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"Hamlet" by Shakespeare
Act 1 Scene 1
Guards are changing shifts at night along the castle walls. A ghost has been appearing walking around at night. Hamlet's friend, Horatio, wants to see it for himself but doesn't quite believe it.
He shows up but he won't to them and then disappears. Horatio recognizes it as the recently deceased king. Horatio explains the king had been involved in a political battle close to war with the Prince of Norway, Fortinbras.
The ghost comes back but then disappears as morning breaks. They promise to tell Hamlet and maybe the ghost will talk.
Act 1 Scene 2
King Claudius eulogizes his brother, King Hamlet (Jr's father) and explains why he has married Hamlet's widow, Gertrude. It was important to appear strong and united in a dangerous time with Norway tempted to take over. He sends two ambassadors to find out what's going on.
Claudius asks why Hamlet he's down Gertrude encourages him to cheer up and move on from his father's death. Hamlet thinks this has happened all too fast.
Claudius thinks it's sweet that he mourns his father but he reminds him all fathers die. To go on like this is morbid and immature. "Snap out of it – that's life. I'm your father no. Don't go back to Wittenberg, stay here."
Hamlet is upset that it's only been two months and she's already shacked up with her dead husband's brother. Horatio and his guards tell him about the ghost. They set a date to see it later that night.
Act 1 Scene 3
Laertes and Ophelia have a chat before he runs off to France. He warns her that Hamlet is up to no good and just trying to get in her pants.
Polonius comes in and gives Laertes a bunch of advice: don't talk too much, stick by your friends, don't spend too much, don't borrow or lend money, don't be fake and just be yourself. He leaves.
Ophelia and Polonius discuss Hamlet. He says he's stupid and she's too young and naive to know what's really going on. Nothing's happened yet but still, Polonius doesn't like it because it's a trap. She will obey her father.
Act 1 Scene 4
Hamlet, Horatio and the guards wait for the ghost to arrive. It's cold and they listen to Claudius whooping it up downstairs. Hamlet complains these constant parties make Danes look foolish and weak abroad.
The ghost arrives. Hamlet is shaking but asks the ghost to speak and explain himself. The ghost motions Hamlet to follow him to speak alone. The guards don't like it but he goes anyway.
Act 1 Scene 5
The ghost speaks and tells Hamlet that he is indeed his father. Hamlet must avenge his murder done by Claudius. The ghost says nasty things about Gertrude who sunk low to marry his brother.
Claudius poured poison into his ear as he was sleeping. Although he is dead, he's upset about the betrayal of Gertrude and Claudius, the usurpation of his power and leaving Denmark weak. Hamlet and his friends swear never to speak of this meeting.
Act 2 Scene 1
Polonius sends his servant to check up on Laertes in France and make sure he doesn't get into too much trouble.
Ophelia goes to Polonius scared about Hamlet. She saw him with messed clothes and acting as if he'd seen a ghost. He's been behaving erratically but nothing sexual or violent. Polonius is afraid that his advice to Ophelia has made Hamlet crazy. They will speak with the king about this.
Act 2 Scene 2
Claudius speaks to Hamlet's friends. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. He asks them to find out what's been going on. They leave.
Polonius shows up and talks about Hamlet but must find out from the ambassadors sent out earlier to find out what's been going on in Norway. The elderly king of Norway suspects his son is up to no good and so sends him off to Poland to keep him out of Denmark. They leave.
Polonius thinks Hamlet's crazy and reads Claudius and Gertrude a letter Hamlet had written to Ophelia. They try to read into it but it's really just a love letter. Polonius doesn't want a mental involved with his daughter. They decide to use Ophelia as bait to get something out of him while they hide and listen.
Polonius and Hamlet speak. Hamlet jokes but Polonius mistakes these jokes for meaningless gibberish. They continue and he's more convinced that he's mad.
Guildenstern and Rosencrantz speak to him. He tries to hide his depression but fails. They confess that they have been sent by the king and queen. Hamlet asks them not to let on that he's been so down.
A travelling troupe of actors arrive at the cast and Hamlet talks theater shop with them as he's really into it. They exchange soliloquys from various plays. He asks them to put on a murder play that closely resembles the conditions of his father's death in order to provoke a confession or reaction from Claudius.
Act III Scene I
Claudius and Gertrude check in with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Hamlet's been feeling bad but isn't specific about why. He districts them whenever they try to speak about it but he picked up when the actors came around.
Claudius and Polonius decide to spy on Hamlet and Ophelia when they speak.
Hamlet contemplates life and death (To be or not to be…). Death is merely the ending of pain and grief but most people fear it because they fear what is beyond it.
He approaches and she tries to return the things that he had given her before. He tells her that he doesn't want them because he never really loved her. He also tells her that men are by their nature untrustworthy. If she is pure, she should join the nuns. He calls her names and says mean things and then leaves.
She thinks he's lost the plot and starts sobbing. Claudius and Polonius come in to speak to her. Claudius doesn't think that Hamlet's completely crazy but does think that he should be sent to England before things get hairy.
Polonius agrees but thinks it's still about him and Ophelia. He wants Gertrude to be the real judge of his situation.
Act III Scene II
Hamlet instructs the actors on how to deliver the speech that will get to Claudius. Polonius, Claudius and Gertrude among others come in to watch the play.
The play starts. Hamlet gives a lot of side commentaries. The play pokes at both characters of Gertrude and Claudius. The real ones seem very uncomfortable at the play's accusations. The play reenacts the very scene of Hamlet's father's death. This gets Claudius to jump up and storm out of the room with all his entourage following him.
Horatio and Hamlet muse about Claudius's reaction. Guildenstern and Rosencrantz come in and inform Hamlet that his mother wishes to see him. He lets them have it about their spying on him.
Before going to see Gertrude, Hamlet tells himself that he ought to be rough with her verbally but not physically.
Act III Scene III
Claudius is fuming about the play and orders Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to take Hamlet to England. They leave and Polonius comes in and tells him that he's going to spy on Hamlet and Gertrude.
Thinking he's alone, Claudius confesses (to God?) how guilty he feels and how he'll have to live with the guilt of the murder for the rest of his life. Hamlet is watching but doesn't want to kill him in mid-confession. He wants him dead with a dirty soul, not a clean one.
Act III Scene IV
Polonius warns Gertrude he'll be hiding behind a curtain to spy on her conversation with Hamlet.
Hamlet won't be lectured by his mother who invokes his father's name. She screams and Polonius cries out. Hamlet stabs at the curtain killing Polonius, only upset about it because it wasn't Claudius.
Gertrude doesn't understand Hamlet's hatred for Claudius. Hamlet hates her for marrying the murderer of his father less than two months after his death. Why should Hamlet keep quiet?
She won't hear any more and admits how horrible she's been but he carries on.
The ghost comes into the room in the middle of all of this. Hamlet speaks to it and Gertrude, not being able to see it, thinks Hamlet's gone crazy. He doesn't accept that and tells her to beg forgiveness from him, the ghost and to heaven. She is to leave Claudius because he is evil. He feels a little bad about Polonius but is willing to live with the consequences.
Then he thinks better of it…. He wants to use Gertrude to get to Claudius. She accepts this and feels broken by the whole experience. He has to go to England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and will plan his revenge there for some day.
Act IV Scene I
Claudius comes in and asks what happened. She explains that Hamlet's lost his mind and has killed Polonius. Claudius has to get Hamlet out of the county because he's dangerous and seems to know something.
Act IV Scene II
Hamlet's hidden the body and Rosencrantz demand the he tell them where it is but Hamlet considers them betrayers and won't say.
Act IV Scene III
Claudius wants to deal with Hamlet before shit gets out of hand. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern drop him in. Hamlet stalls but eventually reveals where he's hidden the body. Claudius orders Hamlet to be sent to England and reveals that he's asked the English king to kill him.
Act IV Scene IV
Fortinbras marches across Denmark on the way to Poland. Hamlet, along with Guildenstern and Rosencrantz run into Fortinbras's Captain who tells them they are on a fool's errand and they will likely die for nothing. Hamlet resolves to fight for something in avenging his father's murder.
Act IV Scene V
Gertrude speaks with Ophelia, who's gone mad since Polonius's death. It's clear that she's crazy but also incredibly sad. She sings childish songs and speaks a lot of gibberish.
Laertes returns from France, demanding explanations. A crowd forms around him in his support. Claudius won't say much other than it wasn't his fault.
Ophelia comes back into the room, talking her non-sense. This breaks Laertes's heart and makes him press Claudius for answers.
Act IV Scene VI
Horatio receives a letter from Hamlet saying that he'd been taken prisoner away from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They agreed to take him home. The messenger is one of these pirate sailors, who will go see the king about a reward and Horatio is to meet Hamlet outside the castle walls.
Act IV Scene VII
Claudius tries to calm down Laertes by telling him that Hamlet was Polonius's murderer. He also says that he couldn't do anything because Gertrude's so attached to him and it would cause a riot due to Hamlet's popularity.
A messenger delivers a letter from Hamlet to Claudius asking to meet alone.
Claudius has a trick to get back at Hamlet without raising suspicion or a ruckus. He'll get Hamlet to engage in a duel with Laertes. Laertes's sword will be sharp enough to cut Hamlet and they'll put some poison at the end. There will also be some poison drinks lying around. You know… just in case.
Gertrude busts in informing them that Ophelia has drowned in her madness. This dumbfounds Laertes and this gets him convinced that the duel is the right thing to do.
Act V Scene I
2 gravediggers prepare a grave for a recently deceased woman. They debate if she should be having a Christian burial. If she killed herself, she shouldn't as suicide is a sin. She's lucky she's so rich to get them to fudge the coroner's report.
Horatio and the Hamlet entering. They look at all the graves wondering what these people's lives where like and what's going on with them now.
Hamlet and one of the diggers chat about the dead lady to be buried and about dead bodies in general. He looks at a skull of a friend of his, Yorick the court jester. Hamlet wonders were all his jokes and gregariousness are now, merely dust. Everything alive, great and small is now dust.
The king, queen, Laertes all come in. Hamlet and Horatio hang back to watch in secret. They are burying Ophelia. Hamlet is shocked and in an effort to prove that he loved Ophelia more than Laertes, they wrestle on her grave. The king separates them and tells them to handle this back at the castle.
Act V Scene II
Hamlet tells Horatio how he escaped from the ship. He was taken away from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Once aboard the pirates' ship, he forged a letter from the king, asking that whoever finds him to dispatch with his 2 "captors". He doesn't regret asking them to be killed. Fuck them. They betrayed him. He does feel bad about Polonius for Laertes's sake. He wants to make it up to him.
A messenger comes in and tells Hamlet that Claudius has placed a bet on Hamlet in a duel with Laertes. Hamlet gets a feeling things will go badly but doesn't want to avoid whatever fate has got in store for him.
Everyone goes into the big room. Hamlet apologizes to Laertes. He seems to accept it but still wants to duel Hamlet for pride. Claudius presents a cup. If Hamlet gets a hit in the first two chances, then he will put a pearl in the cup for Hamlet to have and take a drink from. Hamlet gets strikes in the first two chances, but doesn't want to drink.
Gertrude drinks for him and starts gagging. Claudius knows that's her ass. He then tells Laertes not to cut him just yet, but does he listen? Nope. They get into a tussle and somehow their swords are exchanged. Hamlet cuts Laertes. Gertrude dies.
Laertes confesses the plan that he and Claudius came up with. Hamlet runs after Claudius and forces him to finish the cup that killed Gertrude. Claudius dies. Hamlet and Laertes realize time is running out. They apologize to each other. Hamlet instructs Horatio to tell the story as it really happened. Hamlet and Laertes die.
Fortinbras shows up to see a room full of dead people and asked Horatio what happened. He showed up to tell Claudius that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead as the letter has instructed. But now he sees this is his chance to claim the throne of Denmark. Hamlet is given a soldier's burial a multi-gun salute.


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One of the most successfully spread memeplexes, which could be seen as a prototype of how culture is made in the 21st century, is the myth of Apple Macintosh. The company developed several computers and gadgets, like phones, music players and hand-held computers. The products of Apple have in the last ten years advanced to cult objects among their users.

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Silicon Graphics International has acquired storage company Filetek as the server maker looks to provide customers with better control over petabytes of stored data in high-performance computing environments.
SGI did not disclose the amount it paid for Filetek. The deal closed Tuesday.
SGI is best known for high-performance computing systems, and Filetek's software offerings will help better analyze, manage and provision storage resources depending on application needs, said Bruce Elder, general manager of storage at SGI.
SGI has been in the storage business for 20 years and offers the InfiniteStorage Gateway systems for HPC environments (shown above). Filetek's offerings will work with those systems to manage large pools of data in primary and long-term storage.
One of Filetek's products is TrustedEdge, which Elder called an "intelligent-analytics tool" that scans arrays of primary storage and determines what data could be moved to long-term storage, which is also called cold storage. Another Filetek offering includes Storehouse, which manages structured and unstructured data in primary, cold and cloud storage.
All of Filetek's employees and research and development resources will be merged into SGI's newly formed storage division. SGI will keep Filetek operations running out of Rockville, Maryland, and also retain its international offices. Current Filetek customers will continue to receive support from SGI.
Management of storage resources is gaining more importance as servers handle larger volumes of data and high-performance storage like solid-state drives becomes an alternative to volatile memory. Technologies such as virtualization and analytics are also becoming important tools in managing data movement and provisioning storage across arrays.
Cisco earlier this month said it would acquire storage vendor Whiptail for $415 million. Server makers IBM, Dell and Hewlett-Packard have also acquired storage companies in recent years.
SGI's history can be traced back to Silicon Graphics Inc., a supercomputing pioneer that filed for bankruptcy in 2009 and was ultimately bought by Rackable Systems for $25 million. The combined company was then renamed Silicon Graphics International.


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Last month, four days after Iran announced that it planned to attend a high-profile meeting on the banning of WMD's in the Middle East, the US backed out, saying that the "time is not opportune."
But along with Russia and the UK, the U.S. was one of the key sponsors of the conference, set to take place in Helsinki, Finland, by the end of 2012. 189 member nations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty had agreed to attend, but not Israel. Now the meeting has been called off.
That is the backdrop behind the UN General Assembly's approval of a resolution last week calling on Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and open its nuclear program for inspection:
Time Magazine, UN Calls on Israel to Open Nuclear Facilities:
(UNITED NATIONS) — The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to quickly open its nuclear program for inspection and backing a high-level conference to ban nuclear weapons from the Middle East which was just canceled.
All the Arab nations and Iran had planned to attend the conference in mid-December in Helsinki, Finland, but the United States announced on Nov. 23 that it wouldn't take place, citing political turmoil in the region and Iran's defiant stance on nonproliferation. Iran and some Arab nations countered that the real reason for the cancellation was Israel's refusal to attend.
The resolution, approved Monday by a vote of 174-6 with 6 abstentions, calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty "without further delay" and open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Those voting "no" were Israel, the U.S., Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.
Russia Today's Paula Slier did a segment on the UNGA resolution, titled Nuclear Israel: The secret that is not, about efforts to "lift the veil surrounding Israel's atomic program." She interviewed IRmep's Grant Smith about recently-released FBI files (pdf) dubbed "Project Pinto" and Joseph Gelman, co-author of Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan. Notice the fact that Freedom of Information Act releases by the US government do nothing to disguise Benjamin Netanyahu's involvement:
Paula Slier: Earlier this year, the FBI released these documents from a seven-year investigation which began in 1985. They show how a network of front companies connected to the Israeli Defense Ministry smuggled nuclear triggers out of the United States to Israel.
Grant F. Smith, IRmep research director: What's apparent in the documents is that the Israeli Ministry of Defense would place an order for prohibited items with an Israeli company called Heli Trading. Heli Trading is where Benjamin Netanyahu worked and would meet with Richard Kelly Smyth when he visited Israel. Then they would transfer the order to an organization called Milco in California to fulfill the order, violating the [Arms] Export Control Act, and shipping the triggers out of the United States.
Paula Slier: They called the operation "Project Pinto." All of the allegations are based on Smyth's testimony, and many have been surprised by their detail.
Grant F. Smith: If you take a look at the documents, Netanyahu is definitely mentioned in the document. And that's what surprised us, because typically you get two types of [Freedom of Information Act} censors of this type of document. Sometimes they'll block off an entire page. Sometimes they'll just block off a name. In this case, Netanyahu's name is clearly stated in the documents.
Paula Slier: In the documents it is alleged that Netanyahu asked Milchan, the Hollywood producer, not to discuss the matter publicly. In a written response to RT, the Israeli Foreign Ministry denied all allegations, which is hardly a surprise, as Tel Aviv's official position is neither to confirm nor deny possession of nuclear arms. Relatively few people have knowledge of the overall Israeli nuclear program, and there are few leaks. The last time an Israeli insider leaked confidential information was way back in 1986.
Joseph Gelman: And that operation went on for many years and Israel successfully achieved the technologies and materials necessary to obtain the nuclear deterrent arsenal that it has today, probably the fifth largest arsenal in the world.
Paula Slier: On the other side of the story, aside from the leaked documents, Washington too is keeping quiet. Israeli nuclear capabilities are some of the most guarded secrets the US government holds. Far more secret, some would argue, than information it has about Iran. But for the forseeable future, the book on Israel's nuclear secrets is closed. Paula Slier, RT, Israel.


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One of the most interesting pre-election interviews I saw was of arch-conservative Bill Kristol with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show just a few days before the 4th. One of the striking things Kristol said was that "I don't think [Obama] would be a very radical president. I think he'll disappoint a lot of people on the left, because he'll be a conventionally liberal president." I've thought a lot about this quote, especially as Obama's picked his staff and proven Kristol exactly right so far. But I'm unsure just how "radical" anybody on the left ever expected him to be (we had Nader, Klein, Chomsky, et al to keep our expectations low).
However, whenever I stumble upon the lunatic fringe of the far-right (say, WorldNetDaily or FreeRepublic for example) I'm sometimes surprised at how often they try to paint Barack Obama as the left's "Messiah." It's unclear, of course, who actually believes this. In reality, Republicans are far more obsessed with Obama's supposed messiahship than liberals are. There's no doubt that a number of people have said nutty things, among them Louis Farrakhan and, to a lesser extent, Oprah Winfrey, but there's not much evidence that most people see Obama as anything other than an inspiring figure. Obama's election team have admitted that McCain's "celebrity" ads over the summer had them most worried — but being a celebrity is far different than being a messiah.
In other words, this is a straw man. The people who most talk about this are conservatives, like Wesley Pruden at The Washington Times who penned some eight columns before the election on Obama's messiahship (often with variations on "Hyde Park messiah"). Fox News, predictably, had both Michelle Malkin and Cal Thomas on to talk about this, with Thomas referring to Obama supporters as "disciples" and Obama's two bestsellers as their "holy books."
It's unclear whether the far-right actually believes this stuff is just peddling specious caricatures of the 60+ million of us who voted for Obama. Furthermore, I'm not sure Obamania is really all that unprecedented. McCain doesn't seem to inspire people in the same way, but Sarah Palin certainly does. I think historical research would bear out presidential adulation as a fairly common affliction of the American people. Morton Keller, for example, writes this of William Jennings Bryan: "At one meeting, the lights were arranged to cast a halo over his head. Crowds often surged forward to touch his clothes."
The message of "change," too, is fairly predictable. It has served as the slogan for just about every election — at least for one party; we got lucky this year to have two parties peddling the reform mantra. I think a lot of this comes down to typical American hero-worship and our common need to fit our presidents into the category of superman.
Joseph Campbell describes the hero in the classical monomyth:
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.
In contrast to this, Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence describe the American monomyth:
A community in a harmonious paradise is threatened by evil: normal insitutions fail to contend with this threat: a selfless superhero emerges to renounce temptations and carry out the redemptive task: aided by fate, his decisive victory restores the community to its paradisal condition: the superhero then recedes into obscurity.
Look at the public's reaction to our Wall Street crises this Fall: Americans voted for the person who could be our selfless superhero to redeem our financial institutions and restore unto us our beloved bull market. Yet we haven't seen a lot of Obama in action yet — the contemporary person who most fits the American monomyth is George W. Bush.
Jewett & Lawrence wrote almost 25 years before Bush came into office, but their writing (in American Monomyth) is prescient. In the aftermath of 9/11 we heavily depended on the "escapist fantasy" of the American monomyth. We as a nation looked to Bush as "the zealous crusader who destroys evil," whose intervention is required because our "impotent democratic institutions" have failed to fully protect us. Our peculiar twist on the monomyth has two alarming traits:
1. Its deep antipathy toward the democratic process — "The effect of this monomythic copout is to encourage the very centralization of power that democratic theorists have considered to be the greatest potential danger to the political order." Given the impossible task of restoring paradise, the superhero is given powers to "make and enforce the laws as they see fit…without waiting for the cumbersome voice of a democratic majority."
2. Its perpetual hostility to reason & intelligence — "…One of [the monomyth's] most durable conventions is to use 'brains' as a distinguishing trait of evil persons." The hero embodies strength and power, on the other hand, and already possesses all the wisdom he needs to act. "In the excercise of redemptive power, purity of intention suffices," even if that excercise involves extralegal means where our hero must "evade due process of law… and command brutal powers of coercion."
I won't overload you with more quotes, but there's a lot that eerily resembles the kinds of things we witnessed/allowed post-9/11. I think Jewett & Lawrence are right to note how our shared monomyth destroys personal responsibility. It also foists an impossible expectation onto our heroes, for expecting either Bush or Obama to restore a non-existent paradisical American society is asking far too much.
Postscript: By the way, in researching this the one person I found who did claim to be the messiah wasn't Obama, but a guy named Wayne Bent, leader of an apocalyptic cult in New Mexica. Also, apparently, a pedophile.


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Karen O Contributes Songs to Disney's 'Frankenweenie'
Tim Burton's upcoming stop-motion feature Frankenweenie will showcase a lineup of hip music by the likes of Karen O, the lead singer of the rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Karen O told Rolling Stone magazine that Burton wanted her to come up with "an unconventional, unconditional love song." She found inspiration from the same era of B movie fright film referenced in the black-and-white movie.
"I went in the direction of exotica and calypso stylistically because it's quirky, good vibes music of that era and when you throw in a theramin solo it's a marriage made in heaven," said the musician, who also co-composed the score to the 2009 movie Where the Wild Things Are. "I remember Beetlejuice introducing me to the genius of Harry Belafonte's calypso record so I wanted to give a nod to that, too."
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Hike to the Summit of Medicine Bow Peak
1.6 miles - Out-and-Back Trail
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Medicine Bow Peak has 4 different trailheads that lead to the summit with hikes ranging from 1.6 - 7.5 miles and up to a 2,000 ft elevation gain. Enjoy incredible views, wildflowers, and dozens of lakes in this alpine high-country.
Medicine Bow Peak (12,014ft) is the highest summit in the Snowy Range of Wyoming. There is a network of quality alpine trails leading around the mountain and up to the summit. Stop in at the Visitor Center in Centennial for a free map of the area and pick your route. Options exist from a direct 1.6 mile route, to an incredible 7.5 mile loop.
The Four Trailheads are as follows:
- Lake Marie Trailhead (41.3315675,-106.3253345)
- Mirror Lake Trailhead (41.338138,-106.3235919)
- Lewis Lake Trailhead (41.3586405,-106.2944908)
- Dipper Lake Trailhead (41.3668013,-106.3475806)
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Thomas BurtonExplorer
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over 2 years ago
Great Scenery
Medicine Bow Peak has great views and the trail wanders right through a few beautiful lakes. If you are in the area it is a great option. The hike isn't long but it is steep.
Jason Godwin
almost 3 years ago
Hard, but rewarding hike
This was probably the most difficult, but one of the most rewarding hikes I have done to date. Let me start by saying that I was visiting Wyoming from Fort Worth, so it goes without saying that I was not 100% acclimated to the altitude. We started from the Lake Marie trailhead, which is the longest of the standard routes to the summit of Medicine Bow Peak. The entire hike is very beautiful. You are pretty much always near scenic vistas, with an absolutely stunning landscape all around you. You don't even have to go all the way to the summit to enjoy this hike, but making it to the summit will certainly give you a great sense of accomplishment. I made it to the top and back around (we went up the south side, and came down the north side) in about 8 hours, though this included sitting at the summit for a while. Be warned that it's quite windy at the summit, so even on a summer day, you'll want a jacket. I was able to make it to the summit and complete the 8 mile hike despite being at only 700 feet above sea level 48 hours earlier, and being in decent shape at best. If you're in decent shape, you can handle this hike (though it will be challenging!).
Lindsey Shea
almost 4 years ago
Full Moon Hike!
Did this as my first full moon night hike soon after I moved to WY from sunny CA. It was gorgeous and fun and so cold at midnight in September. There was wind and hail and whiskey at the top. It was so worth it, but I also bought my first puffy jacket the next day.
Grant WhittyExplorer
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about 4 years ago
Not very prominent peak
Super fun hike and enjoyed my time up there by all means, the summit didn't feel very much like a summit though. Pretty gradual towards the top. Still a solid day hike!
Melissa D
over 4 years ago
Fall Hike
This took us about 7-8 hours to complete. Well worth it!
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Building CoreGTK on OS X (10.11)
Here is a quick guide to building CoreGTK and CoreGTK applications on OS X (10.11).
Step 1) Install Xcode
You'll need Xcode which you can grab right from the AppStore.
Step 2) Install Command Line Tools
Once Xcode is installed you'll need to also add the command line tools. The easiest way to do that is to open a terminal and run:
xcode-select --install
Step 3) Accept Xcode license
You can do this by either opening Xcode itself or from the command line by running:
sudo xcodebuild -license
Step 4) Install X11 server
As Apple is no longer actively maintaining their own X11 server they've spun it off into a community maintained project. You can grab the latest version at http://www.xquartz.org.
Step 5) Install GTK+
If you head over to http://www.gtk.org and hit the Download link and then the Mac OS X link you'll find a page that gives the official, recommended, approach for getting GTK+ onto your OS X system.
That said if you're like me those instructions won't work at all and so here is my "non-recommended", but working, approach to install GTK+ using Mac Ports. So to install this using Mac Ports first head over to the Mac Ports website at https://www.macports.org and click the Download link. Once it is installed you can open a terminal and run
sudo port -v selfupdate
to update the repository list. Next you can install GTK+ 3 by running:
sudo port install gtk3
Step 6) Check out and build CoreGTK
The last step is to simply check out CoreGTK and try building it. To make things easy I've included the steps here:
git clone https://github.com/coregtk/coregtk.git
cd coregtk/src
make mac
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Nova Scotia releases new caps for class sizes
Beginning September 2014, class sizes for Grade 4 will be capped at 25 students
The Nova Scotia government is promising smaller class sizes for more elementary schools in the province.
Beginning September 2014, class sizes for Grade 4 will be capped at 25 students, Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Ramona Jennex announced Friday.
The plan is to eventually cap class sizes for Grades 5 and 6 as well.
Jennex made the announcement Friday morning at Kingswood Elementary.
"Last year 85% of our classrooms, elementary classrooms in the province of Nova Scotia were below 25. But, as people know especially in the Halifax region and some other growth areas in Nova Scotia some of our class sizes were bulging."
An addition 100 teachers will be hired at a cost of $6.5 million over the next three years.
Grades Primary through 3 already have a class cap of 25 students and that change implemented at the beginning of the school year last year. That decision resulted in the hiring of 70 more teachers.Information the government collected from the boards indicates that the average class size in grades Primary to 6 across the province last school year ranged from 20-23 students. That number is about the same as in the 2011-2012 school year.


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But fiscal deficit is the net difference between revenues and expenditures. So, theoretically, the fiscal deficit can expand because of a shortage of revenues, or an excess of expenditures, or both. Consequently, depending on ones ideological preference, the emphasis is either on raising taxes or on cutting expenditures. And given a country like India, whose politicians and many of the glintelectuals (glitterati intellectuals) do not believe in any evidence-based policy, the concentration is on raising taxes. The last 2 months have been dominated by discussions of how to raise tax revenue, and of course motherhood dictates that one cannot go wrong by suggesting that the rich should pay more. If it is pointed out that the top 10% of earners in the country pay for almost all of corporate and individual tax revenue, the refrain of the glintelectuals is: why cant they pay more
Back-of-the-envelope calculations for the Indian economy are now made easier with several important numbers approaching 100 or multiples of 100 levels! Nominal GDP in 2012-13 is estimated to have been R94.6 lakh crore; for 2013-14, with 12% growth, nominal GDP is estimated at R106 lakh crore. For the same year, poverty is forecast to be 220 million or 18% of the population. This based on a Tendulkar poverty line equal to R1,000 per capita per month (pcpm) and the average consumption level of the poor equal to R834 (R12,000 and R10,000 on an annual basis).
These simple calculations, assuming conservative historical trends, imply that the government needs to spend, in 2013-14, R0.44 lakh crore (obtained as the multiple of 220 million poor with an average poverty deficit of R2,000 per person per year). This fraction is 0.4% of GDP and what is needed to be spent on the poor in order to claim that India is a land with NO poverty according to the official poverty line. This claim assumes perfect targeting. Further, the amount needed to eliminate poverty declines with economic growth. In 1983, the perfect targeting outlay was equal to 7.8% of GDP and, in 2004-05, 1.6% of GDP.
Assume for a moment that the government was actually desirous of doubling the real incomes of every poor person in India. This will mean an outgo of nearly R2,20,000 crore each year and will push every poor person in India to a consumption level above the poverty line. The table documents the actual expenditure on various inventive poverty reduction schemes that Indian politicians have offered and spent grandiosely on.
The trend in the averages are striking. Under Vajpayees tenure, when incomes were low, the government spent close to 1.6% of GDP on poverty-reduction programmes. India was a lot poorer 10 years ago and could not afford the average perfect targeting requirement of 2.2% of GDP. During UPA-1, this deficit turned into a surplus (India became less poor) but the populist government spent twice the amount needed to remove poverty. The situation has worsened considerably in UPA-2, and in 2012-13, the government is spending more than 6 times than what is needed.
The criminally sad nature of our populist policies is brought out by the following calculations. We spend R1,00,000 crore on diesel subsidies. I dont know about you, but I know precious few, indeed none and none by a few miles, poor people who consume diesel. If the diesel subsidy were to be eliminated, and the money given to the poor, their consumption would increase by 50%! If the food subsidy were to be eliminated (and only 23% of the poors food was accessed from PDS shops in 2009-10), the incomes of the poor would increase by 50%. If all subsidies were to be eliminated, and the money given to the poor, their incomes would be two-and-a-half times their present income.
Of course, perfect targeting is not possible, and all the money saved from elimination of subsidies should not go to the poor. Indeed, should not go to anybody, but should go to help make India look more like a modern economy than a poor cousin of Chavezs Venezuela. And Venezuela has oil to squander.
This simple analysis has several implications for Indian policy making and the Budget. For starters, all this talk about raising tax rates, imposing commodity taxes, increasing dividend taxes, etc, is shown plainly to be what it isutter and glib nonsense. The gains to be made for the Indian economy are by drastically reducing in the name of the poor (INP) expenditures. The talk should not be in terms of motherhood reductions of the fiscal deficit but reductions in the even more politically-correct motherhood expenditures on the poor.
The big story, the big debacle, the big policy mistake, is the irresponsible increase in combined (state and Centre) fiscal deficits of about 2 to 4 percentage points of GDP. This had averaged 6.3% of GDP in the good years, 2003-04 to 2007-08. For the last 5 years, the fiscal deficit has averaged 8%, or 1.7 percentage points higher than the 2003-04 to 2007-08 average. Is it just a coincidence that this increase is almost identical to the increase in populist subsidies alone1.6 percentage points between NDA-Vajpayee and UPA-2
It is time we recognised the debate on INP policies. Several people will lose if a reorientation is made. Many of these people are politicians, many more are in major political parties, and I would conjecture that a large amount of the leakage ends up in the coffers of political parties as election financing. These men and women are powerful and stand a lot to lose if money meant for the poor reaches the poor. How much is this leakage or corruption Rajiv Gandhi had conjectured (Congress party leaders please note), way back in 1985, that 85% of the money meant for the poor was lost in transition. And Rajiv Gandhi was a raging optimist. 15% of R3,01,000 crore is R45,000 crore, and even if this fraction of money did actually reach the poor, poverty in India today would be less than 5%, if not zero! In other words, money for the poor leaks awayindeed, floods away.
The choice for India, and Mr Chidambaram, is crystal clear. We need to abandon the reckless adventurism of UPA-2 (and parts of UPA-1). Budget 2013-14 should be about subsidy control, and about considerably improved targeting. Technology in the form of Aadhaar is now available; cash transfers are an important component of anti-poverty policy in most countries. The Budget should remember the insight of Rajiv Gandhi, and it should concentrate on the relationship between outlays and outcomes.
Surjit S Bhalla is chairman of Oxus Investments, an emerging market advisory firm, and a senior advisor to Blufin, a leading financial information company. He can be followed on Twitter: @surjitbhalla


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Yahoo News Gets a New Look, Might Try To Take Over the World
Yahoo! News is rolling out a redesign this morning for U.S. that will update its look to match the new homepage that debuted a few months ago.
The differences are subtle, but mostly good. Gone is the big blue header that previously took up valuable real estate at the top of the page. Now, it's just a search box next to a small Yahoo! News logo, both of which stay with you as you scroll down the page.
One of the biggest changes is that local weather takes a top spot in the right sidebar, though the center news stream—which is now customizable—still appears in a blog format underneath a few featured articles just like it used to.
Overall the design is cleaner and simpler. A Yahoo spokeswoman said in an email to FishbowlDC that the page will now load faster. Headlines stand out more against the white background with a new, brighter color of blue. Categories stay fixed on the left, so they're easier to access (before, they were at the bottom of the page). The design now works on your iPhone and iPad, improved versions for Android devices are on their way.
Oh, and the site is also self-aware and artificially intelligent, and it tracks your every move in a bid to please you as its news master. Okay, not really, but it does keep a record of what you like to read about so that it can help you find that kind of stuff faster. In a blog post this morning, Yahoo! VP Mike Kerns said, "… the more you use it when signed in with your Yahoo! ID, the more it learns about your preferences, creating a personal news hub just for you."
How very Skynet of it. And we all know how that turned out.


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A host of challenges and equipment wait to be discovered in the Hand of Fate world. As the player explores the world, he or she will face a variety of encounters, both good and bad. The player will come across a variety of weapons, artefacts, and armour to assist in their travels, but where the cards fall in the end is up to chance.
The weapons range from brute force apparatus to magical devices of destruction. Artifacts provide the player with special abilities that can be triggered during combat, while magical weapons have their own intrinsic powers. Armour ranges from pure defensive, to magically enhancing your abilities and attacks.
The guiding principle for Hand of Fate is that every piece of gear should be a game changer. There are no "Sword + 5% damage" instead there are weapons that become more powerful the weaker you get, shields that shoot fire when you block, artifacts that create a whirlwind of destruction, and many more. Discovering unique combinations of weapons, armour, and abilities is one of the keys to mastering Hand of Fate.


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Spaghetti carbonara is one of the most well known, yet often poorly executed, Italian dishes outside of Italy. Too often the pasta is doused in ladles of rich double cream and passed off as carbonara, when actually all that is required is eggs and Parmesan to make a lovely creamy sauce. Add some black pepper and pancetta and you have a super tasty yet easy supper.
The key here is to make sure the egg mixture is added off the heat to prevent it from curdling, and to serve it straight away. Simple, delicious and comforting, carbonara is always a winner.
Servings: 2
Cook: 20 mins
200g of spaghetti
75g of Parmesan, or Pecorino Romano, finely grated, plus extra to serve
3 egg yolks
75g of pancetta, or guanciale, cut into lardons
1 garlic clove, minced
black pepper
Cook the spaghetti in salted boiling water for 8–10 minutes.
Meanwhile, mix together the Parmesan and egg yolks in a small bowl and set aside.
Cook the pancetta in a large frying pan until crispy. Once cooked, reserve the pancetta and the fat that has been released during cooking separately.
Once the pasta is cooked, reserve a ladleful of the pasta water and drain the pasta.
Transfer the pasta to the pancetta frying pan and add the reserved pancetta fat and minced garlic. Gently heat the pan then remove from the heat and quickly stir through the egg yolk and Parmesan mixture. Add a little of the pasta water to emulsify the sauce.
Mix well then add the pancetta and black pepper to taste. Add a little more pasta water if necessary.
Serve immediately with some more freshly grated Parmesan
Bon appetite!
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My guest today has a finger in many pies. He's a user experience designer, many people will be familiar with his gorilla, the iconic photograph that appears on the usability testing application Silverback, which runs on Mac computers.
He's managing director at Clearleft Limited, a user experience company based in Brighton, England. He organises the UX London Conference which is forthcoming shortly and the dConstruct Conference.
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This is a post that appeared in Gustrength's Blog in July 2009. I think it is a good post and that more people will read it here so I am moving it, along with many other past posts from that blog.
By Eric Troy
Once in a post about Micheal Pollan's ideas about "nutritionism" and instinctual eating I made the following statement:
"…nutritionists would never tell you that simply eating by your "instincts" is a magical ticket to health."
Well, of course, I cannot speak for any and all nutritionists. I cannot speak for nutritionists at all for that matter. Many nutritionists, after all, say outlandish things. For instance, one "celebrity nutritionist" said that she believed all you needed during the day was sunshine and clean air. To that end she herself had hot water with ginger for breakfast, no lunch, and a big pile of fruit for dinner. She did state, however, that this diet was only for the "advanced" like she herself. Perhaps some "nutritionists" have eating disorders? The point is that putting all nutritionists into the same box is like trying to put water into a box…runs out all over the place.
So, many nutritionists might very well tell you that eating instinctively is just what healthier people do. It is a little absurd to speak of such a large and diverse group of professionals as if they are all of a similar mind. This is a case of countering the "other side" without a clear sense of what the other side is up to. This is exactly the kind of thing people like Pollan thrive on.
The truth is I don't just object to the concept, I object to the word. Instinct. Instinctual. Very muddy waters there. Many do not share my problem with the word, of course. And you could argue that it's semantics. Look at this quote from Michelle May, for instance:
People who naturally follow instinctive eating or intuitive eating just seem to know when, what and how much food they need. When their body needs fuel they get hungry, triggering an urge to eat. They simply stop eating when their hunger is satisfied. Most of them really like to eat and seem to be able to eat whatever they want. However they'll turn down even delicious food if they aren't hungry and they are less likely to respond to stress with emotional eating.
Michelle May is right, of course. There are people like that, YOURS TRULY, for instance. That's why you will never see me develop fat loss advice. I may talk about healthy eating and nutrition and fat loss in a general sense but fat loss advise? I leave that to the experts, like May.
But is it instinct or intuition? In psychological terms, I would feel more comfortable with something that can be observed in science. Instinct is part of what is called the nominal fallacy. In fact, the word is so problematic that psychologists virtually banned it from psychological discussion for many years. And this is about psychology. The nominal fallacy is mistaking the naming something with explaining something. Saying that something is instinctual or instinct explains absolutely nothing. It simply reduces the concept down to something that cannot be reduced any further. Using this kind of logic, everything that we fail to understand can simply be labeled and so "explained." So let me tell you something about myself, as one of those "naturally thin" people. And about some of the people like me I've known and talked with.
And before you get too fed up with the "lucky" nature of this…remember that we all have our cross to bear.
Naturally thin people seem to be able to eat whatever they want.
The truth is that most lifelong thin people eat MUCH LESS than they are perceived to by others. The reason they seem to be able to eat "anything they want" is many times because when you observe them eating "anything they want" it's the BULK of their calories for that day.
They simply take in LESS OVERALL ENERGY period. And in fact…they probably under-eat if they are like me and are very active.
Most thin people who want to gain weight or lean mass but have trouble doing it (so called hard-gainers) usually are taking in much fewer calories than they think and if asked they will over-report their food intake, quite the opposite of the overweight.
Thin is not automatically healthy.
The idea that lifelong thin people instinctively eat only healthy foods is erroneous. They just eat LESS. Again, I am not a fat loss expert but less energy in than out means less fat gain. Regardless of where the energy comes from. And when I say LESS, again, I mean MUCH less. There was a time when eating 900 to 1000 calories a day was a LOT for me. And I was NOT healthy. In fact..it was a period of the worst health of my life. Anecdotal though it is, it's the same observation I've made in many thin trainees. Add to this the paradox of "metabolically healthy obesity" and the problem of visceral or intraabdominal fat in apparently thin people, and "thin equals healthy" breaks down quickly into nonsense.
Thin people stop eating when they are full.
Most of the time probably. But not always. A thin person is likely to skip as many meals as they eat. Intermittent fasting is popular these days. Well…thin people do that simply because they forget to eat or don't have time or are so absorbed in what they are doing…or for any of hundreds of possible reasons.
This is not instinct. This is about attitudes regarding food. Food is just fuel for the most part. As May says, many thin people really do enjoy eating. They eat slowly and savor their food. It probably takes them longer than their overweight friend to finish eating, in fact. Thus, further fueling the perception that they are eating more. When in fact they are simply eating slowly.
But while thin people do enjoy food, as I'm sure Michelle May would agree, it is not exactly about food as such. It is about the moment. In other words, food is something a thin person will enjoy, especially when given their favorite choices. But they don't enjoy it more than anything else they enjoy. It is not a replacement for anything…in fact is is simply not that important or more important than anything else.
This is not meant as "thin people are so smart" kinda thing. That same thin person may have many destructive and unhealthy habits. When they are forgetting or not bothering to eat they may be downing coffee by the gallon, smoking, you name it. They may not exercise at all. They may have organs surrounded by fat. They may have high cholesterol and many other markers of deteriorating health. Don't be fooled into thinking that no fat is synonymous with health.
Thin people always take in small meals with few calories
Bull baloney. This is related to the above. Thin people tend to skip more meals than their obese counterparts. This does not mean they have a problem with gorging themselves at certain hours of the day. Like at night, in front of the television, where they just might get the bulk of their calories each day.
Most "naturally" thin people disprove the notion that total calories in versus out is not the number one consideration for being "thin" and the people developing theories about "within day energy balance" and other such ill-defined concepts would do well to study thin people!
Thin people often turn down food when they are not hungry.
True. Thin people do not tend to eat, most of the time, when they are not hungry. That is not to say that they NEVER eat when they are not hungry. There are many psychological factors which determine why a certain person would turn down food in a certain circumstance. Many people feel uncomfortable eating in public. By the same token some people feel more comfortable having something to munch on. This is similar to social drinking and smoking.
Honestly, though, I think if you were to round up a bunch of thin people and try to map their eating patterns…you'd get a mess. An unpredictable, chaotic mess. Sort of like you'd get with obese people only with the leaning toward not eating and less food rather than eating more often and more food.
I Eat All The Time, I Eat Anything I Want, I Eat A Lot, Says the Skinny Guy
Pay no attention to this guy. This guy only thinks he eats a lot. He has most likely never actually tracked his caloric intake and if he did he would find that he eats like a…skinny person. How much we eat is as much a product of our perceptions than caloric reality. Naturally thin people are just as disorganized in their eating as anyone else.
If "instinct" means without any order, rhyme, or reason, than yes, thin people eat by instinct.
Yet, most all fat-loss advice involves ORGANIZING your eating. Becoming accountable for what you eat.
Instinct should facilitate survival and we evolved to store energy for lean times. I know, I know, getting into evolution is getting into more muddy waters. But it's hard to deny the metabolic strategy involved in fat reserves. However, many fat loss writers seem to think that evolution is ALL biology and no psychology. Which, of course, can't be. We've evolved many built in cognitive strategies and patterns through the ages.
To say that thin people "instinctively eat less" is like saying there were hunter gatherers who "instinctively" refused to fuel up for the lean winters. Or to eat more when there was more so that there would be fuel reserves for the times when there was less. Which is how it supposedly worked. When there was less overall food available and no such thing as a food surplus (at least a longstanding one) then this worked. But someone who was not able to store fat efficiently (like me) would have been in a bit of trouble in those times.
Face it, there was less food available and you had to expend more energy to get it. Now you just have to pick up your phone and order a pizza.
That's all very simplistic and ignores about a million influences we have today. But I didn't say that thin people were born to be thin anymore than fat people are born to be fat.
What's the point of all this? Well, if there is a point it's that there may be no point in striving to think like a thin person to get thin. I think a better goal is SELF-KNOWLEDGE. You will never be able to think like another person. You have to learn to think for yourself.
As Michelle May says, in the article the quote above was taken from, "The answer to weight management lies in YOU."
Give up believing in the myth of the idealized thin person. He or she does not exist. There is no purpose in feeling guilty because you cannot be more like an ideal that is nothing more than a phantom by-product or our culture.
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St. Louis – The Regional Arts Commission (RAC) has awarded $50,560 to 25 artists as part of the inaugural round of the Artists Support Grants. The initiative was created based on results of the RAC-sponsored Artists Count survey conducted in 2013. It indicated that the most pressing need of regional artists was financial support in order to pursue their art and their careers.
The commitment to support artists is inherent in RAC's vision to transform St. Louis into a more creative and economically thriving community through elevating the vitality, value and visibility of the arts.
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The recipients, representing the disciplines of literature, theater, visual arts, dance, music and multi-media, were selected from among 185 applicants after being reviewed by RAC commissioners and staff. The grants range from $640 to $3,000 for a variety of projects. (A complete list of the artists and brief descriptions of their projects is at art-stl.com/artistscount.)
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About the Regional Arts Commission www.art-stl.com The Regional Arts Commission (RAC) is at the forefront of efforts to transform St. Louis into a more vibrant, creative and economically thriving community by elevating the vitality, value and visibility of the arts. In May 2013, RAC awarded more than $3.3 million for 181 grants to support nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, consortiums and programs. RAC has now awarded more than 6,000 grants totaling $80 million to support the arts since it was created in 1985. Directed by a board of 15 commissioners appointed by the chief executives of St. Louis City and County, RAC is a pivotal force in the continuing development and marketing of the arts in the region. www.art-stl.com (314) 863-5811 On the Loop at 6128 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, Mo., 63112.
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How do I control the truck?You have two pedals; the right one is the Gas and the left one is the Brake.
The Gas pedal will accelerate your truck and the Brake will stop and reverse you. The pedals will also control your trucks tilting direction if you manage to catch some air off a jump, using our patented invisible tilt ninjas, helping you to get the right balance and landing.
How does fuel work?In order to keep your gas guzzling trucks going, you have to collect the red fuel cans placed along the tracks.
Run out of fuel? Then it's the end of the road... unless you can coast on the remaining fumes to the next can!
How do the upgrades work?Upgrades are crucial for completing each of the levels and getting the best times to beat your friends.You can upgrade your truck in 4 different ways: Speed, Grip, Stability and Tilt.
Each upgrade affects the truck differently:
- Speed - Improves power and speed
- Grip - Better tires for improved traction
- Stability - Lowers the centre of gravity so your truck will be less likely to flip
- Tilt - How fast you can rotate your truck in the air
These attributes can typically be upgraded 10 times each in total, once all of them have been upgraded to the maximum of 10 you'll no longer be able to collect Truck Coins for that truck and will be offered the choice to 'Custom Import' your truck.
How do I upgrade my truck?You can upgrade each truck attribute in the truck selection menu by pressing the truck icon in the top bar. Here's how it works:
- Upgrades cost Truck Coins
- You earn these by collecting them on the track
- Upgrade coins earned are specific to each truck
For example, if you want to upgrade the Micro truck then you can only use Micro Truck Coins, which will be any coins you collect whilst driving the Micro truck. Alternatively, you can pay for the upgrade or part of the upgrade with Gold Coins. Gold Coins are more flexible and so can be used to upgrade any truck, not just a specific one.
How do I unlock new levels and trucks?The main way of unlocking new levels and trucks is by setting great times or achieving a certain distance on the tracks available to you. You can also unlock them by buying them with Gold Coins.
Check how to unlock levels and trucks by highlighting the one you want in the selection menu, it will show you the requirements for each one there.
What is that truck doing in the other lane?The truck in the other lane is your opponent!
This might be someone from Hutch, a truck representing your own best time or the time set by friend ahead of you on the leaderboard.
Who are these Hutch players on my leaderboard?Some of our team have set their own times on each level, we call them 'Hutch Ghosts', they're to help show you how to overcome certain obstacles and give you a challenge to beat.
When you beat the distance of set by one of the team you'll earn some extra currency, which you'll be able to collect from the leaderboard screen.
What does 'Custom Import' mean?If you fully upgrade a truck you'll be given the option to unlock a 'Custom Import' version of that standard truck. Choosing this will unlock a custom color variant of that vehicle where its upgrades are set to 1.
The first two 'Custom Imports' include a performance boost that increases the upgrade limits of that new vehicle and will be represented as a GT variant for the first upgraded import and as SX for the second; for example, Speed 1/10 might become Speed 1/12.
Any subsequent new imports of that truck will only change the color but will remain SX level imports.
Why does my truck currency says 'Max'?If you've managed to fully upgrade a specific truck there's no need to continue to collect its currency, so we label it as 'Max' so you know that its maxed out.
If you then choose to order a Custom Import of that vehicle, the new variants' upgrades will be set to one and you'll be able to collect currency to spend on it again.
What are Gold Coins?Gold Coins are a more flexible currency and can be used to buy new tracks and upgrade any truck unlike the normal collectable Truck Coins. They can be purchased through our in-game store and they can also be earned various other ways, such as as through our timed gifts, beating your friends on the leaderboard or watching ads.
Is there multiplayer?Yes, there is. In MMX Hill Climb we use asynchronous multiplayer, so when you race it won't just be against your own personal best distance and times, you'll also race against the ghosts of your friends or even Team Hutch, letting you learn from their moves as you go!
Just check out the leaderboard to see who you'll need to take on next.
What's the difference between 'Local Save' and 'Cloud Save'?These are two ways of saving your game in MMX Hill Climb, you can either save it straight to your device using 'Local Save' or using your Facebook login details using 'Cloud Save'.
Our preferred method of saving the game is the Cloud Save option, as this is capable of letting you transfer your game across multiple devices and platforms. Occasionally we'll remind you to save this way as it also lets you race against your Facebook friends that play the game too.
If you do use Cloud Save option and at any point you no longer want to use it, all you need to do is remove the app and permissions from your Facebook account. Just open up Facebook, go to 'Apps' (in the left sidebar in a browser or in the 'More' section in the mobile app) and you should be able to make the changes in there.
What are Gifts?Gifts are our way of saying "thanks for playing the game"!
Not only do we give you free Gold Coins, we also give you the chance to double that amount just by watching an ad. You can enable a reminder, this gives you a notification to come back and pick them up when they're ready.
How do I add non-Facebook friends to my leaderboard? (Friend Codes)You can add non-Facebook friends to your leaderboard via our friend's code feature. Once added - you will see their scores on your leaderboard and can earn rewards for beating them.
You can also give your code to others to appear on their leaderboards
If you enter a friend's code, you can see their scores, but they won't see yours unless they enter your code (or unless you're Facebook friends)
You can add friend's codes and find your own code via the Friend's code button in the settings menu. Please note - you must be logged in to Facebook to use friend codes.
What are Pro Racer events?Pro Racer events are like any regular event except the Hutch ghosts are a lot harder to beat. As these levels are late in the game, we've had a bit more time to practice and to lay down some really good times… even Hutch David.
What is a Mayhem event?You know all of the props you have seen so far in the races? Well here they are again; multiplied tenfold and all in one place! These levels are built to frustrate. Bounce, bang, hop and pop your way to the level end. Can you handle the madness?
What is a Marathon event?Marathon events are a whole series of events strung together. They are generally themed for an environment eg. City, Desert or Snow, and consist of all of the stages of that environment. Keep an eye out for our Marathon Mayhem level which is all the Mayhem events in one. Good luck completing that one!
Can I record and share videos of my runs?Indeed you can! If you have an iOS device and are running iOS 9 or later you will find a record button on the race start screen. Simply press that, start your run and do your thing. When your run comes to an end hit the blue button on the results screen to view, save or share your video.
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Checo01 Posts: 2 ✭Hi ,I'm new on here & been playing the game for only a few days. Today I went to buy THE BUGGY but received the BIG RIG instead. Please help .. Came online soon as it happened been looking for assistance since.. I'm playing game on the Amazon tv fire stick if u need that info
Hi Checo01, thanks for getting in touch.
Can you please use the in-game support tool to submit this query, it will enable us to see your unique ID and help to resolve the problem.
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