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Social anthropologist and former mistress of Girton College, University of Cambridge
Hosted by AAA President Virginia R. Dominguez, "Inside the President's Studio" features interviews with anthropologists about their ideas, research and passions. It is part of an ongoing effort to foster public, visible and active engagement with anthropologists. Become a part of the conversation by reading and listening to the interviews, adding your comments to the blog, and suggesting people or topics for future pieces.
This month the studio features Marilyn Strathern , former Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge.
Question (1): What are you most passionate about? In life? In your work?
(1) I don't know if passion is the right word, but ever since being in Papua New Guinea Highlands I have never been able to leave Melanesia alone. It is certain people I think of first, but of course they are not 'my' passion – whatever relationship we have has its own momentum. All the same, at this distance, I could say that I am mesmerized by two things: by the physicality of the place (wind soughing through casuarina trees in the early afternoon, sweet potato cooked in the ashes, the smell of woodsmoke, the opening of an earth oven, the intense clarity of the light, someone carefully breaking a pack of cigarettes or a spray of betelnut into ones or twos to sell), and by the way people think – but that last is not quite right, I mean rather by the thinking, by the imagination, that is forced upon one by how they convey what they do. It is a double privilege for which I never cease to be grateful – but those are not just words in my mouth, these things have got under the skin.
Question (2): What makes you angry or, conversely, delighted?
(2) Angry over: (a) The Thatcher legacy and the impoverishment of our (UK) political vocabulary. Making assumptions about what motivates people. (Could talk about the attack on civil service / bureaucracy; what is happening to the very idea of research – in science as well as humanities and social sciences: ' impact' etc.)
(b) Myself when I fail to do the obvious. (Whether a courtesy to a colleague, a piece of homework for a meeting, speaking up when I should, whatever.)
Delighted by : (a) logically — making connections; aesthetically — lines
(b) one to one conversations with close friends (as opposed to party mode)
(c) students' successes; children's achievements; grandchildren, tout court
Question (3): How and when did you become aware of anthropology as a field? What made you decide to pursue it? Was there a book or teacher that particularly inspired you? An idea?
(3) I can't think of a time when I didn't know about social anthropology – but it must have been in my late teens at school. I used to go digging (Roman remains) – loved archaeology – but was also inspired by my history teacher at school (we did the eighteenth century and I read a bit of Rousseau and had grandiose ideas about the study of 'society'). Found the combination of archaeology and anthropology in the first [undergraduate] year at Cambridge irresistible. If I hadn't gone to Cambridge would have gone to Oxford and read history. I was bowled over by two books before really starting the course: Structure and Function completely fascinated me; the description of the cattle bells in The Nuer gripped me for its detail and evocation.
Question (4): How would your earliest teachers or mentors (either in anthropology or beyond it) have described you when they first taught you? Were you shy? Adventuresome? Determined? Unyielding? Sure of yourself? A bookworm? And what did you think of them (at the time and then also now)?
(4) I would include my parents among my teachers – e.g. my mother was teaching (adult education) courses on women and art, women and literature, etc., before second wave feminism began. Have no idea what she thought – our companionship taken for granted perhaps and she must have found me receptive, possibly over-studious, but also lazy — I do recall her lamenting [for not trying to train it] my atrocious memory (has been atrocious ever since) and I had none of her language skills. My university teachers? Did they think I was shy, clever, not speaking up enough? (had intellectual confidence, not social confidence). Significant university teachers included Meyer Fortes and Edmund Leach (via their u.g. lectures) – inspiring. Individual supervisors over the three years as undergraduate: they were mediators between me and the discipline (didn't really stop to think what I thought of them, though became fond of all of three).
Question (5): You have been a visiting scholar in the U.S. and Australia, and have had along and distinguished career in the U.K.. Has anything in particular struck you about the differences in the practice of anthropology (and the university systems) in the different places in which you have worked, taught, and/or lived? Or would you argue that the similarities in university life and structure, bureaucratic regulations, and relations with the state or the market prevail?
(5) An interesting question. Between the US and the UK (the Australian system is quite close to UK, but I was never in an Australian teaching dept.) there are both organizational differences (in the way departments are administered, students graded, choosing subjects is managed) and other differences such as the role of competition between students and relations of patronage between staff and students. The current national Higher Education audit system in the UK corresponds I believe to some US audit practices carried out at other levels — but relations with the state are, of course, different in terms of public and private provision. One global tendency, however, over the last thirty plus years, has been for the university to move from the position of an entity valued for being (to all intents and purposes) independent of market and state to being valued for its proximity to them. But, as I imply, this isn't confined to the US and UK.
Question (6): Some of my students really want to know what your hopes are for thefuture of anthropology. Do you think this is a question worth asking, and would your answer energize them or cause them to pause?
(6) I hope it would energise them – though perhaps from an unusual angle. Anthropology can look back on a century of superlative ethnographic work in the way that – a century ago! — it could not have. Something I have long thought about is how we keep that work alive, because that life is bound up with how we live in the here and now: it requires an acute sense of our present circumstances. For as our ideas 'newly' unfold we are able to ask fresh questions of what otherwise seem 'old' data—and it is in the freshness of our questions that past and present both live. That gives everyone's past a future ….
Question (7): Did you ever consider taking a different career path—either beforebeginning your career as an anthropologist, or during? Clearly as an intellectual leader and a leader in academic administration you have experienced variety in your duties and responsibilities, but I believe you have always stayed grounded in the academic world. Am I wrong?
(7) Career path: no. Stayed grounded: right. Though fairest to say that I have remained grounded in anthropology. Rather a zigzag career in the academy as such, in fact, until I went to Manchester University in 1985. Partly because of personal circumstances (marrying young and marrying an anthropologist) I never seriously considered anything else. But then it was a privileged time: in the UK the university system was expanding, and I was lucky in the support I had. Things are much, much more difficult now.
Question (8): When you write, do you struggle with it? Do you always write at a certain time of day or night? Do you write drafts as a way of exploring what you think or only once you have decided what you think? Are you especially proud of one or two of your written publications (books or articles)?
(8) Writing is definitely a struggle, but the struggle takes place at a rather odd juncture. Typical trajectory for a paper: (a) initial depression, have nothing worth saying, etc. [this can't be faked / clears the decks]; (b) getting out of the depression , exhilarating rush of the first draft, usually written quite fast; (c) the struggle: eliminating all the absurdities and mistakes of the draft – this is the phase where the real work gets done, can be quite daunting; (d) editing the more or less final version, also enjoyable. Book I enjoyed writing most is Partial Connections (1991). Oh and I am an early morning person – or was! – and the best time for writing was before anyone else was about (I can organize my thoughts in the first part of the day – become less and less capable of doing so as the day wears on).
Question (9): What emboldens you, or enables you to take risks (in your thinking,writing, professional choices, or otherwise)? Or do you think of yourself as risk-averse?
(9) Don't think of myself as taking risks – do think of myself as from time to time challenging conventional ways of thinking. (In many other ways I am extremely conventional.)
Question (10): Do you have a favorite novel, poem, play, film, work of art, song, ormeal? Does this question make you smile or does it seem to come "out of the blue"? As I try to help our readers and listeners get to know the person (who is also an anthropologist) and not just the work, I ask questions that sometimes surprise people. Is this one of those? If not, what would be a real eyebrow-raiser were I to ask it? I almost asked you if you have any guilty pleasures and are willing to let us know about them now. I also almost asked you which of the many impressive titles, prizes, and distinctions you have been awarded are dearest to your heart. But I wasn't sure I dared to ask. Should I?
(10) What makes me smile is that I dislike being asked for an opinion ('what is your favourite X?') – I find 'the opinion' an awkward genre, and squirm at hearing interviewers on the radio trying to elicit an opinion from an athlete who just lost an event, or someone who has just triumphed for that matter. But I can tell you this: I have been sorting out my books and, among the many collections I have, I cherish my Ray Bradbury, Ursula le Guin and C.J. Cherryh. (At the moment I am re-reading I, Claudius [Robert Graves] that had a huge effect on me when I was [I think] about 13.)
Eyebrow raisers and guilty pleasures? Well, chocolate bars apart [when things were more hectic than they are now, and I was not looking after my health, chocolate, coffee and vitamin C were my principal props], but what I didn't want people to know about was that there were periods when — one way or another — I worked all the time. I improved when I began taking holidays seriously and, if anybody is listening, would just like to pass that on. But perhaps more obviously a pleasure (though not so much guilt) is the fact that I have always liked institutions, including hospitals, and their organizational rituals and routines.
Yes, well, quite, about the awards: they are all appreciated. But the two that are a little special is the 30th Anniversary of Independence medal from the Papua New Guinea Government, and a little later an honorary degree from the University Papua New Guinea.
Question (11): When you look back on your work so far (and its various topics orthemes, from gender to audit cultures to reproduction and kinship in very different parts of the world), do you now tend to see the discontinuities in your work over the course of those decades more than the shared threads (or moves), or is it, in fact, the opposite?
(11) Aware that other people might see vast leaps and gaps between different areas of my work, I have myself only been conscious of the continuities and connections, even if they've been no more than a hinge on which a door can swing. The exception to this, I suppose, is my interest in audit cultures, which came specifically from the position I found myself in as Head of Department at first Manchester and then Cambridge.
Question (12): Many of us in the U.S. (and elsewhere) who know about the new A-level in anthropology recently approved in the U.K. (for secondary schools) are excited and impressed that our colleagues in the U.K. managed to get this done. Were you involved at one or various steps in the process? What was the process like? I hear it took years.
(12) Good question, but I wasn't anything to do with it. This was very largely an initiative of the RAI.
Question (13): What inspired you to begin anthropological studies of English kinship? Would you agree that an increasing number of scholars (mostly in Britain) have begun to attend to the anthropology of Britain, perhaps following your lead? Would you also agree that non-English anthropologists tend not to engage the anthropology of Britain?
(13) Three distinct beginnings: Audrey Richards and Elmdon – picking up fieldwork that had been done by other people under her direction (late 70s /early 80s); NRT developments – being asked for an anthropological view on egg donation between sisters and waking up to the public debate about kinship (mid 80s); having finishedThe Gender of the Gift and needing to write something a bit more subtle about what I then called 'western' life late 80s).
There always was a distinct strand of British ethnography, which I joined rather than led (where I have perhaps led is in juxtaposing issues arising from this material with questions from Melanesian anthropology). Interesting question about non-English anthropologists (who tend to regard their work as 'anthropology at home')… is this also true of the States? You are involved with the International Forum for US Studies – what does the 'international' refer to?
Question (14): What is the question you most wish I had asked and didn't?
(14) I am not sure I wish you had asked it, but you don't say anything about anxieties, fears and defects. Negative feelings, including bad feelings about one's capabilities, have an important role to play in anything one does. At the same time I have often, in a thoroughly old-fashioned way [does one belong to one's parents' formative years – would that make me an Edwardian?], followed my mother's attempt to separate inner and outer states of being. Because I think there is something important to the idea that one can interact with others, do things, have an effect, regardless of inner feelings. I thus put quite a high value on performance despite calamity, or on the stoicism with which I see friends managing sometimes extremely difficult circumstances, something I really admire. (According to good structural-functionalist tenets, as an office-holder I had no problem in managing a distinction between person and office.) Of course, I am also not my mother, and have to say that the moments of peace come when such distinctions blend and, in the idiom we use, it is possible for one to be 'oneself'.


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Wide receiver Jordy Nelson (ankle), linebacker Clay Matthews (hamstring) and right tackle Bryan Bulaga (hip) all exited Sunday's 31-17 victory over the Arizona Cardinals.
Nelson didn't return after his ankle was caught underneath him while he tried to make a sliding catch in the first quarter. Nelson, who missed the Packers' previous game with a hamstring injury and was questionable to play in this one, limped to the sideline and had his ankle iced. He did not return.
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Breast cancer is not a single disease, but an umbrella term for a plethora of diseases. It is no more homogeneous than infectious diseases--mumps and malaria have as little in common as herpes and cholera. Similarly, breast cancers differ strikingly from one another. Within each tumor itself there is enormous heterogeneity. Tumors are as diverse biologically as Manhattan is socially. A tumor is not composed of a single type of cell. It is like a vegetable basket that contains bits of lettuce, carrots, beets, broccoli, and zucchini indiscriminately fused together. Each vegetable has a unique shape, texture, growing pattern, and chemical composition. A tumor is a biological entity unto itself--like the city of Manhattan--yet the inhabitants of the city neither look alike nor behave, eat, or recreate uniformly. Some tumor cells metastasize early; some never do; others do so slowly. Some are accelerated by estrogen; others are not. Some encourage blood vessel growth; some do not. These processes are determined by the genetic material within the myriad cells that comprise the tumor. Even though it may be reasonable to say that two women have breast cancer, when the disease in the two women is compared, there might be so many differences that one begins to question whether they truly do have the same disease. Rate of growth and infiltration may take 3 years in one woman and 40 years in another.
Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Classification
Some abnormalities look like cancer under the microscope but do not act like it, and therefore are not truly breast cancer. One of these discrepancies between anatomy and behavior is "ductal carcinoma in situ" (DCIS), which consists of an abnormal proliferation of ductal cells that do not invade the basement membrane of that duct (hence the term "in situ," meaning "confined to the site"). Because DCIS does not extend beyond the borders of the duct, it is noninvasive, and does not therefore constitute a true malignancy. In 1934 Halsted's former resident, Joseph Bloodgood,32 described DCIS as precancerous tissue--a depiction that still applies.


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The latest volume of the popular manga "Bartender" is all about Japanese whisky and Hokkaido. I found it very evocative, having visited many of the spots and met some of the people featured in the stories as part of my research for "Drinking Japan", my book about Japanese alcohol (for those of you getting impatient waiting, it is expected to be in the shops by the end of the year. Tuttle have all the drafts but editing it and putting all the hundreds of photos and maps together is a lengthy task at their end).
The Susukino crossing in the manga and during my visit last year.
Bartender is a very popular manga by Joh Araki and Nagatomo Kenji (artist) that has been running in Super Jump magazine since 2004. It was made into an animated cartoon in 2006. The main character is Ryu Sasakura, who started the series having just returned to Japan from learning about bartending in France. He is a genius bartender (the main characters in mangas of this sort are always geniuses at something) and spends his time perfecting his skills and changing people`s lives with his (and other bartenders') magical cocktails.
Volume 16, released earlier this month, starts in Tokyo, where a foreigner called Judy is planning to get married to a Japanese lad. His family, and especially his grandfather, is opposed. Basically, the whole volume traces an arc towards her final acceptance by his family. But the clever bit is that the story echoes the relationship between Rita and Masataka Taketsuru, the founder of the Nikka whisky (of which more here). Taketsuru's marriage to Rita, a Scottish woman, was at first not welcomed by his family (or her's) but they lived out their lives together in Japan. The story of Rita and Masataka is introduced near the end of the manga and resonates with the modern couple's experience.
As is the way with Bartender, there are all sorts of cocktails introduced throughout the manga. They seem to pop out of every seam of life in Bartender world. On the train to Yoichi distillery, Sasakura does not make do with a Coca-cola, as I am afraid to say I did, he has a proper Super Nikka Mint Julep made for him by an eccentric old lady (who loves gambling on the horses, incidentally) . So, for those of you who are planning a trip to Yoichi, then, here is the definitive travel drink:
(or the ultimate Yoichi train drink)
Ingredients: One tbsp of sugar, 4-5 mint leaves, 20-30 ml of mineral water, bit cup of ice.
Crush the mint well in the glass then put in the Super Nikka (60 ml), then loads of ice and mint for decoration.
As I say, the manga was very evocative for me. A major character is a "Mr Yazaki" who run's a bar called "Bar Yazaki" right behind the Susukino crossing. This is clearly Tatsuro Yamazaki, the lovely old gentleman who runs Bar Yamazaki at Susukino in real life.
Mr Yamazaki
Mr Yamazaki features in my book in quite a major way. I felt he helped me understand Japanese alcohol culture much more deeply and I devote several pages to him. He also makes lovely cocktails and has earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most prolific silhouette maker in the world. He cuts one of Sasakura in the manga and he did one of me too when I visited, his 43,299th to be precise!
Silhouettes: Sasakura (left) and me. I fear he came off rather better!


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What's the single most important piece of personal finance advice you would give a person?
I've heard this question (or variations on it) many times. I have a very simple answer to it.
Whenever you buy anything, ask yourself why five times.
That seems really off the wall at first glance, but I firmly believe that no single piece of advice can match it in terms of getting your money under control.
I'll show you what I mean through the lens of three purchases I considered recently.
I have about $1,000 saved up for a big personal purchase. I had been considering buying an iPad with it, even before the Apple announcement in January. I held one in my hands a couple days ago and considered it.
Why do you want an iPad? It's an impressive gadget to hold in your hands. I can see myself using it and enjoying it.
Why would you use it? I can surf the web on it and read books on it and periodicals, too.
Why not just use your laptop? This is more portable.
Why not just use your iPod Touch? …
Why not just read a paperback? …
And, boom, my argument for buying an iPad goes down the chute. Sure, I can afford it, but why? It doesn't fulfill a need in my life that isn't already fulfilled by something else, or at least not in a compelling enough way to pay hundreds for it. Yes, I'll probably buy a tablet computer someday, but not yet. It doesn't actually fiil any sort of need.
I allow myself $30 a month to spend on books. I was in the bookstore recently, considering whether to pick up a copy of a novel I've been looking forward to for a long while.
Why do you want this novel instead of the books you already have? It offers a compelling story, but I do already have a few to read.
Why not just wait until it's on sale or in paperback? I want to read it now!
Why not just ask for it on PaperBackSwap? It'll take some time to get it there because it's such a new release.
Why not just request it at the library? I could do that… it might take a few weeks.
Why not see if one of your friends has picked it up and swap with them when they finish? Even if the library doesn't have it, one of them might.
And, boom, I've got several avenues for reading the book without spending the money. This keeps me from buying a lot of books because my actual need (to read) is fulfilled in other ways for much less cost.
Another example: I'm considering buying a one pound small wheel of Maytag blue cheese at the store.
Why are you buying this cheese? I want to make some good blue cheese burgers and I want some to sprinkle on my salad.
Why are you buying a pound for that? It's cheaper per ounce.
Why would you let the eight or so ounces you won't use go to waste? I, uh, wont?
Why not get feta for your salad because it's cheaper and tastes more appropriate? Hmm… that seems reasonable.
Why not just get a four ounce piece of the blue cheese? …
And there you have it. Instead of buying the one pound chunk, I bought a four ounce chunk and some feta.
In each example, I came up with a result that either made me realize I didn't really need the item at all or pushed me to another purchase that met my needs for a much lower cost.
The five whys push me there every time. The simple process of thinking through a purchase almost always leads me to a better solution that my first impulse points me to. This saves me money and prevents me from making impulsive, wasteful buys. Instead, I find I have plenty of money left for the things that really do matter in my life.


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Launched in 2006, Viral Video Chart is the definitive guide to viral video. Charts are syndicated to several big sites, including The Guardian, TVGuide, and CurrentTV, and it receives a significant amount of media and blogger coverage in its own right.
The site receives 1m page viewes a month from 0.25m unique users. It is ranked by Alexa as being in the top 2,000 sites for the UK and in the top 25,000 globally.
It is owned and operated by Unruly Media (http://www.unrulymedia.com), a UK company which distributes and measures viral videos for ad agencies and brands.
Viral Video Chart is used by ad agencies, viral video producers, journalists, bloggers and cool hunters. People either searching for the next big thing or looking for data on how well their own creation is doing on the web.
Audience is primarily English-speaking. Mostly UK and US.
The site needs to look up-to-date and social-media-savvy. It also needs to be highly usable, presenting data and analytics in a clear, readable way.
Optional. You can re-use the existing Viral Video Chart logo if you want, but we're not wedded to it. If your site design implies a new logo, that's fine. We're slightly more attached to the monochromatic colourways.
http://www.viralvideochart.com. The homepage is often the only page on the site that people visit. It's function is simply to show a short list of the hottest videos from the last 24 hours.
Video page. Please retain subnavigation, red 'heat' bars next to video thumbnails, sparkline graphs, all data about video.
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What to do around Greenwich this weekend
Entertainment and adventures await. Here are some of the best bets for the weekend and week ahead.
Do good and still
have fun
Greenwich native Cam Atkinson, who plays for the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets, will be in the area on Friday night to host his second annual Keep Hope Alive Festival at the Old Town Hall, 175 Atlantic St., in downtown Stamford from 7 to 10 p.m. The event benefits the Marty Lyons Foundation, which raises funds to arrange for the special wishes of children with terminal or life-threatening illnesses.
Some of the sports celebrities expected to attend are Chris Kreider, Derick Brassard and Dave Maloney of the New York Rangers, Matt Moulson of the New York Islanders and others.
There will be an arcade, games, entertainment and food. Tickets are $250 each. For more information, call 203-253-3392, or visit http://www.martylyonsfoundation.org.
Sweet stuff
Learn how bees and beekeepers work to get honey from the hive and on to the table during Greenwich Audubon's annual Honey Harvest, taking place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday at the Old Red Barn.
Stop by, discover one of the wonders of nature and possibly leave with a bottle of local honey.
Admission is $3 for adults; $1.50 for children and seniors; free for Audubon members. Pay at the Nature Store. (If dragonflies are your thing, you can participate in the annual dragonfly and damselfly survey on Saturday. For more information, visit http://greenwich.audubon.org). Greenwich Audubon is located at 613 Riversville Road.
Multiple reflections
The Art Society of Old Greenwich will present a members' juried art show beginning this weekend at the Flinn Gallery at Greenwich Library.
"Reflections" will capture the images created by the group's artists in a number of media, including paint, drawing, graphics, sculpture, photography and others.
The show runs through Aug. 13. For more information, visit http://www.artsocietyofoldgreenwich.com.
Historic theater
The award-winning production "Barrymore" opens at the Lyndhurst Carriage house in Tarrytown, N.Y., on Saturday. Come early to picnic and visit the grounds of this National Trust Historic Site, then head over to the performance, which begins at 7 p.m.
The play, which will be staged by M&M Productions Acting Company Inc., stars Michael Muldoon in the title role. It will run Saturdays and Sundays through Aug. 11.
Tickets are $35. For more information, visit http://lyndhurst.org or call 914-631-4481.
Melody makers
The Sound Beach Community Band is expected to play at Binney Park in Old Greenwich on Sunday, as part of the Parks and Recreation Sunday Night Concert Series. The show starts at 7 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.greenwichct.org.
Farther afield
Seaside Park in Bridgeport will be transformed into a music and arts festival this weekend when the Gathering of the Vibes returns for its ninth year in the Park City. Musical acts such as Phil Lesh and Friends, the Black Crowes, Blues Traveler, Gov't Mule, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals as well as the Ryan Montbleau Band will play throughout the weekend.
Look for food and retail vendors, as well as special events planned for kids and families. The event tends to attract tens of thousands of visitors each year, including the many who camp out during the duration of the festival. For information on tickets, or the music schedule, visit http://gatheringofthevibes.com.
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The TV star has been dating program manager Dan Fredinburg for a few months and they recently went public with their relationship at the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.
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The massive storm that destroyed homes, communities and many lives in the South and the Midwest spared most of Barrow County.
In an email Saturday morning to local officials, Barrow County Emergency Services Chief Dennis Merrifield said no tornadoes touched down locally despite two tornado warnings issued Friday night by the the National Weather Service.
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The Ike Hamilton Expo Center, or "The Ike", as it has come to be called was designed with comfort and convenience of sports competitors in mind. Perfect for western equestrian events like team roping, cutting, and barrel racing; "The Ike" is also just right for everything from concerts to remote control car races.
Conveniently located just off Interstate 20, the Ike is surrounded by amenities. The facility boasts 7 acres under one roof, with a climate controlled main arena with handicap accessible seating for 2900. Add over 500 stalls with electricity, 180 fully-functioning RV slots, pens, warm-up areas, wash racks and an additional outdoor arena; you have the perfect local for any equestrian, cattle or trade show. Throw in the meeting rooms and catering services and you have the perfect spot for any training or gathering.
The calendar of events is ever changing with updated information so please check back with us often. You'll be surprised at all the fun, family-friendly outtings available at the Ike and many of the events are open free to the public. We will see you soon!
Bayou Baying held at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center from July 19 to July 21


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This post is written for runners who *may* want to try Grindstone 100, another tough mountain 100, or for folks who like to read long, tedious race reports. (Those interested in the quick and dirty report of my Grindstone 100 race, check out my previous post, "Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset: Grindstone 100.") If you are interested in the minute details of my experience on this incredible trail, and what I learned from the challenge, stay tuned.
Grindstone start, 6:00pm, Friday, October 3. Click for larger.(photo by J.R. Ankney)
Training Re-cap I described my top-10 race goals for Gstone in the previous post, knowing that anything could happen to derail my plans, but optimistic as a result of a long summer of training (see previous posts for my entire training plan). I focused on climbing, descending, long tempo runs with my buddy Bill Potts and long intervals on the track, with mile weeks topping out at 80 mpw. The only elements I would add, now that the race is over? Longer, steeper descent training (repeats of at least 45 minutes long on steep road or trail), and a few more training runs on rocky, technical trail to condition my feet. That said, I ended up with only one small blister on one toe which I attribute to wearing Injinji toe socks with Body Glide lube underneath, and re-lubing with vaseline at mile 35 and 66.
Bill Potts with me at mile 80, Dowells Draft. Click for larger.
Mental Prep I am a huge believer in positive self talk and visual imagery, and for Gstone I spent a lot of time thinking about how I would feel at different points along the trail and how I was going to handle the negative thoughts that tend to creep in during 100s. When I got sleepy during the first night, I took a caffeine pill and plugged into my Ipod, and this made a huge difference. I got sleepy again during the mid-afternoon while climbing Hankey Mountain on Saturday, so I went off trail, set my watch alarm for 5 minutes, and took a quick power nap. That was awesome! I had a HUGE energy boost from that nap so later in the evening when I got loopy, I did it again. Meeting my pacer Mike Mason at mile 75 and again at mile 89 was a huge mental boost as well, as I had been running alone for most of the race. I could feel my pace pick up when we were together, and he did a phenomenal job keeping me upbeat and positive (though I was a huge WHINER during the last three miles). Finishing a 100 mile race is so much about attitude, and I was prepared to deal with the inevitable low moments as well as the highs with equal energy.
Nutrition Recap I started Gstone with 20oz of Sustained Energy, 40 oz of water in my Nathan pack, and a flask of raspberry Hammergel. This combination has worked me in other long ultras, and it was no different at Gstone. After I finished off the SE, I drank a Nuun tablet and water from my bottle for electrolytes for the rest of the event, and a few solid foods when necessary: scrambled egg and tortilla, PB and J, and chicken noodle soup went down the best. In the last 15 miles, it was hard to eat anything, especially the Powergel that Mike Mason insisted on me eating as we descended Elliott's (something about the sodium to help with my quad soreness). I was cold, tired, and not hungry, but I forced myself to eat it. I also sipped water to settle my stomach. As soon as I was finished with the race, Rusty brought me an ice cold cappucino Ultragen, which Krissy told me to try in a race...so perhaps I'll give it a go at Hellgate in December. Ultragen truly works and helps me recover very quickly from tough workouts and races. Overall, I was pleased with my energy level and nutrition, though I think I needed more protein late in the race to keep me from bonking, and I should have planned for that and for more Hammergel.
Coming into mile 80, Dowells Draft, with pacer Mike Mason and hubby Rusty on the right. Click for larger.
The Trail I broke down the course in thirds and included my live website stats just for fun:
Miles 1-36 I ran in about 9 hours, which is exactly the pace I wanted, despite starting way in the back of the pack. The first five miles were spent in the woods near Camp Shenandoah, on nice singletrack and technical trail as we climbed over Little North Mountain to Rte 42, where AS 1 was waiting:
#1 Station - Falls Hollow 5.71 miles
00 days, 01:09:06 Time to Station
00:12:06 / mile Overall Pace
00:12:06 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
59 / 74 Station Rank
After crossing Rte 42, it was dark and we climbed dirt road and a section of lovely singletrack before popping out onto Elliott's Knob FR, a nasty, rocky, exposed fire road that has a VERY steep grade. It took about 30 minutes to climb this road to the top of the Knob, where I got my number punched to prove I was there before dropping down a few yards to the trailhead. I ran this section with Vicki Kendall and Rebekah, and we had fun going down the next section to Dry Branch, which is a mix of rocky technical singletrack and smooth singletrack...lovely running!
#2 Station - Dry Branch Gap 15.24 miles
00 days, 03:40:06 Time to Station
00:14:26 / mile Overall Pace
00:15:50 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
58 / 74 Station Rank
After Dry Branch, it's UP UP UP Crawford Mountain. There are five---count 'em---five long, hands-on-your-knees climbs along this ridge line before you are mercifully dropped onto the stunning Chimney Hollow Trail---all down, down, down. This trail crosses Rte 250 and links up to the fantastic Dowells Draft Trail, our next AS:
#3 Station - Dowells Draft 22.89 miles
00 days, 05:30:06 Time to Station
00:14:25 / mile Overall Pace
00:14:22 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
49 / 73 Station Rank
I started to pass a few folks here after my conservative start. Mike Mason told me later that he was a bit "concerned" about my slow pace, but I told him it was all part of the plan!
After the AS, we had another wonderful section of singletrack that climbed up to Hankey Mountain to the Wild Oak Trail (known around these parts as TWOT). TWOT then becomes a nice runnable fire road, all downhill, before the third AS at Lookout Mountain, where I met up with VHTRCers Mike Dobies and Marty Lindemann:
#4 Station - Lookout Mountain 31.24 miles
00 days, 07:33:06 Time to Station
00:14:30 / mile Overall Pace
00:14:43 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
46 / 72 Station Rank
After the AS, it was technical, tedious, rocky singletrack all the way to North River Gap AS, a.k.a. the Wild Oak Trail parking area (mile 37 and mile 66):
#5 Station - North River Gap 36.69 miles
00 days, 08:57:06 Time to Station
00:14:38 / mile Overall Pace
00:15:24 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
38 / 71 Station Rank
I sat down here for the first time and changed my socks after lubing up with vaseline---aaahhhh, this made a huge difference and was worth the time spent (at Western States I made the error of not taking the time to lube my feet and swore I would never make that mistake again!). However, the big mistake here came when I forgot to switch out my Hammergel flask for a new one. I would pay for this later, as I was descending Little Bald with nothing to eat and an hour until the AS.
The next section, miles 36-66, took me 8 hours to complete. It meant a very tough climb up to Little Bald on sweet singletrack for 7 miles. The AS was literally on top of the mountain in the middle of nowhere. It was a welcome respite after the long climb:
#6 Station - Little Bald Knob 43.44 miles
00 days, 11:48:06 Time to Station
00:16:18 / mile Overall Pace
00:25:20 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
35 / 69 Station Rank
After the AS was a lot of easy ridge running to Reddish Knob on old grassy fire road, dirt, and then very hilly pavement before turning around at Briery Branch for the return trip to North River Gap. The best part of the race for me took place here, as I climbed up Reddish...the sun was rising above the valley, with views of West Virginia (we were right on the border) and Virginia below. Tom Sperduto took amazing photos of us up here. We also had the chance to see folks coming back from the turnaround and get a sense of how far apart we were. It was fun to greet my fellow compatriots and get/give a few "you look great!" hugs in the process.
#7 Station - Reddish Knob 49.37 miles
00 days, 12:55:06 Time to Station
00:15:41 / mile Overall Pace
00:11:17 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
29 / 66 Station Rank
Coming back to the Little Bald AS, I knew I needed some solid food, but was wary. I had problems in the past with solid food messing with my stomach, but I also needed some protein. JB Basham convinced me to eat his scrambled egg tortilla--- it made a huge difference in my energy level as I descended Little Bald, because I was out of my usual gel and the energy boost came at a perfect time.
#10 Station - Little Bald Knob 59.94 miles
00 days, 14:50:06 Time to Station
00:14:50 / mile Overall Pace
00:10:19 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
28 / 67 Station Rank
I have descended Little Bald many times while running on the TWOT course, so this was familiar fun. I was pleased with my pace and when I came into North River Gap (mile 66) a second time, it was awesome to see Rusty as well as Tom Corris and Barb Isom greet me. I changed my socks again, lubed up, and switched out of my skirt to shorts because I was feeling a bit of chafing. All good decisions and a good use of time, as I felt great climbing back up Lookout Mountain.
#11 Station - North River Gap 66.69 miles
00 days, 17:02:06 Time to Station
00:15:19 / mile Overall Pace
00:19:33 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
25 / 64 Station Rank
The last third of the race, miles 66-100, took me 11.5 hours to complete. The first section, up Lookout, is where I started to feel the sleep deprivation. It was about noon, the sun was shining, and it was getting hot(although in reality it was probably 70 degrees, max). It's all uphill to the AS on rocky trail, and I was alone with no one ahead to motivate me and no one behind to push me. My Ipod battery had died, so now I had to dig deep. My attitude, as they say in school, was "poor". However, as soon as I came into the Lookout Mountain AS and slurped some chicken noodle soup, my attitude adjusted nicely:
#12 Station - Lookout Mountain 72.14 miles
00 days, 18:59:06 Time to Station
00:15:47 / mile Overall Pace
00:21:28 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
24 / 65 Station Rank
Rusty met me up here on his mountain bike, and had to kick me out for sitting too long. The trail ahead was good footing, great climbing, shady, and just right for a little snooze...yes, I did indeed take a 5-minute power nap off the trail in this section. It gave me a huge boost of energy that carried me all the way to Dowells Draft, where I ran into Mike Mason and Rusty, coming up the trail:
#13 Station - Dowells Draft 79.49 miles
00 days, 21:06:06 Time to Station
00:15:55 / mile Overall Pace
00:17:16 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
25 / 63 Station Rank
This was my favorite section of trail. It was like a "marble in a slot" as Scotty Mills would say...smooth running singletrack and all downhill. Of course, it was also the end of the fun, because miles 80-100 are unquestionably the hardest past of the race. It all started with Chimney Hollow trail meandering along a lovely creek bed before the climbing. Then, for the next 1.5 hours, it was climb, climb, climb. Just when you think the trail has switchbacked for good, there was another turn. At one point I sat on a rock and waited for Regis Shivers and his pacer to join me in cursing the trail. This was very cathartic and also hilarious, and gave me a needed boost. I soon left them and topped out onto Crawford Mountain trail, and descended the 5 PUDS (Pointless Ups and Downs) along the ridge. Bill Potts met me on the last descent, and his comment was, "this freaking trail is 20% grade!" Yessir, that's Chimney Hollow!
#14 Station - Dry Branch Gap 86.14 miles
00 days, 23:45:06 Time to Station
00:16:32 / mile Overall Pace
00:23:54 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
25 / 61 Station Rank
Coming into Dry Branch at 5:45 p.m. was nirvana. I sat for 15 minutes and ate Pringles and drank V-8 (I guess I needed salt).The AS volunteers had also cooked some BBQ that perhaps I *should* have eaten for the protein, but my taste buds weren't interested. I predicted that many folks would drop here and everyone laughed, as I am surely not the first to make that prediction. When Dan Lehmann (who was ahead of me before going off trail for 50 minutes) came into the AS, I decided to leave and use Dan and Adam (his pacer) as motivation to get up the mountain. It worked---I climbed with renewed energy and left them behind. The sun was setting and the views of the Deerfield Valley were gorgeous. Soon it was dusk, and I was very happy to be navigating this rocky section with some daylight remaining! Just as it was getting dark, I saw Mike heading towards me. For logistical reasons, we had agreed that he would run from the start and pace me in, and he could not have appeared at a better time. He told me that Kerry was 6 minutes ahead and he wanted me to pick up the pace...but my quads were screaming as we descended Elliotts, and the road was very steep and slippery. Dan and Adam appeared behind us and blew by with words of encouragement, but all I could do was walk. It began to get cold and my stomach, for the first time in 92 miles, was beginning to rebel, probably as a result of a lack of electrolytes and protein.
#15 Station - Falls Hollow 95.02 miles
01 days, 02:43:06 Time to Station
00:16:52 / mile Overall Pace
00:20:02 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
25 / 63 Station Rank
After we left the last AS, Mike told me we had enough time to break 28 hours, but we had to push it. I tried to push, and nothing responded. Actually, I was afraid that if I pushed the pace beyond 20-minute mile pace, I would throw up. So, we climbed, walked, shuffled, jogged, walked, and finally we were behind the camp---but I knew we had a ways to go before the finish. It's like running Holiday Lake 50K and being on the other side of the lake, knowing you are close yet NOT! Once the finish line area came into view, I found myself with new energy and was able to run, run, run up the hill to the totem pole. In the darkness, I spotted my dog Jack whom Rusty had brought to the finish...he leapt up and ran in with me. What a great moment!
#16 Station - Finish 100.73 miles
01 days, 04:32:42 Time to Station
00:17:00 / mile Overall Pace
00:19:11 / mile Pace from Last Recorded Station
37 / 74 Station Rank
For some reason, the splits have me as finishing 37/74 when it was 25/62. I ended up being second Master but winning the Master schwag since Kerry (first Master) finished in the top-5. Very fun!
In Conclusion... Grindstone 100 was my first where I can say "everything went right." I didn't bonk (except at the very end), have feet issues, or was decimated by the heat as in my other 100s. I found a pace the suited me and stuck to it---I finally experienced what we ultrarunners call "running within ourselves." I learned the value of patience and running my own race, and was reminded over and over again that truly anything can happen in a 100 miler. Grindstone tested my ability to climb, to run fast, to navigate rocks, to run through the night into the next day and night, and persevere through sleep deprivation. Unlike my first 100 where I begged my crew to let me drop (thankfully, they didn't), there were only a few times during the race when I doubted my ability to go on. There were many, many more times when I was laughing, smiling, and having a total blast.
I am not sure I am meant to be a 100 miler specialist like my friends Kerry and Keith, but I sure can see the beauty in the challenge of this distance. Keith said it best: "Going for a run always clears my head, but running 100 miles distills my soul." Amen Brother!
As for Grindstone itself...I am truly fortunate to have been among the first class of Grinders. The trail itself is phenomenal. The event---from the superb aid stations, the excellent course markings and delicious post-run breakfast to the live webcast with splits, professional photographer, and convenient staging area of Camp Shenandoah---will no doubt become a classic 100. Reading the other race reports only confirms that I am not the only one who feels this way! On Sunday after the race, I started thinking about pacing Mike next year...but today I am thinking about how can make up time from that slow slog from the last aid station next year. Sorry, Mike, you may have to find another pacer!
postscript:A newcomer to ultrarunning recently asked which 100 miler I would recommend as her first 100. I told her the most important criteria for training and completing a 100 miler (to me anyway) is to be passionate about the trail and the event. This was the case for all three of my 100s. In each training cycle, I was completely obsessed with the trail and focused on that event for many months. I remember coming home from a Grindstone training run totally giddy with excitement because the trail was so awesome, and I was really looking forward to spending 29 hours on it! Training was never a chore---actually, it was really FUN and racing the course was, as Gary Knipling says, "the dessert." Totally true. I do believe Grindstone is within reach of most experienced ultrarunners because of the generous cut-off time of 38 hours. I fully expect to be there again next year and that many others will be there, too...and I will always savor the memories of being part of the first year of this special event.
Pre-race pics are here.
Full race results are here.
Race reports are here.
Welcome to my blog and the place where I will post my photos and musings from my life as an ultrarunner. My nickname "Shining" was given to me by a group of very special students after I finished my first 100-miler, the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100. They were the inspiration that enabled me to finish this awesome race, and I try to live each day with a "shining" attitude!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Reflections on Grindstone 100
Posted by Sophie Speidel at 8:36 AM
1 comment:
- running etc said...
Wow, Soph. Super report.
Clark should make this required reading before a runner gets a number. Would probably help his finisher rate immensely.
- October 13, 2008 at 3:00 PM
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San Andreas handles music much differently than GTA III and GTA Vice City. Rather than a simple long loop for the radio stations, San Andreas' stations are dynamic and change based upon game conditions. As a result, the stream format was introduced with San Andreas. This article details what is known about the stream format.
The streams on disk are encoded and so cannot be directly read or written. Fortunately, the encoding algorithm is a very simple one; essentially, the encoding is simply XORing the stream data with certain key values. The key is 16-bytes long. Consecutive bytes of the stream are XORed with consecutive bytes of the key; once the end of the key is reached it wraps around to the start again. There are several ways to approach the encoding; this article discusses encoding byte-by-byte. A program could also encode a stream in chunks of 2, 4, 8, or 16 bytes by adjusting the key appropriately (streams are little-endian.)
The 16-byte encoding key, in hex notation, is:
The algorithm for encoding would be:
- XOR the first byte of the stream with the first byte of the key (EA)
- XOR the second byte of the stream with the second byte of the key (3A)
... (continues) ...
- XOR the sixteenth byte of the stream with the sixteenth byte of the key (F1)
- XOR the seventeenth byte of the stream with the first byte of the key (EA)
Here is a simple C++ algorithm to do the encoding (taken from the San Andreas Audio Toolkit source code)
void stream_encode(int8_t *buff, const size_t size, int &index) { for (size_t i = 0; i < size; ++i) { buff[i] ^= encode_key[index]; index = (index + 1) % 16; } return; }
This is a two-way encoding method and if a chunk of data is run through the encoding algorithm twice, the result is the original data. Thus, the same algorithm can be used for both encoding and decoding.
The decoded stream is simply a consecutive list of tracks. The tracks contain a header with metadata followed by the actual audio in Ogg Vorbis format.
Track Header
The track header is 8068 bytes long. It is divided into 3 major sections: 8000 bytes of Beat information, 64 bytes which contain the length of the sound file and other information, and 4 constant bytes of unknown meaning.
Track Header: 8000 bytes - Beat Entry x 1000 - see below for details 64 bytes - Length Entry x 8 - see below for details 4 bytes - CHAR[4] - always "01 00 CD CD" (hex)
The Beat section is used for the Dancing minigame and the Low Rider Challenge minigame. In each of these games, the player has to match the rhythm of a song by entering specified controls at specified times. This beat information is specified in the track header.
Beat Entry: 4 byte - DWORD - Timing value 4 byte - DWORD - Control value
The timing value is an integer denoting the point in the song (in milliseconds) where the beat is triggered. If the track doesn't need any beat information, the default value is -1 (0xFFFFFF). The control value is an integer denoting what button, key, etc. should be pressed. These values are defined below. If the track doesn't need any beat information, the default value is 0.
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The second header section is somewhat strange. It is a series of 8 DWORD Length Entry pairs, but all but one of these pairs contain unused padding values. Additionally, which of the 8 pairs is not padding varies somewhat.
Length Entry: 4 byte - DWORD - Length of Ogg Vorbis file or 0xCDCDCDCD padding 4 byte - DWORD - Variable, probably unused or 0xCDCDCDCD padding
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As noted above, the final four bytes of the Track header are always "01 00 CD CD" (hex).
Ogg Vorbis Sound
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