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Mitochondrial phylogeography of the European wild boar: the effect of climate on genetic diversity and spatial lineage sorting across Europe
Vilaça, S.T., Biosa, D., Zachos, F., Iacolina, L., Kirschning, J., Alves, P.C., Paule, L., Gortazar, C., Mamuris, Z., Jędrzejewska, B., Borowik, T., Sidorovich, V.E., Kusak, J., Costa, S., Schley, L., Hartl, G.B., Apollonio, M., Bertorelle, G., Scandura, M., 2014. J. Biogeogr. 41, 987–998.
Aim Climate changes in the past had a deep impact on the evolutionary history of many species and left genetic signatures that are often still detectable today. We investigated the geographical pattern of mitochondrial DNA diversity in the European wild boar (Sus scrofa). Our final aims were to clarify the influence of present and past climatic conditions, infer the geographical position of glacial refugia, and suggest post-glacial spatial dynamics.
Location Europe.
Methods D-loop sequences were obtained for 763 individuals from Portugal to western Russia. Phylogenetic, multivariate and interpolation methods were used to describe the genetic and geographical patterns. Climatic suitability during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) was predicted using MaxEnt. The effect of present and past suitability on the observed patterns of diversity was evaluated by multiple linear regression.
Results We confirmed the existence of a ubiquitous mitochondrial clade in Europe (E1), an endemic clade in Italy (E2) and a few East Asian haplotypes (A), presumably introgressed from domestic pigs. No Near Eastern haplotypes were detected. Genetic divergence was not simply related to geographical distance. A clear south–north decreasing gradient of diversity was observed, with maximum levels in putative glacial refugia. Latitudinal variation in climatic conditions during the LGM was shown to be a good predictor of current genetic diversity. Moreover, an unexpected similarity between Iberia and eastern Europe was observed, while central European populations showed a higher affinity to the Italian gene pool.
Main conclusions The current distribution of mitochondrial genetic diversity was highly influenced by past climatic events, especially those related to the LGM, and is consistent with a major contribution of the Italian peninsula and the Balkans to the post-glacial recolonization of northern areas. More recent processes, such as restocking and extensive hunting, probably acted at rather local scales, without great impact on the global pattern of mitochondrial diversity.
Keywords Climate change, genetic differentiation, glacial refugia, Last Glacial Maximum, mtDNA, phylogeography, Sus scrofa.
Map showing the frequency of the three haplogroups (E1a, E1c and E2) in each of the 39 European populations (numbers indicate population codes).


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There's a war inside the military over how to treat a not-so-new enemy: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
"I've never had a guy in my unit develop PTSD," one senior general from Iraq told me. 'It's nonsense."
"You're only scratching the surface," of cases from this war, another senior general told me. "Keep looking."
Simply put, PTSD is what happens when you put a combatant in the pressure cooker of Iraq or Afghanistan, and tell him or her, "No matter what you see or feel, tough it out. Lock it down. Keep it to yourself." After multiple tours living on high boil, with no relief valve, some U.S. troops are breaking. Make that thousands.
The largest military employer, the U.S. Army, has rolled out new programs to teach troops what PTSD is, to try to reduce the stigma. It can be as simple as asking a patrol that saw something traumatic to talk about it out loud. That way, the incident on the battlefield gets tamed by a jawing session with your buddies, instead of becoming a nightmare that wakes you sweating at 4 a.m. with visions of the dead and maimed that won't leave you.
They also teach the troops what to watch for, as PTSD can show up as a host of different symptoms. People withdraw from their loved ones and become antisocial; or maybe go to the other extreme of promiscuity; or hide in drugs or alcohol; or fly into violent rage.
But more "traditional" military commanders believe PTSD is just a catchall excuse for someone who is too weak or too cowardly to serve.
They label them "malingering" trouble-makers, who need to shape up, or get out, lest they get someone killed on their next combat tour.
Veteran activists believe that attitude is responsible for an epidemic number of expulsions from the military. Some 22,500 troops have been kicked out since the start of the Iraq war for "pre-existing personality disorder" a psychological problem the military said the troops came in with, which allegedly surfaced in the heat of battle. That's up 40 percent since 2003. Another 5,500 were expelled for 'misconduct' like drug abuse — up twenty percent from 2003.
These diagnoses get the soldier off the battlefield faster than a medical discharge for PTSD, which can take months, according to writer Joshua Kors who conducted a year-long investigation of the issue for The Nation. "By discharging them with a personality disorder, not only do they prevent them from collecting disability or medical benefits for the rest of their lives, but they also get them out the door in just a few days."
CBS Evening News: Is The Military Neglecting PTSD Troops?
To add insult to injury, had to then pay back part of their sign-on bonuses, because they weren't able to complete their military service.
Read Kimberly's full piece over at our Reporter's Notebook section.

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Hello Ivan,
With your support I finally managed to get it working. The issue I ran into is that for categorized forums, the gridview is inside a repeater. This makes it harder to handle the events of the gridview. I managed to solve this by adding a handler to the grid in code behind. For other users that may run into the same problem I have posted my code below.
Kind regards,
Sub forumsRepeater_ItemDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.RepeaterItemEventArgs) Handles forumsRepeater.ItemDataBound
Dim item As RepeaterItem = e.Item
If (item.ItemType = ListItemType.Item OrElse item.ItemType = ListItemType.AlternatingItem) Then
Dim fman As New ForumManager
' Get the forums for this category
listforums = fman.GetForums(
listforums = fman.GetForums(
CType(item.DataItem, ICategory).ID, True)
' Get the grid inside the repeater
Dim inner As GridView = CType(item.FindControl("inner"), GridView)
' Add an handler so that each row can be checked (will fire for each row)
AddHandler inner.RowDataBound, AddressOf CheckGridRow
inner.DataSource = listforums
inner.DataSource = listforums
End If
End Sub
Private Sub CheckGridRow(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewRowEventArgs)
'Check if user is in certain role
If (UserManager.IsCurrentUserInRole("xyz")) Then
Dim fm As New ForumManager
Dim gvrow As GridViewRow = e.Row
If gvrow.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then
' Get the forum for the current row
Dim forum As IForum = fm.GetForum(CType(e.Row.DataItem, IForum).ID)
' Check forum name
If forum.Name = "abc" Then
e.Row.Visible = True
e.Row.Visible = False
End If
End If
End Sub
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Chile's former President Salvador Allende killed himself, a team of international experts has concluded after an exhumation of his body.
Allende died in 1973 as General Augusto Pinochet's troops were closing in on the presidential palace during a coup.
Chile's Legal Medical Service confirmed Tuesday that the cause of Allende's death was suicide, CNN reports.
While officially the leftist leader's death had been ruled a suicide — the story was that Allende committed suicide with a gun given to him by Fidel Castro — some of his supporters had long doubted the tale, and instead believed that he had been shot by soldiers, according to the BBC.
A judge had ordered exhumation of Allende's body from the family's crypt at a Santiago cemetery as part of a human rights investigation. The former president's body was exhumed in May.
(More from GlobalPost: Former President Salvador Allende to be exhumed in Chile)
"The analysis confirmed the cause of death established earlier, the manner of death (suicide) and the circumstances in which events happened in the context of the bombing of the La Moneda (presidential) Palace," the medical service said in a statement, according to CNN.
"We want to say, in clear and simple terms, that we have a great peace because this report concludes something that we had conviction in," Allende's daughter, Chilean Senator Isabel Allende Bussi, wrote on her website.
"And the conclusion that the Allende family has is this: That President Allende, on September 11, 1973, under the extreme circumstances that he lived, made the decision to end his life rather than be humiliated or to live any other situation."


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Police save 2 babies on busy Anchorage highway: Rarely do Anchorage Police officers get press for their random acts of kindness or for their service to Alaska's largest city. So we offer this: An avian ecologist at UAA got a helping hand, recently, from police officers who stopped to help her rescue a family of ducks in danger on Minnesota Drive. When two ducklings fell into a storm drain near the International Airport Avenue exit, 33-year APD veteran John Daily arrived with a ladder and saved them, the ecologist writes in this letter.
Yup'ik teen is martial arts champ: A teenager with roots in Kotlik, a Yup'ik village in the northern Yukon River delta region, emerged victorious at the U.S. World Open Martial Arts Championships at Disney World in early July. Thirteen-year-old Michael Martinez, son of Mary Yunak Martinez, won first place in three divisions in the competition, according to KYUK. Facing competition from around the world, Michael won world titles in Traditional Forms, Continuous Fighting, and Clash Sparring. Read much more.
Blockbuster local affairs? Judging by the new, epic trailer produced by NorthwestelTV for the Whitehorse City Council, the weekly meeting is the most dramatic three hours of television broadcast in Canada's Yukon, on par with "Law and Order" or "Degrassi: The Next Generation," and waaay more dramatic than CSI Toronto. What agenda items will council members approve this week? And who will vote "nay" for library funding? Stay tuned ... and check out the trailer, which has garnered 32,000 views on YouTube since Monday:
Drilling assistant perishes: Alaska State Troopers say a 26-year-old Anchorage man died at a job site near Chinitna Bay, located on the southwest side of Cook Inlet. Troopers received a call at 4:20 p.m. Wednesday from an operations manager with SAExploration, a geophysical services company that collects 3D data in Alaska, who reported the death of Brian Mitvitnikoff. Anchor Point-based troopers responded and discovered Mitvitnikoff had died while walking between drilling sites, and they said there were no "obvious" signs of foul play. Troopers' spokeswoman Megan Peters said his body was found off a trail at the bottom of a hill, and it's unknown whether he fell or descended the hill intentionally. According to Mitvitnikoff's Facebook page, he worked as a driller assistant for Clean Harbors. His remains were taken to the State Medical Examiner's Office in Anchorage for an autopsy.
Search continues for missing Anchorage man: Anchorage police report that the Alaska State Troopers have stepped in to aid in the search for missing 81-year-old Anchorage man Wallace Wilkinson Dunn, last seen a week ago attending a soccer game in midtown Anchorage. Dunn's truck was located Wednesday, "parked and locked several miles away from his cabin near Big Lake at the end of Susitna Parkway," police reported. Troopers searched trails and conducted a K9 search in the area around Dunn's truck on Wednesday. They planned to resume the search Thursday. Anyone with information is asked to call APD at 786-8900.
Gun seized at Kodiak airport: Alaska State Troopers reported Wednesday afternoon that a loaded .40 caliber handgun had been seized from a 26-year-old man attempting to pass through security at the Benny Benson State Airport in Kodiak. The gun was spotted by a Transportation Security Administration agent monitoring an x-ray machine in the passenger-screening area, and the weapon was found to have 16 rounds in the magazine, though none chambered in the weapon. The passenger was released, and Kodiak prosecutors will determine whether or not to charge the man with having a prohibited weapon in a restricted area.
Tragedy strikes PNWER: Sad news from the Pacific Northwest Economic Region conference, which is being held in Anchorage this week. Tim Malone, the husband of Washington state Sen. Karen Fraser, died in Alaska Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. Malone had traveled to Alaska with his wife, a PNWER conference attendee. The cause of his death is unclear. Malone was 78. He retired from the Washington Attorney General's office in 1989, where he worked as a senior assistant attorney general.


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I have a friend who gets shin splints mainly when running on the tredmill. Do you have any recomendations of a better form of cardio to prevent this or why this might be happening?
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I discussed shin splint causes, treatments, and prevention in response to another recent Ask an ACE Expert question. It could be that whenever your friend runs on a treadmill, she goes too fast or too far for her training level, doesn't warm up adequately, or isn't wearing appropriate footwear for this activity, all of which increase her risk for shin splints.
Jumping, running, and other high-impact activities are usually the culprits with shin splints. Low- and no-impact activities place less stress on the lower body, reducing the likelihood of developing this painful condition, but still offer a way to work out at a moderate-to-vigorous level. Assuming your friend is currently symptom-free, she could include the following in her exercise plan — outdoor or stationary bicycling, swimming, and low-impact group fitness classes; using stair climbers, ellipticals, and rowing machines. Brisk walking is another great cardio exercise that helps strengthen the anterior and posterior tibialis muscles located in the lower leg — the muscles that typically hurt when you have shin splints.
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A 12-year-old whose battling cancer wanted to bring cheer to other hospital patients so she used her birthday as an opportunity to give back.
A Georgia teacher who is already facing charges for allegedly molesting a 15-year-old has now been charged again in connection with the alleged assault of an 18-year-old student.
President Trump rescinded Golden State Warrior Stephen Curry's invitation to the White House after the star player said he doesn't want to go.
A Kentucky woman was arrested after allegedly leaving her child inside of a hot car as she shopped, reports said.
A former model, whose conviction in a murder-for-hire case was overturned last year, says she was found guilty in the first place because her attractive appearance and sexy outfits turned jurors against her.
Experts are calling attention to the global plight of gorillas, a species that is rapidly facing extinction in the wild, with the first-ever World Gorilla Day on Sunday.
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In 1998, San Diego City Schools launched one of the nation's most ambitious efforts at urban school reform. Superintendent Alan Bersin, former U.S. District Attorney for Southern California and President Clinton's "border czar," sought to reinvent the teaching and organization of the nation's eighth largest school district. In June, Bersin's stormy tenure will draw to a close. He departs as the longest-serving of the nation's big-city superintendents.
When first hired, Bersin named Tony Alvarado, former superintendent of District #2 in New York City, to serve as head of San Diego's instructional and curricular program. They moved aggressively to promote a strategy of coherent, uniform instruction drawn from Alvarado's work in Gotham. That agenda sparked sharp conflict with the San Diego Education Association, reflected in a persistent 3-2 split on the school board.
Bersin's administration enjoyed some visible successes. Between 1999 and 2004, the percentage of San Diego elementary schools scoring at the top rung of the statewide Academic Performance Index increased by more than a third, the number of schools in the bottom category fell from 13 to one, and the racial achievement gap narrowed. However, more disappointingly, middle school and high school achievement stubbornly failed to improve and some observers questioned the rigor of the district's curriculum, Alvarado's approach to teaching, and Bersin's handling of the union.
Bersin's departure provides an opportunity to ask what we have learned from his highly visible and often contentious tenure. To explore that question, and with the district's full cooperation, last year I assembled a team of analysts to examine the San Diego reform push. For me, five key lessons emerged from their appraisal.
First, the centralized, "managed instruction" model of improvement depends critically on the presence of a personnel and managerial infrastructure and on quality curricula. Alvarado gave unstinting attention to his centerpiece "Institute for Learning" training program for principals and faculty, and to building a corps of "peer coaches" to assist teachers. But his single-minded focus on these activities resulted in a lack of attention to infrastructure and curricula. As a result, the coaches, the Institute, and attempts to assign faculty where needed most ran afoul of the collective bargaining agreement's provisions on professional development, staffing, and teacher transfers. A balky human resources operation reliant on outdated technology inhibited district efforts to speed up hiring or promote more flexible staffing.
As for curriculum, despite seven years of diligent work developing a carefully calibrated professional development model for literacy, by 2004 the district still had not promulgated a coherent curriculum for reading and English. Consequently, while teachers were using the prescribed methods, there was too little attention to the quality of content. Some critics believe that the absence of a rigorous, clear curriculum helps to explain the district's apparent successes in elementary reading and accompanying failure to produce similar results in the more content-centered middle school and high school grades.
Second, Bersin strengthened his hand in pursuing reform by embracing statewide accountability (and later NCLB) metrics. He welcomed the "imposition" of the California Academic Performance Index, using it to identify troubled schools and target professional development and resources. However, Bersin's reforms on this front never reached their full potential. Moves to transfer or remove staff were stifled by work rules, while a 2002 fiscal crisis sapped funding intended for low-performing schools. The San Diego effort on this front is less a "success" than an example of what it will take to develop a focused strategy for improving chronically troubled schools.
Third, San Diego shows how dramatic efforts to improve high schools may conflict with other popular reform strategies. In 2004, when the district adopted a high-school reform model that featured a "portfolio" of smaller, more personal schools, it created tensions with the district's six-year-old emphasis on centralized, managed instruction. Allowing faculty to modify curricula to fit the mission of "specialized" high schools and giving them a voice in curricular choices, and the resulting inability to standardize content, means that mentor-coaches encounter math, English, or science teachers in a dozen small schools who may teach a dozen different curricula in a dozen ways. Coaches could mentor all of these teachers on pedagogical technique yet encounter great difficulty applying uniform, consistent guidance on instruction or content.
Fourth, relentless political leadership is part and parcel of being an effective district leader. Some thoughtful observers have asked if Bersin's style was unduly confrontational. What such critiques tend to downplay is that an effort to reimagine radically the way a district does business is bound to spark conflict. One could argue that Bersin would have been more apt to forge a cooperative relationship with the local teachers' union had he proceeded more slowly. But even in his unusually extended seven-year term, Bersin didn't accomplish all he had hoped. Moreover, his approach threw a spotlight on board votes and helped him hold together his 3-2 bloc for nearly seven years. So, we should be skeptical of suggestions that he could have fared much better merely by being kinder and gentler.
Finally, perhaps the most important lesson from San Diego is how limited the prospects are for radical improvement in urban public education absent structural change to personnel systems, technology, accountability, leadership, and compensation. For all their sweat and struggle, Bersin & Co. found their efforts to build the workforce they wanted stymied by statute and contract language. An outdated information system meant the district had to try to build on the fly the tools it needed to enable serious improvements to school accountability, human resource management, and budgeting. Bersin began his tenure with multiple advantages, including dazzling local and national contacts, personal charisma, a facile mind, polished negotiating skills, impeccable public service credentials, and a deft fundraising touch. If the legacy of his seven-year run is in doubt, the San Diego experience illustrates, above all, that even the boldest attempts to overhaul urban schooling are today undermined by the same institutional and organizational failings that they are intended to address.
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Organization branches out and donates for tree plantings
Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:54:29 GMT —
A nonprofit organization that clones some of the world's oldest and largest trees has donated hundreds of them this month for Earth Day and Arbor Day plantings.
Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is growing thousands of genetic copies of "champion trees" at its propagation facility in Copemish. Among them are clones of the oldest and largest coast redwoods and giant sequoias.
Students at the Interlochen Center for the Arts planted 26 of the clones. Oryana Natural Foods Market in Traverse City distributed 1,200 cloned champion willows and dogwoods, while Northwestern Michigan College gave away 250.
Champion tree plantings also took place in Brandon, Ore., the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and at Pippingford Manor and Tamworth in the United Kingdom.


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adding plugins in OSX
I'm very new to ardour, and not a super computer geek, so be gentle.
I'm running Ardour on OSX and want to add autotalent LADSPA plugin. where would I find/create the directory to copy the plugin? i've got 3 different usr/lib/ directories and no ladspa directory. Do I need to install something to create that directory, it will not let me create my own...?
any help will be appreciated.
For OS X you can do one of a couple of things...
System wide installs of LADSPA plugins go in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LADSPA
But if you want to, there is a folder in the Ardour.app bundle(Right click and click 'Show Package Contents') and you can copy it there if you only want it available for one install of Ardour(Useful for testing)
I added it in that folder. I had to create the LADSPA folder...and it didn't show up in ardour...is there something else i need to do?
What precisely did you add(filename and how/where you obtained it) and where precisely are you looking in Ardour?
I am running ardour 2.8.11 on Leopard.
I am trying to add the autotalent.so plugin
I copied it to a new LADSPA folder in the plugins folder, and also tried adding it to the bundle.
I am completely new to ardour, so I have never installed any other plugins before...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Shytor,
If you are on OSX, you might prefer to start with AudioUnits plugins.
AudioUnits are the 'native" plugin formats for OSX. There is a much wider range of plugins available, and they usually have a nice GUI that is easier to use than the generic sliders that LADSPA's give you.
AudioUnits plugins often come with installers and/or better instructions than LADSPA plugins, so they are easier to install (it's the same process for any AU plugin host, such as Logic or Garageband)
All that said, if you drop your ladspa ".so" files into the /usr/local/lib/ladspa folder, they should show up in the redirects area of each track. If not, you might want to look at the output from Applications/Utilities/Console to see if there are any clues why the .so didn't load.
Hope this helps!
What platform(Intel/PPC), what version of OS X, etc.? And where exactly in Ardour are you looking for the plugin to appear? This last question is important as many people look in the wrong place at first in Ardour for the plugin to appear. See below for reference...
Also can you open up a Terminal window (Applications>Utilities>Terminal.app) and type in the following command? You will then need to copy and paste the output to here for me so I can see it....
file /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LADSPA/autotalent.so
If you can surround the output of that command with CODE tags when you paste it back here it would be great, thanks.
file /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LADSPA/autotalent.so/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LADSPA/autotalent.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), not stripped
Ahha, that is why Ardour is not loading autotalent. Your version was compiled for Linux x86_64, not for OS X. You need a version compiled for OS X. There is a slightly out of date AU version of that plugin out there that would work as well as Ben suggested, but if you can get the LADSPA compiled for OS X that will also work. However the exact compiled file you have will not work on OS X.
I can't seem to find one compiled for OSX...do you have a link?
Not off hand no, I can't remember what, if anything, I had to do to compile it here, and am unsure on how stable it is on top of that. However you can find the AU version of it here...


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Minnesota reserve guard Chip Armelin will transfer, clearing the way for star forward Trevor Mbakwe to return for a sixth season.
The sophomore averaged 5.2 points coming off the bench for the Golden Gophers and had a career-high 20 points in the regular season finale against Nebraska. But he played just 19 total minutes during the team's four-game NIT run.
"Chip has been a valuable part of our program for the past two seasons," Minnesota coach Tubby Smith said in a statement. "He has done everything we have asked of him and we are grateful for his contributions to this program on and off of the court. We are sad that he has elected to leave but certainly want to wish him the very best."
Armelin played in all 38 games this season for the Golden Gophers and averaged 2.1 rebounds and 13.7 minutes played per game.
The transfer means the Gophers now have a scholarship for Mbakwe. He missed most of last season with a torn ACL, but was granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA.
Mbakwe has not officially announced his plans for next season. He could also decide to declare for the NBA draft. Coach Tubby Smith and Mbakwe have said recently that he is leaning toward returning.


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After launching its website four months ago, Chow Locally, an online marketplace for local food, has evolved from a volunteer-driven project to an award-winning business that is looking to revolutionize the way people buy local food.
The "Amazon.com for local foods," which allows shoppers to view food available from about 20 Valley farms and vendors, preorder their selection online and pick up the products at a nearby farmers market, was recently named Next Great Business by the National Bank of Arizona and awarded $10,000, said co-founder Christopher Wharton.
"It was a pretty good victory," said Wharton, adding that Chow Locally won by more than 1,500 votes. After submitting a 90-second promotional video into the competition, National Bank of Arizona selected 10 finalists and opened up voting to the public for two weeks to determine the winner.
Using the prize money, Chow Locally plans to develop a citywide community-supported agriculture program that would allow customers to not only order specific products through the website but also offer the option to purchase boxed ready-to-cook meals that include local ingredients, nutrition fact sheets and recipes with accompanying video cooking demonstrations.
"We're trying to make it as utterly convenient as possible to be able to use local foods and be able to eat in a healthy way," said Wharton, who is also an assistant professor at ASU's School of Nutrition and Health Promotion on the Downtown campus.
At the end of the day, the meal boxes will be delivered to businesses where customers work – providing workplaces with the option to set up a prepaid payroll deduction program for the meals – and will also be sold at the three farmers markets where Chow Locally distributes orders weekly, Wharton said.
After its initial launch Chow Locally exclusively distributed products from the downtown Phoenix Public Market, but quickly expanded to the Ahwatukee Farmers' Market and Scottsdale Old Town Farmers' Market.
Cindy Gentry, the founder and executive director of Community Food Connections, the nonprofit that operates the Phoenix Public Market, said she was approached by Wharton to establish a mutually beneficial partnership between the market and Chow Locally.
"He is a very progressive thinker; he's a friend of mine and he talked about how it could really help lift up Chow Locally to a lot of customers at one time," Gentry said. "It's a draw to get new customers to the market who might be coming to pick up a box, but they've never been there before."
Latoya Wilson, 32, of Phoenix, said she started using the website after seeing Chow Locally featured on the news and made sure to include her parents and brother in her visit to the Phoenix Public Market.
"The quality is really good and they know a lot about where the food comes from," said Wilson, a massage therapist. "It's been a great experience. It's starting to be more important to me and my lifestyle to pay attention to my health and this is a great way to do it."
Gentry said the partnership has also helped increase the transparency of the market because Chow Locally offers additional information and video footage of vendors the business collects products from to ensure the farm has acceptable growing practices.
"Knowing that if Chow Locally has verified a farm and if we've done our best to go out and verify a farm, then we really are not only walking our talk, but we're telling truth in advertising that we're a true producers' market," Gentry said.
Wharton and co-founder Derek Slife, a former software engineer for Insight, combined their mutual interest in eating locally and individual knowledge of nutrition and working with ecommerce to develop the company, which has grown to include two part-time employees.
"It's a way that we can hopefully grow the demand for local food," Slife said. "Once people see how easy it is and see that it's an alternative to driving down to the grocery store – that you can get something that's fresher, that's better for you, that's better for the local economy, better for your health – by just going to a website, double-clicking and picking it up the next Saturday."
By taking a small commission of each order made on the website, Wharton and Slife have been reinvesting the majority of the company's profits into expanding the business. The ultimate goal for Chow Locally is to turn the business model into a "franchise" by exporting the model to other locations, Wharton said.
"We'll start to expand and go Valley-wide and if we can continue to prove out the model, at least in this area, then we can look to see well can we actually move this to other areas in Arizona," he said. "Can there be a Chow Locally L.A. or a Chow Locally Boston?"
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Diana Nesheva
Diana Nesheva received her M.S. degree in solid state physics from Sofia University, Bulgaria in 1976. In 1982, she received her Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 2009, she defended a Doctor of Science thesis entitled "Nanostructured thin films containing semiconductor materials (CdSe, Si, Se, Se-Te)." Presently, she is an Associate Professor, the Head of the Division Nanophysics in ISSP. She is mainly interested in single layers and two-component systems including two- and zero-dimensional inorganic semiconductor materials (multilayers and superlattices from amorphous and nanocrystalline II-VI, Si, Se, Ge-S(Se) as well as semiconductor nanoparticles from these semiconductors embedded in various matrices), investigation of size-induced effects in the electron and phonon subsystems, structure and structural stability, optical, electrical, and photoelectrical properties by applying X-ray diffraction, electron and scanning probe microcopies, Raman scattering, photoluminescence, optical absorption, and DC electrical measurements. She was among the main organizers of the biannual International School on Condensed Matter Physics in the period 2000-2010 and a Member of the International Scientific/Programme Committees of SSC 2006, ICANS23 2009, biannual ANC-1 2001 to ANC-4 2009. She was a Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials. Presently, Nesheva is a Member of the Advisory Board of the journal Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications.
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A Plague and a Blessing in My Empty Nest
September 25, 2017,
In the early stages of cervical cancer, surgery is usually the preferred primary treatment approach. Not all women are candidates for all surgical procedures.
Surgery procedures by stage are:
Loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP), also called large loop excision of the transformation zone (LLETZ), uses a high frequency electrical current to cut away diseased tissue.
The procedure is done in one office visit. Extensive and deep sections of damaged tissue can be effectively removed in this visit. Disease can be cured in one treatment. When used for dysplasia, it appears to be as effective as more invasive procedures.
Laser surgery for cervical cancer uses a laser beam, in place of a knife, to burn off abnormal cells or to remove pieces tissue for biopsy. The laser beam is directed through the vagina.
Conization is a surgical procedure that removes a cone-shaped piece of tissue from the cervix. Conization uses either a heated wire, like LEEP, or it may involve a scalpel or laser (in which case the procedure is sometimes called "cone knife cone biopsy"). The surgery is performed under general anesthesia in an operating room. With conization, the ability to become pregnant can be preserved in most cases.
A hysterectomy attempts to eliminate the cancerous tissue by removing the uterus. In women of childbearing age, the ovaries can usually be left intact. Although a woman who has a hysterectomy but retains her ovaries cannot bear children, she will not go into premature menopause.
Women with cervical cancer usually have either a total (simple) hysterectomy or a radical hysterectomy.
Total Hysterectomy . A total (also called simple) hysterectomy involves the removal of the uterus and the cervix, but leaves the parametrium (tissue surrounding the uterus) and vagina intact. Lymph nodes in the pelvis are not usually removed. The uterus may be removed through an open abdominal incision or vaginally. There are various ways to perform vaginal hysterectomy, including laparoscopically. A simple hysterectomy is usually performed to treat stage IA1 cervical cancer.
Radical Hysterectomy . A radical hysterectomy removes not only the uterus and the cervix but also the parametrium, the supporting ligaments, the upper vagina, and some or all of the pelvic lymph nodes (a procedure called lymphadenectomy). The fallopian tubes and ovaries are not usually removed, (a procedure called bilateral-salpingo-oopherectomy) unless there are other medical reasons for doing so. Radical hysterectomy is used to treat cervical cancers in stages IA2, IB1, and IB2.
Pelvic Exenteration . If the cancerous tumor recurs within the pelvis after primary treatment, the patient may need a more extreme procedure called a pelvic exenteration , which combines radical hysterectomy with removal of the bladder and rectum. (In such cases, plastic surgery may be needed afterward to recreate an artificial vagina.)
Recovery . Hospital stays for simple hysterectomy range from 1 - 2 days for vaginal hysterectomy to 3 - 5 days for abdominal hysterectomy. Total recovery time is generally 2 - 3 weeks for vaginal hysterectomy and 4 - 6 weeks for abdominal hysterectomy. Radical hysterectomy generally requires a 5 - 7 hospital stay and about a 6-week recovery period.
Side Effects . Side effects include difficulty emptying the bladder or bowels and a painful lower abdomen (if an abdominal incision was used). Normal activity, including intercourse, can be resumed in about 4 - 8 weeks. The effects of hysterectomy on sexuality vary among women. Some women note a change in their orgasmic response because they no longer experience uterine contractions.
Once the uterus is removed, menstruation will cease. If the ovaries are removed, the symptoms of menopause will begin. These symptoms are likely to be more severe in surgical menopause than in natural menopause. The patient should discuss the benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy with her doctor.
For some women with stage IA2 and stage 1B cancer, radical trachelectomy may be a fertility-sparing alternative to hysterectomy. Radical trachelectomy involves removing the cervix, surrounding lymph nodes, and upper part of the vagina. The uterus is then reattached to the remaining vagina.
Radical trachelectomy was first introduced in 1995 and is a relatively new, and complex, procedure. Surgeons must be highly trained to perform it, and doctors must be selective about choosing women who are appropriate potential candidates. Patients must meet strict criteria in terms of lesion size and lymph node involvement.
Radical trachelectomy does pose a high risk for miscarriage during future pregnancy, but about half of women who have had this procedure have been able to carry a baby to term. The baby is delivered by cesarean section.


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Verses with the word shadow in the Apocrypha (6 verses):
2 Esdras 2:36
Flee the shadow of this world, receive the joyfulness of your glory: I testify my Saviour openly.
2 Esdras 2:39
Which are departed from the shadow of the world, and have received glorious garments of the Lord.
Wisdom of Solomon 2:5
For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.
Wisdom of Solomon 5:9
All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post that hasted by;
Sirach 34:2
Whoso regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.
Baruch 1:12
And the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favour in their sight.


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Finance, law and growth during transition: a survey
This paper surveys the economic literature on the links between finance, law and growth in the Central and Eastern European transition countries. The literature that is surveyed at the outset of the paper shows that if a financial system is based on an adequate legal system it can positively contribute to economic growth. However, the financial system in CEE appears to have been restrained in making such a contribution. The theoretical and empirical results discussed further on in the paper partly ex-plain this by showing that privatising is in itself not enough to improve the functioning of the local banking systems. An adequate legal and institutional environment proves to be a necessary condition as well. The insufficient quality of institutions has manifested itself in the continuation of soft budget constraints for (formerly) state- owned enterprises combined with credit rationing of small and medium sized private enterprises. During the last years, formal institutions have been upgraded remarkably fast in some countries. In principle, this has improved the operating environment of many financial institutions. However, such "paper" improvements turn out to have only a limited effect as long as the en-forcement of the new laws and the rejection of corrupt practises have not yet reached the level of an average market economy.
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It wasn't long after she noticed the effect her dreamy paintings had on viewers that Emmeline Craig knew she wanted a gallery of her own.
They entered her Bolinas studio "in a buzz," Ms. Craig recalled of her visitors, "and their shoulders would drop and their body language would change."
"I adored that," she said.
Now, the French-born artist, who opened the Blissful Gallery less than a month ago in Stinson Beach, is seeking to draw attention to what she describes on her website as "a place where reverence for life is the primary form of art."
The gallery, located on Highway One at the site of the former Healing Arts store, is currently exhibiting artwork from across the region ranging from fused-glass tableware from Pamela Brody Heine, an artist from Bend, Ore., to intricately designed glass sculptures by Alexis Berger, a Berkeley craftswoman, that "are like out of a fairy tale," Ms. Craig remarked.
It also features more than two-dozen paintings—ranging in price from $25 to $2,500—by Ms. Craig, whose use of oil and watercolors creates otherworldly and warm compositions reminiscent of surrealist art.
Often depicting spacious landscapes, her paintings seek to "remind people that there is a space inside…where we can feel secure."
Ms. Craig moved to Bolinas from her hometown in Provence, France, in 2000, shortly after she met her late husband, Buddy Craig.
She offered exhibitions in her art studio in Bolinas, where she worked as a cashier at the Coast Café until 2008, when she decided to focus entirely on painting.
Her work has appeared in businesses and galleries across West Marin, including the Bovine Bakery and the Red Barn in Point Reyes National Seashore, and at art festivals and galleries in and around the Bay Area.
The Stinson Beach gallery is the latest development in Ms. Craig's career. She hopes her paintings will offer a refuge, if only momentary, from anxiety and uncertainty, which she acknowledged she acutely feels some days as an independent artist.
"There are days when I'm wondering how I'm going to make it through the month," she said.
But Ms. Craig sees her role less as a source of income than as an opportunity to lead viewers to "reconnect with what is real," and she is not anxious about the future of her gallery.
"I imagine the [gallery] is going to find its own place and is going to find its own rhythm and pace," she said late last week. "It's going to go as far as it can go, as far as the world wants it to go."
A grand opening for the Blissful Gallery will take place this Saturday, January 26, from 2 to 4 p.m. To learn more about about Emmeline Craig's work and her gallery, visit emmelinecraig.com.


text: Revealed for the First Time! Secrets of Paper Animation A Hands-On Workshop With Ed Hutchins Saturday, January 12, 2008 (Snow date: January 13) 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The information isn't secret. What is secret is what happens unnoticed between the pages. We'll start by making simple moving words and pictures and then work our way up to interconnected mechanical parts that make text and illustrations wiggle, slide, pop, drop, rotate, and jump off the page. We'll learn not only how illustrations can be animated, but also how text can move to direct and re-direct the reader's point of view. Finally, we'll take all our action pages and assemble them into the most engaging book you've ever created. Come and join the fun. As a book artist, Ed Hutchins has taught, lectured, curated shows, directed book arts programs and crafted editioned books while traveling across the U.S.A., Canada and Mexico. In 1989 he began Editions, a work-shop for producing artist book multiples. Full day workshop only $65 Reservations required Chadwick Bindery 213 Route 375 West Hurley NY 12491 (845) 679-6707 ************************************** See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) *********************************************** The Bonefolder, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2007 is Now Online at <http://http://www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder> For all your subscription questions, go to the Book_Arts-L FAQ and Archive. See <http://www.philobiblon.com> for full information ***********************************************


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Jessie Ralph was an American stage and screen actress, best known for her matronly roles in many classic motion pictures.
She was born Jessie Ralph Chambers in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1864. She made her acting debut in 1880, at the age of sixteen. She made it to Broadway, where George M. Cohan cast her in many of his musicals, but she also excelled at dramatic roles. Although she made her Hollywood debut in 1916, she only became a permanent Hollywood actress in 1933. She was nearly 70 at this time, so her roles were restricted to those of dumpy old ladies, but her expertise at stealing scenes captured the imagination of cinema-goers of the time. Her best-known roles are as Greta Garbo's maid in Camille, and as W.C. Fields' battleaxe of a mother-in-law in The Bank Dick. She starred in 55 movies altogether, 52 between 1933 and 1940.
She retired in 1940, after her leg was amputated, and she died 4 years later at the age of 79. She was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her husband, Bill Patton, was a bit- part actor in Westerns.


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Recent News for Eye and Ear Problems
Advances in Equine Ophthalmology
November 02, 2012
Treatment and research breakthroughs help to wage the war against equine vision problems.... Read More
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November 01, 2012
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Many horses recover well from cataract surgery and retain vision in the affected eyes.... Read More
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It might have the same name, but equine glaucoma is a different animal than human glaucoma.... Read More
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October 15, 2012
Many noninflammatory uveal abnormalities cause little to no discomfort or vision loss for the horse.... Read More
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October 14, 2012
Disorders involving the horse's orbit and periorbita are less common than problems involving the eye itself.... Read More
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Basic comprehension of equine vision can help owners better understand why their horses act the way they do.... Read More
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Equine eyelid disorders are common in horses and many can have favorable outcomes with treatment.... Read More
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After losing an eye in a stable accident, the Swedish dressage horse Santana made an Olympic-sized recovery.... Read More
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April 14, 2011
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February 25, 2011
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It's been a while since my last post - the dust from the RTM release has settled and I hope to get back to blogging regularly. In this post I plan to talk about some of the changes we made to reduce the # of merge conflicts you will get.
1. Rename / Undelete roots are no longer conflicts - in TFS 2005/2008 all renames, undeletes were conservatively marked as conflicts. This is no longer the case. Renames / Undeletes will be merged automatically.
C:\temp_dd\ws\testing>tf rename main\file.cs main\file-rename.cs
C:\temp_dd\ws\testing>tf checkin /i
Checking in rename: file-rename.cs
Changeset #66 checked in.
C:\temp_dd\ws\testing>tf merge main feature /r
merge, rename: $/proj/testing/main/file-rename.cs;C66~C66 -> $/proj/testing/feature/file.cs;C65
2. In a previous post I had talked about how a resolution of keep yours / accept merge in 1 direction would result in a conflict in the opposite direction. We have changed the default behavior so these are auto-resolved.
C:\temp_dd\ws\testing>tf merge main feature /r
Conflict (merge, edit): $/proj/testing/main/file-rename.cs;C68~C68 -> $/proj/testing/feature/file-rename.cs;C68
C:\temp_dd\ws\testing>tf resolve /auto:keepyours
Resolved C:\temp_dd\ws\testing\feature\file-rename.cs as KeepYours
C:\temp_dd\ws\testing>tf checkin /i
Checking in merge: file-rename.cs
Changeset #69 checked in.
C:\temp_dd\ws\testing>tf merge feature main /r
merge, edit: $/proj/testing/feature/file-rename.cs;C68~C69 -> $/proj/testing/main/file-rename.cs;C68
If you want the old behavior, there is a flag to instruct the merge engine to be conservative about resolving such conflicts:
C:\temp_dd\ws\testing>tf merge feature main /r /conservative
Conflict (merge, edit): $/proj/testing/feature/file-rename.cs;C68~C69 -> $/proj/testing/main/file-rename.cs;C68
So that leads to the question, what are the conflict rules for 2010:
a. A file has a change (edit, rename, encoding, delete, undelete) both in the source and target
b. The merge is baseless, and you are propagating a change (edit, rename, encoding, delete, undelete)
c. You are merging from a point which is not the point of your last merge. An example of this is a cherry pick merge.
C:\temp_dd\ws\testing>echo 44444 >> main\file-rename.cs
C:\temp_dd\ws\testing>tf checkin /i
Checking in edit: file-rename.cs
Changeset #71 checked in.
C:\temp_dd\ws\testing>echo 5555 >> main\file-rename.cs
C:\temp_dd\ws\testing>tf checkin /i
Checking in edit: file-rename.cs
Changeset #72 checked in.
C:\temp_dd\ws\testing>tf merge main feature /r /version:c72~c72
Conflict (merge, edit): $/proj/testing/main/file-rename.cs;C72~C72 -> $/proj/testing/feature/file-rename.cs;C69
This simple example often throws people off and here is why: The reason is that all content merging in TFS is done on the client, the server only handles simple conflicts, in this case the resolution of the conflict requires creation of new content (i.e. a file without lines 44444 in it and only 5555 in it). The mechanism we have to resolve this is to file a conflict and let the client merge tool handle it.
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Florida softball begins quest for NCAA title today
The Florida softball team begins NCAA Tournament play today vs. Hampton in the NCAA Tournament Gainesville Regional at the Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium on the University of Florida campus.
The Gators and Hampton will play at 6 p.m. today, while USF will play Georgia Southern at 3:30 p.m.
Florida is the No. 2 national seed and is trying to return to the NCAA Super Regional after being eliminated by USF in Gainesville last season. Prior to that, the Gators had been to four consecutive Women's College World Series.
"I think we're in a good position," UF coach Tim Walton said. "We've prepared really well this week. We're excited and fired up to get back home again. We're not putting any more pressure on them than they already put on themesvles. We're concentrating on just going out and playing, doing what we've done all season."
Florida enters regional play ranked second in the nation in win-loss percentage (.881), second in fielding percentage (.980), eighth in ERA (1.78), ninth in scoring (6.73 runs per game), 14th in homers per game (1.34) and 15th in slugging percentage (.524). Junior pitcher Hannah Rogers ranks sixth in the country in victories (29), 11th in shutouts (9) and 22nd in ERA (1.59). Freshman second baseman Kelsey Stewart has nine triples, including 0.15 per game, which ranks third in the nation.
"We're excited," Stewart said. "But we're not going to try to go out and do anything different that what we've been doing, because that's what's been working. We're going to stick to the plan, which is just play hard, play solid defense, try to get good hits and get better every day. We're taking it one game at a time."
The winner of the Gainesville Regional will play the winner of the Louisville Regional, featuring the No. 15 seed and host, Louisville (46-11), in addition to UCLA (37-18), UAB (37-16) and IPFW (32-14). The highest remaining seed will host the NCAA Super Regional round.
Kelsey Horton, a Valrico grad is one of only two seniors on this young Florida team. Horton said despite the team's youth, there is a unique chemistry that has bonded the team and led to the unexpected success.
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Last night, September 9, 2013, forty-eight years to the day after Koufax's perfect game, Dodgers third baseman Juan Uribe came one swing away from etching his name in history as well, and for something that is even rarer than throwing a perfect game – hitting four home runs in a single game, which has happened only 16 times in MLB history.
Uribe, who ended his night going 4 for 4, hit solo home runs in the second, third and fifth innings, two off of Diamondbacks right-hander Randall Delgado and the third off of left-hander Eury De La Rosa. In his fourth and final at bat of the night Uribe singled on a hard grounder to D-backs third baseman Eric Chavez, thus coming one home run shy of immortality.
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|Sport, 1 pitch, 95'
|YDS: 5.12b French: 7b Ewbanks: 26 UIAA: VIII+ ZA: 26 British: E5 6b [details]
|F.A.: Ken Trout in Feb. 1994. F.F.A.: Henry Lester in April 1994. Finished added (F.A. of entire route) by Mark Rolofson in July 1994
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|Richard M. Wright on Mar 30, 2001
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By richard magill
Oct 2, 2002
|4 stars on a 3 star scale.
By Anonymous Coward
Jun 9, 2003
|The climbing is fun and the hand holds are good, but the feet are rather slippery. I dont reccomend trying this route in warm weather even if its in the shade, but it is a great route. It is worth the hike!
By Joe Collins
Sep 19, 2003
rating: 5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b
|Best mid-5.12 and under sport climb in the Canyon? Two 5.12 cruxes with a good shaking hold between them. Lots of other mid to hard-5.11 cruxes.
By Chris Archer
Oct 28, 2003
rating: 5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b
|Sport climbing in Boulder Canyon doesn't get much better than this route and Hot Flyer.
By Ken Cangi
From: Eldorado Springs, CO
Jul 26, 2005
rating: 5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b
|Don't miss this one.
By Kevin Neilson
From: Boulder
Sep 7, 2008
This is a superlative route. I have made it my goal to redpoint this route; if I do, I shall be able to retire from climbing and life. The route is very aesthetic, on a nice granite face with the starkly-delineated pink dike running throughout, yielding many crystalline holds.
The extension brings the pitch closer to a full 30m, but contains much easier climbing and is still fairly dirty. It can be skipped.
The route begins to receive sun shortly before noon.
After working through the 5th-bolt sequency crux many times, I can provide some beta: clip 5. Do not go right to the dike; on this path lies only despair. Put left hand on L-facing arete; bring R foot down to ramp directly underneath you. Lieback to R; get L foot high and left to very small edge. Crank up on arete and L foot to get 2-finger undercling flake with L hand. Move R foot higher up ramp. Get R hand high to diagonal crimper. R foot higher. Match L hand to crimper. In a balancy move, reach R to sloper under 6th bolt. Switch feet, clip 6 with L.
By Mark Wiranowski
Nov 1, 2009
rating: 5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b
|Fantastic climb - best I've been on in Boulder Canyon. Great cold weather climb - gets the sun around 11 am until sunset. Nice suntrap in the corner. 1st clip is reachy if short - consider a stick clip. Can skip the 3rd bolt.
By eric larson
From: aurora, co
Nov 8, 2010
rating: 5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b
|This feels like the Front Range 12b benchmark... absolutely stunning route... stoked to check out the two other highly rated 12s @ this wall.
By Ken Trout
From: Golden, CO
Aug 25, 2013
rating: 5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b
A few days ago, a new climbing friend was questioning me about the name of this route. I thought to check and see if Richard had covered it and found not. After all, who would know the story behind the name of Plan B? Most names have no story at all.
Actually, my friend had been out climbing with Mark Rolofson a lot and was more like: "So Ken, is it Plan B because you couldn't do it and went elsewhere?"
No! It was Mark and Henry's Plan B. Plan A was to sneak into the Flatirons and try "Slave to the Rhythm", but the first ever spring bird closure was in effect and a ranger found them. They were sent packing back down the trail.
Mark knew I had bolted something big. I even told him it would be cool if a bunch of other people would do the route so some chalk would build up on the holds. I was sick of grubby, dirty, first ascents. At the time, there was nothing else in Boulder Canyon with millions of bolts. Mark convinced Henry that the best alternative plan for the day was to head up and do the route before me. I wrote the song, and they played it first.
By Andy Hansen
From: Longmont, Colorado
Nov 12, 2013
rating: 5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b
|This route is essentially 3-4 awesome boulder problems linked with OK rests between. Super fantastic and well-protected route. Bakes in the sun and is actually kind of slippery if not below 50 degrees.
By drewhouser
Oct 12, 2014
rating: 5.12b/c 7b+ 27 IX- 27 E6 6b
|Wow, what a fantastic line that just doesn't let up until bolt 6 and even then isn't a gimme! I definitely agree that this is a temperature dependent route. I gave it a near onsight at 50 degrees in the shade, and 30 minutes later at 60 degrees and in the sun it felt much more difficult. I'll have to go back to get this one.
By Mark Rolofson
Feb 27, 2015
rating: 5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b
Plan B has been one of my favorite climbs since it was established in 1994. It is always a super pump with fun moves. Here are the first ascent facts: F.A.: Ken Trout in Feb. 1994. F.F.A.: Henry Lester in April 1994. Finished added (F.A. of entire route) by Mark Rolofson in July 1994. Most people still stop at the first anchor. I find the finish, even though not as hard, rounds out the pump. It climbs the entire 95 ft. face rather than ending it on a slabby section. Ken was using 50 meter ropes so it made sense to put the anchor here.
Now I would like to make one very important correction to Ken Trout's comment. Yes, the name comes from being our Plan B of the day. However, Henry & I were not planning on SNEAKING into the Flatirons to climb Slave To The Rhythm on the East Ironing Board. In fact, until that very day, the East Ironing Board was never closed. I used to climb here in Spring 1991-92 until I redpointed Slave To The Rhythm in June 1992. Henry had not yet redpointed the route but was close in Spring 1994.
At the time, the Third Flatiron's Southwest face was closed for a prairie falcon. When it was discovered that a peregrine falcon was nesting there, an emergency closure was put in place. We & other climbers were turned around by a ranger at Bluebell shelter. The peregrine was on the endangered species list at the time, so the seasonal closure was expanded to include the Third Flatiron & everything for a 2 mile radius. It still is this size even though the peregrine falcon was delisted in 1999.
My point here is that even though I am a strong critic of both seasonal closures of the Security Risk & the East Ironing Board, I have never violated or attempted to violate any raptor closure. In fact, such actions reflect negatively on the entire climbing.
By Jeff Welch
From: Denver, CO
Aug 8, 2015
"Relentless" is right on. I don't think there's a single move easier than about 5.11d for the first 60ft or so. Fantastic climbing.
I won't put a grade vote in until I redpoint it, but I'll say this: it's for sure every bit of 5.12b, and felt harder than many 12b's I've tried in Rifle, RRG, etc. In fact, having just been on Ten Digit Dialing a couple weeks ago, I'd say the hardest move on Ten Digit is harder, but this is more sustained.
By Brett S.
From: Colorado
Dec 1, 2015
|Maybe my favorite mid .12 sport climb in the Front Range. For real, this climb is just about as good as a single pitch route can get. Very solid at the grade.
By Aaron Furman
Jan 6, 2016
|What a route!!!!
By michalm
From: Boulder, CO
May 22, 2017
|The climbing to the 2nd anchor is great... and there has Mussy hooks to lower from. It is obviously not climbed much judging by the lichen, but get on it.