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This is the giant, left-facing corner that splits the center of the Ophir Wall. It can also be located by following the grassy slope below the wall to its highest point. The first pitch is barely 5th class and many parties do not rope up for it. Much cleaner and straightforward than P.O. Crack. 1) 100 feet. 5.2? Start in corner, head up and right on easy ledges. End pitch 10 or 20 ft. below a blank looking left facing corner. No fixed anchors, a few different cracks are available. 2) 150 feet. 5.9 Face climb out left from the blank corner into a small alcove, exit alcove up and right and continue up the corner. About 30 ft. above the alcove 2 options exist. One is to traverse right to easier ground with rope drag potential. The other is to stick with corner. This is a long pitch which ends on a spacious ledge about 40 ft. left of the giant, left-facing corner. 3) 110 feet. 5.7 Climb corner to ledge with belay out left. 4) 100 feet. 5.7 Continue up corner to ledge with belay out left. 5) 60 feet. 5.9 Continue up corner with a short offwidth/chimney section to the end of the corner. Traverse left 30 feet to anchor and rap back through your last couple belay stances (you will be rapping over Black Primo, 5.9R). When you have reached the giant ledge which is the end of pitch 2, I would recommend continuing out right (climber's) and down another 40 feet to a bolted anchor that is not visible from above. This will take you to 2 double rope rappels via new chain anchors. If done this way, you will end up a couple hundred feet right of the start of the route.
Double set of cams, set of stoppers, some long runners, one optional big piece.
Great climb. This was the first route I did in the Telluride area. And it was typical of everything I found climbing in this area to be: diverse, challenging, packed with history and situated in a beautiful setting. And it was a rare day in that we ran into some other climbers (Paul Ross, who was climbing the route with his son). The final 5.9 offwidth is pretty stout. There is also a 5.9(R?) face climbing variation on the face to the left called Black Primo.
My partner and I did this route in three LONG pitches from the base to the final anchor cable with a 70m rope. I built an anchor on the second pitch after climbing over the roof. There are a lot of bolted belays (and rap stations) so it's best to have a plan before starting.
If you only have time for one route on Ophir Wall this is the one! #5 Camalot was "nice to have" for the p5 crux. Not to worry thought P5 is NOT and off width climb and it is NOT a chimney climb. For us it seemed like technical stemming up a corner with a wide crack that only takes big gear near the top. The P2 5.9 was the technical crux of the route. Excellent 5.9 face climbing on featured and well protected face. Get on it!
Really only one single move of 5.9 climbing in my opinion. Nice long route; it's nice to get off the ground for a change.
On what is described as pitch 4 above, there was a wide slot with quite a few rocks that looked ready to fall if they were touched. Try and avoid jamming yourself in there, some of the rocks were pretty big.
Are double ropes required for the rap?


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- Be current in their utility bill and not owe any past due fees. The City reserves the right to distribute credits for accounts with past due fees.
- Replace a pre-existing toilet with an EPA WaterSense labeled toilet. The old toilet must have a flush volume of 1.6 gallons or higher. New toilet installations are not covered in this rebate nor are replacements for current WaterSense toilets. WaterSense toilets must be installed before submitting a toilet rebate application.
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- Agree to a post-installation inspection to verify the toilet's eligibility. Details are given in subsequent sections.
- Submit application, receipt(s) and documents to the City of Raleigh for processing. Only one application (not toilet) is allowed per water account, some exceptions may apply for those facing financial hardship, receiving unemployment, receiving disability and/or collecting social security. Documentation will need to be provided with application.
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And the phones start ringing right away
About 25 minutes, as I recall.
That's all it took from the time I first heard that Rajon Rondo was likely to have season-ending knee surgery until the first e-mail arrived suggesting the Raptors trade one of their point guards to the Celtics.
Wonder why it took so long?
Seriously, it's only logical that a team in need of a point guard would come calling the Raptors, who have two with varying degrees of amenable contracts and diverse skills.
And the Celtics now have a need.
But I don't see a good fit for Toronto either way, actually.
It's not like this team here at this time in its development needs any of the old Celtics – Paul Pierce is the name you'll hear floated out there more than any in that group – and any young players Boston have they'd want to keep as they try to move on from this aging group.
Do you do Kyle Lowry and his desirable contract (only $1 million guaranteed next year on about a $6 tab) for a pick or two and some backup kids?
Is there a fit that lets you deal Jose Calderon and his much more expensive deal (about $10 million) without taking on contracts past this year and not screw up next summer's cap flexibility? And what kind of package could you get back that does that while improving a Toronto team that would then be missing arguably its most important piece?
A quandary, no? And one that Bryan is going to face every time he takes a call from any other general manager around the league.
Personally, and I don't imagine this will surprise anyone, I'd look to move Lowry first for a couple of reasons.
And, no, it's not at all because he's a bad guy or a disruptive force or is doing anything to cause trouble around the team.
It's just that his contract is attractive and what you could get back money-wise wouldn't hamper your ability to move forward this summer too much.
A Calderon deal would have to be a blockbuster and no team is likely to deal expiring contract for expiring contract so you'd really be banking on the guy or guys you get back would make the difference for years to come.
This is a delicate time in this team's growth as the plan unfolds. There are good young pieces in place – no stud, but good young pieces – and making a move in the next month or so is going to have repercussions for some time to come.
Oh, I'm going to say this and take the slings and arrows.
Rajon Rondo was, and will be, a delight to watch on a basketball court; he is a gifted, creative spark who epitomizes point guard play these days.
He also took games off when he didn't think they mattered and when he didn't care and I remember him loafing through a game here against Toronto when it looked as if he'd rather had been some other place.
I hope he recovers quickly and fully and has a long career of great games against good teams on national TV.
Golden State's here tonight? They call Oakland home. Oakland's in the Bay Area. So …
Speaking of trades, Mike D of Toronto wonders in a leftover from the mail:
Q: It's more or less obligatory for players to answer questions about potential trade rumours with some combination of "I never think about it; if it happens, it happens" and "It's a business." Can you suggest a few responses that, from the perspective of story opportunities or just personal entertainment, you'd rather hear?
A: Heck, yeah.
Here are five in no particular order:
"If they do it, thank heavens for small mercies."
"It's a good team calling, right? Playoff money?"
"I don't know if it's true but if you can make it happen, please go right ahead."
"They don't have Customs there, right?"
"Yes! My 15 per cent trade kicker with kick in!"
Speaking of Golden State, there's no a lot of doubt in my mind that the variety of uniforms the Warriors wear make them the best decked-out team in the league, right?
I love the one with the cable car but the newest edition looks great, too.
It's always fun to turn on a game and see what they're wearing.
Just gonna throw this out there for no real reason to those who watched the end of the Celtics-Heat on Sunday afternoon.
Anyone notice how, with about 90 seconds left and down two, the Heat blew an inbounds play and turned the ball over?
And if you did, I'm pretty sure you stuck around to watch the Celtics, up one with 25.1 left, get forced into blowing their last timeout of regulation time because they couldn't get the ball in, a timeout they could have really used when they had a possession with two seconds left in regulation and when they couldn't call a timeout.
Figure that's on Doc and Spoelstra, right? They need to get better coaching there or practice out of bounds plays more often.
A bit of piling on and, no, I didn't watch a second but did you read this story about the 62-35 Pro Bowl?
Yeah, that's a game that can go the way of the do-do bird and I can't imagine anyone would miss it.
Sounds like it makes the NBA all-star game like old Lakers-Celtics battles of the 80s by comparison.
So we're at the Red Party Remix – an outstanding event that raised a lot of money for a worthy cause and everyone should be congratulated – and all the players and coaches are there bowling and shooting pool and playing ping-pong and schmoozing at lots of levels.
And the most popular guy in the house?
Might have been Alvin Williams, every time I wandered past his little corner of the room there were pictures being snapped and autographs signed and people going ga-ga.
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KIRKSVILLE, MO. -- The Kirksville Regional Economic Development Incorporated (K-REDI) board got a briefing Tuesday on the progress of the new Missouri School of Dentistry & Oral Health that is currently under construction in Kirksville.
The group heard from Chris Halliday, DDS, MPH, the dean of A.T. Still University's new dental school.
He told them about the innovative new learning model the school will use instead of the typical method of having an instructor in front of the class lecturing the students while they take notes.
Halliday said it's a much more interactive style of learning.
"The students will learn in somewhat of a group setting," said Halliday. "The students will still do reading on their own time in the evening or on the weekends, but then they get together in groups, discuss the course content, and the instructors are there more as facilitators to help clarify points or questions that the students may have and also to facilitate the discussion amongst groups of students."
Halliday said this model of learning has proven very successful at ATSU's Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health in Mesa.
Staffers in Kirksville are currently working on putting the curriculum together.
Halliday said ATSU's goal is to increase access to dental care for underserved population groups.
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EA's gamescom 2013 press conference kicks off later this afternoon in Cologne, Germany at the Palladium.
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I live near Stanhope and I'm sad to say that the Stanhope Beach Resort was destroyed by fire in April 2013. It was a historic location on PEI and it will be missed. There are many other locations on PEI that are just as lovely and should be considered.
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The Senior Seminars: Backpack to Briefcase Series offers our graduating seniors an opportunity to develop skills that will ease their transition from university life to their post-Hofstra endeavors. This Series, focusing on both professional and personal competencies, provides students with a fleeting opportunity to connect with various administrators in the Division of Student Affairs, while learning tips on how to live a productive and valued life. The workshops will be offered throughout the academic year, and are meant to be an avenue that encourage seniors to engage, reflect, and discuss various senior-related issues connected to their transition.
All sessions are 6:15pm – 7:45pm, SC Plaza West
October 3rd – Opening Reception – SC Plaza West
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October 24th – Learning how to cook – Netherlands Cafe
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April 10th – Getting our acts together: Retirement, Benefits, and Life – SC Plaza West
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Keller, Nora Okja
Nora Okja Keller Comfort Woman
Born in Korea, Keller is an American novelist.
Keller was born in Korea to an American father and Korean mother. She grew up in Hawaii where her mother, hoping to help her daughter fit in with mainstream America, chose not to teach Keller the Korean language. Consequently, Keller felt alienated from her Korean heritage. While attending a symposium on human rights at the University of Hawaii in 1993, Keller heard the story of a Korean woman who had been a "comfort woman" during World War II; she felt the story should be told and began writing Comfort Woman (1997), her first novel. Comfort women were sex slaves imprisoned in "recreation centers" and forced to serve Japanese soldiers. In the novel, described by a Publishers Weekly reviewer as "an intense study of a mother-daughter relationship," the protagonist, Beccah, grows into adulthood feeling both protective of and embarrassed by her eccentric mother, Akiko, a spirit medium prone to long trances and terrifying battles with Saja the Death Messenger, from whom she perpetually attempts to protect her daughter. The author alternates Beccah's story with Akiko's, and the reader comes to realize the extent of the horror Akiko experienced as an adolescent sold into prostitution and forced to become a comfort woman, an element of her past that Beccah learns only after her death. Although Akiko escaped and married one of her rescuers, a missionary who became Beccah's father but died when Beccah was five, her spirit died in the camp and the experience haunted her for the rest of her life. Beccah must come to terms with her mother's past in order to define her own identity and choose her future. Comfort Woman received much positive critical response, with reviewers pointing out the sensitive portrayal of a woman's search for identity and the exploration of the mother-daughter relationship. Many critics described Keller as a gifted writer and storyteller. Merle Rubin stated, "Strongly imagined, well-paced and written with eloquently restrained lyricism that conveys the subtleties of feelings as well as the harshness of facts, Comfort Woman is a poignant and impressive debut."
SOURCE: A review of Comfort Woman, in Publishers Weekly, January 6, 1997, p. 61.
[In the following review of Comfort Woman, the critic states, "Though piercing and moving in its evocation of feminine closeness,… the narrative becomes somewhat claustrophobic."]
This impressive first novel [Comfort Woman] by a Hawaii-based writer of mixed Korean and American ancestry depicts one of the atrocities of war and its lingering effects on a later generation. An intense study of a mother-daughter relationship, it dwells simultaneously in the world of spirits and the social milieu of the adolescent schoolgirl who later becomes a career woman with lovers. Beccah is a youngish, contemporary Hawaiian whose Korean mother, Akiko, was sold into prostitution as a young woman and sent to a "recreation camp" to service the occupying Japanese army. Akiko developed a resilience that allowed her to distance herself from the daily plundering of her body; she also developed an intense communication with the spirit world that helped her survive the horror of her experience—and helped her, too, to catch the attention of a visiting American missionary, who married her and fathered Beccah. After his death, mother and daughter live together in Honolulu, Beccah striving for a normal life, Akiko, often possessed, screaming and wailing, by her ghosts and visions. With the help of a flamboyant,...
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SOURCE: A review of Comfort Woman, in Booklist, March 15, 1997, p. 1226.
[In the following review, Wilkinson lauds the lyricism and humor of Keller's Comfort Woman.]
In her haunting debut novel [Comfort Woman], Korean American Keller tells of the complex, loving bond between a mother and daughter. Akiko had been sold into prostitution during World War II when still a child. Her harsh memories of her experiences as a "comfort woman" to the Japanese army alternate with her daughter Beccah's more straightforward account of her attempts to fit in with the popular kids at the local high school. Completely ignorant of her mother's history, Beccah is ashamed of her mother's spiritual "trances," in which she seems to commune with the spirit world, leaving Beccah to fend for herself. When an enterprising Filipino woman successfully markets Akiko as a gifted fortune-teller, their finances improve dramatically, but Beccah is still confused by her mother's strange behavior. In the powerful, moving conclusion, Beccah finally discovers the truth about her family history. With a deft and subtle use of humor and an assured, lyrical prose style, Keller threads her graceful narrative with themes of identity and the search of self.
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SOURCE: "The Haunting," in The Los Angeles Times Book Review, March 23, 1997, p. 9.
[In the following review, Rubin calls Keller's Comfort Woman "a poignant and impressive debut."]
The ugly story of the women and girls forced to serve as "comfort women" in the "recreation camps" designed to accommodate the sexual needs of Japanese soldiers during World War II took a long time to come to light. Women who had been victimized in this way were devalued not only in the eyes of their communities but often in their own eyes. This bitterly ironic paradigm is not limited to traditional sexist cultures. Almost everywhere, it seems, far too many victims struggle with feelings of shame and despair, while too few victimizers are troubled by guilt.
This powerful first novel [Comfort Woman] by a young writer born in Korea and raised in Hawaii tells the intertwined stories of a Korean-born woman sold into the sexual slavery of the Japanese camps and of the woman's American-born daughter, who discovers the secret of the mother's harrowing past after her death.
Rebeccah Bradley, known as Beccah, grows up in Hawaii, where she enjoys a relatively normal life—or, at any rate, a life blessedly free from the shocking dislocations and acute suffering experienced by her mother, Akiko. But in some respects, Beccah's childhood is abnormal. Her mother is given to strange fits,...
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SOURCE: "They Gotta Be Making This Up," in Newsweek, April 28, 1997, p. 78.
[In the following review, Shapiro asserts that in Comfort Woman, Keller has "an emotional touch so sure and a sense of language so precise she seems to have sprung into print full-grown as a novelist."]
Her name is Akiko, or so her daughter Beccah has always believed. Not until her mother's death does Beccah learn that Akiko's real name was torn from her at the age of 12, when she was sold from a Korean village to be a "comfort woman"—a sex slave for Japanese troops in World War II. These two stories, Akiko's and Beccah's, make up the somber skeins that Nora Okja Keller beautifully weaves together in Comfort Woman, her first novel.
Akiko's harrowing memories of the "recreation center" are seared into her brain and soul, from the first night she is raped—"It was a free-for-all, and I thought I would never stop bleeding"—until she escapes after the camp doctor gives her an abortion.
"He did not bother tying me down…. Maybe he knew I had died and that ropes and guards couldn't keep me anyway." Rescued by missionaries, she marries one of them and moves to America but never really returns to life. The gods and spirits who swarmed into her consciousness at the camp and helped her survive don't let go: they keep command of her ever after. Beccah grows up both protective and...
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SOURCE: "No Man's Land," in Time, May 5, 1997, pp. 101-2.
[In the following excerpt, Farley asserts that "although Keller's prose, at a few points, has more ambition than lyricism, overall [Comfort Woman] is a sturdy, eloquent book."]
Nora Okja Keller used to think real writers looked like Ernest Hemingway. Gruff, bearded, white, male. She was none of those. She was an immigrant, born in Seoul to a Korean mother and a white American father, and raised in Hawaii. But Keller's image of herself started to change in 1993, when she went to a symposium on human rights at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; there she heard an elderly Korean woman tell her true story of being a "comfort woman" during World War II, when she was one of the many foreigners forced by the Japanese into prostitution camps that serviced their soldiers. The story haunted Keller. Who would pass it on? Who would write it down? The old woman came to her in nightmares. "Finally, I got up in the middle of the night and started to write down my dreams," says Keller. Those notes became a book. And she became a writer.
Keller's book, Comfort Woman, is one of a trio of powerful debut novels by Asian-American women to arrive in bookstores lately. The others: Monkey King by Patricia Chao (of Chinese and Japanese descent) and The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr (whose mother and father are Japanese and...
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SOURCE: A review of Comfort Woman, in The New York Times Book Review, August 31, 1997, p. 14.
[In the following review, Funderburg calls Keller's Comfort Woman "accomplished."]
A mother and daughter wrestle with the mother's plagued past in Nora Okja Keller's accomplished first novel [Comfort Woman]. The daughter, Beccah, comes of age in Hawaii, where she is taunted by other children because she is poor, because she is of Korean and American heritage, and because her mother, Akiko, seems to be mentally imbalanced. (When she isn't falling into trances, Akiko is performing strange rituals meant to protect Beccah from Saja, the Death Messenger, or honyaek, the cloud of Red Disaster.) The reader learns long before Beccah does that Akiko was sold away from her Korean family during World War II—as a sister's dowry—and forced into a "recreation center" run by the Japanese Army. There she was renamed and remade into a "comfort woman," a prostitute for Japanese soldiers. Akiko escaped after a clumsy abortion and was taken in by American missionaries, one of whom, Beccah's father, married her and brought her to the United States. But by the time we meet them he has died, leaving Akiko and Beccah to live in their own tormented private world. Moving between the mother's voice and the daughter's, Keller beautifully evokes both their anguish and their love. "I wanted to help my mother,...
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Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1999 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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The euro dropped from a six-week high against the dollar as European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said policy makers expect interest rates in the region to stay low for an extended period.
Europe's shared currency fell versus most of its 16 major peers as Draghi said there were still "downside" risks to growth as the central bank left interest rates at a record low. The dollar strengthened as a U.S. report showed initial jobless claims dropped to a five-year low. The yen declined after Japanese investors boosted their holdings of overseas bonds. The pound advanced after a gauge of U.K. manufacturing improved in July. The Swedish krona slumped after factory orders slowed.
"Draghi mentioned the weak outlook for the economy and underlined the downside risks and that made the euro trade lower," said Lutz Karpowitz, a senior currency strategist at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt. "The initial jobless claims in the U.S. were pretty strong, justifying a stronger dollar."
The euro fell 0.6% to $1.3224 at 2:11 p.m. London time after climbing to $1.3345 yesterday, the highest level since June 19. The yen dropped 1% to 98.85 per dollar, the biggest decline since July 5. Japan's currency fell 0.5% to 130.79 per euro.
Today's ECB's decision was predicted by all except one of 63 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Wells Fargo Securities had forecast a quarter-point reduction.
'Downside' Risks
"The risks surrounding the economic outlook for the euro area continue to be on the downside," Draghi said at a press conference in Frankfurt after the decision was announced. "Looking ahead, our monetary policy stance will remain accommodative for as long as necessary."
The euro has strengthened 3.6% in the past three months, the best performer among 10 developed-market currencies tracked by Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes, amid signs the region is emerging from its longest-ever recession. The yen rose 1.6% and dollar advanced 3.1%.
The dollar climbed the most in almost four weeks against the yen as the Labor Department said initial claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly declined by 19,000 to 326,000 in the week ended July 27, the fewest since January 2008.
The Bloomberg U.S. Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against 10 other major currencies, rose 0.5% to 1,030.94 after declining 1.4% last month.
Yen Weakens
The yen declined after the Ministry of Finance said Japanese investors bought 233.2 billion yen more overseas bonds and notes than they sold last week.
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda in April unveiled a plan to buy more than 7 trillion yen of Japanese debt a month to spur the economy and end deflation. He has said the policy would prompt domestic investors to rebalance their portfolios by purchasing foreign bonds and other assets.
The pound rose from the weakest since March the euro as the Bank of England's nine-member Monetary Policy Committee held its bond-purchase target at 375 billion pounds. It also kept the benchmark interest rate at 0.5%.
An index of U.K. manufacturing climbed to 54.6 this month from a revised 52.9 in June, London-based Markit Economics and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply said.
'Downside Pressure'
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney will present the MPC's review of steering policy expectations next week after saying in July that bets on future interest rates were "not warranted."
"We expect pound downside pressure to continue to build," Morgan Stanley strategists including Hans Redeker in London wrote today in a note to clients. "The move towards a more transparent BOE is expected to continue."
The pound appreciated 0.4% to 87.14 pence per euro after earlier sliding to 87.70, the weakest level since March 12. The U.K. currency was little changed at $1.5185.
Sweden's krona weakened against all except two of its 16 major peers as Swedbank AB said a manufacturing index based on responses from purchasing managers fell to a seasonally adjusted 51.3 in July from 53.5 the previous month. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg predicted a reading of 53.
The krona slumped 0.9% to 6.575 per dollar and weakened 0.4% to 8.7008 per euro.


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