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USB has been one of the hero technologies of the past decade. It has enabled the evolution of a whole class of peripherals and gadgets, while helping drag the PC out of the antiquated world of Serial and Parallel cabling that annoyed so many of use in the nineties.
Over the period of evolution from the Plug and Pray days to the seamless, almost ubiquitous, cabling seen today the shortcomings of the technology have raised their heads. Some of these were foreseen and planned for; others required new revisions of the specification. When USB was first envisaged, for example, it was designed to provide 12Mbit/s of throughput. When USB 2.0 was introduced five years later it had 480Mbit/s throughput, while the USB 3.0 standard delivers 5 Gbit/s.
From buggy to ubiquitousWhat most people forget is that USB sucked in its first incarnation. This was partly due to Microsoft not supporting USB in Windows until Windows 98, and partly because few peripheral vendors had devices that worked as advertised.
Nowadays USB is the go-to connection for pretty much any peripheral or gadget that connects to the PC. USB has led to whole new product categories like thumb drives, while also beating out oftentimes better technologies. Both E-SATA and FireWire are examples of connection technologies that are 'better' than USB, yet both remain niche while USB turns up on more and more devices.
USB now reaches into the world of consumer electronics, appearing on games consoles, cameras, smartphones and other devices around the home. It has evolved from a buggy object of geek hate to ubiquitous interconnect solution.
Taking a while to get up to Superspeed
Despite this USB 3.0 (aka Superspeed USB) is repeating the long gulf between ratification and implementation. Despite becoming official in late 2008, we are only just seeing devices now, thanks largely to ASUS and Gigabyte becoming aggressive promoters of the technology. It seems that the major handbrake on the technology is its continued absence from Intel's chipsets (despite it being an Intel developed technology).
It appears that the future of USB 3.0 is a little less clear this week. This is all thanks to a sole session at Intel's Developer Forum in Beijing where Intel senior fellow Kevin Khan demonstrated the company's new Light Peak technology.
Much like Intel's aborted Ultra Wideband Technology, Light Peak is designed as a platform upon which various protocols will run. Rather than rely on fancy tricks to squeeze more out of wiring it replaces the wires altogether with optical fibre. This has the advantage of not only faster communications between devices, it allows for multiple protocols to run in unison on the same cable, using the same plug.
During the presentation he suggested that Light Peak was the future successor to USB 3.0. This was while using a laptop that had a special USB 3.0 port, modified to also accept optical signals for Light Peak.
So is USB 3.0 a dead end?
Where confusion seems to reign is over the difference between the two technologies. In this case it seems to be more an issue of Light Peak replacing the USB 3.0 cabling standard, with data transfer still using the USB 3.0 protocols. I wouldn't be surprised to see this hybrid socket be the first PC implementation of Light Peak. This is despite the fact that the optical cables can be much thinner than USB cables and plugs can be.
If we see a surge in USB 3.0 devices over the course of this year, then Intel is going to have to build it into its chipsets. No matter how groundbreaking in convenience and speeds the transition to optical communication in Light Peak will be, there is going to have to be a period during which both will happily coexist.
Who knows, in 10 years time we may well be looking back at USB cables and thinking them as unwieldy and annoying as parallel and serial cables look to us now. Light Peak seems the logical way forward for the industry, it doesn't mean anyone can give up on USB for the foreseeable future though.
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BOINCing around
The past week I've been BOINCing around with a new (to me) program that does a wonderful thing. Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing: an open-source software platform for computing using volunteered resources. Stay with me now, this is really very exciting.
Remember I've told you before that computers are not very smart, just incredibly fast and able to do the same thing over and over and over without getting bored with the repetitiveness?
In fact, most of the time your computer is waiting to do something and it would be quite happy to have something, anything to break the tedium. This is where BOINC steps in and gives it a task that actually contributes something. SETI@home was a project to analyze the data picked up by powerful radio telescopes.
There was (is) huge piles of data that would require massive amounts of computer time to look into the nooks and crannies for anomalies that might be radio signals escaping from distant planet - the equivalent of Gilligan's Island or Red Skelton reruns which slip through our ionosphere. The cost such minute scrutiny would be prohibitive.
As PCs became more widely available, some very smart folks at Berkely realized that there was an enormous amount of CPU time when each computer was just sitting waiting -- even as I type between each keystroke Max, my computer, is running hundreds of cycles. No I'm not that slow of a typist! Max is just very, very fast. Their program allows you to donate that idle time to different scientific studies (even to split it up among several projects in different Universities. Some examples:
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Your computer can be part of the research that finds a cure for some disease you can't even pronounce. They've even set up teams, forums and a credit system where you can see how your team is doing and how much information your computer is processing.
OK, so the credits aren't frequent flyer miles -- just bragging rights among geeks. They have some neat graphics you can use as a screensaver (each customized to the particular project,) Some Teams even generate signature graphics with your stats for you. Example:
The important thing is you can contribute time that would otherwise be unused and advance some worthwhile study. Well, there may be some downside issues...
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Disc golf singles tournament
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Justin Bieber to switch things up with his mane!It looks like it was time for
The 17-year-old singer, whose Christmas album Under the Mistletoe drops on Tuesday, made an appearance on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, and showed off his newly shorn locks. Looking slick, the Biebs was in all black attire, including a leather jacket.
We have a feeling that his new holiday album will fair pretty well on the Billboard charts!
Justin, who has an extremely devoted fan base, tweeted:
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Billionaire US investor Howard Marks has warned investors against loading up on risky assets in their search for income, pointing out that "their scramble for return has brought elements of pre-crisis behaviour very much back to life".
In his latest letter to investors in his Oaktree Capital Management, Marks points out the prices of securities, such as shares and bonds, move much more sharply than changes in the economy or swings in corporate profits.
"Market gyrations make the fluctuations in company profits look mild. Securities prices rise and fall much more than profits, introducing considerable investment risk. Why? Primarily because of dramatic ups and downs in investor psychology," Marks says.
In the past, he says, investors believed high-quality assets were safe, while low-quality assets were risky. So bonds were seen as safer than stocks, and the stocks of leading companies were considered safer than lesser companies.
But these assumptions often failed. High-quality stocks have had times of poor performance (such as the "Nifty Fifty" in the early 1970s), while anyone investing $1 in the "junk bond" index in late 1979 would have more than $23 today.
"No asset is so good that it can't be bid up to where it's overpriced and thus dangerous," Marks says. "And few assets are so bad they can't become underpriced and thus safe (and potentially lucrative)."
He argues investors themselves are subject to a definite risk cycle. When economic growth is feeble and markets are weak, most people worry about losing money and disregard the missed opportunities. Only a few brave contrarians believe improvement is possible.
But sooner or later, the economy shows signs of life, corporate earnings jump and shares rise. As reality is better than expected, the average investor realises a recovery is under way. Confidence rises, investors feel richer. Those on the sidelines are gradually lured back into the sharemarket.
This process is reinforced as banks, subject to the same influences as investors, become more willing to lend, and this encourages investors to leverage to expand their buying power.
"The market takes on the appearance of a perpetual-motion machine. Appreciation accelerates, possibly leading to a mania or bubble. Everyone concludes things can only get better forever. They forget about the risk of losing money and fixate on not missing opportunities," says Marks.
But eventually the market reaches a peak. Economic activity and corporate earnings turn down, or they fall short of the irrational hopes of investors. The price of shares and bonds starts falling, and the average investor begins to realise that things are getting worse. At the same time, banks become more cautious and some investors receive margin calls, while the media reports on the spectacular meltdowns of highly leveraged companies. Forced selling in response to margin calls and covenant breaches cause the price declines to accelerate. At that point, "everyone concludes things can only get worse forever".
As Marks notes, the important thing to note is that economic and business conditions fluctuate, but "investor psychology responds in a highly exaggerated fashion". When things go well, investors swing towards euphoria and push securities prices too high. When things are going badly, they swing towards depression and panic, and push the prices of securities too low.
As a result, he says, "in bad times securities can often be bought at prices that understate their merits. And in good times securities can be sold at prices that overstate their potential. And yet, most people are impelled to buy when the cycle drives prices up and to sell in panic when it drives prices down."
Marks points out this market is very unusual in that investors are snapping up securities even though they're deeply conscious of the fragile state of the global economy.
"Today investors are highly aware of the uncertainties attaching to the sluggish recovery, fiscal imbalance and political dysfunction in the US; the same or worse in Europe; lack of growth in Japan; slowdown in China; resulting problems in the emerging markets; and geopolitical tensions," he says.
But there is a problem because "while few people are thinking bullish today, many are acting bullish. Their pro-risk behaviour is having its normal dangerous impact on the markets, even in the absence of pro-risk thinking.
"I've become increasingly conscious of this inconsistency in recent months, and I think it is the most important issue that today's investors have to confront".
Marks argues the reason is "people aren't buying because they want to, but they feel they have to". The decision by the world's major central banks to keep interest rates near zero means investors who want to keep their money in safe investments earn virtually no return.
As he notes, "because the returns on 'safe' investments are so low, people are moving further out on the risk curve to pursue returns that meet their needs and are close to what they used to get. And the weight of their capital is bringing down prospective returns and making riskier deals doable".
Marks says there are pluses and minuses about the state of the market. "The good news is today's investors are painfully aware of the many uncertainties. The bad news is they're being forced by the low interest rates to bear substantial risk at returns that have been bid down. Their scramble for return has brought elements of pre-crisis behaviour very much back to life."
He urges investors to be cautious, particularly of fixed-income markets. (Investors, he says, are mainly turning towards bonds, while equities are not subject to the same income-driven buying.)
"Today, in place of aggressiveness, the challenging search for return should incorporate risk control, caution, discipline and selectivity."
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Courtney Love Sez She Wrote Death Note
Courtney Love claims she wrote the note thatwas found in Cobain's wallet which appeared to mock his wedding vows to Love. It read: "Do you Kurt Cobain take Courtney Michelle Love to be your lawful shredded wife, even when she's a bitch with zits and siphoning all yr money for doping and whoring."
Originally reported by CBS, after the note was made public by police in Seattle after they released a host of previously unseen photographs of the death scene, Courtney Love has since written to the Seattle Times newspaper saying she wrote the note and that it dates from 1991, not 1994 when her husband took his own life.
It was written on headed notepaper from the Phoenix Hotel in San Francisco and Love said she wrote it on New Year's Eve in 1991 as Nirvana played a local gig. An employee of Cobain's estate has confirmed she wrote the letter and Love's sister has also backed up her claim. The note was clipped last week. The last line reads "you will promise to f*ck her at least once a week OK".
We dont want to accept that Kurt actually loved this crazy b*tch but maybe he did. Still think she killed him?


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RFT vs Non-RFT Air Pressure Question
The Basic question I want to ask is:
Should PSI be higher on NON RFT's compared to similar spec RFT's?
I got 18" staggered wheels on my e90 and I recently put on Michelin Pilot Super Sports.
User manual states I should run 36psi front/42psi back for extra load. I ran this on my old NITTO NON RFT Tires (Softer tire from what I experienced) and the fronts had shoulders wear off noting that they were under inflated.
I wonder 36/42 is for RFT's and if I should run higher for these NON RFT Michelin PSS's.
Street, naw.
I get best results at BMW owner's manual recommended psi.
+1. What CWB says for same size tires.
What they said. The type of tire does not affect the recommended air pressure. btw - there's virtually no way that 36/42 is going to result in an under inflated situation.
I actually DROPPED my pressure by 2 PSI front and rear. I noticed my Michies were not using the outsides of the tread.
Softer ride with no noticable change in handling.
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Further consolidation in Austrian mobile sector highlights H3's market commitment
Telecom market overview
Austria's liberalised telecom market is one of the most competitive in Europe, with numerous operators providing voice and data services, The mobile market has been consolidated in recent years following a number of purchases, most recently that of Orange by H3 Austria. Most of the population uses the internet, and broadband household penetration at 57% is above the EU average, largely the result of effectively competing cable and ADSL platforms. The number of fixed lines continues to fall – about 10% of all new broadband customers opt for internet without fixed-line access. The ICT sector still employs over 100,000 people and contributes about 4.4% to the country's GDP. Revenue from the telecoms sector has been inconsistent, with a renewed decline seen since 2010, largely due to the continuing tough economic conditions.
The mobile sector (including mobile broadband) has become the largest in terms of revenue, representing about two-thirds of the total, while fixed-line telephony has a only a fifth of the market, fixed-line broadband about 10% and leased lines the remaining 3%. The trend in declining revenue is likely to continue during the next few years as operators adjust to competition and regulatory measure. In the mobile sector some respite is expected in coming years as consumers make greater use of high-end mobile data services.
Fibre broadband market
There remains little significant fibre deployment outside Vienna, though a number of promising regulatory measures will encourage further developments in coming years. Telekom Austria aims to connect 2.3 million homes by the end of 2013, while smaller players such as Infotech Ried and Xlink now operate 1Gb/s networks in a growing number of towns such as Klagenfurt, Villach and Salzburg. The incumbent's own 'FiberCities' network complements its VDSL2 coverage in rural areas using existing fibre backbone and complemented by mobile base stations connected to the fibre network to support its LTE projects.
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- The auction of remaining spectrum in the 800, 900 and 1800MHz bands in late 2012 has enabled MNOs to improve their services in rural areas, and expand the availability of LTE networks. These bands complement the existing 2.6GHz allocations which required MNOs to deploy LTE to 25% of the population by the end of 2013.
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- Despite ASO having been reached nationally, DTTV retains only a small share of the TV market. The satellite TV sector is particularly strong, with about two thirds of digital TV households subscribing to Astra. The regulator has promoted DVB-T2 as a future broadcasting format.
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After Saturday nightâs dominating victory in the Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway, there was urgency in Brad Keselowskiâs voiceâbecause there is an abiding urgency in the soul of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion.
"I really want to win a second championship," Keselowski said repeatedly after climbing from his winning No. 2 Team Penske Ford.
That was after he won the race with a late-race pass of Kyle Busch and locked himself into the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint with his second victory of the season.
That was before he sustained a freak injury when a champagne bottle shattered in his hand. The resulting gash prompted a trip to the infield care center for stitches before he reappeared for his post-race press conference.
With his hand securely bandaged, Keselowski elaborated on his quest for a second title. After he won the championship in 2012, Keselowski failed to qualify for the Chase last year, an experience he describes as "humbling," and one that only served to heighten the immediacy of his desire to win a second Sprint Cup.
"I turned 30, and I'm going through a bit of a mid-life crisis," Keselowski quipped before he turned serious. "I want to win another championship. I don't want to just win one. I think I have the team to do it, with (crew chief) Paul (Wolfe) and the guys. I have the owner to do it with Roger Penske, and the urgency is now.
"I don't want to win one championship and that be it for my career. I'm not going to be happy with that. And I want to win another championship, but I don't want it to be five or 10 years from now. I don't want to be a guy that contends for a championship every three or four years. I want to do it each and every year, and I know that opportunity is here, and it's present, and I want to make the most of it, and I'm not afraid to communicate that."
What Keselowski said for public consumption on Saturday night, however, doesnât plumb the full depth of his desire.
Even with 12 Sprint Cup wins and titles in both the Cup and Nationwide Series, Keselowski still considers himself an outsider. Even though the inner circle of NASCAR stars has expanded geographically over the past two decades, Keselowski isnât part of it.
By the time he started his first full season in Sprint Cup racing in 2010, Keselowski already had raised the hackles of his fellow competitors. Run-ins that season with such established stars as Carl Edwards and Denny Hamlin didnât help matters.
Through it all, Keselowski remained brash and outspoken, traits he acquired while growing up in Detroit as the scion of a hardscrabble racing family. Even after the Cup championship, however, Keselowski still feels something like the smart kid who wins the high school spelling bee but canât get the time of day from the head cheerleader.
Nine days before he won at Kentucky, Keselowski reflected over lunch on why heâs still fighting for acceptance.
"Everyoneâs always trying to fight for a spot in the pecking order," Keselowski said. "Itâs difficult to assemble where you are in the pecking order. Some would go by your successâwins, championship, et cetera.
"Some would go by your longevity, how long youâve been in the sport. And I would say others would go by your star power, with respect your fan base and maybe media prowess. So everyoneâs fighting to be at the top."
And some drivers resent an upstart trying to steal their thunder, even if he happens to win a title.
"I think (the championship) got me closer," Keselowski said. "When it comes to the old boysâ club, I would say their metric for measurement is probably longevity, and when you look across the board as it pertains to those whoâve had success in the sportâsuccess in the tangible form of winning races and winning championshipsâIâm by far the youngest."
And, as Keselowski would admit, he hasnât always done whatâs necessary to curry favor with his peers. Rookies are supposed to "race with respect," code words for conceding positions to veteran drivers without a fight.
Keselowski simply isnât wired that way. From day one, he made that clear to his fellow competitors in no uncertain termsâat the cost of hurt feelings and damaged race cars.
A second championship is Keselowskiâs burning passion in part because he still feels to some degree like an interloper, an "immigrant" into the established world of NASCAR racing, as he put it.
Where Keselowskiâs second 2014 win means a berth in the Chase, a second Sprint Cup title would mean infinitely more.
For one thing, itâs an all-but-certain ticket into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Keselowski already has realized a vision of himself and his career that few others might have thought possible.
Doubtless he can also foresee his own induction ceremony at the Hall of Fameâand anticipate the sense of belonging that will bring.
Thatâs why he wants it so much.
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By mark kerns
From: denver, co
Jan 21, 2009
i found that the off width pitch on the gendarme protected very well with stoppers in the back of the crack. big exposure, but protected nicely. not so sure about the "plus" rating. i thought that both gendarme pitches were about the same in difficulty. the first is more aesthetic, but the off width pitch climbs great.
also - after the gendarme pitches, trend left towards the summit. when in doubt head to your left. i have yet to find a 4th class path all the way to the summit, but the last time i did this was very close but still had to stop and anchor in for a short pitch of 5th class. i feel that if i would have trended even more to my left i might have finished the ridge with 4th class as described in the becky book.
regarding the approach....most people climb this from the south, coming over ingalls pass, past ingalls lace, over goat pass and then descending from the pass to the toe of the ridge. i did not use crampons or ice axe for this approach and found it to be easy access.
regarding the descent - if climbing from the south - descend cascadian couloir to the east of the summit, cross ingalls greek and find the trail that leads over stuart pass. this is the fastest way back to the trailhead. this climb can be done in a long day from the trail head.
fantastic climb.
By Justin York
From: Phoenix, AZ
Nov 9, 2009
I agree with mark - the offwidth pitch wasn't harder than the layback pitch of the gendarme, and the offwidth section was short. Plus, a fixed #4 to boot!
So high on the route, it was tempting to bypass the gendarme, but so glad we didn't. It was one of the highlights.
We approached from the north which was looooong and so much bushwhacking it's not even funny. Though the campsite was superb, I can't recommend that approach. The glacier descent was in bad shape so late in the season so we circumnavigated the mtn (with a bivy...)over goat pass to get back to camp. Sounds like approaching from the South is more straightforward.
Doing the N. ridge direct was the way to go. The bottom pitches were great and the rest up to the notch was on mostly good rock. Took about 11 hrs from base to summit.
Great adventure! Go do it!
By Brian Prince
From: morro bay, ca
Aug 23, 2012
I'd give it 5.9+ for the second pitch of the bottom of the ridge. After the "5.8 squeeze slot" I climbed the corner described here. This is a very pretty, lichen-free sustained fingerish crack in a corner that can be seen from the base. It was way harder than anything on the gendarme or anywhere else on the route. After this I wasn't sure where the route went, but we belayed one more pitch before we wanted to simul.
Fixed #4 is still in the 2nd gendarme pitch as of 8/12 so no need to bring one. A #3 works just fine until you get to it. It's nothing to be scared about. It's also short, as mentioned.
Anyway, I also recommend approaching from the south via Esmeralda/Ingalls Lake/Longs pass Trailhead (I've heard it referred to as all three names. It's the approach often used for just the upper ridge and is described on that page). This requires no crampons or axe (at least later in the season) and was straightforward, if not looonnngg (and that cascadian descent is so miserable). C2C in a day is definitely doable this way though.
I think Mark (above) meant to say that, on the descent, after you descend the cascadian couloir and cross ingalls creek that you find the trail that heads over longs pass, not stuart pass. Good advice is to look at a trail map. Sweet route up (and over, for us) a big ol' mountain.
By trent.s
Jul 17, 2015
|According to Kearney in "Classic Climbs of the Northwest", the 5.9+ pitch on the lower ridge is avoidable by going right to gain a 40' 4" crack. This makes the lower ridge go at 5.8 according to him. He states that there have been several long falls and one serious injury on the left variation.
By Nick Drake
From: Newcastle, WA
Aug 3, 2015
|My partner led out right by mistake on P2, we ended up missing the 9+ layback. Did not see the reported 4" crack, but ended up on a 7 to 8 finger crack layback instead. It probably would have been fun were it not for a ton of lichen that meant your feet were borderline useless. The other party in our group took the 9+, it looks great, was clean and protects well, I wouldn't bypass it.
By Henry AB
Aug 7, 2015
We followed the standard beta, pitching out the first three pitches and the gendarme pitches. We simul-climbed everything else. We used a 60m single rope folded in half for the pitches we pitched out. The leader tied in at the midpoint and hauled the packs on one strand while belaying the follower on the other strand. This worked great and didn't take much time at all.
I think a #4 C4 (or other large cam) is totally unnecessary for the Gendarme offwidth. You can place a #2 at the base of the offwidth and then a #3 higher up. Then there is a 15-20 feet gap until the fixed cam. The pitch is steep and exposed, so any fall would be pretty clean.
Judging from previous trip reports, that fixed cam has been there for at least 10 years. I didn't look at it too closely, but I think it might be a Friend. It didn't seem to be possible to clip the stem of the cam directly, and there is no way I would trust the sling on that cam after being up there for ten years. I ended up slinging the cam like a chockstone.
Regarding the descent, we inadvertently took the route that the Beckey guide identifies as "Variation No. 1" to the Cascadian couloir, which is the first drainage east of the Cascadian couloir. We were following a well-defined trail/cairns up high. We had GPS waypoints for the Cascadian couloir, so we eventually realized we were not on the main route. But by that point, we didn't feel like leaving the trail. The trail periodically disappeared and re-emerged. There was some third-class downclimbing, but on the whole the route wasn't too bad. I suspect a lot of climbers have descended this way, thinking they were descending the Cascadian couloir.
By Nick Drake
From: Newcastle, WA
Nov 6, 2015
|The fixed cam is a gen 2 camalot, I wouldn't whip on it, but I can attest that it did still hold body weight as of this summer :)
By Nick Sweeney
From: Spokane, WA
Aug 30, 2016
|Southern approach note: From Ingalls lake, follow the ridge extending to the West Ridge of Stuart. You should not lose much elevation from Ingalls Lake.
By Annaconda
From: Seattle, WA
Aug 31, 2016
Did the Complete North Ridge on Aug 29 via the south approach/Cascadian Descent. A few notes:
1. The "Upper" north ridge is 18 pitches, and adding the "lower" north ridge to make the "Complete" (or the Direct) North Ridge means about 25 pitches of climbing and probably about 2700 feet, not 20 pitches/2000 ft as listed here - at least by my first-hand calculations and review of various guidebooks. Big day, even with 20ish pitches of those 4th-lower 5th.
2. If at all in doubt about your ability to do this in a day, bring bivy gear. Descending the Cascadian Couloir at night is not fun, especially if you've never done it before. There are reasonable sites every 4-5 pitches on the climb and summit.
3. By late Aug (of a moderate snow year), there was no snow of consequence on the entire climb/descent. Sharps were fine left at home.
4. Neither me nor my partner are confident on 5.9 offwidth, and we were happy to have a #4 and a #3 in addition to the stuck #4 up there.
5. The Cascadian Couloir isn't that bad (...or maybe I just like suffering) Beware of false cairns leading you into the first gully. Stay on the ridge until just past the false summit, we saw a nice big bivvy site and 3 big cairns then headed down there. The CC is cairned almost the entire way down now.
Have fun, climb fast!
By David Bruneau
From: St. John
Sep 15, 2016
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
First alpine climb. Tried to do this car-to-car in a day, in a party of 3 with a 3:30AM start. Summit at 5:50PM from the south approach, then f***ed up the descent by descending the wrong couloir (not too bad) then taking the wrong trail in the dark afterwards (added 15 km to the hike, turned the day into an epic). An absolutely exhausting day - probably best to plan to bivy if you're unsure that you can do the climb and hike quickly enough to do the descent in the light. Or bring a GPS and a proper map...
The climb itself was great, with fairly straightforward routefinding on the ridge. The highlight for me was the upper 3rd of the first simul section, with amazing exposure and perfect easy rock. The lower thin hand crack was the best hard pitch and seemed like the only true 5.9 on the route - a hard 5.9 at that. Gendarme "offwidth" is mostly fists for the average male hand and would be graded easier at many other american crags. I did not feel the need for a #4 (clean fall, #3 just below my feet when I was at the fixed cam). On September 9th the ledges on the Gendarme and much of the flatter terrain above was snow covered, unpleasant but not too bad. We also trundled a huge flake out of the crack on the 1st pitch after ensuring no-one else was below.
By Nick AW Brown
From: St. John's
Oct 2, 2016
We attempted to climb the entire North Ridge in a single day from the Ingalls Creek parking lot. We ended up having a 27 hour epic after losing our way in the dark. Read our account of the adventure for photos, and pertinent info to help avoid making the mistake we did on the descent, or at least for an interesting read...
By Kevin MP
From: Redmond, OR
Oct 9, 2016
|Casual as a two-day mission with a bivy on the route, and quite spectacular all-around. Would be a huge one-day push but doable for a fast party after knowing the approach and general routefinding. As for water on a late-summer ascent, to avoid carrying unnecessary weight, bring just enough to make it the first 4 miles up to Ingalls Lake. At the lake you can grab water, just enough to get you over Stuart Pass, up over Goat Pass, then down and across the bottom of Stuart Glacier. There is a large stream running from the glacier all summer and you will cross it, last chance to fill up before you continue onto the route. From the summit you can access small snow patches, then there are nice fresh streams when you make it to the bottom of the Cascadian Couloir.
By Jaddles
Jun 21, 2017
|Check out this Trip report for doing the DNR with Gendarme Approaching from Lake Ingalls trail head and descending Cascadian couloir. I laid out the pro's and cons for the many approach/descent and route choice options which I hope will be helpful. I also listed at the bottom of the blog post some other blogs that were especially helpful including Steph Abegg's, Eric and Lucy and John Plotz. jadelittlewood.wordpress.com/2...
By Hans
From: Squamish, BC
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BuzzFeed presents an excellent series of photos that depict the destruction caused by the tsunami on March 11, 2011, along with other photos showing how much has been cleaned up and how much still remains to be done.
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At age 26, and one day after Watergate's "Saturday Night" massacre, the Acting Attorney General's office tasked Mr. Fein to define in 100 pages an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor which would occasion the unprecedented resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.
Mr. Fein served as Associate Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice and supervised the Department's litigation and vetting of candidates for the federal judiciary. He served as General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission from 1983-1984, spearheading the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine as violating the free speech rights of broadcasters, and the break-up of "Ma Bell" known as A T & T into seven "Baby Bells." During this time Mr. Fein testified during Senate confirmation hearings for presidential nominees Supreme Court Justices.
In the private sector, Mr. Fein has participated in the drafting of constitutions for over 20 foreign countries. He has consulted for the U.S. - India Business Council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and contributed a weekly column for techcentralstation.com on telecom issues. Mr. Fein has testified as an expert witness by both Republicans and Democrats before House and Senate Committees on approximately 100 occasions. He was one of the first to be consulted by the Attorneys General's office during the Bush Administration on the warrantless Terrorist Surveillance Program that flouted FISA. Mr. Fein then testified before three congressional on revising FISA. Recently, he has written and spoken out against the NSA Surveillance abuses and continues his fight against FISA court secrecy, brought to the national conversation by his client's son, Edward Snowden.
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Of all the appalling sights to see - an empty cookie jar, a wet, shivering puppy, melted ice cream - dusty ice skates, for me, has to be the worst. That was the sight I laid my eyes on last week....my pair of skates, lying unloved, on the floor at home. It was time to redeem myself.
Being a solutions-oriented guy, I put on the layers, started my truck, set the heater on "Arizona" and headed off to the Ice Palace at Riverfront Park - the outdoor rink that has been recognized for being one of the best in the nation.
I arrived just as the decorative lights at the park went on. I'm cool with cold weather because I used to have 6:00 a.m. hockey practice at an outdoor rink in January. While many attendees raced for the hot chocolate, I put on my gloves, my hat and - most importantly - my two pairs of socks, dug my feet into my beloved skates and hit the ice.
I was impressed with the condition of the entire sheet of ice. I've played on outdoor rinks that literally had slush in one corner and rivets in another. The Ice Palace is well-maintained, very secure for everyone and the atmosphere was wonderful - Christmas lights above, music all around and skaters enjoying themselves.
As I stepped onto the ice, I took a glance across the rink. 95 percent of the skaters were holding onto something (or someone) to stay on their feet. There were masses of kids skating for the first time. The smiles on their nearly frozen faces told me they were enjoying themselves and who cares if their parents made them wear a funky helmet?
And who knows? Some of these kids may be skating champions someday, like the ones Spokane will see from Jan. 14 to Jan. 24 when the U.S. Figure Skating Championships return to Spokane. I have no doubt those skaters - like Evan Lysacek and dance pair Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto - started out on rinks just like the one at Riverfront Park, wearing odd-looking helmets, holding their parents' hands and stumbling around on the ice.
All skaters have to start out somewhere. Why don't you start out at the Ice Palace at Spokane's Riverfront Park?


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The Federation of Polish Jews of America yesterday issued a protest against an interview granted by David A. Brown to the Polish Telegraphic Agency, regarding the condition of Polish Jewry, in a letter which it sent to leading Jewish organizations, calling upon them to take action against Mr. Brown.
The communication was addressed to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the American Jewish Committee and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
The interview granted by Mr. Brown to the Polish Telegraphic Agency during his recent stay in Warsaw stated that he saw no special misery among Polish Jewry and that "the alarming reports of the Jewish press and especially of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in America with regard to the terrible condition of the Jews in Poland which are perturbing American Jewry create in America a false picture with regard to the position of the Jews in Poland."
The letter of the Polish Federation says:
"The Jewish papers of Poland which have just reached this country carry, prominently displayed, an interview which Mr. David A. Brown has given to the Polish Telegraphic Agency. From the copy of this interview which we are enclosing you will see that Mr. Brown expressed the viewpoint that alarming reports of the Jewish press and especially of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency with regard to the terrible condition of the Jews in Poland were perturbing American Jewry and creating, in America, a false picture with regard to the position of the Jews in Poland.
"All the Jewish newspapers in Poland, without exception, have accompanied this report with editorial remarks pointing out the ludicrous character of Mr. Brown's statement.
"We hardly need point out to you the gravity of the offense Mr. Brown has committed. It is evident that the representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Warsaw, as well as the correspondent of the other Jewish newspapers who are Polish citizens are by implication being denounced to the Polish Government as being engaged in propaganda against Poland with intention of blackening Poland's reputation abroad.
"All reports which reach us, coming from Poland, indicate that Jewish conditions were never as difficult as today. The number of Jews who are compelled to apply to the Kehiloth for some assistance has reached much larger figures since the war. We have facts and figures in our files which prove beyond question that the economic situation in Poland is indescribably desperate.
"We are certain that these utterings of Mr. Brown are as misrepresentative of your Committee as they are of us and that same are a deeper reflection against your Committee than against us because of his very membership in your Committee. It is, therefore, our sincere hope and expectation that your Committee will take such action forthwith as this situation, as reported to us, requires."
The Polish Telegraphic Agency interview with Mr. Brown declares interalia:
"In an interview with a representative of the Polish Telegraphic Agency, Mr. Brown indicated that the position of the Jews in Poland is the same as that of the Jews in other European lands and is closely bound up with the world economic crisis. He did not paint a black picture of conditions among Polish Jewry.
"It is characteristic that the jargon (?) press of Poland which hailed (?) Mr. Brown's coming to Poland and described him as a great Jewish communal leader carried not a single interview with him upon his arrival or even a notice. This is certainly due to the fact that Brown did not see 'any specific misery among the Jewish masses of Poland.'
"In the course of the interview, Brown pointed out that the alarming reports are incorrect which have been published by the Jewish press in America concerning the position of the Jews in Poland, which are disquieting American Jewry and producing a false picture of the status of Polish Jewry."
"Unser Express," Yiddish daily of Warsaw, published this report by the Polish Telegraphic Agency with the following comment:
"If Mr. Brown has really not seen the terrible need among Polish Jewry, then he is, unfortunately, very nearsighted or he sought to find evidence of this need in the "Hotel Europayski" where he stayed during his Warsaw visit.
"When one has dollars in his pocket and resides in the 'Hotel Europayski' it is truly difficult to see the Jewish masses in general and their misery in particular," the paper concludes.


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By Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press Writer
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. FBI agents said Monday that they have bagged a serial bank robber dubbed the "Mad Hatter" -- a man who spent nearly two decades in prison for killing his girlfriend.
James G. Madison was arrested Monday and ordered held without bail on charges of robbing a bank the previous day. Authorities believe he is responsible for many others, all while wearing an array of hats, the FBI said.
"Although he's charged in one robbery, he's a suspect in as many as 18," Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark McCarren told a federal magistrate in asking that bail be denied. A public defender for the suspect declined to comment on Monday.
Madison, 50, was paroled in 2005 after serving 18 years of a 40-year prison sentence for the January 1986 manslaughter of his live-in girlfriend. Authorities said Madison struck the woman with a lamp during a fight.
The body of Terry Wells was found nearly two months later, in a suitcase fished out of the Passaic River. By then, Madison had settled into a new life in California.
Madison, a machinist, was arrested early Monday in the parking lot of his Maplewood apartment complex and charged with robbing a Bank of America branch in a supermarket, the FBI said.
According to a court filing, on Sunday a robber wearing a yellow baseball cap gave the teller a handwritten note that read in part: "Give me on top of counter 100s, 50s, and 20s. Don't press silent alarm. No dye pack."
The robber walked out with $3,000, but a bank employee wrote down the license plate of the black Nissan Altima as he drove off.
The car was traced to a woman who lives with Madison and who told investigators she had lent him her vehicle, authorities said. She said that afternoon she saw him counting 20-, 50- and 100-dollar bills.
Madison was charged with one count of bank robbery, which carries a maximum 20-year prison term. FBI agent Weysan Dun said Madison is the prime suspect in the other robberies because of similarities between the crimes, descriptions of the robber and the getaway car.
The Mad Hatter has been blamed for at least 18 bank robberies in northern New Jersey since last year. Wearing a baseball cap, a fishing hat or a military hat, the robber strode into banks, handed a teller a note demanding money and walked out quickly and quietly with the cash.
The robber was nearly caught in May after a robbery of a Montclair bank. He tossed money into a storm drain when a pack of red dye exploded in a booby-trapped money bag he was carrying.
Associated Press writers Janet Frankston Lorin and Jeffrey Gold in Newark contributed to this report.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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MoneyDesktop, a personal financial management vendor out of Utah, announced Wednesday a partnership with CUBUS Solutions, an online banking software provider to some 90 credit unions.
With the alliance, MoneyDesktop's PFM tools will integrate into the Livermore, Calif.-based company's widget-based online banking platform.
MoneyDesktop aggregates account information and provides services such as budget creation and expense tracking of a consumer's financial health.
"Working with online banking providers is at the core of MoneyDesktop's philosophy of creating a better PFM experience," said Ryan Caldwell, chief executive and founder, in a statement.


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From: "Irene Hunt" <>
Subject: Re: A disappointing visit to Dublin.
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 17:12:06 +1000
I've just returned from 51/2 months in the Uk including a trip to Ireland
where I visited the Tipperary Heritage Unit in Nenagh. I already knew what
my husbands great great grandparents names were and I already knew what
their childrens names and years of birth were. I happily paid the 20 pounds
sterling (at the time the equivalent to $50 Australian) for a search on the
family. All I got was the baptism dates and parish. Very expensive. Why
can't the Tipperary Heritage Unit play the game and charge for the amount of
info. It took them 15 minutes to extract this from their data base and
transcribe onto a pro forma sheet. I would have liked the female line
looked at and the brother of the person in question but that would have cost
me another 20 pounds sterling each. $100 in my money. Irene Hunt
Ann C Brennan wrote in message
>Please provide some specifics for the rest of us.
>Steve Moylan wrote in message <000001be7ab0$b3692dc0$>...
>>I have just returned from a majorly unsuccessful trip to Dublin. Despite
>>careful preperation and having just a few clear and simple goals, I have
>>returned with no additional information at all.
>>Sadly this sort of ruined the trip for me because my expectations were
>>that I would get a result with the quality of information that I took out
>>with me. The very expensive lesson that you can all share from my
>>is "don't expect too much and you won't be disappointed".
>>Steve Moylan
>>MOYLAN of Belfast NI. SHELDON of Birmingham UK
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A COURT appeal has backfired for 20 banks, which will have to pay up to $3 billion to the liquidators of Alan Bond's former company Bell Group.
The WA Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a previous decision ordering the banks - including Westpac, the National Australia Bank and Commonwealth - to pay Bell Group and also increased the amount from $1.56 billion to a total that is likely to approach $3 billion.
In the longest running and most expensive case in Australian legal history, the court accepted part of Bell's counter-appeal, agreeing that the trial judge erred in his calculations and that damages and interest awarded should be higher.
The banks were also ordered to pay costs for both sides, estimated to be hundreds of millions of dollars.
Acting Justices Malcolm Lee, Douglas Drummond and Christopher Carr returned from retirement to hear the case because all other judges had been involved in earlier litigation. The saga began in 1990 when banks took out the corporate equivalent of mortgages over Bell Group's assets to try and keep the company afloat.
When Bell Group collapsed on April 18, 1991, the banks reaped $280 million from the sale of assets. The company's liquidators claimed the banks were also liable because they knew Bell Group was in trouble and sought to recoup the $280 million.
Acting Justices Lee and Drummond determined that the principal orders made by Chief Justice Neville Owen in 2006 were properly based on findings the banks knew the Bell Group directors had breached their duty.
Acting Justice Carr disagreed, finding no breaches had occurred.
Despite yesterday's decision, the case could continue to the High Court.
Outside court, Bell Group liquidator Tony Woodings urged the banks to accept the courts' decision. ''I invite the banks to now take that decision, accept it, and allow the process of distribution to begin.''


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In and of itself there is nothing special about this popular introduction to the paranormal, covering, as its cover blurb says - ghosts, witchcraft, ESP, hypnotism, magic, astrology, mediums, not to say predictions and poltergeists, which I bought at a newsagents and sweetshop in Urmston in the week between Christmas and New Year 1963. However it was my introduction to psychical research, and not being an especially critical twelve-year old, I suppose that I took a fair amount of it in. It was to be my introduction to stories such as Lurancy Vennum and her alleged possession by the spirit of her deceased neighbour Mary Roff, or Mrs Forbes and her vampire, Arnold Paul the vampire, as well as the Phelps family and their tableau making poltergeist.
From this small beginning my interest in the paranormal developed alongside that of my interest in UFOs, one that led me joining the SPR as a student associated in about 1971 (I left, along with many other people, after 1982). For many years I found the material fascinating and deeply puzzling, as can be seen from some of my earlier articles and reviews in MUFOB.
My views became more sceptical after reading the dialogues in the old Zetetic Scholar, where I felt that the sceptics actually produced the better arguments. I also began to find that looking for non-paranormal explanations of anomalies was more intellectually challenging than taking such stories at face value. Looking back today at this little book, I realised how much of it was just blind repetition from other peoples' books and magazine articles, with no attempt to critically investigate the sources used (see for example my new comment in the Phantom Ship Article from an early MUFOB) -- Peter Rogerson.