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Your friend forgot about hanging Ben Bernanke for being the most inflationary Fed Chief ever.

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.

Has anyone ever considered that the lack of a better health care system discourages entrepreneurship? The risks of starting your own business are already huge. Is your family's health worth it? It would be interesting to know how many people this has discouraged and compare the rates with countries with coverage for all. Oh, and shouldn't Bank of America be renamed Bank of Shareholders. Your welcome for the bailout.

Yes that is actually a quicker method I guess, you have to copy only the image url to paste in. It's not just copy and paste though because you have to use the UBB markup. Flickrs policy is they do not "allow" image linking without a physical link to their site, which is totally understandable. I do want to point this one thing out, and I will preface it with the fact that we know our photo gallery software currently is a bag of suck sometimes. It's really better for people to post their TR images in our photo gallery. Reason is we can control those images, versus we can't control flickr urls or when you move your blog or it disappears. We aren't looking to own your photos, although I will not lie in that photos with proper metadata help our cause a lot. We want TRs to be timeless and around hopefully forever. So again, I really encourage people to include their TR photos in our gallery. Sorry to hijack your great TR, Jason.

Is the picture with the stars and tent and fire a double exposure or the composite of two photos? Too bad you missed the photo contest!

Regarding FLICKR. It's sort of a pain in the ass. What you need to do is left click on each photo, click on "Medium 640" which will take you to a new page, and from there you can then left click again and then copy the image address. We unfortunately don't have the resources at the moment to make this a simpler process from Flickr.

Could it be this one? http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1032574/gonew/1/The_party_that_picked_up_my_PE

Now THAT is a mustache ride. Cool trip, Rob!

Those are probably the most spectacular set of photos I've ever seen in a TR here. Incredible trip thanks for sharing.

And the winners are...... Alpine Cragging Scenic Devin27 Ski - JasonG Bouldering Ice - Jon Frieh Humor - Le Piston and Rad Thanks to everyone who took the time to post their amazing photos. I have to admit I feel guilty in a way posting the winners because the quality was so high among all the entries. Thanks again to our sponsors listed above for making this happen; please thank them with your business. Winners please contact me and I'll make arrangements for your prizes.

Totally. No holes required. I had a retaining wall outside my old place that I could slip a campus board onto the top. It was a basic frame with arms that came out that would hook onto the top of the wall. Light enough to carry around and small enough to store.

Mike, do you have any retaining walls or anything outside your condo which you could latch a portable campus board onto? I built something like this a while ago and it worked great.

Go over I-90 and Blewett Pass.

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Roubini has been slaying Rick Perry on Twitter it has been AWESOME! I encourage everyone to listen to the Charlie Rose interview with Warren Buffet, should be online.

This chick is weapons grade stupid... http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/08/17/exp.piers.christine.odonnell.cnn?hpt=hp_t2

Bump!

I had to dig through the page source to find the image urls.

We obviously made a mistake. We've removed it from 2 of the categories.

I want to comment on a few things here quickly. The images are posted randomly, there was no order to how I did this. So if anyone thinks we unfairly ordered them please understand there is no order, it was determined by an excel spreadsheet. We realize the voting system is not ideal, having to submit the form for each category. We would rather have an unideal contest then none at all. We hope you agree. We will try and have a better system in place next year when we do this that will highlight the photos better and offer a better voting system for the contestants and the people voting.

We love first post first TR people! Thank you, I've fixed the images for you.

Alpine -- $330 AAI Gift Cert* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Cragging -- $120 PMS and $120 Backcountry Gear Gift Cert 1 2 3 Removed 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Scenic -- $330 AAI Gift Cert* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Skiing/Boarding -- $330 AAI Gift Cert* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Bouldering -- 6 month pass to Seattle Bouldering Project valued at $432 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ice -- $250 PMS Gift Cert 1 2 3 4 5 removed 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Humor -- $120 PMS Gift Cert 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Hi Everyone, We have finally done the internal first round voting and are ready to rock here and have everyone vote. There were so many incredible photos and it was incredibly hard for us to come up with the final voting. Again thanks to our sponsors American Alpine Institute as the premier sponsor for this, and Pro Mountain Sports, Seattle Bouldering Project, and Backcountry Gear for their generous support. Again the categories and prizes are... Alpine -- $330 AAI Gift Cert* Cragging -- $120 PMS and $120 Backcountry Gear Gift Cert Scenic -- $330 AAI Gift Cert* Skiing/Boarding -- $330 AAI Gift Cert* Bouldering -- 6 month pass to Seattle Bouldering Project valued at $432 Ice -- $250 PMS Gift Cert Humor -- $120 PMS Gift Cert For the scenic category there were so many excellent photos we decided to allow more nominations then normal. In the event of a tie for a category, we will have a quick revote for that category with the photos that tied for 3 days to determine the winner. Results will be posted on 9pm August 20.

Just remember these jackasses are the same ones who gave AAA ratings to the junk mortgage back securities that helped start this whole mess.

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