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Pikes Peak Climber's Log
HokieJim - Feb 11, 2009 11:56 pm Date Climbed: Feb 7, 2009West Fork
Loved it, beautiful scenery on this route
shknbke - Feb 11, 2009 4:47 pm Date Climbed: Feb 7, 2009Via West Fork/descend Crags
I have a goal of climbling Pikes in every month via a variety of routes. The West Fork is a gem. I would say it is the most scenic approach next to Bottomless Pit. We took advantage of the dry winter with a long winter day. I would highly recommend this as a loop route with descent of the Crags, but there is some private property to avoid. See TR.
Wiktoria Plawska - Jan 24, 2009 2:51 pm Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2007Rocky
Rocky snd Rubbly, was not the most pretty mountain i haave seen. The devils playground was much better and the rock formations were beautiful.
jdm2lpm - Dec 8, 2008 1:20 am Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2002Cheated
I cheated and drove to the top when I was stationed at Peterson AFB, CO. If I were there again, I would hike Barr Trail.
kavak - Oct 31, 2008 9:59 am Date Climbed: Oct 24, 2004Via Devils Playground
I took a friend from Idaho up the road to Devil's Playground. Since the rocks in that area are the high point of Teller County, we did that first and then on up to Pikes Peak. It was fitting first 14er for her.
silversummit - Oct 4, 2008 12:04 amBeen up there 2x
on the cog rr. The first trip was with my son who was too little to hike up and the second was this past summer when I was with a group and we only had three hours to spend there. I am determined to hike the next time I am in Colorado Springs even if it takes me two days!
HokieJim - Aug 23, 2008 3:45 pm Date Climbed: Apr 19, 2008Y Couloir
Right branch, exciting finish, great friends to climb with!
Pivvay - Aug 21, 2008 11:13 am Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2008Summit from Crags in the clouds
This was our 3rd trip to the mountain (2 winter attempts, 1 summit for me) and our first summit with Chris and Marni together for #15 (and Turbo #13). Low clouds all the way made the Devil's playground really cool although we hurried for the 3 miles or more above treeline before storms started booming. Long day as we hiked 5 miles extra at the start up to Crags and on the dirt road because I'm an idiot.
Pivvay - Aug 21, 2008 10:52 am Date Climbed: Feb 22, 2007First Winter 14er Summit
Climbed with Rob. Started Friday night late after work and topped out early Saturday AM via the Barr Trail in plenty of new snow and wind. Lots of fun in a small storm. Weather started to clear out on our way down and the sun came out.
Brandon Fuller - Aug 19, 2008 6:32 pm Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2008Epic Marathon
Ran the Pikes Peak Marathon for my summit. Snow was flying at the top in August!
chicagotransplant - Aug 11, 2008 9:49 am Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2008Last ranked 14er
Climbed solo via the Crags with "Devils Playground Peak". Met my family (who drove) at the summit to celebrate my final ranked 14er in Colorado. We had taken the Cog up when I was 16 months old, so this was a fitting ending to this chapter of my climbing. Definitely the weirdest summit experience with all of the tourist facilities up top.
Dean - Aug 2, 2008 6:43 am Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2008With my wife
My wife's first 14'er and we also picked up the Teller County highpoint to make the day a two fer (county highpointing) and the second ultra for me in two days as I did Elbert the day before.
Sierra Ledge Rat - Jul 18, 2008 12:37 am1991: N Face Couloir
Early season ascent of the N couloir with Duane "Buzz" Inderdahl
tomlauren - Jul 14, 2008 9:48 pm Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2008Barr Trail
Hiked the Barr Trail with an overnight in national forest near Barr Camp with my friend Keith. Had a cheeseburger and hot pretzel on the summit.
thehans - Jul 12, 2008 7:10 pm Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2008LONG
Hiked up the Craigs and then descended the Barr Trail. The Barr trail lasts forever and most of it is in the trees. Very bad descent. I hate the Barr Trail.
BeginnerClimber - Jul 5, 2008 1:49 pm Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2008Crazy day at altitude
For the first time in seventeen 14er summits, I got altitude sickness, and I got it BAAAAD. Was feeling horrible, getting very sick on trail above 13000ft, and actually collapsed on the trail. Eventually made it up with the help from some friends (THANK YOU!!!)
Not surprising, though, I summitted Huron Peak the very next week and had no issues whatsoever. Soooo, hiking Pikes for the second time (first time back in July, 05) and getting altitude sickness must've been a fluke.
friday - Jun 28, 2008 1:12 am Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2008My Daughter and I's first 14'er
I climbed this with my 11 y/o daughter from the parking lot at the Devil's Playground. We got off to a very late start, after 1 PM. Since both her and I were not acclimated to this altitude, we were moving a slow pace. Whenever we did take breaks, I was usually occupying myself with fixing/enlarging some of the rock cairns. But when we noticed lightning starting to crack off in the distance, we attempted to make a lot faster pace. With lightning seemingly getting closer, we were very delighted to see my wife's SUV waiting in the parking lot.
WyoNative - Jun 22, 2008 8:05 pm Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2008Summited via Crags Campground
Absolutely GREAT hike with amazing views..... I had a plane to catch out of Denver at 8 pm that evening, but ended up summiting and descending with plenty of time to spare. Left trail head at 9 am, summited at 1220 pm, returned to trail head by 230 pm. No wind at the summit.....Clouds were building as I descended. There was minimal snow on the trail. Perfect conditions!
Summited again with my husband 8/18/08.....This time, conditions were not as nice......Heavy fog and snow near the summit hid the upper trail on the Crag Route, and we ended up summiting via the road.
thebeave7 - Jun 9, 2008 12:07 pm Date Climbed: Jun 8, 2008Run up the Barr
Got a late start from the Barr Trail TH, just before 9a. Cruised up the incline(boy is that thing steep), and up the Barr Trail. Trail conditions are great, very minimal snow, two 100ft patches at 13K, then small spotty patches from 13500ft to the summit. Clouds swirled all day, but nothing too threatening after the morning wind storm(60mph+). Made it in just over 6h RT.
ktiffany22 - Jun 8, 2008 1:32 pm Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2008Crags
Jim and I led a church trip of 12 people up the Crags route- 7 of them Summited a 14er for the FIRST-TIME! There were 20-30 mph sustained winds with gust of 40-45 at times which was crazy, but we still all summited and had a blast! This time (my 4th time summiting Pikes) I ate fries at the top:-)


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Photos, the dhal recipe (failure) I used, and rationale for this can be found here.
I'm entering it for the May vegetarian competition if I'm allowed to - considering that a large part of the ingredients is someone else's recipe.
Fritter Recipe (will need to be adjusted according to the wetness of your dhal)
1 cup left over dhal
1/2 cup chickpea flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
Mix everything together and drop in tablespoonsful onto a hot oiled griddle. Turn when bubbles rise to the surface.
Pancake recipe
Add sufficient milk to the fritter batter to make a runny pancake batter (about 1/3 cup?). Mix well. Pour 1/2 cup at a time onto a hot oiled griddle or frying pan. Turn when the surface is almost dry. Roll as soon as it's cooked, with filling of your choice.
Muffin recipe
Add sufficient chickpea flour to the fritter batter to make a thick batter that will drop slowly from a spoon. Mix well. Fill silicon muffin or cupcake cases with the batter, then microwave on medium for 1 1/4 minutes per muffin. Or you could bake in a hot oven until cooked.
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They look great, Bronwyn, and a good save on a dish that went awry! I must say I have trouble with dhal from time to time. I've always found Rose Elliot's recipe for simple dhal reliable, but if I try others or try to wing it I seem to lose the stodge and it just becomes thin and runny, like yours did. :(
Rose Elliot's one is one here: http://community.cookinglight.com/showthread.php?t=42515 plus a few others.
I think it may be the recipe then. The amounts of lentils look similar, but your recipe has about half the water that mine did.
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Some grapes languish in total obscurity while others suffer an even worse fate: ignominy. Lettie Teague joins Lunch Break to offer a defense of the Chenin Blanc, arguably the world's most noble yet most discredited grape. Photo: Getty Images.
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"Look at our specially built kitchen!" says the lady who will be introducing me.
I look. It's a kitchen in a trailer.
The only food demos that I've ever seen are at shows like The Real Food Show, with slick shiny modern mini kitchens built around islands where women hoisting canvas goodie bags crowd around smouldering Italian chefs like Giorgio Locatelli. Chefs today are Donny Osmond for the middle aged. Only the screaming has turned into scoffing. But this kitchen is one up from a caravan.
I've decided to demonstrate three simple dishes which are, hopefully, interesting but easy so I won't get too flustered.
They are:
- Cooking scallops and fennel on a pink Himalayan salt block
- Marmite palmiers
- Asparagus mimosa with edible flowers.
I put the brick in the oven straight away as I knew it'd take about an hour to heat up. "Not that one!" shouted a hovering chef "that one doesn't work. Use the other". I just hoped the other oven was working.
I'm going to set everything up now, I thought nervously. I look in the bag of ingredients. I asked for puff pastry, in a roll. It's in a block. I look for a rolling pin. There isn't one. In fact, looking around the trailer kitchen, I realise that neither is there washing up liquid, oven gloves to take the salt brick out, tea towels, or...knives. There isn't any flour to roll out the pastry either. I'm starting to shout a bit. I'm looking like a prima donna 'I simply can't work in these circumstances!'
"Is this normal?" I mutter to the PR from Harper Collins who has accompanied me. "Is this how Jamie started out?"
"Yees" she drawls "but normally they do have knives"
"If only they'd told me I would have brought stuff with me"I look at the nice lady who brought us.
"I'm sure I asked for puff pastry on a roll. Then I wouldn't need a rolling pin or flour" I said to her, rifling through my memory of emails exchanged.
I try again "Do you sell pastry on a roll here in Kenilworth?"
"Ooh yes. We have very good supermarkets here"She looks at me sympathetically "The trouble is, the lady that did your shopping never cooks, she knows nothing about food"
Choking back a 'then why the fuck was she asked to do the shopping?' I ask "What shall I do? Use a wine bottle?" They'd given me a bottle of wine as a present for coming. My first food demonstration is starting to look ropier by the second. This is turning into a cookery version of Spinal Tap.
At that, they went out to buy some flour and found a rolling pin.
Two chefs in whites, who looked greasy and exhausted, were backstage, ie.standing on the grass next to the trailer, with me. "I've just come off a 16 hour shift" said one. "I'm the head chef at the local Holiday Inn, but I'm letting my sous chef do the demo, he's more confident. Any help you need, let me know"
The demo with the sous chef was starting, so I asked the head chef to thinly slice the fennel, boil me two eggs for the mimosa and roll out the pastry. He blended into the background, whereas I would have stood out, in heels and shocking pink, prepping away behind the other demo.
My moment is drawing closer. I'm given a headphone mike as a local camera crew is filming it. I feel like Cheryl Cole, about to do a dance routine. I realise that my every breath and utterance will be broadcast to the entire festival. Must. Not. Swear. I tell myself.
I start by taking the salt brick out of the oven with the hastily purchased oven gloves. It's hot, but not really quite hot enough. I dig the scallops out of the fridge and place them on the brick, explaining brightly to the audience about how you don't have to season when cooking on salt bricks. The scallops are making a puddle. They are cooking too slowly.
Meanwhile, I put the asparagus in a griddle pan and soften them in butter and hot water. I'm talking. I don't know what I'm saying but I hear laughter. The audience are with me it seems.
I hand out some of the scallops. "What do you think?" I perkily ask the audience.
A shrivelled lady in the front says "they are too salty".
I grimace, try to explain.
I take the rolled out pastry and spread Marmite on it. I roll it into a palmier shape and display it to the audience. The head chef, who is assisting me, cuts it into slices and puts it on a baking sheet into the oven.
I have a massive burn on my forearm. I tell the audience that this is how you can tell someone who cooks for a living. The head chef holds up his arms, they are blotched with repeated burn scars. I wonder if I'm impressing this small town audience with our displays of Anthony Bourdain style hard-core Apocalypse Now cheffery.
I dish up the asparagus, pile the grated egg onto it, and decorate with viola flowers, a recipe from my book. It's handed round, there are approving nods. I smell burning.
I open the oven and half the Marmite palmiers are burnt. The chef, who was supposed to be keeping an eye, bows his head. Still, I'm grateful for his support. Much easier to do a demonstration with a sidekick. I'm a lurid Fanny to his Johnny.
I hand round the palmiers. I ask for questions. I get some applause. 'Johnny' gets more applause. I sit down next to a pile of books, sell one or two and sign a bunch of others. A signed copy is a sold copy. One man with thick glasses, a combover, and wearing an anorak is looming silently.
"Hi, is there something you wanted to ask me?" I say to him finally.
He starts, droning like a serial killer: "I heard you on the wireless yesterday" He means Woman's Hour. I look at him, actually beneath the terrible clothes, he's about 50. Why is he saying 'wireless'? No one has used that word since the 50s. It's pure affectation, designed to draw attention to his basic weirdness. He's still talking, I'm nodding politely. The PR from Harper Collins steps in 'I'm afraid Ms Rodgers has an interview'. I've waited all my life to hear phrases like that.
"Thank god you broke that up" I say to her.
"I figured I'd give him a minute and a half then get you outta there" says the PR.
It turns out that the local film crew want me to do a little interview. An orange male 'presenter' with dyed blonde hair, a thinner Ollie Smith, asks me a few questions. At the end I say, 'How was my demo?'
"It was great, it was just like an ordinary person talking. You weren't doing all that rapid chopping like chefs. It felt like anyone could do the recipes."
I think that was a compliment?


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Party 7 (US - DVD R1)
Gabe Powers assumes his invitation must have been lost in the mail...
Yakuza punk Miki checks into the remote New Mexico hotel to hide out after stealing a case of gang loot. Not long after, Miki's old flame Kana and her new, geeky boyfriend Todohira show up to collect on a debt, and are soon followed by Miki's elder gang brother Sonoda, who's looking for the stolen money. Meanwhile, shy peeping tom Okita hides out in a secret room built by the mysterious Captain Banana, where both watch the entire proceedings
Tailor made Japanese cult features can burn like napalm when you believe the hype. Too often the back of the box and first ten minutes of film are the only morsels of effectively quirky entertainment, leaving the viewer to languish in listless, culture-shocked weirdness for the other eighty or so minutes. Party 7 opens with a guy urinating endlessly, then cuts into a semi-Jarmusch inspired argument between two bell hops, followed by an utterly insane animated credit sequence from director Peter Chung ( Animatrix: Matriculated, Aeon Flux). What seems like a good start can often become tragic.
Writer/Director Katsuhito Ishii has the pedigree, but with movies like Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl he's also proven guilty of not closing the deal. SSM&PHG is downright fabulous in parts, but really sags in the middle, and the dialogue can be obnoxiously overstated. Party 7, too, slows to a crawl at points in the centre, but mostly redeems itself during the open and closing minutes. Ishii's consistency is a bit more even this time around, and though the film's about ten or fifteen minutes too long, the overall feel is rather brisk.
The Jim Jarmusch comparisons run thick through both films, but are especially gelatinous here. Besides the hiring of a Jarmusch alumni (Masatoshi Nagase), and the hotel setting, both recalling Mystery Train, Party 7 also shares structural similarities to Jarmusch's work. The ensemble approach is one that Ishii handles pretty well, though the character's relationships to one another are easy to confuse and forget (this is perhaps as Ishii intended). The film's overall apathetic nature is another Jarmusch analogue, though impassive behaviour is a common trait in this brand of Japanese humour, which juxtaposes the dry with the bawdy.
There are some genuine attempts at drama, but most of these fall short in favour of Ishii's lunatic sense of style. The subtle humour is amusing, but it's usually the big physical gags and long set-ups that gain the biggest laughs. Ishii's no Miike, Tsukomoto, Kitano, or even Kitamura when it comes to over-the-top overload, but his whimsical use of crank speeds and skewed angles can be a blast if you're in the right mood.
Party 7's meagre budget is made clear in its generally clean visuals, and eight years isn't a very long time for a film to earn a lot of dirt and artefacts, but this transfer is still reasonably remarkable. Ishii's lighting is often purposefully understated, and during the bulk of these darker scenes details can be lost, and colour noise is more obvious. The grimy hotel room is the common offender on this level. Captain Banana's 'lair' is water themed, and thus mostly made up of blues and whites, which can be a little smoky. Though blacks are nice and deep, and whites full and bright, the film's overall contrast is lacking, making for a slightly flat look, but this can likely be blamed on the original material, not Synapse films.
Really all you'll need to hear from this incredibly aggressive Dolby Digital 5.1 track is the opening title animation, which is one of the more impressive music and effect only tracks I've heard in a very long time. Every channel is effectively utilized, engulfing and destroying the listener. The throbbing music and cartoony effects let up a bit when the live action kicks back in, but even during the film's quietest, dialogue driven moments the stereo and surround channels crackle with strange ambiance and impossibly exaggerated foley. The track's spatial representation and the discretion of the channels are both very impressive.
The special features start with an interview with writer/director Ishii (who looks like he's about fifteen years old), which is a fast paced affair, with a wriggling camera, unnecessary edits, and music and clips from the film. Ishii is thoughtful and warm, and only takes a few pauses when thinking about the softball questions. He praises his actors, describes the film's genesis (which started as a short film shot in New Mexico), his philosophy on filmmaking (entertainment is king), among other things for about seventeen minutes.
'The Making of Party 7' runs about twenty minutes. It features raw behind the scenes footage, brief on set interviews (taken between set-ups apparently), and snippets of film footage. The whole thing has almost no editing order, and the featurette appears to be a glorified EPK, but it's a mostly effective peek into the process of low-budget filmmaking, and it doesn't linger too long.
The disc also features an alternate ending, which doesn't change the film's plot or anything (it's just a different note to go out on), and a storyboarded version of the film. I'd prefer an alternate angle option, because though the storyboards are fun, it takes a special kind of fan to sit through an hour of them. Things round up with a teaser, two trailers and two TV Spots.
Though it never lives up to its inspired Peter Chung credits, Party 7 is a fun indie, with colourful characters and visuals. I don't recommend it without some reservations, and don't see it converting anyone intimidated by humorous culture shocks. The extras are a bit middling, but the Dolby Digital surround is an awesome blast.
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Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
That cover promised me a screen cap that never materialised...
Simon Abrams Member Join Date: June 2005 Location: United States Posts: 710
I'm excited to see this came out with my knowing it....ha.
I love Katsuhito Ishii's "Funky Forest" and "The Taste of Tea" so this is one acquired taste I look forward to.
I love Katsuhito Ishii's "Funky Forest" and "The Taste of Tea" so this is one acquired taste I look forward to.
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This reminds me of Tank Girl for some reason....
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
Chris Gould wrote: That cover promised me a screen cap that never materialised...
That shot and costume doesn't exist.
That shot and costume doesn't exist.
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
I hate it when that happens. Lured in by promises of cute Japanese girls in skimpy underwear, then nothing!
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Disc Details
Release Date: 29th April 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Japanese
Subtitles: English
Extras: Making of, Director Interview, Alternate Ending, Trailers, TV Spots, Storyboard Version
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Katsuhito Ishii
Cast: Yoshio Harada, Masatoshi Nagase, Tadanobu Asano, Yoshinori Okada, Tatsuya Gasyuin
Genre: Comedy and Crime
Length: 104 minutes
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Double Reed Festival, Low Brass Day and Saxophone Festival
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The Wright State University Double Reed Festival is an event that brings together double reed players from throughout Southwestern and Central Ohio. The conference is a full day of new ideas and exchanges of knowledge geared towards the needs and interests of high school students, private studio teachers, and amateur double reed players. The day will include:
*Classes covering concepts of performing, reed adjustment, the English horn and contrabassoon, and literature with separate offerings for students & adults.
*The WSU Double Reed Festival is for high school and college students, amateur and professional players, and private studio teachers
*Cost of the event is $30 This covers all masterclasses, recitals, and events of the day.
*Everyone should bring an instrument and participate in the clinics and workshops.
*All festival events will take place on the campus of Wright State University at the Creative Arts Center.
For more information on the WSU Double Reed Festival or to be a vendor for the day contact:
WSU bassoon instructor Bill Jobert at email@example.com
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Visit the website at: www.wright.edu/music/double-reed/index.htm


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[The group finally reaches Sharn, and discovers plague has befallen the tower of Tavick's Landing. Residents of the tower have either been quarantined or evacuated. While searching for Urlev in Sharn, Ahti is visited by a blue robed mage, named Arcanis, who tells him it is time that he learn the secrets that his master Malharath possessed and more. Ahti dismisses the mage's ramblings.]
[The group locates Urlev in Skyway after a brief stop at a House Tharashk enclave. Urlev is glad to see Vhorgaash's return. He is also relieved to learn that he has found both Ahti and Morthos, one of whom is fated to be the One Tortured By Shadow. Urlev tells Ahti that his mentor Malharath perished after contracting a fatal plague as a result of his combat with the wraith Allaantia. Urlev speculates that the plague which recently hit Sharn just days ago, means Allaantia has likely found Urlev and is somewhere in Sharn. He has made arrangements to travel west to the Shadow Marches and hopes to receive protection from House Tharashk Triumvir Maagrim. He intends to leave at dawn.]
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Monday – April 2nd, 999 YK
[Over the two weeks, the group rides through Yadvin's Expanse, Breland's vast country plain. It is spring, but the land looks withered and ill. They ride pass several farms and see malnourished livestock, failed crops and blight.]
[On the fifteentth day, the group witnesses another Syberis shard fall from the sky. Later that same evening, while the party sleeps, Morthos is visited by a eerie vision. He sees the shadow of a female tiefling and goes to investigate. He is shocked to see that tiefling looks nearly identical to his long dead mother. She introduces herself as Sraosha, his mother's name. She also calls herself the Seeker of Ruin. He greets her wearily. They discuss many things, but Morthos learns she is not happy that he has abandoned his proud tiefling heritage. She is deeply disturbed by his transformation into a Revenant. After their brief conversation she disappears.]
Sul – Therendor 15th, 999 YK
Sunday – March 15th, 999 YK
[More Siberys shards continue to fall from the skies.]
[The groups rides west stopping at a small hamlet not far from the Mournland's borders. While there they are met by another stranger. A woman named Selia, the Merciful. She too takes an interest in Taveah. Taveah permits Selia to bless her child. She becomes angered when the group mentions Iannar and warns Taveah to stay away from him. Selia disappears without a trace.]
[The group presses forward to Vathirond. Once there the find the Haruspex Assembly headquarters, or at least its remains. The building has been razed to the ground. Vhorgaash suggests to find a House Tharashk Enclave in hopes of learning what has transpired and the location of Urlev, the Gatekeeper who sent he and Kerrik to Farlnen to find the one tortured by shadows.]
Wir – Therendor 4th, 999 YK
Wednesday – March 4th, 999 YK
[While camping in the Nightwood Forest the party is greeted by a mysterious stranger named Iannar, the Tempest. He calls himself a Child of Eberron and takes a peculiar interest in Taveah and her child. By morning the stranger vanishes.]
Zor – Therendor 5th, 999 YK
Thursday – March 5th, 999 YK
[The party reaches the border of the Mournland. The mist is cold to the touch and smellz of death. The dead gray mist coats everything with distilled despair. The group is unnerved to learn that the mist has spread and encroaches on the Karrnathi border. As the group enters the mist, another Siberys shard falls overhead.]
[The party traverses the strange deadland. Thousands of soldiers lie as if they had died mere moments ago on whom were once the battlefields of baltered Cyre. The dead, or their spirits, sometimes rise to continue fighting the war. Rampant arcane energy has mutated the monsters that live and hunt here. Those same arcane forces shape unnatural weather and deadly terrain, and sometimes take on a semblance of life itself.]
Mol – Therendor 2nd, 999 YK
Monday – March 2nd, 999 YK
[The group leaves Lord Torin's chambers and makes their way out of the prison via the underground. They eventually reach the Low District Ward in Korth and find a curio named Rare and Exotic Leaches. Once inside they are met by a halfling woman who takes them below to a secret and heavily fortified lair.]
[Waiting for the group in this lair is Thraxis, brother of Miklos.]
[Thraxis tells the group that Miklos heard of their capture and enlisted his brother's aid. They also learn that Thraxis has been operating in Korth on behalf of the Trust. Zilargo is keenly interested in the recent increase in Karrnathi military activity.]
[Thraxis tells the group that a halfling woman named the Midwife will assist them in getting out of Korth. She is a master forger and can provide new identities for all… for a price of course.]
[Initial discussions about how to escape Korth are had. Thraxis suggests avoiding the main roads and border checkpoints in Karrnath. The new identities will be fine outside of Karrnath, but the group's profile is too high in the nation. The Mournland is one of the proposed escape routes.]


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The nation's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) announced the decision to temporarily restrict US turkey meat and turkey meat supplies yesterday.
The development follows the move temporarily banning pork and beef, pork and beef raw and pork and beef finished products by the organization on January 30.
Repeated warnings
That was after repeated warnings following continual breaches of Russian rules banning ractopamine's presence in food and feedstuffs. All restrictions take effect from February 11.
Yevgeny Nepoklonov, deputy head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, wrote to Ronald Jones, assistant administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the US Department of Agriculture, expressing deep regret about the situation.
"The situation is aggravated by the fact that the US continues exportation of meat containing ractopamine residues, which are detected during laboratory monitoring of the imported product safety," wrote the Rosselkhoznadzor in a statement.
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"Failure of the American party to supply reliable ractopamine free meat results in undue additional costs spent by the Russian members of foreign trade on disposal, recycling or re-export of products non-compliant with the safety requirements.
"The Rosselkhoznadzor repeatedly notified the US Competent Authorities that in case of their failure to take necessary measures temporary restrictions on importation of some types of meat products from the US would be considered.
"Alongside with that the Rosselkhoznadzor required official guarantees that finished meat products imported into Russia were manufactured from ractopamine free raw meat produced on the US establishments approved for exportation to Russia and other [Eurasian] Customs Union countries. No reply to the request has been received by the Rosselkhoznadzor."


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SALEM, Va. – The Old Dominion Athletic Conference has announced that Washington and Lee University has claimed the 2011 Dan Wooldridge Overall Sports Champion Cup for the eighth-straight year.
The cup, sponsored by Farm Bureau Insurance, is presented to the school that exhibits the best all-around athletic program in the conference. Points for the Commissioner's Cups are based on regular season standings in team sports and championship team finishes in individual sports. Each institution has a total number of possible points they can collect based on their individual sport sponsorship. The total number of points earned is then divided by the total number of possible points in order to come up with a ranking for each institution.
The Generals accumulated 144.0 points of a possible 188.0 for a 0.766 rating in claiming the trophy for the 15th time in the 17 years that it has been awarded. Lynchburg College collected 130.0 points of 184.0 for a 0.707 rating to finish in second place.
Washington and Lee also claimed the women's sport trophy for the eighth year in a row with a 0.848 rating, having tallied 84.0 of a possible 99.0 points. Roanoke College finished second in the race for the women's cup with a 0.750 rating.
The Generals finished second overall in the race for the men's sport trophy, totaling a 0.674 rating. Lynchburg College claimed the men's cup with a 0.732 rating.
Washington and Lee has compiled a 188-107-4 (.636) overall record during the 2010-11 school year. The Generals took home ODAC Championships in women's cross country, football, women's swimming, women's lacrosse, men's tennis and women's tennis.
1. Washington and Lee, 0.766
2. Lynchburg, 0.707
3. Roanoke, 0.657
4. Bridgewater, 0.653
5. Randolph-Macon, 0.628
6. Virginia Wesleyan, 0.576
7. Guilford, 0.527
7. Eastern Mennonite, 0.374
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VATICAN CITY — Setting a Vatican record today isn't easy. It took only a few minutes Oct. 24 to find out that the Nov. 24 consistory for the creation of cardinals will not set a record for being the smallest consistory.
Only six prelates are scheduled to receive their red hats in late November: U.S. Archbishop James M. Harvey, 63, prefect of the papal household; Lebanon's Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai, 72; Indian Archbishop Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, 53, head of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church; Nigerian Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja, 68; Colombian Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez of Bogota, 70; and Philippine Archbishop Luis Tagle of Manila, 55.
As we reported in our announcement story, Pope Benedict himself was created a cardinal at a smaller consistory. In 1977, the then-archbishop of Munich and Freising was one of four cardinals created.
But many people thought perhaps Pope Benedict would go down in history as the first pope to hold a consistory at which no Europeans were created cardinals.
However, that's not true either. In 1924, Pope Pius XI held a consistory and created only two cardinals and both were from the United States: Cardinals George W. Mundelein of Chicago and Patrick J. Hayes of New York.


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Research published in the Asian Journal of Andrology aims to explore the association between serum vitamin D levels and semen and hormonal parameters.
Previous animal and human studies have demonstrated the importance of adequate vitamin D status for male and female reproductive health. However, research supporting a specific vitamin D status range for optimal reproductive health has been elusive.
Dr Ahman Hammoud and colleagues recruited 170 healthy men to participate in the study. The population consisted of men 18-67 years, from all ethnic backgrounds.
The participants' vitamin D status was assessed, as well as hormone and sperm parameters, including sperm concentration, motility, morphology (percent normal sperm head), total sperm count per ejaculate, and total motile sperm count per ejaculate.
The researchers found surprising results. The percent normal sperm head, percent progressive motile sperm, sperm concentration, and total progressive motile sperm count were lower in men with 25(OH)D status ≥50 ng/mL. Men with 25(OH)D <20 ng/mL exhibited lower total sperm count values and lower total progressive motile sperm. The authors found no statistical differences between the mean hormonal values in the different 25(OH)D categories.
The authors note the results suggest a possible inverted 'U shaped' relation of vitamin D to sperm parameters.
Dr A Wayne Meikle, MD, co-author of the study states, "We did not expect that high level of vitamin D would adversely affect semen parameters." In regards to future research on the subject, "There continues to be interest in male reproductive endocrinology and vitamin D. This study might shift further research to reproductive function."
The authors recognize limitations to the study. Vitamin D deficiency was lower in the study population (12.4%) than for a healthy population. Also, participants provided one semen sample, which doesn't account for individual variation in semen quality. The researchers conclude,
"The unexpected finding in this study calls for more studies that included larger numbers of participant with more men in either the high or low vitamin D categories and studies of the effect of vitamin D supplementation on semen analysis to demonstrate causality."
Hammoud AO, Meikle AW, Peterson CM, Stanford J, Gibson M, Carrell DT. Association of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels with semen and hormonal parameters. Asian Journal of Andrology. 2012.


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The scientific exhibition centre at Sterkfontein Caves showcases early life forms, mammals and hominid fossils, a reconstruction of a mined cave, a pristine cave, cave formations and geology, information about fossilisation, palaeobotany and landscapes.
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From the real to the virtual-world: Individual differences in navigation
Victor Schinazi, University of Pennsylvania
Daniele Nardi, Temple University
Nora S. Newcombe (PI), Temple University
Thomas F. Shipley, Temple University
Russell Epstein, University of Pennsylvania
Drew Dara-Abrams, University of California, Santa Barbara
For the archival version of this research, and the preferred citation, see:
- Schinazi, V. R., Nardi, D., Newcombe, N. S., Shipley, T. F., & Epstein, R. A. (2013). Hippocampal size predicts rapid learning of a cognitive map in humans. Hippocampus, 23(6), 515–528. [DOI]
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When was the last time you got lost? Have you ever travelled to a new place without a map only to find that minutes later you were wandering around desperately looking for a familiar landmark or a person who can orient you? Have you ever taken the subway to a different part of town and exited to the street level only find yourself completely disoriented? Why is it that we all have that friend who is constantly getting lost sometimes even in his/her hometown? At the same time, why is it that some of us are just not only naturally good at navigating but actually enjoy the thrill of exploring and learning about our environment? The project detailed below touches on some of these questions by investigating how individuals differ in their acquisition and development of spatial knowledge.
Classical frameworks on the acquisition and development of spatial knowledge (Shemyakin, 1962; Siegel and White, 1975) suggest that individuals first learn landmarks followed by the routes that connect them, eventually integrating these into a more holistic and metric survey level representation. During the last decade, it has been proposed that spatial microgenesis does not always follow a strict stage-like development but rather proceeds in a more continuous or quantitative fashion (Montello, 1998). The continuous framework proposes that some individuals are capable of integrating complex spatial information that allows them to perform accurate metric calculations with minimal exposure in the environment.
We have been working on a project investigating the behavioral and neural correlates of the acquisition and development of spatial knowledge of an unfamiliar university campus (Ambler campus of Temple University) over a period of three weeks, with particular emphasis on individual differences. In their first visit to the campus, subjects learned two routes located at different areas of the campus and were asked to remember the name and position of several buildings on each route. During the following weeks, subjects learned these routes for a second and third time together with a connecting route. At each stage, their integrated configurational knowledge was probed by asking them to complete a variety of online and offline tasks including direction estimation, distance estimation and sketch mapping (see figure 1). A subset of subjects also participated in an fMRI experiment where a recognition task was used to probe the subject's memory for buildings around the campus.
Behavioral results revealed large individual differences in the initial acquisition of spatial knowledge, suggesting that spatial microgenesis does not necessarily follow a stage-like development (as proposed by classical frameworks) but proceeds in a continuous fashion. This was particularly true during initial acquisition (first session) where several subjects showed evidence of metric knowledge and developed accurate representations of the environment with minimal exposure. Data from the fMRI experiment further complemented these results. A whole brain analysis that looked at performance-related activations revealed an exclusive activation of the retrosplenial cortex (RSC) among the top performers. It seems that while both top and bottom performers were able to accurately recall buildings from the Ambler campus (recognition accuracy was above 85% for both groups) the top performers were not only identifying these buildings but possibly situating them within their mental representation of the campus. This is consistent with the role of the RSC in supporting mechanisms that allow for situating a scene within the broader spatial environment (Epstein, 2008; Wolbers & Wolbers & Büchel, 2005) by integrating egocentric spatial information into a survey-level representation during navigation.
Virtual Ambler
Perhaps one of the main drawbacks of the real-world study was that the testing procedure was too long (9 hours distributed over 3 weeks) and required a certain amount of commitment from the participants. In an effort to collect more data from different samples of the population, we created a virtual model of the Ambler campus (see figure 2). The model was created using Google Sketchup1 and later exported to the gaming engine Unity 3D2 allowing subjects to actively navigate around the virtual campus. We are now currently working in developing web-based application which will structure the virtual world and the different spatial tasks together in an immersive videogame-like experience. Although subjects tested in the desktop virtual reality environment will not benefit from proprioception, pre-pilot testing suggests that the previous three-week testing procedure can be reduced to a 90 minute session. Having the real-world data as a basis for comparison, we hope that Virtual Ambler will allow us to test a larger sample of the population and answer specific questions regarding individual differences in spatial ability and knowledge transfer.
Figure 1 - The Ambler Campus: The Ambler campus with the two main routes and the two connection routes. The table on the top left corner details the testing procedure over the three week period.
Figure 2 - Virtual Ambler: Snapshots from the two routes of the virtual Ambler campus
UP-DATE: Virtual Ambler Slider Show (Retrieved March 4, 2013)
- ♦ Epstein, R.A. (2008). Parahippocampal and retrosplenial contributions to human spatial navigation. Trends in Cognitive Science, 12, 388-306.
- ♦ Ishikawa, T. & Montello, R. D. (2006). Spatial knowledge acquisition from direct experience in the environment: Individual differences in the development of metric knowledge and the integration of separately learned places. Cognitive Psychology, 52, 93-129.
- ♦ Montello, R. D. (1998). A new framework for understanding the acquisition of spatial knowledge in large-scale environments. In J. M. Egenhofer & G. R. Golledge (Eds.), Spatial and temporal reasoning in geographic information systems (pp. 143-154). New York: Oxford University Press.
- ♦ Shemyakin, F. N. (1962) Orientation in space. In B. G. Ananyev (Ed.), Psychology in the Soviet Union (pp. 186-255). Washington: US Office of Technical Reports.
- ♦ Wolbers, T. & Büchel, C. (2005). Dissociable retrosplenial and hippocampal contributions to successful formation of survey representations. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 3333-3340.


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Engineering Enrollment Continues to Increase
In the fall of 2009, the Whitacre College of Engineering set a new enrollment record. With 4,732 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled, the college broke a record that had stood for more than 25 years.
More than 2100 Students Attend Engineering Job Fair
The fall Engineering Job Fair, which was held on September 22, 2010, featured more than 120 companies looking to fill internships, co-ops, full-time positions, and other positions. More than 2100 Texas Tech students rode the free shuttles or made their way to the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center to take advantage of the career opportunities.
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Glenna Andrews, senior advisor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was recently named a Top Techsan by the Texas Tech Alumni Association.
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March 29, 2008
Rain won't stop tennis. With the threat of rain on March 29th, the Bisons still played their singles matches against Campbell University; losing 5-1. The lone winner for the Bisons was Mario Hernandez.
Results are as follows:
1. Dancy Sum (C) d. Daniel Hangsteffer 7-5,6-4
2. Larbi Larizoni (C) d. Jeff West 6-1,6-4
3. Gabriel Delarve (C) d. Josh Cummings 6-0,6-1
4. Marc Sifre (C) d. Joe McArdle 6-1,6-1
5. Mario Hernandez (L) d. Sebastian Thedeff 7-6,2-6, 1-0 (7-5, a tie-breaker was played because the match was mathematically clinched).
6. Beto Mondori (C) d. James Murrell 6-4,6-0
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Storm leaves thousands without power
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Fairfield Ludlowe High School will be closed for a second day Friday because of "significant" wind damage to a portion of the school's roof after Thursday's powerful winter storm.
The storm lashed Connecticut with strong winds and heavy rain, leaving thousands of people without power and knocking down dozens of trees on the Merritt Parkway and numerous streets across the region.
The strong winds -- gusting to more than 60 mph -- also caused problems for drivers navigating through the pelting rain.
Police reported several roads closed across southwestern Connecticut because of downed trees, utility poles and hanging live wires.
At one point, both United Illuminating and Connecticut Light & Power had a combined 75,000 customers without power. By Thursday afternoon, most of the UI customers had their power restored.
In a letter to Fairfield Ludlowe parents Thursday, Headmaster Greg Hatzis said winds during the overnight storm blew off a section of the rubber membrane on the roof above a main hallway in Warner House, allowing rain to enter the building and damage at least 10 of the 15 classrooms in that wing of the Unquowa Road building.
Hatzis said that over the course of Thursday morning, "the situation worsened quickly." By then, however, students were already on their way to the high school.
"We directed all students who had classes on the entire second floor to the gymnasium," he said, while a damage assessment was conducted.
At no time were any students or staff in the part of the building that was damaged, Hatzis said.
After officials determined they could not relocate all of the students in the 15 classrooms, school was dismissed early at 10:15 a.m.
On its Twitter account, UI noted it began seeing storm impact around 4 a.m.
"The damage is primarily and almost exclusively tree related. All UI crews are working. Wind conditions are now safe for workers" it tweeted shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday.
On Minerva Street in Derby, the strong winds peeled tar paper off the roof of a 30-unit apartment building, allowing water to enter, Chief Tom Lenhart Jr. said.
"Some roof shingles blew off and the tar paper underneath picked up in places. Some vent pipes also blew over and the gutters were clogged. All of this caused water to enter the third floor, but no one was evacuated,'' he said.
The strongest wind gust recorded at Sikorsky Memorial Airport in Stratford was 61 mph. At Oxford airport, the wind was clocked at 49 mph and 45 mph at Danbury airport. Meteorologist Gil Simmons of WTNH said a record wind gust of 78 mph was reported in Westbrook along the Connecticut coastline.
Power outages forced all public schools to be closed in Stratford and Newtown.
Electrical problems and other issues kept Harborside Middle School in Milford from opening, as well as High Road School in Norwalk, Greens Farms Academy in Westport and Lauralton Hall in Milford. Schools in Bethel, Darien, Easton, Westport, Weston and Redding delayed their opening by 90 minutes to two hours.
Metro-North reported New Haven Line delays up to 20 minutes due to weather-related conditions. Riders traveling eastbound to Noroton Heights, Darien, Rowayton, East Norwalk, Westport and Greens Farms had to take a train to Southport then get a westbound train to get access to these stations due to "wire issues" in the area.
The early morning temperature of 58 in Bridgeport broke a record set a year ago -- by 1 degree. But that was a short-lived mark as readings fell throughout the day. The 0.54 inches of rain was not a record; 0.60 of an inch fell on this day in 1949, according to Weather Underground.
By 9 a.m. Thursday, mostly clear, blue skies had returned to southwestern Connecticut. On Friday and through the weekend, there is a chance of snow, forecasters said.
The vast storm shattered homes and businesses around the Midwest and South with tornadoes and high winds earlier in the week.
By Thursday, it had spread power outages from the Carolinas to Connecticut, triggered flash floods and forced water rescues in areas outside Washington, D.C.
Staff writers Frank Juliano, John Nickerson, Libor Jany, Genevieve Reilly and James Shay contributed to this story.


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We are a military family attached to a base located south of Tokyo. Last month we were evacuated back to the US in light of the events at TEPCOs Fukushima Daiichi plant. We are not authorized to return until they determine it is safe. (BTW, they have not told us what the criteria is for "safe"). I have read that the amount of radiation released is 10% of what was released at Chernobyl, BUT there is a potential for Fukushima Daiichi's reactors to release the same amount over time. As a parent of two children under the age of 5, what risks (if any) are we facing once we return? Thank you for the opportunity to post a question.
Although this is not directly related to Fukushima, could you please comment on something that has now been told in several TV documentaries and on the internet about Tchernobyl: that there was the possibility of a second, nuclear explosion that could have had the power of several megatons. This can be found on lots of web pages, one of them this guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2005/apr/25/energy.ukraine. Scroll down to "Sergei Vasilyevich Sobolev". I cannot personally see how this would have been possible at all, but maybe you can give some expert insight into this?
The recent data on the Daiichi plant being set at "7", seems to be strange. I find that there are many websites that are talking about the 1/1oth value of radiation leaked out. I've been looking at the various measures of milliseverts vs microseverts, terabecquerels. It actually get confusing. My guess is that there is no threat to people (unless there continues to be more earthquakes, but that is not radiation). Why compare this to Chernobly since standing next to the reactor after it exploded would be an exposure of 50 Sv, and there is nothing even close to this going on at the Daiichi plants?
Is there any technology for cleaning up radioactive water?
Thanks for the informative site.
Unfortunately, radioactive forms of an element differ from their stable (non-radioactive) counterparts only in the number of neutrons inside their atoms. This means that (aside from the radioactivity) the only difference from their stable form is their mass. Consequently, there is no way to chemically filter out just the radioactive forms of an element. They react chemically just the same as their stable forms. (This is the reason why it was so hard to make the first atomic bomb – they had to separate U-235 from U-238, which was and still is an enormously difficult and expensive task, exploiting the very slight difference in mass. The centrifuges you may have heard about in Iran are needed for this step.)
The easiest thing you can do is filter out *all* of the contaminant element – both stable and radioactive isotopes. e.g. Reverse osmosis filtering is very effective at removing almost all contaminants from water. Most bottled water is RO filtered (spring water and mineral water are not). Another method would be to simply allow the water to evaporate, leaving behind the contaminants (note however that iodine can exist as a gas at standard temperature and pressure).
Due to the nature of the Fukushima accident, most of the radioactive contamination is coming from iodine and cesium. Iodine has a relatively short half life (8 days), so within a few months it should decay to negligible levels. Cesium is more problematic (30 year half life), but the amounts being produced by the accident will be negligible compared to natural background radiation once sufficiently dispersed in the ocean. The bigger concern is if it gets into groundwater aquifers (where it cannot disperse – unlikely since the plant is right next to the ocean), or if fish near the plant ingest large quantities of it before it can disperse.
Dear sir,
The incident at Fukushima is a 'Beyond design bassis accident' that is called 'Severe accident' also. Much before this incident USNRC had issued 'Severe accident management guidelines'. What these guidelines are? Can you please post copy of these guidelines or mail a copy to me? I will be very greatful to you.
Thanking you,
Singh SK
Question regarding KI tablets, now being offered by foreign embassies to their citizens in Tokyo. Under what conditions would taking KI be advised, and for whom? And for exactly what purpose? (i.e., what would taking KI prevent or cure?)
I have a question about radiation found in milk. I am a mother who is still currently nursing my child. I understand that when cows eat grass that has been contaminated with radiation the radiation gets into their milk in concentrated amounts. So my question for you is, if I drink milk that has very low levels of radiation (as has been found in WA and CA, I live in CA) wont that radiation become even more concentrated in the milk that my body is producing? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your question, and for your patience while we looked for good info on the topic.
At maximum, only about 30% of the I-131 which you ingest by drinking milk will make it into your breast milk: http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/105/1-4/251.short .
Since the levels at which we're observing I-131 in cow's milk are currently thousands times below the point at which the FDA would recommend that people stop drinking milk, you should be fine to keep on breast feeding.


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Today's photos are from the 1983 and show the construction of the North Upper Deck in Clemson's Memorial Stadium.
The North Upper Deck is comprised of 22,500 yards of concrete, 2,200 tons of reinforcing steel, 3,000 tons of asphalt, 5,800 gallons of paint, and 60,000 pounds of aluminum seating
The North Upper Deck height is 13.36 stories and the length is 560 feet. The total cost of the North Upper Deck was $13.5 million.
To illustrate the quality of the investment of the upper deck. The $13.5 million dollar investment is recovered in just 3 years (7 home games per year) in ticket sales. Each game Clemson sells out the North Upper Deck, over $600,000 goes towards Clemson Athletics.
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This year's bumper Buxton Fringe looks set to be more fun than ever with an extra-packed comedy section plus plenty of family-friendly entertainment including brand new free event, Fringe at Five, in the Pavilion Gardens.
More than 150 acts have signed up for this year's fringe, which runs from July 9 to 27 and is sponsored by the University of Derby.
One of Britain's biggest fringe events, it holds a key position between the Brighton Fringe in May and the Edinburgh Fringe in August.
This year's Buxton Fringe boasts a large comedy line up including TV and radio's Terry Christian, with his Naked Confessions of a Recovering Catholic; Morgan Berry, also known as Joe Rowntree from Dave's One Night Stand; Invisible Woman Maxine Jones and Alfie Moore, of Radio 4; 'sweary Joyce Grenfell' Claire Cogan; Fringe favourites Three's Company with two family-friendly comedies; and John Cooper, as cult hit Danny Pensive.
Fun for families includes five-times Fringe award-winning poet Mark Gwynne Jones, Theo the Mouse from Sooty writer Wink Taylor and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland from Box Tale Soup.
With an extensive music and theatre line up too, there is plenty for everyone to enjoy.
"We are delighted with the variety of events on offer," said Fringe chairman, Keith Savage. "It's also great to see artists and performers returning year after year, a sign that they enjoy Buxton and that they have built a loyal following.
"It is exciting to welcome new and young performers who see Buxton as a good place to present their work, often for the first time."
Among the diverse music treats are Fringe regulars Partita with renaissance and baroque music, the Amaretti Chamber Orchestra, Aprille and the Shower with American bluegrass, Tideswell Male Voice Choir, the City of Manchester Opera, Mart Rodger Manchester Jazz, the Sovereign Saxophone Octet and all the way from South Africa, a cappella group Simply Soweto Encha, who proved a hit last year on the Pump Room roof!
While acclaimed theatre groups such as Butterfly with Dracula's Women Underground will be returning to enticing perform in Poole's Cavern, and Freerange Theatre will reprise Spoonface Steinberg as well as bringing a new show, Phillipa and Will Are Now in a Relationship.
Fringe fans will be able to see a taster of what's on offer at Fringe Sunday in the Pavilion Gardens on the afternoon of July 13. New venture, Fringe at Five, also based in the gardens, will take place from July 14 to 26, every afternoon from 5pm, when performers will entertain for half an hour.
Full details of all the events on offer can be found on buxtonfringe.org.uk


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How do you discover who you are? Genealogy is one of the fastest growing hobbies in the country. Resources at the Alexandria Library's Special Collections Branch, whether print or electronic, can help you get started exploring your family's genealogy today.
If your family is from Virginia, or ever passed through Virginia and the Chesapeake region, the Alexandria Library may be able to help you learn more about them. There is a shelf dedicated to each county and city in the Commonwealth of Virginia and multiple shelves for materials related to Washington DC, West Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. The library's Alexandria Collection consists of Vital Records, local histories and biographies, church and cemetery records as well as city directories and phone books are all available to assist researchers.
All materials in the Alexandria Library Special Collections Branch are a reference collection and may only be used in the library.
General Reference
Black roots : a beginner's guide to tracing the African American family tree
By Tony Burroughs.
This guide will tell you how to get started, how to organize your research, and how to contact organizations that can assist in your research.
|The hidden half of the family :a sourcebook for women's genealogy
by Christina K. Schaefer
Often in the past, for legal and cultural reasons, women's voices were overwritten or ignored completely. In this volume discover how to identify your female ancestors and learn their stories.
The source :a guidebook of American genealogy
edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking
This volume is a great starting place and reference guide. Outlines where collections are held across the United States, and how to access them.
Avotaynu guide to Jewish genealogy
edited by Sallyann Amdur Sack & Gary Mokotoff.
This volume benefits researchers in Jewish genealogy at any experience level. This helpful book teaches the reader the intricacies of genealogical research utilizing records from both the United States and elsewhere.
Genealogy 101 :how to trace your family's history and heritage
Barbara Renick.
An excellent book to learn the genealogical basics. While a good volume to get you started this book also has numerous useful bits of advice for the more experienced researcher.
|The handybook for genealogists :|bUnited States of America.
This book will guide you through the major records repositories in each state, as well as 19 foreign countries. An excellent resource for beginners and advanced students.
International vital records handbook :births, marriages, deaths
by Thomas Jay Kemp
A useful compilation of request forms and addresses for obtaining Vital Records from across the globe.
Tracing your West Indian ancestors
by Guy Grannum.
This volume is the place to start your search for West Indian ancestors. The book includes a beginners guide as well as Public Records Office information.
For Virginia Names
Cavaliers and pioneers : abstracts of Virginia land patents and grants, 1623-1800
By Nell Marion Nugent
A compilation of names arranged by date of names appearing in the Virginia Land Patents and Grants. This work covers the years 1666 to 1782.
Adventurers of purse and person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5 (4th ed.)
By John Frederick Dorman
Names and genealogical information for the people associated with the Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the First Colony of Virginia. This is an indispensable source for Jamestown settlers' information.
Index to Virginia estates, 1800-1865
By Wesley E. Pippenger, Wesley E.
These volumes index microfilm held by the Library of Virginia (LVA). They index names from surviving Virginia wills from 1800–1865. These books are a short cut to will research in the commonwealth.
DAR patriot index - Daughters of the American Revolution.
These books, while not strictly Virginia, are an excellent source for names of ancestors who contributed to the cause of American independence with out actually serving in the military.
The Germanna record : official publication of the Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Incorporated
By Charles Herbert Huffman
The Germanna Record is the official publication of the foundation that commemorates the settlement of German colonists along the Rapidan River in the early 18th century.
Early settlers of Tidewater Virginia
By Elise Greenup Jourdan
These useful volumes utilize deed and will book information as well as historic registers of churches and other sources to lay out the early families of tidewater Virginia.
Alexandria Names and Sources
Obituary notices from the Alexandria gazette, 1784-1915
A compilation of names contained in obituary notices from Alexandria newspapers, 1784-1915.
Alphabetical index, birth records, Alexandria, Virginia
By Ellen R. Harper
A compilation of names done by the WPA during the Depression. The library also contains other birth records.
Alphabetical index, death records, Alexandria, Virginia : dates included, 1912-1939
By Ellen R. Harper
Similar to the Birth Records previously listed. Check the library catalog for several other death records compilations that also exist.
Tombstone inscriptions of Alexandria, Virginia
By Wesley E. Pippenger
A five volume set of books indexing tombstones from most of the city's cemeteries. Includes indexes, maps as well histories of the various cemeteries. 006733885 Some of the earliest marriage records taken from the period before official records were turned in to the state government. 004476529 These volumes index the Alexandria Gazette newspaper for the period from 1780-1840. While not a complete index, these books do list proper names, occupations, ships, and other information that appeared in the local paper.
This is the library version of the most popular genealogy site. Combines a wealth of searchable databases. (Available ON-SITE Only.)
This site contains digital, searchable images of the U.S. Census. Also available are digitized images of out of copyright genealogy and local history books. (Off-site users require remote authentication in order to access.)
FamilySearch.org is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. Patrons may freely access FamilySearch resources and services online at FamilySearch.org, or through over 4,500 family history centers in 70 countries, including the renowned Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Besides the library catalog, researchers are also encouraged to look at the Alexandria Library Archive and Manuscript Index available online in .pdf and .html form.
Useful websites
A useful website that is organized by state. The site provides links to state and county institutions and organizations.
Cyndislist remains one of the most helpful genealogical sites on the internet. An ever increasing number of links are organized to help researchers locate a wide variety of materials and information.
A good site to discover information and links to sites outside the United States.
The National Archives Soundex System
This site provides a description of the Soundex system and a calculator to determine Soundex numbers.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator
The Veteran's Administration makes this site available for researchers looking for names of individuals buried in National Cemeteries.
NPS Civil War Soliders and Sailor System
The National Park Service runs this site which lists a significant number of the individuals who participated in the American Civil War.
American Family Immigration History Center
Search for passengers who arrived at the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. The online materials include images of ship manifests and photographs of the ships themselves. Also includes information about visiting Ellis Island.
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The other is a mulberry. Also, just outside my bathroom window and smack against the house footings, there are several volunteer mulberry trees. There is a large one way out in front of the house. Annually, it has an abundance of fruit, which the birds love. They eat the fruit and spread the seeds far and wide by way of their purple poop. So we may have little mulberry trees all around the neighborhood.
Granddaughter Allyssa and her husband, Nate Keogh, have just moved into a new house, and I'd be mighty pleased if they wanted either or both of these trees for their yard. From my experiences of a couple of years ago, I know that trees of this size go for upwards of $100 (or maybe more, by now). The challenge is getting a big enough root ball when digging the little tree(s) up for transplanting. And then, it is now June, and April would have been a much better time to move them. By this fall, they may be 15 feet tall.
All this brings to my mind the bittersweet ballad of Barbara Allen. I won't put down all the verses here, as the song goes on for some time, but the last says: "A rose grew from Sweet William's grave; from Barbara's grew a thorny brier. Entwined they grew into a lover's knot to the top of the old church spire."
Otherwise, out in the yard, my garden of two tomato plants and one pepper plant already has fruit. Sam always said that if he had ripe tomatoes by July 4, his garden was a success. I'm going to be close.
I'd like to have an eggplant plant, but have found none in town, and it's awfully late to plant seeds. Let's see: they take 90 days to fruition, so my first crop would be September. Looks like I'll have to buy them again this year.
And then, there are zucchini, those delicious little rascals best eaten when about 6 inches long, but which tend to hide among the leaves until they are twice that size. And then there are squash bugs. I loved the Garrison Keillor segments on Prairie Home Companion when he talked about taking bags of zucchini around to all the neighbors' houses and leaving them on the porches late at night. And the year his mother planted 40 tomato plants.
Enough already. Except, I forgot about squash blossoms. Not the necklaces, but the real thing. I read where they are good sautéed, so I tried it and they are.


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Early influences including teachers and parents are fundamental when it comes to driving forces that push people to succeed.
Early influences including teachers and parents are fundamental when it comes to driving forces that push people to succeed.
That's according to Dr. Jennifer Klemp, who was the guest speaker at Tuesday's annual breakfast of the Leavenworth Public Schools Education Foundation.
Klemp, a 1990 graduate of Leavenworth High School, is the chief executive officer of Cancer Survivorship Training as well as an assistant professor of medicine, Division of Clinical Oncology, and director of cancer survivorship at the University of Kansas Medical Center Cancer Center.
Tuesday's breakfast was held at Leavenworth High School.
"It is hard to believe I walked these halls over 20 years ago ― they still seem so familiar and there are even still a few familiar faces," Klemp said.
She thanked the community for providing her formative education and experiences.
Klemp is the daughter of former Leavenworth High School teacher and current school board member Nancy Klemp.
The event was the 12th annual breakfast for the Leavenworth Public Schools Education Foundation.
Foundation President Mike Reilly said the organization, which provides support the Leavenworth school district, was founded 12 years ago by three members of the Leavenworth High School site council.
He said the foundation has raised $1.2 million during those 12 years.
"It's truly remarkable how the community is supporting our foundation," he said.
He said the goal for the foundation's fundraising campaign for this school year was $150,000. He said $155,547 was raised.
He said it's rewarding to see that school district employees, as a group, remain the top donor to the foundation. The employees donated $23,000 during the recent campaign.
The breakfast included a state of the schools address by Superintendent Kelly Crane.
Crane talked about the condition of the district's facilities. She said the facilities are a source of pride for the district.
She also discussed emergency preparedness in the schools and the uncertainty regarding how decisions made by lawmakers will impact the district.
Crane said her hope is that as legislators deliberate, they give consideration to what is best for children.
She also pointed to examples of successes in the district.
"Each our schools has successes to be proud of," she said.
During her remarks, Klemp spoke of connecting the dots of how she got where she is today. She said her path included uncertainty and chance. She said there had been disappointment and failure.
"But in the end persistence and passion for the greater good paid off," she said.
She said the people who attended Tuesday's breakfast have answered a need.
"You are willing to help the teachers and children in this school district to meet their potential by giving voluntarily for the sole reason to make our world a better place," she said. "You have made a commitment to this school district and to the community."


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The biggest problem is that while the course focuses on teaching writing an exokernel for the x86 architecture, Sixth Edition Unix and Lions' commentary focusses on the PDP-11 - a completely different kind of system. Students complained about these differences, but also the lack of relevance of learning how to code for the PDP-11. On top of that, Sixth Edition Unix is written in a dead dialect of C (pre-K&R C).
So, MIT took a drastic approach: they decided to rewrite Sixth Version Unix for x86 in ANSI C. Along the way, they improved it as well by adding SMP support. "Xv6's use of the x86 makes it more relevant to students' experience than V6 was and unifies the course around a single architecture," the project page details, "Adding multiprocessor support requires handling concurrency head on with locks and threads (instead of using special-case solutions for uniprocessors such as enabling/disabling interrupts) and helps relevance. Finally, writing a new system allowed us to write cleaner versions of the rougher parts of V6, like the scheduler and file system."
While this project was released in 2006, I had never heard of it (until yesterday), and I'm pretty sure many of you haven't either. John Lions' commentary and V6 are of course incredibly famous, but I'm not sure if the same applies to Xv6.
In any case, the code is out there for all to see and use (
git clone git://pdos.csail.mit.edu/xv6/xv6.git), under a MIT license. It typically doesn't run on real hardware; in fact, MIT runs it in QEMU.


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