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Lessons from Dr. Dave Martin's Lab
Insights from the Laboratory of Elite Athletic Performance
By Jim Gerweck
In three decades of working with many of the best distance runners in the world at the Laboratory for Elite Athlete Performance, you'd expect that Dr. David Martin has discovered some important principles to make training more effective and efficient. So it's something of a surprise when he says the most important one is what he calls the "do-do" principle.
"It's not what or how much training you do, but how well you recover from the training you do do," he says. "And if you don't recover properly, if you end up with anemia or fatigue or injuries, then you're in deep doo-doo."
In an age when many coaches come up with increasingly diverse and demanding methods of training, Martin's greatest advice is often simply, "Do less." He says, "The most important point we've been able to give our athletes is to know when to back off, and to let them know that it's OK to do so.
"It's difficult for people to realize that doing nothing is doing something — there's lots going on during recovery at the cellular level. Just because you don't see the mitochondria hard at work doesn't mean you're not accomplishing anything."
Martin maintains that "too few coaches know enough science and too few scientists know enough coaching," with the result that many athletes wind up doing too much. "A coach sees his job as always telling athletes what to do, and that telling them to rest means he isn't doing his job.
"All the training in the world isn't going to make you as fit as the balance between training and health," Martin continues, noting that the signs of overtraining — inappropriate sleep, tired muscles, an attitude that training becomes work rather than something to look forward to — are obvious signals to take some easy time to recharge the physical and mental batteries.
"You need to be hungry, be fit, and be fresh," says Martin. "Only one of those has anything to do with training. You need to understand the importance of the interaction between mind and body."
As an example, Martin says that runners who put in high mileage on the roads are at risk of footstrike hemolysis from the constant pounding. "Hemoglobin carries 98 percent of the blood's oxygen. If you're anemic, if your hemoglobin decreases, you're losing the ability to perform because your VO2 max is decreased. It does no good to train harder — you'll just dig yourself a deeper hole."
Similarly, runners need to know the crucial interaction between training and nutrition. "Runners are food machines as they try to take in calories sufficient to match huge needs." Martin says. "Too often this results in one or two large daily feedings. The accompanying insulin release promotes storage of these calories as fat in fat tissue rather than as glycogen in the liver and working muscles." Martin's advice? "Space your food intake so as to eat frequent small meals, minimizing insulin release. Position three snacks around a light but healthy breakfast, lunch, and dinner."
When Martin consults with elite runners for the first time, he asks them to self-evaluate three things: their long-term goals, short-term goals, and level of commitment. "That's going to be different for a single guy just finished with college compared to a married graduate student with a part-time job," he says. "Your energy pie doesn't enlarge just because you want to do more things. It's common sense, but common sense isn't very common today." Here are some of Martin's common sense findings that can help runners of all abilities improve their performance:
Break The Job Down Into Small Pieces
This philosophy can be applied to races. "Think of the 1,500 as two races," says Martin. "Everyone can get to 1,200 — it's what happens over the last 300 that determines who wins." View the marathon as a 20-mile run followed by a 10K race. "We tell even the top level marathoners, don't look at 21, 22, 23 miles and think of how tired you're getting. Picture yourself running 10K splits, imagining yourself running faster, with a different, faster stride."
Look at Things Early
View the elements of a race as challenges, not problems, and develop strategies to meet these challenges. "There again it's attitude and aptitude," says Martin. "Create a scenario for success. Identify concerns that need to be addressed and prioritize them, make a list. If you're running in hot conditions, like the marathoners in Athens or Osaka, the three big things to address are pace, fluids, and clothing. Think about the little things associated with that. You'll probably be splashing water on yourself, so wear small socks, test them on training runs, get them wet to ensure they don't cause blisters. Spray waterproofing on your racing flats. Don't use sunscreen the day of a race, because the water will bead up and roll off before it can cool you."
When it comes to designing strategies for racing and training, see how your fitness will allow you to race optimally. "Don't think of your weaknesses as weakness, but something to be de-emphasized in a race, and worked on in training," says Martin.
Know Your Profile
"Runner, know thyself, is really crucial," says Martin. "When we do physiological profiling, we often find a variation in pulmonary function. Some athletes have larger than normal lungs; as a result they find going to altitude less stressful, and gain more benefit from that. Those who are at the higher end of the hemoglobin ranges also have a better reaction to altitude. They're important facts about your physiology that can help you decide what kind of training environment is best for you." For the average runner, know what type of workouts you respond to best, and emphasize them in
your training.
Take It Up
"One of the most interesting findings I've come up with is that marathoners who include a generous amount of training at race pace are going to be better off than those who don't," says Martin. The problem is that frequent bouts of that can often lead to injury. Martin's answer is to take the effort uphill. "The ideal is to run race-pace effort once a week up a 10- to 15K-long hill. It forces you to use more upper body, but with less impact and injury risk. It also makes you very sensitive to pace, and you need that in a race."
Think Yourself to the Finish
"A lot of athletes will talk to me about minimizing slowing down at the end of a race," says Martin. "I tell them it's the same thing as doing a VO2 max test on the treadmill — quicken your stride, lower your shoulders, think form — really just instructions to relax. You'll use less oxygen if you're running smoother, so you can run faster.
"Try to take your mind off fatigue — thinking about beauty costs less energy, you'll get more out of yourself than you think you have. Roger Bannister said, 'Don't think about the wretchedness of racing poorly, think about the beauty of competing well.' That's pretty good advice."
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New school?
When is a good school not a good school
October 22, 2016 by Excellent Education for Everyone
Ever since RBWM council first proposed the idea of opening a grammar school in Maidenhead, Theresa May's stance on the subject has been that "good schools should be allowed to expand". With her more recent moves to change the legislation that prevents the creation of new grammar schools she has gone one step further and now says that the law should not prevent good schools from opening. So what have we learnt from this? Clearly Theresa May thinks good schools are good and we should have more good schools and what is wrong with that.
But what exactly is a good school and how do we know that a new school will be a good school?
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Surely we can change our mind later?
May 10, 2016 May 10, 2016 by Excellent Education for Everyone
Let's suppose RBWM goes ahead with a new grammar school and our worst fears are proven true; our good comprehensives become poor performing secondary moderns and the attainment gap widens. Well so what? Setting aside (for a moment) the thousands of children whose education will have been ruined, surely we can correct the mistake and convert the new grammar school into a comprehensive?
Well no, actually the people of Maidenhead will pretty much powerless to recover the situation.
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To have and to have not
March 16, 2016 March 21, 2016 by Excellent Education for Everyone
In a recent BBC Radio 4 World at One interview, Councillor Bicknell told us that opposition to a grammar school in Maidenhead is about the "haves and have nots ; it's the old jealousy argument. Other people say that a grammar school provides more choice in education. Councillor Burbage says that some children leave Maidenhead and travel to Buckinghamshire or Reading grammar schools , so we already have selective education in Maidenhead anyway. These seem to be the 3 principle arguments why we are being told that we should return to a system of selective education that was seen to have failed 30 years ago, and which the vast majority of the other countries in the world do not use.
Our opposition to the return of grammar schools starts with one very simple fact: 11 is much too young to subject children to an exam which is likely to have a significant impact on them, which is likely to last for the rest of their lives. From that simple statement run many streams.
We do not argue that children should never be assessed as to what education is suitable for them. We do not argue that students should not be streamed according to their present rate of progress at secondary school. We do not argue that children who work harder or have greater academic ability should have the opportunity to progress faster in academic terms than those who don't. We argue that all children should have the opportunity to progress at the best speed that they can at all times in their school career and dividing them into separate schools at the age of 11, will not do that. There is not the slightest implication of jealousy in that argument, which applies equally to children of all backgrounds; so much for the 'haves and have nots'.
We've already looked at the issue of choice in our article "What about parental choice?" and put that issue to bed. It simply doesn't hold water as a valid argument.
So, what about the issue of de facto selection already existing in RBWM? The number of children who cross out of this local authority boundary to Buckinghamshire grammar schools amount to perhaps 7 children per age group per RBWM comprehensive school. If a new 1000 student grammar school was built, the whole top academic class will be shorn from each comprehensive in Maidenhead. This is a wholly different matter to 7 being shorn from the age group; the effect on our existing schools will be catastrophic. We're not pretending that the existing situation is ideal but we cannot overturn Buckinghamshire's policy of selective education; that's a matter for the people of Buckinghamshire. We would love all of the children of Maidenhead to want to attend our great local comprehensives and RBWM should be doing everything that they can to promote and improve our local schools rather than funding a Buckinghamshire school to undermine our own schools.
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What about parental choice?
March 9, 2016 March 14, 2016 by Malcolm Burtt
One of the justifications that council leaders in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead make for pursuing their grammar school policy is that they are increasing parental choice. They make this claim because of the number of parents that "opt" to send their children across our border into Buckinghamshire, Reading and Slough to attend grammar schools there.
Is it a choice?
Let's start by examining the concept of choice in relation to grammar schools.
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A Grammar school in Maidenhead? Why not?
March 3, 2016 March 3, 2016 by Jo Smith
As the parent of two school age children, who will be moving to their secondary education from September 2019, I am very apprehensive about the proposals to bring a grammar school to Maidenhead.
Other parents say "But why? Why should you worry? It will just make things easier for people whose children are going to go to a grammar school – it wont change anything for the rest of the children."
I wish I could have that confidence. But I don't. Why don't I? Well, maybe because I loosely work in the field of education; maybe because I grew up in an area that didn't have selective education, or maybe because I have spent a lot of time recently researching the possible impact of a grammar school on our neighbourhood.
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What is the real driver for RBWM's Satellite Grammar project?
February 23, 2016 February 17, 2016 by Bethan Osborne
Maidenhead, Berkshire has a population of 86,000 is situated on the River Thames and sits west of London between the M40 to the north and M4 to the south.
There are around 10,000 young people attending state schools in the town aged between the ages of 4 and 18 years plus a number in the independent sector and a smaller number who attend schools outside of the Royal Borough in adjacent education authorities.
As a result of the proximity of Buckinghamshire schools just across the Thames from Maidenhead (in Burnham, Slough, Marlow and Wycombe) there has been a long-standing reciprocal arrangement with the Bucks education bodies that Maidenhead pupils can sit the 11-plus exam and be offered places at Bucks Grammars, whilst Maidenhead's Comprehensive schools accommodate Bucks pupils whose parents prefer to see them in a comprehensive a few miles away rather than in a Secondary Modern closer to home. Anyone who has ever travelled the Maidenhead to Marlow branch line in the mornings or early evenings will be well aware of the mass migration of young people across county borders in pursuit of the optimum education experience as chosen by their parents. And this arrangement seems to work for those in Maidenhead who aspire to selective education and many in Bucks who want to escape it.
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Federal officials said the arrest of 125 workers at a construction site for a new Wal-Mart distribution center in mid-November,should serve as a warning to employers who hire illegal immigrants. All 125 workers arrested in the raid of the site about 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia will be deported said Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials.
"Employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, and those who utilize false documents to gain employment, face significant criminal and administrative charges," said John Kelleghan, acting special agent-in-charge for the immigration agency in Pennsylvania.
Some of the 125 workers, who are from Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, used fake documents to obtain employment with subcontractors, officials said.
Agents obtained search warrants after learning that 10 workers were using Social Security numbers that did not match their names. Another three used Social Security numbers that were never issued by the government.
A Wal-Mart spokesman has said the detained workers were not employed by Wal-Mart but by the subcontractors. Wal-Mart's contracts with the companies require that they follow local, state and federal employment laws, the company said.


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The text of Ulysses on this site is based on the digital transcription of the 1922 Shakespeare and Co. first printing of the novel, transcribed by Matthew Kochis and Patrick Belk for the Modernist Versions Project and made available for reuse under a Creative Commons license, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Ulysses editor Hans Walter Gabler has said that this edition "comes closest to what Joyce aimed for as the public text of Ulysses"*.
I have made multiple word-level changes to the Modernist Version project's text, explained below. I have not changed any mistakes or inaccuracies found in the printing of the first edition of Ulysses that were altered in later printings.
UPDATE: Where the Modernist Versions Project TXT transcription file differed from their PDF digitization of the book and I noticed the difference, I had originally noted changes on this page, but have halted that because of time constraints. When I'm finished proofing the novel, I'll collate the original transcription against my changes and post a list of the differences. Visit my Ulysses GitHub repository to access the digital transcription with my corrections and HTML formatting for your own use.
Throughout: I didn't record line breaks occuring in the middle of sentences that I corrected (e.g. on page 25, I removed a line break after "under" in the penultimate line). These will all be corrected in the text shared in my Ulysses GitHub repository.
Page 1: Substituted "Chrysostomos" for "Chryspstomos" (rectifying transcription error).
Page 5: "Thalatta!" for "Thalalta!"
Page 9: "bitter" for "fitter"
Page 18: "mother s" for "mother's"
Page 23: "tonight. Home" for "tonight- Home"
Page 24: "Cochrane's" for "Gochrane's"
Page 24: "— Yes, sir" for "— Yes, fir"
Page 25: "Weaver" for "Wearer"
Page 27: "Fultility." for "Futility"
Page 31: "Dublin." for "Dublin ."
Page 34: "many sins." for "many sins/"
Page 35: "morning" for "morningr", "Thank you." for "Thank you"
Page 59" "flesh" for "ftesh" and "the" for "ihe"
Page 215: "muttoning" for "muttonmg"
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Although not present in this printing, later editions of the novel begin each of the novel's three main sections (Stephen's, Bloom's, and Molly's episode[s]) by enlarging the first letter of the text for that section. There are varying interpretations for how this highlights the main characters' names: S (Stephen), M (Molly Bloom), and P (Poldy, Molly's nickname for Leopold Bloom).
In the print edition, pages are numbered through in the top left-hand corner; I've removed these from the page text and use them as the title for that page's text instead (i.e. you can check a page's title on the website to see where you would find it in a copy of the 1922 first printing). Where page numbers were missing from the transcription (e.g. 15) I used the digital images to determine the text cutoffs for that page. Some pages were blank (e.g. pages 51 and 52 were blank and blank except for a roman numeral II, respectively); I haven't included these on my site but wanted to keep the page numbering matching the print book, so you'll notice that on my site page 50 is followed by page 53.
Because font and layout choices don't exactly match the dimensions of the print page, some pages may appear to end in the middle of a sentence (i.e. somewhere in the middle of the last line, rather than on the last line at the far right corner). Rest assured that the next page picks up from exactly where you left off—you're not missing words.
On some of the print pages, extra numbering appears in the bottom right-hand corner (as opposed to the top left-hand and right-hand, where normal page numbering appears). I have removed these throughout.
"Good man" for "Goood man".
Because of how annotation works on this site, we may not be able to subsequently revise the text of the novel without damaging how annotations on that page are attached to sections of the text (although for small changes, I may be able to manually re-anchor annotations depending on how thickly annotated a page is). I'll list any such issues caught but not yet altered on this site here as well. Note that typographical changes that do not interfere with character count can be made easily without disrupting the annotations.
* Joyce, James. Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition. Eds. Hans Walter Gabler, Wolfhard Steppe, and Claus Melchior. Garland Press, 1984. p. 1891.


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OKENYO: 'Slashie' on Demise of 'Risk Taking', Inspirational Women
"If I push myself to show myself as I am, then hopefully that will connect with people," actor/musician 'slashie' says.
By Lucy Shanahan
When Zindzi Okenyo arrives for breakfast in Sydney's inner-west suburb of Newtown, she is caught in a brief moment of scheduling quiet. Her latest project, a role in the upcoming Channel 10 television show, Sisters, has just finished shooting. Since forging her 11-year acting career, the 31-year-old artist has appeared as a Melbourne and Sydney Theatre Company stage actor as well as a Play School regular. In 2013, having been singing in various on-stage roles, she launched herself as OKENYO — an evocative chanteuse fringed with soulful epithets.
OKENYO is acutely aware of the challenges that come with featuring diverse voices in Australian media. Her latest single "Woman's World", the first single from her upcoming EP, is an exploration of formidable femininity tempered with quiet restraint. The video clip is powerfully inclusive, featuring a female cast that spans the ages of 9-40 and that represents many ethnicities, including OKENYO's African-Australian heritage. 'Version 2.0' of "Woman's World", featuring guest rappers Miss Blanks and Jesswar premiered on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 earlier this week, and available to stream below.
For our Women of the Future series, we sat down with OKENYO to chat about the demise of 'risk taking', an open secret in the acting industry that has kept minority voices in the shadows, how her artforms feed into each other and the women who inspire her.
Can you tell me how you got into acting and singing? Did you do it at school, was it in the house at home?
Yeah, I didn't necessarily grow up in a musical household, but I always loved singing and I think that it was just something that being young I was just enjoying. I liked the sound of my voice and I would always try to learn harmonies, things like that. Probably where it shifted musically was that, every show I did as an actor, they're always trying to see what other skills you have, like what you're going to bring to the company. So I ended up just singing in shows, singing in different ways, having to sing in opera, singing in Spanish, singing in French, singing different styles, and I think over the years my confidence built, but also my range changed. So I guess I didn't really have like a straight trajectory towards doing it. But when I started to write music, [I was] still really enjoying being an actor, but wanted to have more agency as an artist and have different ways to express my point of view.
From the acting point of view, I just always wanted to be an actor since I was a teenager. Around year 10 I got rid of all the subjects that wouldn't really help me, like maths and things like that. I'm pretty focused and serious about what I do. I think I just went into that zone. I had great teachers that helped me with my auditions, I got into NIDA and the Victorian College of Arts, and ended up choosing to go to NIDA. So that's how I ended up in Sydney. I graduated in 2006 from NIDA and have been based in Sydney but also worked pretty much all over Australia, mostly in the capital cities, and mostly in the last 11 years doing theatre. My focus in my career really has been acting, but in terms of the work I've been getting, theatre. I've also helped develop a lot of plays, I've worked on a lot of new works, so that's – I feel very confident in that world and I know what I'm doing and all of that stuff.
I guess within the last 4 or so years, I would always write bits and pieces, but it was never a serious thing. And then I started writing and somehow, I made this little teaser video for my first song 'Broken Chest', and it somehow got shared very quickly just through my friends, with Cathy Oakes, who's now my manager. She really liked it and took me on board. That was the beginning of taking music as a career. Now because I've been doing more tv and a bit of film and stuff like that, obviously Play School, I'm just trying to make them work all together. I think that if you're an artist, which is what I call myself, you should be able to express yourself in lots of different ways. I remember a few years ago, a friend of mine who started out as an actor, and then she became a filmmaker and editor, doing stuff in that world – it was when a lot of people were becoming like 'slashies' — and people were like, 'what's a slashie'? When I started making music, a lot of people in the acting industry were like 'oh, so have you given up acting?'. And it hadn't crossed my mind at all. To me I've always just thought, if there's a place for me to do it and agency for me to do it – and as an artist I have to keep creating – then why can't I? Why do you have to label it? I think the thing about the slashie, I think the worry about that is gone now. I think writing music came at a time when I'd been doing the same practice, and I wanted — as an actor you don't really have much control at all. It doesn't matter if you're talented or whatever, you just don't have control over when you're gonna get jobs or anything. It was important for me to have a project of my own, where I could be the director of that. Not that I was in my work as an actor feeling disillusioned, or not treated well or anything, I think it's just that thing of wanting more and always continuing to try and get better at what I do. And the cool thing that's happening now is that it's all feeding back into me.
Do you find that if you're going between jobs, that exploring one part in say, music, will unlock something that you can reach in acting?
Yeah, definitely. Because my music is so personal – I mean I just write about personal stuff. I try to be as open and vulnerable about my own personal stuff, not for people to be like 'poor Zindzi', or even to care about my own experience, but all I want to translate is that it's authentic, so hopefully other people can feel whatever they need to feel. In the beginning, making music and performing live was really scary. After years of being myself within the guise of a character, which is very freeing – I might be American in a whole other time period, but I'm still Zindzi. It's like a safe space to be authentic or vulnerable. With music, it's just you. That was really weird and cool at the beginning, and I'm still learning about it, but definitely that allowed me to be more okay with who I am and naturally then as an actor, I'm becoming less fearful about showing people vulnerability. Especially, like this TV show, I haven't done heaps of TV before, but working with a camera is so different to working theatre. The camera's so close, you just can't lie. You just have to be there and allow people to see you, which is really fucking scary sometimes. But it's also really exciting when you can push through it. I guess Play School is a good example. It's cool, it's a very different world I guess. I've been doing that for like 5 years now.
Is that a great job?
It's so great. It's actually a really difficult job, the show's really specific. The tone, how you have to relate to the child but it's just a camera, and it's actually quite technical with the toys. You have to be genuine. I remember in the audition, I had to do a bit of each of the kind of segments. One of them was a song about an elephant stomping. And I remember doing it and I guess I was a bit self-conscious, and the directed was like, 'just go for it. You can't have any reservations about looking like an idiot'. Once I locked into that — and I do stupid things in my family for my nephews and nieces, and there's no guard up there. I think that's the thing, just getting the tone right. I think because I've been doing it for a while now, I understand it. But it's a great job. I was at the marriage equality rally a few weeks ago, and I ran into some parents with a little girl, and the little girl was kind of sleeping. And they woke her up and they were like 'look, it's Zindzi'. And they were saying that I was her favourite, and just like the look on her face, she just like, softened, and she was like, she was probably only 3 or something, but it was the same look on every child's face, they're like, 'oh, my long lost friend'. It's just so open, they really think you're their friend, like their really close friend. It's so beautiful, it's the best kind of fan to have.
To go back to what you were saying about art feeding back into you, I was reading something you wrote for "Woman's World", and you mentioned how some of the characters you played inspired the song.
Oh yeah I completely forgot about that.
Can you tell me a bit about the characters and how they informed the song?
Yeah, for sure. The way that I've always written — I guess it's changing a little bit now, because I'm becoming more confident with myself as a musician and a writer – it made sense to me to write music in the way that I was used to playing a character. So when I started writing music it was always about melding stories that already existed. In the case of my early work, always the classics, so myths and the Greeks, and melding it in with my own personal stories. The best thing about the Greeks for example, is that it's very domestic. It's always about family and relationships. When you pair it right back. But when they deal with love and hate, violence, sexuality, it's pushed to the nth degree. It's humans feeling emotions as much as they can. Sometimes when you go through something terrible or completely joyous, it feels like that. So that made sense to me. And then when I went to write the EP and I was struggling writing, not knowing where to start, I just decided to go back to that way of writing. I wrote out characters that I played and tried to write as them.
With "Woman's World", there were two things. The way it started was because I was doing a play at Sydney Theatre Company called Boys Will Be Boys, which was an all female cast. It was about a woman in her 40s who was a very successful stockbroker but she just behaved terribly. She behaved like an awful, misogynist, sexist man. Because it was all played by women, I played like a young dude who was just like an arsehole. It brought up these questions of like, 'how do you live in a man's world? What is that? What do you have to do?'. So that's how I started writing the play, just kind of, that idea of the woman's world. But I think the real catalyst for it, I guess the 'busy woman' aspect — I was doing a show last year, I was playing this amazing woman called Jorie in this play called Disgraced. She's like a woman who is New York, super formidable, doesn't suffer fools, really super wealthy and successful, there was nothing extraneous about anything that she said. She was straight to the point but she was also very in herself and very light and fun and funny. I was understanding her, and then I got to a point where I was like, 'I can't actually be here, there's something happening'. And then I realised that I kind of wanted to be her and was intimidated by her. So then I decided to meet her on that level, which is a weird thing to think about, but as soon as I decided I was going to be that woman and have no fear, the next day when I went into the rehearsal room, suddenly, it was just there. I walked into the room and I was like, 'I own this room'. She would walk into a room and know that she was the smartest, the funniest, the hottest. She's someone getting it done, she's like 'I'm busy'. I think that whole thing came from this character, and I learned so much about myself. Why did I think I couldn't be that?
I wanted to write something where I felt like Jorie, and share the experience of how I was feeling if I was that woman. And that woman is not perfect, she's flawed. But it's really cool now hearing what people think of the song, I've had so many people say it's unlocked this thing of just 'oh yeah I can do it'. I wanted to make sure the song was not in anyway 'you can't sit with us'. That is not me at all. I'm not better than anyone. I wanted to make sure it was more about sisterhood and making each other feel better, rather than — I think it's cool, but I think this thing of 'I'm a queen, and I'm a thing', there's a hierarchy to that.
There is a hierarchy to that, and I think at times it can feel unattainable.
Yeah. And my family means a lot to me. I know my niece Coco looks up to me so it's important for me to be a good role model. When I was growing up, I didn't have any brown women to look up to, in the media or anything, and also being queer, I definitely didn't have people I related to. Or if there were, like I guess lesbians, I didn't identify as that, so yeah I just, I didn't really have anything to look up to. I feel like that's part of what I'm trying to do — and it comes back to what I'm talking about in terms of being authentic — if I push myself to show myself as I am, then hopefully that will connect with people. So it's really cool, especially with "Woman's World", seeing and hearing that it is connecting with people. And obviously I get heaps out of it, but it's not about me.
Listen to Okenyo's "Woman's World 2.0", featuring Miss Blanks and Jesswar:
It was a while ago that it came out, but if you saw the diversity report from Screen Australia, the results were disappointing. My feeling is that there are so many people, particularly women of colour and queer women, whose voices are categorised into like "niche pockets" — just because it's a voice that's not the central controlling one, it's like, "therefore, it's niche". Do you have any thoughts on how we can move that beyond that?
It's a great question and it's a really tough question because, as you say there are so many amazing artists out there from these "niche" groups. But to me, this is why it's disappointing and it's why we have to keep trying. Those artists and people, creatives, are always going to keep making work, we want to and we have to, but it absolutely has to come from the top down. Which is why my heart sinks a little bit because I know that that is such a slow process. I can't speak so much about the music industry because I'm new to it but in the acting industry, there's this whole thing of 'risk taking' and assuming what people want to see. It doesn't make any sense to me because people are watching content from all around the world because they want it. That's why I'm excited about Sisters, this show coming up, because it's pretty much about just women – female relationships between sisters, mothers and daughters, same sex relationships, and it's directed by three different females. They're all female stories, but I'm pretty sure people are interested in that. It's patronising and condescending to everyone, and because everything comes from the male gaze, it's like 'what do men want to see, do men agree with this?'. But you know the gig I did a couple of nights ago at the [Chippendale Hotel], it was such a good vibe, but the majority of people who came up to me were young men. And they were like 'that was sick', and I've got three other women on stage with me. And I guess it's surprising to me, but it is mostly young men coming up to me going 'that was an amazing show', which to me is great. I just think it needs to come from the top down, and that's what's disappointing about it, but that's why we have to keep keep keep pushing.
That's what we've seen throughout history. It does take time, but if you commit to it for something important, things do progress. If you're trying to change, like whatever generation it is, like we might not see it in our lifetime or get to live with it for too long, but like all the things before us – in terms of women's rights, queer rights, even thinking about marriage stuff, I think about my mum who married an African man at a time, in Adelaide, when she would've been the only one doing that. My Mum's Australian, my Dad's from Kenya. But we do overcome issues.
I think there is that general creep up the ladder, and there's definitely more awareness, but it's frustrating.
It's still so slow and it's frustrating because you feel like you're always always pushing, and then for women there's that like, you begin to push, and then it's like oh she's too angry. But I think what's happening now which is cool – I mean sometimes I get frustrated with the internet and people being like, 'this is what I'm thinking,' they're not formed thoughts, you probably wouldn't say that to someone's face, but at the same time if you do say something not okay, like not that I'm condoning public shaming because I don't agree with that, but you just can't get away with it anymore. So, if you don't, say on films, if you don't hire women on the crew, you will be called out on it.
It's also like, with the music video, it was super important for me to make sure that anything that I'm showing visually – like I have control over casting. All the women in that video and all my videos, to me they're all really beautiful but they're also individuals. And we also shot everyone individually doing their own free style. In that video, the cast is from age 9 to 40 and from all ethnicities. To me, that's Australia, and I've not seen that before. That's the fun part about having my own project, I get to choose that stuff.
In your experience as a woman of colour and a queer woman, have you felt the kinds of challenges and limitations we've talked about in terms of trying to get booked?
I was talking to my friend about this last night. She's half black and half white, and we were having this conversation of sometimes, not feeling black enough or something [laughs]. It's complex, and I think I'm still understanding it. But Fortunately, I haven't come across that a lot, which could be a mix of a few things. I very much recognise that as an actor in the theatre world, I've been able to play, I guess, "white roles". But when there's cool black roles, I get to play cool black roles, so I've been really fortunate. But I'm also aware that part of that is that… like Obama can be president because he's like 'the relatable black'. I'm aware of that thing like, like passing. Which is really complex, and I kind of feel bad about it, but then why should I feel bad about it? I feel like I'm going around in circles because I don't really know what I'm talking about, it is complex. It's a hard one because you want to take the opportunities you get. I think throughout my 20s I was very career focused and therefore very oblivious, I didn't really care what other people thought of me. It wasn't until my later 20s that I realised that because of what I look like, there is a political thing to it. Like if I'm on stage as part of a family, as a daughter where the parents are white, because I've just been cast, some people will be thinking 'oh how is that their daughter?'. Or like, not so much, but a white woman married to a black man. I genuinely didn't even think about that stuff until people told me that was what was happening.
That's what's kind of complex – you carry a thing, but I didn't ask to be part of it. My theatre career has been very full and great, but definitely when it comes to screen; I've been working for 11 years professionally, and I've only just in the last couple of years, like just started to get screen auditions, maybe. I did come to a point where I was like, 'okay, I'm not a screen actor. I guess that's my lot'. Because I just wasn't – I was a risk. But I feel really excited about my character in Sisters, [she] is black and queer. And they explore the queer aspect, they don't talk about my blackness, which is awesome, but that's like commercial tv, at prime time. I was always there, people of colour were always there, but we weren't allowed to step through the door. Finally I get to do what I'm good at and what I was trained for. It is complex knowing that you come with a risk, or that you're ticking some diversity box. But personally that's not helpful for me to think about why I'm there. And there are people in my life who, in such a valid way, it's very much in the forefront of my minds: 'am I here because I'm black? Am I not here —'. Each to their own experience, but for me, because the industry is so, you have to have such an unreasonable amount of self love in order to vibe it I guess, and good people around you and all of that stuff, I try to stay out of the negative stuff. And I totally get why people who have had a worse experience than me around race stuff are really angry. I totally get that.
"I think that if you're an artist, which is what I call myself, you should be able to express yourself in lots of different ways."
You've recently partnered with WNBL, can you tell me about that?
Yeah, it's really cool! They got in contact, I was so excited about that. It's just such a good fit. I just felt like a really amazing union, for a team that's really pushing to be in the spotlight and prove to people that this is as valid as the male team, we're just here, we want to play sport. It's just so important for girls, for little girls, to know that they can do whatever. My sister, who was in the video, her daughter is Coco, she was saying to me afterwards how amazing and how cool it was for Coco to be around all these strong women of colour. She was just totally amped by it. She's pretty cool anyway, she seems to not care what people think and things like that. And to be around positive influences — I had that with my sisters and my family, really positive examples of women, and also my brother, a great man in my life, but outside my family I didn't really have that. It's the same with Play School, I get a lot of people, mothers write to me that have boys or girls but, the kids love me because they recognise their skin colour, which they can't articulate, but they gravitate towards it. Which is awesome.
Who are the women who are inspiring you at the moment?
It's hard, you know them and then when you're asked — I don't know their names, but last night at this poetry slam, it was run by the Bankstown poetry slam but it was at Western Sydney Uni. Essentially it was a pretty small crowd and very niche, it was mostly women of colour, it was a female focused event, a lot of Muslim women. And they got up – they're poets as well as just having their uni lives, and they were so powerful, so strong, so full of passion, and rage, and just, like the way that they expressed what they were feeling was so extraordinary. It was a like, here are these extraordinary women, imagine if someone like that had a platform. Here we are in a small room in Western Sydney, but this is some of the most inspiring stuff I've heard, in forever. So I think on a local level, there are so many women who have things to say, and I love where that's going in all the artforms and that those voices are finally being heard.
One of my favourite shows is Transparent, and Jill Soloway who created the show, she's so inspiring, she's such an extraordinary person. I don't know if you heard that keynote that she did, but she talks about the female gaze, and it's so worth watching. It was really eye-opening for me, because I guess it just articulated that that's the world, essentially, how we receive it, like 95% or whatever, is obviously extremely problematic. And the male gaze doesn't mean that that's 100% a bad thing, it's just that it's coming from one point of view. So I think a show like Transparent, obviously in terms of queer content, it's amazing to see people you might be similar to, but more importantly, people who are just really flawed, and are just people. So, yeah. She's super super inspiring to me.
Also recently on Sisters, I've been working with Magda Szubanski, and I always just thought she was the best, like obviously so hilarious and all of that stuff. But yeah, I guess it's been really cool to know her personally and hear more of her experience. It's people like that — I'm not just talking about LGBT stuff — but it's people like that that do put aside their ego, and the impact that's had in Australia. There's no one who's spoken about that publicly. Even like when Ellen Page came out. Every time someone stands up for what they believe in, it allows other people to think that's okay to do it.
This article is part of our Women of the Future series, featured in issue #793 (available now).
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Paul van Dyk Tour Dates & Concert Tickets
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Grammy nominated artist and globally acclaimed DJ and Producer Paul van Dyk continues to dominate the electronic music charts and appears at the pinnacle of every Top DJ list across the globe. PvD, as his fans have nicknamed him, is currently ranked the World's No. 1 DJ by DJ Magazine's "... read more
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Grammy nominated artist and globally acclaimed DJ and Producer Paul van Dyk continues to dominate the electronic music charts and appears at the pinnacle of every Top DJ list across the globe. PvD, as his fans have nicknamed him, is currently ranked the World's No. 1 DJ by DJ Magazine's "Top 100 DJs poll" for the second consecutive year. His new original album In Between will be in stores August 2007 and features collaborations with David Byrne and Jessica Sutta of the Pussycat Dolls.
PvD is renowned as one of the hardest working artists, with sold-out tours that cross each continent, headline spots at every major festival, and a hugely successful recording career. With over 3 million albums sold worldwide, van Dyk travels around the world over 16 times each year to sold out performances internationally. 2007 alone has brought us PvD remixes of Depeche Mode's "Martyr" and Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around."
PvD received a Grammy nomination in 2005 for Best Dance/Electronic Album for his original album Reflections, this marked the first time NARAS recognized this category. His original productions from Reflections have been synced into major motion pictures such as Into the Blue, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, television's Entertainment Tonight and MTV's Cribs, and international ad campaigns for Motorola, HBO, Land Rover, Ski Vail and most recently for Jeep. This year he won the International Dance Music Award (IDMA) for Best Euro DJ.
Previously, PvD won four IDMAs in 2006: Best Global DJ, Best NuNRG/Euro Track, Best Producer and Best Mix Compilation for The Politics fo Dancing 2. In addition, PvD was voted "America's Favorite DJ" for 2004 and 2005 by BPM Magazine and was the big winner at the 2004 Dancestar Awards, taking home 3 awards: Best International DJ, Best Event and Best Music in a Commercial (Motorola). He also won the Mexican Oscar for his soundtrack in the film Zurdo in March 2004. Paul van Dyk was voted "Best Music Maker" by DJ Magazine, received the "Best International DJ Award" at the 1999 Music Awards in London, was named "Best International DJ" by Ministry of Sound Magazine, and Mixmag elected him as "Man of the Year".
Aside from his musical activity, Paul van Dyk has always dedicated a significant part of his life to politics and social justice: from his youth, when he fled over the Berlin Wall to the West, to his children's charity in India's Mumbai, and his partnership scheme with the German Red Cross to help poor children in Berlin. In 2004, PvD was the only electronic artist involved in a nationwide tour with the Rock The Vote campaign, where he joined the likes of Bono, P Diddy, the Black Eyed Peas and George Clinton in campaigning for America's youth to sign up to vote in the presidential election. He most recently received Berlin's Medal of Honor (Landesverdienstorden) in recognition of his work with Ruckenwind, a charity organization he founded dedicated to helping poor children in Berlin. He joins a distinguished list of arts and political establishment figures with this honor.
Born in Eisenhuettenstadt, East Germany, Paul van Dyk grew up in communist East Berlin. Because his community did not have a true club culture, Paul van Dyk listened to the radio where he discovered his passion for music that extended beyond Techno music – he wanted to create a different, more unique sound. In the early 1990's Paul van Dyk was spinning regularly at various clubs in Berlin before releasing his first album 45 RPM in 1994. But it wasn't until the release of his second album Seven Ways which catapulted him into the Top 100, followed by the release of his hit single "For An Angel," which began to earn him praise across the globe. By the time Paul van Dyk released Out There & Back in 2000, it became clear that the Berlin-based musician had far more to offer than his signature club sets and remixes that had already defined him as one of the most influential DJs and producers of all time. His first compilation mix CD Politics of Dancing was released in 2001, followed by Global in 2003; a DVD which illustrates his own experiences traveling the world.
Paul van Dyk created a revolutionary and visionary concept to offer internet users legal electronic music downloads called VONYC.com; a combination of radio and a music download shop overseen by specialists focused on the electronic dance scene.
Paul van Dyk's touring diary remains incredibly hectic with regular globetrotting stops at major venues across the globe from New York, London, Ibiza to India, China and Singapore. In the little time remaining between all the travel, Paul van Dyk resides in Berlin where he has his own radio show "Paul van Dyk's VONYC Sessions", which airs weekly on Area 33 on Sirius Radio on Thursday nights at 6PM EST (and rebroadcasts Saturdays at 8PM EST and Tuesdays at Midnight EST) and Soundgarden which airs every Wednesday 2pm - 4pm (EST) on Fritz radio and over the internet (www.fritz.de).
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Small Business Employers Unable to Find Candidates
Nicole Nicholson
Most of the time when you hear news of the job market the main subject is that job seekers can't find jobs. There aren't enough jobs out there and the competition is fierce. This is the gist of most job market news. Occasionally, however, the opposite is reported: employers can't find candidates to fill their open positions. It seems like a made-up tale seeing as though the unemployment rate is still hovering over 8 percent, but it's a reality that a lot of employers face today.
We read about it a couple weeks ago when we discussed the manufacturing industry and the lack of qualified candidates applying for open positions. The fact of the matter is that modern manufacturing requires heightened math skills that most job seekers simply do not have today. That made sense, but when you hear that even small businesses are having a rough time hiring, it's a bit more difficult to hear.
After all, a lot of people believe that small businesses are the ones that can bring us out of our job market slump. The jury is still out on that, but why is it that small business employers can't find qualified talent? More specifically, why can't a third of small businesses find qualified talent? According to the Wall Street Journal, that's how many employers are struggling with hiring.
Take a look at this video from the Wall Street Journal to hear why small businesses are finding it very difficult to hire the employees they need to get the job done.
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Nicole is the Content Editor for Spark Hire and mainly writes for and edits the work for the Spark News blog. She graduated in 2010 with a BA in Journalism from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She has a passion for writing, editing, and pretty much anything to do with content. In her free time she frequents the Chicago music scene and writes reviews on shows for her own personal blog. Connect with Nicole and Spark Hire on Facebook and Twitter
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The 11-inch MacBook Air features 4GB of memory, a fifth-generation Intel Core processor, Thunderbolt 2, great built-in apps, and all-day battery life.* It's thin, light, and durable enough to take everywhere you go—and powerful enough to do everything once you get there. • Dual-core Intel Core i5 processor • Intel HD Graphics 6000 • Fast SSD storage • 4GB memory • Two USB 3 ports • Thunderbolt 2 port • SDXC port • Up to 12 hours of battery life* • 802.11ac Wi-Fi • Multi-Touch trackpad *Battery life varies by use and configuration. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information. TM and © 2017 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Go to www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs for a complete set.
The 13-inch MacBook Air features 8GB of memory, a fifth-generation Intel Core processor, Thunderbolt 2, great built-in apps, and all-day battery life.* It's thin, light, and durable enough to take everywhere you go—and powerful enough to do everything once you get there. • Dual-core Intel Core i5 processor • Intel HD Graphics 6000 • Fast SSD storage • 8GB memory • Two USB 3 ports • Thunderbolt 2 port • SDXC port • Up to 12 hours of battery life* • 802.11ac Wi-Fi • Multi-Touch trackpad *Battery life varies by use and configuration. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information. TM and © 2017 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Go to www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs for a complete set.
The new MacBook Pro is faster and more powerful than before, yet remarkably thinner and lighter.(1) It has the brightest, most colorful display ever on a Mac notebook. And it features up to 10 hours of battery life.(2) It's a notebook built for the work you do every day. Ready to go anywhere a great idea takes you. • 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor • Brilliant Retina Display • Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz • 8GB 1866MHz memory • 128GB PCIe-based SSD • Intel Iris Graphics 540 • Two Thunderbolt 3 ports • Up to 10 hours of battery life(2) • 802.11ac Wi-Fi • Force Touch trackpad Legal (1)Compared to previous generation 13-inch MacBook Pro. (2)Battery life varies by use and configuration. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information. TM and © 2016 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Technical specifications Go to www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ for a complete set.
The new MacBook Pro is faster and more powerful than before, yet remarkably thinner and lighter.(1) It has the brightest, most colorful display ever on a Mac notebook. And it features up to 10 hours of battery life.(2) It's a notebook built for the work you do every day. Ready to go anywhere a great idea takes you. • 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor • Brilliant Retina Display • Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz • 8GB 1866MHz memory • 256GB PCIe-based SSD • Intel Iris Graphics 540 • Two Thunderbolt 3 ports • Up to 10 hours of battery life(2) • 802.11ac Wi-Fi • Force Touch trackpad Legal (1)Compared to previous generation 13-inch MacBook Pro. (2)Battery life varies by use and configuration. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information. TM and © 2016 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Technical specifications Go to www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ for a complete set.
The new MacBook Pro is faster and more powerful than before, yet remarkably thinner and lighter. It has the brightest, most colorful Mac notebook display ever. And it introduces the revolutionary Touch Bar—a Multi-Touch–enabled strip of glass built into the keyboard for instant access to what you want to do, when you want to do it. The new MacBook Pro is built on groundbreaking ideas. And it's ready for yours. • 2.3GHz quad-core 8th-generation Intel Core i5 processor • Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz • 8GB 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory • 256GB PCIe-based SSD • Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 • Four Thunderbolt 3 ports • Touch Bar and Touch ID • Brilliant Retina display • Up to 10 hours of battery life • 802.11ac Wi-Fi • Force Touch trackpad Legal See www.apple.com/batteries for more information. TM and © 2016 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Technical specifications Go to www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ for a complete set.
The new MacBook Pro is faster and more powerful than before, yet remarkably thinner and lighter. It has the brightest, most colorful Mac notebook display ever. And it introduces the revolutionary Touch Bar—a Multi-Touch–enabled strip of glass built into the keyboard for instant access to what you want to do, when you want to do it. The new MacBook Pro is built on groundbreaking ideas. And it's ready for yours. • 2.3GHz quad-core 8th-generation Intel Core i5 processor • Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz • 8GB 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory • 512GB PCIe-based SSD • Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 • Four Thunderbolt 3 ports • Touch Bar and Touch ID • Brilliant Retina display • Up to 10 hours of battery life • 802.11ac Wi-Fi • Force Touch trackpad Legal See www.apple.com/batteries for more information. TM and © 2016 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Technical specifications Go to www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ for a complete set.
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Before Scotland I thought I had a pretty good idea of the state of lightweight hiking. But in the company of Phil and Colin I realised I was simply a rank amateur. These two know every ultra lightweight product no matter how obscure and spend hours talking about the furthest and darkest reaches of the internet.
For real gear geeks only.
Most backpacker will recognise that a two or three day trip with a couple of mates is a good excuse for a good old natter about gear. But after only a few hours I was completely 'geared out' by these two. Still, even after giving up with the gear talk, there's quite a lot to talk about here.
Colin is, of course, not only a lightweight hiker but a mad keen MYOG — make your own gear — person. On this trip he had his 2010 tarp (a new design each year), one of his new Skins packs and a number of other things that i"ll come to in a moment or two.
Colin's new tarp follows the design that he's adopted over the last year or so. It is catenary cut tarp with extra guy our points on both the front and rear panels of the tarp; these mean that Colin's tarp is rigid in even the highest winds. Go to the Colin Ibbotson pages on this blog and you can find Colin talking about his tarp philosophy.
The new tarp is made out of Kerlon 1200. This is the fabric that Hilleberg use on the Akto and the Nallo tents. Not only is Kerlon very light but it is incredibly strong, many times stronger than normal sinylon.
Colin has got his tarp use down to a fine art now. Already he is beginning to think about the next tarp.
This was the first time I have seen one of the Skins packs — again you can see details of this on the Colin Ibbotson pages on this site. In the flesh this design is even more impressive. The pack is based around a foam mat structure which holds the pack contents tightly. The 'skin' is the fabric cover which is mainly in place to provide protection from the elements. Colin's idea is that the 'skin' could be changed to support different walking conditions. You could, for example, have a cuben fibre skin, which would be exceptionally light. Or, if you need something a little more robust for scrambling on exposed rock, you could use a more durable dyneema skin. Colin seems to be moving from prototype to prototype at a fair pace and this elegant design is being refined all the time.
The Skin design has a hip belt option and this is ingenious as well. The hip belt is a home made belt that is just a little wider than a belt you would find with a pair of normal walking trousers. A small upright 'pocket' allows two exceptional lightweight aluminium rods to connect from the pack to the belt providing some weight transfer to the hips. The rods, though, are connected in such a way as to give incredible flexibility to the pack so that it moves independently of the body as you walk. I've seen a number of hideously expensive back systems that claim to do something similar but none seem to work as effectively as Colin's design. I suppose Colin being an aeronautical engineer might have something to do with it.
The Skins pack was recently featured in TGO magazine where Colin talked about his sharing philosophy — he's happy to provide details of his designs online so that others can follow in his footsteps. Now, there is a very outside possibility that some skins packs could become available for sale. If they ever do they'll knock the socks of ultra-lightweight hikers everywhere. However, the file in the CI pages will show you how to construct something similar if you are into making your own gear. The workmanship in these Skins packs was superb.
Paramo Trousers at only 160 grams!
Colin — like me — is a great fan of Paramo waterproofs when hiking here in the UK during the cooler months. His latest venture is a take on Paramo trousers. He has removed the outer layer of the trouser and replaced it with a very light Pertex — the stuff used in my Montane windproofs. The Paramo pump liner remains intact.
We were walking in glorious sunshine but Colin was wanting rain, so that he could test his trousers properly. Apparently, he'd wandered around under the shower "but it's not the same".
On day three a lot of rain fell. Every few minutes Phil and I would enquire "any seepage yet Colin? Apparently the Ibbotson/Paramo mashup worked exceptionally well. At 160 grams the Colin trousers are half the weight of the new lightweight Paramo Velez trousers.
Colin, Phil and I all walk these days using the Third Element Jacket, a full waterproof Paramo jacket which has a removable hood and arms (converting it to a gilet). Colin has his eyes set on making a jacket based on this trouser philosophy. It will be fascinating to see how light he can make a Paramo jacket.
While not being in the same league a Colin when it comes to MYOG, Phil was by no means upstaged. He was carrying a number of kit items that I was seeing in the flesh for the first time.
Very interesting this, again, the first time I had actually seen one of these.
Designed and manufactured by a thru-hiker from the USA the Z pack is a beltless pack made of blue cuben fibre. I'm not sure what the weight was but it was light, very light.
Cuben is a very tough material but it is susceptible to wear through abrasion. This stuff looked very strong though. One of the bid advantages of cuben is that it is effectively re-enforced plastic and so is completely waterproof.
I've been wondering about buying a cuben sack from Mountain Laurel Designs and seeing Phil's pack made up my mind for me. I returned to find that Ron Bell at MLD had stopped selling his cuben pack as it has such low demand although there is the possibility of a new product appearing in time for nexy year's Challenge.
I could have a look at the Z Pack I suppose but its maker has been away on the trail for months and will almost certainly face a backlog of orders when he returns. I also suspect that the smaller Z Pack is just a little too small for UK use where as the MLD Revelation seemed perfect. Just my luck that it has gone out of production just when I wanted one!
Phil was also carrying something which I don't know the name of, but which I will call 'the pole'. With a bit of luck Phil will come along and tells us more about it.
This 'pole' is a light, carbon fibre construction. Phil walked with it like a staff — kind of John the Baptist in the Cairngorms. But it is when the pole is broken down into sections that it becomes really intriguing.
There were several demonstrations of this thing in various configurations and — to be honest — I couldn't understand any of them except one. One end opens up to reveal an exceptionally sharp tip. This converts the pole into, basically, a spear. Indeed, on several occasions Phil demonstrated the spear effect with the pole sticking dramatically into the ground. This could be quite a weapon. Apparently it has been designed to ward away pigs and wild boar. I suppose it is useful to be carrying an implement with which you could despatch a pig. Trouble is the pole is probably not strong enough to spit roast one on!
This pole contraption is apparently made "in Texans by real Texans". You're probably as worried about this as I am. The designer of all of this is apparently part of a campaign for Texan independence!
Phil's next shocking item were his shoes. He's left behind the Inov-8s he used on the Challenge and replaced them with a pair of New Balance trail shoes that he found discounted in Kendall. The reason for the discount is immediately obvious. These shoes are multi coloured in bright, primary colours — reds, yellows, greens and so on. Apparently they were comfortable and drained water well. I think they were New Balance 1100 shoes. We suspected the 1100 stood for the luminosity of the shoes.
These were very bright. Sometimes, the mud covered them up a bit but each time we walked through water Phil's shoes emerged as radiant as before! I've never seen these anywhere but I think Phil has hight hopes of these becoming standard TGO Challenge wear. Alan Sloman ought to be interested, mind you what he would make of them after a night in the Fife Arms is anybody's guess!
I could go on but frankly I think I've missed much of the stuff the two of them were talking about. However, both Colin and Phil have thrown themselves into the new sensation from the US wilderness — pack rafting!
Colin was first to order his pack raft but Phil has followed close behind. I can see why these might be essential in, say, Alaska, but here in the UK? Colin's idea is to walk the Speyside Way from the coast, get to Aviemore, inflate his pack raft and simply let the fast flowing water drift him back home again.
I know there have been a lot of people in the UK who have been interested in pack rafting but concerned that there were no local users with any experience of them. All of this is about to change.
Anyhow, there's a little about gear. Both Phil and Colin have email addresses that you'll find by following links in the side bar. You can follow this up there.
I'm still puzzled by why you need to deal with wild pigs here!
here – the pointy bit is marketed as a pig poker on the manufacturers site (sorry Shirl) and I'm certainly going to be grinding it down as it really is unnecessarily sharp for non-poking purposes.
The pack requires a bit of a write up really – the problem is, it's just so simple. It's a cuben duffel bag with straps basically. This is the beauty of it, and why it's 121g at around 43 litres capacity.
New Balance website doesn't really do them justice, though in the spirit of multi-use gear they'd make a great signalling device…..
Don't worry Phil — I have some photos of the shoes that will certainly do them justice!
Do you also have a problem with killer pigs?
Perhaps, this is a danger that I've been blind to in the past. Should I be worrying about it?
A haj, concerning the Luxury Lite stick, as I don't like poles I can see me using this. Because you can break it down into pieces, you can use it for a shelter. Imagine if Luxury Lite would make a paddle attachment for the stick, now that would be serious multiuse!
Hendrik – I know!!! I've asked Bruce from LuxuryLite if he'd look into this, but he didn't reply. I discussed this with Colin and we came to the conclusion that the risk of the sections parting company is too great. The ultralight paddle we've got has a locking mechanism to prevent this. Using the paddle to support a shelter on the other hand….
Dave – it works brilliantly with the DuoMid, I've got an additonal small section that allows for a different height pitch, but it seems to work best unadulterated with just the rubber top cap thingy. I like it.
I got Roman Dials book on packrafting a while back and it appeals a lot to me. You have only to see his blog and the videos to see why. I will wait to see how others get on with them and then decide.
Martin my packraft has arrived in Perth today before heading further north to Inverness. I just happen to be in Perth so will see if I can grab it! Very exciting!! How did you get on with the DuoMid?
So far so good Colin. It is a new style of backpacking for me and a good learning curve. Good to push on and learn something new. Romans book on Packrafting is a eye-opening book and I would give it a go as well. It is the possibilities that can be had on trips. Maybe not up to Alaska and Andy Skurka with his last walk and the incredible places he packrafted into, but Scotland with it rivers and lochs would be just adventure with a capitol A. Safe learning with it and have fun.
I'm still puzzled by why you need to deal with wild pigs here!
Oh, bugger. I give up!
I promise I'm going now, but after making all that effort to enlighten you… zip across to my blog to see why!
It will be interesting to see how the packrafting goes. No access probs in Scotland but may find some south of the border. However the more that want that access will help gain the access that we all desire.


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Q: 403 Forbidden Acces via .htaccess clean url but can be accessed directly Could someone help me decode my apache2 error_log?
[Sat Nov 19 17:39:59 2011] [error] [client ::1] client denied by server configuration: /Library/WebServer/Documents/Users
[Sat Nov 19 17:39:59 2011] [error] [client ::1] client denied by server configuration: /Library/WebServer/Documents/favicon.ico

This folder does not even exist. And most people have a good client address such as 127.0.0.1 but since I'm on Mac OS Lion someone told me to update my hosts file to have this
127.0.0.1   localhost
::1         localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

I am not quite sure what the problem is. If I navigate to something such as:
http://localhost/kl/n/

I have no problem and am greeted with the index page (set to start.php by the .htaccess file). However if I try to go to login at:
http://localhost/kl/n/login

Which is supposed to be routed to     http://localhost/kl/n/login/login.php I get a 403 forbidden access with the errors mentioned above in my apache2 error_log. Now I have no problem actually going to http://localhost/kl/n/login/login.php. It exists and works fine. To see if it was a problem with addresses I created an undefined variable for the error_log to throw and when I access it directly through the full url I get this error in my error_log:
[Sat Nov 19 18:00:32 2011] [error] [client ::1] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: orange2 in /Users/myusername/Sites/cloud/kl/n/styles/colors.php on line 127, referer: http://localhost/kl/n/login/login.php

So for the 403 error to say:
You don't have permission to access /Users/myusername/Sites/cloud/kl/n/login/login.php on this server.

Is a bit odd to me. Any help whatsoever or anything to check would be greatly appreciated. I can't seem to move on as the whole site is heavily relying on these clean urls and that it would also be a great hassle to change all the links now in development and then again on production. Thank you so much.
EDIT 11/21/11 2:42pm: I decided to add some more information to help anyone who's even attempting to help me (Come on guys, I can't be the only one who's had to face this, it seems like something someone else must've run into. No MAMP users with .htaccess rewrites on their server that ran into a 403 forbidden?)
Under my sites folder there is a file called httpd-vhosts.conf and here it is:
<Directory "/Users/myusername/Sites">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Alias /kl "/Users/myusername/Sites/cloud/kl"

# For http://localhost in the OS X default location
<VirtualHost _default_:80>
    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/Documents
</VirtualHost>

Under /etc/apache2/httpd.conf I uncommented the line that would enable php5 and changed these lines:
# If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run
# httpd as root initially and it will switch.
#
# User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.
# It is usually good practice to create a dedicated user and group for
# running httpd, as with most system services.
#
#User _www
#Group _www
User myusername
Group _www

I have tried this with both the normal _www and my username, neither helps with the problem. I also changed these lines under /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
#
#DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"
DocumentRoot "/Users/myusername/Sites"

#
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

#
# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
# below.
#

#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
# old path
#<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">
# new path
<Directory "/Users/myusername/Sites">

Again any help on this would be appreciated. I really hope I'm not the only one who set up a MAMP and had problems with .htaccess on MAC OS X Lion.

UPDATE Jan-31-2012:
I no longer have a Lion install, but I had a similar problem with Snow Leopard. I'm not sure if the fix for me would also have worked here, but I'm including it in case it helps anyone. Basically you have to add this to you .htaccess after the line saying RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /~myusername/path/to/root/dir

So if you had to point to localhost/~myusername/first-folder-under-sites, then you would add
RewriteBase /~myusername/first-folder-under-sites

and combined with an open httpd.conf set-up (ie not the way it is in my post, but instead less secure as:)
<Directory />
  Options FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

you should have no problems.

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Pocillopora frondosa Verrill, 1869
Pocillopora frondosa (Species)
taxon inquirendum
Verrill AE. (1869). Synopsis of the polyps and corals of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, under Commodore C. Ringgold and Capt. John Rodgers, U.S.N., from 1853 to 1856. Collected by Dr. Wm. Stimpson, Naturalist to the Expedition. Communications of the Essex Institute, Salem. 6 (1): 51-104, pls. 1-2., available online at https://doi.org/10.1086/270634 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2021). World List of Scleractinia. Pocillopora frondosa Verrill, 1869. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411251 on 2021-01-20
original description Verrill AE. (1869). Synopsis of the polyps and corals of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, under Commodore C. Ringgold and Capt. John Rodgers, U.S.N., from 1853 to 1856. Collected by Dr. Wm. Stimpson, Naturalist to the Expedition. Communications of the Essex Institute, Salem. 6 (1): 51-104, pls. 1-2., available online at https://doi.org/10.1086/270634 [details]
basis of record Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. , available online at https://web.archive.org/web/20191018194704/http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details]
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A strong earthquake rattled the U.S. East Coast Tuesday, sending tremors as far as Canada, shaking the nation's capital and scaring thousands of office workers who fled onto the streets.
There were no reports of major damage or injuries from the 5.8 magnitude quake, which was centered in Mineral, Virginia.
It was the largest quake in Virginia since 1897 and struck at a shallow depth, increasing its potency.
The Pentagon, White House and U.S. Capitol were evacuated in Washington, and thousands of alarmed workers scurried into the streets up and down the East Coast as the lunchtime quake sent items crashing to the floor from store and office shelves.
``We were rocking,'' said Larry Beach, who works at the U.S Agency for International Development in downtown Washington, 83 miles from the quake's epicenter. ``It was definitely significant.'' Federal workers in Washington were sent home early.
Washington's National Cathedral, host to state funerals and memorial services for many U.S. presidents, suffered damage with three spires in the central tower breaking off.
The U.S. East Coast does not normally feel quakes as strong as Tuesday's. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was of 5.8 magnitude, downgrading an earlier estimate if 5.9.
Earthquakes of magnitude 5.5 to 6 can cause damage to buildings and other structures.
As if a rare strong earthquake were not enough, the East Coast was also on alert for powerful Hurricane Irene which was heading up from the Caribbean and could hit at the weekend.
The quake made chandeliers sway in the U.S. Capitol and the floor of the U.S. Senate shook before staff headed for the doors. The U.S. Congress is in recess so most members were away.
``I thought at first somebody was shaking my chair and then I thought maybe it was a bomb,'' said Senate aide Wendy Oscarson-Kirchner.
Phone service was disrupted throughout the region as network congestion prevented cellphone users from making calls.
In New York, the tremors prompted evacuations of courthouses, City Hall and halted work at the World Trade Center construction site.
Control towers at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey were also evacuated, and flights were grounded briefly in Washington, Philadelphia and New York.
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Maryland Health Department announces funding source for Brain Injury Trust Fund during Brain Injury Awareness Day activities
by David M. Higgins II, Publisher/Editor March 18, 2019 March 17, 2019
News Release, Maryland Department of Health
Baltimore, MD – The Maryland Department of Health (MDH), in partnership with the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), March 6, 2019 announced a dedicated funding source through MDOT for the Maryland Brain Injury Trust Fund, which was established to assist individuals living with brain injury.
"This fund was created six years ago, but until now, didn't have a dedicated funding source," said Maryland Department of Health Secretary Robert R. Neall. "I applaud Delegate Bob Flanagan, the MDOT administration and the many brain injury advocates who worked for years to make this happen. This new funding mechanism – entirely voluntary – will allow residents to contribute to this worthwhile endeavor and support their fellow Marylanders."
Dr. Barbara Bazron, Deputy Secretary of MDH's Behavioral Health Administration,said at the announcement: "There are many people in our state living with brain injury who need additional supports. This fund will help pay for services to income eligible residents, which will positively impact their lives." The BHA will manage the distribution of fundsthrough its Office of Older Adults and Long Term Services and Supports.
The announcement, held in conjunction with Brain Injury Awareness Day in Annapolis, was attended by dozens of Maryland residents living with brain injury, who applauded the state's efforts to expand available services.
"I'm overwhelmed with joy because our dream is coming true. As a traumatic brain injury survivor, I am thrilled that this trust fund will provide critical services – services that will contribute to an improved quality of life for my brain injured brothers and sisters, who could not afford these services otherwise," saidLaurieElinoff, a member of the Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board.
"This trust fund is about providing real hope to families that have been taken to the breaking point and beyond. By allowing Marylanders to donate to the trust fund, we can begin to provide services and support to individuals and families struggling to restore their lives and their future," saidCaitlin Exline Starr, Associate Director of the Brain Injury Association of Maryland(BIAMD), a non-profit organization representing individuals with brain injury, their families and professionals.
Bazron, Starr and Elinoff were joined by former Delegate Bob Flanagan, who worked with MDOT to establish the funding source as a voluntary contribution throughthe Motor Vehicle Administration's registration renewal process, when completed online or at a kiosk.
"There is so much that is needed to raise awareness, shape public policy and assist individuals with brain injuries," said Flanagan. "I deeply appreciate Governor Larry Hogan's administration for finding a way to fund this so the work can move forward."
The Brain Injury Trust Fund, created by legislation in 2013,will pay for case management andneuropsychological evaluations for eligible individuals. The Fund will be used to support:
Rehabilitation and medical services;
Durable medical equipment;
Assistive technology assessment and equipment;
Transportation services;
Neurobehavioral health services;
Nursing home transition and community reentry services;
Housing and residential services;
Prevention, education and awareness programs;
Data from MDH's Center for Injury Epidemiology shows that every year in Maryland there are tens of thousands of emergency room visits, thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths due to traumatic brain injury from motor vehicle crashes, sports injuries, falls and assaults. And these numbers do not include brain injuries caused by other factors, such as near drowning, suffocation, strokes, opioid-related overdoses and other unintentional poisonings.
"It'sbeen a true privilege to serve with so many passionatemembers on the Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board and other brain injury advocates," saidStateSenator Jeff Waldstreicher, who serves as Chairman of the AdvisoryBoard. "Their determination and dedication to this issuehelpedestablishthe trust fund. Together, we will continue our fight to further bolster this important resourceforMarylanders affected by brain injuries."
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