pitching throughout to blunt Colorado's momentum.
"It's going to be like this throughout the year, throughout the division," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "It's a tough division."
Said left-hander Jeremy Affeldt, "We always play good games against them. They're always battles. We needed to win this game."
After experiencing an opening weekend series against St. Louis that included daily pregame celebrations of the glories of 2012, the Giants welcomed the opportunity to play under relatively normal circumstances.
"It's time to really refocus and concentrate on the season," Bochy said. "Not that we weren't. But a lot of emotions were going through these guys."
The Giants, who entered the game batting .224 as a team, were buoyed almost immediately. With two outs in the first inning and Marco Scutaro and Pablo Sandoval aboard via singles, Pence clobbered Jorge De La Rosa's first-pitch changeup into the left-field seats for his team-high third home run.
"That was the game right there," De La Rosa said.
Posey, who struck out immediately before Pence hit his roundtripper, was appreciative.
"He's got some of the best power I've ever seen," Posey said. "I get to hit with him in [batting practice] every day, and I try to make sure I hit before him so I don't have to follow his moonshots."
Posey ultimately contributed offensively by driving in his first run of the season. He lined right-hander Chris Volstad's 0-2 pitch into right field with two outs in the eighth inning, scoring Angel Pagan to change the Giants' one-run lead into something a little more comfortable.
"I hadn't been letting the ball travel the first three at-bats," Posey said.
The NL's reigning Most Valuable Player had gone 23 at-bats without an RBI. Bochy knew his drought wouldn't last.
"That says a lot about Buster," Bochy said. "You can't dwell on what's happened. You just have to keep grinding out there. It wasn't a good night for him until that base hit. It's all about being resilient."
San Francisco defeated Colorado for the seventh game in a row, a streak that sprouted last year when the Giants finished 14-4 against the Rockies.
But Colorado no longer resembled a pushover. The top five hitters in its lineup entered the game with gaudy batting averages: Eric Young Jr. (.300), Dexter Fowler (.370), Carlos Gonzalez (.360), Troy Tulowitzki (.421) and Michael Cuddyer (.450).
That quintet recalled an observation that Giants right-hander Matt Cain made about the Rockies in March.
"I don't know why they should be [an afterthought]," Cain said in response to a question about Colorado's prospects in the division race. "They definitely should be thought of, with a lineup like that. You know they're going to hit and score some runs. They have a lot of guys over there who know what they're doing. I think if teams don't pay attention to them, that's going to be a big mistake."
The Rockies commanded the Giants' attention by launching multiple threats against Madison Bumgarner (2-0). The left-hander didn't come close to matching the sharpness he displayed last Tuesday, when he two-hit Los Angeles through eight shutout innings. But he protected the lead Pence provided, allowing two runs and five hits in 5 2/3 innings. Bumgarner issued five walks (one intentional), a total he reached only once last year in 35 starts during the regular season and postseason. Significantly, none of those five runners scored as Colorado went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position.
A typical sequence for Bumgarner and the Giants unfolded in the fourth inning. Cuddyer led off by coaxing an 11-pitch walk. Josh Rutledge then grounded into a double play, ending the rally before it started.
"Pretty much every inning felt like a battle," Bumgarner said.
The Giants' bullpen ended the tug of war. Santiago Casilla and Affeldt combined to retire all seven batters they faced, leaving Sergio Romo to work the ninth for his fourth save in as many chances. Rutledge doubled to open the inning before Romo proceeded to strike out the side.
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Situated on a private stretch of Arossim Beach in South Goa, Park Hyatt Goa is 20 km (12.5 mi) from Vasco da Gama, Goa's largest city. Cansaulim Beach is within a 5-minute drive.
Goan village atmosphere, lush beachfront gardens
In addition to restaurants, Hyatt Goa has a lagoon-style pool (one of India's largest) with a bar that also overlooks the beach, where guests can reserve private cabanas.
Portuguese-inspired pousadas, great views
Contemporary guestrooms feature hardwood floors and furnished balconies or patios with views of the lagoon, gardens, or sea. Wireless Internet access and LCD TVs with pay movies are provided.
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This 5-star, "village-style" resort shines with outdoor amenities. Guests can reserve thatched-roofed cabanas (seasonal; surcharge applies) at the private beach, where everything from cocktails to customized dinners are served. Tropical drinks are also offered at the lushly landscaped outdoor patio with a water fountain, sea views, and meandering lagoon-style pool- one of the largest in India.
Many restaurants offer a range of local and international cuisine, from the North Indian dishes at Masala to Italian favorites at Da Luigi. Continental and Indian breakfast items (surcharge) are served daily at the outdoor Village Café, and 24-hour room service is available.
The 36,000-square-foot (3,344 square meter) Sereno Spa is a full-service beachfront spa specializing in Ayurvedic and Yogic treatments. At Camp Hyatt, kids can participate in a full day of activities including art and swimming. For the adults, there's water sports, archery, and a gym. Meeting and conference rooms can be reserved, and free WiFi is available in public spaces. A roundtrip airport shuttle is available at scheduled times.
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Casa Sarita – Set inside a traditional Goan-style house, this restaurant has a show kitchen that prepares authentic coastal dishes.
Masala – With a Portuguese-inspired décor, Masala offers traditional Indian fare for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Da Luigi – Pizzas, fresh pastas, and European wines are served at this Italian eatery that overlooks the pool and gardens.
Village Café - Continental and Indian breakfast items are served at this relaxed café with outdoor seating. Sandwiches, salads, and seafood are served for lunch and dinner.
Palms - This rustic yet elegant beachside restaurant features a multi-level dining deck and serves a mix of Indian and continental seafood.
Praia de Luz – Drinks take center stage at this beachside bar, from tropical cocktails to international wines. Light appetizers are also served.
Nearby Things to Do
Park Hyatt Goa's lagoon-style pool is one of the largest in India, featuring multiple pools and lounge areas. At Camp Hyatt, kids 5-12 can participate in a day-long schedule of activities, from beach sports, to video games, to arts and crafts. In addition to cardio and weight machines, the fitness center organizes water sports and yoga classes. The health club has a sauna and steam room. Park Hyatt Goa also has an outdoor tennis court and running path.
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Parasailing on site
- Playground on site
- Volleyball on site
- Water skiing on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
Spa Services
The Sereno Spa is a 36,000-square-foot "destination spa" overlooking the hotel's private beach. Private treatment rooms are surrounded by elegant pools and lush palm trees. The spa follows Ayurvedic and Yogic practices, as well as offering Western massages, manicures, and pedicures. A salon is also located inside the spa.
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 6 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for INR 2173 per stay.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per adult: INR 8500.00
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per child: INR 4250.00 (from 3 to 12 years old)
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: INR 15500.00
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per child: INR 7750.00 (from 3 to 12 years old)
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: INR 875 +Tax per person (approximately)
- Rollaway bed fee: INR 2173 per stay
Hotel Name
- Goa Park Hyatt
- Goa Park Hyatt Resort
- Hyatt Goa Park
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We should mention
This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details 48 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Up to 2 children 6 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
Awards & Affiliations
- Park Hyatt Goa Resort and Spa is listed in the 2014 Condé Nast Traveler Hot List.


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I am trying to save a waveform that was recorded by a DAQmx device into a .wav file. I have found two sample vi's that I used to start with.
Sound Input to File.vi
This vi saves the waveforms from a microphone input to a .wav file. The nice thing about this vi is it has no limit on how long you can record.
SVXMPL_WAV Record (DAQmx).vi
The vi saves the waveforms from the DAQmx input to a .wav file. The nice thing about this vi is it shows how to get the waveform through the DAQmx device, but you can only record for just over 1 minute.
DAQmx Input to File.vi
This was my attempt at combining the best things of the above vi's, but it doesn't work and I don't know why. I'm hoping somebody can tell me where I went wrong and/or how to improve my vi.
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Hi Prisoner,
When you try to acquire more than a few minutes of data are you getting an error message that states the requested memory could not be allocated?
This error appears because the program tries to all acquire data in a single DAQmx read call (1 channel N sample). You will need to instead, modify the program such that you call DAQmx read multiple times so you can use a smaller buffer size. The best way to change this would be to implement a producer/consumer loop where the producer queues all the samples and the consumer dequeues them and feeds them to the Sound Write Waveform VI.
Application Design Patterns: Producer/Consumer
Producer/Consumer pattern
The error message that I am getting is similar, but not quite an out of memory error:
Error -50005 occurred at DAQmx Input to File.vi
Possible reason(s):
NI Platform Services: The specified data width is not supported or cannot be transferred on the bus. The operation could not be completed as specified.
Task Name: _unnamedTask<0>
This error message happens right after the program tries to execute the DAQmx Read (Analog Wfm 1Chan NSamp).vi.
Would your solution solve this problem as well?
From your original post it sounds like creating a producer/consumer loop will help you. What is the acquisition duration you are using? Do you receive this message when using a smaller value like 1 second?
09-12-2011 01:56 PM - edited 09-12-2011 02:01 PM
This happens the very first time the DAQmx Read (Analog Wfm 1Chan NSamp).vi tries to execute. It doesn't matter what sample duration I try to use.
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What device are you using to acquire data? It looked like you were using a myDAQ in one of the VIs, is this correct?
I have acquired data with a myDAQ here and it works fine. Check your settings against mine
09-13-2011 07:47 AM - edited 09-13-2011 07:48 AM
Thank you for showing me that the SVXMPL_WAV Recorder (DAQmx).vi works fine. I can run that vi with the myDAQ device as well and it works with pretty much any values that I want to put in it.
The problem is with the DAQmx Input to File.vi that I wrote. The vi is included in my first post.
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It looks like you have a numeric constant of 2147483647 going to the samples per channel VI, what are you trying to do with this constant?
If you remove the numeric constant, and adjust your max and min values to +/-1 volts your VI seems to work correctly. The +/-1 volt limitation is defined in the detailed help of the sound file write VI.
Yes that works and seems to solve the problem. Thank you. I did have to connect the Number of Samples/ch input to the Sample Clock instead of the numeric constant that I had in order to prevent a different error message.
I can see that the producer/consumer solution would be more elegant than my method, however I have attached my solution in case anyone else ever wants to look at it.
Number 6