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that wheeler dude has serious reading comprehension issues (or is plain lying). so much for objective journalism ...

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5214a2.htm

no trail but not bad at all. steep wooded slopes most of the way and very direct.

rousch creek is also a decent approach. the mileposts confuse me; i wonder if they start counting at cascade pass.

http://www.skagitcounty.net/Flood/html/roadclosures.htm

isn't the road closed at mile 14?

nope, but pp's post did make me feel violently sick.

So, doesn't that mean that there's a 67% chance that temperatures will be normal or lower than normal? i don't believe so. 33% is the probability of the anomaly so it should be the difference between the forecast probability and the probability of each possibility (above/normal/below) in the historical record. so the modeled forecast probabilities should be something like 66.3% for above normal temps and the balance for normal/below. assuming each category has a 33.3% chance occurrence in the historical record.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/23/opinion/meyer/main579620.shtml

tremendous exposure climbing through previously unclimbed territory (i.e it goes!!!) sinking hands into a crack after climbing a poorly protected face cruising moderate terrain facing a scary pitch and it's not your lead finally getting to climb when half-frozen to death total communion (perceived or real) sharing more than climbing with your partner having a smoke on a small ledge high up on a climb late in the day taking your time and enjoying the way back to the barn carry-overs with minimal gear (even better if walk out is different than approach) conceiving the ultimate trip and everything works according to plan being a lead hog and enjoying it doing a climb out of season narrow ridges etc ...

thankfully, it's 33% chance that temps will be higher than normal. and if i understand well they mean 'slightly higher than normal'. jake: there was a similar thread a few weeks ago in the climber's board

it does seem to be part of a concerted effort to misrepresent the iraqi situation and wait out the drop in the national polls (while they pray for something 'good' to happen so that we forget). i assume you heard about the form letters supposedly spontaneously sent by deployed military personel to local us papers. there is for certain one consistent aspect through it all over this past year: whenever their misrepresentation is exposed, they just spin the situation a little harder. so predictable.

excellent site on waterfall ice in the french and italian alps. lotsa beta. http://icehome.in.pi.cnr.it/Icehome.htm

you guys don't mind dishing it out but you for sure can't take it. labeling people as haters is definitely easier than answering criticism/charges

this time without the spin, from james zogby himself: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17021

and this would explain why, say, tv people are paid the way they are relative to teachers? education has nothing to do with free market economics. if conservatives ever figure out that education and similar fields should not be held accountable for not generating direct profits, the school system may have a chance. Who is talking about profits? Market forces play a much more limited role in public sector performance than private enterprises, but public enterprises are not completely insulated from them either. Take a look at tertiary education, in which institutions have to compete for students who have a choice as to which institution they attend - envy of the world. Compare that to the remainder of our education system. And market forces have nothing to do with the shortage of qualified teachers in the sciences? no they don't. artificially low teacher wages due to lack of funding is responsible for the flight of scientists to the industry. many scientists would rather teach than work in the industry if wages were reasonable enough. who said there was a shortage of labor? check out the number of science graduates (for example physics phd's) who work in some other field. moreover wages in the scientific private sector are not above that of other fields for equivalent level of education. it is just that wages pretty much throughout academia are low especially when the length of the work day is taken into account. so the incentive for going to the private sector is not that of higher wages in response to shortage of labor but truly that of escaping pittance wages for hard earned qualifications or simply lack of jobs (especially in tertiary education).

cracked can't be too far behind ... actually MisterE, this is an excellent idea. perhaps you should rename your thread to something like: 'all juvenile abusers post here'. it just might work ....

i wish i could oblige you but a quick perusal of posting history will show that wherever i post, trask will follow. and not the other way around, so there seems to be little point in trying to contain the flames to a specific thread. it appears that to be successful you'd have to ask trask to quit posting antagonistic remarks after my posts. good luck.

and this would explain why, say, tv people are paid the way they are relative to teachers? education has nothing to do with free market economics. if conservatives ever figure out that education and similar fields should not be held accountable for not generating direct profits, the school system may have a chance.

i don't need to work out the probability to know that your posting immediately after me (twice in an antagonistic fashion) has little to do with chance.

i wish there was a way to account for autocensorship, i.e. major stories that don't make the major papers, or if they do it's on the last page. if i ever felt the need for your approval, it'd be the end of my useful life. interestingly, i haven't posted in nearly a week, and i posted 3 times this p.m. every single time, you were the next poster .... can you say 'mindfucked' thread #1 thread #2 and this one

http://www.rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=8247

many people feel the way you do. even though i read anam every year, i do not like to discuss fatalities in a public arena or go to funerals.

hour long talk by robert fisk, award winning middle east correspondent for the independent. fisk spent the past year in iraq; he describes the situation there and comments on the role of the press. well worth it. http://www.pacifica.org/programs/flashpoints/flashpoints_031008.html fisk's talk starts at minute 8

yeah sure ...