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Mount Rainier Climber's Log
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jvarholak | DC Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2006 | |
DC Route.....crowded slog....beautiful mountain and great weather though....did I say crowded yet? a must climb for everyone......she's such an aesthetically pleasing peak | ||
Posted Jun 30, 2007 4:58 pm |
ccrecente | Kautz route success Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2007 | |
A great day on the route. We missed the alpine start due to high winds, but they died down in the morning and stayed that way the rest of the day. We were able to get up and back down before dark by moving quickly. All in all, one of my best experiences in the mountains! | ||
Posted Jun 27, 2007 11:53 am |
cms829 | DC Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2007 | |
Summited rainier via DC 6/22/07. amazing climb in some crazy winds. great route in great shape! what an incredible mountain! | ||
Posted Jun 27, 2007 12:50 am |
Andy Dewey | Route Climbed: Disappointment Cleaver Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2007 | |
Awesome day, beautiful weather! | ||
Posted Jun 27, 2007 12:37 am |
J Fox | Disappointment Cleaver Date Climbed: Aug 7, 1998 | |
I climbed this with the University of Idaho Outdoor Program when I was in grad school. This was a huge climb. It was my first 14,000 footer, my first glacier climb and my first 2 day climb. This was a long slog and we were all pretty tired by the time we summited. I lost 2 water bottles along the way and was pretty dehyrated by the time we made it back down to Camp Muir. It sure is a fun descent from Camp Muir, we were able to glissade pretty much all the way down. At that point in my life this had been my hardest physical experience and it will always be a trip well worth remembering. | ||
Posted Jun 26, 2007 12:01 pm |
hiker100 | ROUTE:DC Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2006 | |
Excellent climb. Lots of Snow. Perfect Weather | ||
Posted Jun 24, 2007 2:20 am |
Tbacon251 | Made it!! Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2007 | |
Two friends and myself made our way to the cold and windy summit around 9:00 am. The view was great from the top!!! Took the DC route. | ||
Posted Jun 24, 2007 12:19 am |
Karl Helser | Windy at the summit... Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2007 | |
Awesome climb! We did this as a three-day climb. Long slog to Camp Muir. First night was pleasant. Next morning up at 1:00am and climbing by 2:30am Our seven person group broke up in a three person team A and a four person team B. Crevasses opening up. Narrow snow bridges. We encountered wind at 12,500 and it got worse as we climbed closer to the summit. Maybe 55-65 mph sustained winds at the summit. Got back to camp around 4-5pm tired and whooped! We decided to stay the night and get a good nights rest. I hit the goose down by 7:00pm, just about the time the wind really started to pick up. Between 7pm and 4am the next morning the wind was hitting gusts up to 70+ mph. One persons tent did not survive, others barely... The morning was clear above and cloud covered below. The hike down from camp was quick with a few glissade shots. | ||
Posted Jun 22, 2007 8:37 pm |
TheBootfitter | Remove the asterisk! Date Climbed: Jun 8, 2007 | |
After losing our third team member due to altitude sickness the first day out at 8,000 ft, Ian and I succesfully reached the true summit of Rainier via the DC on a beautiful, sunny Friday morning. We descended to Camp Muir in warm conditions with slushy snow. Ian was severely dehydrated and suffering from altitude sickness, but we were able to descend safely. Ian was not feeling well enough to descend all the way to Paradise on Friday afternoon, so we stayed at Muir that night. Unfortunately, conditions deteriorated overnight and we awoke 40 mph howling winds and blowing snow. We pushed through the wind and pelting snow Saturday morning to reach the car in the parking lot. (My last trip stopped at the crater rim due to white-out conditions, 70+ mph winds, and an exhausted teammate.) | ||
Posted Jun 21, 2007 11:39 am |
Pantilat | Three times | |
DC, Ingraham Direct (12.5 hour round trip), and Emmons. | ||
Posted Jun 20, 2007 2:15 am |
Jim Carr | Disappointment Cleaver Date Climbed: Jun 30, 1998 | |
Had crystal clear weather our first night at Camp Muir, so went for it. Left at midnight and made the summit by 7:00 am. Weather rolled in on our descent from Camp Muir that afternoon. This was my second attempt after being socked in at Camp Muir for all 4 days of our trip the year before. | ||
Posted Jun 15, 2007 2:20 pm |
Scott Wesemann | DC Route Date Climbed: Jun 8, 2007 | |
Ran into bad weather and had to abort climb. The rangers said the storm would stick around for two days, so everyone in my group decided to bail. The hike to Muir was brutal. | ||
Posted Jun 15, 2007 1:50 am |
Redwic | Great experience! Date Climbed: Jun 1, 2007 | |
The weather was beautiful and the snow conditions were great... Crossing numerous crevasses along Ingraham Glacier Direct wasn't always easy, but reaching the summit was well worth all of the challenges of the hike. | ||
Posted Jun 6, 2007 2:56 pm |
Brad Mastros | Liberty Ridge Date Climbed: May 30, 2007 | |
Unbelievable weather for four days straight. Definitely full days, but well worth it. Great learning experience for me. Highly recommended. | ||
Posted Jun 6, 2007 12:09 am |
forjan | Liberty Ridge Date Climbed: May 30, 2007 | |
Spectacular weather all 4 days we're up there. Climbed with Dave German and Brad Mastros. Took 11.5 hrs to summit from Thumb Rock. Crowds and bottleneck at the crux. I spent over an hour waiting for Dave & Brad to climb the ice as they themselves were waiting for the 3-person Russian team to finish climbing (the Russians arrived first at the base of the ice and we didn't want to rain down tons of ice on them). All 4 teams, including ourselves, decided to camp out on the summit crater as we're all spent. Next day (Thurs, May 31st) we descended the Emmons-Winthrop glacier and down to the White River campground trailhead. TR to follow soon. ---------- Date Climbed: July 5, 2004 Route Climbed: Disappointment Cleaver After a failed attempt in June 2003, this time we nailed it. Our Los Angeles/Chicago team summited Rainier Monday, July 5th, 2004. All 7 of us summited--- rope team #1: mdostby, Steven Sauter, jimconsid, Gibran Begum; rope team #2: agorokhov, Jamie Norris, myself. We left Camp Muir at 12:15am and reached the summit crater rim at 9:20am. We unroped at the crater rim and then everyone went at their own pace to tag the true summit (Columbia Crest: 14,411'). I made the summit at 9:37am. Then, after the mandatory summit pictures, we all headed down at 10:00am. We were luckly to have excellent weather and perfect route conditions for the most part. Most of us were spent after the climb and decided to stay an additional night at Camp Muir before heading out to Paradise the next day. We had our celebratory dinner at Puerto Vallarta Mexican restaurant in Eatonville, WA. Great food! I highly recommend to eat here after your climb. ---------- Date Climbed: June 18, 2003 Route Climbed: Disappointment Cleaver No summit. We reached 11,900' (just a few hundred feet below the top of the Cleaver). Our team: Mike (mdostby), Alex (agorokhov), Murray Zichlinsky and myself. We had been planning this trip for the past 6 months. We even practiced crevasse rescue out of a bridge in the Los Angeles area. We hiked in on a sunny Tuesday (June 17th) to Camp Muir. However, before leaving Paradise, we knew the weather forecast was calling for poor weather in days ahead. We thought we could beat the incoming bad weather---we were wrong. We roped up and started walking away from Camp Muir at 1:40am Wednesday June 18th. Crossed the Cowlitz Glacier, up thru Cathedral Gap (we encountered some idiots dislodging all kinds of rocks from above), skirted a few crevasses thru the Ingraham Glacier and by sunrise at 11,900 feet we decided to call it quits. The combination of high winds, inclement weather, and 2 team members who felt tired prompted us to turn around at this point. We safely made it back to Camp Muir, broke camp and headed down to the Paradise parking lot. We plan to try again next summer (July 2004). | ||
Posted Jun 4, 2007 3:10 am |
iceworm | Kautz Glacier Date Climbed: Jun 2, 2007 | |
Great Climb! Always dreamed of doing this since I can remember. Kautz had a few hairy spots, second ice cliff was interesting to climb with a 90cm old school ax. No complaints, amazing climb! Best of luck to all others attempting this season, keep pushing, it's worth! | ||
Posted Jun 4, 2007 2:43 am |
Cascade Scrambler | Ingraham Direct Date Climbed: Jun 1, 2007 | |
I've never done anything tougher in my life than summit Rainier. Day 1. Arrived at Camp Muir at about 5pm. Day 2. Woke up at 12:45am, left Camp Muir at 2am, summitted at 11:45am, arrived back at Camp Muir at 4pm. (Wasted a *ton* of time on the descent due to a "stupid move" by a climbing partner.) Day 3. Made the descent from Camp Muir to Paradise in 2 hours and 45 minutes. Brutal, but worth it! | ||
Posted Jun 4, 2007 1:19 am |
Art Vandalay | Great Climb Date Climbed: Jun 2, 2007 | |
via Ingraham Glacier Direct. Awesome climb, great day, good weather. | ||
Posted Jun 4, 2007 12:43 am |
kelseymkrause | Ingraham Direct Date Climbed: May 27, 2007 | |
This was a very hard but rewarding mountain to climb. Weather changes very fast. It was very cold on top. | ||
Posted May 29, 2007 2:48 pm |
dankras | Ingraham Direct Date Climbed: May 7, 2007 | |
Perfect day; windy uptop. | ||
Posted May 15, 2007 1:08 pm |


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Mark 14New International Version (NIV)Jesus Anointed at Bethany14 Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. 2 "But not during the festival," they said, "or the people may riot." 3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head. 4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, "Why this waste of perfume? 5 It could have been sold for more than a year's wages[a] and the money given to the poor." And they rebuked her harshly. 6 "Leave her alone," said Jesus. "Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 The poor you will always have with you,[b] and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. 8 She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her." 10 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them. 11 They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over. The Last Supper12 On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?" 13 So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14 Say to the owner of the house he enters, 'The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?' 15 He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there." 16 The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover. 17 When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. 18 While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, "Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me." 19 They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, "Surely you don't mean me?" 20 "It is one of the Twelve," he replied, "one who dips bread into the bowl with me. 21 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born." 22 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take it; this is my body." 23 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. 24 "This is my blood of the[c] covenant, which is poured out for many," he said to them. 25 "Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." 26 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial27 "You will all fall away," Jesus told them, "for it is written: "'I will strike the shepherd, 28 But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee." 29 Peter declared, "Even if all fall away, I will not." 30 "Truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "today—yes, tonight—before the rooster crows twice[e] you yourself will disown me three times." 31 But Peter insisted emphatically, "Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And all the others said the same. Gethsemane32 They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, "Sit here while I pray." 33 He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. 34 "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death," he said to them. "Stay here and keep watch." 35 Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him. 36 "Abba,[f] Father," he said, "everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will." 37 Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. "Simon," he said to Peter, "are you asleep? Couldn't you keep watch for one hour? 38 Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." 39 Once more he went away and prayed the same thing. 40 When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to say to him. 41 Returning the third time, he said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. 42 Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!" Jesus Arrested43 Just as he was speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, appeared. With him was a crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests, the teachers of the law, and the elders. 44 Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: "The one I kiss is the man; arrest him and lead him away under guard." 45 Going at once to Jesus, Judas said, "Rabbi!" and kissed him. 46 The men seized Jesus and arrested him. 47 Then one of those standing near drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear. 48 "Am I leading a rebellion," said Jesus, "that you have come out with swords and clubs to capture me? 49 Every day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled." 50 Then everyone deserted him and fled. 51 A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, 52 he fled naked, leaving his garment behind. Jesus Before the Sanhedrin53 They took Jesus to the high priest, and all the chief priests, the elders and the teachers of the law came together. 54 Peter followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. There he sat with the guards and warmed himself at the fire. 55 The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death, but they did not find any. 56 Many testified falsely against him, but their statements did not agree. 57 Then some stood up and gave this false testimony against him: 58 "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with human hands and in three days will build another, not made with hands.'" 59 Yet even then their testimony did not agree. 60 Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, "Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?" 61 But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?" 62 "I am," said Jesus. "And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven." 63 The high priest tore his clothes. "Why do we need any more witnesses?" he asked. 64 "You have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?" They all condemned him as worthy of death. 65 Then some began to spit at him; they blindfolded him, struck him with their fists, and said, "Prophesy!" And the guards took him and beat him. Peter Disowns Jesus66 While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came by. 67 When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked closely at him. "You also were with that Nazarene, Jesus," she said. 68 But he denied it. "I don't know or understand what you're talking about," he said, and went out into the entryway.[g] 69 When the servant girl saw him there, she said again to those standing around, "This fellow is one of them." 70 Again he denied it. After a little while, those standing near said to Peter, "Surely you are one of them, for you are a Galilean." 71 He began to call down curses, and he swore to them, "I don't know this man you're talking about." 72 Immediately the rooster crowed the second time.[h] Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken to him: "Before the rooster crows twice[i] you will disown me three times." And he broke down and wept. Footnotes:
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text: Why Earth might have started out as a gas giantAlasdair Wilkins9/18/11 2:20pmFiled to: AstronomyearthSuper-earthTidal downsizingCore accretionRocky planetGas giantGas planetPlanetSpaceScienceTop431EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink All planets are vast clumps of dust and gas packed together by gravity. If there's lots of material, a gas giant is the result. If there isn't much material, you get a rocky planet. At least, that's what we thought. Advertisement But now Seung-Hoon Cha and Sergei Nayakshin of the UK's University of Leicester have come up with a rather intriguing complication for the longstanding core accretion model. In this current view, planet formation is a bottom-up process. Dust and gas clump together into disks around their star, and then they start smashing together into bigger and bigger pieces until, eventually, the force of gravity is strong enough to pull all the material together into a planet.However, the researchers propose a new, top-down model that they call tidal downsizing. In this new theory, giant gas disks form far away from their star, further out than where most of the currently known planets are found. Over time, these disks would start to clump together into gigantic planets as much as ten times as massive as Jupiter. During this clumping process, heavier dust particles would fall through the gas into the center of the forming planet, creating a rocky core. Advertisement But here's where tidal downsizing gets really interesting. The gas disk all around the newborn planet works to push the planet out of its orbit towards its star. Eventually, the planet gets close enough that the tremendous tidal force of the star starts ripping the gas right off the planet. Once all the gas is gone, only the rocky core is left, and it takes up a new orbit much closer to its star.So suddenly, we go from a faraway gas giant to a rocky planet much closer to its star, potentially in the habitable zone. The researchers believe the resulting planets could be anywhere from zero to ten times the mass of Earth - and since our own planet obviously falls within that particular range, it's conceivable that we're living on the leftover husk of a devastated gas giant.That's probably edging into more fanciful territory - though it's one hell of an intriguing thought - but this new model does provide a mechanism for planets to form in solar systems that aren't good fits for the core accretion model. Even better, tidal downsizing seems pretty much designed to generate potentially habitable planets. It seems that you just can't keep a good rocky planet down...even if it does have to start out existence as a gas giant. Sponsored Via Astrobiology Magazine. Image by NASA/JPL.Reply43 repliesLeave a reply


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Making Bread or Naan in Peshawar
Peshawar is a large ancient city located in NW Pakistan near the Kyber Pass going into Afghanistan. For much of its history, it was one of the main trading centres on the ancient Silk Road and was a major crossroads for various cultures between the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia. With the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the influx of millions Afghan Refugees into Pakistan, Peshawar became the home for Afghan musicians and artists as well. The city has become the centre for Pashto music and cinema as well Dari music from neighbouring Afghanistan. Peshawar has become host to a thriving underground scene.
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Honda presents RA108
29 January 2008 – The Honda Racing F1 team unveiled its RA108 on Tuesday morning in the team's operational headquarters in Brackley, England. On Thursday the team already concluded the car's shakedown in Valencia with Honda's race driver Rubens Barrichello behind the wheel.
Honda laid out its plans for 2008 and the longer-term, reaffirming its commitment to the sport and underlining the determination of a revitalised team to realise its ambitions. The team's 2008 challenge sees a substantial evolution in three key areas, the most fundamental of which is a directional step change in the car design philosophy. The entire process from concept to launch has been re-evaluated. The new car is a considered response to the challenges of 2007, benefiting from the combined resources of the Honda Racing F1 Team's three bases in Brackley and Bracknell in the UK and the Honda R&D centre at Tochigi in Japan.
The RA108 is also the product of a strengthened engineering team, combining the depth of experience of the existing resource with new and wide-ranging expertise in key areas under the leadership of new Team Principal Ross Brawn. In turn the team will benefit from the continuity provided by the race driver pairing of Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello for a third successive season. Combined with the development talents of Test and Reserve Driver Alex Wurz, Honda will field the most experienced driver line-up on the Formula One grid.


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UCI: Technology with a conscience
Computer technology is everywhere in the news these days, and not always in the most favorable light. With this in mind, I thought it may be a good time to consider the positive contributions to the community that result when scientists use their knowledge to solve practical problems.
My team recently offered a new search tool, called SRCH2, to charitable and education institutions at a deep discount. The campaign is called Pay It Forward. SRCH2 enables the search boxes of companies that are not Google to have "Google-like" capabilities: instant type forward, rapid geo search, error correction, custom rankings, real time updates, massive scale in one framework. The software is faster than the industry standard and the many search engines built on top of it. We mean super-fast. Blazing fast.
It grew out of an opportunity we took to help out after a 7.0Mw earthquake struck in Haiti on Jan.10, 2010. The catastrophic temblor affected 3 million people and killed more than 230,000.
In the aftermath, an immediate challenge was how to enable people in the U.S. and elsewhere to quickly learn the status of their friends and loved ones in Haiti. Communication was spotty and information unreliable.
Google created a site that centralized all available data and kept it updated, but there were problems stemming from partial names, married names, middle names and misspellings. Records were often incomplete. In the hours that followed, my team took on the challenge of providing a powerful search on this data, and we created a tool for newspapers and other sites to display the data on their sites. The tool was powered by SRCH2 technology and ran on Google's central victim database, which had information on 55,300 people.
Major sites, including the Miami Herald, used the search tool to relay information to people in the days after the earthquake. It is still running on the Miami Herald website.
In the face of such devastation, it's sometimes hard to see how one can help. We were encouraged by the Miami Herald's use of the family reunification tools, and the many people working on the People Finder project who gave us positive feedback. We played a small role, at a crucial time, when access to incomplete information was so vital. It is a pertinent reminder that we have to be ready to act, and to give back to the community when we can.
In complex and fast-moving situations such as the Haiti earthquake, people need simple yet powerful tools, implemented quickly. Advanced search software can quickly become mission-critical.
The principle we follow is one of shared community responsibilities. We have benefitted from others, and we owe a debt to society. In keeping with the community service component of the University of California mission, technologists can and must play an important role.
Chen Li is a computer science professor at UC Irvine and founder of SRCH. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University and his M.S. from Tsinghua University in China. His research interests include data management and information search.
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LESBIANS & HEP C Oct 14, 2003 I AM IN A WONDERFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH MY GIRLFRIEND OF 3 YEARS. SHE HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH HEP.C. WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR SEX LIFE? I HAVE READ NOTHING SPECIFIC ANYWHERE? DO WE LIVE WITH MASTURBATION OR LESBIAN BED DEATH? |
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There is no real data on lesbian sex and HCV. I have seen at least one person who was infected this way, although she is also a boxer. Remember normal body secretions have very little if any virus, it is really only blood. I would suggest you avoid sex during menstruation and avoid sharing traumatic toys and razors and toothbrushes. Other than that, the risks of transmitting HCV is vanishingly low. Good luck! DTD |
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The Good: Great addition to the story, burning up words makes you feel like you're in the story, more combat heavy
The Bad: Extremely difficult, doesn't add anything new, rehashing of already played areas, extremely short
DLC tends to get criticized a lot for either prices, length, or the amount of content they have, and developers have a hard time striking a balance between the three. The Signal, (which is the first of the extra chapters that came free if you bought a new copy) suffers from this as well since it is so short clocking in at about 2-3 hours. Yes it's really just a 1-2 sitting play through, but it does provide a good addition to the already award winning story.
Alan Wake is inside his own story once again, but the real him is writing ways to kill himself in the stories. Why he's doing this is unclear until the very end, but each time you advance through the chapter it gets more and more violent. There aren't really any changes or additions except that finding supplies, and some times enemies and environmental hazards are hidden as words that you much burn up with your flashlight (like at the end of the main game). It's interesting and makes you really feel like you're in a story so this subtle addition adds to the experience.
Other than that there's no new characters, weapons, or anything else so just sick back and enjoy the quick little story. You do run into Barry again, but other than that there's no one else in the game which is a disappointment. Another issue The Signal falls under is backtracking areas you already played in the main game. Plus The Signal is very combat heavy and can get extremely difficult at times.
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Placebo will self-release their sixth album, titled Battle for the Sun, on June 8th. The album was recorded by Dave Bottrill (Tool) and mixed by Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails). This album marks a turning point for the band, as it is the first after the expiration of their deal with Virgin, and the first with new drummer Steve Forrest. Frontman Brian Molko explained his optimism after these changes: "It's very exciting. There's a lot of life in the old dog just yet." [NME]
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Despite the controversy surrounding his turn as "Golden Globes" host earlier this year, Ricky Gervais says he's been asked to present the annual awards show for a third time.
"NBC have offered it — they think they can persuade the Hollywood Foreign Press Association," he said at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International TV Festival on Friday, per The Hollywood Reporter.
"But I don't think they will go for it. I love NBC and I love the fact that they have stuck with me through it all," he added.
When questioned by interviewer Richard Bacon whether he's considering the opportunity, the British comedian-actor responded, "I am but I shouldn't do it. It's a second encore. Don't do a second encore. I don't think I should do it. What am I going back as?"
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After the January Golden Globes ceremony, Gervais came under fire for insulting the likes of Charlie Sheen ("It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it – breakfast"), Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, and Robert Downey Jr., among others.
"Just because you are offended doesn't mean you are right," Gervais said of subsequent critiques. "People fall into this myth that I'm a shock comedian. I've never been that. People say I crossed the line but I didn't draw the f–king line, you did."
According to The Guardian, Gervais also confessed that he's been asked to host the Oscars and his own stateside talk show – neither of which he's interested in pursuing. "I couldn't do the Oscars. It's a thankless task for a comedian. They don't want to hear jokes, they want to hear if they have won the most important award of their career," he said. As for participating in a talk show, he declared: "I have been offered it a few times. I got into this business so I didn't have to put a suit on and sit behind a desk five times a week. It would be strange to do it."
Next up for Gervais is the comedy "Life's Too Short," a BBC and HBO co-production slated to air in the U.S. in 2012.


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Mr. Mousavi's Gas Embargo on Iran?
In serious contention for Dumbest Washington Consensus for September is the idea of cutting off Iran's gas imports to pressure Iran to stop enriching uranium. A majority of Representatives and Senators have signed on to legislation that seeks to block Iran's gas imports, a top legislative priority for the so-called "Israel Lobby." But it's a stupid idea. Let us count the ways.
One: there is no indication that Russia and China will go along with it. Even Europe is split, Reuters reports. Turkey is also likely to be unenthusiastic - a country that has good relations with Iran, has a long border with Iran, and is currently on the UN Security Council. A U.S.-sponsored gas embargo on Iran isn't likely to have much impact if Russia, China, Turkey and half of Europe aren't cooperating - after all, it's not the U.S. that's exporting gas to Iran - unless it is imposed by force.
Two: Iran has threatened to retaliate against a U.S.-sponsored gas embargo by stopping its oil exports to the West. There is a historical precedent that ought to give Americans and Britons some pause: when Britain wanted to punish the democratically elected Mossadegh government for nationalizing Iran's oil, Britain imposed an embargo on Iranian oil exports, enforced by the British Navy. Fine, Mossadegh said, we don't care. Let it stay in the ground. When the embargo failed, the British tried to overthrow Mossadegh in a coup. When that failed, the British asked the U.S. to intervene, and the CIA and British intelligence overthrew Mossadegh. How does returning to the British colonialism script for Iran fit in with the whole outreach to the Muslim world thing?
Three: Iranian retaliation could have a significant effect on gas prices in the U.S. Here's a speculative, back-of-the-envelope estimate: suppose that Iranian oil production is 3% of world supply, and the demand elasticity of oil is 10%. If Iranian oil were removed from the world market, gas prices in the U.S. might go up 30%. And that's just counting Iranian oil. About a fifth of world supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz - about seven times Iran's exports alone. If that supply were significantly disrupted by conflict stemming from an attempt to enforce a gas embargo on Iran, gas prices in the U.S. could easily return to $4 a gallon. It seems the Obama Administration isn't eager to deal with the political fallout from that. An Israeli official told Reuters that U.S. policymakers were concerned Iran's response could have implications for global oil markets. If you think the teabagger right wing in the U.S. is nuts now, wait until they can blame $4 a gallon gas on an Obama Iran gas embargo demanded by the Israel Lobby.
Four: An embargo is an act of war. If we're going to declare war on Iran because Israel doesn't want Iran to enrich uranium, let's be honest about it.
Five: If it's true that it's not actually feasible to cut off Iran's gas imports, what is the point of waiving this threat around? I thought "saber-rattling" was one of the reasons we were against the other guy.
Six: If you want to have effective international sanctions on Iran to bring about meaningful negotiations, they should be organized around an internationally legitimate goal. Preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is an internationally legitimate goal - Iran has an international treaty obligation not to acquire nuclear weapons. Preventing Iran from having the capacity to enrich uranium is not an internationally legitimate goal. When Secretary of State Clinton told "Meet the Press," addressing Iran, "You do not have the right to have the full enrichment and reprocessing cycle under your control," the New York Times reported this as:
[Secretary Clinton] ruled out explicitly the possibility that the Obama administration would allow Iran to produce its own nuclear fuel, even under intense international inspection.
If it truly is the position of the Obama Administration that there is no way that negotiations can lead to U.S. acceptance of Iran's control of the nuclear fuel cycle, even under "intense international inspection," then the Obama Administration's offer of negotiations is not as serious as has been claimed, because there is a strong national consensus in Iran - ask Mr. Mousavi what he thinks about this - that Iran has the right to control the nuclear fuel cycle.
Last: if anyone in the U.S. really cares about the fate of the political opposition in Iran, as opposed to simply seeing it as a temporarily useful tool for attacking the Iranian government, imposing a gas embargo on the country as punishment for enriching uranium is a surefire way to kick the Iranian political opposition in the stomach. What is Mr. Mousavi supposed to say, when reporters ask him what his position is on the gas embargo, as they surely will? If he says he supports the embargo, he may be politically toast in Iran: every bad thing that happens to Iranians as a result of the embargo will be blamed on Mousavi by the Iranian government. If he says he is against it, then he's saying that the signature Iran policy of the West is a policy to attack Iranian civilians; that's going to reinforce the government's case that Iran doesn't have the luxury for democracy and human rights because it's under external threat. The more such an embargo bites, the more the dynamic of Iranian politics would be: who hates the U.S. the most? I thought that was the dynamic that we were trying to get away from.
When you read down in the press reports, Israeli officials often concede that their "fear" about Iran isn't the prospect that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons and nuke Tel Aviv. It's that if Iran has "breakout capacity" - the theoretical ability, in a crisis, to get on a fast track of six months to a year to acquiring a nuclear weapon - that will increase Iran's influence at the expense of Israel in the proxy conflicts of the region.
But there's a cheaper, easier and much less dangerous approach - not to mention much more socially beneficial for the concerned civilians - to reducing Iran's influence in the region's proxy conflicts: resolve, ameliorate, or scale down the proxy conflicts.
Lebanon was the arena of bitter proxy conflict between U.S. allies and Iran/Syria allies until there was a national accord that included all the players, and all their patrons. There's still conflict, of course, but the threat of large-scale violence seems to be mostly off the table now. The budding rapprochement with Syria is likely to scale down this proxy conflict still further: Lebanon's political split is being redrawn by the end to Syria's isolation by many Western governments and rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Syria, whose rivalry has been seen at the heart of Lebanon's turmoil, Reuters reports.
Iran was regularly accused in the U.S. press of playing a destructive role in Afghanistan, until the U.S. and Iran formally renewed their co-operation in Afghanistan. Since then, press reports complaining about what Iran is doing in Afghanistan seem to have largely disappeared. I haven't seen any press reports recently about how the U.S.-Iran cooperation in Afghanistan is going, but my tendency is to assume that if we're not hearing about it, it must be going ok.
If the U.S. would fully accept a Palestinian national unity government, and Hamas and Fatah would reconcile, Iran's influence in the Israel/Palestine conflict would be very significantly reduced. Hamas has already accepted that Fatah can negotiate a two-state solution with Israel on behalf of the Palestinians. There's no need for a Hamas handshake on the White House lawn; the U.S. just has to agree to fully support Palestinian reconciliation. Iran, as part of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, is an official endorser of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. If that proposal is allowed to succeed - full peace with Israel in exchange for full withdrawal from the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 (in practice, with any amendment to which the Palestinians agree) there is no room politically for Iran to make any trouble on the Israel-Palestine issue.
In Iraq, Iran's influence is a fact of life. But it's hard to see why Iran's influence in Iraq is intrinsically especially pernicious - another thing Iran and the U.S. have in common, unlike much of the region, is being best friends with the Iraqi government. Iran intervened with the Sadr movement to defuse the military confrontations between the Iraqi government and Sadrist militias in Basra and Sadr City, and the end result was to dramatically strengthen the Iraqi government. Today the Sadrists are negotiating with the Iraqi government party to resume their political alliance. The Bush Administration was outraged that Iran was agitating for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, but that withdrawal is now official U.S. government policy, enshrined in the U.S.-Iraq security agreement.
In short - there is another path to reducing Iran's influence in proxy conflicts than a quixotic crusade to ban Iran's gas imports, a path that is more feasible, less costly, less dangerous, and more righteous.
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Hermitage Farms in Goshen will be the scene of the Hermitage Grand Gala, a star-studded Derby Eve party this Friday, May 1.
The party is a joining of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, founders of 21c Museum Hotels, and Junior Bridgeman, President of Bridgeman Foods.
Interview by Nancy Theiss, Oldham County History Center Executive Director
The 40 years leading up to the Revolutionary War was a time known as the First Great Awakening. It was a time when the Holy Spirit moved through the 13 colonies like it did in Acts 2. The spiritual courage and dedication to fight for freedom were forged. One of its greatest preachers was George Whitfield, who also had a good friend, Ben Franklin. A delightful story is told by Franklin, who was listening to Whitfield preach, and knew the appeal for an offering to support the orphanage in Georgia would come at the end of the sermon.
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Charlie Brown's dog Snoopy is typing a letter on top of his doghouse.
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We read in Romans 13:8a, "Let no debt remain outstanding." We know about money, and way too much about debts. This verse reminds us to pay our bills, as if we need any help remembering that. Most of us will probably agree that not only do we know a lot about money, we probably think too much about money.
Ted Harley was the recipient of an award presented at the Immaculate Conception Fish Frylast week. Harley has been an active member of the Knights of Columbus since 2003. He received a certificate from K of C Supreme Office honoring him on his 90th birthday, which was Feb. 7. Pictured from left to right isBill Cheap, Jack Dombroski, Ted Harley and Joe Liedtke.
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JERUSALEM - The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has dismissed international criticisms of the military incursions into Gaza and vowed that there would be no negotiations with the "bloody organisation" Hamas on prisoner exchanges.
Mr Olmert's uncompromising public line came as Khaled Meshaal, the exiled head of Hamas's political bureau, said in Damascus that Gilad Shalit, the 19-year-old army corporal seized by 16 days ago, would not be freed without the release of Palestinian prisoners.
At least four Palestinians, including at least three presumed militants, were killed in three airstrikes yesterday.
Mr Olmert was especially scathing about an EU warning against "disproportionate" Israeli military action in Gaza, saying that militants had fired 300 Qassam rockets at Israel last month.
Mr Olmert declared: "Can one measure the anxiety, the fear, the shocks, the lack of security ... When was the last time that the European Union condemned this shooting and suggested effective measures to stop it?"
On speculation that an unstated objective of the current military campaign in Gaza was to dislodge the elected Hamas Palestinian government, he added: "We have no particular desire to topple the Hamas government as a policy.
We have a desire to stop terrorists from inflicting terror on the Israeli people."
The Palestinian people had to decide whether to be ruled by such a government or "by a civilised government prepared to make compromises based on reasonable agreements that can lead to peace between us and them. That is the choice."
Mr Olmert's assertion that it would be a "major mistake" to negotiate prisoner releases with Hamas was countered by Mr Meshaal's declaration: "The solution is simple: a [prisoner] exchange. But Israel refuses that", and appeared to point to an unbridgeable gap between the two sides.
But Mr Olmert's chosen formulation did not appear to rule out the possibility of negotiations with an intermediary such as the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, under which prisoners might be released at some future date if Corporal Shalit was first released and the Qassam rocket attacks on Israel halted.
Although the Interior Minister, Avi Dichter, has reportedly been rebuked for suggesting as much on Friday, Israel has yet to deny the assertion by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, last week that Mr Olmert had indicated to Mr Mubarak he was prepared to make such a deal.
Mr Mubarak would in effect be the guarantor to Hamas that Israel would reciprocate some time after the release of Corporal Shalit.
Some Israeli officials pointed to the reference in Sunday's cabinet communique to seeking "new rules of conduct vis-a-vis the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas government" and implied a possible outcome might be a comprehensive ceasefire in which Corporal Shalit would be released, the Qassam attacks halted, an Israel pull-back from Gaza and some prisoners freed at a later date.
Mr Meshaal yesterday said that Corporal Shalit was a "prisoner of war" and that he should be treated according to international conventions governing PoW.
Hamas is reportedly seeking immediate negotiations on the prisoners to be freed rather than accept a guarantee from Mr Mubarak.