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Saturday, July 19, 2008
As EEStor Turns, Another Chapter, Another Verse
Numerous people have looked at EEStors claims about their technology and pronounced them nonsense. Despite this EEStor has received financial support not only from tiny and marginal ZENN Motors, but also from high tec investment organization Kleiner Perkins, and Lockheed Martin, a business that one would expect to not be taken in by a hoax. Furthermore, Austin billionaire Mort Topfer in on the EEStor board, and Topfer is both intelligent and nobodies fool. Because it has the interest of credible parties who have obligations to investors and stock holders to not be taken in by a con, despite what I regard as red flags, EEStor can not be completely dismissed, because ofthe credibility of its backers.
A self styled Anonymous blogger is now spinning the lastest verse of the EEStor story. Anonymous is not without his own red flags, not the least of which is the fact that he is anonymous. By his account Anonymous has come up with an internet method of trolling for information on the EEStory, but what we have with an anonymous source reporting on what anonymous sources have told him. This might indeed be described as shadowy.
I advise my reader to make carful note of the above caveat as I describe what Anonymous claims.
In a post dated yesterday, Anonymous claimed that Richard Weir of EEStor had told key investors and other interested parties in April that the EEStor Unit had passed a key third party "Permittivity" test. Permittivity is the ability of capacitor materials to hold a charge. This claim, if true, would indicate that the EEStor Unit work in an important way. Weir also indicated that EEStor Inc was planning to expand its production lines from the one which is currently under development, to 6-7 more production lines
Anonymous claims that EEStor is working on 21 patents, and that its primary motivation is the 23
patents, and that its primary motive for secrecy, it the danger of typing competitors hands before patent applications are filed.
Anonymous claims that EEStor has at least 5 major funding sources lined up. They are reportedly Kleiner Perkins, Zenn Motors, Lockheed Martin, Mort Topfer and a mystery billionaire in Austin, TX whose name probably rhymes with "Bell".
Anonymous reports speculation from one or more of his shadowy sources that EEStor intends to make everything public at the same time. Every thing meaning the "Permittivity" test outcome, the 21 patents, details of the production line(s), and more. An EEStor web site will also appear, and no doubt if everything happens as Anonymous predicts, there will be the most astonishing uproar. Do not forget my caveat, however. Austin is not for certain going to be the center of salvation for the American Motor Industry. Zenn Motors may not be the new name in cars. But if, and this is a still a very big if, this is true, then we need to understand the radical implications.
Zenn has stated that it plans to build a EV with a 250 miles driving range for $15,000. GM plans to build the Lithium-ion battery powered Volt for $40,000, with an unassisted electrical range of 30 miles. This would mean that the leap to electrical transportation would happen very quickly.
I really would like to believe.
8 comments:
- charlesH said...
I have the same opinion you do. It sure would be nice if it is real but I would be my life on it.
- July 19, 2008 at 7:48 PM
- Tom Villars said...
I agree credibility is an issue, so hopefully this link will help.
- July 19, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Tyler Hamilton, senior technology reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, in his CLEAN BREAK blog, was able to confirm that "B", the anonymous blogger who broke the big EESTOR news yesterday, does in fact have access to EESTOR CEO, Richard Weir. This from Tyler's blog yesterday:
One financial analyst, who has access to EEStor, told me Dick Weir talks to this blogger because, "It amuses him. He gets a kick out of it." There you go.
Hamilton published his blog, confirming "B" has direct access to Weir, within about an hour of "B" publishing his astonishing "EESOR BEYOND PERMATIVITY" blockbuster.
- July 20, 2008 at 12:16 AM
- Charles Barton said...
We still have not established that "B" represents a truly independent voice. "B: reportedly talks to people other than Wier, but at least some of them get their information from Wier. The EEStor credibility issue is not settled in my book.
- July 20, 2008 at 4:20 AM
Hamilton's blog certified that "B", whoever B is, has direct access to EESTOR, something nobody else has.
Take that for what you will.
The EESTOR credibility issue will not be completely resolved until the world sees an EESTOR ESU.
But, at this point with confirmed capital investments of over $3 million from Kleiner Perkins (see Google and Amazon), a confirmed exclusive rights contract with Lockheed Martin (for military technology applications), Zenn Motor Cars investment of a few million dollars, along with EESTOR's promise of delivering a working production line ESU by the end of 2008... things look pretty good here.
And Morton Topfer is also on board.
And just after Kleiner invested in EESTOR, Colin Powel and Al Gore were added to the board of directors at Kleiner Perkins. Furthermore, Al Gore introduced Ian CLifford of Zenn Motor Cars to the Premier of Quebec to help influence the province to allow Zenn cars on Quebec streets.
A short time later, Quebec changed their laws.
Furthermore, both ZENN and Lionel Liebmen of Lockheed Martin have made statements to the effect that Eestor does have prototypes and let's not forget that the purity of their chemicals was in fact certified by an independent 3rd party lab. This certification triggered an infusion of capital from Zenn.
Zenn has stated they will have the first fleet of EEstor powered cars on the road by Fall 2009.
It's not a lock, but at this late stage there appear to be only two possibilities:
EESTOR has the technology and it works
EESTOR is lying (or just delusional). For this option to be true, the other big players involved must also be lying or are just gullible fools.
We live in a world of charlatans, it's true. I just can't imagine Richard Weir wearing that hat.
Just my opinion, based on my DD.
Do your own DD. It's the only way to truth. Lazy research leads to financial destruction.
- July 20, 2008 at 7:02 AM
- Charles Barton said...
The behavior of both EEStor and Zenn Motors has been puzzling. Critics have pointed out for example that Zenn had stated Zenn had publicly stated that it anticipated the delivery of an ESU last year. The unit did not appear. Critics have pointed to scientific questions related to EEStor patents. An interview with ZennMotors Irving Clifford the GM-Volt blog raised several issues. http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2008/06/ian-clifford-on-zenn-motors-and-eestor.html
I noted a few scientific questions raised in the comment section that followed the interview. Finally even more questions are raised by the ZENN Motors 2007 annual report. http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2008/01/zenn-motor-2007-report.html
We do however, seem to be moving toward a resolution of the story.
- July 20, 2008 at 8:27 AM
- charlesH said...
Did I read that right? $5M in investments?
If this were anywhere near a sure thing investments would be $50-100M.
This is a case of investing a little just in case they get lucky. Keeping your toe in the door.
- July 20, 2008 at 3:08 PM
I'd love to believe that EEStor is real, but I'm not getting my hopes up until I see a finished ESU doing what was claimed.
It'd love to have a bicycle with electrical drive train and a ~1 kWh ESU. You could do all sorts of neat things.
You could do regenerative breaking.
You decouple the power output of the cyclist from the power output of the electrical engine. That allows you to level the power output of the cyclist such that you don't exert yourself going up slopes and you don't have to rest going down them(charge ESU) while still getting a good workout(no net drain on the ESU). It allows you to charge the ESU, getting a good work out even where you cannot go very fast for safety reasons.
You could run on the ESU when you're just interested in utillity and not exercise.
You could provide enough power density to go up steep slopes even with just a small ESU.
You could provide clean electrical power to run the lighting and other interesting gadgets much more efficiently than the usual noisy little dynamo seen on bicycles.
One can dream, but I doubt it.
- July 20, 2008 at 5:39 PM
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In the WebDesign-Review section, the developer of the "Zubera" asked webdesign attendees to comment on their new site. Since no others have commented yet, we decided to take a look . . . What do YOU think? From India, "Anujgarg" writes :
Hello Folks,
I am looking for feedback on my classifieds site which allows user to post free ads of their products/services. All feedback are welcomed negative or positive. website url: www.zubera.co.in
Thanks in Advance
I very seldom actually pan a web site. I'm always looking for the silver lining -- or at least something good about the site. But this one just defies anything good. Stay away from Zuabera web site.
I think somewhere along the line, the designer of this web site either forgot or never knew the reason to design a web site. Upon arrival -- there are so many things blinking, moving and gyrating that it's difficult to concentrate on the message. That's the overwhelming initial reaction . . . "Man, let's get out of here!"
Okay. After the initial shock, let's take a look at why this site is so objectionable, and what needs to be done to fix it. At right you see the page as we loaded it -- after a long wait! Our reviewers count down as a page loads, and we watch the status line as it scrolls off all the activities that are going on. Folks, it downloaded so many third party elements, we couldn't believe it. The amount of code on this page alone is enough to choak a horse. You've got things that move along with the page scroll, covering content. You've got things sliding in and out at the frame borders. You've got things blinking and shaking within the content areas ... and this thing in the corner, well we don't know what to think of that.
This designer has designed in so many revenue things for himself, the reason for the site is lost. We didn't come here to make you a living -- and the promise of a "free" classified in India is not exactly motivation enough to try and even figure out how the site works. And really, that's the bottom line. You've got so much stuff going on in this window, the initial viewier hasn't a clue of what they're supposed to do next. Do you see that green thing over at the left? Well, that keeps popping up right in the middle of the screen! Yes, it's a Google AdSense ad. But there are also 37 other "affiliate" links on the page. (enlarge)
283 Ways to Chase Away your Reader
Folks, you can go over and plug this url into the site called "http://urlquery.net" and it counts the page's "HTTP Transactions" ... or in other words, what happens on the page that relates to other off-site URLs. (See it here) Click here to see the actual diagram of what took place as we arrived on this site : 283 HTTP Transactions!.
The page also executed 171 scripts. That's just on ONE PAGE -- seven of which were linked to "Filemagic" flash data, a known gateway to malware. Three of the negotiations took us to "ET RBN Known Russian Business Network" which you are warned to stay away from!
Thumbs DOWN for Zubera
This site is so rude, and so risky that we cannot even recommend anyone wander in there. I'm sure thay will, and I'm sure they'll click on something that will make the creators a few pennies. But the whole idea behind the web is for meaningful information or services -- and this site has none. The author is so bent on getting every possible means of revenue for himself, there's no room for anything good from the site.
Sorry Anujgarg, but that's the way it is. Go and take a good lesson from Craig's List. They've set up the right kind of framework for a "free" classifieds site. Notice they're all about the service. Now you can do that, and them begin adding in the revenue generators a tiny bit at a time -- as time goes by. Then like some of the big spamware sites like "About.com" and "Yahoo.com" you're sticking your readers at every click, and they don't really realize it because it's been gradual -- and you are actually offering some benefit. But building in all the nasty stuff before you've even offered the first shred of benefit is just wrong. Just plain wrong. And I don't think you'll be very successful at it.
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DmC: Devil May Cry developer Ninja Theory believes that they have created an experience that will not only be accessible to newcomers, but also still challenging for the hardcore.
In an interview with OXM, combat designer Rahni Tucker explained:
When I looked at videos of pro-players playing the old DmCs, they're always in the air, they're always juggling enemies around, and doing stuff that most of us look at and think 'I have no idea how that works'.
We wanted to take that magic the pro-players could create and give more casual players a bit of that feeling. A bit extra hang-time, more aerial moves, the launch button is a single press without a lock-on.
In addition, Capcom game director Hideaki Itsuno lamented the fact that interest in the franchise has waned over the years, saying that this new layer of accessibility will hopefully reignite widespread interest in DmC. "As the series has gone we've seen new users die out, as it took longer to get into it," he said.
"When it came time to make DMC 4, with the new hero and new moves, new techniques and skills, not many new fans entered the series. But with this new DmC, you can take the techniques built up during the old series, and the bar to entry for new users is very low," Itsuno added. "Both old and new fans will be able to enjoy the game, and I'm very proud of them."
Let us know what you think of this new accessible-heavy approach to Devil May Cry in the comments below, and don't forget, DmC: Devil May Cry launches in less than two weeks on January 15th.


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Lewis Rosenthal announced at Warpstock that Arca Noae is now licensed by IBM to create a new OS/2 distribution; it is currently codenamed "Blue Lion" and has a tentative release of Q3 2016.
It will be based on OS/2 Warp 4.52 (MCP2) and the SMP kernel, with a new installer which does not require floppies or optical media (USB and possibly network installs), the Arca Noae driver updates including ACPI, USB, and MultiMac, and an updated version of SNAP Graphics.
Lewis made it clear that there is no agreement between Arca Noae and XEU (formerly Mensys), and they intend to be a better OS/2 distribution than eComstation. Note that eComstation has been effectively dead since December 2013, despite some vague promises earlier this year that 2.2 would finally be released this month.
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NECN is trouble shooting some of the problems caused by this winter's strong storms.
Many MBTA travelers have been asking about parking at lots where snow has been plowed, but not removed. They're having trouble parking to hop aboard a train.
Commuters who can not see the snowed-over parking spot numbers are being hit with fines. It's causing headaches for MBTA passengers who park in the lots.
In-depth news coverage of the Greater Boston Area.
NECN's Ally Donnelly went to MBTA stops in Randolph and Holbrook to hear the complaints of several commuters.
Their main complaint being the snow is preventing them from clearly seeing the numbers of the spots they're parking in. Therefore, they are not paying the $4 fee at the "honor system" kiosk. As a result, they're being ticketed.
Additionally, tickets have stemmed from the hulking snow piles that are forcing people to park anywhere and everywhere.
The MBTA argues that they can't let people park haphazardly because it is a public safety issue, and that the tickets they are issuing are only "snow tickets."
What that means is that they are fining people just $4, which is the same amount it costs to park there. The problem is right on the ticket. There is also a $1 surcharge and a $3.50 processing fee if you pay by phone or online. That said, one could end up paying as much as $8.50.
The Snow removal company which tends to the lots said they are only authorized to remove snow if the MBTA gives them the go ahead.
Long story short, the team told us they would have the private company, Laz, expedite snow removal at that lot.


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The Tenderloin's Little Saigon district (Larkin between Eddy and O'Farrell) had a bounce back year in 2015 and its future is bright. All of these positives occurred this year:
*The Mayor's Office approved $35,000 in funding for new lighting on Little Saigon to increase evening business;
*The Chairman (best known for its food trucks) finally opened its retail space at 670 Larkin in the heart of Little Saigon;
* A long rundown building at Ellis and Larkin was painted.
*San Francycle, a Vietnamese-owned small business, opened at 702 Larkin
*DPW cleared the homeless encampment bordering the PG&E substation at the entry to Little Saigon, and DPW chief Mohammed Nuru has ensured the area remains clear. DPW also stopped a smaller ongoing encampment next door to Turtle Tower.
*Lers Ros is adding two new locations in Little Saigon, including a new bar at the long vacant space across from its restaurant once occupied by Olive;
* La Voz Latina and the Lower Polk CBD have combined forces to get a monitor to stop drug dealing around the toilet at Little Saigon's northern O'Farrell border;
*Emperor Norton's Boozeland at the block before Little Saigon is booming offering the pre-dinner drinks that the area otherwise lacks.
*New police district boundaries began in July bringing Little Saigon into Tenderloin station.
I cite these examples because they completely refute the SF Chronicle's December 8 story, "Tenderloin's Vietnamese restaurant core faces extinction." It's hard to find imminent "extinction" when none of the core Vietnamese restaurants in Little Saigon closed in 2015. And when existing businesses like Lers Ros are expanding in the area. Based on my observation of the lunch time crowds, many are busier than ever.
Ignoring Facts
Why did food writer Jonathan Kauffman get the Little Saigon story completely wrong? It's not because he did not have accurate information. The Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development, which has devoted significant resources toward revitalizing Little Saigon, gave Kauffman the facts but he chose to ignore them.
For example, Kauffman ominously writes that "Golden Era Vegetarian and Turtle Tower have been forced to move." Readers will be surprised to learn that both remain in the Tenderloin.
Golden Era was never in Little Saigon. After their O'Farrell Street landlord refused to renew the lease, they relocated to Golden Gate and Larkin where they are much busier than in their prior location. The Mayor's OEWD provided roughly $30K for Golden Era's storefront door and signage at the new location. It also helped the business to secure a 10 year lease with two 5 year options.
Turtle Tower responded to a rent increase at their longtime Little Saigon location by buying a building a few doors down. The space is far better than what they had before and their former space is occupied by another Vietnamese restaurant.
Kauffman also ignored the significant mayoral commitment to boosting Little Saigon businesses.
Mayor Lee launched his Invest in Neighborhoods program in Little Saigon. The MOEWD provides the Tenderloin Economic Development Project (TEDP) $110K in general fund money and $45,000 in CDBG funds; this represents approximately 60% of their total funding. The Mayor's Office also funds Urban Solutions to assist Tenderloin and Little Saigon businesses to negotiate leases.
Instead of looking at all the facts, Kauffman based his claim of "extinction" on the closure of four Vietnamese businesses over a period of years. He does not state the reason for their closure, or provide any evidence that this was caused by a threat of "gentrification." I know the back story on one of the four mentioned and most of its revenue came from slot machines.
Restaurants open and close in good times and bad. New owners often impose rent hikes regardless of improvements to the surrounding area, as occurred with Turtle Tower, who got a steep hike during economic down times in the city.
The truth is that the Tenderloin has maintained a surprisingly large number of Vietnamese restaurants despite the steady shrinking of the neighborhood's Southeast Asian population. If you are going to operate a restaurant serving the same type of food as well established competitors like Bodega Bistro (607 Larkin), Pho 2000 (637 Larkin) and many more, you better have something distinctive to offer (like the Chairman does).
Kauffman told me in an email that he talked to a lot of Vietnamese restaurant owners in the Tenderloin and they are all "feeling the pinch of gentrification." But that's the risk of relying on personal anecdotes over facts and one's own perceptions. If you look at where many of these businesses are concentrated outside of Little Saigon—like the south side of the 400 block of Ellis between Leavenworth and Jones—there is not only not a "pinch" of gentrification but most would describe that stretch as extremely rundown.
A Bright Future
If Kauffman's article had come out a year ago, I would have echoed his concerns about Little Saigon. Not because of a risk of gentrification and displacement of Vietnamese restaurants, but rather because the area was besieged by problem street behavior that was killing night business and reducing lunch customers.
But Little Saigon dramatically rebounded in 2015. The many new businesses slated to open reflects this positive change.
Little Saigon's biggest challenge remains attracting more nighttime restaurant patrons. The new lights will help. So will Lers Ros' opening of a new bar in the former Olive space.
There are some structural obstacles to increased nighttime success in Little Saigon that have yet to be completely overcome. One is the absence of popular bars as an entry point to a later dinner. The nearest bars, Boozeland and the Gangway, are just outside the area.
Another obstacle is the nearby state and federal buildings that are closed at night and which create a wind tunnel for those approaching Larkin from the west. Reaching Little Saigon from Mid-Market also requires walking past empty public buildings at night, a problem not encountered in nearby Hayes Valley or SOMA.
But Little Saigon turned a corner in 2015. And its future has never been brighter.
Randy Shaw is Editor of Beyond Chron. He writes about the impact of Southeast Asian immigration in the Tenderloin in his new book, The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco
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Addressing a conference of the United Nations International School in March 2007, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remarked that, unfortunately, his"generation has been somewhat careless in looking after our one and only planet". He could well have been speaking of more than the disregard a substantial portion of the twentieth century visited upon the earth and its environment, and been referring to the lack of care invested in the very lives and survival of the children, women and men who are heir to its bounties.
Latin America is the region in the developing world where democracy is now almost universal. Its roots, however, are weak. Latin America has a population of approximately 550 million people, of which about 44 per cent live under the poverty line and 18 per cent are affected by extreme poverty.
The significance of the selection of Africa for the first official overseas visit of Ban Ki-moon as Secretary-General of the United Nations cannot be overstated. Promoting stability and development in the region must continue to be at the heart of the Organization's work.
The Fourth Committee handles special political matters not dealt with by the First Committee, as well as decolonization issues.
For the first time in its history, the United Nations is embracing business and civil society as vital partners in advancing its goals of international peace and development.
At the sixty-first session of the General Assembly, the Fifth Committee ensured that the United Nations would continue to function in the 2007-2009 biennium and finance its activities, by determining the contribution of each Member State to the Organization's regular and peacekeeping budgets.
General Assembly President Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, in her closing statement to the sixty-first session, told Member States that "when we are united in partnership and overcome mistrust, we can achieve much more for each other", noting that the adoption of the long-awaited resolution on strengthening the UN Economic and Social Council was a good example.
The Sixth Committee, which deals with international legal matters confronting the 192 Member States of the United Nations, has helped give birth to judicial bodies like the International Criminal Court. Following the recommendations of the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document, the objective of strengthening the rule of law was at the top of the Committee's agenda in 2006.
The First Committee, one of the main bodies of the General Assembly, enforces disarmament and the non-proliferation of weapons. In 2006, it made huge strides in international security when it adopted resolutions condemning surplus weapons stockpiles and agreeing on deeper international cooperation in the tracing of black market arms.
Global sustainable development and security are deeply interconnected, a fact that is increasingly recognized by world leaders. Sustainable development signifies the challenge of combining economic development with environmental sustainability.
Ethics in Action is an intelligent, provocative and important contribution to the fields of human rights and ethics. The book emerged from a series of meetings-apparently rather dynamic meetings-over the course of several years, which brought together academics and those working for various international non-governmental organizations (INGOs).
The Second Committee continued to tackle the enormous dilemmas of economic inequality, poverty and environmental degradation. Many developing countries expressed their frustrations at the lack of progress on the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round of multilateral negotiations, aimed at increasing economic growth by lowering trade barriers worldwide.
As the first Secretary-General of the United Nations elected in the twenty-first century, Ban Ki-moon has inherited responsibilities that span the globe and run the gamut of issues, which included peace, prosperity and everything in between.
The Third Committee during the sixty-first session of the General Assembly had at the top of its agenda the rights of women, children and migrants, as well as an evaluation of the work of the recently established Human Rights Council, and approved a draft resolution naming the right to development as a major goal of this new UN body.
Even before formally assuming office, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had already made it very clear, in a series of public statements, that Africa would be among his highest priorities.
Ban Ki-moon has taken the "most impossible job in the world", as Trygve Lie famously said about the role of the Secretary-General. The Charter of the United Nations included the Secretariat among its principal organs, most certainly to grant some political prerogatives to the Secretary-General.
Today's peacekeeping is reaching unprecedented levels. There are, as we speak, roughly 100,000 personnel -- military, police, civilian -- in 18 missions around the world.
Presiding over the sixty-first session of the General Assembly, I quickly learned that an effective president needs to be able to juggle many issues and remain in close contact with key negotiating groups and regional constituencies.
It is an honour to suggest agenda items and top priorities in international security for Ban Ki-moon's first term in office as Secretary-General of the United Nations. However, it is also a daunting prospect, given his special expertise in foreign affairs and international security policy.
When Ban Ki-moon was appointed eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations on 13 October 2006, he declared: "The world's people will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights -- the three pillars of the UN -- are advanced together with equal vigour".
The mission of the United Nations to carve out a safe, prosperous and just world from the ashes of the Second World War remains today an urgent global undertaking. For the past 61 years of its existence, the Organization's major organs contributed significantly, and greatly, to this end.


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Text: Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
Published by: classica Music Publishers, MV #011 (2005)
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Notes: Awarded first prize in the 2000 Austin (TX) Pro Chorus Choral Composition Competition. This work was composed in 2000 and is the first of three pieces on the poetry of Welsh metaphysical poet, Henry Vaughan. It may be sung separately or performed with its two companion pieces, The Revival and Peace. The complete work was premiered by the University of Alberta Madrigal Singers, Dr. Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor in 2001. Some other choirs that have performed this work include the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Da Capo Chamber Choir, and Musikay.
See the score at classica Music Publishers
Performed by: The University of Alberta Madrigal Singers, Dr. Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor; recorded on, My Soul There is a Country. (2001)
Performed by: I Coristi Chamber Choir, Dr. Debra Cairns, conductor; recorded on, Songs of the Soul, 2008
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize"Nothing since Cormac McCarthy's The Road has shaken me like this." - The Washington PostIn The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan displays the gifts that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary fiction. Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.


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When you have a large band, orchestra or choir, it is easy for everybody's sheet music to get mixed up. This can lead to confusion and frustration, and easily eat away at the limited practice or lesson time you have. A sheet music cabinet keeps all pieces arranged properly so students and instructors can find their parts easily and avoid mix ups.
Music cabinets have many compartments where scores and symphonies can be organized. There are a number of arrangement options, and the ideal will ultimately depend on personal preference. One compartment can be designated for each instrument or performance piece. Alternatively, each band member can have a personal space for their music. With appropriate sheet music storage, there is no need to worry about music getting lost in backpacks or left at home. This setup will also keep the practice space neat because, rather than leaving their papers scattered around the room, students can easily put them away in the proper place.
In the process of music room design, once arrangements have been made for the sheet music, instrument storage can be considered as well. Randal storage cabinets come in many different arrangements so any school can find the right combination of compartments. Solid and grille doors are available, as well as open models with no doors at all. Each of these options has its own advantages.
When students come to school, they have lots of things to worry about. Carrying around a backpack full of books, a lunchbox, coat and other things that are needed can strain students' backs and make hallways quite crowded. If band members have the added inconvenience of carrying instruments around all day, it can become quite cumbersome.
Many instruments are too large or unwieldy to fit inside lockers which leaves musicians no choice but to carry them around all day. This will create clutter in classrooms and hazards in hallways. Avoiding this unnecessary inconvenience is as easy as creating an instrument storage area in the music room. If you are worried about theft or mixups, many models feature individually locking doors on each compartment. Grill doors provide ventilation and make it easier for musicians to identify their instruments. Solid doors offer the ultimate protection because they keep contents hidden from prying eyes.
Choosing the proper instrument storage is all about knowing your musicians. There are many ways to bring music into the educational environment, and not every school will have the same needs. Before anything is ordered, a school should verify which instruments their students are playing. If most students are using small wind instruments that are stored in similar cases, a number of equal compartments might be helpful. However, if your orchestra includes a combination of violins, drums, cellos, oboes and more, you will require a variety of sizes and arrangements.
String instruments must be taken into special consideration because many of them have unique shapes that will only fit in special compartments. For acoustic guitar storage, there are special instrument storage units. For other string instruments such as cellos, violins, violas and basses, there are special racks as well. Some even have casters so they can be used to transport a number of instruments at once, which saves the time and strain of carrying them individually.
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Forensic science has enabled fossilised canine remains - excavated from ancient burial chambers on Orkney - to be reconstructed in order to create a model of what "man's best friend" looked like 4,500 years ago.
See *replica illustrated in the link provided ... *which suggests these neolithic animals resembled LARGE collies and/or grey wolves and weren't too far removed from today's versions of such breeds in appearance.
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A team's coaching staff is usually made up of one head coach, who is, in turn, assisted by one or several assistant coaches. Their role is obviously to lead the team before, during and after the game; they are in charge of setting up lines, changing them during the match, develop tactics, assign players special orders before or during the game as well as motivate their troops when they feel it is needed. They are also in charge of setting up training programs for their players so that they can develop and reach their full potential, in order to be at their best on the ice.
It is not uncommon, especially in lower-end leagues, to see veteran players take on coaching duties while still being on the active roster, most usually as assistant coaches and trainers but sometimes even as head coaches; we then talk of player coaches.


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Sunday, 1 July 2012
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Small Town Summer Afternoon
The sun froze in the sky,
the day eternal,
with no end in sight,
the swimming hole north of town,
filled with young bodies,
boys bare-chested in jeans,
marking territory,
while girls attired to highlight nature's curves,
sunbath on the hood of the cars,
a car radio blasting one summer anthem after another,
as Fall plans are discussed and some times dreaded,
both sexes mapping strategies,
anxiously awaiting the far away night.
Biography: Douglas Polk is a poet living in the wilds of central Nebraska with his wife and two boys. He has had numerous poems, three poetry books, and two children's books published. Poetry books are: In My Defense, The Defense Rests and On Appeal. The children's books are: The Legend of Garle Pond and Marie's Home.


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Local Coastal Program Approved by L.A. County Board of Supervisors
Spearheaded by Third District Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, the LCP is a mechanism for allowing one-stop approval for agreement between the County and State whereas the Coastal Commission currently has a two-step process that delegates authority to local government to comply with state and local protections.
The LCP would cover about 80 square miles in the Santa Monica Mountains stretching about five miles inland from the coast and includes equestrian and hiking trails.
The Las Virgenes Homeowners Federation (LVHF), representing almost 10,000 homeowners, property owners and horse owners in the Santa Monica Mountains, voted unanimously to support the proposed LCP and urged the Supervisors to pass the resolution.
Briefly explained, all coastal communities must have a local coastal program. This vote would remove control of coastal regions within the Third Supervisorial District from the California Coastal Commission and replace it with the LCP.
It safeguards the unique character of our mountain communities, Lamorie wrote. It removes habitat mitigation fees that the Coastal Commission charges today; it allows us to rebuild after natural disasters; it ensures that horse owners in our LCP communities of Topanga, Monte Nido, Cold Creek and Malibou Lake can thrive; and, it greatly enhances recreational benefits and public access for everyoneincluding trail, parkland and scenic route preservation.
Without the LCP, the LVHF fears that the California Coastal Commission would retain final permit authority and continue with its case-by-case, ad hoc policy interpretations for coastal development permits, one that has come under criticism by property owners.
In addition to the LVHF, nearly three-dozen Topanga and Santa Monica Mountain residents, including Roger Pugliese of TASC and Rosi Dagit of the RCDSMM, testified on behalf of the LCP.
Other heavy hitters included support from Pepperdine University in Malibu; the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, Heal the Bay, the Sierra Club and State Sen. Fran Pavley.
It's not a perfect plan, Yaroslavsky said after the testimony, but argued to opponents of the LCP that the prohibition on new agricultural uses and vineyards was already in place, imposed by the Coastal Commission, not the County.
Final implementation of the LCP will depend on Coastal Commission approval when they hold a public hearing on the matter sometime in April.
This victory belongs to Zev! Lamorie said in an e-mail to the LVHF. His efforts to protect the Santa Monica Mountains have never wavered and his strength, commitment and passion to drive this LCP have been extraordinary. This LCP will be the crowning glory of the legacy he will leave behindso important, as a matter of fact, that as one of the Feds delegates so astutely pointed out, this is a day that will go down in history for the people of the Santa Monica Mountains.... and it will, because it protects the future.


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Picture it: You're out to brunch with the girls, swapping stories — about how messy your boyfriend is and how his mom might be a sociopath — over mimosas and daydreaming about your romantic fall vacation to Paris (who knows, maybe he'll propose at the top of the Eiffel Tower?).
Then, BAM! Out of the blue, he calls and says "it's not you, it's me, but it's over. I've fallen in love with your best friend ____________ and we're eloping."
Over? OVER. Over. Ouch.
Well, enter the Ex Outlet, it's a new website created by a woman who, after experiencing a devastating break-up,' found herself needing help to move on. So she created an online community where you can sell his crap (or gifts you no longer want) but more importantly, vent. The most crucial piece is that users post their breakup stories alongside the photos of the engagement ring, rugby shirt or guitar. Remember the Floridian thong lady? It's meant to be cathartic and other users can comment on your story offering a few kind words or simply ask questions about the item.
Thoughts? Would you ladies find this constructive after a breakup? Or are you more of burn everything in a bonfire' kinda girl? If not, how have you removed his stuff from your space in the past?__
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It has been some time now since there have been any new updates, posts or blogs from us. Last post was July of 2011. We are still here and very active, just took, quite by accident, a little time away from the constant grind of the outside world.
Currently we are in the process of updating and redesigning our websites, blogs and other types of internet presence. We still have a great deal of work to go, my wife Lori and I are doing everything ourselves so please be patient as we get back to more frequent postings.
That is about it for now, just wanted to post a short message and let everyone know we are still here and active and will be returning to a more regular schedule soon. Here are a few photographs that were taken recently when we attended a Terry Fator show in Las Vegas with Lori's parents. We all had a wonderful time and it was great entertainment, enjoy.
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When it finally happened, it wasn't just cool, it was downright cold. And dark. And an embarrassing hour late. But we didn't care. We had a ball – or more accurately, a torch, minus the flame. Take a sacred event, cross it with holy ground, and you get something ethereal, unreal, and almost mystical. Then somehow, accidentally, find yourself in the middle of it, and you question how the world sorts these things out. This time, the world sorted out the highly improbably outcome that I ended up running the Olympic torch across the Boston Marathon finish line Thursday evening.
Adding to the irony was the fact that I hadn't been back to the finish line since the day of the race, the day of the bombing, the day the world changed, and the previous day when I'd asked the question of how world-scale events could cross paths with little old me. It was somehow fitting, I suppose, that world-scale events (that's a bit of a stretch here, but go with me) should cross paths again with little old me, at the same place, but this time all for good. Let's say we cancelled out that previous ugly day with a polar (and polar-feeling) opposite.
So let's sort this all out. Mighty Employer, that same one so roundly lambasted a few weeks back regarding their rather inane online wellness programs, really is, despite that episode, a pretty interesting place to be. Mighty Employer doesn't have the marketing power of some of the more well-known names, but quietly continues to supply a major chunk of the world's business communications technology, and even more quietly cranks out some seriously amazing networking technology. Networking, that is, being the business of moving bazillions of packets of data around the world so that you can, amongst other things, pull up this column any time you feel like it.
It is this very seriously amazing technology that won us the honor of building the entire network for the upcoming winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Come February when the games begin, everything you see on television, every score, standing, timing, and replay, not to mention the connection for every one of the hundred thousand of devices carried by every spectator at every event, plus every feed from every one of the thousands of surveillance cameras… all if it will ride our network using a new technology called Shortest Path Bridging. I won't go any geekier than that, but suffice to say it's new, different, better, and way cool. Yes, I'm proud, yes, I have my fingers crossed, and no, I wasn't personally involved, so if it burps, I too will burp, but not panic.
Two days before said torch was slated to arrive in Boston on its cross-country tour, I knew nothing of these marathon plans. All I knew was that Thursday morning there would be a torch reception at our local office, after which it would be taken on a few customer visits. I begged a few customers to show for the reception, and was excited enough at the prospect of seeing it there. That, I figured, was it for my involvement.
Life is never simple. Somehow, one thing always leads to another. A simple request came in: a colleague asked if I could deliver the torch to a nearby customer, since she couldn't make it down in time. Just the prospect of having the Olympic torch in my car made me giddy. Seriously, how goofy is that? But wow… toolin' down the highway, just me and a real live official Olympic torch. Oh, and I've got the Hope Diamond in the glove box, too. I recalled seeing the torch relay come through town on its way to Atlanta in ninety-six, and remembered how cool I thought it would be just to lay my hands on it. Now they wanted me to take possession of this thing? Are you kidding?
Schedule rearranged, now a transporter for merely one leg of the torch's day-long agenda, I was suddenly on the "torch team", invited to the next torch planning call, and privy to the torch's agenda. And on that agenda, there it was… at the end of the day… after the visit to Fenway Park (the Red Sox are our customer), the torch was slated to go to the finish line of the Boston Marathon, just because it was in Boston, and we were having fun in each city it visited, photographing it at local landmarks. Yeah, sort of like that famous gnome.
As I noted, take the sacred event – the Olympics, of which the torch is the symbol, carrier of the flame representing the best that mankind can be – and cross it with holy ground – the Boston Marathon finish line, holy even before last year's tragedy, and many times more so afterward. To an athlete, a marathoner, a citizen of our global community, well, my bell went off. I made known on the call that I'd really like to be there for that stop at the finish line, would they mid if I tagged along? I didn't say was what I was thinking: how incredible it would be to actually run the torch to – and across – the finish line! But far be it for me to impose or suggest that which I felt would be such a rush, such an honor, no, cannot ask… The team was pleased at my enthusiasm to travel with the torch to Boylston Street, and that was enough for me.
But there was a logistical problem: they'd slated only ten minutes to get the torch from Fenway to the finish line. Nobody seemed to note this problem until I pointed it out. I suggested they'd better take a cab, since trying to drive, park, get out of the garage, and to the line would take far longer than the time allotted. Murmuring all around…
…then it happened. A voice on the call said simply, "Why don't you just run it down there?"
Seriously? As in, "You'd let me do that?"
Then, after a day in which all had gone to plan, suddenly it all went south (or more accurately, east). I parted from our company team to change into running duds while they carried the torch back to the Sox front office. What happened next is still unclear, but as best I can tell, our gang of assembled runners had ducked back into Fenway to keep warm, so the company team didn't see them, thought they'd left, and they themselves then left for the finish line, in a cab, with the torch. I went mildly apoplectic, having promised these dozen runners a torch run and having no torch.
At least until our adrenaline wore off, when I remembered that it was, after all, really cold.
18 December 2013
Flameless, Yet On Fire
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How small changes can influence reviewer behavior
Professor Raj Chetty and colleagues ran an experiment evaluating the effects of cash incentives, social incentives, and nudges on the behavior of referees
By Professor Raj Chetty Posted on 1 May 2014
Professor Raj Chetty, PhD, is the Bloomberg Professor of Economics at Harvard University Department of Economics and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Public Economics.
Together with two colleagues - Emmanuel Saez, E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California Berkeley, and László Sándor, a PhD candidate in Economics at Harvard University - Professor Chetty ran an experiment evaluating the effects of cash incentives, social incentives, and nudges on the behavior of referees at the Journal of Public Economics. The interesting, and sometimes surprising, results of their study featured in an earlier Reviewers' Update article.
Now their findings are to be published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Here Professor Chetty talks about the rationale behind the trial and lessons learnt.
Since I took on the role of Editor-in-Chief, I have been interested in how we can better serve authors and improve the review times on our journal. And, as an author myself, I would love to see my papers reviewed more quickly.
To design the trial, we began by reading the literature and thought about what might prove effective in motivating reviewers to submit high-quality reports more quickly. We formulated three interventions.
First, naturally, as economists, we thought that paying people might prove an incentive. But psychologists suggest that payment can crowd out "intrinsic motivation" and actually lead to worse performance. So these contradictory hypotheses seemed very natural to test.
Second, the psychology literature suggests that simple nudges and reminders can affect people's behavior, so we decided to try changing the deadline by which reports were due.
Third, sociologists have suggested that social incentives – namely, how people are perceived by their peers – may be a key determinant of behavior.
To test these hypotheses, we randomly assigned referees to four groups:
- Group one was the control and participants had a six-week deadline to submit their reports.
- Group two was given only four weeks to provide their reports.
- Group three also had only four weeks and if they met that deadline they received $100.
- Group four was offered a social incentive, i.e. we informed them that their turnaround times would be publicly posted.
In total, the experiment included 1,500 referees who submitted nearly 2,500 reports from February 2010 to October 2011.
I should mention that all the interventions we tested have been used by other journals, but until now there has never really been a clear examination of which factors work best.
Key takeaways
First, a change in timeframe is very effective; if you shorten the deadline by two weeks you receive reviews two weeks earlier on average. In fact, we noticed that whatever timeframe you give, most people submit their review just prior to the deadline. Editors might worry that if you ask reviewers to review more quickly, they submit lower-quality reviews. However, we found no significant changes in the quality of referee reports, as judged, for instance, by the editor's propensity to follow the advice in the report.
Second, if a journal has the money available, cash incentives also work very well. The $100 payment reduced review times by about 10 days on average. Hence, it is clear that the "crowd-out of intrinsic motivation" that psychologists have been concerned about is actually not a serious concern in this context.
Third, the social incentive was less effective but still surprisingly successful in reducing review times, particularly with tenured professors, who were less sensitive to cash and deadlines. This confirms that people care about how they are perceived and suggests that gentle, personalized reminders from editors could be very effective in improving referee performance.
Overall, my biggest takeaway was that, as editors, we shouldn't believe that the performance of our journals is something we can't change. We can greatly improve the quality of our journals' review process through simple policy changes and active editorial management.
Personally, I was surprised by how effective the shorter deadline was. There was no consequence for reviewers who didn't meet it, yet they were still very receptive. The advantage for journals is that this approach is cost-free. I would probably be less responsive to the cash incentive, so I was also quite surprised by how successful that proved to be. However, if I have to do something anyway and by doing it today I get $100 then perhaps it's not so surprising it has some effect.
Going forward, we would love to see other journals adopting some of these policies. And for reviewers, I would suggest that often what is useful to editors, especially if you are going to recommend rejection, is a short, clear - and on time - report, rather than something that is more detailed which takes longer to draft. By focusing on the big picture, you not only save yourself time but better serve editors and the author community too.
Author biography
Professor Raj Chetty's research combines empirical evidence and economic theory to help design more effective government policies. His work on tax policy, unemployment insurance, and education has been widely cited in media outlets and Congressional testimony.
Professor Chetty was recently awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship and the John Bates Clark Medal, given by the American Economic Association to the best American economist under age 40. He received his PhD from Harvard in 2003 at the age of 23 and is one of the youngest tenured professors in the university's history.


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After a week of outdoor education work north of Lake Tahoe I reported, only slightly tardy, to Carson City for the pre race
meeting for my sixth start of the TRT 100. The weather was hot, windy and threatening a thunderstorm. Hundreds of us gathered in the grass near the capitol building as RD George Ruiz got going a bit early to try and beat the storm. A good size branch was blown out of a tree and landed in the crowd, fortunately rendering only minor injuries, but also rendering an end to the meeting for many of us.
The TRT 100 is, in my opinion (drawing from a limited sample set), one of the classic hundreds, featuring two fifty mile loops on and around the Tahoe Rim Trail on the north east side of Lake Tahoe. The name is slightly misleading as we're running on the TRT for only 15 miles or so each way; basically a figure 8 shaped loop, the race begins at Spooner Summit, heads north on the TRT to Diamond Peak Ski resort, then back to the start via Snow Valley Peak. It's a hilly course with something north of 18,000' of elevation gain. The race is the best supported race I've done and feels like one big, long party. The aid stations and their volunteers are spectacular and are my inspiration for the Bishop Ultras, which I now direct.
Saturday, July 21 – race day! After allowing myself a 9 hour sleep window of which maybe six was actual sleep, (thanks to Bose noice cancelling headphones, a black out face mask, and a sleep-promoting sounds app) I made a 2:30am start for a quick breakfast at the Plaza, and the bus ride up to the start at Spooner Lake. Lots of barely awake runners were mingling around the start, most talking excitedly and fidgeting with their gear. It was good to connect with running buddies from past races including Doug and Marie Donovan, from Las Vegas, David Binder from the Bishop Ultras, and many others.
George got us going promptly, after playing "America the Beautiful"; with a loud cheer we were off! In the twilight of the starting line I enjoyed running past cheering onlookers who lined the sides of the dirt road.
I started maybe a fifth the way back in the pack and settled into a mix of fast walking and slow running, seldom getting passed or passing. The route starts pretty much flat or slightly uphill for a couple of miles and my strategy was to go out at the pace I thought I'd use on the second 50 mile lap. This meant walking runnable uphills and taking it pretty easy. I always wonder at these affairs, how is it going to work out for all those young does and bucks who are going so fast so early?
By the first aid station, Hobart, six miles in, I was feeling good and waking up… to siatica in my right leg, a first. It bugged me for fifteen or twenty miles but never made it past the 'worriesome niggle phase'. Looking back at the splits I think I was in 60 something place when I rolled through Hobart.
I enjoyed running with David Binder through this section and on down to the next aid station at Tunnel Creek. Somehow I didn't get a photo of the Tunnel aid station, but it was great to be greeted there by Kaycee Green and other friends from past TRTs. I was in and out of these aid stations in seconds and started the big, steep, downhill into the famous Red Hill Loop, in which you lose over a thousand feet on a steep dirt road, cross a couple of creeks, run on a level flume road for a couple of miles, then climb steeply back up to the Tunnel aid station. Red House seems kinda notorious but the six miles go quickly, and is actually quite pleasant if you take it easy on the downhill. Much of it is quite runnable, and it's important to consider how these runnable sections will feel the next time through, fifty miles later!
As a bird geek, I'm always birding during my races and it is on the Red House Loop that I see and mostly hear the greatest number of birds. This time around, in addition to the usual suspects, I heard a Great Grey Owl, a rare species. It sounded close so I stopped to scan the nearby trees but failed to locate it. I played its call on my phone and confirmed that my bird and the recording sounded the same. The Red House Loop felt fast and comfortable, and at times I experienced the coveted 'flow state', where I was able to simply enjoy the sensation of moving through the air and land, listening to the sounds of the forest and my steady breathing. Of course that all ends when the loop comes around and rejoins itself; the steep climb out of Red House begins against a steady flow of 50 mile runners whose race starts an hour after the hundred runners. It's steep, but can't be more than ten minutes of wishing it was over, and soon enough – it is! Lesson: all hills eventually end so long as you are moving. Onward, I got back up to Tunnel, grabbed my poles, and headed on to Diamond Peak, some 10 miles away.
By now it was mid morning and I was still feeling great, enjoying and trying to run most of the slightly rolling terrain between Tunnel and the long hill down to Diamond. This section is never quite as easy as my memory says it's going to be, though I appreciated the small creeks. Somewhere there's a lesson in there… The day was hazy and the first sign of thunderstorm buildup was starting over Slide Mountain and also the south end of the course. I ran mostly alone on the long descent down to Diamond where it was fun to be greeted by Helen Pelster, who was awaiting hubby Javier. Making quick work of the aid station, with Helen's help, I was sent off with one of her specialty coconut blueberry rice balls, which propelled me much of the way up the hill. I vow to have these stashed at a few of the Bishop Ultra aid stations! I also filled my running vest's bladder with ice, as part of the strategy to get me up the next hill in the warming morning.
The climb back up to Bullwheel is also legend, gaining fifteen hundred feet in a scant mile and a half, but it too is over quickly, and the best strategy I can offer is 'suck it up and KEEP MOVING (but don't rush)!' By this point in the race, 30 miles in, I always think "well, at least the end of the beginning of this run has come and gone". As the climb proceeds the breeze picks up, along with the views, and soon enough the top arrives. There's no reason to hurry on the hike, and every reason to get it done! There's really only about 20 minutes of super steep slogging, the rest is pretty reasonable. Topping out at Bullwheel I didn't need any supplies so headed on, passing through Tunnel just long enough to deposit my Carbon Z's into my small drop bag. Incidentally, though poles are useful on the steep climbs out of Red House and Diamond I'm still debating if they are worth the time it takes to grab them and run with them where they are not needed. Perhaps next time I'll go without.
The return to Hobart, was unremarkable for me other than I noticed what to me seemed to be pretty
significant thunderstorm build up south of Snow Valley Peak. We'd been warned that the lightening plan would include shutting down the course (which I still wonder how that would work, and how would it improve safety, especially for runners on the ridge between stations), and I didn't want to get stuck at an aid station. I also didn't want to get hit by lightening. So I worked my pace beyond what I thought I should, considering that in 12 or 15 hours I'd be back in this same place if all went according to plan. Jogging up Marlette Peak saved some time and so did spending mere seconds in Hobart. Shortly before Hobart I'd joined Angel Avila, from Bishop, who was making good time and who was pleasant company for five or six miles until he ran ahead of me on the long descent to the fifty mile aid station. We passed a number of runners as we ran at a moderate effort up the gentle hill to Snow Valley, for me the continued threat of lightening was a good incentive to push the pace a bit.
This time around the long downhill to the fifty mile aid station seemed to never end, this might have been one of my low points of the run. The phrase 'end this hill this endless hill' got stuck in my head, defeating it was the first of many mind control games I'd need in the coming hours. The storm held off, though we had maybe an hour of frequent rumbles and a couple of drops of actual rain. Once the day began to cool down the clouds quickly disappeared, back to the wisps from which they'd arisen.
Stonehenge! The aptly named fifty mile aid station is always a haven and it's easy to spend some time there and one should have a plan for getting out as quickly as possible. Having done the race five times now (5.8 counting my 80 mile variation in 2015) I'm often asked 'isn't it hard to go back out knowing you have to do all that over again?' Fair question. My thought on that is, every hundred has a fifty mile point. At least at TRT you have the benefit of knowing what lies ahead for the next fifty miles. How awesome is that? Anyway, I lost ten minutes at the aid station, messing around with changing shoes. I'd only put ten prior miles on the shoes I changed into, so I spent a few minutes walking around and trying to imagine how my feet would feel in 30 more miles, and ended up taking the risk. Which paid off, by the way, the Hoka Speedgoats felt good, albeit a bit cushy for my tastes.
Speaking of tastes I was also experimenting (I know, don't experiment in races!) with a slightly new food strategy suggested to me by Ann Trason. To wit: eat 100-150 calories every half hour. That's a lot of eating. But it seemed to be working, though by fifty miles I was starting to tire of the regime. It's not that I didn't eat well on prior races, but in the past my plan had always been to eat a bunch at the station, grab maybe one emergency item, and continue on, generally not eating again until the next station. Anyway, I'd placed a paper cup in one of the bottle pockets on the front of my race vest and at each aid station I'd grab 500 cals or so of whatever foods looked good, and put them in the cup. Certain items rattled around a bit and that's something I need to improve for the next iteration of the system. As I jogged the easy miles out of Stonehenge I had a quarter of a grilled cheese in my hand and two more quarters in my trusty cup.
As the dirt road changed to trail, and the incline increased, I found myself still able to run and was feeling pretty good, and ended up running pretty much all of it up to the steeper hill just before the Hobart aid station. I passed Candice Burt and her pacer, both taking it easy on one of the benches along the trail, and I asked if they needed anything. They seemed in good spirits and so I was surprised later to learn that she'd dropped from the race.
Up at Hobart I met up with Tim Macisaac, from Truckee, and we ended up running together on and off much of the rest of the race. Hobart to Tunnel went fine, Tim and I chatted and ran most of that.
After a quick drop bag detour at Tunnel, for lighting supplies, Tim and I were off again for another lap of the Red House loop. Don't fear it, love it! I told myself. Tim spotted a bear at the bottom of the hill and we watched it for a while before starting the short climb up to the actual Red House, once in a while shouting a precautionary "Hey Bear!!". As evening advanced on us I also heard Poorwills, a bird and a fun opportunity to use the word 'crepuscular'. I'll let you look that one up if need be. Tim got a head of me for a bit here and for the first time of the run I found myself in distracting pain. Everything just hurt – my feet, my legs; I think maybe I was feeling some of the lingering effects from having run Western States a month earlier. I took one Tylenol and carried on, this was nothing I hadn't had to deal with before and the pain could be ignored by putting it in the pain box, more on that later. I caught up with Tim later, at Bullwheel, he'd hit a low, and together we tried and succeeded to rally the three rolling miles (always harder than they should be!) to the start of the long downhill over to Diamond Peak. Something went right because soon enough we were down there and it was only 11:00pm, if memory serves.
After a quick food grab (burrito, coke, burrito for the road, ice, coke) we were on our way up the hill. Tim fell back a bit and I found myself climbing up the hill alone. Here a spell of drowsies kicked in and I found myself playing that game where you see how long you can go with your eyes shut. I was also in a wierd semi-sleeping state where everything seemed odd and somewhat hallucinatory – strange spiders on the ground, an errant mouse running with me; insects attracted to my light all seemed part of a fuzzy and weird headspace that wasn't all that pleasant. Fortunately this didn't seem to last all that long, I'd remembered Marie Boyd's sage advice that if you get drowsy in the middle of the night it means you should eat, and so I did, and soon enough we were back to Bullwheel, Tim having caught back up on the uphill.
80 miles into a hundred is an interesting place to find yourself. I enjoy the mind control necessary to quiet the demons of negativity that can creep in. This is a type of meditation that in my experience comes only late in a hundred. If I become aware of un-constructive thoughts starting to creep in I have a few techniques I try. I focus on my stride and my breathing, and disallow any thoughts beyond the immediate. Consider only the next five minutes. But 'Twenty miles left seems impossible! ' Control solution: don't think about the twenty, think about the 3 to the next aid station. 'It hurts!' Control solution: what did you expect? Pain cave: imagine a box. Put thoughts of pain in that box, shut the lid. … that shower at the end is going to feel so good! Too soon to go there! Back to breathing and focus. For me this point in a race is a special time, where all that matters is distilled to the essence of movement and mind control. "The first fifty are run on your legs and the second fifty are run in your head!"
At Bullwheel I always have mixed feelings about encountering all the runners who still have all that loop to do – I've been lucky enough to be here and not there, there's always a lot of runners coming from Tunnel who still have to do the ten miles down to Diamond and back up. I love the shouts back and forth of 'good job!' And 'way to go!' as we pass each other on that section of trail, but I feel for these folks who have to overcome the huge sinkhole that is Diamond Peak aid station at three in the morning, with twenty intimidating miles still to go and a coupla 'significant' hills. On the other hand, other than a few short sections of trail much earlier in the course, this section is where I see the most other runners and I find the energy and persistence inspiring – and motivating. I recall turning to Tim, at Bullwheel and saying 'come on, lets see what we have left', But Tim was in the middle of a back spasm earned on the climb up from Diamond and was having a hard time running. I told him I was going to give running ago, left him an Advil and a Tylenol, and at that point we broke up the band.
Back at Tunnel, which really ramps up in the middle of the night, I found myself increasingly energized, and possibly starting to let myself start smelling the barn. The last stragglers outbound were just arriving at Tunnel, they still needed to do Red House and the rest, as I jogged out. Tunnel felt like a well organized chaos – shouts and cheers randomly punctuated the night while amped up volunteers got me in and out in seconds. At this point I was really reaching deep, but felt pretty good. I decided to run easy up the climb out of Tunnel and found myself able to keep up this pace, to my surprise. I think it is Joe Uhan who said 'fatigue is inevitable, slowing down is optional'; a phrase I often turn to at such times. I still don't know if I believe it, but it's an idea that I like to test, and surely would like to believe. I passed three or four runners on the downhill into Hobart, where I was, of course, offered a shot of tequila (declined). I wanted to maintain my momentum, which was mostly mental at this point, so I was in and out fast, and found myself still running the uphill towards Snow Valley.
For the first time in my six attempts on the course I found myself arriving at Snow Valley aid station in the dark. Sleepy Scouts welcomed me in and sent me off with a couple of bars and my last bottle of water. All hills have an end, and eventually the long downhill to the finish ended for me, just as it was getting light. I tried to finish strong and ran hard to the arch, happy and amazed to be welcomed by cheers and somehow still awake and exuberant people I didn't even know. It's a great race to finish and this was my favorite finish of my five so far.
I'd gone longer than I should without eating and so didn't dilly dally at the finish area, rather went over to enjoy some breakfast and beer. I was really psyched to see Tim come rolling in not twenty minutes later, next in place behind me. I think we'd managed 11th and 12th respectively.
It was a great run for me – so great to see old friends, and make new ones, to feel the support of so many volunteers and other runners and their teams. Hopefully I'll be back for #6 next year!


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While Mars plods along in reliable Taurus, messenger planet Mercury swooshes into hot-blooded Aries on Monday, 13 March, and chats up a storm with the Celestial Ram until 31 March. Universal energies encourage spontaneous expression; still, be mindful of what is said from the lips but not meant in the heart, and count to ten before you say something in the heat of the moment that you might regret later. The saying that "he who controls his tongue can rule the world" holds very true for the next couple of weeks!
Count to ten before you say something in the heat of the moment that you might regret later.
So let's check out This Week's Tarot. Here we go!
LEFT: NINE OF CUPS REVERSED. Upright, the Nine of Cups is the card of contentment; ill-dignified, expectations have gone unmet and disappointment is the mood du jour. Be careful not to over-indulge in hurt feelings, though: Mars in Taurus + Mercury in Aries could lead to passive-aggressive seething, unfortunate meltdowns and unproductive confrontations.
Stressed and/or pissed over developments? Go get a time-out and some fresh air instead. Vent to trusted friends (this card in reverse also suggests loneliness).
don't be a stranger. You are not alone.
MIDDLE: SEVEN OF PENTACLES. At the heart of this week's Tarot is a reminder to be patient and practice self-control – not only in matters of speech, but in situations that require patience, and where you don't have the final say when it comes to timing. The Seven of Pentacles indicates that if you've done what you can, given the circumstances you're in, great – now let it go and live. No matter how you're feeling now, life goes on, and Karma is a Law. The efforts you make now will bear a harvest in the fullness of time.
No matter how you're feeling now, life goes on, and Karma is a Law. The efforts you make now will bear a harvest in the fullness of time.
RIGHT: THREE OF SWORDS REVERSED. I've always found the Three of Swords to be a card whose bark is worse than its bite. A bleeding heart impaled by three blades seems like a terrible harbinger of heartbreak, but this card vibrates to the number three, the energies of which are dynamic but also somewhat fragile.
In other words: the Three of Swords, especially when reversed, indicates that the heartache or disappointment you experience can be alleviated, and without too much difficulty. Don't discount your emotions – what you feel is real – but the key to dealing with disappointment is patience, timing, and self-restraint.
The key to dealing with disappointment is patience, timing, and self-restraint.
Some stress coming up this week but hang in there. And remember, with Mercury in Aries, sticks and stones blah de blah, but words can never hurt you permanently – if you take the right actions to release negativity, protect your Self, and maintain your sacred space.
Have a great week ahead!
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