“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and so we must therefore rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves — and then we shall save our country.” —Abraham Lincoln, Dec. 2, 1862 Though clearly not as immediate and catastrophic as the Civil War, we are certainly in stormy times — a fragile economy with millions searching for jobs, a crushing burden of debt being passed from our generation to the next, an energy policy based on the vain hope that the cheap oil that has sustained us for the last century is inexhaustible, a health care system whose cost ... Continue reading →
Maine has fewer residents who claim a religious affiliation than any other state in the union. The Pine Tree State is the only one in the country in which less than 30 percent of the population belong to a religious denomination or independent Christian church, according to a census conducted every 10 years by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. This follows a Pew study that found 40 percent of Mainers pray daily — the lowest percentage in the nation. “What’s alarming about those numbers is that more than 300 years after the country was founded by people seeking religious freedom, the large numbers of nonaffiliated folks out here is just the norm,” the Rev. Steve Lewis, academic dean of Bangor Theological Seminary, ... Continue reading →
Complete soundtrack will be available soon for downloading: http://www.barakaflims.comGet more info, pictures, guidebook and wallpapers to download on the Petzl webiste: http://bit.ly/KXSV8OLast fall, from October 26-30, 2011, more than 600 climbers gathered with our team for Petzl RocTrip China. All participants discovered and enjoyed more than 250 brand new pitches on unbelievable limestone especially prepared for the event.Among the highlights of the film, watch Dani Andrada's first ascent of the extremely difficult 7-pitch Corazon de Ensueno (8c/5.14b), a route he put up in 2010 over the course of two trips to the area to prepare for the RocTrip. For this outstanding feat, Dani was awarded Climbing Magazine's prestigious Golden Piton.Other sequences include Steph Bodet and Arnaud Petit sending their project, Lost in Translation (8a+/5.13c), Gabriele ... Continue reading →
In an old Metro station in Paris, all covered in ads… By Benjamin Kabak An ad campaign for the upcoming Prometheus movie has taken over a ghost station in the Paris Metro. (Via FirstShowing.net) I grew up at 91st and Broadway, and for the city’s subway buffs, that intersection holds a special place in our hearts for it is the location of the one of the city’s abandoned subway stops. Once a local stop along the West Side IRT, the TA shuttered this station in 1959 when the southbound extension of 96th St. left 91st St. as an unnecessary relic of another age. While the Transit Museum once offered tours of the station, these days it is a dimly lit gallery for graffiti artists and ... Continue reading →
