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TORRINGTON >> On the heels of Hurricane Sandy Relief donation drive, the Register Citizen is now looking to help the people of Litchfield County by bringing the blessing of a Thanksgiving meal to everyone, including cats and dogs.
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The people of George R.R. Martin's book series A Song of Ice and Fire (adapted by HBO to become the TV series Game of Thrones) are very much like the people of our world. Martin's characters are vivid and real, and their names are an extension of that, including interesting similarities and alternatives to several classic names.
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Game of Thrones is about a continent (Westeros) of feuding noble families, all vying to control the Iron Throne. At the beginning of the series, the Iron Throne is held by King Robert Baratheon, who requests the aid of his childhood friend Eddard Stark to help him keep the Iron Throne which he won by defeating House Targaryen. Below, the noble houses are listed with the main characters included as well as some characters with more interesting names. Note: some of the characters listed don't appear (or become important) until later in the series, but they are simply too good to exclude.
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World Series Game Six Recap (Cardinals Edition)
The story of the Cardinals' loss, both in Game Six and in the World Series as a whole, is simple: they didn't hit, recording only a collective .224/.273/.299 line. And when you come right down to it, that's not a very interesting story.
For one thing, over a short series—and by baseball standards, even a best-of-seven series is abbreviated—not hitting happens. And when it does, the dry spell often holds no special significance.
From September 8 through September 14—another six-game stretch—the Cardinals hit .198/.288/.289. That's a .577 OPS, vs. a .572 mark for the World Series. From August 28 through September 3, they managed only a .429 OPS—extend that sample to September 5, and you get an eight-game stretch with a .484 OPS. We can keep playing this game. Seven games from July 25-July 30: .434 OPS. And so on. This sort of streak pops up at least a few times a season for every team, including the National League's best offensive unit.
In the regular season, you might not even notice when one of these mini-slumps befalls a lineup. And even if you did, you probably wouldn't make much of it. At most, you might think, "the Cardinals haven't been hitting this week," followed by "I hope they start hitting soon." In the World Series, though, a slump demands an explanation. We can't just leave it at "they haven't hit," so we grope for a reason: they haven't hit because they lack postseason experience, or because they're a bunch of chokers. The irony is that one of these slumps rooted in randomness is even more likely to occur in October, when the cold and the caliber of opposing pitching combine to suppress scoring further.
So St. Louis didn't hit, but we can't draw much of a conclusion from that, other than that the playoff format can be frustrating. It's not as if offense was a known weakness that came back to bite the Cards in October, like the Tigers' defense, bullpen, and baserunning did in the ALCS. "I think there's some randomness to it," Cardinals GM John Mozeliak told Jesse Spector, and that wasn't sour grapes speaking.
Now, we could keep drilling down until we come to a more fundamental cause; in some cases, it could be a copout to blame a team-wide power outage on the vagaries of BABIP. For instance, maybe we discover that a team is whiffing more often than usual. That could help explain why they're struggling. Then we could drill down even deeper: Okay, well why are they whiffing more? Maybe they're swinging at more pitches outside of the strike zone! But as a writer, that's about where the potential for analysis ends. You can say, "Hey, slumping team, stop swinging at pitches outside of the strike zone," but it's not as if whiffing was their goal. They've either been induced to chase by good pitching, in which case it will continue to happen as long as the competition keeps it up, or they've fallen into a funk, in which case…well, it will sort itself out, either with time or with work. On talented teams, slumps resolve themselves. Just not necessarily before the guys in the other red-and-white uniforms win four first.
To make matters more complicated, the Red Sox didn't hit much better than St. Louis in this series, triple-slashing .211/.291/.330. (The Cardinals "outhit" them, in the strict sense of the word.) So why was St. Louis outscored, 25 to 14? Sequencing, mostly, something St. Louis knows quite a bit about after setting a regular-season record for performance with runners in scoring position that prompted most analysts to declare their exploits unsustainable. In this series, the Cardinals batted .214 and slugged .238 with runners in scoring position. The Red Sox batted .250 and slugged .409, and that made much of the difference. "You look at all the games, when we had runners on, we hit balls right at them," Matt Adams said to Spector. "So, a few inches here or there, it changes all the games."
If there's anything less meaningful than overall offensive performance over six games, it's offensive performance with runners in scoring position over six games. We can blame the Cardinals for not coming through in the clutch, but since that performance tells us little about their true talent, it's not very satisfying to do so.
And that's how we wind up here:
Clearly, David Ortiz did more to send St. Louis home than Matheny might have. But as I've written repeatedly and discussed with Sam Miller on Effectively Wild, Matheny made a number of dubious decisions in this series. Game Six was no exception.
Matheny's highest-profile, quantifiable crimes against the run-expectancy table were his intentional passes to Ortiz. Three times—the first of which was in the second inning—Matheny decided to put Ortiz on rather than pitch to him. The first two times, the inning ended up being bigger because of the IBB, as Ortiz came around to score. Only once in this game did the Cardinals truly try to get Ortiz out—and wouldn't you know it, it worked. In that matchup, Matheny found the courage to go back to Kevin Siegrist, whom he seemed reluctant to use against the Red Sox slugger after the lefty—who shut down same-sided hitters all season—allowed a homer to Ortiz in Game One. The move paid off with a strikeout, much as it might have earlier in the game (and the series) had Matheny not allowed a single plate appearance to sway his bullpen approach. Matheny's mistake was assuming that Ortiz's hot streak was not only reflective of his underlying skills during that small-sample stretch, but predictive of plate appearances to come.
Matheny also made an odd move in the fourth, when he replaced the finally mortal-looking Michael Wacha with Lance Lynn. Down by four runs on the road in an elimination game, with two outs and men on first and second, it was crucial that the Cardinals escape the jam before Boston could bury them in an even deeper hole. This wasn't the time to worry about regular roles; it was a situation in which the correct reliever was the one who would give St. Louis the best chance of getting the next batter (Mike Napoli) out. That might've been Trevor Rosenthal, and it might've been Carlos Martinez, but it wasn't Lance Lynn, or—after Lynn allowed two more runs on a single, a walk, and another single—Seth Maness.
Matheny didn't make a move for Martinez until the sixth, with St. Louis down 6-0, and Rosenthal stayed in the bullpen until the eighth, when the deficit was 6-1. Combined, the two got eight outs without allowing a run, but by the time they entered the game, the Cardinals were facing a steep uphill climb. Although it's impossible to say whether things would have played out differently had the score been somewhat closer, the Cards probably weren't going to win this one no matter what Matheny did. (To do that, they would have had to stop slumping.) But when we evaluate managers, we have to do so based not on whether their moves worked or made the difference between a win and a loss, but on whether they were sound tactics at the time.
As Will Leitch put it after Matheny's sixth-inning screw-up in Game Four,
As someone who didn't watch to watch five-hour games, I was grateful that Tony La Russa wasn't pulling the strings in this series. But if I were a Cardinals fan, I would've been happy to sit through a few more commercials if it meant that Matheny had learned to apply more of the lessons from La Russa's bullpen-heavy 2011 championship run. No manager could have stopped the Red Sox assault, but La Russa might have made it closer. Hyperactive managing has its own pitfalls, but trusting your starter in every circumstance and overreacting to small samples isn't the way to win a World Series. Both Matheny and the Cardinals will return to October in the coming seasons; if he adds some in-game savvy to his clubhouse skills and matures as a postseason manager, he might not have to watch while another team celebrates.
(Because this is the Cardinals recap, I won't rehash my gripes with John Farrell, but the Red Sox skipper was far from flawless; tactically speaking, this wasn't an especially well-managed series on either side.)
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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The criticism of managers this postseason has really gotten out of hand.
Oct 31, 2013 06:24 AM
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I don't know if you're referring to what I wrote re: criticism getting out of hand, but I didn't say the outcome of the series would have been different with another manager. I said "No manager could have stopped the Red Sox assault." I also said that the story of the Cardinals' loss was that they didn't hit (which I'm not blaming on the manager), so I'm not suggesting that Matheny's moves were the only thing that mattered.
Oct 31, 2013 06:36 AM
The Cardinals' biggest problem was that they weren't hitting. That's not on the manager, obviously.
Oct 31, 2013 07:16 AM
Well said. It's been aggravating, not just with this Series and these two teams, but throughout the playoffs, to see the managers under a dissecting microscope for minutiae, while the large-scale meltdowns of pitching/hitting/fielding are essentially dismissed as luck. (And it certainly hasn't been limited to BP. I've seen that in every baseball blog I read.) Yes, there is an important factor of luck in the game outcomes. But as no less a baseball mind than Branch Rickey said, luck is the residue of design. It bends credulity severely to imply that in-game tactical decisions were the "design" feature that allowed Boston to be "luckier" than St. Louis.
Oct 31, 2013 11:00 AM
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Can whoever converts PECOTA predictions into team wins be "reassigned" in the off-season? Not a good run for PECOTA odds this postseason.
Oct 31, 2013 06:45 AM
PECOTA does projections, not predictions. Also, odds aren't fate. They are what they are, simple likelihoods of events occurring. That a given unlikely outcome ends up occurring does not mean the odds were wrong.
Oct 31, 2013 07:14 AM
Exactly. Many of the PECOTA odds favored the Cards 55/45, essentially a coin flip. When the outcome sides with the 45, do we say the whole system is flawed? I don't know why PECOTA favored the Cards night after night (I'm curious to know), so maybe there actually were bugs in the system. But the outcomes aren't an indicator of that.
Oct 31, 2013 08:17 AM
Ben, you wrote this:
Oct 31, 2013 07:00 AM
The BoSox came up with nearly all of big extra-base hits while the Redbirds essentially got nothing from the bottom half of their lineup. St. Louis looked feeble vs. a weakened Clay Buchholz.
Oct 31, 2013 09:28 AM
I agree. Although to be somewhat fair, none of those injuries (apart from Motte's) were bad luck per se - Carpenter, Garcia, and Furcal were known injury risks, so to an extent the Cards were playing with a handicap that they invited upon themselves. But it was amazing how they were able to replace defective parts with fresh, shiny, new spare parts without missing a beat. That's the sign of a very high functioning organization.
Oct 31, 2013 12:33 PM
"Matheny found the courage to go back to Kevin Siegrist, whom he seemed reluctant to use against the Red Sox slugger after the lefty—who shut down same-sided hitters all season—allowed a homer to Ortiz in Game One. The move paid off with a strikeout, much as it might have earlier in the game (and the series) had Matheny not allowed a single plate appearance to sway his bullpen approach."
Oct 31, 2013 14:08 PM
This, as with several other observations regarding Siegrist, rather misses the point that he isn't a LOOGY. Yes, he shut down left-handed hitters during the season. He also shut down right-handed hitters during the season (.138/.233/.246), unlike Randy Choate. Siegrist was the more appropriate pitcher to use in situations where more than one batter would be faced, and he was indeed used, effectively, in such situations. He pitched in four games, and the last three of the times he was used were high-leverage, as Series appearances in all but the most extreme blowouts are.
Oct 31, 2013 14:37 PM
I forget where I read it, but a study (maybe it was by Russell A. Carlton) showed that guys who blow their first save chance tend not to get repeat opportunities. I think the same is true of non-star players in the playoffs. If you muff your first chance, and the team has other options (hello, bullpen), you might not get another. had Shelby Miller executed in his one inning of relief in the postseason, we would have seen more of him. Alas...
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Brandon Belt and Hunter Pence are the candidates whom manager Bruce Bochy is considering most for the batting order's No. 2 spot.
The absence of second baseman Marco Scutaro, who's enduring back problems, has temporarily robbed the Giants of a prototypical second hitter who can bunt, hit behind baserunners and execute the hit-and-run. So Bochy is leaning toward the contemporary -- and often successful -- approach of using an offensive dynamo in the second spot. Players who frequently or primarily hit second last year included the Angels' Mike Trout, the Yankees' Carlos Beltran, Oakland's Josh Donaldson, Seattle's Robinson Cano, Minnesota's Joe Mauer, Detroit's Torii Hunter and Baltimore's Manny Machado.
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The treatment for chronic kidney disease depends on the amount of damage the kidneys have sustained. Treatment ranges from dietary changes to kidney transplant. If the kidneys are performing at less than 10%, dialysis will probably be necessary. During dialysis, artificial methods are used to clean your childés blood. It is also important to treat whatever has caused the kidney disease.
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Nick Kyrgios stands alone as Australia's last singles hope at Wimbledon after Lleyton Hewitt's gallant five-set loss to 15th seed Jerzy Janowicz. The 2002 champion failed to reach the third round for just the sixth time on what is his 16th visit, eliminated 7-5, 6-4, 6-7 (7-9), 4-6, 6-3 in a two-part contest interrupted by rain.
The defeat marked consecutive Wimbledon exits at the second round stage for Hewitt, beaten by Dustin Brown at the same point last year. What it means in a bigger-picture sense is uncertain, for the 33-year-old may be back in a playing capacity next year, but the more likely scenario is that he probably will not.
Hewitt has said so many times that these are the occasions he still plays for, that this is why he is still around, fighting and willing himself onwards at the age of 33. He had fallen in the first round of the Australian and French Opens, but there is no more special place for him than Wimbledon, and no major tournament where he is more likely to succeed.
But after a brave fight back from a two-sets-to-love deficit, he could not conjure the seventh success from that position in his long career. Janowicz rediscovered his missing mojo in a dramatic turnaround after saving what could have been a decisive break point in the opening game of the decider.
Hewitt fell two breaks behind, but managed to retrieve just one, before Janowicz served out the match, and celebrated mightily. The Australian, who had been supported by a large contingent of family and friends, left court two to a huge ovation. Deservedly.
The match resumed on Friday afternoon at 4-4 in the second set, rain having brought an early end to play on all but the covered centre court on a drizzly Thursday night. It was probably not bad timing for Hewitt, who had struggled to hold serve not long before the cessation, although he was broken in the first game after the resumption, anyway, before Janowicz served out a two set lead.
The tall Pole has heavy groundstrokes and a huge serve, and although Hewitt will be remembered as one of the great returners. His career, too, will be a thing of the past soon enough, and Janowciz is 10 years his junior, with big weapons well-suited to grass in a different way.
Yet as inevitable as the outcome seemed until Hewitt seized his moment in the third set tiebreak, the man who spent 80 weeks at No.1 in his early-arriving heyday is as passionate and competitive as ever, and continued to exhort himself the better things.
He faced two match points at 4-6 in the third set tiebreak, but was handed the first with a Janowicz double-fault, and saved the second with a vintage backhand down the line. When he closed out the set with a simple forehand volley into the open court, Hewitt raised his arms and punched the air, before a "c'mon" that was also vintage for its ferocity.
He is what he has always been: one of the sport's greatest competitors. And with the whiff of an upset in his flaring nostrils, Hewitt brushed aside a minor swearing controversy - he claims to have been misquoted, not for the first time - and in fact seemed galvanised for the service break that was soon to come.
Consecutive double faults from an increasingly-shaky Janowicz in the seventh game did help, but Hewitt was starting to anticipate and run down the dropshots that had worked so well for the world No.25 for almost three sets, but were now being overplayed.
At two-sets-all, the momentum was Hewitt's, but he could not carry it to the end. A day after Kyrgios had completed the unimaginable by saving nine match points, Hewitt could not join him. Not since 2007 had there been two Australian men in the third round at the All England Club. One of them was Lleyton Hewitt. Of course it was.
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A few weeks ago, I received a copy of the "The Alzheimer's Prevention Cookbook: 100 Recipes to Boost Brain Health," by Dr. Marwan Sabbagh and Beau MacMillan. I may not call this my new favorite book, but the recipes look incredibly delicious and full of the stuff that is good for all of us (antioxidants, anti-inflammatories and omega-3's).
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The real story is how he did it. Prevailing skeleton-buck construction favors plywood as it shapes and assembles easily. But Wallic used bar stock instead. It's basically a variation of the wire-buck idea only with thicker materials (3/8 inch) that promise to hold their shape to a greater degree. Admittedly the idea was born of convenience: Wallic has a ring roller to make stands for his wife's flower pots.
He discovered a few benefits. For one, his new bucks offer nearly infinite clamping positions. "But the best part is that you can weld right on it and it won't catch fire like wood will," he observes. What's more, unlike thin wire it won't deflect so easily. "That's really nice because it keeps everything from moving around while you're welding." Storage, it turns out, is easier with a steel buck. "When you're done you can just chuck it outside. You can't do that with wood. It'll go to hell if it gets wet."
The remainder of the nose's construction follows pretty standard procedure. Wallic used 3003-series half-hard aluminum in 0.063 inch for the skin, 1/8 inch for the grille opening, and 1/4-inch round stock for the grille bars. If there's any further variation to his technique it's that he welded with TIG/GTAW. Sheet-aluminum fabrication usually favors acetylene for its soft, workable weld bead (ordinarily aluminum TIG/GTAW beads crack when worked or shaped). But as others have, Wallic found that beads made with softer 1100-series filler rod (basically pure, un-alloyed aluminum) can withstand even fairly rigorous shaping even if made by TIG/GTAW.
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In March of this year, I had an opportunity to meet with representatives of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to get the pulse on their current enforcement focus, hear about their new privacy report , and to discuss trends in consumer background checks. Social media sites and mobile applications were at the top of their agenda.
At the meeting we raised an interesting question—would the FTC consider social media "aggregator" sites and "metasearch' engines, like Dogpile and Spokeo, consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)? After all, when those sites are used by employers to look up potential applicants, the search engines are compiling reports for employment purposes, right? And they market their sites to businesses for this very purpose, right? On the other hand, you could look at the site as just a pass-through— software through which information passes. As we debated the issue, one of the FTC attorneys in our meeting commented that, taken to the extreme, one could argue that Google is a CRA. And we wouldn't want that, would we?
The online search site Spokeo was faced with this very question in 2010, when it was hit with a double whammy–the Center for Democracy & Technology filed a complaint against the company with the FTC, and Virginia resident Thomas Robins filed suit against the company for allegedly violating the FCRA. In the FTC complaint, the watchdog group claimed "Despite offering credit ratings and promoting the use of its services for employment decisions, Spokeo does not offer consumers any of the protections encoded in the Fair Credit Reporting Act as required by law." Meanwhile, Robins alleged that Spokeo was acting as a CRA, reporting inaccurate information that was hindering his job search, and that he had no recourse or means to dispute the inaccurate information. CRAs are required to provide consumer protections like procedures to assure accuracy and dispute processes for consumers who find inaccuracies.
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By Colby Wayment
From: Ogden, UT
Oct 1, 2006
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
Climbed this today. It will certainly be a nice crack route when the bolts are put in and it gets a little cleaner. For right now, we climbed the chimney to the left and traversed right on the ledge. Be EXTREMELY careful on the traverse from the chimney to the hand crack (Very loose). I think one bolt should go on the clean wall above that death ledge to protect the traverse over to the handcrack.
Regarding the flake: I guess I'll have to shrug my shoulders and say "oh well, it's not that bad". I don't know how much lieback abuse it would take from big people, but it is easy jam around it.
By Wally29
From: Salt Lake City, Utah
Oct 29, 2006
|Cleaned up real nice. Mellow face moves to a fun varied crack. That Glen Kaplan sure is a stud!
By James Garrett
Apr 21, 2007
rating: 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
Seemed pretty solid to me. Really a good route. Not slabby and mostly hands which makes it unique for LCC. The sparse bolts on the first 40 feet is the only drawback, because it pulls you to the EZ ground left when the best part of the first part of the climb is really cool,too... but poorly protected when following the line of (only two!) bolts. If you blow it getting to the 2nd bolt, you would be a very hurting unit. I found the rock quality here pretty good, but maybe it just keeps cleaning up with the recent traffic. Sounds like it was a manufactured "R"...how come?
At any rate, I'll be back to it the next time in the Green A....it had been so long, I wasn't even aware of the new and improved trail up there! Nice...........Thanks Glen for making the best of a natural rock slide!
By Rob C.
From: Freeport, ME
Jun 5, 2007
|This is a really great climb. The runout's more scary than the flake - don't let either deter you.
By tenesmus
Jul 10, 2007
|This is a lot of fun! If you don't have that bigger 4.5 cam you can use a good nut a little lower or a small-to-medium cam just a little lower.
By Ryan Brough
From: Arvada, Colorado
Jul 28, 2007
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
|Two more bolts have been added to the start, so the original bolts are now bolts #2 and #4. Thanks for making the start safer!
By John Wilder
From: Las Vegas, NV
Aug 13, 2007
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|climbed this yesterday, thought it was catalyst....great route nonetheless. really good climbing...certainly not 5.10, though. I found it to be one notch easier than Gordon's, so I'll call it 5.9. Thanks for the route!
By Boissal
From: Small Lake, UT
May 9, 2008
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
First time on this route I placed a bunch of big pieces (2 #3 and 3 #2). I redid it yesterday and didn't place anything bigger than #2 and a bunch of micros went in. Lots of gear options, some of them require a bit of imagination. The route is still a bit dirty with gravel pouring out of the cracks and a few small holds breaking. I took a fist sized rock to the face while tugging on a cam, the placement and rock looked really solid but all came out after one small pull.
I'm not sure if it was worth the chipped tooth, but great route anyway!
By Tyler King
From: Salt Lake, UT
Aug 21, 2008
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|This is a great route with a wide variety of climbing! The route sews up nice and has solid hands the whole way, even more if you are solid at hand/fist jamming. It seems to be cleaning up. There was only one section with some gravel in a groove. There are 3 flakes that are marked X, but you don't need them if you are climbing the crack properly, not that I would know how to do that! :)
By John Bradford
From: Yellowstone National Park
Sep 7, 2008
rating: 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
|A nice route, would have liked to #2 camalots, and only had one, but lots of gear options as noted previously. Airy moves and good jamming.
By David Shiembob
From: slc, ut
Oct 30, 2008
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
|Great route! Watch the rope drag, there are options for gear, but hand size pieces go in nearly everywhere, so bring em if you got em. Fun, unique climbing for LCC.
By Spencer Weiler
From: Salt Lake city
Apr 17, 2011
|Did this route yesterday, mid april, and despite it being really wet it was awesome. Very fun jamming and chimneying the flakes is super cool. Every 20 feet or so is a bomber rest. This route is a full 35 meters, so a 70m rope just barely gets you down. Bring doubles #.5-3 camalots and QD's for the 4 bolts. Just as much fun as gordon's.
By Stevo Fowler
Sep 15, 2011
|I am a struggling 5.9 leader. I just did this route this morning. I was very glad I took a double-rack of hand sized cams and a 70m rope. This is one of LCC's classics. I went up a middle aged man and came down a boy.
By MFL
From: Sandy, UT
Sep 16, 2012
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|that death flake will probably come off sooner than later considering that the route itself was created by rockfall- the tip of it also has a fracture in it. be careful! just as fun as gordon's!!
By Kevin Chuba
From: Salt Lake City, UT
Oct 24, 2013
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a PG13
|This route is good, holy crap. 4 bolts to start things off the ground. Great gear the whole way up. Be gentle on the tree at the top. Doubles in #2's and #3's I was also lucky enough to use a metolius super cam. A double length runner was a nice touch about half way up. A gear sling over the shoulder was also really nice style on this route. I'm thankful for the two fella's that helped me out with this one.
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Mar 19, 2014
By Skat B
From: Down Rodeo
Apr 2, 2014
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
- Lots of slings
- As many #2 and #3 as you want to carry
- used a couple #1 and could've used a #4 or #5
By choppinBolts
Sep 11, 2014
|No reason for these 4 bolts to be at the bottom. At least I wish there were only 2 bolts like there used to be. Its pretty much 4th class up to the crack.
By Colby Wayment
From: Ogden, UT
Dec 1, 2014
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
|It was originally climbed without bolts, actually! Then two. Then four. It was also a dangerous choss fest getting to the crack. Now it's a fun, mellow section that is clean and enjoyable. If only you actually knew how it "used to be." Also, be careful of who you call "soft."
By thehackattacks
From: Park City, UT
Jul 1, 2015
|A dynamic and stellar climb not to be missed. Persevere through the death flake and seize the day!
By Tyler Needham
From: Salt Lake City, Utah
Oct 3, 2016
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|Favorite climb so far in LCC at the grade (I like it better than the Coffin and the other 5.9's in the Green A area). Varied climbing, intimidating features that aren't as hard as they appear from below, good gear where you need it.
By JackCrockett
Oct 10, 2016
|Doubles would certainly be nice but not required if you can be creative.


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PREMIERSHIP coach Craig Bellamy will meet his manager, John Fordham, this week in the first step towards deciding whether his job at Melbourne is done.
Bellamy is off contract at the Storm at the end of next year, but such is his lure, he has even been the subject of speculation he could move elsewhere next year.
That seemed to be only fuelled by the Storm's premiership win against the Bulldogs, with some believing that, after 10 seasons as head coach of the club, he had nothing left to achieve.
Melbourne chief executive Ron Gauci was adamant that Bellamy would be coaching the Storm next season, appearing to end any prospect of the Warriors doing what the Bulldogs did last year with Des Hasler - enticing the premiership-winning coach away from his incumbent club.
Gauci's belief will be backed up by the likelihood that the Warriors will appoint Bellamy's assistant, David Kidwell, as the club's replacement for Brian McClennan this week, with Matthew Elliott set to take on a role alongside him.
But Bellamy's future after next year is still uncertain. It remains unclear whether the Warriors plan to offer Kidwell a one-year contract in order to make their pitch for Bellamy, or - like the Roosters did with Trent Robinson - appoint an untried coach longer term.
Bellamy will travel to Europe later this week with the Storm's general manager of football operations, Frank Ponissi, on a fact-finding mission, visiting rugby union and football clubs in England, France and Belgium.
Before he does, he will sit down with Fordham to begin to map out his future.
''He had a pretty busy week last week,'' Fordham said. ''Quite rightly, I left him to enjoy the victory, but we're intending to catch up this week. First and foremost, I need to have a discussion with Craig, and we can take it from there. Melbourne are comfortable with the fact that we've had no formal discussions with them just yet. But Craig and I will certainly be making contact this week. That'll be step one. I don't know what steps two, three or four will be yet. But that's a starting point.''
Even with Bellamy overseas for a fortnight, Gauci said he could still begin formal negotiations with Fordham. While he has not, and is unlikely to, put a deadline on a decision, he still hoped for a decision ''sooner rather than later''.
''The negotiations will be in the hands of myself and his manager,'' Gauci said. ''When his manager wants to talk, we'll be ready. There's no real urgency on our part. One thing I can say is he's not going anywhere for 2013.''
Wests Tigers have also clouded the coaching landscape, having sacked Tim Sheens.
Another Melbourne assistant, Kevin Walters, has been linked with that job, along with Nathan Brown, Matt Parish, Mick Potter and Steve Georgallis.
The Tigers still need to finalise whether Sheens, in Townsville with the Australian squad this week, will accept another position with the club, which could impact on their appointment. Yesterday, Brisbane confirmed former New Zealand coach Stephen Kearney, who was sacked by Parramatta this year, would join the Broncos as Anthony Griffin's assistant.


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So it's the new buzz word around where I live... I offer them some Domori and they say: 'I only eat Raw chocolate'.
Can anyone tell me what Raw chocolate is? Does conching or roasting the bean mean it is cooked? I have a feeling it is just the next buzz word since organic or free-trade isn't good enough.
In general, what is the highest amount of heat does fine chocolate ever see?
I read raw chocolate sites and they say the chocolate never gets above 42 C, but isn't that true for most chocolate?
Thanks! 🙂
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Ashland, Oregon USA
Is it possible that after they extract the bean and don't roast it on the pavement they could separate the butter and nib and then call is raw because it wasn't roasted?
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Ashland, Oregon USA
March 17, 2005
Ellie you rock and thanks a lot for the quick reply. Is there a way for the beans not to ferment and still make chocolate that is edible?
I am getting tiered of people coming in and telling me they won't eat my Domori, Cluizel or Amedei because they only eat raw chocolate.
And another thing..... ever since I opened my chocolate boutique last week, I get at least a person a day telling me... 'you know what you should start selling?' AT LEAST a person per day. OMFG.
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April 29, 2004
June 23, 2007
Next time you get a smart a*** in your shop, put them on the spot and ask them what they believe actually constitutes "Raw" chocolate, and where they are supposedly sourcing it. Sounds like a case of misrepresentation at the least and something for Trading standards or their equivalent where you are. I had someone who wouldn't try Valrhona because they only eat Green and Blacks!!
Thanks for your replies. It pissed me off when a hippy told me he wouldn't eat Domori and would only eat "Raw Chocolate'. I am glad to see you guys are upset as well. I couldn't sleep that first night I was so offended. Freaking Hippies and their 'Raw' Chocolate.
I had another health nut come in and try to sell me 'raw' truffles. I asked him the basic questions and he couldn't answer them. In the end he told me he doesn't care about the tag 'raw' he was just interested in selling his truffles. hahahah noobs.
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June 6, 2005
If customers want them, even after you have educated them, why not stock the chocolate?
Sell the good stuff to those who appreciate that which is good, but let the yuppies buy Endagered Species, Organic, Free Trade, etc. Their purchases can subsidize the overpriced Amedei.
I would not start someone on Domori. If I wanted to get someone hooked, I would give them one of each Amano bar. You want them to taste something in addtion to basic chocolate flavor, and you want that something to to be easily noticeble, distinct, and straightforwardly pleasant.
August 27, 2008
June 6, 2005
Single origin and single estate belong on a seperate list. With these, the label actually relates to the flavor properties of the chocolate rather than some ideological fantasy or health claim.
The concept has been exploited and a single origin bar is not necessarily a quality chocolalte, but this does not make the good single origin chocolates any less valuable.
I actually enjoy Valhrona's vintage bars. They do taste somewhat different every year, and it is a great selling point. "I have not had that bar since last year, better buy one." I think it is time for the other fine chocoate producers to jump on the vintage bandwagon.
Dazeal wrote: "I have a feeling it is just the next buzz word since organic or free-trade isn't good enough. [...] Freaking Hippies and their 'Raw'" Chocolate."
ChemicalMachine wrote: "[...] let the yuppies buy Endagered Species, Organic, Free Trade, etc. [...] Single origin and single estate belong on a seperate list. With these, the label actually relates to the flavor properties of the chocolate rather than some ideological fantasy or health claim."
Guys, I tend to agree that "free trade" is based on "ideological fantasy" ... but I suspect that neither of you really meant what you wrote.
For the record, "free trade" and "fair trade" are two completely different things:
If you want to ridicule other people's ethics, it pays to get your terminology correct. Otherwise, you make yourself look foolish and ignorant to the people who actually understand (and care about) these issues.
June 6, 2005
I suspect that neither of you really meant what you wrote.
My focus was not on the (questionable) ethical concepts but rather on those who buy the poor quality overpriced chocolate. The producers are not to blame. Produce what sells. But as a consumer, I wish I could get something better than Lindt or Ghirardelli at the grocery stores which stock countless poor quality gimmick chocolates.
Why not buy a quality chocolate bar and donate to the endangered species cause separately? Consumers like chocolate, so they are looking for an excuse. They say, "I am eating it for the antioxidants, to help the environment, to support the fairly treated workers, etc." The fantasy is the lie the consumer is telling to himself.
If it is tastes good, like Girl Scout Cookies or Theo Chocolate, I will go along and not complain. In fact, I cannot think of a better use for bulk quality chocolate than a Samoa cookie.
ChemicalMachine -
You mention "gimmick" chocolates, and imply that organic agriculture and ethical trade are gimmicks. I couldn't disagree more strongly.
You also imply that people who are concerned about ethics and the environment are ignorant, and are deceiving themselves.
On the contrary, I would suggest that it is the people who are not concerned about these issues who are living in a self-absorbed fantasy land.
However, this thread is (or was) about raw chocolate. But you and Dazeal have both inexplicably lumped raw foodies into a group with yuppies, greenies, and people with ethical concerns. Furthermore, you and Dazeal both exhibit contempt for all of these people.
Dazeal -
Please share the name and location of your shop, so that your local raw foodies, hippies, yuppies, greenies, ethical consumers, and sundry "freaking" idealogues will know to stay well out of your way.
June 6, 2005
Originally posted by oz_choc
You mention "gimmick" chocolates, and imply that organic agriculture and ethical trade are gimmicks. I couldn't disagree more strongly.
I define gimmick chocolate as any overpriced low quality chocolate which markets any features beyond the sensory qualities of the bar, regardless of the validity of that selling feature.
Chocolate is about the sensory qualities. No one truly buys it for any other reason. Chocolate does not represent a cost effective means toward anything else. There are far more efficient ways to help the environment, improve one's health, support the poor, save endangered species, etc. than buying a chocolate bar. Considering this, when these issues allow the compromise of sensory quality, I complain.
I see 300 pound women buying the Antioxidant Chocolate Bar. Am I to believe that she really cares about her health? Why not buy some antioxidant rich broccoli?
Note that I have not criticized the producers nor their intentions. Selling candy is probably a great way to support Endangered Species or the Girl Scouts, because many consumers are truly quite indifferent about these issues. Girl Scouts would not do as well going door to door asking for donations. Endangered Species bars are prevalent enough that I suspect far more people have bought a bar than have made an independent donation toward the cause. My criticism is of the consumers and their acceptance of decreased quality chocolate in exchange for an excuse to buy themselves a treat.
I have no desire to debate organic agriculture and or fair trade. I am not an expert on these issues, and the validity of these ideas is irrelevant to my point.
I apologize if I have offended you, although I feel your reactionary hostility has been excessive.
August 27, 2008
ChemicalMachine -
While I agree with what you say to some extent..'single origin' and 'single estate' are still decriptive terms that label the bar you are buying. The same as organic, fairtrade, equitrade, raw etc
These labels help the consumer to choose which chocolate to buy.
Only those who care to investigate further find out more of the details e.g. most fairtrade chocolate comes from Ghana etc
Most people don't question anything. Look how many people still ask for 'diabetic chocolate' After years of trying to turn people in the right direction...I just smile and say 'no'
Give 'raw' chocolate a few weeks and they will be after something else.
ChemicalMachine - If you don't want to debate fair trade or organics, why drag these topics into an unrelated thread?
alex_h wrote: "never heard of raw chocolate [...] Some kind of new trend."
Forest wrote: "Give 'raw' chocolate a few weeks and they will be after something else."
I'm really surprised that people on this forum perceive raw chocolate to be a new and fleeting trend.
As a trader of raw (i.e. fermented, but un-roasted) cocoa beans, I've received a constant flow of inquiries from raw foodies about raw cocoa products since 2006.
Most raw foodies I've corresponded with are fans of the so-called "nutrition guru", David Wolfe, who published the book "Naked Chocolate" back in 2005.
Also, for anyone who's interested, the subject of raw chocolate has been discussed extensively over at The Chocolate Life since mid last year:
Whether you love it or hate it, I reckon raw chocolate is here to stay.
August 27, 2008
Oz Choc..I don't doubt it is here to stay but at the end of the day…it's just another 'way' to sell chocolate. There is nothing wrong with that…though it will come to a stage where the public will get sick and tired of all these different labels.
I may be wrong and maybe one day every manufacturer in the world will turn to 'raw' cocoa but my guess is it will eventually end up with-in its own little niche as will all the other labels mentioned above.
I look at the chocolate business as a great pyramid. Hershey, Nestle, Cadbury etc are at the base. High quality, functional chocolate.(insert label here).etc is a small (growing?) blip at the top.
New things do scare people…look at some of the comments above… but if you have a shop…I suppose you have to sell these things.
Chocolate just happens to be one of those foods that attract controversy…some historians would say it always has.
When Cadbury's go Fairtrade with some of their products later on in the year… we will have some explaining to do. People will not see the politics, the difference with bean varieties etc They will see a label. It's human nature to label things. It makes us feel safe. But it can be a pain in the back-side.
Originally posted by Forest
[...] I may be wrong and maybe one day every manufacturer in the world will turn to 'raw' cocoa but my guess is it will eventually end up with-in its own little niche [...]
The fact is that raw cocoa has had "its own little niche" for at least 4 years now.
I certainly have no expectation that "one day every manufacturer in the world will turn to 'raw' cocoa". However, every genuine bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturer starts out with raw cocoa.
For the record, I buy raw cocoa beans because ... that's how they're sold on the international market. And, I like to do my own roasting.
But some people like to eat raw cocoa, and I see no reason to call them derogatory names (like Freaking Hippies, for example) because of that.
The issue that I perceive with raw food and chocolate is fundamentally one of misunderstanding/misinformation. Every raw foodist (if that's a term) that I talk to tells me the highest acceptable temperature is 118ºF.
Personally (just a matter of observation and reading here), I've never seen a fermentation heap or box where temperatures did not meet or exceed 50ºC (aka about 122ºF) for at least a day or so. To my way of thinking, this means that any fermented cacao (the vast majority of what's marketed as 'raw') doesn't meet the community's own definition of a raw food. I think most folks interested in raw foods don't understand this basic fact about cacao's post-harvest processing, which I see as a bit of a problem. There's also a potential food safety concern here, as a lot of these 'raw' chocolate products are made with the testa (cocoa hull) still intact, thereby integrating into the final manufactured product one of the most likely homes for nasty bacteria like E. Coli. One of the great things about roasting cacao is that it doubles as a sterilizing activity...
I'm also seeing a lot of things marketed as 'raw' that clearly aren't, such as cocoa powder. (Just search for 'cacao' on Twitter for a billion hits on 'raw cacao powder')
I certainly have no problem in general with raw foodists, but I am concerned that products are being marketed to that audience improperly. Of course, this is just a small part of a bigger concern about chocolate in general: we need more transparency, honesty and quality information across the board in order to help consumers make informed choices that are actually in line with their personal beliefs.
August 27, 2008
Oz choc-I've read some of your comments on 'the chocolate life' website. It is obvious that you are very knowledgeable about the bean. I completely agree with your views concerning people using derogatory remarks to describe other people who happen to be into something they are not (even though it happens all the time in almost any walk of life).
I understand that when chocolate is picked, fermented and dried it can be classed as 'raw' if you wish to label it so. I also understand that when the bean is then roasted at high temperature it ceases to be 'raw'.
The point I'm trying to make is what ever you package it up as..it's still chocolate. The problem is that the general public will probably perceive it as something else.
In the west, we like to pigeonhole things. It makes us feel safe. We also get something, re-package it and try and sell it for more than it originally cost.
Madonna is a classic example. She dyes her hair, changes her clobber, gets a new producer in, contorts a bit and makes a million. Critics will say this album is better than that one and rub their chins in amazement. It's still Madonna.
Look at all the different diets out there; they come in and out of vogue, all there to help us lose weight, feel more healthy and shift more books.
Take the 'Mersey Beat' out of the equation and we are a little behind the US, when it comes the next 'big' thing in the UK. When 'Raw' finally makes a brake-through, the media are going to lap it up and someone, somewhere is going to make a hell of a lot of money out of it.
I've got to the age where I'm getting numb to the white noise of 'what to eat/what not to eat'. I stand perplexed when I see people flapping their arms about and screaming because they believe someone has re-invented the wheel (Try telling the Olmecs). That's my only point. Going back to the original questioner, if I had a shop and wanted to make some money, don't waist your time going blue in the face trying to sell something the customer doesn't want…sell them 'raw'. A percentage will eventually return back to Domori.Thats business.
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Waterline Newport Beach - the resort's signature restaurant features fresh seafood. Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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Check-in time ends at midnight
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Children and extra beds
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- Self parking fee: USD 35.00 per night
- Valet parking fee: USD 35.00 per night (in/out privileges)
- Extended parking fee: USD 35 per night
- Pet fee: USD 100.00 per accommodation, per stay (maximum USD 100.00 per stay)
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 30.00 per night
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Ho, Ho, Ho... Holiday shopping has arrived with Christmas season around the corner. Don't be a scrooge this year when it comes to your shopping list; get personalized Christmas gifts sure to make those who made your nice list smile. GiftsForYouNow has a vast selection of inventive and creative Christmas gifts waiting for you to add your personalized touch. Having a holly jolly Christmas this year begins here with one of the many personalized Christmas gifts available.
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If you've lost touch with some friends over the years and you don't really know what to get them anymore, don't worry. A holiday themed gift is perfect for any household, and when it is specialized to the individual they will be sure to know how much you care about them. It's a great way to spread your holiday cheer to your friends.
The people who you care most about are your family. Showing them how much they mean to you can sometimes be difficult during the holiday season. Not this year! GiftsForYouNow has all of the bases covered when it comes to personalized Christmas gifts for your family. Not only will you be giving them a gift to love this year, but you will be buying them something they can keep for a lifetime.
We all talk about the gift that keeps on giving. GiftsForYouNow has plenty of great personalized Christmas gifts that can be useful all year. Commemorate your wedding, big beach trip, or graduation with one of their unique gift ideas sure to bring joy to you and your loved ones the whole year through.
This was totally amazing! Picture was taken from a cell phone and all detail was captured on the canvas print. Colors were perfect. Will order again and tell my friends and show them this canvas picture!!