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Migrating to the Celadon Cedar-14 Stack from Bamboo
Last updated 09 March 2017
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Cedar-14 is the default stack on Heroku and is the successor to the end-of-lifed Bamboo stack and runtime. It includes support for multiple languages, flexible process types and HTTP/1.1 and WebSockets. This article outlines the decisions and steps required to perform a manual migration from Bamboo to Cedar-14.
This article demonstrates how to move an app from Bamboo to Cedar-14. If you're already on Cedar, but want to upgrade to Cedar-14, check out this article.
Here's a rough outline of the steps required:
- Decide whether to upgrade Ruby version and virtual machine used by app
- Prep local workstation for Ruby development
- Update app to run on Cedar-14
- Change app stack to Cedar-14
Major changes to an application, including stack migrations, should always be executed in a staging environment first. It's highly recommended that you try pushing your app to a temporary Heroku app to test the migration process and the new environment, so that you can make any changes necessary to run on the new stack without affecting your production environment. Once your code runs cleanly, you can update the stack and push changes to your production app.
- Ruby installed on your machine.
- Heroku CLI installed on your machine.
Decide on Ruby version
Two flavors of Ruby were available on the Bamboo stack:
Both these Ruby VMs have been EOL'ed by their maintainers (Phusion and Ruby Core, respectively). This means they are no longer receiving security updates and other critical maintenance. That makes Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 unsuited for use by production apps. When moving apps from Bamboo to Cedar-14, you highly recommend that you update to Ruby 2.0 or later. The guide below has details on how to perform this update.
Using a Ruby version that is EOL is dangerous and should not be done for production apps. EOL Ruby versions may contain known, exploitable security vulnerabilities that can expose app source code, secrets and user data. Production apps should use updated Ruby versions when running on Heroku.
If you choose to use an EOL version of Ruby when you migrate from Bamboo to Cedar-14, you cannot use the default Ruby buildpack because it does not support legacy Ruby versions. Instead, you must configure your app to use the correct legacy branch of the Ruby buildpack for the Ruby version you want to use.
For Ruby 1.8.7 use:
$ heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-ruby#legacy-ruby-1.8.7
For Ruby 1.9.2 use:
$ heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-ruby#legacy-ruby-1.9.2
Heroku will not update legacy branches of the Ruby buildpack. If you encounter problems or have suggestions for improvements to legacy buildpack versions, then please direct those to the fork in the Legacy Buildpacks GitHub Organization.
Getting app source code ready for Cedar-14
This section describes the changes you have to make to your app source code to make it ready to run on the Cedar-14 stack.
Get app source code
If, for any reason, you don't have the source code for your Heroku app handy, you can fetch if from Heroku:
$ heroku git:clone --ssh-git -a app-name
Note that HTTP Git doesn't work with apps on the Bamboo stack, so you need to use SSH git to clone.
Create git topic branch
Any changes made in preparation for migrating to Cedar should be stored in a separate
cedar topic branch for better code organization.
$ git checkout -b cedar
Switched to a new branch 'cedar'
Commits made to this topic branch will stay independent from the production-ready
master branch which contains the Bamboo-compatible codebase.
Configure and update to new Ruby
Depending on what choice of Ruby version you made for running on Cedar, you must now specify your desired version. A number of Ruby versions are supported on Cedar. The default version is 2.0.0, but in order to specify a legacy version, you should add the
ruby declaration in your
Gemfile. For instance, to use Ruby 1.8.7:
source "https://rubygems.org"
ruby "1.8.7"
# ...
ruby declaration will only apply once the app is pushed to Cedar-14.
If you chose to upgrade from 1.8.7 or 1.9.2 to a newer version, you must now update your app to work on on the new Ruby version. Ruby versions are often not backwards compatible, so major changes may be required. Here are some resources to get you started:
- Upgrading From REE 1.8.7 to Ruby 1.9.3
- Lessons Learned Upgrading Harvest to Ruby 1.9.3
- How we migrated Beanstalk to Rails 4 and Ruby 2
Whatever Ruby version you specify in your Gemfile, you will likely need to have that Ruby version working on your local machine to run
bundle install and to debug your app. You can use ruby-install and chruby to manage multiple Ruby versions on your development machine. Other alternatives for managing multiple Ruby versions are rvm and rbenv.
Specify dependencies
It's important to create a Gemfile to specify the dependencies of your app. You can also use this Gemfile to install the necessary gems locally.
Use Bundler
If you're already using Bundler to manage your gems on Bamboo then you won't need to do anything new here. If you're not, however, you'll want to migrate to it and declare any gems that you need. Bamboo had pre-installed gems. On Cedar-14, all gems must be declared in the Gemfile.
Create Procfile
The Procfile is new to Cedar-14 and specifies what processes Heroku should run for an application. Apps that don't use background workers on Bamboo should create a new
Procfile at the application root with a single
web process type.
web: bundle exec puma -C config/puma.rb
The above example uses the Puma web server. This is recommended web server for production Ruby apps.
worker is only a suggested process type. Non-
web process types can have custom labels to more accurately reflect their role.
If the application is using Bamboo's background worker support then a
worker process type should be specified in the
Procfile as well.
web: bundle exec puma -C config/puma.rb
worker: bundle exec rake jobs:work
The Procfile is not a Heroku-specific manifest. It can be used to orchestrate an application's dyno formation during local development as well with Heroku Local.
Variables saved in the
.env file of a project directory will be added to the environment when run by
heroku local. Set the
RACK_ENV to development in your environment. Do not commit the
.env file to source control. It should only be used for local configuration.
$ echo "RACK_ENV=development" >>.env
$ echo ".env" >> .gitignore
You can run your app locally using the environment variables in your
.env, the settings in your Procfile by running.
$ heroku local
10:01:59 web.1 | started with pid 3484
10:01:59 worker.1 | started with pid 3485
Once the application is running locally, commit the
Procfile to the topic branch.
$ git add Procfile
$ git commit -a -m "Added Procfile to define app's process-formation on Heroku/Cedar"
If the application utilizes a Postgres database, then first ensure that you install Postgres locally, and then ensure that you specify the
pg gem in the
Gemfile, since it is not auto-injected on the Cedar-14 stack.
gem 'pg'
The database credentials will still be configured automatically: at slug compile time, a
config/database.yml that parses the
DATABASE_URL from the environment will be written into the app.
database.yml file is really an ERB file that is parsed at runtime to create the expected YAML-formatted file. To parse the file yourself run it through ERB before loading into YAML:
New Relic
Bamboo auto-injected the New Relic plugin and auto-created the
config/newrelic.yml file. In Cedar-14, this is no longer the case.
If the application is using New Relic on Bamboo, manually add the
newrelic_rpm gem to the application
gem 'newrelic_rpm'
And create the
config/newrelic.yml file from New Relic's template.
$ curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/rwdaigle/2253296/raw/newrelic.yml > config/newrelic.yml
Further documentation and support for other frameworks can be found in the Sendgrid documentation.
Sendgrid add-on configuration is also no longer automatically provisioned on Cedar-14. Rails applications relying on Sendgrid to deliver emails will need to add a mail initializer at
$ curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/rwdaigle/1690653/raw/mail.rb > config/initializers/mail.rb
If you are using memcache in your app you might be using a gem that requires c-bindings. The libraries to bind to memcache are not present by default on the Cedar-14 stack. To get around this you can use the Dalli gem or memcache-client both of which should work on all versions and implementations of Ruby and require no c-bindings. We recommend the Dalli gem, but it is not compatible with Rails 2.x. To change over you will need to add the new gem to your Gemfile.
gem "dalli"
If you were using the rails cache store you can configure Dalli to be used here by setting this value in your config/production.rb
config.cache_store = :dalli_store
If you are on Rails 2.x and have to use MemcacheClient first add it to your Gemfile.
gem 'memcache-client', :require => 'memcache'
Then you can set it to be your cache store:
config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store
If you were manually calling memcache clients you may need to replace calls from other libraries to call to
Dalli::Client for Dalli, or
MemCache for memcache-client.
Commit dependencies
At this point there may be several changes made to the application source to ready it for deployment to the Cedar stack, including modified gem dependencies.
Run bundler to install any newly required gems.
$ bundle install
Fetching source index for https://rubygems.org/
Using rake (0.8.7)
Add any new files to git.
$ git add config/newrelic.yml
Commit changes.
$ git commit -a -m "Modified application dependencies for Heroku/Cedar compatibility"
Create Cedar-14 app
Before you push directly to your bamboo application to change it's stack, it's recommended that you first test this out on a Cedar-14 app that is not getting production traffic. Naming the remote git repository
heroku-cedar will differentiate between the Bamboo and Cedar versions of the application.
$ heroku create --remote heroku-cedar cedar-app
Creating cedar-app... done, stack is cedar-14
http://cedar-app.herokuapp.com/ | firstname.lastname@example.com:cedar-app.git
Git remote heroku-cedar added
Deploy to your Cedar Staging App
Deploying the modified codebase to the Cedar application will not affect the currently running app on Bamboo. It will merely stage the application and provide the opportunity to verify functionality.
Push the Cedar-compatible source from the
cedar topic branch to the
master branch of the
heroku-cedar remote repository to deploy.
$ git push heroku-cedar cedar:master
Counting objects: 67, done.
-----> Heroku receiving push
-----> Rails app detected
Once the app is deployed, you should verify that it is working correctly on the Cedar-14 stack, and if not, make any required changes.
Upgrading the production app to Cedar
Once you have verified that the updated source code works correctly on the Cedar staging app, you are ready to update the production app from Bamboo to Cedar-14.
First, set stack on the production app to Cedar:
$ heroku stack:set cedar-14
stack set, next release on oregon-dev will use cedar-14
Run `git push heroku master` to create a new release on cedar-14
This does not immediately change the runtime stack of the app, but the next release created will be deployed on Cedar. To create a release, merge the
cedar branch you have been working on, and push to your production app:
$ git checkout master
$ git merge cedar
$ git push heroku master
Your production app is now running on Cedar-14, and you should verify that everything is working as expected.
The migration is now complete.
Reverting to Bamboo
If the production app is not working after you changed the stack from Bamboo to Cedar-14, you can temporarily revert back to the Bamboo stack until you debug and resolve the issue. Set the stack to Bamboo and push the Git commit revision that was successfully running on Bamboo before you started the process of switching to Cedar-14:
$ heroku stack:set bamboo-ree-1.8.7 # Note: bamboo-mri-1.9.2 for 1.9.2 apps
$ git push heroku <commit-id>:master
It should be noted that the system timezone on Bamboo dynos is
Pacific Time (US & Canada) whereas on Cedar-14 dynos it is
UTC. Any logic relying on non-normalized system time should be updated to account for this disparity.
File compression
On Bamboo, responses were automatically compressed using gzip. On Cedar-14 no such compression is done on your behalf. To add response compression to your application use middleware such as Rack::Deflater.
You should check that your Bamboo apps are configured to use the latest routing stack.


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Recent Warm Temperatures in the Pacific Northwest Might Affect Hydro Supply in the Summer.
Warmer-than-normal temperatures in the Pacific Northwest this week, as well as a warmer-than-normal forecast over the next two weeks, might shorten this year's peak hydropower season in the Pacific Northwest, according to recent analysis by BENTEK Energy LLC (Bentek). While the most recent forecast from the Northwest River Forecast Center for hydro levels are well above normal (although still less than last year's extremely strong hydro season), the warm temperatures might cause snowpack in the region to melt off more quickly than it otherwise would.
Hydropower makes up the majority of generation in the Pacific Northwest. Hydropower levels are typically stronger during the spring, when snowpack melts off. Last year, abundant supplies led the Bonneville Power Administration to issue curtailments on thermal and wind generation in order to use excess supplies of hydropower. (If excess water is not used, and instead runs off into dam spillways, it may damage ecosystems.)
(For the Week Ending Wednesday, May 16, 2012)
- Natural gas prices remained above $2.30 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) over the report week (Wednesday to Wednesday) at most of the country's trading locations. The Henry Hub price moved within a 5-cent range for much of the week before rising sharply, closing at $2.50 per MMBtu yesterday (up 14 cents for the week).
- The natural gas futures market trended higher over the week. At the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the June 2012 natural gas contract gained 15.3 cents per MMBtu to close at $2.618 per MMBtu yesterday.
- Working natural gas in storage rose last week to 2,667 billion cubic feet (Bcf) as of Friday, May 11, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report (WNGSR). An implied storage build of 61 Bcf for the week positioned storage volumes 774 Bcf above year-ago levels.
- The natural gas rotary rig count, as reported by Baker Hughes Incorporated on May 11, fell by 8 to 598 active units, the first week since April 2002 that the count dipped below 600. Meanwhile, oil-directed rigs increased by 17 to 1,372 units.
The Henry Hub day-ahead price generally rose during the week, dipping modestly on Tuesday before climbing sharply yesterday to close the week at $2.50 per MMBtu, up 5.9 percent. The fairly narrow trading range over most of the week reflected a relatively flat cash market, with the price fluctuating between $2.36 and $2.41 per MMBtu. Yesterday's price represents the first $2.50 or higher close since late February, and is 68 cents higher (37.4 percent) than the year's low of $1.82, recorded on April 20.
At the NYMEX, the June 2012 contract rose from $2.465 per MMBtu last Wednesday to $2.618 per MMBtu yesterday, an increase of 15.3 cents (6.2 percent). While relatively steady late last week, prices increased significantly over the past three days, rising 18.7 cents from Monday to yesterday's close. The 12-Month Strip (average of June 2012 to May 2013 contracts) closed yesterday at $3.167 per MMBtu, up 8.9 cents per MMBtu (2.9 percent) for the week.
Prices at many downstream trading locations generally rose, dropping on Friday before rebounding, typically closing much higher by the end of the week. For example, spot prices at the Algonquin Citygate trading point for delivery into Boston, which started the week at $2.59 per MMBtu, fell to $2.01 per MMBtu on Friday and then rose for the much of the remainder of the period to close yesterday at $2.78 per MMBtu (up 7.3 percent for the week). Similarly, prices at the Transcontinental Pipeline's Zone 6 trading point (which serves New York City markets) declined from $2.46 per MMBtu last Wednesday to $2.43 per MMBtu on Friday, then climbed to $2.64 per MMBtu by week's end (up 7.3 percent).
Total consumption for the report week registered an overall decline, as an increase in industrial sector demand was offset by decreases in other sectors. According to estimates from Bentek, domestic natural gas consumption fell by 5.1 percent from last week, driven by a decline of 10.9 percent in power sector consumption and a 1.9 percent decline in the residential/commercial sector. Industrial sector consumption ended the week up 1.2 percent, 0.7 percent above last year's consumption for the same week.
Total supply was essentially unchanged for the week, registering an overall increase of 0.3 percent, reflecting a small increase in dry gas production. According to Bentek estimates, domestic weekly dry gas production was 0.2 percent higher than the previous week (and 3.7 percent above the same time last year). Imports from Canada also rose only modestly, with an increase in shipments to the West being mostly offset by declines in the Midwest and Northeast. For the week, imports from Canada stand 1.5 percent above year-ago volumes. While liquefied natural gas (LNG) sendout rose sharply - up 36.0 percent from last week - sendout volumes remain 57.5 percent below year-ago levels.
Working natural gas in storage increased to 2,667 Bcf as of Friday, May 11, according to EIA's WNGSR. This represents a net injection of 61 Bcf from the previous week. This week's injection was 30 Bcf lower than the 5-year (2007-2011) average injection for the same week. During the same week last year, the implied net injection was 86 Bcf. Working inventories are currently 774 Bcf (41 percent) greater than their year-ago levels and 773 Bcf (41 percent) greater than the 5-year average.
All three storage regions posted increases this week. Inventories in the East, West, and Producing Regions increased by 47 Bcf, 7 Bcf, and 7 Bcf, respectively. In the Producing Region, working natural gas inventories decreased 3 Bcf in salt cavern facilities and increased 10 Bcf in nonsalt cavern facilities.
Temperatures in the lower 48 States during the week ending May 10 were 4.4 degrees warmer than the 30-year normal temperature and 2.6 degrees warmer than the same period last year. The average temperature in the lower 48 States was 64.1 degrees, 4.4 degrees higher than the 30-year normal of 59.7 degrees. During the week all regions were warmer than normal. The East South Central and South Atlantic Regions in the South were particularly warm, averaging 7.0 and 6.3 degrees, respectively, warmer than the 30-year normal.

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Murphy's hot bat forces Valdespin to right field
ST. LOUIS -- Seeking to start Jordany Valdespin in Thursday's series finale against the Cardinals, Mets manager Terry Collins originally figured he would slot Valdespin in at second base. That is Valdespin's natural position, and it seemed like a fit with regular second baseman Daniel Murphy scuffling.
But Murphy, one of the streakiest hitters in baseball, nixed that plan by catching fire this week in St. Louis. So Collins instead started Valdespin in right field, which the manager had been hesitant to do due to Valdespin's inexperience there.
"Dan's swinging too good," Collins said. "So I just said, 'We'll put [Valdespin] in right field.'"
Entering the day with 58 career innings in right field, Valdespin spent an hour shagging fly balls there during batting practice earlier this week. Whatever range the Mets might lose defensively, Collins feels they make up with the potential of a big home run or extra-base hit -- anything to jumpstart their offense against Adam Wainwright, one of the best pitchers in baseball who threw a two-hitter in his last start.
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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|Sport, 1 pitch, 60'
|YDS: 5.8+ French: 5b Ewbanks: 16 UIAA: VI- ZA: 15 British: HVS 4c [details]
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By Andrew Gram
From: Salt Lake City, UT
Nov 7, 2004
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|Fun climbing - tougher than it looks and feels more like granite that quartzite. Could easily have been done as a trad route - there is a hand crack just a few feet from this at all times.
By tenesmus
Jun 22, 2006
|its not 5.7?
By glen kaplan
From: Salt Lake City, UT
Aug 31, 2006
rating: 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
Yeah...after several months not climbing, I finally come back and do this thing. At a quick glance, it looked easier (although I didn't really stare at it too long) so I stuck to tennies. It was fun albeit a bit contrived (i.e. the natural and perhaps better line stays well right of the bolt line). Regardless, the bolts are very close together and well within reach of good clipping stances however you do the route. This is a great beginner lead with awesome access!
ummm...sure, you could make it harder (perhaps 5.9ish) by following the straight up bolt line,
but the natural line just seems so much more...
By Michael MacFadden
Aug 12, 2007
rating: 5.8- 5b 16 VI- 14 VS 4c
|This route can vary in difficulty based on how you climb it. Stay in the crack to the right of the bolts all the way up to make this a 5.7. Climb the bolt route to make it more like a 5.8. Climb to the left of the bolts and you are looking at a 5.8+ or a 5.9.
By Jonathan Amburgey
From: Salt Lake City, UT
Jun 15, 2009
|Fun route with a bouldery start. Can be wet at the base, as my partner and I discovered this past weekend.
By Donovan
From: West Jordan, Utah
Jul 31, 2009
|Didn't like it. It's been a while, but I wasn't impressed with the bolt placement on this route. Lots of potential rope drag too. I tend to stay away from the Dam Wall all together.
By Michael Buchanan
Oct 23, 2009
rating: 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
|Climbed the bolted route. Felt like a .7 to me, especially after climbing Fowl Play and Sin Nombre.
By jeffozozo
From: santa clara, utah
Jun 23, 2010
rating: 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|If you start the climb by going up the crack, it is an easy 5.7. But if you pull the bouldery moves up through where the bolts are, and then stay out on the arete, it is a nice 5.8+ I didn't mind the bolt placements, though the second bolt is a HARD clip. If you fell you'd hit the deck. A stick clip would come in handy.
By suckMYbistrong Bistrong
Jun 26, 2011
|i worked this on top rope today, and the bottom, going up to the 2nd clip is definitely the crux. no doubt a fun climb, and once you get past it, its smooth sailing. because there was a shitload of water dripping all over the bottom of the rock, getting to the 2nd clip is super hard, you have to be very careful with your foot placement, there is moss and wet rock all over the place
By suckMYbistrong Bistrong
Jun 28, 2011
|sent this today..if you follow the bolts, up to the 2nd bolt is definitely a 10a, there is wet rock everywhere, and there is only 1 or 2 moves to get up
By John Martin
From: Kearns, UT
Oct 2, 2011
rating: 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
|Getting to the 2nd bold is more like a 5.10c, I don't know how they call this a 5.8! Also, there are 8 bolts, not 7.
By Mark Dexheimer
From: Midvale, UT
Oct 14, 2011
|Great climb, but be prepared for your rope to fall in the mud when you pull it. There is a small spring coming out of the rock that keeps the left side of the route wet and muddy constantly.
By Tim G.
From: Salt Lake City, UT
Apr 23, 2012
rating: 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|The first couple moves up to the 2nd bolt are definitely harder than 5.8 if you stay right on the bolt line. You can easily cheat off the crack to the right on this part, but the clips might be a little reachy. Stay on the bolts if you can though, it was a fun little sequence to figure out.
By Travis Haussener
Jul 14, 2012
|Be a solid 5.10 climber or bring a stick clip and a crash pad...the three moves to the second bolt are difficult and pumpy at least for me. I had two choices once I made the move; grab onto the bolt for stability (I know cheating) or fall I chose the former. The rest of the route is a piece of cake after that.
By Nathan Smith
From: Salt Lake City
Jan 18, 2013
|The seep at the base of the climb can freeze up in cold years and form a fun mixed line. 30 feet of ice then intermittent ice/frozen dirt in the crack above. You can use many of the bolts for pro but bring a rack from tcu's to #3 camalot as you are climbing right of the official bolt line much of the time. M5
By Brandon Ashby
From: Kamas, UT
Aug 6, 2013
rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|A fun bouldery start and a cruiser to the top. A little wet/mossy at the bottom, watch out for wasps. Pretty fun.


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Neighbours have been left shocked and mystified about the cause of a fire that destroyed part of a Buddhist temple in Sydney's west overnight.
Police suspect arson may be behind the blaze, which was well alight when emergency crews arrived at the temple at Jamisontown, near Penrith, about 2.30am on Sunday.
Fire crews managed to contain the blaze to half the premises. The remaining structure sustained significant smoke damage.
On Sunday afternoon, the damage appeared concentrated in a prayer room adjoining the kitchen of the still-smouldering property, which had been used as a Korean Buddhist temple for about two years.
The room's roof had collapsed and a Buddha statue sat among the debris. A charred collection of prayer books were near its burnt-out doorway.
A nearby resident, Antonia Iaria, said she "wouldn't have a clue" what had caused the fire.
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The National Maritime Museum Cornwall has been unveiled as the headline sponsor for the 2013 Falmouth Spring Festival.
The museum has stepped in as the title sponsor as it gears up to celebrate its tenth birthday.
Funded and organised by Falmouth BID to raise Falmouth's profile and help support town businesses, the Spring Festival is the first main event on the Falmouth calendar.
Celebrating Falmouth's open spaces through music, dance, sporting events, walks and spring cleans across the town, the festival involves schools, volunteer groups and charities in a celebration Falmouth's beautiful coast and historic town centre.
Among the many community events will be a 'Paint the Town Yellow Day', that sees each town primary school, 3,000 daffodils, Falmouth University students and around 100 businesses working together to design colourful, spring themed shop front displays to brighten up the town.
With exciting new activities planned for this year, Festival highlights include: Falmouth Spring Clean Day on Saturday, March 9, the Paint the Town Yellow Day on Thursday, March 14 and the Maritime Museum's tenth birthday on Saturday, March 16. On Sunday, March 17 the Zumba Zestifal will roll into town, with the Run Falmouth Half-Marathon on Saturday, March 23.
New for 2013, is the addition of a folk music and cider fest on Sunday, March 24.
Richard Wilcox, Falmouth BID manager said: "I'm thrilled to have an organisation of the calibre of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall on board and it perhaps is a measure of how far the festival has come in only two years.
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JONATHAN Thomas says the new crop of players at Worcester Warriors are driven by their hunger to prove their worth.
At 31, the Welsh international number eight, Warriors' captain last season, is one of the elder statesmen of a squad that has a youthful look to it following director of rugby Dean Ryan's recruitment programme.
A large proportion are now under the age of 25, including the front row trio of Nick Schonert, Niall Annett and Ryan Bower and wing Sam Smith.
Even seasoned campaigners, number eight GJ Van Velze, and wing Tom Biggs, and Argentina skipper Agustin Creevy and ex-Cardiff Blues back-rower Andries Pretorius, are under 30.
But Thomas reckons that can only be good for the Sixways club as they seek to stamp their authority on the Greene King IPA Championship, starting with tomorrow weeks curtain-raiser at Bristol.
He said: "It's made me feel even older with all these young guys coming in but what I've noticed is they're all hugely driven and all really ambitious.
"A lot of them have got chips on their shoulders and points to prove which is really good, it's what you want from young players.
"There are guys that have come from Championship clubs that are wanting their shot at the big time and they really want to impress.
"There are other guys that have come from other Premiership clubs where they haven't played as much as they wanted and they've got chips on their shoulders, they want to show what they can do. I think that's really healthy."
He continued: "Then there's the guys who are left, like myself, who are really disappointed with last season and want to get the club back into Premiership rugby.
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After two weeks of speculation Neil Warnock has made a dramatic return to Crystal Palace.
The club confirmed the former Eagles boss has taken charge "with immediate effect" just after 1pm today (Aug 27)
The appointment comes after co-chairman Steve Parish went with Warnock over past West Brom coach Steve Clarke.
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A FIRE in Melbournes northeast which steamrolled through 50ha and threatened homes this afternoon has been contained.
The CFA has confirmed the Wallan grassfire, which sparked 50km north of Melbourne, no longer poses as a threat to the region.
Smoke from the blaze may still be visible from neighbouring townships, after the fast-spreading blaze was doused by firefighters about 5pm.
An emergency warning for residents living in the town of Wallan, 50km north of Melbourne, was issued shortly before 4pm today, but the immediate threat is now over.
Firefighters brought the blaze under control after it earlier spread quickly, fanned by fresh southerly winds.
Seven firefighting strike teams battled the blaze on both sides of Old Sydney Rd amid fears it could spread into Wallan township.
The CFA said the blaze earlier threatened homes on Taylors Lane and Darraweit Rd.
Residents are still being urged to watch out for smoke and embers around Darraweit Rd.
Meanwhile, the smoke haze that has spread across Melbourne from the killer fires in Victoria's east should dissipate this afternoon, as backburning continues ahead of hot weather later this week.
Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Stephen King said the smoke haze would clear this afternoon when a south westerly breeze blew in.
The scent of bushfires in the air would likely still linger though.
Mr King said the smoke was expected to return on Wednesday and stick around until early Thursday.
He said an easterly wind change would push the smoke back towards Melbourne on Wednesday morning before a wind change on Thursday again pushed it away.
NASA has released a satellite image showing smoke from the fires spewing across the state's southeast and out to sea.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured the image about midnight US time on January 17 - 4pm on January 18 in Victoria - as the fires raged.
The red pixels seen in the image are heat signatures, enhanced by NASA to make them more visible.
Meanwhile, backburning operations continue as firefighters prepare for more hot weather later in the week.
A state control centre spokesman says the fire which began in the Baw Baw National Park last Thursday has now burnt through 59,000ha.
The inferno, which spread rapidly, has already claimed one life, 21 houses, 11 vehicles and 40 sheds.
Firefighters are now working on a 180-ha backburn, south of Glenmaggie and northwest of Heyfield ahead of hot weather predicted for Thursday and Friday.
It comes as diehard residents stuck in a tiny town under siege from the killer bushfire vowed to continue to fight to save their homes.
Licola, 254km east of Melbourne, was boxed in by the blaze last week, with about 30 residents staying to defend their properties.
Despite the fatality and damage, Licola resident Ralph Barraclough said that the town was well-prepared.
"Most of us are members of the CFA, we know what to do," he said. "No one's life is in danger, we're used to these sort of things."
So fierce was the fire that at one stage the only access into Licola was by helicopter, after fallen trees blocked off the only two roads.
Mr Barraclough said the small township had stayed to battle the blaze that never arrived, despite dire warnings.
"We're pretty resilient, we've all got chainsaws because there is always the odd tree falling over," Mr Barraclough said.
"We were told that we would be burnt out. We weren't."
The fire had torn through 56,000ha of land by last night as firefighters worked to build containment lines.
Country Fire Authority incident controller Ben Rankin said fire crews were working against the clock to prepare for a return to hot weather and strong winds on Thursday.
"We've done some good containment work at the north-western end of the fire. There is a large section of the fire that's requiring a significant amount of work," he said.
A larger team of bulldozers was brought in yesterday as more fire crews hit the ground.
"Thursday is the day we're working towards. All the work we're doing in the next few days is relating to Thursday,"
Mr Rankin said. "It is going to be a much hotter day with stronger winds."
Firefighters fear the strong winds could push the fire towards Maffra.
"There's definitely no end in sight yet," Mr Rankin said.
Milder conditions meant little movement in the fire yesterday as farmers continued the grim task of putting down badly injured livestock. Hundreds of animals have already been lost to the inferno.
The former boss of Victoria's forest firefighting force believes only a big dumping of rain will control the Gippsland fire.
Athol Hodgson, retired chief fire officer for the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, said the blaze presented an unprecedented challenge to authorities.
Mr Hodgson said there were up to a million hectares of bush in Gippsland that had been burnt out by two large fires in the past decade.
This had killed vast expanses of gum trees which had shed large strips of bark, leaving a huge layer of volatile fuel on the forest floor.
"It's carrying a type of fuel we haven't had to deal with before," he said.
Mr Hodgson, also a former Country Fire Authority board member, said the situation was vastly different to grass fires in more open country.
He said there was a grave risk the fire front would move into more remote wilderness areas.
This would put firefighters at a big disadvantage because of the difficulty in using bulldozers to clear breaks.
Mr Hodgson said firefighters could work to control the front but, because of the country it is in, the danger would not fully abate until there was heavy rain.
"It'll take an inch-and-a-half (37mm) to put it out. This could go on for quite a while," he said.
Premier Ted Baillieu said Department of Human Services grants were now available for people who needed help with accommodation or resettlement.
"People who have been displaced and are seeking to re-establish themselves will have access to $30,000 grants," he said.
"Those who have lost homes are obviously in line for that."
He said people could also apply for short-term personal emergency grants, which are worth up to $1200 a family.
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- BSO Case Number: 11-1308-001724 / 04-1308-000497
- PIO Number: 13-8-10
- Date: August 7, 2013
- Time: 5:26 a.m. and 6:40 a.m.
- Place of Occurrence: 2132 Hammondville Rd., Pompano Beach and 3484 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Lauderdale Lakes
- Jurisdiction: Pompano Beach and Lauderdale Lakes
- 1. Unidentified female (DECEASED)
- 2. Remise Ullius, 34, female, 4/20/79, 3021 NW 35 Ave., Apt. 101, Lauderdale Lakes (DECEASED)
- 1. Dennis Craig Klein, 62, male, 11/13/50, 5303 Jamboree Pl., Margate
- 2. Bruce Edwards Williams, 51, male, 2/25/62, 2750 NW 16 St., Fort Lauderdale
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Two women are dead as a result of two separate traffic fatalities on the same morning in the cities of Pompano Beach and Lauderdale Lakes.
At 5:26 a.m., a woman in her mid-twenties was attempting to cross Powerline Road when she was fatally struck by a Toyota RAV4 driven by Dennis Craig Klein, 62, of Margate. The victim, who had just gotten off the county bus before the incident, was pronounced dead at the scene. Broward Sheriff's Office traffic homicide detectives are investigating the incident and working to establish the victim's identity.
At 6:40 a.m., Remise Ullius, 34, of Lauderdale Lakes, was waiting for the bus when a car veered from the roadway and hit her. The driver, Bruce Williams, 51, of Fort Lauderdale, told detectives he swerved to avoid hitting another car. Ullius was transported to Broward Health Medical Center where she was pronounced dead at 7:40 a.m.
The traffic homicide investigations are ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact BSO Traffic Homicide detectives Carlos DeJesus or Robert Miller at 954-321-4840 or Broward Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-TIPS (8477) or www.browardcrimestoppers.org.
- INVESTIGATORS: BSO Det. Carlos DeJesus, THI /CID and BSO Det. Robert Miller, THI /CID
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More than 50 different centers, institutes and departments at Baylor expressly connect to the university's Christian mission, from the Baptist Studies Center for Research to BU Missions, from the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies to the Baylor Religious Hour Choir. And when you count in our alumni, the university's connection to the Church at large grows even more.
With that in mind, in February, Baylor named Rev. Mark Newton, BA '85, as director for church engagement. In this new position, Newton will seek to connect the university's alumni, students and academic resources (like those mentioned above) with Baptist churches and other Christian congregations and ministries. For instance, Newton could be involved in helping find ministry internship opportunities for students, in connecting alumni in the ministry, and in helping Baylor partner with organizations like Buckner and the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
Newton comes to Baylor after spending the last 11 years as senior pastor at First Baptist Church of San Marcos. A Baylor graduate and honorary alumnus of Baylor's Truett Seminary, Newton's blood runs green and gold. His wife, Aurelia (BSHE '90), and daughter, Adolynn (a freshman), are both Bears, and his son, Truett, is named for one of the university's great alumni.
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|Fluticasone Propionate, Azithromycin, and Montelukast Sodium in Treating Patients With Bronchiolitis Obliterans Who Previously Underwent Stem Cell Transplant
- Treatment failure [ Time Frame: Within 3 months after initiation of study medications ]Must be confirmed by a second PFT 2 weeks after the first measurement. A sustained, absolute decrease (worsening) of the FEV1 by >= 10% predicted in comparison to the baseline FEV1.
- Incidence and types of National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) (v4.0) [ Time Frame: Up to 6 months ]Grade 3-5 serious adverse events (SAEs) attributable to FAM; and the proportion of subjects who stop each drug during the study period.
- Changes in FEF 25-75, RV, DLCO, FEV1/FVC ratio and FEV1/SVC ratio [ Time Frame: Baseline to 6 months ]Will include FEV1 at month 6.
- Changes in blood molecular markers: IL8 (azithromycin), cysteinyl and LTB4 (monteleukast), and IL1B, TNF, and IL6, as well as neutrophil count (fluticasone) [ Time Frame: Baseline to 6 months ]
- Using the National Institute of Health (NIH) consensus criteria, the proportion of subjects with improvements in other chronic GVHD characteristics [ Time Frame: Up to 6 months ]Because of the relatively small sample sizes, results will be reported descriptively with 95% confidence intervals.
- Changes in HRQOL, exercise capacity, and symptoms compared to baseline [ Time Frame: Baseline to 6 months ]Using the following measurements: Short Form (SF) 36, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT), Human Activity Profile (HAP), chronic GVHD symptom scale for participants >= 18 years of age; Activity Scale for Kids (ASK) for participants < 18 years of age; six minute walk test.
- Total systemic steroid exposure [ Time Frame: Up to 6 months ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|September 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Treatment (BOS therapy)
Patients receive fluticasone propionate inhaled PO BID, azithromycin PO 3 days a week, and montelukast sodium PO QD. Treatment continues for 6 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: fluticasone propionate
Given inhaled PO
Other Names:Drug: montelukast sodium
Given PO
Other Name: SingulairDrug: azithromycin
Given PO
Other Names:
Detailed Description:
I. To determine if the combination treatment of FAM administered in post hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) recipients after the diagnosis of new onset bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) can decrease the rate of treatment failure relative to an estimated historical rate of 40% using current therapies.
I. To confirm the safety profile of FAM.
II. To describe the effect on other standard pulmonary function test parameters: forced expiratory flow at 25%-75% of forced vital capacity (FVC) (FEF25-75), residual volume (RV), diffusion capacity of carbon monoxide (DLCO), forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1)/FVC ratio and FEV1/slow vital capacity (SVC) ratio with FAM treatment.
III. To determine the change in molecular markers of inflammation and fibrosis in the blood with FAM treatment.
IV. To assess the impact of FAM on other chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) manifestations.
V. To assess the impact of FAM on functional status, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL).
VI. To describe changes in steroid dosing.
Patients receive fluticasone propionate inhaled orally (PO) twice daily (BID), azithromycin PO 3 days a week, and montelukast sodium PO once daily (QD). Treatment continues for 6 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for 6 months.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|6 Years to 99 Years (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Diagnosis of BOS after HCT within the 6 months before study enrollment; for this study, BOS is defined as:
- Forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) < 75% of the predicted normal and FEV1 to slow or inspiratory vital capacity ratio (FEV1/SVC or FEV1/IVC) =< 0.7, both measured before and after administration of bronchodilator OR
- Pathologic diagnosis of BOS demonstrated by lung biopsy
- The baseline absolute FEV1 must be >= 10% lower than the pre-transplant absolute FEV1 as defined by the pre-transplant FEV1 minus the baseline FEV1, both measured before administration of a bronchodilator
- Participant (or parent/guardian) has the ability to understand and willingness to sign a written consent document
Exclusion Criteria:
- Recurrent or progressive malignancy requiring anticancer treatment
- Known history of allergy to or intolerance of montelukast, zafirlukast, azithromycin, erythromycin, or clarithromycin
- Pregnancy or nursing; all females of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test < 7 days before study drug administration
- Transaminases > 5 X upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Total bilirubin > 3 X ULN
- Chronic treatment with any inhaled steroid for > 1 month in the past three months
- Treatment with montelukast or zafirlukast for > 1 month during the past three months
- Treatment with prednisone at > 1.2 mg/kg/day (or equivalent steroid)
- Treatment with rifampin or phenobarbital, aspirin at doses > 325 mg/day, or ibuprofen at doses > 1200 mg/day
- Treatment with any Food and Drug Administration (FDA) non approved study medication within the past 4 weeks; off-label treatment with an FDA-approved medication is allowed
- Chronic oxygen therapy
- Evidence of any viral, bacterial or fungal infection involving the lung and not responding to appropriate treatment
- Clinical asthma (variable and recurring symptoms of airflow obstruction and bronchial hyper-responsiveness)
- Any condition that, in the opinion of the enrolling investigator, would interfere with the subject's ability to comply with the study requirements
- Uncontrolled substance abuse or psychiatric disorder
- Inability to perform pulmonary function tests (PFT) reliably, as determined by the enrolling investigator or PFT lab
- Life expectancy < 6 months at the time of enrollment as judged by the enrolling investigator
- Baseline post-bronchodilator FEV1 < 20% of predicted normal before or after albuterol
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01307462
|United States, Arizona
|Mayo Clinic - Scottsdale
|Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, 85054
|United States, California
|Stanford University
|Stanford, California, United States, 94305
|United States, Florida
|H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
|Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612
|United States, Maryland
|National Cancer Institute Experimental Transplantation & Immunology Branch
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|United States, Massachusetts
|Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|United States, Minnesota
|Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
|Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455
|United States, Missouri
|Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University
|Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
|United States, New York
|Weill Cornell Medical College
|New York, New York, United States, 10065
|United States, Tennessee
|Vanderbilt University
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
|United States, Washington
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109
|United States, Wisconsin
|Medical College of Wisconsin
|Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226
|Principal Investigator:
|Stephanie Lee
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
|Study Chair:
|Kirsten Williams
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Lee, Stephanie, Principal Investigator, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01307462 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2011-00203 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
U54CA163438 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
RDCRN 6503 ( Other Identifier: DMCC )
|Study First Received:
|March 1, 2011
|Last Updated:
|August 9, 2016
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
|Plan Description:
|De-identified data are reported in aggregate.
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Bronchiolitis Obliterans
Bronchial Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Lung Diseases, Obstructive
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Infections
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Bronchodilator Agents
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Anti-Asthmatic Agents
Respiratory System Agents
Dermatologic Agents
Anti-Allergic Agents
Leukotriene Antagonists
Hormone Antagonists
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A2 Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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|January 14, 2012, 07:29 AM
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Just in the nick of time. I'm glad your friend showed restraint.
I cannot comment on the legality (not qualified, I'm no law scholar!). First I'll say that worked out pretty well so I don't think anyone is unhappy with the result. My stance is that in general, concealing as long as you can gives you an upper hand. I suppose I'm thinking about if the assailant is irrational (relatively speaking) as in he or she does not value their own safety in order to be deterred. Devil's advocate: What was there keeping that boyfriend from carrying his own pistol? And seeing how verbally abusive he was I'd say his anger could potentially skew his thinking into "this man wants a gunfight? Look he started it!" as he'd been itching for some kind of confrontation. Remember - it worked out fine so no worries this time.
The thing with the bare fists: I once read a definition of "grievous bodily injury" to include not only immediate death but anything that could reasonably break bones - and the skull is just a bone too. Also there is no way to know how far an attacker may choose to go. There is no written contract saying he will stop the beating/choking after the defender falls. So since empty handed doesn't equate to non-lethal, my speculation is that it would help determine when to draw if we're given a clue about his/her intent. As in: I'm backpedalling but he's advancing.
So statistically (if we believe them) your friend shouldn't have too many more confrontations left in his lifetime right? - but he might unless you as his friend help keep him clear of the crazy women who lure in crazy men just half kidding.
|January 14, 2012, 09:48 AM
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In a lot of jurisdictions, bare fists do not make the standard for deadly force, unless a strong argument can be made for disparity of force. EG, healthy vs disabled, adult vs child, adult vs elderly, multiple assailants, etc.
Those jurisdictions are often the ones that consider the display of a weapon to be unjustified unless the actual use of deadly force would have been warranted.
It appears WY does not fall into that category.
For the "only draw if you are going to shoot" crowd, bear in mind that over 90% of SD uses of handguns result in no shots fired - the BG ceases hostilities upon seeing the weapon. If the BG ceases to be a threat, justification for deadly force ceases, too, so be careful about getting into the "If I draw I must shoot" trap.
|January 14, 2012, 11:08 AM
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Lawscholar: Sounds like to me that your friend did good. The
incident was resolved and nobody got hurt. As you know you
are going to have any number of armchair lawyers that will
chime in with their supreme Internet opinions. Btw the Stoeger
is a jewel in hiding. It's a lot of gun for a reasonable price. I
have the 8045F .45acp.
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|January 14, 2012, 11:48 AM
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|January 15, 2012, 07:31 PM
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Many years ago a brother of a friend [lived in Ala.] overheard someone badmouthing his wife. Being the hothead/tough guy, he approached the loudmouth with clenched fists. The loundmouth pulled a gun and killed the tough guy. It was ruled justified. The loudmouth feared for his life!
In Michigan, one has to have a reasonable fear of great bodily harm, death or rape to justifiy shooting. To say fists aren't leathal weapons is , in my opinion, wrong. In nine years of karate I've met people who could probably kill someone faster with their hands than with a firearm.
Even though I'm guilty of not carring all the time, I do believe if you have it you should carry it. It is impossible to tell when the gun will be needed or not.
There I've said my piece wether it makes a contribution to the conversation or not is up to others to decide.
|January 15, 2012, 07:49 PM
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I read this here once..." when seconds count the police are minutes away ". I'm not sure what he did was "legal" but it worked and no one was hurt. Personally I wouldn't have let him get that close to begin with.
|January 15, 2012, 08:02 PM
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FrederickDav, in fifteen years of aikido and jujutsu I have yet to meet somebody who could reliably kill faster with bare hands than a decent shooter could kill with a firearm, but I know a lot of people who could probably have a good chance at a 20-30 second empty handed kill. I am one of those...
But the point is not whether bare hands can kill. The point is whether courts will accept that in a self-defense case.
In many places, one has to be obviously and severely outclassed. To add to that, odds are you could not argue fear of the other guy's martial prowess unless it could be proven that you knew the guy was a dangerous MA type before the attack.
Where you are can make a lot of difference, with regard to DA charging tendencies and existing case law.
|January 16, 2012, 12:09 AM
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Thanks for posting... I love Wyoming. I have been carrying for a couple of years off and on... Long story short I had to pull my CCW last summer... I carry as much as I can now. The Police told me I was very justified in my actions. I am glad that your friend is OK and I thank what he did was the correct thing to do. There was no harm in what he did... everyone went home to their own beds that night. If you ask me your friend is lucky to have you as a friend.
|January 16, 2012, 03:07 AM
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take whoopin. But at his age he might could have outrun the guy. I couldn't so the only way I am taking a whoopin will be after the gunfight is over.
|January 16, 2012, 03:15 AM
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|January 16, 2012, 03:38 AM
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Just going to throw it out there
I believe your friend did the right thing, he didnt lose control of his temper or his firearm and he also did not get a one way trip to the greybar motel for shooting the musclehead new guy.
|January 16, 2012, 11:01 AM
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Do your friend another favor, and introduce him to Southnarc ( http://shivworks.com/ , and search the net for more). Two feet is physically too close to begin introducing a gun into the equation, and he needs to know how to handle that sort of close-up/contact situation better now that he's carrying. I haven't seen an integrated curriculum anywhere that's better than Southnarc's for this.
Meanwhile, the second line in my .sig would seem to apply...
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|January 16, 2012, 11:38 AM
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Why does it always have to be either/or? I realize there is great danger outside your door and sometimes, even inside, yet one's own estimation of personal risk is no one else's business. Clearly one is not in the same risk everywhere, all the time, unless you're one of those who carry in church. If so, then I've nothing else to add.
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|January 16, 2012, 11:40 AM
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Funny you mention that, BT, but after a string of shootings in midwestern churches, several of the ones in this area have designated marksmen in the congregation...
|January 16, 2012, 11:43 AM
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I have no problem with church carry. I did on Christmas.
|January 16, 2012, 03:48 PM
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to point out is that a large portion of Alabama counties are still rural
for the most part and everybody knows or is related to everybody else.
So, it isn't out of the realm of imagination that this guy wasn't
prosecuted. Also, if you're on your own property and fear for your life
you can legally use deadly force.
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|January 16, 2012, 06:47 PM
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You asked for some alternative actions, here are some for your consideration, worth exactly what you paid for them:
Back up, loudly yelling "Stop, leave me alone! Go Away!" You would be suprised how many people may be about even at 12:30 AM.
(I have done this twice now, - worked both times.)
Agree with the jerk while backing up - I really don't care if someone, or lots of someones, think I am a coward, if I can avoid shooting someone. Plus, I have seen that agreeing with someone who is trying to start a confrontation just thows them completly off - they don't know what else to say.
Just turn and run as fast as you can. If he chases you, this builds a case for "fear of my life".
Thinking and acting outside of the box can create time and space for other options to appear.
I once had a well know actor ask my opinion of what to do if a guy in a bar challenged him (he travels with a bodyguard). My question to him was:
"How important is it to you that some drunk in a bar in Tucson claims he ran you out? There are LOTS of other bars."
(This is a farly common occurance for him, as he has played several "tough guy" roles. He actually was an Army Ranger between Korea & Viet Nam, but the issue is the lawsuit and noteriety that would follow a "barroom brawl."
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|January 16, 2012, 07:56 PM
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That depends, Sleuth, is it the Bashful Bandit or Tens?
My movie line generator went into motion when the OP said the would be assailant began calling him cowardly and a weakling...
"Yeah, you're right, I am a weak coward. I'm also not going to get my butt kicked tonight."
Thankfully I live in Arizona, where we have a law called Defensive Display, which specifically states what he did, even up to drawing to a low ready, is 100% legal when threatened with physical force. With the legal disparity of force of size and training, using only the facts as given, it wouldn't be too hard to upgrade the threat to Deadly Physical Force.
Of course, I am not an attorney, nor do I play one on TV.
Sounds like your man played it well.
|January 17, 2012, 12:12 AM
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I for one think your friend did the right thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but Wyoming now allows CC however it has for a long time been legal to Open Carry.
All your friend did in essence was to switch from CC to OC. Both absolutely legal.
As you state, you never know when you might need it. I still clearly remember my stupidly when I flew down to So Cal to date some sweet young thing I met in Reno. She had told me about her possessive X-boyfriend and how afraid of him she was. I had one of those rare CA CWP, but had left my 45 at my friends house on the beach, and drove over to taker to dinner, few drinks and them probably back to his place. As soon as I pulled up in front, she came out the front door and told me she couldn't go out with me. I saw somebody peak around the corner of the building and asked her if it was her X...told her I would give him an attitude adjustment and started walking over to the home, BANG, and a shot goes by me...I took off at a run straight at him...he ran down a back alley. It took about 30 yards for the brain to engage and realize this was stupid. Me with a bad attitude and him with a gun that he had already fired at me.
I was furious, drove back to the beach grabbed my gun, a couple extra mags, and the people in the living room stopped me long enough to hear what happened, then started laughing at me, thinking he would wait for it to be a fair fight...Never went back to date the girl either, but carried a lot more.
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10:10am Tuesday 11th February 2014
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TOWN councillors cannot decide if they should put their pictures on the council's website.
The apparently innocuous issue was put on the agenda for February's town council meeting and caused some debate.
Councillors Derek Bowden and George Gibson argued against the proposal.
Clr Bowden said: "People need to contact us, they don't need to know what we look like.
"I would propose no photographs."
Clr Gibson said: "I would agree with Clr Bowden, I don't see what it adds."
Councillors debated whether, if approved, members could opt out of having their pictures on the website.
Clr Bowden said: "I would abide by the wishes of the council if the majority want us to be in pictures but I can't promise to look pretty."
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Location: Residue Chemistry and Predictive Microbiology ResearchTitle: Bioactivities of acai (Euterpe precatoria Mart.) fruit pulp, superior antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties to Euterpe oleracea Mart Author
|Kang, Jie
|Thakali, Keshari
|Xie, Chenghui
|Kondo, Miwako
|Tong, Yudong
|Ou, Boxin
|Jensen, Gitte
|Medina, Marjorie
|Schauss, Alexander
|Wu, Xianli
Submitted to: Food Chemistry
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 1/1/2012
Publication Date: 6/1/2012
Citation: Kang, J., Thakali, K.M., Xie, C., Kondo, M., Tong, Y., Ou, B., Jensen, G., Medina, M.B., Schauss, A., Wu, X. 2012. Bioactivities of acaí (Euterpe precatoria Mart.) fruit pulp, superior antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties to Euterpe oleracea Mart. Food Chemistry. 133:671-677. Interpretive Summary: Acaí from tropical palm trees is considered a 'superfruit' with high antioxidant activities. The two types of acai, Euterpe oleracea Mart. and Euterpe precatoria Mart differ in their phytochemical composition. There are numerous studies on Euterpe oleracea (EO) but studies on E. precatoria (EP) remain rare. This study focuses on some phychemical composition and physiological effects of acai. Phenolic compounds have anti-oxidant properties and total phenolics were measured with Fast Blue BB method developed in our laboratory. The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of EP fruit pulps were evaluated by two traditional chemical assays and other cell based assays. The antioxidant capacity of EP fruit pulp was shown to be superior to EO fruit pulp in every chemical based assay. The cell-based assays showed inhibition against oxidative damage and EP indicated more anti-inflammatory effect than EO fruit pulp. EEP has 10 times higher total carotenoids than EO. Overall, total phenolic content, carotenoids, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities were superior to the EO acai variety.
Technical Abstract: There are two predominant palm tree species producing edible fruit known as "açai" found widely dispersed through the Amazon: Euterpe oleracea Mart. and Euterpe precatoria Mart. They differ from each other in terms of how the plants grow and their phytochemical composition. E. oleracea (EO) has received considerable attention as a "super fruit" because of its high antioxidant capacity, while studies on E. precatoria (EP) remain rare. In this study, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of EP fruit pulps were evaluated by different assays including a series of oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) based assays, the 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay, the cell-based antioxidant protection in erythrocyte (CAP-e) assay, as well as the nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-KB) secreted embryonic alkaline phosphatase (SEAP) assay. Total phenolics were also measured as an indication of total phenol content. For comparative purposes, EO fruit pulp was included. The antioxidant capacity of EP fruit pulp was determined to be superior to EO fruit pulp in every chemical based assay. In the cell-based CAP-e assay, EP fruit pulp showed a dose-dependent inhibition against oxidative damage with an IC50 of 0.167 g/L. In the SEAP reporter assay, EP fruit pulp polyphenol-rich extracts inhibited lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced NF-kB activation by 23 % (p less than 0.05) at 20 ug/mL, whereas the extract of EO fruit pulp did not show a significant inhibitory effect at comparable doses. In addition, carotenoids were quantified for the first time in EP, since EP has high scavenging capacity against singlet oxygen.


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I don't agree that a suspended member might be able to play as a non-member. Itemized bullet one says they lose the right to play in sactioned events. That's clear cut. However, I do have a question that's somewhat related:
Can a non-member be suspended?
Common sense says it should be possible. PDGA should want to preserve that right for themselves, however the suspension rules wording make the act of doing it according to the rules a bit clunky.


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Five films by first-time directors will be featured in this year's Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival, which runs from Nov. 2-16.
For her first film, Katie Halper was able to secure the kind of endorsement that makes marketing departments swoon.
OK, maybe "endorsement" is too strong a word for describing what conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh had to say about Camp Kinderland, the summer camp that is the focus of Halper's new documentary, the provocatively titled Commie Camp.
If the camp's name sounds familiar, that's because it was the subject of a series of tirades by Limbaugh in 2012. Following President Barack Obama's nomination of Erica Groshen to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics last year, Limbaugh latched onto the fact that Groshen had sent her children to Kinderland, which he called a "politically left-wing Jewish summer camp with communist roots" that "indoctrinates" campers with un-American ideologies.
Commie Camp is one of five films by first-time directors to be featured in this year's Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival, which runs from Nov. 2-16. In a departure from years past, these new filmmakers' works will be integrated into the festival at large, rather than being spotlighted in a New Filmmakers Weekend.
According to festival director Olivia Antsis, "new filmmakers have always been important to the festival." But this year, as part of the festival's evolution, the leadership at the Gershman Y, the longtime organizer of the festival, "wanted to better integrate their work into the main festival rather than isolating them into their own weekend."
Halper, whose film will be shown on Nov. 5 at the National Constitution Center, is a 32-year-old lifelong resident of Manhattan. She had been working on her film before Limbaugh brought so much attention to the camp, but she certainly didn't mind the free publicity.
She says that while Commie Camp wasn't made in direct response to Limbaugh, it was done because she wanted to set the record straight about what Kinderland was — and wasn't.
"I wanted to show what the place was like," she explains, "the reality of the camp that people either don't get or totally misrepresent."
To show that Kinderland, Halper got to do something most adults can only dream about: She got to go back to camp.
As a former camper, CIT and counselor at Kinderland, she had a relatively easy time getting access to the camp that advertises itself on its website as a place "to inspire, to raise awareness and introduce new ideas" while staying true to its "history of progressive politics and its heritage of secular Jewish traditions and its legacy of promoting social activism."
For her film, she followed four campers as they learned about social justice, Holocaust awareness and the Peace Olympics, the camp's answer to color wars. But she also said she had to constantly guard against presenting a biased view of the camp. "It's not supposed to be a puff piece," she insists.
As a writer for The Nation, Huffington Post and Salon, Halper can tell a story. When asked why she chose to make a film — a medium she only worked in briefly as an undergraduate at Wesleyan, where she made a student film — instead of in a column or article, she replies: "With a documentary, you can be fun, whimsical and entertaining — while still taking on serious issues." She adds that the increased eyeball count doesn't hurt, either.
The documentary, which starts out somewhat irreverently, becomes much more serious as it goes along, a reflection of the filmmaker's journey from past to present, part of which involved re-examining her Judaism. For someone who jokes that she didn't realize she was Jewish until she left New York City, observing how Kinderland handled Judaism, specifically "secular Jewish history, secular Jewish culture — the idea that you could be a Jew and not be religious" — helped strengthen her own identity as a secular Jew.
A world away from Commie Camp, both geographically and thematically, Sophie Lellouche's debut film, Paris-Manhattan is an assured work that effortlessly navigates moods and styles that swing from scenes reminiscent of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne sparring in My Favorite Wife to the wittily incisive self-examinations of Woody Allen's oeuvre.
It will come as no surprise, then, that Allen is a major presence in the film. Alice, the main character, has conversations with a giant poster of the filmmaker she has hung in her bedroom. In scenes that echo Allen's own work in Play It Again, Sam, Lellouche has Allen answer Alice back by splicing in appropriate dialogue from his films.
"When I was 15, I was a little like Alice," Lellouche says. "I was very much in my dreams. At 18, I wouldn't go outside — just watch movies. Each time I went to see a Woody Allen movie, I would say, 'It is my dream to be friends with this man.' "
The 43-year-old Parisienne did the next best thing: She wrote a script that not only had Allen's bons mots playing major roles, but also wrote a small but pivotal one for the man himself. "It's like a fairy tale," she recalls. "For me, the magic will be Woody Allen inside my movie. Maybe he can say no, but I can ask and maybe he can say yes."
As it turned out, Allen did agree to appear. The film stars two other musicians in addition to the world's most celebrated clarinet-playing director. Alice Taglioni, a former classical pianist, plays Alice, a pharmacist who is constantly being set up on dates by her family. Patrick Bruel, one of France's biggest pop stars, plays Victor, a security expert who woos her. Lellouche says the actors' innate sense of musical timing was essential to the fast-paced comedic scenes in the film. "Both of them have very good rhythm, and for comedies, the rhythms have to be very fast" to make the film funny.
Lellouche isn't far off when she describes making her film as a fairy tale. After graduating from the Sorbonne, she worked briefly in the film industry, where she was encouraged by the director Claude Lelouch (no relation) to make her own films. "But I got married, and it was time for me to have some children," she says. "After I got to be 36 years old, I said to myself, 'If I don't make movies now, it is all over.' So, I started to write."
And she wrote what she knew. "It is my first movie, so there are a lot of things that are autobiographical. I am Jewish, so it was easy for me to write about a Jewish family. I know these characters very well. They are not my family exactly, but I know every one of these characters in my life." After finding yourself enthralled by this 77-minute confection, you will feel like you know them as well.