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A real treat to run in a wilderness setting. The second half follows the river adding to the experience. The volunteers are the only spectators until the end, but they do a good job of cheering the runners. Pro: Fast course, adequate aid stations, friendly volunteers, nice medal. Con: Race instructions say to arrive an hour early. What they didn't mention was on race day the long road in and the pace of the parking means that it can take 45 minutes to get parked. Delaying the start time of the half to an hour or more after the marathon would help.
This review is for the half-marathon... If you like cheering crowds, bands, funny stuff to look at while running, this race is not for you. I am not saying those things are bad...some people thrive on spectator support. Almost no spectators on this course, except at the start and finish. This course is greater than any big city race because of the beautiful redwoods you run through. I found it easier to concentrate on my run because I was surrounded by the gorgeous natural environment. Some people commented on lack of food at the finish. Really? I honestly didn't care - bring your own food and don't depend on someone else to feed you. I have never really cared about post-race food. The only things they could improve are: I would have liked to have a sweat/gear check, because it was cold at the start, also...need more port-a-potties... Other than that, the race was awesome, the shirt was awesome, and the medal was awesome. I would definitely do it again.
This is a very beautiful course on two-lane roads through ancient redwoods. The forest is cool and peaceful, with streams cascading and birds in the trees. The double out-and-back arrangement is very nice, as it breaks the distance into four 10Ks. It also allows you to see friends and other runners doing the half marathon. The terrain is rolling, but no challenging hills. Getting to the start was a hassle. We were coming down from Eureka, and encountered a very long traffic jam on the local road. I got to the starting line 8 minutes after the start my first late start. After 40 years, the organizers can do better than this. For example, allow people to come in off the nearest highway exit, and/or organize shuttle buses to bring people in. Also, the finish amenities were quite spartan more like what you'd see at a small 10K race. I was handed one water bottle and I could pick banana and orange pieces out of a box. That's it! There really needs to be more after running a marathon. I would do this race again, though I'd be better prepared for the start traffic and bring more of my own food and drink for the end.
WOW! WOW! WOW! I owe a great debt of gratitude to the people who 40-years ago decided to organize a marathon on one of the most beautiful stretches of road in the lower 48. Combine that with starting temps in the high 40's and finishing temps in the low 60's, plus plenty of sunshine and voila! But you actually don't experience the heat of the sunshine, just the beauty of the sunshine streaming through the canopy of the 300' tall redwoods. And the coolness and rich aroma of the forest combine to make this a one of a kind event, NOT to be missed. The course is a very gentle up and down, with only one moderate uphill/downhill on the course. The volunteers were wonderful and supportive. Your biggest challenge is finding a hotel, as most are 10-50 miles away from the start.
I loved this race! I'm a very poor runner - my marathon times are all well over 5 hours. This course seemed very reasonable to me - it had some modest hills, but nothing too serious. And running under the dense canopy controlled the temperature. Having the trees (and occasional banana slugs) to look at really helped keep my mind off of the effort and pain. I loved having fruit available at many of the aid stations, too. They could have been better displayed at one or two of them, but eating some fresh orange slices now and again was much more refreshing than trying to choke down more energy gel or jelly beans. I'm glad that my partner agreed to come along for support, though. If I hadn't been able to bail out of the car and head for the start line before she finished parking, I'd never have made the starting gun. We timed it so that we'd be there an hour before the start, and almost didn't make it due to the parking congestion. I didn't stick around long after the race, but if there was much food or drink available at the end for late runners, I missed it. All I got was some water.
Very nice people; very pretty race through redwood trees. Website needs work. No info about how to find the packet pickup area (beside the road near the 663 exit from US 101). Few porta-potties; people were running into the woods constantly. Spectators were sparse, but very nice. Good number of aid stations, with signs warning that they were 200 yards ahead. Virtually no finish line food - bring your own. This year was a very nice day for running, though cold and windy while awaiting the start. Turned into a cool day with a little breeze, lots of shade among the trees, and only a few warm, sunny spots on the final leg. Very friendly, nice race.
This is one of the most beautiful courses ever and the support is top-notch. But if you need throngs of supporters, banners and cheer stations, this is not your race. For me, the giant redwoods and the other runners were the best company. The road in the first half of the course is a little beat up, but nothing too bad. The second half is gloriously flat and shaded. The fresh fruit slices were a tasty and refreshing alternative to sport drinks. I wish other races would provide them. I hope to do this race again!
Running the Avenue was a great experience. My wife ran the half marathon and I ran the full. We came from Connecticut and it was worth the trip. The course is "as advertised" - stunningly beautiful. I highly recommend driving the course before running it - it is a very pretty drive. I don't think any of the photos I saw of the course really did it justice. I do not recommend running this course to qualify for Boston or to set a PR. First of all it's just too damn pretty to be caught up in your time. Second, although the course has no steep hills, the first half is very rolling and I think this is deceptively tiring. Also, although I think the "roughness" of the first half of the course has been exaggerated, the road is fairly cambered and twisty for the first half and I think that is a little more tiring than a straighter course. I was shooting for a 3:10 qualifier and I ran a 3:19. Great run - but I'd rather run this just for the scenery and not bother monitoring my splits so closely. Great organization for a small race; parking was easy. If you're traveling for this, give yourself a day before and a day after to relax and do some more exploring of the forests - well worth it. Not a ton of lodging choices, but we loved the Benbow Inn. Not fancy (no TV in our room), but a classic place with a fireplace and chess boards in the lobby, and a hidden gem of a restaurant. The hotel caters to runners, with special pasta dishes the night before, and an early breakfast spread the next morning. If you're thinking about running this, do it. The course is as beautiful as you've heard, and it's a nice break from the mega-marathons.
I chose the Ave to be the site of my first marathon, and I think I made an excellent choice!!! The course was amazingly beautiful - lined with amazing redwoods for most of the run. I can't comment on the post-race amenities because I brought my own food and drinks. Also, I brought my own bag and a friend to carry my stuff for me because I wasn't given a drop-off bag when I picked up my packet. Parking is not too far from the start line, so if you are by yourself, you can drop your stuff off at your car and make it to the start line in under 10 minutes. In regards to the "condition" of the course itself, it really was not that bad. I know that is a relative term, but I didn't find the first out-and-back to be dangerous whatsoever. And as far as "hills" go (again, this is a relative term), this race has no significant 'hills' at all - it's mostly flat! Lastly, if you choose to run this marathon, it should be because you appreciate nature and want to enjoy the scenery. If you want thousands and thousands of fans supporting you, i suggest you run a different event. Having said that, fellow marathoners, half marathoners, 10K runners, campers, and volunteers all supported and cheered for me and other marathoners, so one is not completely isolated in the "wilderness."
I ran the Avenue Marathon 2 years ago and the Humboldt Marathon twice before. As you can see, I love running on the Avenue of the Giants and I will run it again. It is really beautiful and serene and you are running in the shade of the giants most of the way. This time of year was so green after the winter rains this year that the state park was a beautiful destination to spend extra days. I went on a beautiful hike the following day and camped in the state park the night before and after the race and met some marathoners doing the same. I would definitely camp again the next time I run the Avenue. The organization has improved lots from 2 years ago, but it still needs improvement. The pros: There were lots of oranges and bananas on the course, along with Clif Bars and the ERG (better this time than last). The volunteers were awesome and very helpful, and there were lots of volunteers out there cheering on the runners. There were bananas and oranges left after the race when I finished. Cons: Post-race snacks still amounted to a bowl of tortilla chips for runners to grab as they crossed the finish. Not a very appealing or sanitary choice. Was there any post-race water? Also, there is no sweat bag drop-off at the start for the marathoners, which I did not see on the website. Overall, I love the run and the destination, and this year we had perfect weather.
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At my fundraiser brunch to benefit the Maine Cancer Foundation I promised I would let you in on a few of the recipes and also the results of my fundraising efforts. It's probably not the best idea to experiment with new recipes on guests but I have been known to be a risk taker and rule breaker. Is anyone thinking Pat Benatar right now? No, Okay. Anyway, I tried a few new recipes out on my friends/guests and this one was definitely a hit so I knew I needed to share it with you. By the way I raised a few thousand dollars from that brunch. Now that's some sweet! If you are interested in how I did that just click this link. I am not finished fundraising for MCF yet but you can be sure that I will let you know the final tally when I am done.
Meanwhile, here is the recipe for this cute little finger dessert. What you will love about this besides for the fact it's chocolate is that it is super easy to make and can be done a day in advance.
What you need:
1 (12 oz.) pkg. semisweet chocolate chips. I used Godiva but Hersey's will do just fine.
1 1/2 tsp. Vanilla extract
1/2 Cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, sliced into 6 to 8 pieces
2 Cups (1/4 of a 12 oz. pkg) vanilla wafer cookies crushed into crumbs 1/3 Cup sliced almonds. I bet you could try walnuts and also add dried fruits cut up into small peices as well if you wanted to get a little creative. I am thinking dries cherries would be good. I mean chocolate and cherries. That's a YES!
raspberries and mint for garnish
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1. Melt the chocolate using a double boiler or a metal bowl or saucepan that will rest on top of another sauce pan. Fill the bottom pan half way with water. Put the chocolate and butter in the top pan. Heat the water over med/low so the water is barely steaming. After about 1 minute, gently stir the chocolate and butter. Every minute or so stir. Once about 80 percent is melted remove from heat and continue stirring until the mixture is melted and smooth. It should be just warm to the touch.
Add the vanilla, cookie crumbs, almonds. If you went the creative route now would be the time to add dried fruits.
2. Put the pan in the freezer until the mixture is slightly firm.
3. Spray a large sheet of plastic wrap with vegetable cooking spray. Spread the mixture evenly along one long side. Roll to form a log shape about 21/2 to 3 inches in diameter and 10 to 12 inches long. Place the log in the freezer for at least an hour until firm or overnight for use the next day.
4. Remove the log from the freezer about 2 hrs before plating and cut into 1/2 inch slices. Garnish with raspberries and mint.
5. Watch them disappear!


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Lame legacy for spineless De Villiers
12 Oct 2011
RYAN VREDE writes that Peter de Villiers styled himself as the puppet master for the Springboks but ended his reign as no more than a puppet.
De Villiers wanted his legacy to be about evolving the Springboks tactically and implementing meaningful transformation. He failed on both counts and will be remembered for his lack of backbone in resisting the agenda of his senior players, poor selections, technical ineptitude and embarrassing media offerings.
The Springboks crashed out of the World Cup at the quarter-final stage on Sunday, equalling their worst-ever performance at the global showpiece. Defeat to Australia was neither surprising nor disgraceful, but it is a fitting exit point a coach as ill-equipped as De Villiers was.
I overheard him speaking to a group of people in the Springboks' team hotel last week. 'I've been building towards this for four years,' he said. 'After this I don't want to see a rugby ball.'
He shouldn't have seen one at Test level in the first place. De Villiers was selected ahead of a far superior candidate, Heyneke Meyer. South African Rugby union president Oregan Hoskins said the decision was motivated by the need to have a black coach. Four years later Hoskins and his provincial presidents are still in power, while De Villiers will struggle to find a job with an elite franchise and will never coach a major Test nation again.
From the outset of his tenure he positioned himself as the antithesis to former coach, Jake White. He expressed strong views on a range of subjects relating to the Springboks, most notably stressing that they would play a more expansive brand of rugby and committing to improve what he said was a slow rate of transformation under White. The former ideal was shelved after one abysmal season, the senior players, most notably Victor Matfield and Fourie du Preez, engineered a shift to more pragmatic approach.
Meanwhile De Villiers window-dressed beautifully with regards to the introduction of black players, without implementing any meaningful change. The core of his preferred side was the one that won the World Cup for White. Beast Mtawarira is Zimbabwean born, Odwa Ndungane was Test impostor and Chiliboy Ralepelle still knows more about the composition of tackle bags than he does about the rigours of Test rugby.
De Villiers' record – Played 48 Won 30 Lost 18 (62.5%) – is poor, especially since he has had the finest generation of players in some time at his disposal. Examine his record against Australia and New Zealand, the benchmark against which the Springboks should measure themselves, and his mediocrity is starkly illuminated. Four wins from 12 against the Wallabies and five from 11 against the All Blacks is utterly unacceptable.
De Villiers enjoyed great success in 2009, beating the British & Irish Lions and later capturing the Tri-Nations title. However, by that stage the puppets had realised the puppet master's lack of aptitude in handling them. They cut the strings and reattached them to his appendages.
Those players then duly decided for themselves they had a World Cup left in them. A more astute coach would have recognised they reached the very peak of their powers – particularly in the case of John Smit, Bryan Habana, Victor Matfield and Bakkies Botha. He claimed experience would be crucial at the World Cup. Experience, however, counts for very little when you lack the physical ability to execute the lessons experience has taught.
The Lions series also saw the nadir in De Villiers' flirtations with insanity during press conferences. In the post-match gathering after the second Test he vehemently denied Schalk Burger has eye-gouged Luke Fitzgerald, despite video evidence showing he had. This incensed the travelling media contingent, who asked him about the incident once more on the following Monday, offering him a shot at redemption. De Villiers delivered a series of embarrassing rebuttals, none more so than: 'If we wanted to eye gouge Lions, we would go to the bush, find some and do it there.'
Never must a political agenda, any agenda for that matter, take precedence over rugby credentials when selecting a Springbok coach. Those who drove De Villiers' cause are the same men who desperately sought the assistance of Rassie Erasmus ahead of the World Cup to compensate for what their chosen one lacked in technical and tactical skill. They need to be accountable, Hoskins more than any.
However, De Villiers cannot be mitigated. He must be measured by the standards he has set. His repertoire of one-liners is impressive, his favourite being: 'Even the bad days are good.' On the contrary, the bad days have been very bad, none more so than in Wellington on Sunday.
By Ryan Vrede, in Auckland
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12 Oct 2011, 16:47 pm@Gunther(gunther)-449: Don't be pretending you don't know it verse for verse. You favourite one is radio gag-gag.
12 Oct 2011, 16:48 pmQueen's greatest hits include the village people, Elton John, Rock Hudson and a few philipino groupies with back stage passes
12 Oct 2011, 16:50 pmOr "Urinate of Bianca"
No, hang on, what was it again?
Oh yes, now I remember
"Come on Eileen" -
12 Oct 2011, 16:51 pmAussies still have that thing between our legs that we know how to use it. Sorry that your men still learning how to use it to pee that you have to use other means for your pleasure.
12 Oct 2011, 16:51 pmah the tuning fork.
not to be confused with the standard benoni greeting.
12 Oct 2011, 16:52 pmYou can pee with that?
Well, I never -
12 Oct 2011, 16:53 pmWe were gentle with them…the request from them was for us to help them keep their pretty faces.
We were perfect gentlemen!
12 Oct 2011, 16:55 pmSee you have been elightened……now go and tell your man so he can progress to the next stage of biological usefulness!
12 Oct 2011, 16:55 pm@Helen(Helen)-443:
@>^..^< katman(katman)-445:
ja, i was thinking it was more like a new move out of the karma sutra sequel part 2 or something
12 Oct 2011, 16:56 pmactually I'm quite partial to don't stop me now.
I expect you rock out to fat bottomed girls.
12 Oct 2011, 16:58 pm@once more just take a break on the beach, dear springboks, once more…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-459:
you are thinking about the reverse warthog.
strictly for the pros and hos.
a dislocated bellend is no laughing matter.
12 Oct 2011, 16:58 pmthat thing between your legs?
is that where you're hiding bryce?
12 Oct 2011, 16:58 pm@Transformation(Transformation)-399:
From your mouth Transie…or keyboard.Can't understand how these okes ignore that little fact.
12 Oct 2011, 17:01 pmGunth, you'll enjoy fat bottomed girls.
Especially on the beach
They keep your balls off the sand -
12 Oct 2011, 17:01 pm@Gunther(gunther)-460: I took you more for an "Under Pressure" guy.
12 Oct 2011, 17:03 pmOr the position invented by the technicians at the Audi plant
You jump like a duck four times and dump your load on the last landing
Takes practice though -
12 Oct 2011, 17:06 pmMy man's biological usefulness extends only as far as lawn mowing. Although, he is also a very cunning linguist.
I have a cunning stunt of my own, you now? -
12 Oct 2011, 17:06 pmI think you've got me confused with someone else.
more like another one bites the dust.
but then again pain is so close to pleasure.
it's a hard life.
has he been given the opportunity?
agghh forget it.
I know where you are going with this.
Adi is much better
12 Oct 2011, 17:10 pmlittle johnny gets homework for the weekend.
he has to learn how to use the word contagious in a sentence.
so he comes back to school on monday and the teacher asks him to recite his sentence.so he told her
on sunday my dad saw my mom mowing the back yard with the little push mower and he said to me, why isn't she using the lawn tractor?
it's gonna take that cuntages. -
12 Oct 2011, 17:13 pmbwhahahaha…
I see you only have one thing on your brain now?
Perhaps I shouldn't have refered to me cunning little stunt?Teacher: Gunth, make a sentence with fascinate
Gunth: I have a jersey with 9 buttons, but I only fascinate -
12 Oct 2011, 17:14 pm -
12 Oct 2011, 17:15 pmWhat do you call a boabab with vag inas hanging from the branches?
A country -
12 Oct 2011, 17:17 pm -
12 Oct 2011, 17:41 pm@Gunther(gunther)-469:
Sommige van hulle werk net in Afrikaans.Die Kaapse juffrou vra die klas om 'n sin met "statistiek" te maak. Nadat die goeie kinders vir haar sinne met die woord "statistiek" in gegee het is dit Jannie se beurt:
"Juffrou," se hy, "gisteraand toe ek vannie gameshop af kom, toe staate stiek my suster se boyfriend haar sommer daar teen die garage." -
12 Oct 2011, 17:46 pmNow that the fairy tale (SA's dream to win back-to-back WC's) is over, maybe we should remember the other fairy tale.
One day, a long, long time ago, there was a woman who was not full of kak….
…..but that was a long, long time ago….and only for one day.
12 Oct 2011, 19:13 pmtwo words describe what fckd up Boks chances at 2011 WC… any guesses…?
If you need a clue they start with a J and an S
12 Oct 2011, 22:32 pm"most notably stressing that they would play a more expansive brand of rugby and committing to improve what he said was a slow rate of transformation under White. The former ideal was shelved after one abysmal season,"
An abysmal season where we beat the ABs for the first time ever in Dunedin and recorded a record victory against Aus. Let it never be forgotten that PdV wanted to change the way the Boks played but that these very same spineless twats that call themselves rugby journalists on this site was too ******* spineless to back their coach's new game plan at the time.
Riaan Vrede – people who post here know about your relentless attacks on the coach at the time, you and your twattish scumbag buddies are the biggest, spineless cowards ever. You have ****** zero credibility, boet.
13 Oct 2011, 09:56 amGee whiz Ryan , you can stop now. The man paid your salary over and over , I think you milked it enough.
13 Oct 2011, 16:09 pmWow who rattled Ryans cage? Most probably the harshest penned words against a coach ever. No talk of Muir or Gold. No talk of how well Matfiled played in unsettling the Austrlian throw-in or even how the team would have coped without Matfield or Smith from a leadership point of view. No credit for what great service or players they were. Just how pathetic PDV was.
PDV may not have been the best coach but all in his decision making and selection was not bad. He wouldn't have been my coach and certianly didn't deserve the job but didn't do too badly
13 Oct 2011, 16:12 pm@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-476: B & W?
14 Oct 2011, 03:49 am@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-476:
Yeah right! What a doos, there is no ways JS is too blame for the QF exit, the buck stops at the coach………go plug in your brain sometime you retarded dingbat!
19 Oct 2011, 04:22 amdont know if this has been posted, but its pure gold….
As the reign of Pieter de Villiers as Bok coach comes to an end, it's interesting to reflect on the legacy he leaves us as he Retires In Peace..
And no, I am not reflecting on the fact that he started with the no.1 ranked team in the world, the reigning world champions, and leaves us with a team unceremoniously dumped out of the RWC in the quarter finals – a team now ranked a lowly 4th in the world. But rather I refer to that treasure trove of homespun wisdom, astute political insights and one-liner motivationals that we will have to start living without…. unless of course he gets another 4 years from SARU.
Here, in loving memory, I've selected some of his best work:
On being misunderstood
"I don't care if people don't understand me. It's not my duty to say directly to your face that you're ugly, I say you aren't pretty and if you can't read between the lines then it's not my problem. There's no pill for stupid"Reacting to news that there is an alleged *** tape of him:
"I think I should walk away from this job and give it back to the whites."On the Boks' prospects at the 2011 World Cup:
"In our group we are expecting tough games from Tonga and Fiji." (Tonga were not in the Boks' group)Following Schalk Burger's banning during the Lions series:
"If we want to eye-gouge any Lions we will go down to the bushveld like we do and eye- gouge them there."
"If we are going on like this, why don't we go to the nearest ballet shop, get some tutus and get a dancing shop going? There will be no eye-gouging, no tackling, no nothing and we will enjoy it."
"I know dancing is also a contact sport but rugby is far from dancing. If you want to run with the big dogs then sometimes you have to lift your leg"
"If I lie in hospital and I hear they are putting someone's head back on that was ripped off by Schalk then I'd say: 'That's Schalk, he plays aggressive but he's not malicious'"
"What we try to tell them is when you point your finger into the sky, don't concentrate on the finger because you'll miss all the heavenly glory out there. Concentrate on the heavenly glory you can bring and make yourselves so fulfilled."His philosophy on winning:
"There's little difference between winning and losing, except you feel better after winning."Getting biblical:
"The same people who threw their robes on the ground when ***** rode on a donkey were the same people who crowned him and hit him with sticks, and were the same people who said afterwards how we shouldn't have done that, he's the son of God. So that's exactly what we do. You have to look at history as repeating itself. And I'm not saying that I'm God."Comparing Schalk Burger / Bakkies Botha to FW De Klerk / Nelson Mandela:
"The small things like judicial hearings will not take away the fact that we won. Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk won the Nobel Peace Prize. No matter what they did wrong in their lives, no one can take away the fact that they won it."When asked if he is the weakest link in the Bok setup:
"If I'm the weakest link then we are bloody strong. I'm a God-given talent. I am the best I can ever be. I know what I am and I don't give a damn."Defending Ricky Januarie ahead of the second Lions Test, then not selecting him for the game:
"What I learned in South Africa is, if you take your car to a garage and the owner is black or a black man, and they mess it up, you never go back to that garage. If the owner is white, you say ag, sorry, they made a mistake and you go back again. This is how some people live their lives in this country."When asked why Morgan Newman was picked for the SA XV against Namibia:
"Ja, you know. Morgan Newman has been in form his whole life."When asked if he'll change his style after a week of criticism:
"I won't change my style, if I change my style I will change Peter de Villiers, and then I would have to tell God that he made a mistake when he made me,"Ahead of a test against Wales:
"We will give them a psychological advantage and we cannot allow that. We've read in the papers here that they believe South Africa are ripe for the picking. They're comparing us with some fruit from a Welsh fruit farm but they need to know that when you pick fruit, it isn't just apples and pears; there are prickly pears as well. We want to be a prickly pear for them this Saturday."After the Boks' second consecutive win over the All Blacks in the 2009 Trinations:
"The way things are going right now, in a few year's time these guys won't need a coach"On the Boks' gameplan:
"We are very organised at the moment, we don't want to become a fruit salad…"After criticising Hamilton as being boring:
Reporter: "So Peter de Villiers did you find anything to do in Hamilton?"
PDV: "Ja you know, we did find something to do. We won the Trinations in Hamilton."Before the Newlands Test against the All Blacks which the Boks lost:
"If you look at the Bible and see how Joseph got out of the pit and ended up in the palace, but between the pit and the palace there was a moerse lot of kak."On South Africa's victory over the All Blacks:
"We went wild, wild, wild — some of the guys went wilder than that."On journalists and the media:
"I don't care. I don't take an interest in your job, but I'm glad you take an interest in mine."De Villiers accuses the All Blacks of cheating:
"I know the game. Technically, I'm very strong. When I said the All Blacks were cheaters in the first Test in Wellington, I picked up some of the technical stuff they did wrong in the scrums and how they played outside of the laws and how they used that to good effect. I also picked up that, instead of standing a metre apart in the line-outs, they stood a metre and a half apart so that we couldn't compete; and anything outside of any law is cheating."On matching the All Blacks:
"I do not like to prepare guys to cheat and it seems to me to be the only way forward if you want to be on top of those kind of things, and that's 70 per cent of our game."On himself:
"Ninety-five per cent of people all around the world are conventional people, they go with the crowd. They only do what other people do. They can't be their own person. I've got a job to do. I think I'm a strong individual, a strong character. I don't care what people think about me, I don't care what people say about me. It's what I think about me and myself – and I love myself a lot. It's about me and my team and my country. If I'm respected in my team, I don't care about what other people think."On clever people:
" I am a 'small-brain' person. A small-brain person doesn't need to go sit down and study over what he's going to say to people; it comes naturally. People who study and get A's and B's are clever people. But people who don't go and study and have all that wisdom are wise."On the haters:
"If you look at those people who say all those things about me you will ask: How did God manage to create those people?"On Robbie Deans:
"If Robbie Deans says it, then it's different. I mean, Robbie Deans is a good coach and I am not."When asked if he was an affirmative action appointment:
"They certainly didn't vote for me because I have a lovely smile"The magician:
"I'm going to pull a rat out of the hat"On the British press:
"I heard the papers went mad. Sorry for them. Do they know we won the match? We've taken 12 years to beat the Lions and if we beat them by one point or 20 points it does not matter."Life in South Africa:
"I believe life within your own country is sometimes a burden because you have to face it every day, but when you go outside your borders, you see it is actually worse."Asked if he thought the 2010 win against England had saved his job:
"I never employed myself. It would be a lot easier if I did. I don't care. The pressure I respond to is to deliver for the country, to give hope to South Africans. That does not mean we won't make mistakes. You can slaughter me if I make a big mistake, I just hope you can sell the meat."Graham Henry on Peter De Villiers:
"I can't really take anything he says seriously."Peter De Villiers on Graham Henry:
"Graham Henry is a good coach, but he's like me, he has a big mouth."Explaining his comment on Graham Henry:
"I said that, like me, he's got a big mouth and what I meant by that is that he's a very honest guy. People respect him all around the world for his honesty. He's a student of the game, he knows the game and his players respect him a lot."Aussie reporter Greg Growden on Peter De Villiers:
"The Richard Pryor of rugby was in town."Oregan Hoskins on Peter De Villiers:
"I want to be honest with South Africa and say that the appointment was not entirely made for rugby reasons. We as an organisation have made the appointment and taken into account the issue of transformation very seriously when we made it."
"I wouldn't say he's the best coach in the world, but I wouldn't say he's inferior to Jake White." -
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Rebel fighters battle loyalist soldiers in the Al-Amariya district of Aleppo. Government forces attempted to break the line early in the morning and were met with heavy resistance throughout the day.
In July, the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) entered Aleppo, Syria's largest city and commercial capital. Rebel-held neighborhoods, initially in southwest Aleppo and later throughout the city, became battlefields, as government forces attempted to regain control.
Both rebel and regime forces deployed snipers, and the national army made use of heavy artillery and air power to bombard occupied areas. A UN-brokered ceasefire in late October was not honored by either side, and casualties rose steeply in November.


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Supreme court approves FCC "shot clock" limits on local review of wireless facilities
Cities have to shoot, but that doesn't mean wireless companies will score.
Another barrier to construction of wireless broadband facilities has come down. Or, depending on your point of view, the federal government has pre-empted a bit more of local government's ability to regulate what's built or not in a community.
The U.S. supreme court has given its blessing to the FCC's "shot clock" rule that put limits on the amount of time a local agency has to approve or deny an application to build a tower or put new equipment on or around an existing one. The 6 to 3 ruling focused on narrow and arcane legal issues, but the effect could be felt far beyond communications law. Essentially, the court is saying that when a federal agency makes specific rules to implement or enforce a somewhat vague law passed by congress, the assumption is that the agency knows what it's doing.
The FCC's shot clock rule says that local governments have to approve or deny an application to build a new wireless site within 5 months and a request to add equipment to existing facilities within 3 months. There's still wiggle room. Applicants have to respond to requests for more information quickly and some issues – environmental regulations, for example – might take more time. If the clock runs out, it just means that the applicant can take the local agency to court. Wireless sites are not automatically approved.
However, other FCC rules say that local agencies must approve applications to add a certain amount of equipment to an existing tower or site. Combine that with the shot clock particularly and the court's endorsement of the FCC's authority generally and it's looking like the pace of wireless broadband expansion will pick up.
Sweeping California broadband subsidies under the carpet
Nothing to see here. Move along.
A new analysis of proposed changes to the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) ignores restrictions added at the urging of cable and telco lobbyists. The primary purpose of the CASF program currently is to fund the construction of new broadband facilities in areas that don't have access to service of at least 6 Mbps download and 1.5 Mbps upload speeds. If California state senators base their vote on the latest summary prepared by legislative staff members, they'll think they're voting to 1. match amount of money added to the fund with the state's needs and 2. make it possible for a wider range of companies and organizations to apply for broadband infrastructure subsidies.
Which is nonsense. As it currently reads, senate bill 740 would effectively cap CASF at its current level, make it more difficult to fund projects intended to improve substandard service and add restrictions that would all but eliminate middle mile facilities or municipal systems from eligibility.
As first drafted, SB 740 would have added $100 million to CASF and, as it still does, allow independent Internet service providers to apply for grants and loans. Cities and counties would have been eligible as well, on the same terms as any other applicant. But a full court press by lobbyists from the California cable industry, AT&T, Verizon and Frontier convinced state senators to turn the language around 180 degrees from its original goal.
No immediate decision is expected on SB 740. Because it involves a significant amount of money, it is being put on hold until after the legislature finalizes a state budget. Which means it'll either get thrown into the wheeling and dealing that happens as the legislative session draws to a close, or it'll die a quiet death.
Either way, there will be little opportunity for public debate about how California does or does not subsidize broadband development, leaving discussion and decisions in the hands of lobbyists and legislative insiders.
Longmont keeping FTTH details out of public view for now
Taxiing towards takeoff in Longmont.
The Longmont, Colorado city council settled for a staff report and a powerpoint presentation that summarized the results of a feasibility study, before voting unanimously to take the next step toward building a municipal fiber-to-the-home system. The nitty-gritty details – business model, raw research data, quantitative analysis and the like – are being kept out of the public domain for now.
The report asked the city council to allow staff to continue moving ahead with work on the project, and in particular to give the city's finance director permission to develop a financing plan, based on various debt options. The bottom line, according to staff, is that…
Debt service repayment will come from the broadband services revenues. Details on financing will be presented at a future council meeting.
In other words, the assumption going forward is that once the system is up and running in something like three years, it will generate enough operating profit to repay the debt incurred to build it. Other municipal FTTH and cable systems – including Provo City and Utopia in Utah and Alameda in California – have gone ahead on that assumption but did not attract sufficient subscribers. The Utah projects have market penetration in the 15% to 20% range, while in Alameda the city's share went as high as 30%, before slipping back due to intense competition. Longmont is counting on a 36% take-rate.
Three debt options are on the table: lease-back financing secured by city property, bonds backed by revenue from the city's electric utility or bonds backed by sales tax receipts. If Longmont's FTTH financial projections are correct, the system will be self supporting. If not, lenders will get any revenue or property offered as collateral.
Google lights a prairie fire in Kansas
Kansas kicks it up.
Average Internet download speeds over the entire state of Kansas jumped by 86% in 2012, according to the State of the Internet tracking report from Akamai, a content delivery network pioneer.
To be sure, Akamai's study relies on its own observed traffic and more or less ignores low speed, sub-256 Kbps connections, which would bring the average down. But its methodology is reasonably consistent across geographic markets and provides a fair basis for making comparisons.
Even though Google Fiber subscribers are seeing actual average speeds twice that found elsewhere in Kansas, Akamai says that traffic does not account for the speed boost:
The number of unique IP addresses observed for the Google Fiber [system] comprised less than one-tenth of one percent of the state's total, so Google Fiber's higher speeds are unlikely to have had a meaningful impact on the average and average peak connection speeds observed in Kansas during the quarter.
It fits a pattern I've seen, first hand, several times: telcos and cable companies respond to competitive overbuild threats by investing in plant upgrades. I think that's part of the explanation. Another factor could be raised expectations among Kansans generally. Besides basic infrastructure, Akamai's speed measurements also depend on the service consumers choose to buy. So if the Google buzz in Kansas City is contagious, that could boost demand for higher level Internet packages, which in turn would increase observed speeds.
Correlation does not prove causation, but I think it's a fair bet that Google's stimulation is producing the desired effect in Kansas.
Gigabit mobile phones teased for the 5G road map
It's more than a 5 year mission to the next generation.
Samsung's latest mobile technology announcement could result in faster mobile data traffic running on much higher frequency bands. Speeds of up to 1 Gbps on the 28 GHz band have been claimed, using antenna designs that are intended to mitigate the poor indoor penetration and range associated with millimeter wavelengths. It's experimental – the commercialization target is 2020 – and intended to be a foundation for 5G service.
5G is undefined at this point, except that it's whatever the next big step up from 4G will be. Deployment is assumed to be some time in the next decade. It's likely to involve more densely packed cells with smaller coverage areas, including in-home femto cells and distributed small cells outdoors. Plus a healthy dose of WiFi offload.
If you make cell sizes smaller, you can use spectrum more intensively. Samsung's technology fits well with that approach: whiz-bang antennas notwithstanding, higher frequencies are more useful at shorter distances.
Whatever it turns out to be, developing 5G technology is absolutely necessary. Mobile traffic continues to increase and the amount of spectrum available is finite. Making use of other bands, like Samsung is doing, will be one piece of the puzzle. 5G will encompass a range of technologies and approaches.
Qualcomm has made "1000x" its mantra. If mobile traffic more or less doubles every year, the compounded growth will be one thousand times in less than ten years, outstripping the capacity of 4G technology. That's why technology leaders are putting markers down on 5G technology today.
Netflix and YouTube are still eating the Internet
And the hits just keep on coming.
One-third of prime time Internet traffic on North American wireline networks is generated by Netflix viewers. Another third comes from other video sources – legal and otherwise – and anything else people do on the Internet accounts for the remaining third. That's according to the latest semi-annual report by Sandvine, an Internet technology and research company based in Waterloo, Ontario.
Mobile viewers, however, prefer shorter videos on YouTube, which accounts for 27% of peak mobile download traffic, as well as coming in second place on fixed networks at 1%. Netflix's long form programming only accounts for 4% of mobile download traffic, seventh on the list.
BitTorrent-based peer-to-peer traffic of more doubtful provenance is falling behind legal streaming from Netflix, YouTube and the like. It's fourth on the download list, with about 6% of the total. On the other hand, about a third of the upload traffic on North American wireline networks is still generated by BitTorrent file sharing.
Probably not so coincidentally, the heaviest one percent of users also account for a third of the upload traffic. The study doesn't come to any explicit conclusions, but the inference is clear: the small fraction of users that do a lot of uploading are more likely than not primarily engaged in file sharing.
On a monthly basis, the average North American household downloads 39 GB and uploads 6 GB. That's a 39% increase compared to a year ago. But heavy users skew those numbers too. Half of North American households download 16 GB and upload 1.3 GB a month or less.
Sandvine's research more confirmation, if any were needed, that the continuous growth of Internet traffic is driven by video consumption.
Five broadband trends shaping communities
A good place to talk about water, land and technology.
I was asked to do a presentation on broadband trends at the Urban Land Institute's spring meeting in San Diego today. Specifically, it was for one of the ULI's community development councils, which is focused on planned community developers. I had to narrow the list down to five:
- Conduit is gold. Cities and private developments can build a base for jobs and industry just by putting conduit in the ground whenever a trench is opened. And it's a no brainer for greenfield developments.
- Google wants to disrupt the telecoms business and, on the available evidence, it's succeeding. By threatening incumbents with competition and raising consumer expectations, it's shifting the conversation away from wireless spending and back to fiber optic investment.
- Independent middle mile fiber optic infrastructure is the key to economic development for communities outside of core metropolitan areas. And not very far outside, either. Pulling a fiber a few dozen miles over the hill from Santa Clara has re-energized Santa Cruz's economy.
- Qualcomm's assumption that mobile data traffic will grow one thousand times in the next few years is simple math. The next generation of mobile data technology will push small cell sites and connecting fiber closer and closer to users.
- Connectivity brings you all the comforts of work, where ever you live. Telecommuting, co-working and wireless-equipped company commuter buses make it possible for people to live in the urban areas they love and work at suburban corporate campuses, or chill by the beach and email the job in.
No one builds new housing without planning for water, energy and transportation. My message was that broadband joined that list in the twenty-first century. In other words, now.
Santa Cruz supervisors move forward with broadband policy initiative
Pioneering surfing of all sorts.
Model broadband development policies are on a fast track in Santa Cruz County. On a unanimous vote yesterday, county supervisors gave staff three months to evaluate four specific recommendations and come back with an action plan.
"This is a far-reaching agenda for increasing the region's access to broadband by lowering the administrative barriers to entry for, and increasing coordination between, private telecommunications providers," wrote Zach Friend, the county supervisor behind the effort.
The policies now under review in Santa Cruz include:
- Setting standards and practices for putting broadband facilities in public right of ways.
- Creating an online system to coordinate projects that cut into public streets, so that interested private sector companies can take advantage of opportunities to install broadband infrastructure while trenches are open.
- Putting information about broadband facilities, public and private alike, into a database and keeping it up to date.
- A "dig once" policy, that proactively includes broadband facilities in public projects. Examples include simply installing empty conduit whenever road construction or maintenance work is done.
This framework of model broadband policies was developed by Peter Koht at the City of Santa Cruz, which is also evaluating it. The work is part of a project undertaken by the Central Coast Broadband Consortium (CCBC) and funded by the California Advanced Services Fund. It was presented to elected officials from Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties at a workshop last month that was organized by the Monterey County Business Council on behalf of the CCBC. The objective is to have local agencies in the region – which also includes San Benito County – adopt similar policies.
Waiting for the FTTH feasibility case in Longmont
Art is nicely presented in Longmont, too.
The city council in Longmont, Colorado considers today whether to move ahead with plans to build a municipal fiber-to-the-home system. They'll be reviewing a feasibility study prepared by a consulting company and then deciding whether to direct city staff to come up with a financing plan.
Longmont is near Boulder, in the Denver area. The city runs its own electric utility, serving about forty thousand households, and has a backbone fiber optic network that was installed about fifteen years ago to support utility operations. Since then, a handful of dark fiber customers have signed up, generating about a quarter of a million dollars a year for the city. A couple years ago, voters decided to use that money to finance connections for businesses willing to pay a connection fee that can run into thousands of dollars.
The plan that's under consideration now would eliminate connection fees and build out the system to the entire city, homes and businesses alike.
The full feasibility study isn't public yet, but a summary presentation has been released ahead of the meeting. The numbers indicate that the business plan is built on the assumption, drawn from a survey of 400 homes, that 36% of residents will sign up for Internet service and 20% for telephone service. No television service would be offered.
Judging from the information in the slide deck, the city would try to compete with Comcast and CenturyLink primarily on the basis of price, rather than superior service levels. Only 17% of households surveyed showed any positive desire to upgrade Internet speeds. On the other hand, 68% would be interested in switching providers in order to lower their Internet bills, which average $44 a month.
There's no consideration given in the presentation to the inevitable competitive response from the incumbents, who are quite capable of lowering prices and leveraging telephone and, particularly, video bundles. The research shows a high degree of affinity for the city's electric utility, but that's a minor consideration for consumers when picking a service provider. Price, reliability and speed matter far more.
Identifying a market opportunity and successfully competing to serve it are two completely different beasts, particularly when your competition has a head start of months, if not years. I'll look forward to reading the complete report, but I'm not impressed by what I've seen so far.
5G mobile means more fiber in more places
Qualcomm graphic.
"Bringing the network closer to the user is key to 1000x," said Prakash Sangam, director of tech marketing for Qualcomm, speaking to the Wireless Communications Alliance in Santa Clara, California last month. 1000x is Qualcomm's shorthand way of saying that with mobile data traffic more or less doubling every year, we'll need one thousand times the amount of available bandwidth in a few years.
"Reaching this 1000x is a matter of when and not if," Sangam said.
More spectrum and improved technology will help, but not by 1000x. The answer is small – pico and femto – cells and WiFi offload. Either way, it depends on making wireless hops shorts, so frequencies can be re-used in tighter and tighter areas. To do that, wired back haul needs to be pushed closer to users.
Users will provide some of their own back haul, particularly when accessing mobile networks indoors. WiFi and femto cells will transfer traffic to home and office broadband connections.
Outside, though, small cells will either be wired directly, preferably by fiber, or link back to macro cells – AKA regular, old cellular sites and towers – that are connected to fat fiber pipes.
Jonathan Wells, with AJIS Consulting, predicted that within four or five years, only half of mobile data traffic will be carried on traditional macro cells, a quarter on small cells and a quarter off-loaded directly to WiFi.
Some back haul will be wireless, but at some point even that has to be aggregated and routed onto landlines. And it's not something carriers want to do, believing that "wireless backhaul is an absolute last resort and a necessary evil," according to David Witkowski, WCA president and senior product manager of the microwave measurement division at Anritsu.
You can bet on fiber middle mile networks continuing to creep closer and closer to the last mile. The odds are 1,000 to 1 in your favor.


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After Amazon experienced some difficulties last week with its selling options in the Amazon Marketplace, it made me wonder if anyone decided to start selling some of their merchandise on eBay. If so, they would join thousands of others who are using the online auction site to make a few extra bucks. If that's your goal, check out some of these services for eBay sellers.
eBay toolsAuctiva Auctiva is a full-featured product that allows you to use a variety of templates and modules to help you sell products more effectively on eBay.
Auctiva is quite powerful. You can create side-scrolling galleries with pictures you upload to the site (you're allowed 1GB of storage), change the color of your listing page, and issue invoices. It won't help you determine if you're selling products that eBay users want, but it will help you easily manage your auctions. Admittedly, Auctiva is for active sellers, but at $9.95 per month for so many nice features, it's an affordable offering.
eBay Market Researcher Terapeek's eBay Market Researcher tool is a fine way to determine how to get the most out of your listing.
After you sign up for the site and choose a membership (it costs $24.95 per month or $197.95 per year), you can immediately start searching through the app's listings of eBay products. When you find the product you're looking to sell, it provides you with information on the item's average bid, how much the average listing makes, and how page design affected profits. The app even provides you with information on which day is best to list the product and end your auction. It's a powerful tool.… Read more


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Don't miss the 2013 College of Law Practice Management Futures Conference October 4-5! Join COLPM thought leaders and innovators in a highly interactive forum. Following a unique TED format, speakers will challenge us to discuss the most pressing issues facing the legal industry today: The Market for Legal Services in the Future – Ann Lee Gibson; Successful Innovation in Law Firms – Jordan Furlong; and The Crisis of Legal Education – Bill Henderson.
College News and Notes
In Memoriam — Francis Musselman
Long-time College Fellow Francis Musselman passed away earleir this month. Fran was the former managing partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York City and Chaired the ABA Law Practice Management Section. Please click here to read the memoriam by College Fellow Jimmy Brill.
Five Things I Learned from the 2012 Futures Conference
I enjoyed Tim Corcoran's excellent summary of what he learned at the 2012 Futures Conference. He brought up some great points, particularly relating to the disconnect between what the leading lights are saying and what's actually getting through to law firm leadership. Here are some additional points that I took away from the conference: While alternative law firms can produce savings due to process improvement and creative staffing, the biggest savings for corporate clients may be produced because of altered profit expectations of the equity …
Blawgs, Books and Fellows on the Move
Congratulations to the following Fellows, whose blogs were named to the ABA Journal's 2012 ABA Blawg 100: Bob Ambrogi, LawSites Toby Brown, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog (with Lisa Salazar and Greg Lambert) Carolyn Elefant, My Shingle Jordan Furlong, Law21 Richard Granat, eLawyering Blog Merrilyn Astin Tarlton, Attorney at Work (with Joan Feldman and Mark Feldman) In addition, Fellows Bob Ambrogi and Carolyn Elefant were also named to the Blawg 100 Hall of Fame. Both blogs marked their 10-year anniversary this December. Dave Bilinsky was named …