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Climb Safe: Gear Doesn't Last Forever - Ice Tool Picks
The following article is courtesy of Black Diamond Equipment.
Contrary to popular belief, climbing gear doesn't last forever. For instance, I recently received a #2 Camalot in the mail that was manufactured in 2002. The thing was destroyed—it looked like it had been up El Cap 300 times. The customer wanted a new one because it was worn out. News flash: climbing gear doesn't last forever.
If I took a set of tires with 60,000 miles on them back to the tire shop to get replaced, I'd get laughed at—same is true for climbing gear. Perhaps it's a legacy thing. Yes, back in the day some climbing gear did last longer, because it was designed and manufactured to be more robust and consequently was heavier and ultimately didn't perform as well. But even back in the day, climbing gear had a useable lifespan. Also, as the climbing standards increase, we're torquing our picks and crampons, whipping on sketchy pins and cams and just generally being way harder on our gear.
But just as you can buy beefy, all-terrain radials that last longer than high-performance race tires, you can buy rugged climbing gear that'll last longer, but at a cost of weight and performance. You can also purchase more specialized, lighter gear, but it generally won't be quite as burly. It's up to each individual climber to make the choice and understand the possible ramifications of these decisions.
There are basically three types of ice-tool picks: beefy mixed climbing picks, mountain picks, and high-performance, ice-specific picks. Mixed picks and all-mountain picks usually have a larger cross section (i.e., thicker with more material at critical stress areas), and therefore can take more abuse. High performing, ice-specific picks with smaller cross sections are designed for easier penetration and less ice displacement. But does this ice-specific performance characteristic come at a cost of durability? YES!
What most people don't realize is that picks don't typically weaken by being slammed into the ice, rather they weaken from being removed. If you're a guy who buries his picks with each swing (like me), it's the levering motion of REMOVING the pick from the ice that puts a three-point bend load on the ice pick; the ice acting as a fulcrum. This repeated motion and loading can eventually cause a fatigue failure in the metal.
Several years ago, with the desire to obtain real comparative cyclic data on ice-tool picks, we created a test machine that simulates that loading scenario. We call it the 4-Banger—it's awesome.
We load the 4-Banger up, set to the appropriate load, and let it do its thing until the pick breaks, keeping track of the number of cycles. One thing to keep in mind is this is all relative testing—the test setup is consistent, but not necessarily correlating directly to real-world usage, so the data should be considered comparative within itself. Of course picks are also greatly weakened by torquing (but rarely break in this mode). To test this, we have torqued picks, followed by our cycle tests in the 4-Banger and found the fatigue life can be reduced by upwards of 50%.
We've tested and broken so many picks it would make a grown man with a gear fetish cry. We test all of our picks during design and development, and we test other manufacturer's picks as well. We test hot-forged picks, laser-cut picks, water-jet cut picks, machined picks, Aermet picks, and many prototypes using special materials or manufacturing processes.
As you can see in the graph, the thinner cross-section, high-performance ice-specific picks break earlier than the thicker cross-section mixed and mountain picks. Makes sense. This is true for every company's ice tool picks that we have ever tested. No company has a magic material or process that produces an unbreakable pick. Could we design and manufacture an indestructible pick? Yup. But it likely wouldn't perform well and no one would use it. So climbers are left with having to make a ice tool pick choice between A) high performance and compromised durability, or B) slightly more durable with a sacrifice of performance or weight—just like tires.
We sell thousands of ice tool picks (on ice tools and sold separately) each year (the majority of these are our ice-specific Laser pick). We see a handful back.All companies have ice tool picks that break in the field—no exceptions. I even know of some companies that have finally given up and discontinued their high-performing, ice-specific picks because they were tired of hearing complaints of them breaking.
Most reputable climbing gear manufacturers will CE-certify their gear. One interesting thing is that in general, there are no durability requirements for climbing gear—almost all standards are based on single-pull ultimate strength. So a company could, in theory, design and sell a carabiner that meets all the CE requirements when loaded once and then turns to glass, and it would pass all the current requirements. My point is, the CE standards don't count for fatigue. Up until recently there actually WAS a fatigue requirement for ice climbing picks, but it was removed from the standard because the data was so variable (as all cyclic data is), it didn't really tell you anything, and the test wasn't actually relevant to real world use. So it really is up to the manufacturer to find the balance between ultimate strength, durability and performance.
Many manufactures supply various pick options, and CE has categories for these picks. Burly picks, which used to be called T picks for TECHNICAL, are now are called Type 2 and are for climbing rock, snow or ice. More ice-specific picks that may not necessarily be as robust are formerly called Type B picks for BASIC and are now called Type 1 picks. These classifications are stamped on the pick for easy identification.
Here are instruction excerpts from four different manufacturers (including Black Diamond):
Under normal use (20 to 50 days per year), the lifespan of a pick on a Type T ice axe is 1 year. More frequent use or extreme climbing can reduce the lifespan of your ice tool. Some activities that would reduce its lifespan are hitting rocks, twisting the axe and pick, and drytool climbing on rock.
WARNING: certain extreme techniques using ice axes and crampons (e.g.dry-tooling...) are very stressful on the equipment. Levering or torquing the pick or the shaft can cause accelerated wear and/or failure of the equipment during use. This equipment may be used for dry tooling, but only on well protected routes. Ice axes used for dry-tooling should be used exclusively for this activity and must be carefully inspected before each use. Do not use your dry-tooling gear on adventure climbs. The material fatigue caused by dry-tooling could result in a catastrophic tool failure on a poorly protected route. This product must not be loaded beyond its strength rating, nor be used for any purpose other than that for which it is designed.
- Sporadic use with a seasonal concentration = between 5 and 10 years.
- Regular use throughout the year on difficult routes and some ice falls = between 3 and 5 years.
- Frequent, professional use on new routes and ice falls = between 3 and 6 seasons.
- Dry tooling, modern mixed, competitions = between 1 and 2 seasons.
WARNING: The materials do not last forever. Check the tool before using it every time and do not hesitate to replace it.
So what does all of this actually mean? It means that not all gear is created equal: some ice picks will last longer than others, but it depends on the type and frequency of use. It ultimately also means that gear doesn't last forever, and if you try hard enough or use it for long enough, you can break anything. It's up to you, the climber to check your gear, understand its limitations, and replace if it's getting worn or you're unsure about its integrity.
As it pertains to ice tool picks specifically, when I'm in the mountains I usually run a burlier pick. I'm usually not climbing as technically hard of ice and am more likely to be scraping around on rock, so I go with the Titan pick, a beefy, more durable all-mountain rig. But when I'm climbing pure ice routes and need all the help I can get to get up the thing, I use the ice-specific Laser pick. The Lasers penetrate the ice better, and are easier to clean, leaving my flailing arms with a little more gas to finish the pitch. If I'm on a long route, I'll usually carry a spare pick, although in 20 years of ice climbing I've still never broken a pick.
There you have it.
Stay safe out there,
Kolin Powick (KP) is a mechanical engineer hailing from Calgary, Canada. He has over 20 years of experience in the engineering field and served as Black Diamond's Director of Quality for over 11 years. He is currently their Climbing Category Director. If you have a technical question for KP, please email him at firstname.lastname@example.com and he will TRY to respond.
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It has been repeatedly stated in public that the measures taken immediately after the war to restrict the exportation of food products had reconnection whatever with the Zionist movement or with land policy, but were dictated solely by shortage of food supplies and the danger of excessively high prices or even of famine. The exportation of olive oil was prohibited by the Military Authorities in August 1919, and the restriction was removed by the Civil Administration October, 1920. The exportation of wheat and barley was prohibited in September 1920, in consequence of the report of a Committee on food supplies, presided over by Sir Wyndham Deeded and including the District Governor of Jerusalem the Director of Customs, Director of Agricultural. Director of Commerce and Industry and the Deputy Treasurer. This prohibition was removed in April, 1921. Precisely similar measures were take at the same time in the neighboring countries of Syria and Egypt, where no question of Zionist policy could in any case arise. It is obvious that the allegation made is totally unfounded.
3.-"When the proprietor's confidence in the safety of his property is shaken, he can have no other alternative than to sell it or exchange it for a safe one. The Palestine Administration in pursuance on this rule put into force (1921) a Turkish law that has never been enforced before, whereby a proprietor who fails to cultivate his land or part of in during three consecutive years, will lose his title to it." It is stated that in consequence the land owners sold the land to Jews at a low price, your memorandum states on page four.
As a matter of fact, the Turkish law referred to has only once been put into operation by the Palestine Administration, in relation to a piece of land of 193 dunams which was needed for an aerodome in the neighborhood of Haifa and which belonged to a wealthy Syrian land owner to whom the considerations mentioned in the allegation can not apply. It is true that certain land-owners were reminded that the Turkish Law did not allow land to remain uncultivated indefinitely, but there had been no case in which persons so warned have subsequently sold land to Jews.
4.-Reference is made on page six to the statement in the Palestine Government's report for 1923 that unemployment has increased and that the need for additional labor immigrants had been slight "Yet the flow of immigrants never ceased and so the whole country had to bear the burden", the memorandum proceeds.
This is directly contrary to fact. Measures were taken to reduce to an absolute minimum the immigration laborers during the latter parts of 1923 Only 100 immigrants were admitted for the purposes of entering the labor market; the small number of other immigrants who came in were either members of the families or persons already in the country, or individuals possessing means of their own. In any case, no charge whatever was imposed upon the Palestine Budget.
5.-"Police force distribution was not based on local requirements for suppressing and preventing private crimes but rather on unusual, sudden requirements for suppressing or preventing inter communal political attacks, which distribution had greatly affected public security with regard to private crimes. For instance, the road between Jerusalem and Jericho, so much noted for its in security even since those very old days of the Bible, is left unguarded to the pleasure of highway.(Continued on Page. 4)

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Dear "Earth Talk": What are the
implications for Montana's Glacier National Park if the glaciers
there keep melting?
— Oliver Ryan, New York City
The glaciers for which Glacier National Park is named are melting away as a result of increasing global temperatures in recent decades, attributable most likely to global warming. A century ago, Grinnell Glacier, once the park's largest, covered almost 440 acres. Today it has shrunk to just a quarter of that size. Many of the glaciers are gone altogether: According to the Sierra Club, the number of glaciers in the park has dropped from around 150 in 1850 to approximately 35 today.
Most of the glacier loss in the park has occurred since the late 1960s, when global-warming trends began to intensify. Park scientists are now worried that if nothing is done to curb global warming, by the year 2030 there may not be a single glacier left in Glacier National Park.
Glaciers form when huge ice sheets build up under snow that has slowly accumulated over time. As the snow cover mounts, the intense weight compresses the delicate snowflakes beneath the surface, gradually changing them into the ice grains that make up glaciers. During the last Ice Age, some glaciers were a mile thick, covering huge swaths of the Earth and carving out much of the topography we know today through their slow and grinding movements.
The warming of the Earth that occurred at the end of the last Ice Age — and which melted glacial ice from pole to pole — was a natural phenomenon that took place over thousands of years. Today, the carbon dioxide emissions generated over just the last half-century from industrial and automotive sources could, say scientists, lead to an equivalent amount of glacial melting within just decades, not millennia.
This process could put plants and animals, which have adapted to certain living conditions over time, in deep trouble as their habitat characteristics shift right under their feet, fins, and roots. And Glacier National Park will be no exception. For example, the lack of glaciers and snow pack there could eliminate avalanches, which perform a valuable ecosystem function by knocking down forested stands to make way for new growth in meadows. The berries that are prevalent in these meadows are a major nutrition source for the grizzly bears that call the park home. Without avalanches and the meadows they create, the park's already stressed grizzly population could suffer a drastic decline.
Beyond such ecological implications, no one knows how a glacierless Glacier National Park might play to tourists doing their grand Western tours. If the number of visits to the park and therefore the region were to drop significantly, the local economy — now dependent on tourism revenue — could suffer debilitating losses. After all, who would visit a place called Glacier if there were no glaciers to see?
For more information: Sierra Club, www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/articles/glacier.asp; Glacier National Park, www.nps.gov/glac/.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rand Logistics, Inc. (Nasdaq:RLOG) ("Rand") today announced that since its first quarter earnings call, it has experienced several unrelated operating incidents which collectively will result in a shortfall in the Company's forecasted fiscal year 2011 financial results. The financial impact of these incidents, including the insurance deductibles for repair costs, the foregone time and revenue, and the inefficiencies created in trade patterns, will cause the aforementioned shortfall. Given the unprecedented number and timing of these incidents and the Company's expectation that the overall impact is non-recurring, they do not affect management's prior guidance of $0.90 to $1.00 of free cash flow per share commencing with the repowered Michipicoten reentering service in the spring of 2011, assuming no drastic change in economic conditions. Scott Bravener, President of Lower Lakes, stated, "We are extremely disappointed with the unprecedented number and the financial impact of the operating incidents that have occurred during the current sailing season. Our review of the Saginaw incident in our first fiscal quarter and the recent incidents has revealed no common deficiency in maintenance, oversight or processes. Including our upcoming winter investments, we will have spent approximately $60 million on fleet modernization over the last five years and four of our vessels will have been repowered since 2000. We have evaluated, and continue to review, all aspects of our operations, oversight and maintenance procedures to minimize the risk and cost of future incidents. While we cannot eliminate all incidents, I believe that we have the processes in place to reduce their future occurrence to a level consistent with our historic experience. "While the incidents that have occurred in the current sailing season will negatively impact fiscal year 2011 financial results, we continue to see an improvement in overall customer demand and market conditions as compared to our prior sailing season. We believe that the long term fundamentals of the business and our end markets remain strong and as a result these incidents will not have an impact on our future earnings potential."
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I love the Tsaikka tea glasses that I picked up in a market in Kings Cross a year ago. It seems they were originally part of a drinks set designed by Timo S in 1957. The cups were then part of a set of jug & glasses set. It was one of the first design in the i-series for iittala of Finland. There is a picture of this set in Eileene Harrison Beer's Scandinavian Design oppose page 103. That jug is very hard to find! Austrohungaro has a Kartio version of this design and some others by lindshammar that look like it too:
The glasses were then later (in 1964) given a metal holder with a distinctive figure - eight handle. I think this was designed by Timo's brother Pentti, but I am not sure about that. Perhaps austro will know for sure?
I like the stackable nature of the holders design as well. It's based on a very clever little part of the pressed metal design.
The name 'tsaikka' comes from the Russian word for tea: "tsai". I think most of us have seen the Russian tea glasses with pewter/silver handles.
They are used at Xmas time in Finland to drink mulled-wine as well add tea.
Timo "Sarpaneva (1926–2006) was one of the great personalities responsible for the world reputation of Finnish design since the 1950s. He was a master of materials as glass, porcelain, cast iron and textile as well as graphic art. Timo Sarpaneva designed the current Iittala trademark for his glass collection called I-line (I-linja) in 1956, for which he received one of his Grand Prix in Milan the following year. He has been honoured with innumerable awards and acknowledgements. Sarpaneva was Doctor HC of the Royal College of Art in London and the University of Art and Design in Helsinki and Academician HC of the University of Mexico. His work can be seen in art and design museums throughout the world."


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I have a client that is going to need a membership website. Are there any tools to build membership sites that are reasonably easy to figure out for someone with no programming experience? Or is this something that a programmer would need to do?
Even with a CMS option, it will probably need a developers touch to get it customised to the level you may want (depending on how complex your situation is).
We will need more details to go on though, so please explain a little further
Can you explain what you mean by NO experience?
No coding experience? No programming experience? Computer using experience?
I concur using a CMS but it might be a moot point if they have to learn the program and they are not tech saavy or understand the 'lingo'. That doubles the learning curve right there.
Present the options of CMS, the pros and cons and then present the pros and cons of having a developer do it for them.
What sort of membership functions will be needed? Lots of systems have a simple log in feature, but to set up more than that is a bit trickier. Normally you'd use a software package for this, like a content management system. But even then, there's a learning curve in setting it up, and it's probably a job for a programmer / web designer in that case.
I just made my first membership site at <snip> and made it in joomla.
I found AEC extension for a membership solution and have tried it out. It seems to work great and allows me to define member only areas and charge a monthly, or yearly fee.
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I have a table with about 15 million rows which is constantly having tuples added to the head and deleted in blocks from the tail to maintain the size. The dead tuple count in pg_stat_user_tables tracks the deleted rows fairly accurately until an auto-ANALYZE is done in the background at which point the value it calculates is wrong by a factor of 2-3 times (calculated value is 30-50% of the correct value), which completely throws the auto-VACUUMing. An example is that the auto-VACUUM only ran when there were 12 million (real) dead rows! Any ideas? Thanks Stuart PS. Running 8.3.1 on NetBSD 3.
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Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOU), the second-largest company-owned premium coffeehouse operator in the United States based on the number of coffeehouses, and the Joh. A. Benckiser Group (JAB) announced a definitive merger agreement under which an affiliate of JAB will acquire Caribou for $16.00 per share in cash, or a total of approximately $340 million. The agreement, which has been unanimously approved by Caribou's independent directors, represents a premium of approximately 30 percent over Caribou's closing stock price on December 14, 2012, the last trading day prior to the announcement of the transaction. At the close of the transaction, Caribou will continue to be operated as an independent company with its own brand, management team and growth strategy. Caribou will remain based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "Caribou Coffee is a great company, with dedicated people, world-class customer service, exceptionally high quality coffeehouse beverages and food and a state-of-the-art roasting facility. The employees of Caribou should feel very proud of all they've been able to accomplish over the years, and I look forward to continued success in Caribou's future," said Gary Graves, Non-Executive Chairman of Caribou. "We anticipate the next chapter in Caribou's journey will be filled with tremendous opportunities to grow this great brand, with new ownership," said Michael Tattersfield, President and Chief Executive Officer of Caribou. "Caribou has a fantastic brand and unique culture, and fits perfectly with JAB's investment philosophy of investing in premium and unique brands in attractive growth categories like coffee," said Bart Becht, Chairman of Joh. A. Benckiser Group. "JAB is committed to investing in Caribou as a standalone business out of Minneapolis to ensure the Company continues its current highly successful track record." Under the terms of the merger agreement, an affiliate of JAB will promptly commence a tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Caribou's common stock at a price of $16.00 per share in cash. Following successful completion of the tender offer, JAB will acquire all remaining shares not tendered in the offer through a second-step merger at the same price as in the tender offer.
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Its a system that is often overlooked but is heavily used by certain industries such as the military. The fact is the whole unit can be flat packed and then as you can see in the picture the base and ceiling make up the transportation box with everything inside before being raised. Then the pillars form up on the edges before the slot walls go in. I worked on this style of construction for some time as well as the traditional "plywood" construction of modular structures such as classrooms. It was the shipping container system though that revolutionised the industry and I just wanted to show that this produced in a factory can give a very high finish and low cost installation. For me in the Philippines I know of a mountain that is for sale very cheap and could easily see these being sold down the side of it as low cost housing. Adding to the mountain top a large water gathering system as well as wind turbine and solar panels. Maybe a project for the future but when looking at shipping containers and modular housing remember that the modular frames of containers are built round the same size so mixing with shipping containers is possible for example using a framed unit in the photo without its sides welded to two 20ft containers either side with their sides cut out would give a room 24ft wide by 20ft long without too much effort.
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1. (Science: zoology) a genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Fishes, and sea hedgehogs.
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Cap'n Kirk WILLIAM SHATNER really IS a savvy negotiator, boldly amassing a $600 million fortune.
Shatner, 79, who once suffered the humiliation of living in his van after the original Star Trek series was canceled, is nothing but uber-rich today.
The former TJ Hooker and Boston Legal star wasn't getting big bucks in residuals from those TV series so just how did the Shat man do it?
The shrewd Shatner, in his 1997 negotiations with Priceline.com, scored a piece of the action – agreeing to take shares as part payment.
At first, shares plummeted during the dot-com bubble burst but over the past decade the firm's – and Shatner's – net worth has turned around and the firm is now worth nearly $300 per share!
While Priceline has not officially said how much Shatner is paid, Wall Street insiders have estimated his fortune at $600 million.
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Jamestown Muskies
Coach (season, record): Tyler Babcock (3rd season, 9-35)
2011-12 overall record: 3-19
2011-12 region record (place): 2-8 (fifth)
2011-12 playoff results: Did not qualify for the District 10 Class A playoffs.
Top players lost: Derek Mauser, Ronnie Artman
Top returning players: Alex Boyland, Ryan Livingston, Kyle Melton
Assistant coach: Scot Vannoy
Outlook: Jamestown has gone through a tough stretch over the past few years but the Muskies have the experience to break out this winter. Jamestown will have to replace Derek Mauser and Ronnie Artman, who graduated in the spring. The Muskies return three seniors in Alex Boyland, Ryan Livingston and Kyle Melton. All three are returning starters and will see significant minutes. In fact, one of the Muskies' glaring weaknesses could be depth at the guard position, making Livingston a key player that has to stay on the floor and up-and-coming sophomore Andrew Moss. Both could log a lot of minutes this year. Melton and Boyland will anchor the forwards whil sophomores William Graham and Todd Depree could step into varsity minutes right away. Jamestown is hungry to turn the program around this winter and playing smart basketball could be the key to doing so.
7-8 Jamestown tournament
12 at Mercer 7:30
14 Sharpsville 7:30
18 at Wilmington 7:30
27-28 Commodore Perry tournament
7 Maplewood 7:30
8 at Kennedy Catholic* 7:30
11 at Rocky Grove* 7:30
15 Commodore Perry* 7:30
18 at VisionQuest* 7:30
23 at Cochranton 7:30
25 Reynolds 7:30
29 Kennedy Catholic* 7:30
1 Rocky Grove* 7:30
5 at Commodore Perry* 7:30
8 VisionQuest* 7:30
12 Saegertown 7:30
13 Greenville 7:30
15 at Cambridge Springs 7:30
*Region 1 games
Coach (season, record): Allison Gordon (3rd season, 8-34)
2011-12 overall record: 4-16
2011-12 region record (place): 1-9 (tied for fifth)
2011-12 playoff results: Did not qualify for the District 10 Class A playoffs.
Top players lost: Cassie Schuhlen, Kylee Polley, Taylor Brooks
Top returning players: Isabella Greenawalt, Savannah Miller
Assistant coaches: Mike Seman, Greg Shirey
Outlook: Jamestown could go through a rebuilding year as the Muskies start looking toward the future. Jamestown graduated three seniors in Cassie Schuhlen, Kylee Polley and Taylor Brooks. All three were leaders on the team, while Schuhlen was voted to the all-region team over the past two years. She was the leading scorer last year while Polley was third. Sophomore guard Isabella Greenawalt is a returning starter along with junior point guard Savannah Miller. Greenawalt was the second-leading scorer for the Muskies last year, while Miller was a leader on the team at point guard. Both could play crucial roles on this year's team. Emily Robinson, Loghan Sankey and Mikayla Keyser are younger players that could step into big varsity roles right away. The Muskies are in a tough region but any growing pains they go through this year to build chemistry, could pay off down the line.
7-8 Oil City tournament
12 at Sharon 7:30
14 at Greenville 7:30
17 at Maplewood 7:30
27-28 Commodore Perry tournament
5 at Fort LeBoeuf 7:30
7 at Kennedy Catholic* 7:30
10 West Middlesex 7:30
14 Commodore Perry* 7:30
17 at Rocky Grove* 7:30
19 at Lakeview 2:30
21 at Reynolds* 7:30
24 Farrell* 7:30
26 at Sharpsville 2:30
28 Kennedy Catholic* 7:30
31 at Commodore Perry* 7:30
4 Rocky Grove* 7:30
6 at Wilmington 7:30
11 Reynolds* 7:30
14 at Farrell* 7:30
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Impending Doom Lose Two Founding Members
One of the most evil-sounding Christian metal bands, deathcore outfit Impending Doom, have announced the departure of two of their original members, guitarist Manny Contreras and drummer Isaac Bueno.
"Both of them felt like this was not for them anymore," said David Sittig, bassist of the Riverside, Calif. group. "It happened a while back before we entered the studio [to record our new album]. Not everyone can maintain the amount of passion that Impending Doom requires. That being said, we are still great friends with both Manny and Isaac and wish them both nothing but the best."
Ex-Mirror of Dead Faces drummer Brandon Trahan has replaced Bueno and recently finished tracking drums in the studio for the follow-up to 2009's 'The Servant Server,' which is scheduled for release this summer.
Impending Doom have not yet replaced Contreras, but Sittig said, "We have someone stepping in for our upcoming tours and summer festivals." The band's next show is March 27 at Bamboozle Left! in Anaheim, Calif.
In 2008, Impeding Doom had some Christians reaching for their crucifixes when they launched their repentagram logo, which looks like a symbol from Anton LaVey's 'Satanic Bible' or 'The Simon Necronomicon.' In actuality, the band wanted to create a Christian death metal symbol that represented good, not evil.
"First off, we are a Christian band and a 'real' one at that," said the band in a statement. "We would never put something out that had Satanic meaning or anything negative. We thought up the word 'repentagram' basically putting two words together. 1) 'Repent' (meaning: to feel such sorrow for sin or fault as to be disposed to change one's life for the better; be penitent.) 2. 'Pentagram (which, in the dark metal world, is a satanic symbol).
"Since we are a Christian death metal band we wanted to think up something clever; thus the repentagram came into thought. It is not the same amount of sides as a pentagram, we are going for making a Christian death metal symbol. Just like we created the word 'gorship' (which as you all should know, does not mean worship gore, it means worshiping God through our gore sounding music)."
At the time, they created the repentagram, Impending Doom were likely unaware that Slayer sound-alike Demiricous had a song called 'Repentagram' on their 2005 album 'One.' Also, if you believe their MySace, Repentagram is a satanic band from Queens, which dates back to 1998. The group recorded tracks like 'F— the Rules/Satan Is a Fact' and 'School Is for Dummies' for the never-released album 'Dark Fathers Instruction,' and claim that Impending Doom "will be punished on the altar of sacrifice."
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Rebecca's War Dog of the Week: Jeremy and Imi reunited at last
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This week U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Jeremy Vanhoose welcomed home, officially, his former partner, MWD Imi — or as she's otherwise described by Jeremy's mother, "the missing piece to Jeremy's puzzle of recovery."
While on patrol in Sangin Afghanistan last August, Vanhoose and his unit encountered not one but three IEDs. Imi alerted to the danger, but setting off the devices couldn't be helped. In the explosion Vanhoose lost his left foot and sustained "shrapnel wounds to the right leg, back, and head" and was medevaced from the scene. As soon as he was able, Vanhoose was quick to let others know that he didn't blame Imi for what happened saying, "she was onto something and I just took one more step."
Reported stories about this team are so far scarce, but the pair is said to have been a close one. Vanhoose was a steadfast handler who spent long hours training with Imi, a German shepherd, before their deployment to ensure they were as ready as possible. In almost three months of service the team is said to have had approximately two-dozen finds. It is a dedication and commitment that Vanhoose has applied to his recovery.
From what I gather from the personal and emotional account that Ms. Vanhoose gave in January to Silent Rank Sisterhood (a nonprofit organization devoted to offering resources and support to military families), after sustaining his injury Jeremy was told that he would be able to adopt Imi. It turned out to be a promise of support that was more complicated to secure than the family had anticipated. The question of whether or not Imi might have to redeploy surfaced after Jeremy returned to the States in September and the adoption became uncertain.
But Vanhoose's mother, Leisa, a self-described "proud Marine mom" led the charge, what appears to have been a tireless campaign of letter writing and rallying Internet support, to get Imi home to Jeremy. Efforts no doubt, which did not go unnoticed. Today, Mama Vanhoose thanked Jeremy and Imi's Facebook supporters — she estimates the page has reached some 247,574 users — for their well wishes, concern, and now the shared celebration.
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Now, I understand this isn't new, risque content in rap and hundreds of musicians say worse on wax daily. However, are these extremes necessary for artists at this level in their career? Their brand is pretty much cemented and bank rolls are all through the roof, meaning they have absolutely no reason to slang the pounds they desire here, let alone implicate themselves for things they're probably embellishing. So, what gives? Are these three simply trying to stay relevant, by attempting to maintain their street cred and not growing up on their records? Or, is this what Interscope wants? After how they've handled all the Chief Keef promo and carelessly pushed his underage vices, Jimmy Iovine purposely pushing poison to the masses shouldn't surprise anyone.
Whatever the reason, this will inevitably get mainstream play for the features and to boast sales for Fif's February 26th release date. So, it will be interesting to see if the mainstream public even buys into the record, or if these guys are just shitting on their morals for monetary reasons and nothing else.
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Sota Akiyama has had extensive experience at many fine sushi restaurants in California.
He began his career at Hapi Sushi in Laguna Beach and eventually started his own private chef company. This was followed by a stretch at Ozumo, training in San Francisco under "Iron Chef" Sho Kamio, and another with chef Katsuo Nagasawa.
Afterward, he became head chef at 930 Sushi. This was followed by a stint at the restaurant most critics think of as one of the finest, Nobu, before Akiyama opened his own restaurant, Sota.
His eponymous restaurant in Corona del Mar features "local and traditional Japanese ingredients with the freshest fish from around the globe." The space has the clean simple décor and tasteful sensibility of the Japanese aesthetic. There is a lot of dark wood, a stone wall with niches for candles, large abstract paintings on one wall and a long sushi bar where many chefs busily prepare delicious bites.
My dining companion and I shared the jumbo fried soft shell crab served with oroshi (grated white radish) ponzu sauce. The crab pieces had been fried to a crunchy crispness and the citrusy sauce provided the perfect foil. We followed this with one of our favorites: tamago. The layered egg omelet was soft and delicious with lovely sweet notes and a hint of tartness. A piece of black nori rested under each of the two pieces.
Of course, we had to try the sushi. We selected toro (fatty tuna) and hamachi (yellowtail). It was so nice to have some really good quality sushi since we have had too many lackluster slices of fish recently. This was the real deal, fish as fresh as can be, with subtle flavor and silky texture on perfectly sweetened rice.
From the section of special house rolls, we chose a popular favorite: the ma-g-de? This wonderful concoction was beautifully presented. The long roll was cut into sections, each with a piece of fried tempura shrimp in the middle along with snow crab and avocado. Each piece was topped with spicy aioli, a thin slice of spicy tuna and jalapeno, then finished with drizzles of sweet soy sauce.
I can see why it is a favorite. It was just wonderful with many layers of flavor and texture.
We also liked the tempura platter, consisting of three large white shrimp, crisp carrot sticks and zucchini. The tasty shrimp were not the least bit greasy, and they were nicely enhanced by the little pile of three mixed salts for dipping. The carrots were also good, but the zucchini was tasteless.
I was looking forward to the black cod on the entrée section of the menu. There are actually only two things to choose from in that category. However, our waitress announced that the restaurant was out of black cod, although it was only 7:30 p.m. I assume it just wasn't available that evening. She did offer me a second selection, which was a big piece of fried hamachi on the bone.
It was a poor second. The thick skin on the fish hadn't been crisped up, and most of it was rubbery and unpleasant. Also, the fish was largely bones and eating it required surgical extraction. It was hard to get more than little slivers of meat.
Since this dish wasn't on the menu, and the waitress was just trying to offer a substitute, I can't really say much more about it. It was the only thing we ate that really wasn't good, and it was not the best way to end what was otherwise a very delicious meal.
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A Disgrace of Our Society
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By AISHA ALI
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The Girl Child The Apple of One's Eye
The Curse of Foeticide
For What Offence was She Killed?
Strike a Balance between Body and Soul
Killing the Foetus A Third Class Mentality
Child Sex Ratio Declines at 'Alarming Rate' in Chhattisgarh Brisk business and non-deterrent PNDT Act facilitates 'latent' female foeticide!!
The Curse of Foeticide
Gender Crisis in India
Islam and Abortion Killing of Unborn Babies through Abortion is Prohibited in Islam!
Women's Mental Health in Relation to Induced Abortion
Abortion is Predictor of Breast Cancer
Physical Sequelae of Abortion
Physical Sequelae of Abortion
The Superior Rights of the Unborn Child in Islam
Statistics Related to Abortion
Killing Own Children for Your "Rights"?
Join Hands to Wipe out This Malady
Divine Care and Welfare of the Unborn Child
FEMALE FOETICIDE A Social Menace
Abortion Meets 21st Century Ijtihad
Women Power in Society
As one grows through the difficult experiences of teenage, enjoying the liberty of education, exploring the joys of womanhood, it is nauseating to know that someone will never feel the thrill of the first shower of rain, never breathe the air of freedom, will never be the person she could have been, without any fault of hers but only because she was a girl, a woman in the making.
One of the greatest threats to our contemporary civilization is the menace of skewed sex ratio. The increasing imbalance between men and women is leading to many crimes such as illegal trafficking of women, sexual assaults, polygamy and dehumanisation of society. These acts have been increasing, making this world unsafe for women. Female foeticide is one of the most nefarious crimes on earth; perhaps what is detestable is that the people who commit crimes belong to the educated class. Sex ratio in India is getting more and more disproportionate over the years. Unfortunately the educated and the elite still seem to consider their male child a status symbol, and thereby partake in creating an imbalance in the male-female sex ratio.
One tends to question, what effect do the media awareness programmes and different initiatives taken by the government and non-government organisations really have? Are they really effective in bringing about any change in the outlook of the society?
If not, where lies the loophole?
A baby girl tied in a polythene bag and dumped in a public dustbin left to be torn away by wild stray dogs. An incident that took place nowhere else but in the very capital of our country.
To cite a couple of more examples, of many, the recovery of pieces of bones of newly born female foetuses from a hospital backyard in Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh in February this year. And bodies of more than 100 foetuses found outside an abortion clinic in Pattran town in Punjab in August last year were both deplorable. Case histories like these should make us think a hundred times before we call ourselves citizens of a developed progressive nation of the 21st century trying to live with the illusion that we are at par with the developed giants of the world.
We have developed technologically, no doubt, but are we putting these technological developments in proper use?
Portable machines are taken to remote villages by motorcycles. As a consequence, infanticide has given way to foeticide.
Reasons for selective abortions are many, from carrying the family name forward, lighting the funeral pyre to hoping for a male breadwinner in the family. But the reason, which tops the list, is dowry – a price paid by the parents to marry off their daughters.
No society can survive without women. The practice of female foeticide is not only a violation of human rights but also puts a question mark on our integrity as humans. It stagnates our growth as people. If the patriarchal society has made the rules, then they can surely be reworked. Why do we need to have different attitudes towards men and women? Why can't they just be treated as individuals and valued for their worth?
Her every unformed limb is battling for her rights, her every stifled cry begs for freedom and her every unsung death mourns the dilatory demise of humanity.
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