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http://novebi.ning.com/video/ivan-maghella-rope-walker Not a recommended technique, necessarily

I kinda wonder why the file photo of Barry is 20 years old. Dude's hair is almost pure white now.

1) Ground up, probably with lots of aid techniques. The best way to deal with super steep to fully horizontal stuff. You can't really rap bolt a 50 foot horizontal roof. 2) Tensioned line. Better to have an anchor at the base than someone getting bored holding you in by hand. 3) Top down with intermediate anchors. Like you rap down, drill a bolt, immediately clip the rap rope in to it. Now you are hanging from that rather than from the lip of the cliff.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ILUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mT8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6765,407399&dq=firefighter+charged+setting+fires&hl=en Job security!

You want 80% of public organizations to fail, too? That gets pretty expensive for the taxpayer. Allowing private organizations to do the failing is cheaper. Constant failure is good. Let's not forget that 99.9% of all species that have ever existed are extinct. Would the world be better off if trilobites still dominated things?

I see what you did there

When Ron Paul gets fucked in the ass by a horse in Enumclaw, it's the horse that dies.

The average Dem voter doesn't want a pony, they want a unicorn - that flies. The average Republican thinks that all the flying unicorns died after Noah kicked them off the ark for the constant gay sex.

So basically after 10 years they updated the M10 and gave it a new name?

I remember the Camp Woodpecker c. 2000 It had a double bend in the shaft but the second bend went the wrong way (shaft was kind of S shaped), so the shaft had negative clearance rather than positive clearance and hence was always hitting ice bulges. I played with one one day at an ice demo and felt it was the worst axe of any at the demo that day. It sounds like you might have been misled by someone (marketing hype) claiming that the Camp Woodpecker was inspired by the actual woodpecker bird. I don't think they had anything in common but the name. You might as well say that the Mercury Cougar was inspired by the real cougar, the degree of biomimicry is about the same. This is not intended in any way to disparage the science of biomimicry itself. I'm still waiting for the lotus petal effect to be applied to the DWR on my jacket though.

Hey David do you know if the rockfall scars have affected the difficulty of the Centre Route at all? We were at the base in 2008 all ready for an ascent when we found what seemed to be one the the centre route belays, complete with old webbing and a rusty pin, in the fresh rockfall debris.

You are overestimating. "Poor folk love their cellphones." - Bruce Sterling

When John Dillinger was asked why he robbed banks, he replied "Because that's where the money is".

Better that we render them for their oil than tax them renewably?

I thought this was gonna be about Burlesquoni banging 8 hookers in a night

+1 Tacoma Narrows 2.0

Shames is up for sale. I was just in Terrace last week and there's a group in town that is set up as a cooperative and trying to sell shares in the coop to people so that they can buy the mountain. http://friendsofshames.ca/

You should go check out the Kristi Glacier area Better rock than the Rockies and three hour drive from PG

More seriously, there are plenty of places where Russian Ti screws are 'good enough", such as when staking out your tent on bare ice

I don't follow your logic here. Methinks if you are going to carry a piece of gear it should NOT be junk in case you need to use it. If you know you aren't going to use it, you shouldn't even bring it. This is why I leave my vintage tuba collection at home when I go climbing. On the other hand, if you buy a bunch of $12 POS titanium ice screws you'll be able to afford a decent life insurance policy with all the money you save. You're missing out, bro. Some of those tubas make great deadmen if you fill them with snow.

http://www.k2studio.sk/?cube=text&c=50&lg=en

I can see pussy in the dark now.

That's not really the problem. Biotech is fueled by investment. It's risky but with a blockbuster very lucrative for a long-term investor. During the dot com days tons of money flooded the biotech market with big hopes from the human genome project, lots of people got rich, and you know the story lots of people got killed in the aftermath. It has not recovered since. Part of it is due to people really getting burned. CTI, which at one point was the highest valued company in the world, has burned through several billion dollars in cash and has never had a drug approved. In the end though, the high risk money went somewhere else, into more dot coms and then into real estate, something that would fail or succeed quicker. I don't see the money returning without some fundamental changes. What needs to change? The drug approval process needs to be modernized. Certain classes of the newer designer therapies that are not chemotherapeutics (ie immuno and cell based therapies) need to be strictly excluded from any potential liabilities that are not the result of gross negligence. I'm sure many read the NYT article yesterday about a new therapy for CLL. While R&D is expensive, the approval process contains the bulk of the cost. That needs to be stripped away with a strict opt in process ie you will die without this therapy if it kills you that is the risk YOU took. That would provide access to experimental therapies quicker to the thousands being diagnosed with untreatable diseases every day. Let's be honest, many of these new therapies, including the one quoted in the NYT articles and Provenge, is really a couple days of lab work that isn't very expensive. http://healthresearchpolicy.org/assessments/patent-pools-assessing-their-value-added-global-health-innovation-and-access

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