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The RM85L and RM85 are loaded with technology derived from Suzuki´s championship-winning motocross bikes. Both bikes offer incredible performance with the RM85L featuring larger wheels and a longer swingarm and wheelbase to suit larger riders. Either way, with smooth power delivery, loads of mid-range and lightweight handling, both bikes are perfect for learning to race - and learning to win! |
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Model | Suzuki RM85L |
Year model | 2008 |
Type | Cross / motocross |
Price as new | US$ 3199. MSRP depends on country, taxes, accessories, etc. |
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Engine size | 84.7 ccm (5.17 cubic inches) |
Type of engine | Single cylinder, two-stroke |
Compression | 9.5:1 |
Bore x stroke | 48.0 x 46.8 mm (1.9 x 1.8 inches) |
Fuel system | Carburettor. KeihinT PE28 |
Ignition | CDI |
Lubrication system | Premix |
Cooling system | Liquid |
Gearbox | 6-speed |
Transmission type | Chain (final drive) |
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Front suspension | Inverted, cartridge-type, 20-way adjustable compression and fully-adjustable rebound damping, 10.8 inches of travel. |
Rear suspension | Link-type, fully-adjustable spring preload, and 4-way compression and 16-way rebound damping, 10.9 inches of travel. |
Front tire | 70/90-M19 |
Rear tire | 90/90-M 19 |
Front brakes | Single disc |
Rear brakes | Single disc |
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Dry weight | 69.0 kg (152.1 pounds) |
Seat height | 875 mm (34.4 inches) If adjustable, lowest setting. |
Overall length | 2145 mm (84.4 inches) |
Overall width | 735 mm (28.9 inches) |
Ground clearance | 355 mm (14.0 inches) |
Wheelbase | 1280 mm (50.4 inches) |
Fuel capacity | 5.00 litres (1.32 US gallons) |
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"The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend" (Bloomsbury), by Glenn Frankel.
A modest hit in theaters in 1956, "The Searchers" has grown in stature to become, for many, the greatest Western ever filmed and one of the most influential movies. Yet it's always been more, thematically and culturally, than just a John Wayne movie about finding a white girl abducted by Comanche Indians.
Author Glenn Frankel's "The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend" is a must-read for movie fans and anyone interested in mythmaking and the American West.
In 1836, Comanche Indians kidnapped 9-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker during a deadly raid on a white settlement in Texas. An uncle searched for her off and on for years. By the time Texas Rangers and others accidentally "rescued" her in 1860 during an attack on a Comanche camp, Cynthia Ann was a wife and mother. Her forced re-entry into white society — she was treated as if she were a pathetic oddity — was yet another tragic event in her life.
Using previously unpublished accounts and other archival material, Frankel notes that the facts surrounding her experience were twisted and molded, if not outright invented, to fit each storyteller's purpose. In Cynthia Ann's day, she was a heroine to some for surviving her captivity, to others merely a white savage. A century later, she was cast as a proto-feminist, the original tough Texas woman.
"The truth was less triumphalist and more poignant," Frankel writes. "Cynthia Ann was not the hardy survivor but rather the ultimate victim of the Texan-Comanche wars, abducted and traumatized by both sides."
American culture wasn't through with Cynthia Ann. Inspired to some degree by her saga, writer Alan LeMay focused his novel "The Searchers" not on the captive and her captors but on an uncle and adopted brother who try to find her. When LeMay sold the film rights, another mythmaker — director John Ford — went to work changing the story to fit his own vision as well as the needs of a director looking for a hit.
"The Searchers" was the ninth of the 14 major films in which Ford directed John Wayne. The actor owed his career to Ford — he plucked Wayne from B movie purgatory to star in "Stagecoach" (1939) when others wanted Gary Cooper — and Ford never let Wayne forget it. Wayne took as much abuse as anyone from the bullying Ford. While making "The Searchers," Ford screamed at Hollywood's greatest cowboy, "When will you learn to ride a horse?"
Control freak that he was, Ford was surprisingly open to improvising. As Frankel relates, the famous closing shot of "The Searchers" — framed in a ranch house doorway — was just one instance in which Ford went with his gut instead of his script.
Frankel's excellent research and analysis and his fine writing raise the bar for the "making of" film book. His narrative details the life of a modern legend — in this case, a historical event that sparked a novel that led to a film, each step revealing a different aspect of how we tell our stories and why.
Douglass K. Daniel is the author of "Tough as Nails: The Life and Films of Richard Brooks" (University of Wisconsin Press).


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With a bit more than a month left for people to sign up for health insurance plans set up under the Affordable Care Act, the federal website known as HealthCare.gov finally seems to be working smoothly — in 36 states.
But what's happening in the 14 states that are running their own exchanges?
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Other states, however, are having trouble, some of it severe.
Oregon, for example, has only just gotten its website up and running this week. It's still not fully open to the public, though insurance agents and other community representatives certified to use the system can now help individuals enroll online. Until now, Oregon had been using paper applications.
So what makes a state health exchange successful? Joel Ario, who helped launch the exchange program for the federal government and now consults for states and others working to implement the health law, says the states doing best are generally the ones doing the least — at least when it comes to their websites.
"The states that said, 'This is complicated — we're going to focus on the most essential issues,' those were the states that tended to do better," he says.
Among places in that category, according to Ario, are not just California, but also Kentucky, New York and Connecticut.
In contrast, Ario says, many of the states that are now struggling may simply have overreached.
"Unfortunately states that I once touted as the leaders — Maryland, Oregon, Minnesota," are among those bringing up the rear, he acknowledges. "This is a complicated undertaking, and so people who tried to do too much in [the first year], I think, had some problems with that."
Maryland and Minnesota haven't had the same problems as Oregon, but their websites have both been working only intermittently, and enrollment has lagged. Just as with the federal website, part of the problem has been on the information technology side.
"We've seen in some states that some vendors have not been able to deliver, and states have struggled with the IT implementation," said Heather Howard, who advises states for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
In Maryland, fixing the exchange has been complicated by the fact that two of its IT vendors are suing each other. Massachusetts and Vermont have both had issues with CGI, the vendor that was found responsible for most of the messy rollout of the federal site, HealthCare.gov.
But experts say blame for failure — and credit for success — doesn't all belong to the outside IT contractors. It's also due in large measure to how well those contractors worked with state officials. Audrey Haynes oversees Kentucky's largely successful exchange, Kynect. She says one key to making it work was putting the exchange in the same department that runs Medicaid.
"Anyone knows that Medicaid has to have a pretty super IT department that supports it," she said at a recent event sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "So we have a lot of experience ... at bringing up large IT structures."
And where do state exchanges go from here? Republican members of Congress from Maryland and Oregon are asking the federal government to investigate the limping exchanges in those states. That's because both received millions of federal dollars to set up their health insurance marketplaces.
In principle, says consultant Joel Ario, figuring out what went wrong is not a bad idea. "I certainly think we want to look carefully at what happened and learn some lessons here. I don't think anybody's going to find any improprieties here, because they're going to think it was all well-intentioned activity."
And in the long run, once the states that are lagging work out their IT problems, they will probably end up, much like California, doing better than the states being run by the federal government. Heather Howard says that's because states running their own exchanges also have more resources for consumer outreach.
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All of which merely underscores something important about the health law that hasn't changed: What's available to you depends very much on where you live.
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Bringing Up Bebe
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One of the men who wrote a book about child rearing that I leaned heavily on when I was raising my little one- I'm pretty sure it was John Rosemond - was quoted in the paper saying the French principles are remarkably similar to the way Americans parented several decades ago. These days it is hard not to feel that the USA has lost its way in so many arenas.
That's part of the reason I so look forward to your further travels and above all RESEARCH.Exactement Jeanette!
My parents left my sister and myself to play on our own much of the time thankfully.
Though I certainly wish I'd learned to wait, bake by myself and deal with frustration the French way.
I'll be spending more time next trip in Paris' candy stores and in the park sailing my boat...I'm reading this book currently and really love it! I wish we better food options and 'day care' with people who are highly trained! Wow. I quit my job to stay at home because we all know American day care can be rubbish. My 16 month old guy is in bed at 7:30pm, why do the French eat so late? If I carry a snack around for my son, it's fresh fruit or vegetables (he has four food allergies, so we can't eat meals out a lot... that's a good thing!) American kids do snack a lot and they're not healthy snacks!
ReplyDeleteI just finished this book at your suggestion, Carol. Thank you!
In addition to the French way of eating, I was struck at how French parents foster their children's independence from the beginning. They expect children to play by themselves at the playground, walk several paces in front or behind, and exhibit self control and discipline. American parents, on the other hand, constantly provide entertainment and over-protection!- Anonymous10:25 AM
You do know the only food from the supermarket.That is why most of your kids have allergies.it is the same with our urban people here in Europe.the younger parents(my daughter's generation)searched the farmers directly and obtain their meat,eggs and vegetables from the farm fresh and without peticides.beside all of these they got new aquintances and their kids know what a pig a cow or a hen looks like.Dorka from Hungary
ReplyDelete WOW What interesting comments!
It's true that the origins of food (farm animals) are more evident in Europe from my experience.
I feel sad when I see kids walking in NYC clutching little bags of snacks.
We are victimized by the big junk food producers IMHO
Istephens: I too am always surprised to see children walking ahead or behind their parents, quite independently.
They are both trusted and respected, something Druckerman emphasizes in her book.
Eating at 8pm - I think perhaps French parents return later from work than we do. I know daycare is setup to last longer for working parents.- Ilse10:42 AM
I noticed that even French dogs are well-behaved. One morning in Avignon, I looked out our hotel window and saw a well-groomed (but, of course) woman and her two little dogs doing the lèche-vitrine. The little chiens waited patiently while their mistress was ready to move on. I think it's called discipline.
ReplyDelete Thanks for your coverage of this book. I was so intrigued I am now reading it and almost finished. There are definitely things to learn for this grandma to be. I read to children one afternoon a week at my local elementary school and this week I used the "big eyes" on one of the students, my goodness but it worked, she settled right down.
ReplyDeleteWow,Carol..this is so interesting! and i'm also intrigued by the reactions this book arises. I'm French and live in southern Spain where kids are kings, which make me shriek at times. I have 2 sisters who live in Paris and Tours and have children. At the dinner table, my younger sister and husband could repeat 20 times to my 7 year old niece : "tiens-toi droite...tiens ton couteau comme ça...ne parle pas la bouche pleine..." and so on (sit straight..hold your knife this way, don't speak with your mouth full) until she gets it right. And yes, dinner is at 8 no later. My elder sister has 3 children (all teenagers) and rules at home are strict : no food between meals and coca-cola is only allowed once a week ! I don't have children myself but i guess i would raise them the way my parents raised us...i know that strict discipline can be boring but it works...
I think in France, no parents like to hear : "oh mais votre enfant est mal élevé" (oh but your kid has bad manners/is badly raised)...as it's a hint of poor parenting.I had heard of Pamela and her book before! I must check this out. Btw, I finally got the chance to thank you in my last post! I was so grateful for all the new readers you brought me. I don't think I can do the same for you :) but I wanted to say thanks in any case!
I have (a small) surgery coming up on Tuesday which is why I am looking for some new books to stock up on and read! Maybe I'll look for Pamela's this weekend.Having listened to Pamela Druckerman speak at the American Library in Paris, it was very interesting to read your post as well as the comments made by others.
What was the reaction of the audience in Barnes & Noble? Did they mainly agree or disagree?
Needless to say, Druckerman's book caused quite a stir in the expat community because not everyone agrees with her for a variety of reasons.
As for me, I agree that the book provides important clues about French culture.The audience was completely positive I would say...
There were quite a few mothers-to-be in the audience and some moms with miss-behaving kiddies :(
Pamela was honest, self-effacing and surprised at the book's popularity.
Personally, I find the book reveals much about my own upbringing both good and bad...Very interesting. I think 8:00 is too late for children in the U.S.By the time dinner is over, it's 9:00. They would be eating and going straight to bed. Then working mothers would have to clean up and it makes for a long day.There's good and bad parenting all over the world. I don't think any one nation has cornered the market on it. Jude
ReplyDeleteGreat post, Carol. I must get this book to see how we've been doing it. Too true: the non-snacking thing is paramount, although eating at 8pm is only coming into play now that my kids are 9 and 12 - before they ate separately at 7pm.
There are many stereotyping issues here since we're seeing an alarming growth of even French kids who are becoming obese.
On the doudou front, being given one at the creche is a new one. As parents we found something cutesy small and gave it to our babies, hoping they would latch on to them, rather than the giant panda. ;-)In 15 minutes I am going to have some Fresh chèvre on toasted baguette & salad with a glass of wine ,followed by a poached pear leftover from last night.
everyone should have at least one doudou! and a dog or cat or other pet.
Arkansas Art Center in LR has an annual Toys By Artists exhibit.- Anonymous6:13 PM
I raised six children. I was from the new "old school" mindset. In some areas I was casual, and in other areas not so much. They turned out to be educated, skilled, well rounded adults.
Adults need doudous as well. I have mine. They are called Bear, knitting, and sketchbook. Bear usually stays home; Knitty used to come along everywhere, but sometimes stays home; I always have a sketchbook with me. :-)
Gigi I wonder whether the author mentions the allocation familiale? Do you know about it?
If you're French, and you have two or more children under twenty years of age, you get:
Montant des allocations familiales avant majoration
(pour l'année 2011)
Tableau 1 relatif à la fiche F132132 enfants 125,78 €
3 enfants 286,94 €
4 enfants 448,10 €
Par enfant supplémentaire-161,17 €
Those are MONTHLY supplementary payments from the government [= yourself and other taxpayers]. And it goes up, per child, when the child is 11, and again when the child is 16 (because they cost more).
I have known people whose lifestyles as craftspeople &c. are greatly facilitated by these grants. In France, they pay you to have children. But you have to have more than one.
You probably knew that.
(And thanks - because I knew it existed, but I never knew how much it was until your postings inspired me to look it up!)
Amanda in BarcelonaYou have inspired me to go out and buy the book BUB right now.
Your posts bring me such enjoyment and nostalgia as I've been to Paris at least 25 times. Also your artwork is simply beautiful!
By the way my daughter has a doudou who is 20 years old - he in college now and joins us on our travels throughout the year. When my daughter has children I'll be on the first plane to Paris to buy a Tartine & Chocolat doudou and shop for fabulous clothes!!! Keep drawing and writing.


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A few years back, I attended a Keith Jarrett solo piano recital at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. The hall, which seats nearly 3,000 people, was sold out.
The first time an audience member coughed, Jarrett stopped playing and commented on the excellent timing of the cough. As others coughed, he expressed concern about possible contagion, wondering aloud why it was that people always got colds at his shows, noting how surprising it is that he never gets colds at his own shows. Before long he was berating the audience, challenging them to shut up and comparing this San Francisco crowd to anti-American audiences in Europe in the 1970s.
The audience was enraged. "Just play, will you!" men shouted. People stormed out.
This was not the first time I saw an artist freak out about coughing on stage. Back in the 1990s I attended an evening appearance of performance artist Karen Finley (of NEA controversy fame) at the ART in Cambridge, Mass. The hall was packed.
As I recall, Finley was enacting her experience of her brother's death by AIDS. She addressed the dead brother as though he lay there dying and she was at his bedside.
A member of the audience coughed uncontrollably. The coughing wouldn't stop.
Finally, visibly enraged, Finley walked to footlights, peered out into the gloom and angrily defied the offending individual to leave.
I remember that the audience felt ashamed for her. After all, for all she knew, the person in the audience coughing was sick. Maybe he had AIDS.
Which brings me to today's theme. Most people attending live performances are not sick. But then why is there so much coughing at live performance?
I've seen articles in theater programs suggesting that the cause is bad posture and urging audience members to readjust their posture if they feel a fit of coughing coming on.
But this can't the right explanation. Nobody coughs at the movies, and everybody slouches at the movies.
I learned recently that the director of one large musical forum is convinced that the problem is humidity levels. By raising humidity levels, he believes, he can eliminate the epidemic of coughing that breaks out during shows.
I find this entirely implausible. After all, if the coughing were brought on by an environmental condition of this sort, wouldn't the musicians cough too? And as Keith Jarrett bemoaned on stage that night in San Francisco, he never coughs at his own concerts.
Actually, Jarrett's remark points us in an interesting direction. Jarrett doesn't cough when he's playing because, after all, he's busy. He's got something to do. His attention is absorbed (more or less!) in the task at hand. Not so the audience. It isn't easy to be a live audience. It's your job to sit there, be still and silent, and pay attention.
Paying attention is hard. It requires knowledge. Just what are you supposed to be paying attention to? And it requires skill. In my view, one of the sources of art's value is that it gives us an opportunity to pay attention and perceive what, after all, may require quite an effort to make sense of or appreciate. Art is an opportunity to cultivate in ourselves the ability to comprehend and perceive what is going on.
Jarrett's and Finley's outbursts remind us that even the performers have trouble staying focused. This brings out what is all too obvious — namely, that the audience too is performing, and that the audience too is on display.
Surely that's the big difference with the movies. You are not on display as you sit in the dark at the cinematic spectacle. You are gone. You are invisible. You are transported.
It's never that way at live performance. And precisely because the performers are in the room too, with you, and, as we have been considering, they are aware of you and responding to you.
So why do people cough at live performance? Well, one answer is clear. They are uncomfortable. They are uncertain. They are, very often, bored out of their minds. And they are under pressure not to cough.
That's a recipe for bringing out the scratchy throats. This also explains why paying attention to your posture might help you stop coughing, even if bad posture isn't the cause of the coughing in the first place. It gives you something to do, after all.
So one way to get the audience to stop coughing would be to make the performance more movie-like — louder, brighter, bigger — or more like a sporting event. The soccer great Zidane has said that when he plays before a crowd of 80,000 people, he doesn't even know they are there. He is in his game.
But performance art is not like the movies or a sporting event. The point can never be to pretend that the audience is not there.
So the only alternative is to embrace the audience, and embrace their need to make noise and be heard. Artists and audiences both need to acknowledge that this discomfort is not a bad thing. In fact, it's what the audience is paying for. Coughing at shows is not a problem.
Back to my evening with Keith Jarrett in San Francisco. Once the audience had thinned out, we were left alone with a piano player who had now put fully on display just how fragile were his own powers of concentration, just how delicate his own ability to make the event happen. At one point, he had laid his head down on the keys and explained that the coughing had made him settle for an ending that disappointed him.
And then something remarkable happened. Everything changed. The audience's anger at the self-indulgent performer transformed itself into a sense of love for the artist who was, after all, right there, on the stage, before us all, trying to make himself into someone who could make it happen. He was struggling.
Jarrett went on to play for hours. There were five encores. And no one noticed if people were still coughing.
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The strawberry maniac strikes again – and this time with pies topped with meringue. :)
I know I've been carried away by the strawberry season, but tell me: would you resist making such adorable little pies? I'm not that strong. :)
Little strawberry meringue tarts
adapted from Australian Gourmet Traveller
400g strawberries, hulled and quartered
½ cup (88g) brown sugar, packed – you might need more depending on how sweet the strawberries are
1 vanilla bean, scraped seeds only
juice of ½ small orange
juice of ½ lime
Brown sugar pastry:
50g soft unsalted butter
50g brown sugar
1 egg
1 cup (140g) all purpose flour
Italian meringue:
¼ cup (50g) caster sugar
2 tablespoons (24g) demerara sugar
1 egg white
For brown sugar pastry, beat butter and brown sugar, using an electric mixer for 5 minutes or until pale, then add the egg and beat to combine. Add flour, beat until just combined, turn onto a lightly floured work surface, form into a disc, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Meanwhile, place strawberries in a heavy-based saucepan. Add brown sugar, vanilla seeds and orange and lime juices and stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil, reduce heat to medium and cook for 5-8 minutes or until strawberries are soft and liquid is reduced. Set aside to cool, then refrigerate.
Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F. Roll pastry on a lightly floured surface to 2mm thick and use to line ten 6.5x3.5cm deep pie pans (see note), trim edges and pierce crust all over with fork. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Butter the shiny side of a piece of aluminum foil (or use nonstick foil) and cut roughly into ten squares; place the foil squares, buttered side down, tightly against the crust. Bake blind for 10 minutes, then remove foil and bake for another 10 minutes or until golden and crisp. Cool for 5 minutes in pans, then remove from pans and place on a baking tray. Using a fork to remove some of the liquid, transfer strawberry mixture into pastry cases and set aside*.
For Italian meringue, combine sugars and 2 tablespoons water in a small saucepan and stir over low heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to high and cook until syrup reaches 115°C/239°F on a sugar thermometer, then remove from heat. Meanwhile, using an electric mixer, whisk egg white until soft peaks form, then, with motor running, slowly add hot syrup and whisk for 5 minutes. Spoon meringue over strawberry filling, forming into peaks. Place pies under a hot grill for 2-3 minutes or until meringue is golden or use a blowtorch to brown meringue lightly.
* since this is a very moist filling, assemble the tarts as close as possible to serving them - the juices in the filling will make the pastry soggy
Note: If you're unable to find pie pans of this measurement, use individual fluted tart cases instead (they'll hold less filling).
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Al Neuharth died Friday at his home in Cocoa Beach, Fla.
He was 89.
Al's name may not be familiar to you, but this blogger hopes that you are acquainted with the newspaper he willed to life in 1982: .
From 1984 to 2009, I was either a reporter or editor — and sometimes both — at McPaper (a nickname that critics bestowed upon USA Today, but which those of us who were there in its best days adopted with the pride of underdogs).
As my old colleagues write of Al, "he was an innovator who used satellite technology to create a national newspaper that has become the second largest in the United States."
For quite a while, it was the largest circulation paper.
Al was the Gannett CEO who pushed the dream of a national newspaper, over the doubts of some in the company. For the first few years after its launch, he was both the face of the place and a hands-on presence in the newsroom. It took quite a while for the paper to make money. Without Al's vision, stubbornness and forceful personality, Gannett might have folded it.
There are certainly reasons to criticize his work. Especially at the start, USA Today's stories could be so short that they lacked crucial information. Headlines could be cringe-inducing: "Men, Women, We're Still Different" is one any USA Today veteran well remembers. His weekly columns were an acquired taste, for sure. As USA Today recalls, "the CEO who promoted women executives once wrote a column calling for younger, slimmer airline stewardesses."
But the newspaper brought color to newsstands. Its graphics broke ground for the way they would tell stories and add information. As circulation spread across the nation, it brought better journalism and competition to cities and towns served by newspapers that weren't always doing a very good job.
What I will always be most grateful to Al for are the rules he insisted that the staff follow. They may sound like basics of good journalism, but they can't be stressed enough:
-- Be fair.
-- Be impartial.
-- Follow the facts.
-- Identify your sources.
-- Write for readers.
In today's world or tweets and blogs, those are still rules to be followed.
Thanks, Al.
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Now, when I was teaching in the US, I was barely aware of the fact that I was being complimented. It would have been things like a student saying that he liked the course more than he thought he would, or another noticing that I'd had a haircut and saying something positive about it, or another expressing an enthusiastic appreciation of my kindness in lending her a book. In South Africa, my (mostly white, English-background--this was right after the downfall of apartheid) students were, for the most part, polite and committed to their course, but they showed little interest in me as a person. Of course, that wasn't a problem. The problem was that as an American, I was used to near-constant positive reinforcement from students, colleagues, friends, strangers...just about everyone. Once I reali{s/z}ed that the problem wasn't my teaching or my relationship with my students, but my expectations about them, that particular anxiety abated.
That aspect of living in South Africa was good general training for being an American abroad, as if you're outside the US, you'll probably have to get used to a less compliment-driven culture--and to outsiders' estimations of American compliment behavio(u)r.
One frequently comes across the notion that Americans are insincere--after all, they couldn't possibly be that enthusiastic about everything, could they? But the problem with such reasoning is that it comes from a different starting place than the behavio(u)r it judges. OK, sure, the waiter who is depending on you for a tip may be insincere in his compliments, but the friend-of-a-friend you've just been introduced to or the business contact you're meeting probably isn't. It is in Americans' nature to subconsciously look for points of connection with anyone they meet because mainstream American culture is solidarity-based (see Brown & Levinson 1987). This is to say that communication is based on the goal of creating a sense of equality and belonging. This, in turn, is due--paradoxically--to the facts that American culture rests on a belief in the primacy of the individual (rather than the group) and that it is achievement-oriented, rather than ascription-oriented--i.e. it's about what one does rather than what one is (we saw this recently in the discussion of social class). The individualism means that we can't just rely on the knowledge that we belong, we have to be reassured of it fairly regularly. In the words of Stewart and Bennett (1991: 139):
By defining people according to achievement, Americans can fragment their own personalities or those of other people. They do not have to accept others in their totality [...]; they may disapprove of the politics, hobbies, or personal life of associates and yet still work with them effectively. It is this trait of seeing others as fragmented, combined with the desire to achieve, that provides Americans with the motivation to cooperate.In other words, I don't have to approve of you in order to compliment you, I just have to find a fragment of you that I can approve of in order to develop a relationship of some sort with you. One can see why this might be taken as insincerity in some quarters, but if I tell you I like your shoes and that you play the tuba well, it's almost certainly the case that I really do like your shoes and think you're tuba-tastic. So, it's a sincere attempt on my part to cement our relationship with shared values--at least as far as shoes and brass instruments are concerned.
If compliments are positive things that bring people together, why isn't everyone in the world complimenting so much? One reason is that they might not need to. If your social position is more stable, if you don't start new relationships all that often, then you might be able to take for granted the good things and commonalities in your relationships. Another reason could be that compliments are more costly in the interactional economy of other cultures. For example, in some cultures (I can never remember which ones!), if you compliment someone on their hat, they will insist that you have it. In that kind of culture, you'd not be appreciated for complimenting people on their things willy-nilly, and so compliments are more scarce. Similarly, in a culture in which praising oneself is taboo, compliments will be given more carefully, since to accept a compliment is to praise yourself. When I told my friend the Blinder that I was going to write about compliments, she said "you must write about the English inability to accept compliments". I'll let Kate Fox (2004: 408) start us off:
The English are no more naturally self-effacing than other nations, but [...] we have strict rules about the appearance of modesty, including prohibitions on boasting and any form of self-importance, and rules actively prescribing self-deprecation and self-mockery. We place a high value on modesty, we aspire to modesty.If someone compliments you and you accept it by saying thank you, you are implicitly agreeing with the compliment and therefore breaking the 'modesty rule'. Thus, if you compliment an English person on how well she did something, she's likely to claim that anyone could have done it or to point out the bits she could have done better. As Fox notes, the self-deprecation is often ironic and humorous. Still, the fact that the modesty rule is stronger in the UK than in the US makes a compliment more 'costly'. The other reason that compliments aren't quite as free-flowing in the UK is that the culture here is traditionally deference-based (preserving hierarchies and differences between people--viz. the class system; maintaining a sense of personal privacy), although it has been shifting toward solidarity over the past century. Thus, members of the mainstream British culture are not so reliant on the approval of others as Americans are.
Now, the reason I started wanting to write about compliment behavio(u)r was because I had read the following in George Mikes' How to be an Alien (1946:31), the seminal book on being foreign in England:
If you live here long enough you will find out to your greatest amazement that the adjective nice is not the only adjective the language possesses, in spite of the fact that in the first three years you do not need to learn or use any other adjectives. You can say that the weather is nice, a restaurant is nice, Mr Soandso is nice, Mrs Soandso's clothes are nice, you had a nice time, and all this will be very nice.Reading this, I was a little surprised, because I had got(ten) the impression, somewhere along the line, that nice was a crass American thing to say, so I got myself into the habit of saying the far more English-to-my-ears lovely wherever I would have said nice. I may have got(ten) this impression from people mocking Americans for saying Have a nice day (something that even Americans have been embarrassed to say since about 1980), or it may just be that I've heard general complaints about nice (without reference to America), as discussed by Ben Zimmer recently on his new blog--where you can see that nice already had a bad reputation well before Mikes wrote his book. At any rate, the frequency of nice noted by Mikes has also been noted in American compliments. Nessa Wolfson (1981) studied compliments in a number of cultures. In cultures where compliments are most 'costly', they tend to be rather indirect. For instance, Indonesians identified (the translation of) "You have bought a new sewing machine. How much did it cost?" as a compliment in their culture. But of America, where compliments are (BrE) cheap as chips, Wolfson notes, "The most striking feature of compliments in American English is their total lack of originality":
22.9% of AmE compliments include niceI haven't found an equivalent study of British compliments, but I don't imagine that they're much more creative, given Mikes' assessment of Englishpeople's adjectival vocabulary. (Hey, soon-to-be-final-year students--there's a possible dissertation topic!)
19.6% include good
85% of compliments fall into one of three patterns53.6 % in the pattern: NOUN-PHRASE is/looks (really) ADJECTIVE
16.1% in the pattern: I (really) like/love NOUN-PHRASE
14.9% in the pattern: PRONOUN is (really) (a) ADJECTIVE NOUN-PHRASE
It must have been months ago that I first stated my intention to write about compliments, but I'd passed them up so far, favo(u)ring shorter posts. One of the things I would have liked to have done here is to go back through the comments on the blog in order to see whether I could tell which nationality was more apt to send "Hey, I love your blog"-type comments. The thought of going through thousands of comments, knowing I'd rarely be able to tell where the commenter was from, kept me from writing this for a while. So, I've not done it--and I don't recommend that you try! But feel free to pay a little more attention to your cross-cultural compliment experiences and report your observations in the comments.
Further reading/sources:
- Brown, Penelope & Stephen Levinson. 1987. Politeness. Cambridge University Press.
- Fox, Kate. 2004. Watching the English. Hodder.
- Mikes, George. 1946. How to be an Alien. Penguin.
- Stewart, Edward C. and Milton J. Bennett. 1991. American Cultural Patterns (rev. edn.). Intercultural Press.
- Wolfson, Nessa. 1981. Compliments in cross-cultural perspective. TESOL Quarterly 15:117-24.


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A closed-door summit on controversial bird flu research starts today, and the newly released guest list reveals that the event will be dominated by virologists.
Erasmus Medical Center's Ron Fouchier, one of the virologists whose experiments with bird flu drew attention in the first place, will be there. So will his boss, Albert Osterhaus, head of the virology department at Erasmus in the Netherlands.
The gathering at the World Health Organization in Geneva also includes one expert on research ethics. And there will be a representative of an advisory committee that recommended keeping certain key details of two bird flu experiments secret, because of fears they could provide bioterrorists with a recipe for how to make a deadly virus that could cause a devastating pandemic.
Editors from science journals will also be there, because they want to publish manuscripts describing those studies in some form. And a few government health and science officials will attend as well.
But mostly, the room will be full of virologists from around the world, including directors of the WHO collaborating centers on influenza from the U.S., Australia, the United Kingdom, China and Japan.
One blogger quipped that it reads like a "WHO's Who of global influenza specialists."
The highly anticipated event has been described as a fact-finding session that will focus on understanding how the bird flu studies done at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands and at the University of Wisconsin were performed and overseen by the relevant authorities.
The study done in the Netherlands, in particular, has raised an international outcry, as some critics charge that scientists took a virus that can be deadly to people and changed it so that it can now spread through the air like seasonal flu. They say the new virus is potentially so dangerous that it should be moved to a lab with the highest security possible, the kind of place that houses smallpox and Ebola.
Experiments using the lab-altered flu viruses are on hold at the moment, because of a voluntary moratorium by the scientists. And researchers have agreed not to create any more viruses like them, for now.
There are major questions left to be answered: Should the papers describing the studies be published in full? If not, how will sensitive details be released to legitimate flu researchers who need them for public health research? Can this line of bird flu research go on after the temporary moratorium ends? If so, under what conditions in terms of lab safety and under whose oversight?
Whether or not this event will produce any answers isn't clear. It's closed to the press, but a WHO official will brief reporters on Friday after it's over and the participants are headed home.
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While it might be hard to believe, Hollywood has long viewed the TV with suspicion, fearing that the "box" (now screen) in the living room would destroy the "movie business." Since the early 1950s, when theatrical films began airing on TV, theater owners/operators have worried that if viewers could watch movies at home it would mean empty seats in the theaters.
Hollywood fought back in the late 1950s and early 1960s with a variety of gimmicks including 3D and CinemaScope – the former still being seen by many as a gimmick (James Cameron excluded) while the latter is why movies went widescreen and caused years of that dreadful "pan and scan" effect. However, none of that was enough to slow down TV or home entertainment.
But with each new invention such as pay cable, the VCR, Laserdisc, DVD, high definition Blu-ray discs and, of course, streaming video, Hollywood has fought back, claiming it will be run out of business. Of course, time has proven that its concerns were a little overblown. Rather, these instances actually filled studio coffers with new revenue streams. Moreover, none of those aforementioned formats or technologies ever threatened to see first run movies bypassing theaters.
But now, perhaps theater owners have something to genuinely worry about as California-based Prima Cinema has developed a new system that could distribute theatrical run movies at home. For viewers, this means no sticky floors, no uncomfortable seats and no annoying patrons who talk back to the screen (you know who you are). And it also means no waiting for pay-per-view, Blu-ray/DVD or Netflix to see the latest movie at home. Prima Cinema is looking to deliver theatrical run movies that can be streamed at home even as they play at the local multiplex.
This will come at a cost however.
Wait a few months and the Blu-ray disc will set you back around $25. But if you want to see it the same day it arrives in theaters, it will cost you $35,000 for the player and biometric device, then $500 for each movie – enough to make the $15 movie theater tickets in New York City look like a bargain.
The concept here is that Prima would encode the film prior to the wide theatrical release and make it available to the Prima Cinema Player in a subscriber's home. This would provide a theatrical-quality 1080p resolution digital copy to be stored on the player's hard drive, ready to be viewed for at least as long as the film is in wide release. Of course, the studios wouldn't want this system to be used by digital pirates, so each player would reportedly use a biometric security device that would "watermark" the films. Should it be copied, even with a camcorder, the watermark could identify the source. As planned, movies couldn't be copied and could only be shown within a residence.
The question is whether there would be an audience for these movies at $500, but apparently there is at least the perception that an audience exists, because the system is garnering interest from some big names including Best Buy, Universal Pictures and venture capital firm Syncom Venture Partners.
The pricing, which is far in excess of the $60 that was to accompany the same day release of Tower Heist until theater owners managed to get the project nixed, is certainly aimed at a particular clientele – namely rich movie buffs who work at Hollywood studios or venture capital firms. And if $500 a film sounds unreasonable, consider that for just $20,000 you can get a full year's subscription and enjoy multiple first run films – provided somone ponies up the $35,000 for the hardware, anyway.
The latter option could be popular if individuals get a "pool" of friends together and create a club. Considering the cost of going to the movies, it might only take getting 20 buddies to each chip in $1000 to see movies throughout the year at a friend's home theater. But the question still remains: will enough content be provided to make this viable?
Aside from Universal, movie studios haven't exactly been crawling over each other to get in line, so until that happens, and the price structure becomes a clearer (or more affordable), we should probably plan on continuing to wait – either in line at the theater or for a Blu-ray release.
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"I hate school, and I'm not going back!"
Have you ever had that thought? Lots of kids do. Usually this feeling doesn't last long. But what happens if you feel this way too much? School is a fact of life, and getting an education can help you build the kind of future life you want.
So let's talk about school and what to do when you don't like it.
When you worry about school, it can affect your body. A kid who feels stressed about school might have headaches or stomachaches. You might feel "butterflies" or like you have to throw up.
Having trouble sleeping is also a sign of stress. And if you're not getting enough sleep, you probably feel grouchy and tired during the day. Feeling tired can make your school day seem even worse.
If you're stressed out, you might have a hard time making decisions. In the morning, you can't decide what to eat, what to wear, or what to pack for lunch. You don't want to go to school, so you put off getting your stuff together. And now you're not prepared to go to school, and you've just missed the bus — again! Staying home may seem like a good choice, but it just makes it harder to go to school the next day.
If you don't like school, the first step is finding out why. You might not like school because a bully is bothering you, or because a kid you don't like wants to hang around with you. Or maybe you don't get along with your teacher. You might feel different or worry that you don't have enough friends.
Sometimes it's a problem with your classes and schoolwork. Maybe the work is too easy and you get bored. Or maybe the work is too hard, or you don't feel as smart as the other kids. Reading or math may be difficult for you, but you're expected to do a lot of it. You may be getting farther and farther behind, and it may seem like you'll never catch up. Maybe you're dealing with worries, stress, or problems that make it hard to concentrate on schoolwork.
When you stop to think about why you don't like school, you can start taking steps to make things better.
It's a good idea to talk to someone about your problems with school. Your mom, dad, relative, teacher, or school counselor will be able to help you. It's especially important to tell an adult if the problem is that you're being bullied or someone hurts you physically.
Another good idea is to write down your feelings about school in a journal. You can use a journal or diary or just write in an ordinary notebook. It's a great way to let out emotions that may be stuck inside you. And you don't have to share what you've written with others.
If you feel disorganized or like you can't keep up with your schoolwork, your teachers and school counselors want to help. Teachers want and expect you to ask for help when you have trouble learning. If all of your subjects seem really hard, a school counselor can help you sort things out. Special help with schoolwork is available if you need it.
Try not to let the problems go on too long. It's easier to catch up on one chapter than the whole book!
The next time you find yourself disliking school, try this:
Now, what can you change on the "don't like" list? Would remembering to do your homework help you feel more confident if you're called on in class? Can you get help with schoolwork that's hard? Who can you talk to about a worry or problem you're dealing with? Could you find a way to show off your special interests and talents? If you made just one new friend, would you feel less alone? If you helped someone else feel less alone, would you feel even better? Which activities could you try that would help you meet new friends?
Of course, you might not be able to change everything on your "don't like" list. A bully may not simply disappear. Reading may always be a challenge. But that's OK. Focus on what you can change and you might be able to put the cool back in school!
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There were 300,000 first-time claims for unemployment benefits filed last week, the fewest since mid-May 2007, the Employment and Training Administration reported Thursday.
Claims were down 32,000 from the week before, the agency adds.
Reuters says the news "could bolster views of an acceleration in job growth after a cold winter dampened hiring."
Bloomberg News writes that if this means fewer people are being laid off, that could "help pave the way for a pickup in hiring as demand recovers from harsh winter weather, providing a bigger boost to the economy."
The data follow last week's modestly positive report about job growth. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said there were 192,000 jobs added to public and private payrolls in March and revised upward its estimate of job growth in February.
May 2007 was seven months before the economy slipped into its last recession. That downturn officially ended in June 2009, but job growth has remained relatively sluggish for much of the time since then.
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DETROIT (AP) — A U.S. government safety agency wants electric and hybrid vehicles to make more noise when traveling at low speeds so pedestrians can hear them coming.
The cars and trucks, which are far quieter than conventional gasoline or diesel-powered vehicles, don't make enough noise at low speeds to warn walkers, bicyclists and the visually impaired, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday in a statement.
The proposed rule would require the cars to make additional noise at speeds under 18 miles per hour (29 kph). NHTSA says the cars make enough noise to be heard at higher speeds.
Automakers would be able to pick the sounds that the cars make from a range of choices. Similar vehicles would have to make the same sounds. And the government says pedestrians must be able to hear the sounds over background noises.
The public has 60 days to comment on the proposed rule. The agency will use public input to craft a final rule.
NHTSA estimates that the new noise would prevent 2,800 pedestrian and cyclist injuries during the life of each model year of electric and hybrid vans, trucks and cars.
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That could be me. It's been a few months since I last played. Of course that was still during Cataclysm, so I'm still in the most recent expansion and havhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gife a general idea of what is going on. But how long does that last? Next raid tier? I know there will be a major shift then, and with the next, and the next. What about if there is a change on par with the LFD tool? That would again alter the community and game, to the point that any not playing at the time would be, in my opinion, unqualified to talk about it.
But let's be realistic, if tomorrow Blizzard announced some game-changing change to the game, would I hang up my hat and announce that I am no longer able to talk about WoW? I doubt it. I'd shift to other aspects. And then gradually move back to where I was, talking about community and grouping, but with no direct experience. If I truly cared, I'd resub when that happened, to witness the change. But I don't feel like handing over money for a game I stopped enjoying just to be able to write more authoritatively about why I continue to not enjoy it (or maybe it would suddenly be great again!)
Will I stop blogging about WoW when the next expansion comes? Somehow I doubt it. New expansions mean no one knows anything anyway, so that's a free pass to be ignorant and stupid. Maybe when it releases I'd stop. Or I could get the expansion and try it out. I was certain I would when I'd stopped playing. "Next expansion" is a steadily increasingly recurring theme. I would stop PvPing after the gear gap became too obnoxious to overcome and figured, next expansion I'd give it another shot. Of course I'd then be out of the habit and not get into it quickly, and find myself right back at the bottom again, so there's always next expansion. For the game overall, I figured next expansion (the one after Cataclysm) I'd jump in again, see if things were better. Now I'm not so sure. From my perspective things have been, overall, on a steady downhill trend (individual aspects were improved). I don't expect that to change, not when there are millions of untapped customers and far fewer disgruntled veterans. This wasn't supposed to be a complaining post, I just wanted to explain why I'd probably remain ignorant of WoW after the next expansion.
I don't think it makes much sense to keep bashing WoW for years after, despite change after change making old knowledge increasingly obsolete. Yet, I can understand somewhat and sympathize. It's easy to talk about WoW. Everyone knows it. The power of a universal point of reference is hard to avoid.
So my answer is, probably no.
Hey, don't start to sub to WoW now, just so that you can blog about it. Even bad press is better than none.-Nils
I already feel guilty of supporting WoW this way.
Strange as it sounds, this is true. After hearing about how Darkfall was so terrible, I decided to wander over to try their trial. They wanted a dollar for it. Not much, but too much. So instead I wrote a post suggesting that this was actually a great deal.


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Even though Bart blames "IMB administration" for his error, and even though the unnamed IMB administrator, according to Bart, never directly identified the BGCT as a Convention eshcrowing funds, and even though Bart claims he "accurately reported someone else's inaccurate information," I believe it is incumbent upon Southern Baptists to accept Bart's apology for publishing false information and not bring up Dr. Barber's error in judgment again.
However, there are a couple of things Bart wrote in his lengthy apology, unrelated to anything in his original inaccurate post about the BGCT, that should raise even more questions in the minds over anyone who is being considered as a nominee to serve as a trustee of one of our Convention's agencies.
Bart wrote the following about the BGCT:
It would be unlikely for anyone to have placed into my mouth a lower opinion than I actually hold regarding the BGCT . . . My (low) opinion about the BGCT long predates the events of the past two days . . . (My post about the BGCT) matched up precisely to the reality that I could imagine to be most likely . . . The entire situation (i.e. publishing inaccurate information about the BGCT) puts me in the bitter-tasting situation of having somewhat wronged an institution that I dislike and owing it an apology. So, to the BGCT, I apologize for not taking greater care in reporting damaging information about you. And, although I believed the story, I am glad to learn that this is merely a situation of lackadaisical inattentiveness toward Lottie Moon money on your part rather than deliberate withholding of these much-needed funds from our missionaries
I don't know about anyone else, but when I read the above, it makes me think the problem is not the inaccurate reporting of damaging information regarding the BGCT, but rather the heart of animosity toward fellow Southern Baptist believers at the BGCT. In other words, while I believe all of us should forgive Dr. Barber for his inaccurate post, it is the published expression of animosity toward brothers in Christ that seems to me to be the very problem we face in the SBC. After reading all the other things Bart says about the BGCT in the midst of his apology to them, it kind of makes me hope Bart never has to publicly apologize to me. Smile.
Until we can get to the place where we can disagree with people, loving them as part of the family of Christ while we disagree with them, we may find it very, very difficult to be the salt and light Christ has called us to be. What would be great is for the people involved, including Bart and the Finance Office at the BGCT, to get together over lunch and visit as brothers in Christ - with hearts of love for each other. The polarization that breeds animosity is precisely why the SBC is in the mess we are in.
The post in question would never have been written without the ill-will toward the BGCT in the first place. It is this ill-will, that causes some to label conservatives as "liberal" for no other reason than to justify the animosity toward brothers in Christ that is the real problem in our beloved SBC.
In His Grace,
P.S. The one question Bart should answer is this one: "Who asked you to post your article?" Bart said he posted the article about the BGCT because he "was asked to post it." The answer to the question of who asked him would be very revealing in terms of understanding the dynamics of our Convention's troubles.


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I was chowing down a huge sandwich and several cookies at the Eureka Subway when John Nobile walked up to me looking rather dejected. I didn't recognize him at first because I had only met him briefly at the race start, and, knowing he was aiming to break his own course record, really didn't expect to ever see him again. Plus, cyclists put on their helmets and shorts and they pretty much all look the same. Anyway, after several minutes of awkward questions that revealed that I didn't know who he was when I really should have, he told me he was feeling sick and had blown his knee in Canada and his race was over.
As I finished my lunch, we talked about the route and he decided to put in one more day. I told him I was aiming for Whitefish and he said I could at least make it to Columbia Falls. We decided to ride together to town, and over the course of the day he discovered that the world of the mid-pack Tour Divider, with its leisurely lunch stops, friendly chats with locals and remote blogging over coffee, was actually pretty enjoyable. He decided to stick around a little longer at "tour" pace (i.e. my race pace) and see if he could recover his knee enough to start hammering toward the front.
It worked out pretty well for me - like having a Great Divide coach, along with the added benefit of company during the hard times and friendship during the good. We made a somewhat strange team - him with his "go go go into the night" mentality, me with my "let's stop and stare at this pretty waterfall even if the rain is bearing down on us" mentality. But it worked oddly well. Balance and flow.
We hit our first stretch of snow at Red Meadow Lake. Snow and bears are fairly prevalent in Montana and widely feared by Divide racers, but in my opinion the mud and dogs of New Mexico are much more scary.
And, anyway, those snowy passes take you to misty clear lakes high in the mountains. How could you be grumpy about that?
But I had the advantage of having a great wardrobe for what turned out to be a cold and rainy year throughout. I had my vapor barrier socks to keep my feet warm and dry, two extra pairs of wool socks, full rain gear, a fleece jacket, hat and gloves. I managed to stay warm and relatively happy through the cold rain, while John, who in typical fast-guy fashion traveled light, had to rely on his fast-twitch muscles to get him out of some of the race's chillier situations. (Then I'd stumble into a town two hours later, dripping muddy water, to find him already showered and sipping tea.)
It was handy to have John around for Montana bear country. I think our total count was five bears - two grizzlies and three black bears. Whenever I saw one, I'd slam on the brakes while my heart raced. His reaction was to charge toward them while yelling. Lucky for him, they always ran away.
My favorite climb in Montana turned out to be Richmond Peak - steep gravel up, snowy slog down.
Actually, the real reason it was my favorite climb is because it was peppered by a gorgeous sunset. Moments like these, quiet moments of euphoria amid the labored breaths and sweat-soaked haze of a hard day's effort, are what make ultraendurance rides all worth it.
Then the next day, you wake up and do it all again. And suddenly you find yourself over the next pass, across the next valley, 100 miles down the route, breathing in new climates and soaking in new sunsets.
But there are always more clouds on the horizon.
Looking out from one pass to our next - the much-feared Lava Mountain trail where crazy hillbillies roam and Divide racers get hopelessly lost.
This was a particularly cool pass - Fleecer Ridge. You start up on your choice of eight steep singletrack cuts ...
Grind toward the summit of a high plateau ...
Roll over a faint track lined with wildflowers ...
And then nosedive off the boulder-studded face of a veritable cliff.
People with my technical skills call this "downhill hike-a-bike."
Montana is an easy state in some ways - there are a fair number of service stops at useful intervals, and lots of water. John and I tended to eat almost exclusively from gas stations during this stretch, and my diet soon consisted of four food groups: Snickers Bars, Sour Patch Kids, M&Ms and cheese. I was putting down 4,000-5,000 calories a day of mostly this stuff. You'd think I'd just drop dead of toxic shock, but for some reason I didn't.
Climbing the paved pass out of Wise River. I'll never claim to be a mountain bike snob. I'm really more of a bicycle tourist, and I always enjoyed the paved stretches of the route for their easy speed, smooth rolling and scenery that I actually had the handling freedom to stare at.
But I like touring dirt because of the places it can take me. Plus, the climbs are usually more challenging, the descents more fun, and the days more rewarding.
So many times when I was mired in mud, I'd promise myself I would never ride anything but pavement ever again. But I never actually believed it, even as I stood ankle deep in peanut butter sludge.
Cabin Creek Road. Many of these places in Montana felt so wild and remote, although even more extreme wildness and remoteness had yet to come.
The drop into Lima was a really fun descent. I accidentally riled up a group of four cows and continued to coast behind them as they sprinted wildly down the road for a quarter mile before finally veering off. I felt like I was driving a stampede.
The next day out of Lima was gray skies and solid rain. Our maps said "roads may be mucky when wet."
Mucky seems an unforgivably tame term. Impassable is a better one. There was one half-mile stretch of that horrible road where I couldn't even push my bike through the shallow canal off to the side. I simply had to hoist it as I trampled through the brush - because my feet stuck to the road as badly as my mud-cemented wheels did. Meanwhile, mosquitoes swarmed me as I pumped through the last remaining droplets of bug spray. Miserable, frustrating, temper-tantrum-inducing - these, also, are too-tame terms for such a situation.
The mud can quickly remind us that we have friends in high places.
This last day out of Montana was also the day I was pummeled by a violent thunderstorm. It caught me completely by surprise - ink-black clouds rolled over the mountain and showered me with lightning. One bolt hit so close that I heard no delay between the light and thunder - just a blinding flash of white in my peripheral vision surrounded by a deafening boom. I convinced myself I was within feet of being hit by lightning in this open valley with no shelter. My only solution was to lay into the pedals and sprint with everything I had, mud and all. With hot adrenaline coursing through my veins, I believe I hit some of my high speeds for the trip on that flat, muddy stretch of road.
We crossed into Idaho with nearly 1,000 miles of Great Divide riding behind us - wet, cold, muddy, sore and tired - but for some strange reason, still raring to go.


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This is what you spend an hour on buying at Jewel- figuring out the cake kind, frosting, how you will coordinate the colors of the icing with the colors of the frosting, AND how you will incorporate all that into the colors of the candles. And then your friend writes your name on it to show you how special you are, and to give Bob arms.
This is the face you will make in every photo for the next few years, because it is awkward, and because teenagers are awkward, and because you are ~CHANGING~
Well, this morning's mentality was.. actually, it was "Oy my back hurts, do I really have to get out of bed?" (12 going on 76, I'm tellin ya.) But it was ALSO that since it is a special day I get to wear clothes that should not be in school prescense due to holiness. Obesity and Speed shirt, Comme for H&M jacket, Rodarte tights, Yokoo scarf, and vintage Givenchy sunglasses. A gift to myself, I guess. Thank you self. You're welcome. OH I'M SORRY WAS THAT AWKWARD I DIDN'T REALIZE I'M A TEENAGER!!!!!1111!~!!1
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This is how you pose when you're an awkward 13 year old.
Though the idea of being considered a teenager is scarier to me than this and this, I am quite ready to outgrow being 12. Now I can't be considered "cute" by anyone, just more annoying than ever! Muahaha! Let me provide you with angsty venting and complaints about homework, boys, and lunch food!
Speaking of boys, HI KEITH. More people at school are finding out about this here blog. Thank you for not throwing pennies at me/mocking my dorky fangirling, classmates. And Keith: Did you ever get that lollipop out of your hair?
The skirt is from a dress I thrifted the other day that should have enough fabric to make a pair of shorts and shirt along with this skirt. The fabric is SOOO Balenciaga-y, so when I say "shirt" I really mean pulling a Forever 21 and being cheap. This skirt still has lots of safety pins in it since I'm too lazy to actually sew on elastic, but it saves time! GOTTA say, kiiiinda glad I have such awful capacity that I'm alright making a bad ripoff AND being lazy about it. B jealz?Cut up a bag I bought from H&M last year to use the fabric. More origami head things await.
I hear "teenagers" need lots of "sleep." So I will crawl into bed and try to "sleep." And while I say this, I will make tiny "quotes" with my "hands," in a very careless "teenager-like" "manner."
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An afterfeast (also known as postfeast) is a period of time following certain major feasts of the Christian year during which the feast continues to be celebrated. The liturgical life of the Church reflects this extended celebration by continuing to express the themes of the feast in the divine services celebrated during the afterfeast.
Most commemorations that have an afterfeast also have a forefeast.
How long?
The afterfeast begins on the day after the feast and concludes on the leavetaking of the feast. Accordingly, the period of the afterfeast varies from commemoration to commemoration.
Which feasts?
Pascha and most First Class Feasts and Second Class Feasts have afterfeasts.
From the Pentecostarion
- Pascha—afterfeast: 38 days (leavetaking: Wednesday before Ascension)
- Ascension—afterfeast: 8 days (leavetaking: Friday before Pentecost)
- Pentecost—afterfeast: 6 days (leavetaking: following Saturday)
From the Lenten Triodion
- Palm Sunday—no afterfeast
From the Menaion
- Nativity of the Theotokos (September 8)—afterfeast: 4 days (leavetaking: September 12)
- Elevation of the Holy Cross (September 14)—afterfeast: 7 days (leavetaking: September 21)
- Presentation of the Theotokos (November 21)—afterfeast: 4 days (leavetaking: November 25)
- Nativity of Christ (December 25)—afterfeast: 6 days (leavetaking: December 31)
- Theophany (January 6)—afterfeast: 8 days (leavetaking: January 14)
- Presentation of Christ (February 2)—afterfeast: 7 days (leavetaking: February 9)
- NOTE: The afterfeast of the Presentation of Christ may be shortened or omitted altogether if February 2 falls on or after the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee.
- Annunciation (March 25)—no afterfeast
- Transfiguration (August 6)—afterfeast: 7 days (leavetaking: August 13)
- Dormition (August 15)—afterfeast: 8 days (leavetaking: August 23)
See also
- The Festal Menaion, tr. by Mother Mary and Archimandrite (now Bishop) Kallistos (St. Tikhon's Seminary Press) (ISBN 1878997009)
- The Pentecostarion, tr. Holy Transfiguration Monastery (ISBN 0943405025)
- Website of the St. Raphael Clergy Brotherhood of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America