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Hi all,
Is the scissor test any different from (accordingly) adjusting the viewport and projection matrix? As far as I know all it does is 'clip' the area that is rendered to (like a viewport - with clipping enabled), but without scaling in screen space. But I might be missing something. Is scissoring redundant?
The scissor test is a fragment operation whereas clipping is a vertex operation. Each has their benefit, but scissor tests are more often used for GUI intensive applications and clipping is usually for geometry intensive applications.
Using scissors is also far more simple than resizing the viewport and adjusting the projection matrix =) But yes, I believe you could achieve the same affect with that approach so long as you don't clear any buffers in the process.
The scissor test is a fragment operation whereas clipping is a vertex operation.
Conceptually, yes, but guard-band clipping is pretty much a raster operation as well. So in practice the difference should be quite small. It might even be handled by the same hardware components (actually that's my question). :ninja:
Using scissors is also far more simple than resizing the viewport and adjusting the projection matrix =)
That's relative. But yeah I have the feeling they just added the scissoring concept to the API to make it a little easier to render to an area without scaling. Or it might just be a historical thing, when 3D geometry clipping was handled on the CPU but the graphics chip featured 'accelerated' 2D clipping (so you didn't have to implement a complex clipper in software just for some simple GUI work).
Anyway, I'd just like to know whether the two are in fact entirely redundant, or whether there is something that can't be done without having both? Or in other words, if an API didn't have scissoring, would it still be fully functional?
But yes, I believe you could achieve the same affect with that approach so long as you don't clear any buffers in the process.
Direct3D allows to clear just regions. For OpenGL it appears that setting the scissor rectangle is the only way to control clearing of smaller areas? But that's more of a legacy API limitation than a technical limitation...
The difference is that glScissor test specifies what pixels to be changed when rendering, while glViewport changes how gl should map from device coordinates to window coordinates. So if you want to render to a subsection to the window you should use glScissor() (and enable GL_SCISSOR_TEST), and then set glViewport() if required.
Then what's the difference with setting the viewport to the rectangle you want to render to and adjusting the projection matrix to undo the scaling done by the viewport (and leaving clipping enabled)? For example, if we'd like to render to the left half of the screen only, we could set the viewport to that half, and adjust the projection matrix so x-coordinates are multiplied by 2 and translated right by 1.
I just tried this with a Direct3D 'spinning cube' application and it works without trouble.
Direct3D allows to clear just regions. For OpenGL it appears that setting the scissor rectangle is the only way to control clearing of smaller areas?
OpenGL only clears the pixels in the viewport, so you can clear smaller areas by setting the viewport appropriately.
Interesting. If my assumption is correct then scissoring would be technically redundant in both APIs...
My guess is that it is. But since pixels have to be clipped to the visible window area anyway (so-called 'pixel ownership test'), adding scissor capability is trivially easy for API implementors. It probably just exists to provide a somewhat simpler interface for updating a portion of the screen. It might also be a historical artifact as you mentioned.
While experimenting with viewports and scissor rectangles I bumped into something odd. I have no idea how to disable clipping in Direct3D! I tried SetRenderState(D3DRS_CLIPPING, FALSE), but the geometry still gets clipped to the viewport. :blink: Shouldn't it allow to render geometry outside the viewport? If not, what does D3DRS_CLIPPING really do?
It looks like D3DRS_CLIPPING is from the times when clipping was typically done in software. Nowadays its implicitely always enabled. So rendering outside the viewport is impossible, and the render state doesn't do anything. Can anyone confirm this? :unsure:
The scaling is the difference. I was trying, once, to implement scissoring using the viewport trick but it wasn't accurate enough for me. I seem to recall, at the time, being told by an nVidia man that vewport clipping used the scissor rectangle!
The scaling is the difference.
But this can be corrected with the projection matrix?
I was trying, once, to implement scissoring using the viewport trick but it wasn't accurate enough for me.
What do you mean by not accurate enough? Both the viewport and scissor rectangle are defined in integer coordinates, and the floating-point components of the projection matrix should be accurate enough to compensate the scaling.
I seem to recall, at the time, being told by an nVidia man that vewport clipping used the scissor rectangle!
Yes, that's starting to sound logical to me. By using the half-space rasterization algorithm, clipping or scissoring is just a matter of adding extra planes. So it's all a raster operation and it can be done with the same hardware. Anyway, this also confirms that scissoring is technically redundant and was just added for convenience. Unless there are indeed precision problems...
It can't under all circumstances ... this was the exact problem i had.
Floating point accuracy is your enemy here. You may be able to use ir for certain things but i was trying to save fill rate in a DX8 app by scissoring the geometry to the light's bounds (A Doom 3 style light renderer). You need to apply the same projection matrix to both (and hence GL or DX9 scissoring is so much better here) to make sure the same Z values are generated for triangles with the same 3D coordinates. Otherwise Z-fighting ensues. Now if we were using fixed point ...
Oh, I think I got it now. :o If a polygon is clipped in 3D its gradients (most notably z-gradient) might be very slightly different from the same unclipped polygon, causing z-fighting problems when doing multipass.
That can indeed only be solved with a raster based scissor operation...
Thanks a lot for the information! :worthy:
Actually, the problem you experienced isn't from 3D clipping like I said above but indeed from floating-point imprecision of the projection matrix alone. All modern hardware uses guard band clipping, which is already a raster based clipping technique. It's just the scaling done by the viewport and the correction of the projection matrix that can't be without (tiny) floating-point imprecisions. So the polygons of multiple passes don't match entirely perfectly and cause the z-fighting. :ninja:
Yup thats the one. Glad my terrible explanation made some sense to ya
Its a fairly common matrix case Projection x Viewport produces a different results to Projection x InverseViewportScale x SmallViewport. That extra matrix multiply adds in the, often tiny but significant, error.


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Police said a man called 911 at 11:45 p.m. and said two men had tried to rob him and he shot one of them.
When police arrived at the Summer Oaks Apartments, they found 20-year-old Robert Pinkney dead in the parking lot. Investigators said a gun was found lying next to the body.
The second man took off and was still at large, police told Channel 4's Nikki Preede.
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Wood Fire Woodie, the former mobile catering company, is officially stationary. Opening night was Tuesday at Pat and Mariah Flanagan's new Scotts Valley pizzeria, which replaces Falafel at 3105 Scotts Valley Drive.
Wood Fire Woodie is open 5-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 5-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Call 316-9001 or visit www.woodfirewoodie.com.
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Santa Cruz-based Verve Coffee Roasters made its debut as a Good Food Award finalist this week. Returning winner Pim Techamuanvivit, a food blogger based in Santa Cruz, also made the list this year for her Flavor King Pluot jam.
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The Aptos branch of Britannia Arms abruptly closed last week after 20 years on Soquel Drive, reportedly because of slowing business.
The pub's free comedy show, set for 8 p.m. Dec. 18, will move to Britannia Arms in Capitola. Headliner this month is Brendan Lynch with host Joe Hughes and comics Melanie Bega, Dave "Supe" Salisbury, Ben Castillo and Danny Allen. Dinner runs $8-$16.
The Capitola Britannia Arms is at 110 Monterey Ave. Call 464-2583.
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Dinner hours are 5-8:30 p.m. The restaurant is at 3101 North Main St. For reservations, call 477-9265 or visit www.mainstreetgardencafe.com.
Wine dinner returns to Cabrillo today, Thursday
The Cabrillo College Culinary Arts program today and Thursday will prepare its annual Winemaker's Dinner at Pino Alto Restaurant on campus. The advanced culinary class at the Aptos school will design and prepare a four-course menu with crab cakes and Swiss chard; elk with leek ash; porcini-crusted beef filet: roasted heirloom potatoes; and a trio of desserts.
Sones Cellars winemakers Lois and Michael Sones will discuss the complementary varietals for each course.
Produce and herbs used in the dinner were grown in part by Cabrillo's horticulture program students, and the servingware was made by members of the college's ceramics department.
Cost is $70 per person, not including tax and tip. Seatings are available between 5:30-8:30 p.m. Pino Alto is in the Sesnon House at Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Drive. Call 479-6524 or visit www.pinoaltorestaurant.org.
Dos Aguilas Olive Oil offers U-pick olives
Dos Aguilas Extra Virgin Olive Oil, a grower in Aptos, has Tuscan olives available through Dec. 15 for picking or purchasing. Four varieties are ready at different stages of ripeness for anyone interested in curing their own.
Ladders are not required to pick at the orchard, comprised of 4-year-old trees around 6 feet tall. A pound, which fits into a one-quart jar, can be harvested in about a minute. Pre-picked olives are also available by the pound.
The orchard is in Pleasant Valley in Aptos. Call Roger at 252-0752 to reserve a picking time. Group reservations are also available. Visit www.dosaguilasoil.com for pricing and details.
Brezsny's pan-Asian cooking returns
Tom Brezsny, onetime co-owner of the original India Joze, will be re-creating several of the dishes from the early 1980s at the restaurant during a guest chef appearance next week in Soquel.
Michael's on Main will host Brezsny on Dec. 11 as part of the Soquel restaurant's Tuesday Night Pairing Dinners with Hahn Family wines. His pan-Asian menu will boast snapper djawa, ajampungang, yogurt-marinated spiced chicken, grilled beef satay, wok vegetables and corn celery fritters.
The dinner is $25 per person. Seatings are available 6:30-8:30 p.m. Ken Constable will perform. Michael's is at 2591 Main St., Soquel. Call 831-479-9777 or visit www.michaelsonmain.net.
Alfaro Vineyards pinot a top Chronicle pick
The San Francisco Chronicle has named an Alfaro Family Vineyards pinot noir among its magazine's Top 100 Wines of 2012.
The Corralitos winery was spotlighted for its 2010 Lester Family Vineyard vintage from Deer Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The pinot noir, which runs $38 a bottle, is "packed with juicy currant, iodine and juniper, and a subtle whack of new oak that accents, but doesn't obscure the beauty of the Aptos soils," the Chronicle writes.
Alfaro Family Vineyards is at 420 Hames Road. Tastings are $10. Call 728-5172 or visit www.alfarowine.com.
Croquenbouches come to Book Cafe eatery
Capitola Coffee Roasters and Patisserie, housed in Capitola Book Cafe, is hosting a tasting today of champagne and croquenbouche, the high-piled French dessert. Guests can bring their own styrofoam cones or other objects to create their own croquenbouches.
Unfilled cream puffs for DIY croquenbouches will be 75 cents each. Filled puffs for tasting will be $1.75 each.
The event runs 6 p.m. to close. Capitola Book Cafe is at 1475 41st Ave. Call 454-6768.
Summit Wineries celebrate the holidays
The Summit Wineries, a quintet in the Santa Cruz Mountains, will be celebrating the holidays this weekend with wine, gifts, live music and small plates. Festivities run noon to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Visit www.thesummitwineries.com.
Teen, adult bakers get own classes at New Leaf
New Leaf Community Markets is offering a pair of baking classes this week at the Westside Santa Cruz store with Chef Lauren Hoover-West's low-glycemic and gluten- and dairy-free cookies. Students can bring their own containers and take home an assortment of sweets.
The adult class is set for 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday. The teen class will be 3-5:30 p.m. Sunday. New Leaf is at 1101 Fair Ave. Preregistration is required. Call 426-1306, ext. 0, or visit www.newleaf.com.
Haute Enchilada marks 21st Amendment
Today marks the 79th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition, and Moss Landing's Haute Enchilada is celebrating with a half-off drink special. The cafe and gallery, off Highway 1 just south of Watsonville, will be serving up Mama Juanita Ponche de Granadas for $5 each to customers who utter the password: "Haute."
The fruity drink, served warm in a sifter with a cinnamon stick, is from the Mexican state of Jalisco and is usually served as an aperitif before a fiesta meal.
The Haute Enchilada is at 7902 Moss Landing Road. Call 633-5843 or visit www.hauteenchilada.com.
Burger King celebrates anniversary with Whopper deal
The Whopper, signature sandwich of Burger King, turns 55 years old this week. The fast-food chain is celebrating through Sunday, offering a 55-cent original Whopper if you buy any regular price Whopper. The offer is available at all five county franchises.
Quick Bites, your weekly helping of Santa Cruz County restaurant and food news, is compiled by local food writer Laura Copeland. Contact her at email@example.com. Want local food and wine news as it happens? Follow the Sentinel's food crew on Twitter, @santacruzfood.
Editor's note: Tom Brezsny's event will be at Michael's, at 2591 Main St., Soquel. For details, visit www.michaelsonmain.net. The location and web address were incorrect in an earlier version of this article.
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As the dirty little secrets of 'family values' politicians and religious leaders come to light, the scandals help the cause of LGBT equality
DAVID WEBB | The Rare Reporter
The new year is well under way, but it's like Christmas just keeps coming for the LGBT community in terms of our enemies destroying their credibility by performing what amounts to high dives into empty swimming pools.
Just a few weeks ago we saw New York Republican Congressman Christopher Lee hastily resign after the website Gawker.com published an expose about the congressman's attempts to hook up via Craigslist.
The website revealed Lee had e-mailed a shirtless picture of himself to a woman, along with the lie that he was a single lobbyist, rather than declaring his true identity as a married father and elected public official.
Now, the National Enquirer is treating us to an expose alleging that married Republican Speaker of the House John "Cry Me a River" Boehner engaged in at least two affairs with mistresses. It would seem that Boehner, who created a sensation tearing up on a 60 Minutes broadcast while discussing his rise to political fame, really has something to cry about now.
I would say that these fellows who portrayed themselves as champions of family values had exhibited a level of stupidity in their behavior that defies reason and distinguishes them as clowns without comparison — but I can't. Because this is a story that we have seen play out time and time again.
For naysayers who criticize the sources of these exposures: Remember, when it comes to really distasteful news, it usually surfaces in alternative publications before the mainstream media dares to pick it up. A case in point would be the exposure of former presidential candidate John Edward's infidelity that was revealed by the National Enquirer.
While Edwards wasn't an enemy of the LGBT community, he was a champion of family values. So it's only fair to point out that stupidity and compulsively destructive behavior obviously know no political boundaries.
It's hard to figure out why a prominent public official would secretly engage in an activity that they publicly condemn. But they just keep on keeping on — to our enormous benefit. There's nothing that turns off people and awakens them to the truth more than a good dose of reality via the exposure of false prophets' hypocrisy.
My first recollection of this type of hypocrisy dates back to 1981 when I read The Gentleman from Maryland, The Conscience of a Gay Conservative by former Congressman Richard Bauman. Bauman, who by day railed against gay rights and by night cruised Washington, D.C., gay bars, lost re-election in 1980 over a scandal involving a gay prostitute.
Since then it has been one revelation after another involving foes of the gay rights movement. Who could ever forget the 2007 scandal involving former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig when it was revealed that several months earlier he was arrested in a vice squad sex sting in a Minneapolis airport men's restroom? The married politician's denials of guilt and attempts to explain away his behavior made him the laughing stock of the country for awhile.
Over the years, straight Americans' acceptance of gay and lesbian people has steadily grown, and I suspect at least part of the reason for that has been the exposure of the secret lives of political and religious celebrities who denounce homosexuality and bisexuality as aberrant behavior.
It's sort of like a housewife who is leading a fight against an ordinance that would allow liquor sales in a community getting busted for drunken driving while ferrying the neighborhood's kids home from school. Her motives suddenly become suspect.
Of course, we can't thank our foes for all of our good fortune. The relentless fight by gay activists during the past 40 years has had a tremendous impact on public perception about who we are and what we want.
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It's been a wildly successful formula for achieving gay rights since the birth of the movement in 1969, and I'm sure the success is going to continue. And for that we can thank ourselves and our foes who just can't seem to help being true to their real natures.
David Webb is a freelance reporter and former staff writer for the Dallas Voice. He has reported on LGBT issues for the mainstream and alternative media for more than two decades. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers and Pirates made a Minor League trade Thursday that sent right-hander Jay Jackson to Milwaukee's Triple-A team for cash considerations.
Jackson, who cracked Baseball America's top 100 prospects list prior to the 2010 season, was 5-4 with a 4.89 ERA in 25 games (12 starts) at Triple-A Indianapolis this year, with 87 strikeouts in 84 2/3 innings. The 26-year-old will now pitch for a Nashville Sounds team that has been losing arms lately to the big league club.
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• After two starts at Arizona, left-hander Wei-Chung Wang will be promoted to Class A Wisconsin before his next start on Sunday, according to Brewers assistant general manager Gord Ash. Wang was a Rule 5 Draft pick and pitched sparingly before he was placed on the DL last month with a tight shoulder.
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By Mark J. Nelson
Nov 4, 2002
|The second pitch is slightly offwidth; I suggest racking to a #4 Camalot. The 5.6 rating is quite reasonable, but it will sure feel more difficult if you're only carrying up to 3 inch gear...
By Nathan L.
Dec 17, 2002
rating: 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
|Mike's Books is a fun route and was one of my first leads (after the Blob) at J-Tree. I remeber the traverse in from the left as being slightly awkward as you move in to the chimmny/groove. There's also alot of flakes and jugs on the face of the groove which makes it go at a reasonable 5.6. The 2nd pitch is a bit wide but not to difficult. After the crack ends you have a bit of face climbing that's protected by 1 bolt.(At least a few years ago). It's hard to see(the bolt) at the begining of the face and you think, "wow this is going to be a sporty finish" but the bolt is there, hidden in a depression. Have fun!
By The Gray Tradster
Nov 17, 2003
rating: 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
|The original rating in the Wolfe book was 5.5. The bolt for the finish didn't appear untill the late 70's or early 80's. The last nut also had an unnerving habit of falling out. There were no bolted belays obviously. Last time I did it thought, (Boy, we used to do this with only hexes?)
By Brian Reynolds
Dec 17, 2003
rating: 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
|Fun route. Carry the biggest pieces you've got, if you want an excuse to place them. You won't need them, but you'll be able to find somewhere to put them if you want to. I'm certainly not encouraging bolting anchors all over the park, but the fact that both of them are bolted on this climb sure makes it a quick one!
By Drederek
Apr 1, 2004
rating: 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
|I thought the var start looked harder than the dihedral 3 feet to left of it. It seemed about 5.7 to me tho I'm sure anyone much shorter than 6 feet may disagree.
By Jimmie
Sep 27, 2004
rating: 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
|Climbed this on 9/26/04 and the anchors for the first pitch seem to be missing. At least I couldn't find them and I remember them being fairly obvious the last time I did it (several years ago). Not a major malfunction as there is a great horizontal crack to build an anchor, but it means that you'll have to scramble across to the top of Upper Ski Track Right for the rap to the big ledge. You ca no longer do descent in two raps as indicated (at least not without leaving gear).
By Trevor Roberson
From: Oxnard, California
Jan 2, 2005
rating: 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
|I climbed MB on 10-31-04 and the anchors are still there. On the first pitch they are 4' to the right as you exit the crack onto the ledge. The second pitch is a chain with rap rings just above the old bolt protecting the face. First pitch (indirect from the left) is definitely 5.6 but the second was a little wide (#4 helpful) and awkward (and that sharp fin below you YIKES!) Pitch 2 maybe 5.6+ to 5.7ish but not 5.8. All in all a fun climb.
By Bo Johnston
Mar 24, 2005
|After the diheadral on the second pitch and before the face with a bolt finish, I walked to the right and climbed the right facing hand crack to the top and then back to the anchors to belay my second. It is not listed in the book but it felt like 5.8+ (I was wearing my tennies though). Does anyone know if it is the finish to anything??
By Kellen Holt
Dec 31, 2005
rating: 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
|I found the top of the first pitch akward off-width, but looking back, you could chimney or face climb. If you are not tuned to Jtree runouts, bring a #4 or so piece to protect the wider parts. I ended up thrutching and groveling 15 feet out from a #3 camalot. Don't jump on this route without atleast giving it a once over. Anchor bolts were good as of 12/28/05.
By 46and2
From: Las Vegas, NV
Jun 11, 2006
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c PG13
|We put a grade of 5.8 on this climb only if doing the direct start to pitch 1. You can get a good cam in to protect the direct start but its still a pretty tough move. Be careful on the beginning of pitch 2 (PG-13, bring a large cam!)as the wide section is pretty committing for a 5.6! The anchors are great as of April 06'.
By Bill Rusk
From: Duluth, MN
Feb 17, 2008
rating: 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
|I didn't really enjoy this route. I thought it was a little stiff for 5.6. You could definantly use a #4 for the second pitch. There are much better climbs of that rating in the area.
By DaveGustafson
From: Palm Desert, CA
Apr 5, 2009
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|What in the world was with the last part of pitch one?!? My awful-width technique leaves a lot to be desired to begin with, I'm just glad my climbing partner didn't bring the camera! We did the direct 5.8 start and it was feeling a little more like 5.8+ to us. I'd definitely suggest a #4 and an ample supply of 2s and 3s for good measure. A great view and wonderful rap station! Overall, I'd give it an "okay".
By TomCaldwell
From: Clemson, S.C.
Jun 2, 2009
|A #4 is a must! Bring two if you want or walk the single to the top.
By attila
Jan 31, 2010
|Over two stars for this climb? You gotta be kidding. Some routes feel like they're meant to be climbed, but not this one. I found it awkward and not enjoyable. If you decide to do it, note that the bolted anchor for pitch one is easily missed (it's hiding off to the right) and have the taller climber in your party do the second pitch.
By Bryan Davenport
From: 29palms
Feb 1, 2010
rating: 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
|The pro on the first portion is a bit sketchy. There are some fun placements on the rest of the first pitch. I used mostly hexes and then a 2 and three camalot. I concur about the anchor. It is still in great shape w/ rappel rings
By Bryan Davenport
From: 29palms
Feb 20, 2010
rating: 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
|It was very windy today, made the lead a little more of a head game. Used larger hexes, sizes 1-3 Camalots and a couple nuts. I'm thinking the alternate start is more like a 5.9 (through the first crack). The second pitch seems 5.8ish. There are good placements without a #4
By Craig Randleman
From: Phoenix, AZ
Feb 28, 2010
rating: 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b PG13
|I thought this was quite hard, actually. The start of pitch 2 was datardly - wide, deep crack with kinda hard-to-spot feet. Then again, that's why I climb JT - too be scared shitless on easy moderates! Haha!
By Ken Noyce
From: Layton, UT
Feb 14, 2011
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|Wow, interesting comments, I thought that this was an enjoyable easy climb. The first pitch variation (the natural line) has one move that felt like 5.8, then it was easy for the rest of the pitch. I thought the second pitch felt like 5.5 or 5.6 max, nowhere near 5.7 or 5.8 as some people are suggesting. I thought the bolt on the face was completely unnecessary for the super easy slab that it's protecting. I did place both a #4 and a #5 C4 on the second pitch.
By yosenhuttle
Mar 15, 2011
|Groveled through the 1st pitch... Not a terribly aesthetic route given the other climbs in the area. I doubt I'll ever do this one again
By Patrick Kaufer
From: Laguna Hills, CA
May 12, 2011
rating: 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
|Good climb. Can get a bit tricky at the top of P1 but was very enjoyable.
By John Long
Aug 6, 2011
From the start of the 2nd pitch, you can either go up the crack, or do a harder step up move on the face and carry on up the steep slab and cut into the crack higher up. Another variation, put up around 1975, starts further around on the steep face to the left. There's a big dyno off the ledge to a rounded hold, a difficult step up and some dicy moves to easier ground - a short sequence to the easier (5.8) face above (it cuts over into Mike's Books) but there's no pro, we always bouldered this off the ledge, and it was the first 5.12 at Josh. Hanging that first hold after the big dyno was so hard the route had to be in the shade to stick it.
I went back to this sometime in the early 90s long after I was a super active climber and couldn't touch this thing.
By Patrick Sanan
From: Lugano, Switzerland
Dec 9, 2011
|Loved this climb. The little traverse at the start demands attention, but after that it's great fun with all kinds of chimney moves and a little easy slab section at the end. Our guidebook said many people skip the second pitch, which is a shame, as it's as much fun if not more than the first, and the ledge you belay from is practically a helipad. As many have noted, big cams are nice to have ( I recall being glad to have a #4 camalot at one point on the first pitch, and the second pitch has many wide placement opportunities).
By jake marlow
From: laramie
Jan 13, 2012
Some climbs are fun because they are hard and others are just fun; this one is the latter.
Do the harder start it is way worth it.
By david doucette
Dec 7, 2012
rating: 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
I climbed this yesterday. the 5.6 traverse start shown in the old vogel book is tricky and we didn't do it. the step across is completely unprotected. we opted for the chute just to the left of the 5.8 start.
pitch 2, be sure to bring a number 4 and a 5 if you have them. the biggest piece i had was a number 3 and i kept moving it up 2 or 3 times as i climbed. would have been more helpful to have those bigger pieces. slab part at top has a bolt, not too tricky just stay steady on your feet.
solid 5.6.
great climb!
By Brian Chastain
Dec 9, 2013
|despite being easy I always enjoy climbing this
By Dave Holliday
Mar 17, 2014
|Because I forgot to note where the second pitch goes, I ended up doing an interesting variation to that pitch. At the top of the first pitch, go to the right to a low-angle flare/grovel (just right of the bolted face) with a hand crack in the back; continue up this until you see a short fist/off-width crack on your left. Climb that to a shelf then climb a short flared hand/fist crack to another good shelf where the proper second pitch tops out. This is probably in the 5.8 range; good gear the whole way with a #4 Camalot being useful.
By Alexm53
Nov 12, 2014
|Take care when stepping through the easy but unprotected start of the first pitch. We approached the climb and a fellow had decked it and broke an ankle...Thank God for the guardian angel that was soloing Ill leave him unnamed but good job (A) He broke what could've been a bad head blow.
By Ben Crowell
Feb 13, 2015
rating: 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
|The committing steps at the beginning of P1 can be protected. I used a red hexcentric.
By Rory Macomber
From: Redlands, California
May 7, 2015
|Fun route with some interesting moves. The direct start is more difficult, but it is solid, protectable, and fun. A #4 would be good for the second pitch to avoid getting a little runout, I only had one #3 which made things a little more interesting. All the moves are there to go at 5.6, but this climb can be as difficult as you want to make it.
By The Billy Goat
From: fontana,ca
Jan 4, 2016
rating: 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
|My first trad lead. Great route for someone looking to build confidence on trad leads.
By nathanael
From: Riverside, CA
Jan 25, 2016
As mentioned, 2nd pitch is wide enough for a #4/5 if you want, but it's not necessary. You can reach deep into the back of the crack to place some smaller gear.
After you pull onto the slab at the end there's a bolt protecting the final move (5.4) to the anchors. 5.6 seems fair for the pitch but obviously it can be as difficult as you make it.
By Julius Elinson
Mar 8, 2016
|Stellar climb! I built a gear anchor on the massive ledge -- it looked much more comfortable than belaying from the set of bolts at the very front of the ledge. The entire route takes pro pretty well. Having a #4 was definitely nice.
By Dimes
From: Joshua Tree, Ca.
May 31, 2017
|The lead bolt at the top of the second pitch was upgraded today by the ASCA with a 1/2" stainless steel bolt and a SS rock colored hanger.


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"You know, Violet's not doing so well," "TWD" Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd told Access Hollywood of the pink porker who didn't make it out of the "30 Days Without An Accident" episode alive. "We may have to have a 'dead dinner' for her."
The rest of the team, however, was very, very pleased.
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"Everyone went absolutely crazy," Gale told Access. "We're so close, including people who aren't even on the show any moreââ¬Â¦ Everyone said, regardless of what the numbers are, 'This is the best experience of my life and we're all 'The Walking Dead' family.' And then, when the numbers came through, it's just the icing on the cake."
In a new interview with Access, Gale talked more about those big numbers — including what she thought of the show's huge ratings in the 18-49 demo — and she addressed some of the big developments from the premiere, like Patrick turning into a zombie and Carol (Melissa McBride) calling Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) "Pookie."
AccessHollywood.com: When you saw there were 10.4 million viewers who watched the Season 4 premiere in the 18-49 age group, was that sort of a surreal moment?
Gale Anne Hurd: Everything about 'The Walking Dead,' I think, has been surreal from the very beginning, but it certainly took us all by surprise. We're very grateful. We keep saying we've got the best fans in the world and they prove time and time again that they are.
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Access: Some people in our office were wondering if the numbers ticked up a little bit more because of binge watching, word of mouth, and by the time a new season rolls around there are newcomers.
Gale: I think so and also, I imagine there might be more people watching because I keep hearing from people that they have 'Walking Dead' watching parties and they have 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 people over to watch it. Butââ¬Â¦ it's a phenomenon. ââ¬Â¦ I attribute it all to the fans because they talk their friends, their family, their colleagues at work into watching by saying, 'Trust me. Look at the first episode. If you don't like it, that's fine. You don't have to watch any more, nothing ventured, nothing gained,' and that's, I think, how people become addicted and luckily there is enough time to catch up and I think AMC does a fantastic job before every season and before the midseason premiere, they tend to do marathons, so you can actually catch up watching it on AMC.
Access: Obviously we have mad cow disease in our world. Looking back at Violet the pig in Episode 401, should we be worried there's some mad pig disease in the world of 'TWD' that has something to do with what's going on?
Gale: The one thing about it is there are no medical facilities as we know. The CDC doesn't exist anymore. So like the characters on our show, we'll probably always have to guess what's going on and what's out there because there's no way of tracking down pathogens and figuring out their etiology.
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Access: At Comic-Con, a lot of the actors were saying fans would get to know characters in new ways this season. And, one of the things we saw in the first episode back was Carol calling Daryl, 'Pookie.'
Gale: Yes! All the 'Caryl' fans out thereââ¬Â¦ they lit up Twitter at that moment.
Access: Do others in the camp see a relationship between these two?
Gale: They have an incredible bond. They get each other. They really do because they both come from abusive backgrounds and they've survived and they know they can trust each other, so they have that bond, whether it's a brother sister or more than that, it's definitely very strong.
Access: In the season premiere, Carol was teaching a knife class and Daryl has become a bit of a rock star. What will we see from them going forward?
Gale: This season we're going to feature not only Carol and Daryl a lot more and delve really into depth with both of them, but also characters like Tyreese and characters like Sasha in a way that we haven't had the opportunity to in previous seasons. ââ¬Â¦ At the same, even though we have these intimate interactions, we still have some pretty epic set pieces to deliver. The number of '#RainingWalkers' or '#RainingMen' that cropped up on Twitter was also something, but Greg Nicotero and his team at KNB Efx have really stepped it up in delivering the walker threat this season.
Access: Rick and Michonne— people were reading into their first exchange of the season. Will we get 'Richonne'?
Gale: I can't tell you that (laughs). It's also because, a lot of people have read the comic books, so sometimes they assume things that we actually deliver and other times they assume things that aren't necessarily in the cards at least immediately so we'll see which way this one plays out.
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Access: What can you hint at about how bad the situation will get now that we have a zombie Patrick?
Gale: Well, yeah, and he's in a locked cell block and most people aren't locked in. So, literally, I think a lot of people are gonna be in jeopardy.
Access: He seemed so sweet.
Gale: He is and I know that a lot of the actors on set who have young kids were almost in awe of him because of 'Phineas and Ferb.'
Access: Were they having Vincent Martella, who plays Patrick, call their children?
Gale: There may very well have been some outgoing message on cell phones recorded by him.
Access: What can we expect when The Governor returns? He was all kinds of crazy when we last saw him.
Gale: That's what we'll have to see. Is he still in that frame of mind? Is he literally set on revenge mode or is he trying to regain his humanity and if so, is that even possible.
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Access: Outside of 'The Walking Dead,' you're working on a show called 'Horizon' (for USA). I hear iti nvolves a mystery and it's set in World War II. What made you want to do it?
Gale: Fantastic script with remarkable, complex characters in a world that I absolutely love. Obviously, in the post-zombie apocalypse you have high stakes, but you also have high stakes during war time. And it's set in 1942 in World War II. ââ¬Â¦ It's sort of a dramatic thriller with a sci-fi element that runs through it.
Access: The costumes must be amazing.
Gale: Oh my gosh! The costumes! I wanted to take home the costumes. Most of the photos that you see from World War II, from the 40s, are black and white, and you don't realize just how colorful it was and everyone looks good in them. I'm very, very, very happyââ¬Â¦ It's written by Bridget Tyler, who is our showrunner, and she was on 'Burn Notice,' and the director [is] Yves Simoneau, who directed the pilot for 'The 4400' and 'V.'
Access: And you've got Cary in the cast.
Gale: Cary Elwes! One of my favorite people.
Access: How many times have you watched 'The Princess Bride'?
Gale: A lot because it was daughter's favorite movie and she quotes it on her Facebook page.
"The Walking Dead" continues Sunday at 9/8c on AMC.


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I'm thrilled that Shaw is going to be the associate head coach. From everything I've read, he should function very nicely as the guy in charge of keeping out potential locker room fires, that sort of thing. Having the guy "everyone" thought was going to be the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers as your associate head coach is a big, big win IMO.THE FIELDHOUSE Three of the pieces are in place, now all Frank Vogel has to do is find his final assistant to complete his coaching staff.
Vogel was introduced as coach of the Pacers on Wednesday during a press conference that didnt reveal a lot since team officials are not permitted to talk about players due to the current NBA lockout.
Vogel and Larry Bird both said they hope to be able to announce the rest of the coaching staff next week. Brian Shaw will be the associate head coach and long time assistant Dan Burke will be on Vogels staff.
Vogel interviewed former University of Utah coach and NBA assistant Jim Boylen for the final assistant job earlier this week.
Vogel would have been named coach weeks ago but Bird was adamant that he wouldnt hire him before he found a quality lead assistant.
My thing with the number one assistant is that he has to have experience, he has to be around players he had problems with and how he dealt with them, Bird said. (Vogel) interviewed some good ones.
Ive talked to number of people about Shaw and theyve all said positive things about him.
Shaw was an assistant on Lakers teams that had the Kobe-Shaq feud, Lamar Odom and Ron Artest.
The Pacers locker room, which had its fair share of issues last season, shouldnt be a problem for Shaw.
Frank is a better coach than I ever thought about being, but we cant have those locker room issues again and we wont, Bird told Bob Kravitz. Thats not the head coachs job. Thats the assistants. Those are fires theyve got to put out right away. Communication is a must with some players, daily. If they sense a player is down or isnt doing what he needs to do, its the assistants job to address it, and if it continues, then take it to the head coach. Assistants have to take a lot of tough stances. So you have to have a staff that all the players respect.
Two question:
1. Do you like that Bird hired Vogel or do you think they should have went with a more experienced coach?
2. What do you think of Shaw as associate head coach?
I like what I've heard so far about Jim Boylen as well. If he's the other guy to go with Shaw and Burke, that's a very nice, compact staff to go along with Frank, who I obviously have come to like a lot as well. I'm pretty damned happy with this staff at this point, overall.


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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced it has no objection to selling genetically modified sweet corn from Monsanto Company in its stores. Anti-biotech activists and consumers pleaded with the company to not sell the GM sweet corn.
"After closely looking at both sides of the debate and collaborating with a number of respected food safety experts, we see no scientifically validated safety reasons to implement restrictions on this product," the company told the Chicago Tribune.
Many were surprised by Wal-Mart's acceptance of the GM sweet corn. Earlier this year, other retailers, including Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and General Mills, said they would not carry or use the genetically modified sweet corn.
Part of the issue of acceptance of GM sweet corn, activists and concerned consumers say, is that sweet corn, unlike field corn, is eaten directly and is not processed into other food ingredients. They say this increases the risk.
Monsanto's GM sweet corn is modified to resist a common herbicide and contains a toxin to ward off certain pests. Monsanto claims the GM sweet corn will help reduce the amount of insecticide sprays the crop needs. But critics are not convinced that this GM sweet corn does not pose health risks.
Michael Hansen, a senior scientist at the Consumers Union, the policy arm of Consumer Reports, told the Chicago Tribune that an increase in the number of food allergies could be related to genetically modified foods. He questions if there is a connection between the two.


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Show bunt a couple times, take a couple pitches over the plate, watch a borderline ball four. It was a formula Gardner practiced to perfection. The quintessential Gardner game was on September 4, 2011, when he reached base four times, three times via the walk and once with a hit by pitch. In those four plate appearances, he saw 17 pitches without swinging once (save for one bunt attempt, which went foul). From 2010-2011, Gardner averaged 4.40 pitches per plate appearance, more than anyone else in baseball. And he swung at only 33.7 percent of those pitches, fewer than anyone but Bobby Abreu.
Gardner's skills beyond the batter's box complemented his ability to get on base; once he worked his way on, Gardner got even more dangerous. Over the same two seasons, he led the American League with 96 stolen bases (to go with an 81.4 percent success rate), and his 16.4 BRR trailed only Juan Pierre, who made almost 300 more plate appearances. Between his knack for avoiding outs, his talent for taking the extra base, and his defense in left and center (his 2010-11 total of 20 FRAA ranked 11th overall), the homegrown Gardner gave the Yankees—a team accustomed to paying through the nose for free agents—almost eight wins for under $1 million.
Gardner missed almost all of 2012 with an inflamed elbow that led to bone spur surgery last July. Now he's back at full strength, and one of the few under-30 staples of an ancient Yankees lineup. But so far this season, Gardner has looked like a different guy. Entering last night's game, he'd hit more fly balls than ground balls, stolen zero bases, and offered at 47.1 percent of pitches, above the big-league average of 45.2 percent and 33rd among the 119 batters who'd seen at least 200 pitches. On Wednesday afternoon, I spoke to Gardner and Yankees batting coach Kevin Long to find out whether we can expect those three trends to persist all season. Let's take them one by one, in order of importance.
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Long echoed the same sentiments.
"We really haven't talked about hitting the ball in the air, you don't want a speed guy to make his outs in the air," he said. "A lot of his outs in the air have been line drives or hit fairly decent. I don't want fly balls. Certainly a live drive or in between a fly ball and line drive—those will work as well. But I think that's just a matter of him getting the head out a bit more and being a bit more aggressive and saying, "I'm not going to be late." And any time you do make your contact point out further, you'll hit some more fly balls."
Three of Gardner's four batted balls on Wednesday were on the ground. Expect more of the same ahead.
Fewer Steals
"My job is to get on base, especially with the way our lineup is right now," Gardner said. "[Robinson] Cano's hitting behind me, so I need to get on first base, and stay right there. It's not a case of me trying to get on and steal second and leave first base open. I'm trying to leave that hole open for him."
With the Yankees short-handed, Gardner is trying not to take the bat out of their best hitter's hands. If you drafted him for your fantasy team expecting lots of steals, you're probably not pleased. But you can expect this to change next month, when the anticipated returns of Curtis Granderson, Derek Jeter, and Mark Teixeira should lengthen the Yankees' lineup and provide more protection for Cano. Gardner's legs are too good to be underutilized all season.
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Maybe some visuals will drive the difference home. Here are Gardner's swing rates by zone in 2010 (left) and 2011 (right). (Click to expand.) Even in 2011, when he swung a bit more often, he still took every other pitch over the heart of the plate.
And here's 2013. Unless you're completely colorblind, you'll notice that it's no longer almost entirely blue:
Unlike the increase in fly balls, the increase in swings is the result of a conscious effort by Gardner to adjust his approach at the plate.
"I'm trying to be a little more aggressive and getting good pitches to hit earlier in the count," he confirmed.
"Of course, that's part of it," he said. "It's kind of an uphill battle. It makes for a long season, if every count you're 1-2, 0-2."
But Gardner still wants to avoid making too many quick outs. And he still doesn't want to swing just for the sake of swinging. He wants to swing only when it's likely to lead to good contact.
"That's still a big part of my game, working the count and seeing a lot of pitches," he said. "I saw a lot of pitches [on Tuesday], and I was aggressive and that's good—fouling pitches off instead of putting balls in play weakly."
According to Long, this is something that's been in the works for a while.
"We've talked about it in years past, but I think that was one of our focal points coming in, to attack early and a bit more than he has in the past," the batting coach said. And so far, Long likes what he sees. "It's something we've discussed that could be an advantage to him, and thus far, he's done a good job. He's taken advantage of some guys coming at him."
Like Gardner, though, Long emphasized that the lefty's new look would work best in moderation.
"One of his strengths is his strike zone discipline, and work in deep counts," Long said. "You don't want to get too far away from that, but certainly, to pick his spots."
Okay, so Gardner has decided to swing more. How does he decide when to do it? Long explained that it depends on the pitcher.
Whether a pitcher is suitable for early swings comes down to what he's likely to throw and how susceptible he is to Gardner's grinding, death-by-a-thousand-balls tactics from past seasons.
We're only a couple weeks into the aggressive Gardner experiment, so both Gardner and Long are still in exploratory mode. "It's all a work in progress," Gardner said. "If it goes the other way, we'll have a little sit down and discuss that, but right now, he's doing a good job," Long added. "We'll continue to monitor and make sure it's going in the right direction."
Ultimately, the change in swing rate comes down to the cat-and-mouse, game theory-influenced mental battle between batter and pitcher. If Gardner takes a ton of pitches, he'll walk a lot, which would be good. But if pitchers become accustomed to never seeing him take the bat off his shoulder, they won't be afraid to throw the ball over the plate, especially in light of his subpar power. And if Gardner doesn't counter and keep pitchers honest with occasional hard contact, those walks will turn into strikeouts looking, which would be bad.
Still, there's some risk that more contact could be counterproductive. For someone with his speed, Gardner doesn't have that high a BABIP, and he's maxed out at 34 extra-base hits, even with several triples a season. His best offensive season remains the one in which he swung the least, although not swinging now might not work as well as it once did. Long hopes that the new Gardner can be as selective as the old one when it pays to be, but better able to capitalize on opponents' mistakes in the zone.
In the short term, at least, this could be good for Gardner, assuming he can stay disciplined and make wise decisions about when to swing. (Thus far, his chase rate has risen along with his rate of swings inside the zone.) Pitchers take time to adjust to batter tendencies; they're still throwing inside the strike zone to Gardner about 55 percent of the time, one of the highest rates in the majors and virtually identical to the way they pitched him in 2010-11 (although they have thrown him fewer fastballs). His current .167 ISO is well above his career average, but it might last longer than two weeks if he keeps punishing pitches he once would have let pass. So far, though, his walk rate has suffered slightly.
Earlier, I mentioned Jonny Gomes' dramatic reduction in swing rate from 2010 to 2011. In the span of a single season, Gomes went from being on the less selective side to one of the batters least likely to swing. And yet the rate of pitches he saw inside the strike zone actually fell, from 46.6 percent to 45.9 percent. At the end of the 2011 season, he'd walked more and struck out more than he had previously, but the overall package was almost the same: his TAv had shifted only three points, from .273 to .276. It's possible that Gardner, too, could reengineer his approach at the plate and finish the year about as productive as he was before. He'll just look different doing it.
Thanks to Colin Wyers for research assistance and Andrew Koo for transcription assistance.
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Once this article has been viewed by the other AL pitching coaches, they should promptly stop feeding Gardner cookies. Mental game on! Or am I overstating your influence?
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DETROIT -- Earlier this season, Indians manager Terry Francona might not have handed the ball to Carlos Carrasco for the type of situation that came up on Saturday night. The Tigers had the heart of their lineup due up in the eighth inning of a tie game.
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Carrasco retired Miguel Cabrera, Victor Martinez and J.D. Martinez in order, putting the Indians in position to rally in the ninth en route to a 5-2 win in the second game of a twin bill. On its own, it was an impressive performance. In the larger picture, Carrasco's showing was the continuation of his recent success as a reliever.
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Over the 2013-14 seasons, the 27-year-old Carrasco has gone 0-7 with an 8.18 ERA in 11 starts, during which he's given up a .927 opponents' OPS and posted a 1.87 WHIP in 55 innings. Across that same time period, the right-hander has gone 4-0 with a 1.50 ERA in 28 relief appearances, in which he has a .461 opponents' OPS and a 0.83 WHIP in 48 innings.
"For whatever reason," Francona said, "when he pitches in the bullpen, he just seems like he has a different mentality. Maybe someday that will translate to starting. I know there's a lot of guys in our organization that think that may happen someday. We'll see."
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RATIONALE: Thalidomide may kill cancer cells by stopping the growth of new blood vessels to the tumor.
PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of thalidomide in treating patients with HIV-associated Kaposi's sarcoma.
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OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the antitumor activity of thalidomide in terms of regression or stabilization of disease in patients with HIV-associated Kaposi's sarcoma. II. Determine the toxic effects of this regimen in these patients. III. Determine the pharmacokinetics of this regimen in these patients.
OUTLINE: Patients receive oral thalidomide on day 1. Treatment continues daily for 6 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with complete or partial response or stable disease after 6 months of treatment may continue treatment for an additional 6 months. Patients are followed at 1, 6, and 12 months.
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PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No prior interferon No prior thalidomide for KS At least 6 months since prior suramin Chemotherapy: At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: No prior systemic steroids except physiologic replacement doses of corticosteroids, sex hormones, or noncorticosteroids such as anabolic steroids for wasting syndrome Concurrent short-term courses of steroids allowed Radiotherapy: No prior radiotherapy Surgery: Not specified Other: At least 2 weeks since prior antiretroviral therapy OR On stable doses of 1 or more of the following for at least 2 weeks before study: Zidovudine, zalcitabine, didanosine, lamivudine, or stavudine Protease inhibitor Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor No other prior systemic anti-KS agent or regimen No other concurrent anti-KS therapy during the first 6 months of the study No concurrent sedating drugs that cannot be reduced to below a minimal level, sedating recreational drugs, or alcohol No change, initiation, or discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy unless medically indicated Concurrent intralesional therapy after 6 months on study on rare occasions for occasional painful or disfiguring lesions allowed
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You say "chile," I say "chili," let's call the whole thing ... a feverish debate involving a single letter of the alphabet.
Whether they're grown in New Mexico or not, chili peppers are chili peppers here in Packerland, no "e" allowed.
But in the Land of Enchantment, if you use an "i" instead of an "e" when talking about those long green and red hot things they put in just about everything, possibly even ice cream, them's fightin' letters.
But if you think growers, marketers and New Mexicans in general get hot when you call their chiles chilis, that's nothing compared to what happens when peppers grown in another state or country try to pass themselves off as New Mexico-grown.
It happens a lot, and it's easy to see why, given the brand power of New Mexico chilis. A few years ago, New Mexico's state Legislature decided to do something about it, passing a law that cracks down on carpetbaggers trying to pass their "foreign" peppers off as locally grown.
It makes me wonder if there was ever a local New Mexico version of that Pace salsa ad, involving suckers who thought they were buying New Mexico chilis, then found out the truth.
"These chilis were grown in New York City! New York City?! Get a rope."
That law was a step in the right direction, but it didn't go far enough, Duane Gillis of Hatch, N.M.-based grower-shipper Desert Spring Produce, told me.
"There were quite a few loopholes," Gillis said.
A 2013 upgrade of that law will go a lot further toward ensuring that growers like Desert Spring aren't competing against posers. And, Gillis said, it empowers retailers to take action when they find counterfeit product.
"Anything that goes into the store mis-tagged, they can take it off the shelf. There's a lot coming out of other states being tagged 'New Mexico.'"
According to some media accounts, the new version of the old law could have taken even more dramatic action — requiring, for instance, that out-of-state product have a label stating explicitly that it was not grown in New Mexico.
There were also reports that labels would indicate that chilis were not only grown in New Mexico, but, if applicable, that they were grown in Hatch, the epicenter of New Mexico chili production.
Neither is the case. But as far as Gillis and other growers are concerned, the new law has plenty of teeth to take the old law's noble intent and make it stick.
New Mexico's earned it. As Rep. Rudy Martinez, D-N.M., the new bill's sponsor, told the Las Cruces Sun-News newspaper: "Florida has its oranges, Georgia has Vidalia onions, Washington state is known for apples. Why not make sure that New Mexico chili is treated in the same way?"
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