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Sunday, 27 March 2016
The Curtain - Solo from Dave MacLeod on Vimeo.
Here is a wee video shot on my GoPro of my solo of The Curtain on Ben Nevis the other week. I was up in the north face to do something else but because of conditions eded up going for a wee solo. I'd never done the Curtain and wanted to solo it for ages but never got round to it.
Thursday, 24 March 2016
Gimme That Swing, 8B
Returning home from Mull I could see the incredible spell of weather was about to break. I dived out to my project on The Cameron Stone in Glen Nevis, which I was very close to completing before I left. It was starting to rain as I got there and the top rapidly got soaked.
The project is super crimpy and I've split my fingertips on it twice already. Basically, you only get a handful of tries at the crux match and jump before it splits. On each try, you gamble with 'one more try' until your finger splits and you lose two days training.
The project starts up Dan Varian's problem up the arete, completed last spring at 8A+ and repeated by me last September. I could see there was an obvious harder link to go leftwards on the tiny crimps and jump to the good block on the neighbouring 7C+ 'The news in Pidgin Gaelic'. I'm never too sure about the grade, especially with super crimpy lines, but if the arete is 8A+ then it's got to be a grade harder.
As usual I didn't think I had all that much chance of success, but though I better hang my Prohpet Jacket off the baby Scot's Pine growing out of the top-out crack, just in case I got there and needed dry(er) holds.
About 4th try, I finally held the jump and braced myself for sliding off the soaking wet top-out and into the bog below. With a careful approach, the top was actually fine and I strolled off down the hill, delighted to have finished a great project in such unlikely conditions. Check out the video above.
Before I go to Switzerland, I have two more boulder projects I would like to try, but going by the forecast for the next week, I might be training instead. Actually that will do me good. I feel like I'm getting a bit weak from all this outdoor climbing! A good problem to have.
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Labels: Glen Nevis, Scottish bouldering
Monday, 21 March 2016
First great trad route of the season
First ascent of Ice Burn E8 6c, on the Ice Wall, Kintra, Isle of Mull. Photo Chris Prescott
I was all geared up for some winter projects when the Scottish weather, as always, changed the plan. I'm certainly not complaining. The weather turned amazing for all things rock climbing. Bouldering, sport, trad - all in top condition, no rain, no midge. I tried to keep calm and not go headless chicken.
Within an evening I'd settled on a plan of heading to Mull to look at a granite crack project Michael Tweedley had told me about for years. The whole coastline at Kintra has many unexplored trad and bouldering possibilities. I jumped in the car with Claire, Freida and Michael and was later joined by Chris Prescott, Natalie Berry and some more family for a right old gathering on the coast.
I started trying the crack which was amazing. I'm not really a crack person, so it felt like 8a+ to me and would definitely be a good sustained fight. None of the individual moves were that hard but I could just tell the last few metres would be exciting after very sustained climbing and placing all those cams.
Although I had several days in hand, I was anxious as always to get my chance to try it. The perfect week of weather had unfortunately proved not quite perfect - under the thin layer of inversion cloud, some drizzle was forecast. And one stubbornly seeping hold in the crack looked like it could scupper the whole thing unless it got sun and wind on it.
On the first day Chris and Nat joined us, the hold was too wet and we explored the bouldering instead. Both Natalie and I flashed Greg Chapman's Roughcut Reality 7C+, feeling it was a bit easier than the given grade. Next door I started looking at the project sit start Greg had mentioned on a big prow. It looked a perfect line, but surely at least 8a+. But once the beta was unlocked I got it in about 15 minutes or so. High Heidyin, 7C. A bit too good a line to be considered a salvage of the day!
First ascent of High Heidyin 7C, Kintra, Isle of Mull. Photo Chris Prescott
The next day I scrutinised the wind forecast. A burst of strong northerlies was due to reach it's peak at 6pm. So I waited until 4 and walked out. A bit of frantic hold drying and I realised it was a great opportunity to do the project.
So I tied right in and got started. It was freezing and the granite was definitely grippy. I told myself two things before starting - the cams will inevitably take that couple of seconds longer than you'd like to place and clip them, and that no matter how well it goes, I'll need to be ready for a fight at the last five metres. I think it was good advice.
I did indeed arrive at the last few metres a bit more pumped than I would like from the extra effort of arranging the cams. At the last cam, my right arm was burning. But I actually felt like I had enough strength to deal with it and was able to step up a gear and bear down on the final crimps. With a shout I leapt for the top of the crag and there was no way I was letting go.
First trad route of the year, and a belter it was too. Ice Burn, E8 6c. Tomorrow I have one more day to look at another hard sounding trad project before it's back to bouldering mode. I have three Scottish bouldering projects I want to try in the next two weeks. One 8A+ and two 8Bs, and then it will be time for me to drive to CH.
First ascent of Grasas Saturadas E6 6b on The Barriga de Cerveza, Isle of Mull last night. Photo: Chris Prescott I almost fell off because my fingers were freezing. Thanks to Michael for pointing me at this great route.
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Saturday, 19 March 2016
Natalie Berry's film
Natalie Berry, recipient of the 2016 Youth Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture from Fort William Mountain Festival on Vimeo.
Here is a film I made about Natalie Berry, this year's recipient of the Scottish Youth Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture at the Fort William Mountain Festival. Special thanks to Paul Diffley at Hot Aches Productions for the additional footage from the film Transition. If you haven't seen it, it's a great film and you can download it from here.
Here is a film I made about Natalie Berry, this year's recipient of the Scottish Youth Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture at the Fort William Mountain Festival. Special thanks to Paul Diffley at Hot Aches Productions for the additional footage from the film Transition. If you haven't seen it, it's a great film and you can download it from here.
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Labels: videos
Thursday, 17 March 2016
Spring arrives early in Scotland
With the good forecast we made a snap decision that winter was over and just arrived on Mull to try a mega crack project that Michael told me about. Yesterday I had a full day on it and managed to link the moves once. But couldn't repeat it. Feels like the top end of 8a+ without placing the cams. Tomorrow I'll get on the lead if it's dry and start taking some airtime no doubt!
Lovely granite walls, sunshine and cool temperatures.
Claire checking out Scoor beach (video still from my drone of course)
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Labels: hebrides
Saturday, 12 March 2016
Mick Tighe's film
Mick Tighe, recipient of the 2016 Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture from Fort William Mountain Festival on Vimeo.
Here is a wee film I made about Mick Tighe, this year's recipient of the Scottish Award fro Excellence in Mountain Culture at the Fort William Mountain Festival. Hope you like it as much as I did making it.
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Labels: Fort William Mountain Festival
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Review: Spike's book
Ian Sykes (Spike) gave me a copy of his new book 'In the shadow of Ben Nevis' which is just out. Spike is a household name in the Lochaber area due to his founding of Nevisport, the Nevis Range ski resort as well as his involvement in the climbing and mountain rescue scene over many decades. So this, his life story is pretty essential reading for Lochaber locals to understand the cultural history of the development of outdoor sports in the area. But it's also well worth reading for everyone else, for a few reasons.
First, his stories of epic mountain rescues before the age of helicopter assistance, good communications, organised rescue teams and enforced drink driving laws are riveting. Somehow rescues always seemed to come on Hogmanay when every mountaineer in Scotland seemed to be legless. In Spike's defence, the call to rescue stricken fellow climbers also came when Spike had just returned from epic climbs of his own, or other rescues. Despite these problems, they achieved daring and spectacular rescues, feats of endurance with or without a hangover. I was impressed and enthralled by the struggles they had to save lives. Particularly impressive was the ethos of taking personal responsibility to give as much as you can to help those in danger, and that rescue was part and parcel of mountaineering adventures rather than a 'problem' in our sport.
His stories of starting and developing his primary businesses of Nevisport and Nevis Range were also fantastic as stories in their own right, as well as vehicles to explore Spike's approach to life and business which is to be much admired in my opinion. Through local knowledge, I'd heard snippets of many of the stories already, but it was great to read the full narratives. Even his stories of his many seasons exploring Antarctica and various remote big walls around the world taught me much about a spirit of adventure in a different age.
Like any autobiography, the best of it is the exploration into the person and their approach to their life's challenges. I don't know if was Spike's approach, his style of describing it, or both, but I enjoyed this a lot and reflected on my own view of how to approach challenges. Spikes challenges (losing fingers, big business disasters or near disasters, and failures to save fallen climbers among them) seemed to be something that Spike found his own way of dealing with, even though they clearly affected him a lot. I liked that he was not a robot personality of ego and bulletproof drive— he spoke of lingering upset about events and thoughts of how they could have panned out differently. Yet his approach led him to many successes. By the end I felt a renewed sense of the possibilities for what can be done with a brave approach and an acceptance that life will bring renewed rewards even after some dark moments.
I decided to buy some copies in for my webshop. You can find In the Shadow of Ben Nevis here.
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Monday, 7 March 2016
Get them in
Getting ready to get extremely pumped and scared all over again on the second pitch of Night Fury IX, 9, Ben Nevis.
The late winter/early spring period is an absolutely amazing time in Scotland. Everything is in great condition. I usually have to do a lot of work in the earlier part of the winter to pay the bills, but I use the time to do a lot of training as well. Ideally, when late Feb arrives and the weather turns perfect in Lochaber, I'm fit and keen.
Liam Fyfe enjoying Fàilte gu clach Cameron Font 7c in Glen Nevis.
It always goes past in a blur. You are either climbing, or at home in a stupor of exhaustion trying to eat, sleep and get ready for tomorrow's adventure. The day after I was on Beinn Eighe, I showed Liam and Rhiannon the Arisaig Cave.
At first I thought I was too tired to climb at all, but once I got started I decided to have a training session and repeat some of the cave's classic problems and show Liam the beta in the process. I was fine up to about Font 7c+ but didn't quite have the strength to repeat 4th wave. Returning there got me inspired to plan a campaign on the remaining project, the link of Eternity's Gate into 4th Wave. This would work out at 25 moves of Font 8a+ into a hard 8B. The link would very likely be a Font 8C. It's in condition to work and try 6 or 7 months of the year and nearly always dry. Next winter, you'll mostly find me in there.
The following morning we were at the Cameron Stone in Glen Nevis. I didn't think anyone had ever climbed the obvious crimps coming in from the left to finish up 'The News in Pidgin Gaelic'. If it has indeed not been done, then I call this problem 'Failte gu clach Cameron' Font 7c. I headed down to Glasgow afterwards to speak at TCA at a fundraising event for refugees. Good to see this kind of event being organised among climbers - we clearly need to show our governments the way when it comes to doing what we can to take care of the vulnerable.
About to get scared on pitch 2 of Night Fury, IX,9 Ben Nevis. The hanging hexes give an idea of the steepness! Photo: Helen Rennard
The next morning I walked into the Ben with Helen Rennard to try a new route on the walls right of Echo Wall, where we had already added a hard new route here last season. After getting through the initial hard section, I found myself at the foot of a smooth corner choked with ice. I knew it was going to be hard to protect and moved up gingerly, working hard to try and find a crucial runner. I got three psychological-only runners and continued, telling myself I would not go another move higher without finding a solid piece of protection. 6 metres higher, I was still in the same position, having ignored my own ultimatum for about 15 moves in a row. I was gripped, with legs shaking and looking at a 60 foot ground fall if a tool ripped, so I was very careful and kept a cool head.
After about 25 minutes of excavating verglas, shaking and gibbering, I got a hex in and could relax again. From a hanging belay above I could see that the next pitch had a desperate looking overhang, again looking hard to protect as well as climb. Typical Ben Nevis. I told Helen I'd go up and arrange what gear I could and then make a decision if I should commit to the overhang.
The gear was mostly rubbish, but one sort of okay cam convinced me not to rig an abseil straight away. I hung in for ages, totally pumped trying to place a small ice hook. After countless attempts I finally got it to at least not fall out, but it was clearly rubbish. I was unsure what to do. A fall from over the lip would end up on the slab below the belay and it looked hard, if only for a short way.
Eventually I switched my brain off and committed, arms on the last of their reserves. I am still here to write this, so I didn't make any mistakes.
To follow the dragon naming theme from our route Red Dragon just to the left, we called the route Night Fury, IX, 9. My arms were so tired, it was an effort to hold the pen and write the description in the CIC hut new routes book.
Descending back into Observatory Gully with very tired arms.
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Labels: Scottish bouldering, winter climbing
Friday, 4 March 2016
Sundance on Beinn Eighe
Mixed climbing doesn't always need to be a sufferfest - enjoying solid hooks and gear on the crux of Sundance VIII,8 on Beinn Eighe
I'm more torn than ever about how to focus my climbing time at the moment. With various factors coming together I feel like I've made some real progress in my bouldering and very keen to capitalise on it and keep training as hard as I have been over the past couple of weeks.
But winter action is here too. I was away last week and missed the excellent looking weekend in Scotland. Since I got home the other night, I was desperate to get back out and swing my ice tools on something. I arranged to climb with Steve Perry and he mentioned he had wanted to climb 'Sundance' VIII,8 on Beinn Eighe for a long time.
On a good forecast I rolled out of bed at 2.45 still stiff from my boulder training and jumped in the car with a monster cup of tea. We met Murdo, Uisdean and Ian Parnell in the car park and walked in with them having a good chat before they headed off for their project of the day. After an 8am breakfast on the summit ridge, we headed round to the cliff which was in fine rimed condition and sporting some good looking bits of ice on Sundance.
The crux 2nd pitch was excellent, solid hooks and bomber gear all the way. After the first few moves, the hooks were massive 'hero hooks' (as Ian put it) that were so secure, so I could enjoy the surroundings as I climbed as well as on the belay. The next pitch was just more of the same, pulling over small roofs onto icicles with sinker placements and good gear.
So do I choose boulder training, and climb something pretty hard in another month or so, or do my usual all-rounder attempt to be a Jack of all trades but master of none…?
Lovely still morning walking round to Far East Wall
Good conditions - a rare moment when I find myself being in the right place at the right time in winter.
Some gnarlies eyeing up todays action.
Testing out my new Prohpet jacket - If you like the Fitzroy, you may get still more excited about this one. Well I do, anyway.
Walking out with a nice view over to Liathach
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Labels: winter climbing
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In last week's blog post about a Phags-pa Uyghur inscription at Dunhuang, I mentioned that there are very few extant examples of Uyghur written in the Phags-pa script, so this week I thought I'd take a look at some examples of Phags-pa Uyghur seal imprints on 14th century Old Uyghur and Mongolian documents. It turns out that that the place where you can find the largest number of manuscripts with Phags-pa Uyghur seal imprints is the Berlin Turfan-Collection of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Fifteen Old Uyghur documents and the seal impressions on them are discussed in detail in a 1998 paper by Matsui Dai entitled "Uigur Administrative Orders Bearing 'Qutluγ-seals'". Matsui notes in the abstract that the documents are administrative orders for delivering various objects such as flour, and that "they are issued by a single group of officers and dated to the 14th century when Uiguristan was under the domination of Chaghatai-ulu".
Drawings of six types of seals on Uyghur documents (Matsui 1998 Fig. 1)
The table below lists some examples of seal imprints in Phags-pa (and other scripts for completeness) that I have noticed on Old Uyghur and Mongolian manuscripts in the Berlin Turfan-Collection. Many of the seals are virtually illegible, but some of them, as in the example below, are relatively clear and easy to read.
Uyghur administrative order (U 5297) with a Phags-pa Qutluɣ seal
The top seal in the above document illustrates the most common Phags-pa Uyghur inscription, which is simply the word ꡢꡟꡉ ꡙꡟꡢ quth luq (Old Uyghur qutluɣ), meaning "good luck" or "good fortune" [Matsui Type A]. The Phags-pa word quth luq occurs on at least eleven seals in the table below. In seven examples the word quth luq occurs by itself, but in three examples it is prefixed by the Phags-pa word ꡄꡞꡋ cin (Old Uyghur čïn), meaning "true, sincere" [Matsui Type E]. With a slightly different spelling the same word also occurs on a jade seal with the Old Uyghur inscription ꡅꡞꡋ ꡉꡦꡟ ꡂꡦꡙ chin thėu gėl (Old Uyghur čïn tükäl), meaning "true perfection". Thus, on these seals cin quth luq (Old Uyghur čïn qutluɣ) means "true good fortune" (Matsui translates into Japanese as "真に幸運な). The eleventh qutluɣ seal (MongHT 071) was the first to be noticed, in 1909, on a Mongolian document, and has the longest inscription : ꡡ ꡘꡡꡋ ꡢꡟꡊ ꡙꡟꡢ ꡌꡡꡙ ꡛꡟꡋ o ron qud luq pol sun (orun qutluɣ bolzun) "May there be good fortune [in this] country".
Many of the seals also bear a tamga in the form of an inverted Tibetan letter Cha (), which was commonly used on coins issued by several Chaghatayid khans (1226–1388), in particular Duwa (reigned AH 681–706, AD 1282–1307). It is thus known as the "Chaghatayid tamga" or "Duwa tamga".
Zeno 29117 : Chaghatayid, AR dinar, Muhammad Khan (AH 740–741, AD 1339–1340), Tirmidh Madinat al-Rijal AH 741 (AD 1340), with tamga of Duwa on reverse
In addition to the qutluɣ seals, there are several seals with other inscriptions in Phags-pa script. Two seals (U 5316 and U 5323) have a Phags-pa inscription that looks like ꡂꡨꡦꡙ gyėl on the righthand side, and the same text rotated 180° on the lefthand side [Matsui Type D], which perhaps represents Tibetan rgyal རྒྱལ་ "king", with fronting of the a after the gy- (cf. the spelling of buyan as buyėn and qaya as qayė in the Phags-pa inscription at Dunhuang). Another seal (U 5303) has an incomplete inscription ꡌꡦ ... ꡂꡦ ... pė[...] gė[...] which I cannot provide a plausible reading for. One last seal (MongHT 071) has an inscription which I provisionally read as ꡁꡦꡘ ꡏ ꡋꡟ ꡍ ꡁꡦ ꡍꡟ khėr ma nu pha khė phu, but I am unsure how to interpret this, or even what language this is (khėr could be Mongolian "how", and manu could be Mongolian "our", but that does not make a lot of sense).
There is one seal only that has a definite Chinese Phags-pa inscription (U 5312, in Phags-pa seal script and imprinted in red). It is incomplete, but I read it as ꡂꡡꡋ ꡙꡞꡃ ꡟ ꡔꡞꡋ gon l[iŋ] u ži[n], corresponding to Chinese Guǎnlǐng Wú Rén 管領吳仁, where guǎnlǐng 管領 "supervisor" is the title of a Yuan dynasty official who oversees staff in a government agency (Hucker #3318), and Wu Ren is the name of the official.
Seals on Old Uyghur and Mongolian Documents
|Old Uyghur ? plus Chaghatayid tamga .
|oṁ (Sanskrit).
|Old Uyghur.
|ꡢꡟꡉ ꡙꡟꡢ
|Phags-pa quth luq = Old Uyghur qutluɣ "good fortune".
|ꡢꡟꡉ ꡙꡟꡢ
|Phags-pa quth luq = Old Uyghur qutluɣ "good fortune".
|oṁ (Sanskrit).
|ꡢꡟꡉ ꡙꡟꡢ
|Phags-pa quth luq = Old Uyghur qutluɣ "good fortune".
|Old Uyghur qutluɣ "good fortune" twice.
|Old Uyghur qutluɣ "good fortune" twice.
|ꡄꡞꡋ ꡢꡟꡉ ꡙꡟꡢ
|Phags-pa cin quth luq = Old Uyghur čïn qutluɣ "true good fortune" plus Chaghatayid tamga .
|Old Uyghur ?
|Persian ? (Matsui suggests Brāhmī).
|ꡄꡞꡋ ꡢꡟꡉ ꡙꡟꡢ
|Phags-pa cin quth luq = Old Uyghur čïn qutluɣ "true good fortune".
|Old Uyghur ? plus Chaghatayid tamga .
|ꡌꡦ ... ꡂꡦ ...
|Phags-pa pė[...] gė[...]. pė- is an unusual spelling, which does not occur in Chinese (this initial/vowel combination is not attested in Měnggǔ Zìyùn), and would not be expected in Mongolian or Uyghur, which do not have an initial p- in native words, although possibly it represents Old Uyghur bä[-] (e.g. bäg "lord"). However, it is also possible that pė- is a mistake for the graphically similar lė- (cf. MongHT 071 where pol sun is miswritten pop sun), although that does not give an obvious reading either.
|Flower design.
|Phags-pa ?
|ꡢꡟꡉ ꡙꡟꡢ
|Phags-pa quth luq = Old Uyghur qutluɣ "good fortune".
|ꡂꡡꡋ ꡙꡞꡃ ꡟ ꡔꡞꡋ
|Phags-pa gon l[iŋ] u ži[n] = Chinese Guǎnlǐng Wú Rén 管領吳仁 "Supervisor Wu Ren". The Phags-pa letters are written in the seal script style that is normal for Chinese Phags-pa official seals; this is different to the Phags-pa Uyghur seal inscriptions, which use ordinary Phags-pa letters.
|ꡢꡟꡉ ꡙꡟꡢ
|Phags-pa quth luq = Old Uyghur qutluɣ "good fortune".
|Phags-pa gyėl ? = Tibetan rgyal རྒྱལ་ "king" ? on each side with rotational symmetry, plus Chaghatayid tamga .
|Chaghatayid tamga .
|Persian ? (Matsui suggests Brāhmī).
|Phags-pa gyėl ? = Tibetan rgyal རྒྱལ་ "king" ? on each side with rotational symmetry, plus Chaghatayid tamga .
|Persian ? (Matsui suggests Brāhmī).
|ꡄꡞꡋ ꡢꡟꡉ ꡙꡟꡢ
|Phags-pa [cin?] quth luq = Old Uyghur čïn qutluɣ "true good fortune" plus Chaghatayid tamga .
|Old Uyghur qutluɣ "good fortune" ?
|ꡢꡟꡉ ꡙꡟꡢ
|Phags-pa quth luq = Old Uyghur qutluɣ "good fortune".
|ꡢꡟꡉ ꡙꡟꡢ
|Phags-pa quth luq = Old Uyghur qutluɣ "good fortune".
|Illegible plus Chaghatayid tamga .
|MongHT 071 page 1
|ꡡ ꡘꡡꡋ ꡢꡟꡊ ꡙꡟꡢ ꡌꡡꡌ ꡛꡟꡋ
|Phags-pa o ron qud luq pop sun (pop is a mistake for the graphically similar pol) = Old Uyghur orun qutluɣ bolzun "May there be good fortune [in this] country". In addition to the miswriting of Phags-pa letter LA (ꡙ) as Phags-pa letter PA (ꡌ), the letters of each syllable are disjointed (not ligatured as required in normal Phags-pa writing), indicating that the inscription was copied by someone who was not very familiar with the Phags-pa script. Orthographically, the final -d for qut where the other seals have -th is unexpected but plausible, and the initial p- for bol is not that unusual (cf. the Phags-pa spelling of pur xan for Mongolian burqan "Buddha"). The formula qutluɣ bolzun "May you have good fortune!" is very common, but I cannot find another example of the expression preceded by oron ~ orun "place, seat, throne, territory, country", which I assume here indicates "[in this] country, may there be good fortune".
|Chaghatayid tamga in centre of an eight-petalled flower with Brāhmī letters (?) or symbols on each petal.
|MongHT 071 page 2
|ꡁꡦꡘ ꡏ ꡋꡟ ꡍ ꡁꡦ ꡍꡟ
|Phags-pa khėr ma nu pha khė phu (?) plus Chaghatayid tamga . The Phags-pa inscription is written sideways, and can be seen at the correct orientation by rotating the seal imprint anticlockwise 90° (click on the image to rotate).
|Chaghatayid tamga .
|Chaghatayid tamga .
|MongHT 074
|Unknown writing (Mongolian?) on both sides, plus three tamgas in middle (Chaghatayid tamga at bottom ?).
|MongHT 071 recto
|Unknown writing on both sides, plus Chaghatayid tamga .
|MongHT 076 verso
|Illegible (Brāhmī ?).
|Vajra design ?
|Uncertain (Brāhmī ?).
In addition to the above examples, the following manuscripts have, or have been claimed to have, Phags-pa Uyghur seals :
- U 3908 — this manuscript has five small seal imprints on it, one or more of which Zieme 1974 apparently reads as Phags-pa qutluɣ, but in my opinion none of these seals have Phags-pa inscriptions on them, and it is doubtful that they are even writing.
- U 5510 — Matsui states that this document has two Phags-pa seals (his types D and E), but for the life of me I cannot see them anywhere.
- U 5232 — this manuscript has two small seal imprints on it, one of which Zieme 1974 apparently reads as Phags-pa qutluɣ, but in my opinion neither of these seals have Phags-pa inscriptions on them, and it is doubtful that they are even writing.
- K 7719 (中国国家博物馆) — Matsui states this has one seal imprint (his type A), but I have not seen this manuscript.
- Ot. Ry. 8127 (谷大学大宮図書館) — Matsui states this has four seal imprints (his types A, C, D and E), but I have not seen this manuscript.
- Istanbul No. 12 (İstanbul Üniversitesi Merkez Kütüphanesi) — Matsui states this has two seal imprints (his types A and C), but I have not seen this manuscript.
- Matsui Dai (松井太), "Uigur Administrative Orders Bearing 'Qutluγ-seals'"; in Studies on Inner Asian Languages 13 (1998) pages 1–62.
- G. J. Ramstedt, "Mongolische Briefe aus Idiqut-Schähri"; in Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1909) pages 838–848.
- Peter Zieme, "Ein uigurischer Landverkaufsvertrag aus Murtuq"; in Altorientalische Forschungen vol.1 (1974) pages 295–308.
- Peter Zieme, "Turkic Fragments in 'Phags-Pa Script"; in Studies on Inner Asian Languages 13 (1998) pages 63–69.
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VCU will learn its NCAA matchup in the 64-team field Tuesday, April 29 at 5:30 pm on the NCAA Selection Show, which can be viewed on NCAA.com.
The doubles team of Olga Barscheuskaya and Daria Yakauleva won first at No. 1 doubles, beating Stephanie Hollis and Brooke Urzendowski, 8-1. Salome Kvitashvili and Yukako Noi followed with an 8-2 win at No. 2 singles over Aspen Cervin and Madison Cook to clinch the doubles point.
Barscheuskaya opened singles play with a 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 5 singles over Maria Toro Moreno. Ludivine Burguiere defeated Cook, 6-1, 6-2 in No. 6 singles to put VCU up 3-0. Kvitashvili finished the VCU victory with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Urzendowski at No. 4 singles.
2014 Atlantic 10 Conference Women's Tennis Championship
Match 12 – Sunday, April 27 – 10:00 am
#1 VCU def. #2 Saint Louis, 4-0
Cindy Chala (VCU) vs. Aspen Cervin (SLU), 6-3, 1-4 DNF
Yukako Noi (VCU) vs. Stephanie Hollis (SLU), 6-4, 3-0 DNF
Daria Yakauleva (VCU) vs. Natalia Yacaman (SLU), 6-3, 3-1 DNF
Salome Kvitashvili (VCU) def. Brooke Urzendowski (SLU), 6-1, 6-2
Olga Barscheuskaya (VCU) def. Maria Toro Moreno (SLU), 6-0, 6-0
Ludivine Burguiere (VCU) def. Madison Cook (SLU), 6-1, 6-2
Order of finish: #5, #6, #4
Barscheuskaya/Yakauleva (VCU) def. Hollis/Urzendowski (SLU), 8-1
Kvitashvili /Noi (VCU) def. Cervin/Cook (SLU), 8-2
Chala/Burguiere (VCU) vs. Toro Moreno/Yacaman (SLU), 4-2 DNF
Order of finish: #1, #2


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I-405 Express Toll Lanes Part 1: What is the problem?
Posted by Unknown in I-405, I-405 express toll lanes, toll lanes, tolls on Monday, February 23, 2015
By Jennifer Rash
Big changes are coming for I-405 drivers later this year. We're building express toll lanes on southbound and northbound I-405 between Bellevue and Lynnwood to help ease traffic on one of the state's most congested corridors. One of the biggest changes coming this fall is a proposed change in the HOV requirements from two or more people to three or more people during peak commute hours, part of the toll rate and exemption proposal by the Washington State Transportation Commission.
We've heard a variety of reactions from folks about this proposal, and decided to tackle some of them in a two-part blog series. In this first post, we will discuss the problem we're facing through a series of common questions we've received. In the second part, we'll talk about how express toll lanes are part of the solution for I-405.
The ABC's of HOV Lanes
To get to the solution, we have to start at the beginning. Return with me, won't you, to November 1992. Aladdin opened at the box office, in Nashville, the great Miley Cyrus was born, and in Olympia, WSDOT adopted its Statewide Freeway HOV Policy. It was a magical time.
The main goal of HOV lanes was (and still is) to maximize the movement of people rather than vehicles, whether that's in a carpool, vanpool or bus. The target is to keep traffic moving consistently at a minimum speed of 45 mph to provide a reliable trip. By reducing the number of single-occupant vehicles on the roadway, HOV lanes also help improve traffic in the regular lanes. For example, when 15 people opt to get out of their cars to ride the bus or carpool with a co-worker, it removes up to 15 cars from the general purpose lanes.
|Animation illustrating how HOV lanes work.
In 1994, the HOV Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Report showed that the majority of respondents in a public opinion survey supported HOV lanes and overwhelming supported that all HOV lanes should be open to vehicles with two or more people.
What's happening with HOV lanes on I-405 now?
|Congested HOV lane on I-405.
What is causing the increased demand?
There's a clear connection between the break down in the I-405 HOV lanes and population growth on the eastside. U.S. Census data shows that over the last 10 years, Seattle's population grew seven percent, while the population on the Eastside, from roughly the Snohomish County line to Newcastle and everything east of Lake Washington to the crest of the Cascades, increased 15 percent.
Washington's residential and employment populations are only projected to increase. In the years ahead, the population of the city of Portland will be added to our region. We have a tremendous challenge to accommodate this massive growth.
Shouldn't growth mean building more regular lanes?
That's a common perception, but over the long term, it's been shown time and time again that new lanes eventually become congested and simply add to the problem. We also must keep in mind that continually adding lanes our highways could also have impacts to local streets. We know from experience here and across the nation that we cannot simply build our way out of congestion, and we know that we need to get creative to manage the growing demand on our roadways. One of the best ways to do that is to learn from what's working in other states facing similar challenges.
What is WSDOT doing to create solutions for increasing demand on I-405?
Over the last decade, WSDOT has worked with cities, counties, federal agencies, transit agencies and community groups to develop consensus on a long-term vision for the multimodal redevelopment of this highway. We adopted a multi-modal approach to ease congestion on I-405 that included, adding more lanes, improvements to local roads, increasing transit service, adding park and ride spaces and vanpools, and the possibility for an express toll lane system.
After three published studies on I-405 express toll lanes, one of which was review by a panel of nation experts, WSDOT is implementing express toll lanes on I-405. Express toll lanes are a proven strategy for congestion relief that have been implemented, studied and expanded across the country.
In the next post, we'll discuss how express toll lanes will work in Washington as part of the solution for I-405.
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All players need to do to participate is purchase a $50 contest wagering card at the Twin Spires Club Center at the designated location on day of each contest and play a minimum of five races from that day's card at Hawthorne Race Course.
Players will compete for berths in Coast Casino's Horseplayer World Series to be held in the winter of 2010. The winner of each contest will earn a berth and an additional season-long "wild-card" berth will be awarded to the person with the best cumulative score over the eight contests who did not win an individual event in the series.
"We wanted to add additional opportunities for our everyday players to have a chance to win their way into the major Las Vegas handicapping tournaments," said Wesley Ward, manager of marketing and advertising for Arlington Park. "The Trackside Handicapping Contests are particularly attractive options since there is no entry fee into the contest as the $50 contest card players purchase is actually their live bankroll for the contest."
Each contest will be organic to a typical day at the track, meaning that players will have the flexibility to wager in more pools (Win, Place, Show, Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, and multi-race wagers such as the Pick 3 and Pick 4) than in most other contests and have freedom to participate from any location within the designated Trackside OTB facility as there is no need for assigned contest wagering windows. However, all wagers must be made using the contest card at self service terminals only and play a minimum of $10 per race. However, they may invest winnings into future wagers. For complete contest rules, visit Arlington Park's revamped Web site at http://www.arlingtonpark.com.
On each designated contest day, Chicago Sun-Times handicapper and HorsePlayer magazine Midwest correspondent M. Scott McMannis will conduct a handicapping seminar on that day's Hawthorne card beginning at Noon and will remain on hand to answer questions throughout the afternoon.
"I have enjoyed meeting racing fans from all over the area as I have toured the Trackside OTBs over the last year and a half," said McMannis. "I have loved teaching about horseracing and handicapping in a variety of venues for more than 25 years and I am excited to continue these seminars in 2009 plus with the contest element, astute handicappers have a chance to not only win money but earn berths into major national handicapping contests."
The complete schedule of contests and seminars follow:
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Saturday, March 7 Trackside Arlington Park
Saturday, March 14 Trackside Hodgkins
Saturday, March 21 Trackside Chicago
Saturday, March 28 Trackside South Elgin
Saturday, April 4 Trackside Lockport
Saturday, April 11 Trackside Waukegan
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As this is our last post of the year, everyone here at Whoopsi Daisy would like to wish all of our followers and supporters a very
Thank you for supporting us and taking part in our challenges throughout 2012, it would not be the same without you. We very much hope to see you back for more fun and creativity in 2013.
The winner of last weeks challenge, chosen at random, is:
Our Top Three has been chosen by me, Pauline, there weren't that many entries last week - you're obviously all a bit busy with the Christmas preparations - but it still wasn't easy to choose three from the fabulous entries that we did have,I did get there in the end though and after much deliberation these are my three favourites:
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The hubbub of Christmas always brings with it a flood of childhood memories.
We were poor so our Christmas preparations were not about shopping for gifts in fact gifts in our whole extended family were just not a priority. What mattered was preparing food for "réveillon" after Midnight Mass and preparing a great meal for Christmas dinner wherever that would take place.
Réveillon was a "celebration" after Midnight Mass that sort of kicked of the rest of Christmas day. Of course, it was about breaking bread together as we would say today. It was a must to have tourtière (french meat pies) and apple pies that Mémère usually prepared for the family.
As children, we all looked forward to being allowed to stay up on Christmas Eve in anticipation of leaving just before 11:00p.m. for church. Midnight Mass was so well attended that it was difficult to find a seat if you did not go early. As parishioners of "La Paroisse Ste-Anne" (Ste-Anne Parish) in Lawrence, Massachusetts, we were privileged to have a chapel where daily mass was celebrated in what we called the "big" church where all special celebrations such as Christmas and Easter was celebrated as well as Sunday masses.
The chapel had once been the parish church until it became too small for the number of families in the parish. Above the chapel was a beautiful parish hall that included a balcony. All parish events were very well attended and at times there was standing room only once all of the seats were filled. Eventually, the chapel was converted into a second parish hall. In the upper hall, school plays, turkey cheers and big events were held. In the lower hall the parish would sponsor whist parties and the like. (Whist was a popular card game at the time.)
My grandmother (accompanied by me) would always arrive at church early and save the pew for other family members. I remember the then pastor Père (Father) Forestier who was a member of the Society of Mary (Marist). He had seen the completion of our beautiful new "big" church. He was beloved by all parishioners and was greatly appreciated for his devotion and dedication to the parish. I remember some of the scaffolding was still up when we attended our first Midnight Mass in the big church. It had not been possible to take it all down by Christmas. No machines to do these things in those days.
The parish choir lead by Mrs. Desjardins who was our organist and choir director would begin to sing Christmas carols at 11:00p.m. I remember sitting and listening and soon I was dozing while leaning against my Mémère's very comfortable fur coat. Just as mass was about to be celebrated she would nudge me awake - I was always surprised to see the rest of the family had arrived unnoticed by me.
So many people attended Midnight Mass that communion could last anywhere from a half hour or more. My grandmother always sat in the first pew so I got to see all of my uncles, aunts and cousins pass by as they went to communion.
Midnight Mass was always the ultimate in ushering in the Birth of Jesus. We all loved it and it was a very special time for our families. There was always a big beautiful manger in the big church as well as in the chapel. My Mémère had a special crêche she would take out. I remember it had little angels and she had fashioned wings made out of yellow cellophane. Everything was gorgeous - the angels, baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph were set in a log cabin setting. Something that had come with her family when they migrated from Canada. You could tell this was very special to her because of the care she took in displaying her crêche.
After Midnight Mass, réveillon would take place at one of my uncle's homes (my mother's brothers) because most of the time Christmas dinner was at our home. I remember my mother staying up a good portion of the night so everything would be ready for noon on Christmas day with aunts, uncles and cousins arriving between 11:00-11:30 a.m. I would awake on Christmas morning to the smell ragou, turkey in the oven, tourtière and apple pies. Dinner time seemed so far away to the child that I was!
So when Christmas time rolls around, my head is flooded with wonderful memories of what it was like to celebrate Christmas back then. Nostalgia fills the air as well as a longing for parents, grandparents, siblings and extended family. When I was growing up, family was everything and as mentioned before, celebrating Christmas was never about gifts - either giving or receiving - Christmas was about being together, having an unforgettable dinner prepared by Mama and spending the rest of the day together talking, singing, laughing, playing and have a memorable day. Mama and a couple of uncles played the harmonica and others played the spoons. It didn't take much to entertain ourselves in those days. Life was good! Where has all that simplicity gone?!
I will be back with more "Childhood Memories". Meanwhile, I hope you all have such wonderful family memories of Christmas past to recall as you prepare for Christmas 2009.
Your cousin Lucie
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Although talent management is a constantly changing concept, it has become an integral part of business planning. There is, however, still a lack of clarity about the core skill sets needed to manage human capital effectively. The research conducted for this report focused on determining the critical competencies talent management leaders need to contribute to and enhance business outcomes. These competencies include the mental agility to think strategically and the political sense to successfully communicate whatever changes are needed. To find what other steps are needed to take talent management leaders where they need to go, read this report.


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Award-Winning Campuses
Several institutions and commissions give out annual awards to schools that are displaying excellent programs in learning outcomes and assessment. Below are description of the programs and corresponding annual winners.
CHEA Award for Institutional Progress in Student Learning Outcomes
AGLS Award for the Improvement of General Education: Exemplary Program Award
ACPA Emerging Best Practices in Assessment Awards
CHEA Award for Institutional Progress in Student Learning Outcomes
Each year the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) awards colleges and universities that have made Institutional Progress in Student Learning Outcomes. Winners are listed below.
2014 CHEA Award
Eastern Kentucky University
Assurance of Learning page
Excelsior College
Liberal Studies Program page
The Citadel
Strategic Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Effectiveness page
2013 CHEA Award
Drake University
Environmental Science & Policy page
Harold Washington College
Assessment at Harold Washington College page
St. Luke's College
Education Programs page
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
College of Business Administration page
2012 CHEA Award
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Tech's International Plan page
Rio Salado College
Assessment of Student Learning page
University of California, Merced
Program Learning Outcomes Resources page
2011 CHEA Award
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
DLIFLC Home page
James Madison University Social Work Program
Department of Social Work page
Miami Dade College
Learning Outcomes page
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy
Assessment/Strategic Plan page
2010 CHEA Award
Capella University
Capella Learning & Career Outcomes page
Portland State University
Honors program page
University Studies Program page
St. Olaf College
Office of Institutional Research and Evaluation page
University of Arkansas- Fort Smith College of Education
Student Learning vision and history page
2009 CHEA Award
Delaware Technical & Community College
See the Institutional Effectiveness Structure, click here.
Northern Arizona University
See the recent report by the Office of Academic Assessment, click here.
2008 CHEA Award
See the Assessment Website, click here.
See each degree program's AOL report of student learning outcomes, assessments and improvements that is updated annually and published on the CETL website, click here.
See how they assist other institutions in developing their own assurance of learning processes, click here.
2007 CHEA Award
Bowling Green State University
This link is BGSU student achievement assessment home, assessment central.
Mesa Community College, Arizona
The faculty defined student learning outcomes in nine areas-- to visit their office of research and assessment Web site, click here.
Oral Roberts University, Oklahoma
ORU's Whole Person Assessment is comprised of a university-wide electronic portfolio system that tracks student learning.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Indiana
Rose-Hulman also uses ePortfolios, click here to find out more.
University of Saint Mary, Kansas
The Master of Arts in Education and Master of Arts in Teaching Program (distance learning) combined to design specific outcomes for graduates from these programs.
AGLS Award for the Improvement of General Education: Exemplary Program Award
The Association for General Learning and Liberal Studies is a group committed to the quality of general education programs. Since 2007 AGLS has "recognized the creative program accomplishments produced by general education faculty and administrators committed to ongoing improvement." Winners are listed below. To find out more information about the specific institution or about the award, please visit the AGLS website.
2012 Award Recipient: Wofford College
2011 Award Recipients: George Mason University & Stetson University
For more information on the 2011 Award Recipients, view the press release here.
2010 Award Recipients: Carleton College, Champlain College, Wright State University
2009 Award Recipient: James Madison University
2008 Award Recipients: Miami Dade College and University of North Dakota
2007 Award Recipients: Portland State University, Eastern Michigan University, and University of North Carolina at Asheville
ACPA Emerging Best Practices in Assessment Awards
The Commission for Assessment and Evaluation within ACPA, College Student Educators International, began awarding in 2007.
2009 Awards for Assessment of Best Practices in Student Learning and Development
Department of University Housing, Office of Staff Development and Judicial Programs
Orientation Office and Center for Assessment and Research Studies
2008 Awards for Emerging Best Practices in Student Learning and Development Outcomes
Bridgewater State University
"Self Assessed Gains from Student Affairs Experience"
James Madison University
"Civic Learning: Impacting Students One at a Time"
The Ohio State University
Departmental Program Review
"To help all students acquire essential learning outcomes, assessment must evolve from a compliance-driven exercise to one where student learning results are used in decision making and resource allocation."
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Editor's note: Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Arsenal of Democracy " and a book on former President Carter to be published next fall by Times Books. He is also the editor of a new book about former President George W. Bush to be published next fall by Princeton University Press.
(CNN) -- During a speech at an event called "Freedom Fest," former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin warned Tea Party activists that while government spending was a bad thing, conservatives should not go too far and start calling for reductions in the military budget.
While Palin told the crowd in Norfolk, Virginia, "Something has to be done urgently to stop the out-of-control Obama-Reid-Pelosi spending machine," she also told them, "We must make sure, however, that we do nothing to undermine the effectiveness of our military."
Palin's speech touched on a historic problem for the conservative movement. Ever since conservatives embraced a hawkish stance toward national security policy in the early Cold War in the late 1940s and started to challenge Democrats for not being tough enough, national security has always been the poison pill for anti-government conservatism.
Despite all their rhetoric about the dangers of government intervention and the virtues of private markets, conservatives have rather consistently supported an expansion of the government when it comes to national security.
There was a time when there were prominent conservative voices that were more skeptical. Ohio Sen. Robert Taft, "Mr. Republican," tried to prevent the expansion of the national security state after World War II. Taft opposed President Truman as Truman pushed to grow the government in the fight against communism. Taft warned that total security was impossible and that if Americans created a garrison state to fight communism, politicians would destroy the "America we are trying to preserve."
But Taft's arguments were drowned out by a more hawkish Republican outlook. The intellectual William Buckley, who founded the National Review in 1955, argued that conservatives had to "accept Big Government for the duration -- for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged ... except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores."
Buckley wrote that Republicans "will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington -- even with Truman at the reins of it all." Buckley's National Review became a central outlet for such opinions. In response to libertarian critics, Buckley explained, "National security is a proper concern for the libertarian because without it he stands to lose -- in this case -- all his freedom."
Since the 1950s, Republicans have embraced Buckley's arguments, and the party has championed a strong and expansive national security state. During the 1980s, President Reagan followed Buckley's approach.
On the one hand, Reagan railed against Washington when it came to domestic problems, saying, "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is our problem." Yet when it came to national security, he acted and sounded very different. Working with Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Reagan pushed for huge increases in defense spending. In March 1981, Reagan proposed the largest military budget since World War II, and for the next four years, defense spending would constitute 30 percent of the federal budget.
Colin Powell -- the senior military assistant to Weinberger, whose nickname was Cap -- later wrote, "The once-feared Cap the Knife had become, to his critics, Cap the Ladle." Reagan reversed the trend of declining military spending that Congress had undertaken since 1968. Reagan was confident that Americans agreed with this approach: "When I was asked during the campaign about what I would do if it came down to a choice between defense and deficits, I always said national security would come first, and the people applauded every time."
In truth, once conservatives were in power they also started to expand a good deal of domestic spending as well, sometimes learning to live with the continued power of Democrats on Capitol Hill and other times realizing that constituents, including conservatives, often wanted the very government services that Republicans derided.
While Reagan was president the federal budget continued to grow, Social Security and Medicare were protected -- after Reagan backed off an early effort to cut benefits -- and the number of civil servants increased.
While Republicans were often reluctant in their acceptance of domestic spending, they continued to enthusiastically champion government when it came to national security. This was where, to the GOP, government was the answer.
Following 9/11, President George W. Bush relied on government as the solution to the nation's problems. In addition to significant increases in defense spending, Bush authorized a massive expansion of executive power in order to provide the federal government more power to fight against terrorist networks. The Patriot Act (2001), for example, vastly enhanced the authority of the government to use wiretaps, to search the material of third parties that possessed records pertaining to suspected terrorists, and to close down fundraising organizations connected with terrorism.
As in Reagan's presidency, other forms of spending increased as well. Bush famously passed the largest expansion of Medicare by adding a prescription drug benefit, and Republicans passed a big agricultural subsidy measure. When financial markets crashed in the fall of 2008, Bush secured a huge federal bailout of Wall Street to create a modicum of economic stability.
Importantly, Democrats have their own inconsistencies. While the Democratic Party has generally supported using the federal government to deal with economic and social problems, many Democrats have expressed deep distrust of federal officials when it comes to national security. They have warned that government and military officials act based on their own agenda or in response to the needs of a defense establishment.
But when it comes to Republicans, Palin's recent comments at the conservative rally show why voters should take right-wing arguments about the dangers of government with a grain of salt. While conservative activists like to talk about a choice between big government and small government, the real debate is over what kinds of government we must have, what our priorities should be, and where our federal money should be directed.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian E. Zelizer.


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text: Nowadays, Justin Theroux is mostly known as the future Mr. Jennifer Aniston. But she wasn't even the first Friend the actor, screenwriter and director worked with. (That'd be Lisa Kudrow in 1997's Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion.) This son of lawyer and a writer, who graduated from Vermont's Bennington College, had been toiling in Hollywood since the mid-90s. His first film was I Shot Andy Warhol in 1996 and he has since been seen in Zoolander, Charlie's Angels, American Psycho, Mulholland Drive and Tropic Thunder, which he co-wrote. He's also done quite a bit of memorable TV work on Strangers With Candy, Six Feet Under and Parks and Recreation. The current Leftovers leading man met his future fiancée on the set of 2012's Wanderlust. A year after he split with his girlfriend of 14 years, stylist Heidi Bivens, in 2011, he and the A-lister announced their engagement.


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Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu is in Quebec.
Located 50 km (31 mi) southeast of Montreal on the shores of the Richelieu River, the current incarnation of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu was created in 2001 when the neighbouring municipalities of Saint-Luc, Iberville, Saint-Athanase, L'Acadie and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu were amalgamated into one city. Situated in an area rich with fertile soil, agrotourism is one of the region's biggest draws, boasting orchards and cider-houses, vineyards and wineries, maple sugar shacks and more.
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You can look for a place to stay and other tourism information about Québec at the Government of Québec's official tourist site.[2]
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