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Hello and welcome to another installment of the top ten games on each Nintendo system, as voted by Nintendo Enthusiast staff and readers. Today, we will be looking at Nintendo's first primarily 3D system, the Nintendo 64. While Nintendo's third-party support fell off quite a bit with the N64, they put their full effort into supporting it and successfully brought many of their franchises into 3D in an era when making the dimensional jump was very risky for classic series.
Number 10: F-Zero X
The original F-Zero was made to show off the Super Nintendo's 3D capabilities, but Mode 7 3D games didn't exactly age well. The N64 was able to make the series fully 3D and F-Zero X was a huge step forward for it. Thirty vehicles at once smoothly zooming through twisting, gravity-defying 3D tracks was very impressive in 1998. With a high difficulty level, plenty of tracks, the aforementioned thirty vehicles, and N64's signature four-player support, F-Zero X had plenty of replay value. The intense soundtrack fit the game perfectly and stands out on a system not known for having the best music. F-Zero X will be remembered by gamers forever, even if Nintendo doesn't realize it.
Number 9: Mario Kart 64
Like F-Zero, Super Mario Kart was a beloved Mode 7 racer on the Super Nintendo that had some significant aging problems. Also like F-Zero, when Mario Kart came to the N64, the system's 3D capabilities greatly improved it. Mario Kart 64's tracks were no longer flat or forced to reuse themes and the multiplayer was twice as fun as before with the four-player support. The biggest improvement, however, was the analog control. You actually felt like you were in control of your kart; power-sliding was an advanced technique instead of the only way to make any kind of turn. While the Mario Kart series continued to evolve and there are now areas where Mario Kart 64 feels dated, nothing will ever erase the memories it gave millions of gamers.
Number 8: Perfect Dark
One of the first high profile spiritual successors in gaming, Perfect Dark was acknowledged as the sequel to Goldeneye 007 as soon as it was announced. Perfect Dark took everything Goldeneye had and added to it — more weapons, more complex levels, and an insane amount of multiplayer options. Being a later release, the graphics were some of the best on the system and there was quite a bit of voice acting for a cartridge game. The plot managed to capture the secret agent feel of James Bond while still having its own identity. I'd go into more detail about the game, but the foundation is very similar to the next game on the list.
Number 7: Goldeneye 007
Believe it or not, a Nintendo system was once the biggest force in console first-person shooters. While the N64 had some notable FPSes early in its life (Turok, Doom 64), what really tied the genre to that system was Goldeneye 007. The game's realistic setting, objective-based missions, and (at the time) rare, fully 3D world had a lasting impact on first-person shooters. No game before it had captured the feel of being a secret agent on an actual mission so well. The four-player multiplayer mode is still one of the most beloved in gaming. While not every aspect of the game has aged well, Goldeneye's legacy can still be felt in first-person shooters today. One of the most memorable and revolutionary games on the N64 and quite possibly the best licensed game of all time, Goldeneye 007 will always be a classic.
Number 6: Paper Mario
Super Mario RPG was the last Square game on a Nintendo system before the painful break-up that would last the entirety of the N64's life. Despite this, Nintendo made a spiritual sequel on their own and it turned out even better than the original. Paper Mario may seem like a simple game on the surface, but the combat system actually has quite a bit of depth and the puzzles are far more complex with the addition of partners that function like Zelda items outside of battle. The story is simple but charming and always feels like a Mario game, which Super Mario RPG often didn't. The paper look is iconic and allows for a very detailed and colorful world for an N64 game. After suffering such a severe RPG drought, Paper Mario was a fantastic addition to the N64's library near the end of its life.
Number 5: Super Smash Bros.
There are some ideas that every Nintendo fan had at some point and a fighting game with the stars of Nintendo's series was one of them. When it actually happened, I know I wasn't the only one who was instantly sold on the game. Super Smash Bros. isn't a traditional fighting game; it is better described as a hybrid between a fighting game and a platformer. Nintendo fanservice is stuffed into the game — in the characters, stages, and items. While the single-player mode is lacking compared to the endless modes present in the later Smash games, Super Smash Bros. is one of the best party games ever made and that was fully present in the first installment. With four players, this game is just as fun as it was in 1999 and everything you wanted from your childhood fantasy.
Number 4: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
After only getting three mainline Zelda games in the 90s, each one for a different system, receiving a second one on the N64 just two years after the first was unexpected. On the surface, Majora's Mask looks like a retread of Ocarina of Time and, while the characters may all look familiar, the world of Termina is surreal and surprisingly dark, resulting in one of the most emotional Zelda games. The gameplay is just as unique, with a persistent time limit that forces you to relive the same three days over and over again while gradually making progress. Link can turn into three different species and the NPCs are still the most developed in Zelda history. While not every new idea was implemented perfectly, the game is unlike any other Zelda and a great example of how much you can change a game, even if most of the assets are recycled.
Number 3: Star Fox 64
This game is far more than barrel roll-related advice. Like the other Nintendo series that had 3D games on SNES, Star Fox benefited enormously from the N64's capabilities. Being the first Nintendo game with full voice acting gave the game lots of personality while the great control and level design easily brought it to the peak of the rare 3D shmup genre. The game's mostly linear levels allowed it to be one of the best aging games on the N64, the camera system is never a problem, and the levels are packed with enemies. With multiple paths through the game, bonus objectives, and unlockables, Star Fox 64 easily has the replay value to make up for its short initial length. One of the most purely fun experiences on the system, it is a must-own and we can only hope that the Wii U Star Fox matches it.
Number 2: Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 is arguably the most influential game of its decade. While several genres had made the switch to 3D when Super Mario 64 was released, being able to move and jump in a large, fully 3D world was something that had barely been accomplished. A game of Super Mario 64's quality doing those things was a spectacle that arguably no game has matched since. The sense of freedom in the level design and control was something nobody was prepared for. It managed to set the template for 3D platformers while having the best control and level design of its genre for years to come. A technical marvel that is still fun to play today, Super Mario 64 is the game that defined the N64 and what all games for it aspired to be. There's only one game that managed to surpass it.
Number 1: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The business of hyping games has greatly expanded as time goes by. There were the old days when you were likely to stumble across games on store shelves you didn't even know were coming out and the modern era where companies spend more on promoting games than they do developing them. Somewhere in between, hitting a perfect balance, was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Revealed with crude early screenshots near the launch of the N64, it had a seemingly eternal build-up of hype. When the game finally arrived in November 1998, it managed to live up to the hype. Zelda made a transition to 3D that was even more seamless than Mario, the game made a huge advancement for 3D control in the Z-targeting system, the levels were superbly designed, and the game felt epic in a way that no previous Nintendo game had come close to. There is far too much in Ocarina of Time to describe here, but anyone who has played it will know why it made number one on this list. One of the true classics among all of gaming.


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Today I am soooo sad and angry. Let me tell you about last year at this time and why I am so upset. I keep going over the details of last year and I just cant stop. The OW has the same exact birthday as my son (damn her) and last year I thought she was my best friend so I tried to be a good friend; I agonized over what present to buy her, discussed it with my husband (who unbeknownst to me gave her a book as her birthday gift) and we all went to the mall to buy the gift I decided on. Then I even baked her her favorite kind of cupcakes. I baked my husbands whore cupcakes for her birthday, he watched me do this and said not one word about how she didnt fucking deserve it, nor did he say anything while I was wrapping his whores birthday gift.
Then on the actual day of the shared birthday we made plans to go to Chuck E. Cheese and let our son play and have a little family party there. I called the OW to see if she wanted to come over after the party to hang out with my husband and I. I didnt want her to come to my sons party, I just wanted it to be family, but as usual, she guilt-tripped me (she was very good at that) into letting her come to the party and I was not at all happy about it. The stupid whore always had a tendency of acting very emo and bringing everyone down so I didnt want her there. Even knowing that I didnt want her there and that I only gave in to letting her come because I was trying to be nice, a good friend, my husband said nothing. He once again didnt tell me that she was not my friend and I shouldnt bother being nice to her, instead he allowed his whore to come to our sons birthday party.
Despite her presence we had so much fun that day, who doesnt have fun watching an excited two-year old? We took pictures and played games as a family, we had cake and joked about the really cheesy decorations; I felt so in love, with my husband and our little family, I thought everything was perfect.
Now looking back on it, it all just seems so horrible that I was the smiling, clueless fool who sat by and hung out with two people who were spitting on me and treating me worse than dirt. There are so many memories like this from last year. I had no idea what was going on and I thought last year was such a perfect one, I felt so in love, our son was so cute everything seemed happy.
I know logically that I am remembering things as better than they were but how do I reconcile that feeling with what the truth was? How? And why? Why, even if they were crazily madly hopelessly in love with each other and just couldnt live without each other ((which according to WH was not the case) did they have to do that to me? A relationship between them I can almost understand, but the lies, the deceit and the disrespect, the absolute disregard for me as a thinking feeling human being is what I cannot comprehend. And I wonder, what does this level of disregard for me say about my husband? I know about the fog of an affair and all that and how it makes a person act in a dismissive and hurtful way toward their spouse but it is still so hard to stomach.
Does anyone else struggle with this? I am sure you all do. How are you coping with it? How did you live with staying with someone who has treated you this way? I am so sad and angry and worried that I will never be able to truly reconcile and for some reason, despite everything that is what I want to do; I still love my husband. Anyway, sorry this was so long, I hope some of you have some insight or even just commiseration. Thank you to whoever reads this.
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Hugs mama - enjoy your baby boy and disregard the husband for now.
Like you, I have memories of an OW hanging out with us. It adds another layer of...astonish is all I can say. To be completely in shock that not one but two people can sit by your side, pretending they are part of your safe circle and instead they are your biggest danger.
All I can say is grace...giving someone something they don't deserve. Because I can't imagine a time or place that such actions would be acceptable.
not one but two people can sit by your side, pretending they are part of your safe circle and instead they are your biggest danger.
This is exactly how I feel about it too, how could they both sit there, smiling laughing and lying to my face? It makes me feel like such garbage.
@ sparklezombie: Thank you, I am going to try, I am having a hard time with this pregnancy and am worried so much about it. My last pregnancy I was happy all the time, it was the product of a loving happy marriage and my husband was awesome during it and the first few months of our son's life, even helping me to breastfeed when I could barely keep my eyes open after my c-section. He was amazing and I am having such trouble reconciling that caring man with the one who fucked my "best friend" for 6 months behind my back. I feel weird about this pregnancy, whereas the last one was a planned result of a loving marriage, this one is the product of a broken unhappy marriage and hysterical bonding. It is all just so different. I am trying to be happy about but I am just so sad all the time.
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Here's the tricky part, what they did, and how they went about it, that is all on them. You didnt know. Your H was all caught up in his fantasy world, and couldn't even begin to admit what he had done, so he just pretended that all was well. Who knows what she was thinking, obviously a very broken, sad human to that to a best friend.
I liken my H's behavior during the A, as that not really being who he was. He had changed in so many ways, he was not the guy I fell in love with, or the guy that I married, and decided to have kids with, he was this other person, a stranger, who was sad and angry all the time, I offered my love and support, it wasn't what he needed, or chose to accept.
Now in the present, he is no longer that person, he is kind, loving, and focused on his family, I love this man very much. So I can let go of all the lies, hurtful things he said and did, because he was so broken, so lost, that he was someone completely different then.
It works for me....Not sure a therapist would say I'm right, but hey I found my way to happy again, so WTH.
Oh and Happy Birthday to your wee one.
[This message edited by inshockandhurt at 2:47 PM, October 9th (Wednesday)]
This was a very hard one. Believe me I did not blindly trust, and in fact am not a fan of the phrase I see on here "trust but verify" Screw that, dont trust, and make sure he knows you don't trust, and why. I was the Queen of Snoopsville for many months. I wrote down mileage, his A was conducted in another city. I dug through his work bag at least twice a week, I had a keylogger on the laptop, I had weekly searches of his vehicle, looking for secret phones, or anything else that may indicate he wasn't being a good boy. I was relentless, I can remember one night in particular when I couldn't sleep, and something was niggling at me there was more going on, I went out and searched the garage, which looks similar to something out of hoarders, in the middle of the night when it was 30 degrees out.
It took a million trillion billion times of looking and not finding anything for me to slowly build my trust back, and interesting thing happened along the way too, I started to get strong, and focus on me, and suddenly at 1.5 year mark, I knew I would be ok no matter how this played out, and that He knew with absolute certainty that if he ever did it again, and I caught him I was done. I came to a level of acceptance that allowed me to let go, and realize I could not make him do, or not do anything. That was all on him.
He of course was not the mean arrogant, nitpicking prick he had been from the time the A started anymore. After the time I handed him my ring and told him to go, and he had his moment of clarity, and the real breakthrough, boo hoo snot running down his face moment, he started becoming the man I knew again, he made up his mind at that point that i had given him a huge gift, and he was going to make sure everyday that I was glad I made that choice by being the man he could be.
So I learned to trust that it wouldn't happen again whenn I really saw the changes happening in him. He was kind, loving, fun, and focused on his wife, family, and self. Everything else ran a distant second.
So yah I highly doubt there will ever be another woman, but I also know that if there is, I am done, and walking away, and will be perfectly fine, because that would be his to own, no reflection on me, or us.
I can't believe I sat next to someone so many times and the whole time she was f**king my husband.
This is exactly what gets me. I keep flashing on all the times we were all sitting there hanging out together and both of them were betraying me and I didn't know. One in particular has been haunting me lately; Last August, like two weeks after it started between them, we went to WH's parents house for dinner and the OW came with us. I keep thinking about the car-ride together and how they both sat there in the car and laughed and joked and talked with me as if nothing at all was going on. And then later at dinner she interacted with my husbands family, my family, took cutsy pictures with my sister-in-law and he let her, and neither of them acted as if they were bothered or ashamed at all. It just makes me so sad, the 6 months of lies is the worst.
[This message edited by Thessalian at 10:25 AM, October 16th (Wednesday)]
7 years of double-digit ONS, LTA, hookers - the works.
First found out: August 20, 2013
Whole truth: January 1, 2014
And I also had a very similar situation to yours. My WH did some arty projects with OW, and I often came out to see them. Worse, WH and OW were not the only ones that knew, over 6 other people, all of whom I would see and hang out with at these events, knew. WH let me stand in a circle of people who were all in on it, and smile and ask them about their lives.
It's disgusting.
After the affair was over, I found out that OW was also screwing another guy in a committed relationship, who also knew my WH. I flashed back to the time that me, OW, WH AND THIS OTHER GUY all went to lunch together. I was the only one at the table who had no idea what was going on. WH knew he was screwing OW. The other guy knew he was screwing OW. And OW just SAT THERE eating burritos at a table with the two dudes she was banging, one of whom was in a 5-year relationship with another poor girl who is also his business partner, one of whom was WH, and with me, WH's wife. How messed up is that?
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Five men have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a senior female police officer in Afghanistan.
Lieutenant Negar died on Monday after being shot by gunmen near police headquarters in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern province of Helmand. Negar was the highest-ranking female officer in the province. Her predecessor, Islam Bibi, also a woman, was murdered in July.
Women comprise less than one percent of Afghanistan's police force, with about 1,600 women serving and about 200 more in training. In an interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty before her death, Negar discussed the importance of having women police officers. She said, "Women are needed, and they shouldn't be scared [to join]. We should take pride in the fact that our people are happy with the work we do and they thank God that we women police exist."
Fifty-three percent of Afghans approve of having female police in their communities, according to a recent UNDP police perception survey. In the same survey, seven in ten Afghans reported that they would be more likely to report a crime to a female police officer, and nearly six in ten said they would be more likely to trust a female officer to resolve a crime fairly. The Afghan Ministry of the Interior has pledged to increase the number of women police to 5,000 by 2015.
Media Resources: Feminist Newswire 9/16/2013; Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 9/19/2013; Christian Science Monitor 9/17/2013; BBC 9/16/2013; United Nations Development Programme Police Perception Survey 2011
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Turner to get second career start on Thursday
Turner to get second career start on Thursday
Turner, 20, took the loss on July 30 in his Major League debut, despite allowing just two runs on three hits over 5 1/3 innings. The right-hander also struck out six and walked three against the Angels.
With the Tigers opting to give American League Cy Young front-runner Justin Verlander an extra day before his next start, Turner will get the chance in the spot start. Manager Jim Leyland announced Turner would start after the Tigers' 11-4 loss to the Twins on Sunday.
Turner, drafted ninth overall by the Tigers in 2009, is 4-5 this season with a 3.44 ERA in 20 combined games at Double-A Erie and Triple-A Toledo. In three Triple-A starts, Turner is 1-0 with a 3.12 ERA, allowing six runs on 15 hits with 20 strikeouts and just three walks.
He is ranked No. 1 in the Tigers' system and No. 7 overall in MLB.com's Top 50 Prospects list.


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No. 3 of my sampler! I was REALLY excited to try this, 'cuz it just sounded sooooo good.
The leaves smell sweet and caramely, but not overly so. There's still definitely the scent of earthy tea under there. The combination smells really yummy.
The tea itself… has an odd, slightly bitter aftertaste. It's possible I steeped for too long. The package said 2-3 mins, and I did 3, so this could have been my own fault. But aside from that, it has a nice, lightly sweet flavor that I really enjoy. The caramel/sugar flavor does not overpower the oolong, which I'm really happy about! I'm definitely a fan. Overall, I'd have to say it tastes earthy but sweet.
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Don't tease us.
ive never seen a girl p!ss like that before.
Looks like the bait worked anyway...
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It's that gooner Alan Davies / Jonathan Creek cvnt.
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... last bedrock, one of my female mates was a lot worse for wear and asked me if I'd escort her to the ladies.
once there she insisted on me going in with her, dropped her trousers and proceeded to ... well you know the rest!
funniest thing!
even funnier was me telling everyone after, much to her embarrassment
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It's Canadian Kev.
Seen any sharks over there yet?
hahahahah - good spot Stevie boy, thats proper drunken Picklet behaviour!! what would she say if she were reading now?! shame she'll never see this thread because she's on a two week holiday and no-one should tell her about it and we can all assume it was her that p!ssed like a bloke
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
Great game
The one that jesse has made on yoyogames is a whole crapload better
you have to download gamemaker, the click play, then search karoshi, and you can play karoshi 1 and 2
Rated 2 / 5 stars
Would be great if...
the awful controls wouldn't make some level frustrating.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Awesome game!
This game is great. But I can't do the 3rd from last level with the box saying "I like mouse!" for the life of me. Again, great game. Keep it up and whatnot.
Rated 4 / 5 stars
More challenging than other suicide games
Thankfully, it was still funny, and, when you finally get to die at the end of each level, it's a good dark joke.
The intro animation was a little poor though, with an out-of-sync Newgrounds intro animation and the short video that followed showed bad drawing and simplistic tweening - the latter was OK in the actual game. But on the whole, this game can't fail on the basis of an intro animation.
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Sugar Wafer Chocolate Mousse Pie
This No Bake Sugar Wafer Chocolate Mousse Pie is a creamy dreamy dessert that is light, yet rich with a perfectly sweet crust!
So you might be looking for a dessert that's rad and fantastic and perfect and delicious and gorgeous and special this season.
Well friends. Here we are and here you go. I have the pie for you.
This pie is not only a no-bake pie, but it's both light and rich at the same time. It's pretty spectacular. Plus the crust is made front those delicious sugar wafer cookies…you know..the ones you ate as a kid that are thin and crispy and filled with delicious cream…I don't know what has taken me so long to make a crust with sugar wafers…it seem so obvious!
I had a helper in the kitchen. Also, he wants me to explain his pj's. They are a gift from our Elf Jingle. In my house, if you don't believe, you don't receive 🙂
Anyhow, we had a lesson in safe chopping and he got to work on the chocolate…
The filling is a super easy Chocolate Mousse. It's a chocolate ganache mixed with whipped cream. Here we are stirring the chocolate with the heavy cream…
Stir it until the chocolate is melted and smooth and then let it chill.
While the ganache is chilling make your crust.
Pulse up the chocolate wafers until they are coarse crumb…
Mix them with some melted butter and press into a springform pan!
Next whip up some heavy cream until stiff peaks form and fold it into the chilled ganache.
Spread that over the crust…
And top with a little more whipped cream! I dusted cocoa powder on top just to be fancy.
Dig in! This one is light and creamy, but chocolatey and delicious!Print
Sugar Wafer Chocolate Mousse Pie
- 1 1/2 cups chopped semi sweet chocolate
- 1/4 salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 1/4 cups heavy cream, divided
- 32 Chocolate Sugar Wafer Cookies (about 8 oz)
- 2 Tbsp butter, melted
Whipped topped
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 3 Tbsp powdered sugar
- Cocoa powder for dusting
- Chop chocolate and transfer to a medium sized glass bowl. Add in salt and vanilla. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan heat 3/4 cup of heavy cream until it starts steaming. Don't bring to a full boil. Pour hot cream over the chopped chocolate and allow to sit for one minute to soften the chocolate. Immediately start stirring the chocolate until it's completely melted with the cream. Place bowl in refrigerator and allow to cool for just 30 minute until it's cooled. DOn't forget about it, because you don't want it to get solid. Just cool, but still "stirrable".
- Whip remaining 1 1/2 cups heavy cream in mixer with whisk attachment on medium high speed for 1-2 minutes until stiff peaks form. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
- Grease a 9″ springform pan with butter, set aside.
- While the mousse is chilling place chocolate sugar wafer cookies in blender or food processor. Pulse until they are a fine crumb. The pulsed cookies will be slightly sticky, because of the filling. This is ok! Mix cookie crumbs with melted butter and press into prepared pan. Mixture can get sticky, I used my fingers to press in pan.
- Cover and chill this until ready to fill.
- When chocolate is cooled remove it from the refrigerator and fold the extra whipped cream into the chocolate carefully. Continue stirring gently until mixed completely and there are no more chocolate streaks. Spread this into crust.
- Whip remaining 1 1/2 cups heavy cream with powdered sugar with whisk attachment until stiff peaks form and spread over the chocolate mousse. If desired dust with powdered sugar right before serving.
store airtight and chilled for up to 3 days
Recipe lightly adapted from Fine Cooking
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25 Comments on "Sugar Wafer Chocolate Mousse Pie"
this looks insanely delicious! I've gotta make this one! yum!!
Chocolate chocolate and more chocolate. This dessert is perfect for me!
what % of fat does heavy whipped cream have? I'm french and it's kinda tricky to tell which one i need here 🙂
Oh that chocolate mousse! It's got me going round!
Oh my goodness!! Totally gorgeous and I know it would be perfect for a chocolate lover like me!
I am obsessed with sugar wafer cookies, and I don't care who knows it. I love eider of using them in the crust! Beautiful pie, and so easy!
*the idea
Oh man, those wafers!! DYING for this pie!
Oh my, so yummy!
What a great crust idea!
Another one I just might have to try….And we have the EXACT same ruling in our house…you must believe to receive 😉 My middle child – a boy – started thinking he was too cool for Santa until I told him this. Haha!!
This looks so amazing! Love the idea of the wafer crust
Oh my word! I love everything about this!!!
Yum! That looks amazing – perfect for Christmas dessert. That crust especially looks delicious. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Thanks to you im going to enjoy a new way of Chocolate Mousse Pie, thanks for sharing the recipe.
Oooooo, this pie is calling my name!!!
Thank you for the amazing recipe! I'm a little "challenged" in the kitchen but this pie turned out perfectly! I made one for last night's Christmas party and every last crumb was gone 5 minutes after I pulled it out of the fridge. I'm clearly going to have to make another 🙂
OMG This recipe is awesome!!!
I use dark chocolate 52% and in my opinion that's so much better then semi sweet.
For the dutch users, use at least 100 gram of butter because otherwise the crust will fall apart completely.
Thanks for this recipe.
Sweet greating
In the instructions it states when chocolate is cooled remove from oven ??? Im very confused i did not see anywhere in the instructions to put anything in a oven ??
I made this and it was awesome. I want to send this recipe to my mom.
She does not have a springform pan. She's 76 and not looking to acquire more kitchen gadgets. Has anyone tried this in another pan? If yes, what size? Did it work?
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Glen Ellyn — DuPage County Board Chairman Gayle Franzen failed to show up Tuesday night for a scheduled meeting with the Alliance for the Mentally Ill of DuPage County, a group that is expressing alarm over proposed cuts in the budget of the county Health Department.
During their monthly meeting at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, alliance members discussed the prospect of the department losing some $350,000 of the $8 million that now funds county mental health services. Their anger mounted by the time the meeting was to adjourn when it became apparent Franzen was not going to arrive.


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Today and yesterday, I've suddenly received between 120-256 page views on my blog. This is on a blog that normally only gets a handful of views per day. Under stats, I don't see where these people are coming from because there is only one referrer (facebook) and one search engine search listed. Any idea what could cause this? I'm happy about the hits (of course!) but I just want to make sure there isn't something fishy going on. Thanks!
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I got an error when I opened a captured frame with Frame Analyzer.
The error is "Open returned an error: FILE_OPEN_FAILED" when Frame Analyzer shown its status as "Starting Player on Device".
The frame is captured from android device samsung galaxy note GT-N8013 and android version is 4.1.2. Frame those captured from PC DX11 works well.
GPA Moniter "About" Information attached below and I attached the frame file also.
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Bowl projections: Last call edition
Projecting bowl match-ups is much easier in late July than late November. You pick the high-profile programs to smash their smaller counterparts without figuring in games like Jacksonville State dropping Ole Miss, James Madison stopping Virginia Tech or Iowa State popping Texas.
Or Nevada upsetting Boise State. Or Minnesota whipping Iowa.
If we knew the outcomes of these games, we wouldn't watch them. That's what makes college football so appealing � and bowl projections so confusing. Bowl games are now 35 deep and a matrix based partly�on conjecture. You take records into account, but also place yourself in position of the bowl organizers. Yes, they want�a good, competitive�game, but they also need to sell tickets and generate strong television ratings. As the business world says, it's all about location, location, location (and branding, of course).
That's why any projection that has Stanford in the Orange Bowl ahead of the Big East champion is misguided. Stanford, which has a terrific football team, would struggle to sell its 17,500 ticket allotment. The Big East representative, which will be the weakest automatic qualifier in BCS history, has a better pipeline to Miami. Either Connecticut or West Virginia will sell more Orange Bowl tickets than much-better Stanford. More Stanford fans would attend the Fiesta Bowl than the Orange Bowl. That said, I think this discussion is moot.
I see South Carolina upsetting Auburn in the SEC title game which sends TCU to the BCS Championship. The aura that surrounds this game reminds me of the 2003 Big 12 title game when unbeaten and top-ranked Oklahoma faced three-loss Kansas State in� Kansas City. The Sooners were considered one of the best teams in recent memory and had their eventual Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in Jason White. K-State promptly thumped the Sooners, which still qualified for the national title game.
Last year, the Big 12 title game nearly posed a major upset when Texas's last-second (and some say no-second) field goal beat Nebraska. This year, I can see South Carolina, which nearly beat Auburn earlier this season, taking down the Tigers. There will be some interesting votes for the coaches and Harris polls come Saturday night and Sunday.
As for Iowa, remember the 2006 season. Iowa started 5-1, then played poorly with a�1-5 finish but skipped ahead in the Big Ten chain and landed in the Alamo Bowl against defending champion Texas. The Hawkeyes played perhaps their best game that season in a 26-24 loss. The same scenario could unfold in the Outback Bowl.
Final point: There are too many bowls, and even worse, there are too many damn bowl tie-ins. It's too bad non-BCS qualifiers Nevada, Utah, Boise State and Northern Illinois can't find a couple of bowls and play each other. Instead you have�bowls ties that prevent those match-ups. Oh well.
Here's my latest (and final) bowl projections for 2010-11:
BCS CHAMPIONSHIP: Oregon vs. TCU
- The nation's most explosive offensive faces America's stingiest defense. We'll see if defense wins championships
ROSE: Wisconsin vs. Stanford
- I see no better bowl match-up than this one
SUGAR: South Carolina vs. Ohio State
- Maybe the Gamecocks don't have the national cache as its SEC brethren but with Spurrier it won't be boring
ORANGE: Florida State vs. Auburn
- The Orange Bowl would do back flips if this arrangement works out
FIESTA: Oklahoma vs. West Virginia
- No bowl game will compare to the Big 12 title game send-off bash between the Sooners and Huskers
CAPITAL ONE: Michigan State vs. LSU
- Tough break for the Spartans, who deserve a prime bowl slot this season
OUTBACK: Iowa vs. Alabama
- Although the regular season was a bitter disappointment for Iowa, no Big Ten better matches up better with Alabama than the healed-up Hawkeyes
GATOR: Penn State vs. Florida
- Last year it was Bobby Bowden, this year it's Joe Paterno. Not bad for the Jacksonville bowl
INSIGHT: Michigan vs. Missouri
- If Missouri gets passed over again for the Insight, that's the real Big 12 conspiracy
TEXAS: Illinois vs. Baylor
- Before the season did you think either Illinois or Baylor were headed to bowls?
TICKET CITY: Northwestern vs. Texas Tech
- I suppose you can spin this as a second straight New Year's Day bowl for the Wildcats
COTTON: Oklahoma State vs. Arkansas
- Maybe the best and most offensive�explosive non-BCS game
PEACH (CHIK-FIL-A): Virginia Tech vs. Mississippi State
- Few teams circled the wagons like the Hokies this year
ALAMO: Nebraska vs. Arizona
- It's the Alamo's last crack at the Cornhuskers
HOLIDAY: Texas A&M vs. Washington
- Meet the Huskies, the fourth and final bowl-eligible team from the Pac-10
PINSTRIPE: Kansas State vs. Syracuse
- From one Manhattan to another, I suppose
MUSIC CITY: North Carolina vs. Georgia
- No teams suffered more from agent-gate than these two
LIBERTY: Central Florida vs. Tennessee
- Derek Dooley had a nice season just to get to a bowl
COMPASS: Pittsburgh vs. Kentucky
- Well, Birmingham is considered the Pittsburgh of the South
CHAMPS: North Carolina State vs. Notre Dame
- Surprising November turnaround for the Irish under Brian Kelly
MEINEKE: Clemson vs. Connecticut
- Clemson is like the Notre Dame of the ACC. Every bowl wants the Tigers
SUN: Miami (Fla.) vs. UTEP (replaces Pac-10)
- There's no place like home for UTEP
INDEPENDENCE: Georgia Tech vs. Air Force
- Triple-option heaven for old-school Wing-T coaches
KRAFT: Boise State vs. Boston College (replaces Pac-10)
- No team in the world has a greater letdown than the Broncos this year
LAS VEGAS: Utah vs. Northern Illinois (replaces Pac-10)
- It's too bad Boise State couldn't play Utah here
MILITARY: Maryland vs. Temple (replaces Conference USA)
POINSETTIA: San Diego State vs. Navy
ST. PETERSBURG: Southern Miss vs. South Florida
HAWAII: Hawaii vs. Tulsa
HUMANITARIAN: Fresno State vs. Ohio
NEW MEXICO: BYU vs. Nevada
ARMED FORCES: SMU vs. Army (replaces Mountain West)
LITTLE CAESAR'S: Miami (Ohio) vs. Toledo (replaces Big Ten)
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GM's SUV numbers continue to tumble
GM said Monday it sold 211,104 Chevrolet Suburbans and Tahoes and GMC Yukon XLs and Yukons in 2008, down nearly 38 percent from 2007 and a whopping 58 percent from 2001, when GM delivered more than 505,000 of the big SUVs.
For the most part, the four models have been built at GM plants in Janesville and Arlington, Texas.
The sales decline followed rising gas prices and a consumer exodus to small, more fuel-efficient vehicles. It also triggered GM's announcement earlier this year that it would end production in Janesville in December, leaving the Arlington plant as the sole producer of the GM's big SUVs.
The Arlington plant and its 2,300 hourly workers also build the Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV. As a result of slow sales, GM extended the typical two-week holiday shutdown by an additional two weeks and will not restart production in Texas until Jan. 20
For 2008, Suburban sales were down 35 percent, while Tahoe deliveries dropped 37 percent. Yukon XL sales were off by 42 percent, and Yukon sales were down 38 percent.
For the year, GM delivered nearly 3 million vehicles while maintaining an expected market share just above 22 percent.
Last year's total sales were down 23 percent compared with 2007, which GM officials attributed to an economic downturn, sagging consumer confidence and a tightening in consumer credit markets.
GM officials, however, did take encouragement from December sales�down 31 percent from December 2007 but 43 percent ahead of those posted in November 2008.
"Given the ongoing challenges and the difficult market environment, we were very encouraged to see a volume rebound for GM in December compared with both October and November," said Mark LaNeve, GM's vice president of North America sales.
"We are building more vehicles than ever that provide great value and Americans enjoy owning. That is why, for the year, we are seeing our market share holding steady at just above 22 percent. That's 5 percentage points more and 760,000 vehicles more than our nearest competitor."
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Hi all, just an update to what I have found out so far regarding my PET scan of last week. Don't see the Oncologist until 1/15 so wasn't really keen on waiting that long to find out. I called his office this morning to inquire and although they don't normally give test results over the phone he agreed that waiting over the holidays to find out just wasn't cool. Without going into any detail he said that everything with the PET/CT looked normal. I do have an appt. with the surgeon next Tuesday and he will have the pics and report from the scan as well so I'm sure I will get more in depth information then. Thank-you all for your support and interest in my recovery. You are all truely special people. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone. I wish you well.
Dec 22, 2009 - 2:10 pm
If there is one word that we ALL want in our vocabulary, it is "normal". Of course as you have read here numerous times a "new normal" can often be very different from the "old normal". That is not necessarily good or bad news. It is what it is. The "new normal" is something we can all learn to live with.
So, savour that "normal". It will get you through many a tough time.
God Bless............JK
Dec 22, 2009 - 2:19 pm
This makes my holiday even better hearing your good news, congratulation my friend, now we can have a real Christmas. Thank you Jesus for protecting Mike and helping him through his cancer.
Dec 22, 2009 - 2:25 pm
Have been waiting to hear from you. What wonderful news. Enjoy your holiday - I know you will. Blessings on you.PK
Dec 22, 2009 - 8:31 pm
Ditto what everyone else said.
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Dec 22, 2009 - 8:53 pm
Yes, Mike- excellent news for you, and for all of us. One of us has good news, like this- it helps all of us, with our own battles. Pretty sure I would not have called-in to get the results, like you did; but maybe, just maybe, you got more courage than I do. Glad to hear of your news. Many more such good results, Mike. Merry Christmas.
Dec 23, 2009 - 6:36 am
Nice to hear your news Mike. Enjoy the holidays and breath easy !
Regds from Oz
Dec 23, 2009 - 11:25 am
Very good! Makes the Holidays even sweeter:) Enjoy!!!
Dec 23, 2009 - 11:34 pm
How are you doing in the land down under these days? Did you find anyone to do acupuncture if so does it help?
Take care my friend.
Dec 24, 2009 - 12:43 am
HI Hondo,
Life is great down here. Fantastic weather and we are in a beautiful location called Forster in NSW on the east coast 300km north of Sydney.
I just booked to see an acupuncturist on the 5th January. Most people take a week or 4 off here at this time so I have to wait.I will report back with any results.
Have a Great Christmas Hondo and all the rest of the readers and I hope we all have a healthy 2010.


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Indiana regulators have issued a landfill permit allowing ArcelorMittal to dispose of more than 2 million tons of steel-making waste at the company's sprawling complex along Lake Michigan.
The state announced its decision in public notices received Tuesday, more than two years after ArcelorMittal applied for a permit to build and operate a restricted-waste landfill.
The Luxembourg-based steel company said in a statement that the landfill at its Burns Harbor site would be used primarily to store a type of sludge produced by the mill's manufacturing processes.
"We look forward to beginning landfill construction activities in the near future," the company's statement said.
Valparaiso lawyer Kim Ferraro of the Legal Environmental Aid Foundation of Indiana said the permit answers some of the questions she and other activists have been asking for more than a year about the proposed landfill.
But she said the document fails to address what steps, if any, ArcelorMittal must take to prevent wastes stored outdoors a few hundred feet from Lake Michigan from entering the lake until it is moved to the landfill.
"That's been one of my concerns all along," Ferraro said Wednesday. "It's going to take several years still to put all of that waste into the landfill, so what are they going to do to address the open dumped waste that's still sitting there?"
The permit issued by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management allows ArcelorMittal to build a landfill at its Burns Harbor site, which spans five square miles some 10 miles east of Gary.
In the landfill's initial phases, the company will dispose of 1.5 million to 1.8 million tons of stockpiled sludge from secondary wastewater treatment plants and 700,000 tons of blast furnace filter cake waste.
ArcelorMittal also expects to dispose of 200,000 tons of process waste, generated annually, in landfills.
Ferraro said the permit clarifies for the first time that the 75-acre landfill will accept wastes that had been open dumped, or stored outdoors, at the site for more than six months in violation of Indiana law.
Those wastes are stored in a large pile near Lake Michigan that the Post-Tribune of Merrillville has reported ArcelorMittal representatives call "Easterly's Pile" after Tom Easterly, the state Department of Environmental Management commissioner.
Easterly was the top environmental manager at Bethlehem Steel Corp., from 1994 to 2000. Mittal Steel acquired Bethlehem Steel's parent company in 2005 and merged with Arcelor to become ArcelorMittal the following year. Easterly became IDEM commissioner in January 2005.
Ferraro and other critics have urged IDEM to sample and test the waste in "Easterly's Pile" to see how toxic it is, rather than relying on test results Bethlehem Steel submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1999.
Under the permit announced Tuesday, ArcelorMittal won't be required to weigh the waste it places in landfills, but will be required to submit quarterly estimates of how much waste is disposed of.
State inspections of some of the plant's waste piles have found that some of that waste has been stored outdoors for more than six months in violation of Indiana law. An April report by IDEM found that one pile of waste had been stored outside for at least five years.
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Dirk Nowitzki thrust both arms in the air, a sea of blue screaming around him and the Dallas Mavericks finally ahead in these ultra-close NBA finals.
Now it really is "now or never" for LeBron James and the Miami Heat.
Nowitzki scored 29 points, driving for the go-ahead dunk with 2:45 remaining, and the Mavericks beat the Heat 112-103 on Thursday night to take a 3-2 lead in the NBA finals.
Five years after going up 2-0 on the Heat, the Mavs finally got that elusive third victory, and can wrap up their first championship in Game 6 at Miami on Sunday night.
"We're a very resilient team, you know that," guard Jason Terry said. "We've been in tough battles all playoffs long. It's not going to stop. It's going to get even harder. But we're ready. We're determined, and this is our time."
James, who called this game "now or never," responded from his worst playoff performance with 17 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, and Dwyane Wade battled through a sore left hip after a first-quarter collision to finish with 23 points.
Chris Bosh had 19 points and 10 rebounds for the Heat, who get the final two games at home with history against them as they try to win a title in their first season together: In the 26 previous finals that were tied 2-2, the Game 5 winner won 19 of them.
"We fought hard all season for home-court advantage. We're down 3-2," Bosh said. "We protect home court, we win the series, so we just have to keep that in mind."
The Mavs shot 60 per cent through three quarters, briefly gave up the lead in the fourth, then controlled the final few minutes, just as they had in thrilling comebacks in Games 2 and 4.
This time, they got to play from ahead thanks to some sizzling shooting: 56.5 per cent from the field, including 13 of 19 (68 per cent) from three-point range.
"We made more shots," Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. "We did a lot of good things defensively, which led to good offence. ... You never know when the games are going to go that way. The thing we've got to do is we've got to make sure our defence is consistent."
Terry scored 21 points and J.J. Barea had 17 for the Mavs, who insisted at some point their shots would start falling even against the Heat's stingy defence. Jason Kidd and Tyson Chandler both finished with 13 points.
"I felt great. I felt great. I was in rhythm tonight," Terry said. "I came out aggressive, something we have to continue to do. We're not happy with our defensive performance, but offensively, if we score 100, I told you what would happen."
Their offence was simply too good, despite a good bounceback for James.
James scored eight points, going just 3 of 11 in Game 4, the first time in 90 post-season games he didn't hit double figures. It's been a rough first finals in Miami for James, who has been accused of everything from "shrinking" to "checking out" in the fourth quarters, when he had just nine points through the first four games.
Trying to pump himself up, James wrote "Now or Never!!" on his Twitter page early Thursday morning, later calling this the biggest game of his career.
But they feel the same urgency in Dallas, where the slogan "The Time is Now" is printed on those blue T-shirts that surround the court, and where the Mavs are loaded with 30-somethings -- late 30s, in Kidd's case -- who could be on their last shot at an NBA title.
Nowitzki said early Thursday he felt "great," having shaken the fever that rose to 101 degrees Monday night. This time, the health concern was Wade, who banged his hip in the first quarter and appeared to be limping at various points from there.
"I don't talk about injuries," Wade said. "It was unfortunate I had to leave the game, but I came back and finished it."
He remained in the locker room to start the second half, coming back onto the court about the midway point of the period. By then, the Mavs seemed in too good a groove to be cooled off no matter who Miami had out there.


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There are plenty of applicants, but it will take a special person to be the new executive director of the Athens Downtown Development Authority.
The job entails everything from promoting downtown businesses to managing parking, guiding infrastructure projects like road and sewer work and lobbying Athens-Clarke County officials on new laws and policies.
All that while navigating the complex politics of dealing with groups that often are at odds with each other, like retail stores that are open during the day and bars that are open at night, developers and historic preservation activists, property owners and renters, business owners and residents who live downtown. Juggling sharp differences was the specialty of former ADDA executive director Art Jackson, who left earlier this month to lead the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center's Small Towns Initiative after eight years at the helm of the ADDA.
"We know how volatile folks can be over very small issues" in downtown Athens, said Joe Burnett, executive director of Main Street Gainesville and Jackson's predecessor at the ADDA.
Nearly 40 people have put in for the job, and the ADDA board of directors has set a Jan. 15 deadline for accepting applications, according to ADDA business manager Pat Anglin.
The board's regular meeting was canceled Tuesday, but Anglin said Chairman Rusty Heery, who is out of town, would schedule a meeting after the deadline to discuss the candidates.
"It'll take a unique individual to come in as qualified," said University of Georgia Community Relations Director Pat Allen, who represents UGA at ADDA board meetings but does not have a vote.
The qualifications a successful executive director will possess include skills in urban design, landscaping, running and promoting small businesses, customer service, historic preservation and familiarity with government, Burnett said.
Although Anglin said the ADDA's received both local and out-of-town applications, that person won't necessarily have a connection to Athens, like Jackson, a UGA graduate, did, Burnett said.
"I think you look first for someone who has professional qualifications," he said. In a city the size of Athens, "you don't have the luxury of on-the-job training," he said.
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YEREVAN, February 27. /ARKA/. Ten people infected with H1N1 virus are in Yerevan hospitals now, Ara Asoyan, the city chief infectious disease specialist, said in an interview with ArmNews TV Channel.
He said it is difficult to point out precise figures, since as a rule, people prefer to be treated at home and consult a doctor only in the event of complications, such as pneumonia.
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"Now the number of the absent children because of illness is far from the benchmark set – only if the rate goes higher than the benchmark, the government orders closure of kindergartens and schools," Asoyan said in his televised interview.
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The victim of a boating accident on Lake Ontario Tuesday afternoon was identified today as Christian Gothgen, 49, of Snyder, the Niagara County Sheriff's Department reported.
Gothgen was operating a Sailfish single-man craft when it flipped over and struck him, said Coast Guard Officer Jason Yonk. The overturned boat was spotted just west of Olcott Harbor, and rescue teams found the man in the water around 4:12 p.m.
Members of the Olcott Volunteer Fire Department attempted to revive Gothgen, who apparently was tossed from the craft and hit a shoal, Yonk reported. Gothgen was transported to Eastern Niagara Hospital in Newfane, where he was pronounced dead.
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The Temple of Hephaestus, also known as the Hephaisteion or earlier as the Theseion, is a well-preserved Greek temple. It remains standing largely as built. It is a Doric peripteral temple, and is located at the north-west side of the Agora of Athens, on top of the Agoraios Kolonos hill.
Hephaestus was the patron god of metal working and craftsmanship. There were numerous potters' workshops and metal-working shops in the vicinity of the temple, as befits the temple's honoree. Archaeological evidence suggests that there was no earlier building on the site except for a small sanctuary that was burned when the Persians occupied Athens in 480 BC. The name Theseion or Temple of Theseus was attributed to the monument under the assumption it housed the remains of the Athenian hero Theseus, brought back to the city from the island of Skyros by Kimon in 475 BC, but refuted after inscriptions from within the temple associated it firmly with Hephaestus.
The architectural sculpture is in both Pentelic and Parian marble. In the 3rd century BC trees and shrubs (pomegranates, myrtle and laurel) were planted around the temple, creating a small garden.
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Hi Jenna, very good picture of this beautiful and interesting composition with flowers and beautiful old buildings, beautifully captured in this image, with good clarity, color and light. Very good and interesting job perfectly done, congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this interesting work.
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Beautiful ancient monument in the background Estelle,
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There are some 300 odd climbing cliffs in the Südpfalz Area, most of which are hidden deep in the valleys far away from any habitation. Quite often accessing them requires a hike of several km and even more often a steep but slippery slope needs to be climbed to get to the base of the climbs. On the other hand there are quite a number of cliffs, visible from the towns and villages of the area, sometimes even rising between the houses. Jungfernsprung and Braut & Bräutigam in Dahn are the most famous exhibts of the latter kind, the former towering above the main road through town, the latter right beside one of the most important side roads. In nearby Erfweiler there is another one, less important in terms of climbing but more exposed and most likely more beautiful: Hahnfels.
Hahnfels is located to the east of the village right above its highest roads. A residential area is stretched out at its base and the cliff can be seen from almost everywhere. It easily is the most prominent cliff in a village in which there is no lack of them whatsoever. The most impressive view awaits you as you drive the road from Dahn to Erfweiler, which suddenly zigzags its way into the village and there it is: Hahnfels overlooking the whole village.
Hahnfels is what is called a massif in the region, a sandstone cliff connected to the slope of a mountain from which the top of the formation is easily accessible. However, in front of the massif there is a small standalone tower, connected at the foundation but set apart by several metres. For a crag so prominent it is hard to believe that access to the starting points of the routes is actually relatively difficult. Since its popularity is mainly restricted to its topmost part (see next section) the base of the rock has been grown over by a veritable jungle of ferns. You have to bushwhack your way to the rock with the ferns hiding much of the lower part from sight. To the north of the rock there is a big cave and an overhanging roof - the most difficult features of the whole formation.
While there are only a handful of climbing routes, Hahnfels also is a good exhibit what may happen to a sandstone tower in the Südpfalz Area, if it is placed to close to human habitation. Someone decides that its top must be a perfect lookout pulpit and in order to offer one more attraction to tourists cables, steps and ladders are set up with a railing on top so that said tourists won't fall down admiring the views. In the case of Hahnfels - where access to the massif is easy - a bridge has been set up to connect the massif with the tower and naturally fences and railings went up all around. Unfortunately that way the old normal route (UIAA II) is almost blocked by this construction.
However, it also gave rise to the formation#s second name: Brückenfels (Bridge Rock).
Climbing Routes on Hahnfels
Hahnfels has only half a dozen routes with difficulties up to 6+. The routes were established late with the first one, Südwestkante first climbed in 1966. As so often, Hans Laub pioneered many of the routes, most of them in the 1970s and 1980s.
Rather than reprinting the copyrighted information from the site of the Vereinigung Pfälzer Kletterer I link to their routes database directly with some summary info. Here is the link to the complete database.
|Routes link
|6 routes with variations ranging from 2 - 6+
Getting There
Hahnfels is located right in Erfweiler, a 10 minute hike from the parking lot at the south-western end of the village. Erfweiler itself is hidden very deep inside Pfälzerwald and thus the itineraries are a bit longish. The closest airports are at Frankfurt and Stuttgart so the itineraries start there too.
From FrankfurtThere are two possible routes which both take equally long
- Via Ludwigshafen
- From Frankfurt take motorway A5 southward to Darmstadt.
- There change to A67 south.
- At Viernheimer Dreieck turn onto A6 west. Leav
- e it at Frankenthaler Kreuz for A61 south.
- At Mutterstädter Kreuz take A65 south until you reach Landau.
- At Landau turn on B10 west.
- At Hinterweidental turn onto B427 south which will take you to Dahn.
- In Dahn, after you have driven around Jungfernsprung there is an intersection directly in the town centre. Turn off left onto K39 which takes you to Erfweiler.
- In Erfweiler don't follow the main road (K39) where it bends right to Schindhard. After some 300m there is a parking lot on th eright hand side.
- From the parking lot hike back into the village and head directly for the crag. The residential road at its base passes to the south of the formation, where a small path leads right up to the rock.
- Via Kaiserslautern
- From Frankfurt take motorway A3 west
- At Mönchhofdreieck turn onto A67 south
- At Rüsselsheimer Dreieck take A60 west
- At Kreuz Mainz Süd take A63 south
- At Kreuz Kaiserslautern turn onto A6 west
- At Kreuz Landstuhl turn onto A62 south
- At Pirmasens turn onto B10 east
- At Hinterweidental take B427 south to Dahn
- In Dahn turn onto K39 to Erfweiler
- Follow the instructions above
From Stuttgart
- Take motorway A8 to Karlsruhe
- At Karlsruher Dreieck turn north onto A5
- Tke the next exit to head for A65
- At Kandel you can leave onto B427 which will lead you directly to Dahn where you can turn right onto K39 to Erfweiler. However the detour to Landau and B10 (see above) will take less time as the roads are better (three or four lanes)
Red Tape
Yes, there is red tape and lots of it. The sandstone of Südpfalz forms lots of caves and overhangs. Though this makes it most interesting for climbers, two species of birds of prey compete for this habitat: the peregrine falcons and the eagle owls. Both are endangered and wherever there is a eagle owl pair found nesting in the sandstone the crag will immediately be closed. Generally this closure lasts from the beginning of each year through Aug. 1st. If breeding is not successful the closures will be cancelled even before that date. For a list of closures see the Closure List of PK.
The cliffs on the south side of Rindsberg are rather often closed to climbing. Never all of them so you should check the link above before venturing out in the first half of the year.
The use of magnesia is not allowed in the whole Südpfalz region. This is rather a directive or an arrangement than an outright law. Thus you probably will get away with using it but do so only when absolutely necessary. Magnesia closes the pores which you find in the sandstone and together they form a smooth surface which will get very slippery in wet conditions. The rule of thumb is to use magnesia in the highest difficulty sections and only extremely sparingly.
A list of guidelines can be found here (in German).
AccommodationYou can find hotels and apartments in Erfweiler and in neighbouring Dahn. Have a look at the following links:
There are two campgrounds, one in Dahn at Neudahner Weiher one in nearby Bruchweiler-Bärenbach.
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Maps & Books
As for maps there is a good overview map (1:50000) by Kompass Verlag but the best ones are the official topographic maps by the state government of Rheinland Pfalz, scaled 1:50000, 1:25000 and 1:5000. All official maps can be found on the web page of Landesvermessungsamt Rheinland Pfalz
- Naturpark Pfälzer Wald
Kompass Map WK766
- Annweiler am Trifels
LVA RLP Map L6712
- Merzalben
LVA RLP Map 6712
There are a number of climbing guidebooks on the region of Südpfalz. The best ones, however, have been published privately and are sold only in selected bookshops of the region.
- Hiking
- Pfälzerwald
B. & J.-Th. Titz
Rother Verlag
- Klettern im Buntsandstein
U. Daigger, H.-J. Cron
Westpfälzische Verlagsdruckerei St. Ingbert
- Pfalz - Klettern im Buntsandstein des Pfälzer Felsenlands
J. Richter, S. Tittel
Panico Alpinverlag
- Pfalz ++, Klettern im Buntsandstein
R. Burkard, P. Weinrich
Published privately
- Klettern im Naturpark Pfälzerwald
Naturfreunde Lambrecht
Published privately
- Pfalz & Nordvogesen en bloc
A. Wenner, Y. Corby, I. Bald
Panico Verlag
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The Institute of Archaeology Collections will join other UK organisations already signed up including the Science Museum (@sciencemuseum), the Natural History Museum (@NHM_London), the Victoria and Albert Museum (@V_and_A), the British Museum (@britishmuseum), Eureka! The National Children's Museum (@eurekamuseum) and the Tate (@Tate) and others across Europe by including the hashtag #MuseumWeek in their Tweets for the week, meaning users can follow along on Twitter.
In addition, every day there will be a different theme including #MuseumSelfies, #AskTheCurator, and #MuseumMemories.
Mar Dixon (@MarDixon), an expert in social media and museums and host of the @CultureThemes project, said:
- "Every day of the year museums and cultural institutions across the world are using Twitter in exciting and interesting ways to tell the stories of their collections to new audiences. #MuseumWeek will shine a light on these activities, giving a real-time glimpse into the workings of museums across the UK and Europe, 140 characters at a time."
The Institute of Archaeology Collections contain over 60,000 objects that are used in teaching, research and outreach. Archaeological materials include ceramics, lithics and other objects from a range of periods across Europe, Africa, Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Pakistan, India, Mesoamerica, South America and the Caribbean.