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Dancing with the Stars: Season 29; Why Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews Were Dropped from the ABC Series
by Regina Avalos, October 5, 2020
(ABC/Eric McCandless)
Dancing with the Stars went made some big changes ahead of its new season, and many fans were unhappy to see Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews fired as hosts of the ABC series. Tyra Banks is now hosting the dance competition series, and some are not happy with that choice either.
DWTS executive producer Andrew Llinares recently spoke about the reasons for the changes at an ABC press event. He said the following about the firing of Bergeron and Andrews, per The Sun:
"It's all about evolution. Any show like this that has been on for many, many seasons needs to continue to evolve. So I think changing that host is all about evolution. It was all about making the show feel fresh, making it feel new and make it reach out to a new audience — as well as the audience that's been there for years."
Llinares says that he is pleased with how things have worked out and thinks that bringing in Banks to host the series has "changed the rhythm of the show in a really exciting way. I think Tyra is doing an amazing, amazing job. It's been wonderful having her energy in the ballroom and her expertise as a host in the ballroom. She's brought a new life to everything."
The changes did appear to cause a drop in viewership in its second week on the air this season, but it bounced back some in week three. Dancing with the Stars currently airs on Monday nights on ABC.
What do you think? Were you surprised by the firing of Bergeron and Andrews? Have you been watching Banks host Dancing with the Stars on ABC? Will you continue to watch season 29?
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Tyra Banks is nauseating. I've never missed a show since Season 1, so even though I was mad about Tom & Erin, I tried watching because of Derek Hough being a judge……but couldn't stand Tyra Banks so I just turned it off after the 3rd show and will not watch it again while that disgusting Tyra is on. The whole feeling of closeness and family is gone…..as long as Tyra Banks is the host, I WILL NOT WATCH it again.
I don't watch the show anymore.
No longer watching DWTS. Cannot stand Tyra Banks as emcee. Bring back Tom and Erin.
I have no problem with Tyra but I liked Tom. You don't get rid of the main man!!! I have watched this show since the first episode. I never missed it. Sorry not watching anymore.
Tyra really sucks as the host, also dressing the judges in stupid outfits ! sucks as well. Can't take it any longer . Ruined an enjoyable show to watch. Done !!
Tyra Banks is horrible. Bring back Tom & Erin. Stopped watching because of the change!
Teresa McGuire
I Wish Erin & Tom we're still the hosts. I don't think Tyra is a good mix for this show. It's only about fashion for her
Why fix Something when it's not broken.
I LOVED Dancing with the Stars. I thought Tom and Erin brought fun & excitement. I still watch it but not live, I tape it so I can fast forward Tara, Didn't like her on AGT
And don't like her on DWS. Bring back Tom!!!!
LaRee
Reply to Susan
Agree will not be watching as long as Tara is MC.
Totally agree
Sometimes, new is good, not in case.
So I have made my decision to not watch!
Deanna Osterberg
Disagree vehemently about the decision to fire Tom and Erin. Banks has no talent as a host — was unimpressed with her on AGT as well. Please get a new host ASAP — or better yet bring back Tom & Erin. I am still watching the show as I love the dancing, costumes and getting to know a different dimension to the celebrities — when Banks is on I just look away and hit the mute button! If you're hell-bent on making some changes, how about starting with the judges? Carrie Ann is a drama queen and Bruno is —… Read more »
Carl Fredrickson
If it matters I'm still watching Erin on Fox football. Skipping dancing altogether. ABC's loss
Linda Tracy
Not happy with the change at all! Tom and Erin added class to the show. I don't care for Tyras comments and her apparel is hideous!!! Wasn't going to watch this year, but love Derrick Huff. Probably won't watch another season, which is sad I have been a fan since season 1
It was a horrible decision firing Tom & Erin… like the old saying goes "If it isn't broken, don't fix it". I am very disappointed with this new season and without Tom & Erin, I doubt I will continue watching Dancing w/the Stars.


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The political logic of populist hype: the case of right wing populism's 'meteoric rise' and its relation to the status quo
Aurelien Mondon, Jason Glynos
Politics, Languages & International Studies
Institute for Policy Research (IPR)
The term 'populism' has become ubiquitous in today's politics and media. No longer a clichéd spectre haunting Europe, populism appears to have become a practical reality in the wake of Brexit, Donald Trump's victory in the United States, and the French presidential elections. It appears that the people have spoken and that their wish is for reactionary right-wing politics.
Through a mix of discourse analysis and psychoanalysis, and taking examples from the United Kingdom, the US and France where populist waves have appeared to weaken and even break liberal defences, this article argues that the seemingly irresistible rise of the 'populist right' has acted as a political logic. In this view, the disproportionate coverage of such a rise, with its accompanying potent mobilisation of affect, including its implied characterisation as the alternative to the status quo, has pre-empted the contestation of some troubling norms animating the regimes of liberal representative democracy and political economy.
By doing so, the hype around right-wing populism has impoverished democratic discussion, leaving little space for the essential reassessment of the system itself, instead aligning the debate along a rather stale and unproductive divide between a liberal human rights elite and loosely-defined middle class on the one hand, and a reactionary 'people' subject to authoritarian passions on the other.
POPULISMUS Working Papers
right-wing populism
representative democracy
Far right
Mondon, A., & Glynos, J. (2016). The political logic of populist hype: the case of right wing populism's 'meteoric rise' and its relation to the status quo. (POPULISMUS Working Papers; Vol. 4). Thessaloniki: Populismus.
The political logic of populist hype: the case of right wing populism's 'meteoric rise' and its relation to the status quo. / Mondon, Aurelien; Glynos, Jason.
Thessaloniki : Populismus, 2016. (POPULISMUS Working Papers; Vol. 4).
Mondon, A & Glynos, J 2016 'The political logic of populist hype: the case of right wing populism's 'meteoric rise' and its relation to the status quo' POPULISMUS Working Papers, vol. 4, Populismus, Thessaloniki.
Mondon A, Glynos J. The political logic of populist hype: the case of right wing populism's 'meteoric rise' and its relation to the status quo. Thessaloniki: Populismus. 2016 Dec. (POPULISMUS Working Papers).
Mondon, Aurelien ; Glynos, Jason. / The political logic of populist hype: the case of right wing populism's 'meteoric rise' and its relation to the status quo. Thessaloniki : Populismus, 2016. (POPULISMUS Working Papers).
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Dining on escargots experienced its first boom in ancient Rome. They were highly popular due to their supposed stimulating properties. Pliny the Edler (100 BCE) wrote about escargot and their preparation in his volume of natural history, and Marcus Gavius Apicius eternalized popular recipes and breeding tips in his book of Roman cookery written in the 4th or 5th century ADE.
A certain Fulvius Lippinus began refining the art of snail farming as early as the War of Pompeii. He raised different types of snails in separate stalls, feeding them with his own special feed dough. In around 750 ADE, Romans began farming snails in earnest. They sent collectors to gather snails in Liguria (northern Italy), and fattened them in special snail gardens that included cleansing and feeding pens. The escargots were then sold at specialty boutiques and eaten with special cutlery.
With the expansion of the Roman Empire, eating escargots became widespread throughout Europe. This is evidenced by the excavation of Roman colonies, including the Roman city of Carnuntum, near Vienna. However, the breeding of vineyard snails in the Alpine region first became truly widespread with the rise of Christianity and the fasting rules the religion brought with it. For the church, snails were neither fish nor meat and were therefore permitted – and eaten in large amounts – during Lent in particular. Monks took up the old tradition of snail breeding in their monastery gardens, a practice that can still be found in parts of Italy today.
Today, vineyard snails are considered part of the culinary heritage of the Alps, with a geographic arc leading from the French Alps to Vienna.
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NSSF Hails Rep. Richard Hudson's Concealed Carry Reciprocity Legislation
For immediate release | January 5, 2021
H.R. 38 Would End Patchwork of Confusing Gun Law for CC Permit Holders
NEWTOWN, Conn. – NSSF®, the firearm industry's trade association, hailed U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson's (R-N.C.) introduction of the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2021, H.R. 38, on the first day of the 117th Congress. The legislation was introduced with bipartisan support and 154 original co-sponsors, demonstrating the wide-ranging support for protecting law-abiding concealed carry permit holders from navigating a patchwork of varying gun control laws when crossing a state line.
The bill aims to eliminate the confusion of varying state-by-state laws and provide protection for Second Amendment rights for permit holders. The legislation would allow handgun owners who are legally permitted and authorized by their home state to carry a concealed firearm in other states while complying with the laws of each state – much in the same way a driver's license is recognized.
"This legislation provides an answer to the confusing patchwork of laws surrounding concealed carry permits, particularly with regard to states where laws make unwitting criminals out of legal permit holders for a simple mistake of a wrong traffic turn," said Lawrence Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel. "It safeguards a state's right to determine their own laws while protecting the Second Amendment rights of all Americans. We thank Rep. Hudson for his leadership on behalf of America's hunters and recreational shooters."
"Our Second Amendment rights do not disappear when we cross state lines, and H.R. 38 guarantees that," said Rep. Hudson. "The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2021 is a common sense solution to provide law-abiding citizens the right to conceal carry and travel freely between states without worrying about conflicting state codes or onerous civil suits. I am especially proud to have such widespread and bipartisan support for this measure and will work with my colleagues to get this legislation over the finish line."
Unlike other rights protected by the U.S. Constitution, the right to keep and bear arms is regulated differently by individual states. While individual rights to speech, religion and protections of Due Process or Search and Seizure are constant, gun rights vary according to the state. Reciprocity agreements exist, but not between all states and are ever-changing. That puts individuals at risk of running afoul of varying state-by-state laws when traveling and crossing borders.
The pitfalls of these varying state-by-state laws were exposed when Philadelphia resident Shaneen Allen faced up to five years in prison for bringing a firearm into New Jersey in 2013. She held a valid license to carry in Pennsylvania, but not in neighboring New Jersey. The mother-of-two voluntarily told a law enforcement officer of the firearm during a traffic stop, but was still arrested, charged, convicted and spent 48 days in jail – all for having made a wrong turn and accidentally crossing state line. Fortunately, after an 18-month legal ordeal, Republican Gov. Chris Christie pardoned Allen. Others are not so lucky.
About NSSF
NSSF is the trade association for the firearm industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of thousands of manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen's organizations and publishers nationwide. For more information, log on to www.nssf.org.
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SPITFIRE is a NERC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) creating an innovative multi-disciplinary experience for the effective training of future leaders in environmental science, engineering, technology development, business, and policy.
SPITFIRE students will be registered at the University of Southampton and will undertake their PhD project research within the University or one of the hosting partner organisations. Unique features of SPITFIRE include opportunities for placements at a range of prestigious international research organisations or industrial and policy partners.
SPITFIRE aims to support a cohort of up to 30 students per year over five years.


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By the numbers: Understanding Google's Demographics and Interests Reports
Data from new reports inside Google Analytics can help you sharpen your marketing and bring in new cases. Here, you'll find a primer on Google's new Demographics and Interests Reports.
Over the course of the last two years, legal and regulatory scrutiny of online user privacy has resulted in a slew of changes to the data available in Google Analytics.
In 2012, a $22 million run-in with the Federal Trade Commission over privacy violations started Google down the path of self-regulation for increased user privacy. But the 2013 National Security Agency/PRISM scandal made search encryption a top priority for the company. Although Google has stayed ahead of regulatory requirements in the United States, the more hawkish European Commission is right on Google's heels.
Most significantly for those who use Google Analytics data to drive digital marketing tactics, user keyword data are disappearing. But, in their stead, a new data set has arrived.
And for small to medium-sized businesses, the new data is a boon.
Want to know how visitors 65+ behave on your website? Interested to learn that a large number of your visitors are currently shopping for investment advisers? If you don't already use Google Analytics, it's time to start putting its data to good use.The reporting tool finally has something interesting to tell you about your firm, your potential clients and your opportunities.
Casting a Wider Net
Until last year, Google Analytics could report that the website visitors who found your website using the search term "child custody attorney" were the most likely to end up filling out the contact form or calling the office.
The marketing connection was direct: put more dollars behind high-performing search terms.
But this technology made it too easy to identify individual users. As search encryption has increased over the last year, business owners have seen much of this data disappear.
Fortunately, the replacement data is more compelling. Using Demographics and Interests Reports, business owners can now see how people of different age groups, genders and interests behave on their websites.
For a law firm, it's a better data set. Knowing that "child custody attorney" converts more often than "child custody lawyer" does very little for an overall sense of how to drive business growth.
But the new data — for example, the discovery that a lot of people 65+ browse your website, but very few of them convert — can alert firms to genuine and actionable business opportunities.
Activate Your Reports
In order to display data, Google Demographics and Interests Reports must be activated manually. Firms that retain ongoing website support may have already activated the reports. If so, the report tabs will immediately display data when clicked. If not activated, the screen will display an activation prompt.
Warning: activation is not a DIY activity. Google provides a list of instructions on how to activate these reports, giving the impression that it's a relatively simple process. One portion of the process requires the simple click of a button right inside the online Analytics dashboard, but a corresponding portion requires a change to the tracking code that is installed within the website's programming. Fortunately, the code change is quick and simple for a professional programmer.
Demographics and Interests Reports: A Guide
The new reporting areas can be found under the Audience section of Google Analytics (which is inside the main menu running down the left side of the screen). Use this guide to click through all the new reports.
Demographics: Overview
This tab gives an at-a-glance look at the ages and genders of website visitors. The age reporting is broken into segments: 18-24, 25-34 and through to 65+.
Demographics: Age
This tab provides more detailed information about the behavior of website visitors of each age group: how much time they spend on the site, how many pages they view on average, their conversion rates and more.
Demographics: Gender
The gender counterpart to the Age tab offers detailed information about how men and women behave on the site.
Interests: Overview
This tab provides a graphic overview of the information contained in the next three tabs: Affinity Categories, In-Market Segments and Other Categories.
Interests: Affinity Categories
Google lets advertisers target audience members by interest. For example, a car company may want to target "Outdoor Enthusiasts," "Savvy Parents" or "Auto Enthusiasts" with their ads. Now, this report tab inside Google Analytics shows that car company how many people from those categories actually come to the website, and how they behave when they do.
Even if you don't run advertising campaigns, this tab will report on which Affinity Categories your website visitors belong to, and it will display their aggregate behavior on your website.
Interests: In-Market Segments
If someone has spent a fair amount of time searching for and viewing laptop computers, Google considers that person to be "in the market" for a laptop. This report shows the aggregate behavior of cohorts of visitors who are in the market for different products.
Interests: Other Categories
According to Google, this is a collection of audience segments that don't yet fit into In-Market Segments or Affinity Categories. It is best used if you are on the hunt for an extremely specific audience segment that can't be found in the other interest categories.
Four Ways Your Law Firm Can Use These Reports
Can this information really help a law firm grow?
1. Use In-Market Segments to spark a collaboration.
Perhaps many users on your site are in the market for investment services or for tutoring services. It may be time to develop a marketing collaboration. Contact local professionals in key segments and see if there is an interest in working together. Form a network. Co-sponsor an educational seminar — and then advertise it on your website!
2. Use Affinity Categories for inspired content.
The toughest part about keeping your firm's blog current is thinking of topics you should address. Let the Affinity Categories provide inspiration. If a number of your visitors are technophiles, perhaps you can use a new gadget as the theme of or introduction to your next post.
3. Use age and gender data to improve your website.
If a particular demographic segment seems alarmingly prone to abandoning your website before contacting you, do a little market research. Have a staff member sit down with a few real-life members of that segment for a website walk-through. You might discover that something small — a particular button, or a difficult piece of information to find — is frustrating visitors.
4. Glean some advertising intelligence.
If reports show that your visitors love hockey, perhaps the local hockey juniors are a better sponsorship for you than the Little League baseball team. But simpler than that, try out a Google ad campaign. As a beginner, the best idea is to identify something that works and put some money behind it. If your reports show that 35-to-44-year-old women are most likely to contact you, then put a few dollars into bringing more of them to your website.
1. How does Google collect all this information?
Google aggregates data from users' searches and website visits and draws conclusions from that collection. If a user visits Glamour Magazine every day and frequently searches for two-year-old birthday party ideas, Google might conclude that the user is a 25-to-34-year-old mom with an affinity for beauty products.
2. Doesn't that mean that the data isn't 100 percent reliable?
Yes. Theoretically, a 25-year-old employed as a blogger on issues relating to seniors could use his computer to research Social Security and Medicare benefits and therefore be classified by Google as a 65-year-old.
Nonetheless, Google works continuously to ensure that the data is generally reliable, just as TV stations have done for decades.
3. What's the fine print?
Any website that activates Google Analytics must post a privacy policy and inform users of the collection of anonymous data, as required by the Google Analytics Terms of Service.
Aside from the setup — which most web support companies should provide as part of a basic web support package — using Demographics and Interests reports is easier and more intuitive than it sounds. If your website is an important venue for communicating about your firm to the public, then your firm should be using these reports to gain a baseline understanding for how the public is responding to the information given. But most importantly for law firms looking to grow, these new reports can point to avenues for new client acquisition both on- and offline.
Set Up Your Goals and Event Tracking
It's interesting to know that users aged 35-44 spend more time on your website than any other age group. But the question is: does it matter? Because visitors have different purchasing personalities, some may spend hours on a website before purchasing, while others may view just a page or two before picking up the phone.
Conversion goals and event tracking provide critical context to Google Analytics reporting.
For an older or simpler site, conversion goal setup is easy and effective. Choose a high-value page — typically the Contact Us page or the Thank You page — and enter it into the goals section on the Admin tab. Instantly, it will begin recording, and you will be able to see which visitors are making it to those high-value pages.
It may turn out that 25-to-34-year-olds are spending the most time on the site, but that visitors aged 35-44 are the most likely to convert.
For a more sophisticated site, event tracking can show video views and clicks on specific images or text links.
Cari Cymanski
Cari Cymanski is a former Bigger Law Magazine staff contributor and legal content developer.


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PUBG goes metaverse with Solana!
PUBG has partnered with Solana. Plans to enter the Metaverse industry with its own platform. Will fully increase both Metaverse and NFTs parallel to the PUBG theme.
Tencent's Players Unknown Battle Ground (PUBG) could be considered the epic game of the century. With millions and millions of players and users, PUBG is at the top of the gaming industry. Although many countries have banned PUBG because the addiction is like everything else, the game continues to thrive like everything else.
Likewise, attempting to take the next step into the future, PUBG, hailing from the stables of Tencent gaming firm, has partnered with a premium blockchain platform, the Solana (SOL). Despite this, the partnership is expected to evolve into many different features of the blockchain ecosystem.
It is clear that since the news officially came out, the hypes are immediately ramping up. Indeed, one of the most feature-rich games that interacts with abundantly efficient blockchain platform will bring millions of smiley faces.
True to the fact, the idea behind Tencent to partner with Solana (SOL) is crystal clear. The only way PUBG can rule the game industry is by adopting the following technology interfaces. PUBG is one of the most futuristic interactive games ever built as it incorporates real world audio and conversation into the digital world.
Moreover, PUBG can even be considered one of the most ancestral images of the Metaverse system. Despite all this, the new partnership with Solana will just be a nitro punch to both. PUBG will settle in almost every possible attribute of the blockchain ecosystem in line with gaming.
This includes the Non Fungible Token (NFT), Blockchain Gaming, Metaverse and many more. Fans are already eagerly anticipating the arrival of all these people. Indeed, a game played entirely on Metaverse will be the biggest change for the gaming industry ever.
Moreover, this should be a win-win situation for both PUBG and Solana as the price of Solana will keep getting higher and higher. Currently (SOL) is trading at the price of $94.70 with the charts rising 2% considering the past 24 hours.


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The Greenlanders
By: Jane Smiley
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
The Long Ships
By: Frans G. Bengtsson, Michael Meyer, Michael Chabon
Bengtsson's hero, Red Orm-canny - courageous and above all lucky - is only a boy when he is abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings and made to take his place at the oars of their dragon-prowed ships. Orm is then captured by the Moors in Spain, where he fights for the Caliph of Cordova. Escaping from captivity, Orm washes up in Ireland, where he marvels at those epicene creatures, the Christian monks, and from which he then moves on to play an ever more important part in the intrigues of the various Scandinavian kings and clans and dependencies.
By Baz on 08-27-18
Independent People
By: Halldór Laxness
This magnificent novel - which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature - is now available to contemporary American audiences. Although it is set in the early 20th century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.
Epic Totally
By David Powell on 01-30-18
The Poetic Edda
Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
By: Jackson Crawford
Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc.
Great translation--the pronunciation is correct!
By Casper on 05-08-19
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
By: Ocean Vuong
Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late 20s, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born - a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam - and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation.
I never write reviews
By David on 06-13-19
Disappearing Earth
By: Julia Phillips
Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin
One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls - sisters, eight and 11 - go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother.
A story about a crime, yes, but not traditional detective story.
A Thousand Acres
Narrated by: C. J. Critt
Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a tangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father, Larry Cook, grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand-acre farm. As each couple struggles with their own tragedies and challenges, they know their father is judging them in light of the weighty inheritance that hovers within their reach.
good book bad reader
By C. Carlson on 08-07-08
The Winter Soldier
By: Daniel Mason
Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a 22-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives - at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains - he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains. But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon's scalpel.
Extremely well read narration..excellent overall
By KRRCPA on 12-22-18
Kristin Lavransdatter
By: Tiina Nunnally - translator, Sigrid Undset
As a young girl in 14th-century Norway, Kristin is deeply devoted to her father, Lavrans, a kind and courageous man. But when as a student in a convent school she meets the charming and impetuous Erlend Nikulaussøn, she defies her parents in pursuit of her own desires. Her saga continues through her marriage to Erlend, their tumultuous life together raising seven sons as Erlend seeks to strengthen his political influence, and finally their estrangement as the world around them tumbles into uncertainty.
A grand listen
By Chicago & Indiana Scientist/Gardener/Hiker on 07-05-17
Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Narrated by: Henry Strozier
In his earlier best sellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final audiobook in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change - a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.
Terrible narration, buying it in paper instead
By Tim B on 05-17-19
By: Barry Lopez
Narrated by: James Naughton
From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters - human, animal, and natural - that have shaped an extraordinary life.
Brilliant Wise and Thought Provoking
By findley on 05-04-19
By: Kate Atkinson
Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
In 1940, 18-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat.
A very satisfying two days!
By Frances on 09-30-18
Travels in Siberia
By: Ian Frazier
Narrated by: Ian Frazier
Ian Frazier trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region. He writes about the geography, the resources, the native peoples, the history, the 40-below midwinter afternoons, the bugs. The book brims with Mongols, half-crazed Orthodox archpriests, fur seekers, ambassadors of the czar bound for Peking, tea caravans, German scientists, American prospectors, intrepid English nurses, and prisoners and exiles of every kind....
I Loved This Book
The Overstory
By: Richard Powers
The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another.
eye opening
By Michael Stansberry on 05-23-18
Narrated by: Roy McMillan
Brodie Moncur is a brilliant piano tuner, as brilliant in his own way as John Kilbarron - "The Irish Liszt" - the pianist Brodie accompanies on all of his tours from Paris to Saint Petersburg, as essential to Kilbarron as the pianist's own hands. It is a luxurious life and a level of success Brodie could hardly have dreamed of growing up in a remote Scottish village, in a household ruled by a tyrannical father. But Brodie would gladly give it all up for the love of the Russian soprano Lika Blum: beautiful, worldly, seductive - and consort to Kilbarron.
Captures the protagonist's struggles
By galcarm on 10-15-18
Fin Gall - A Novel of Viking Age Ireland
Norsemen Saga Series #1
By: James L. Nelson
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
For centuries, the Vikings have swept out of the Norse countries and fallen on whatever lands they could reach aboard their longships, and few could resist the power of their violent onslaught. They came at first to plunder and then to settle, an encroachment fiercely resisted wherever they went. Such was the case in the southern lands of Ireland. En route to the Viking longphort there, known as Dubh-linn, Thorgrim Night Wolf and Ornolf the Restless stumble across an Irish ship.
Tolerable with this trick
By Victoria on 05-10-16
Here is one of the best historical novels ever written. Lame, stammering Claudius, once a major embarrassment to the imperial family and now emperor of Rome, writes an eyewitness account of the reign of the first four Caesars: the noble Augustus and his cunning wife, Livia; the reptilian Tiberius; the monstrous Caligula; and finally old Claudius himself. Filled with poisonings, betrayal, and shocking excesses, I Claudius is history that rivals the most exciting contemporary fiction.
Unsurpassed, addictive brilliance
By Chris on 06-09-09
By: Jo Nesbø
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man. Sonny's been in prison for a dozen years, nearly half his life. The inmates who seek out his uncanny abilities to soothe leave his cell feeling absolved. They don't know or care that Sonny has a serious heroin habit - or where or how he gets his uninterrupted supply of the drug. Or that he's serving time for other peoples' crimes. Sonny took the first steps toward addiction when his father took his own life rather than face exposure as a corrupt cop. Now Sonny is the seemingly malleable center of a whole infrastructure of corruption....
A Break From The Harry Hole Series Is a Hit
By Russell on 09-04-14
The Age of the Vikings
By: Anders Winroth
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by medieval and modern myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and developed a vast trading network. They traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships, not only to raid, but also to explore. Despite their fearsome reputation, the Vikings didn't wear horned helmets, and even the infamous berserkers were far from invincible.
Interesting history. Narrator could be better
By PopPop51 on 07-09-15
Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas.
Set in the 14th century in Europe's most farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains, The Greenlanders is the story of one family - proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose willful independence leads her into passionate adultery and exile; and his son Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is at the compelling center of this unforgettable audiobook. Jane Smiley takes us into this world of farmers, priests, and lawspeakers, of hunts and feasts and long-standing feuds, and by an act of literary magic, makes a remote time, place, and people not only real but dear to us.
©1988 Jane Smiley (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Some Luck
Gardens of the Moon
Michon Matthiesen
First-rate! You will be transported
Jane Smiley has created a marvelous saga of Greenland which allows the reader access to an unforgettable world. One learns what the people of Greenland ate, how they managed (or not) in extreme weather conditions, and how they thought. The novel takes place around the year 1400. There is drama on every page!
John L Murphy
Retelling the sagas in a floundering land
What did you like best about The Greenlanders? What did you like least?
Jane Smiley claimed she "chanelled" the writing here and produced a tale very much like the Old Norse sagas. That is, she shears it of overt characterization and literary ornament. It's an admirable ambition, but I am glad I read Njal's and Egil's sagas first to get the flavor.
Unfortunately, the result is numbing. It's epic in size but not in energy. The people come and go, but little grasp remains for the listener of who's who, and it's difficult to care much. I wanted lots more about the decline of Greenland's Norse settlers, but it's vague; wrapped up in accusations of witchcraft, convincing in theory, but not as a fictional pageturner.
Has The Greenlanders turned you off from other books in this genre?
I doubt if there are other books in this genre. Only "Wayward Heroes" by Halldor Laxness to my knowledge represents for a wider audience a literary-minded author taking this theme up.
What does Ralph Lister bring to the story that you wouldn't experience if you just read the book?
I liked his ravings as Loras the crazed prophet late on. This was one time the voices came alive. He tries his best, but over so long a trek, it's hard to make this material exciting enough
Did The Greenlanders inspire you to do anything?
To find out more about the real Viking and later Norse contexts, as Jesse Byock has shown in Iceland. It also led me to seek out Neil Gaiman's retelling of Norse myth, a subject I knew nearly nothing about. So, while the tale itself lagged, the medievalist in me found inspiration.
Smiley tried in "Ten Days in the Hills" to retell Boccaccio's "Decameron." She did not succeed, but she at least has the legacy of a medieval literature Ph.D. to give her ideas. I read her big book about ways of looking at fiction similarly. She never draws me in, however.
Patti W
Very dissapointing
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
I started listening to this but it has been written in an old style, and it is like listening to an old priest read from the old testament without any emotion at all. The history of the Greenlanders is such an interesting one, and I did think that it may pick up a bit, but 27 hours of listening is too much. Even for me. I traditionally listen to books while in my studio painting, and find I can listen to almost anything, especially rather dry and overwhelmingly long books, as the story keeps my mind occupied while I work. But this didnt do that for me at all. Listeners who appreciate old testament style writing may love it. I switched over to The Story of the Volsungs, which is the same story but has been delivered in a more interesting manner.
What was most disappointing about Jane Smiley's story?
The language and style of writing
How could the performance have been better?
More emotion and excitment
tracy allen
Epic, intimate and transporting
This book is something of a hard sell. An epic tale of medieval Greenland as the climate changes and society starts to fail. For ages I couldn't face it but actually it is fantastic. It has a compelling story, sympathetic and beautifully realized characters and it's an amazing piece of writing- it's epic, intimate and will transport you to a different world. Think 'Some Luck' in 14th century Greenland. The style takes a little getting used to but stick with it, it's great.
Has The Greenlanders put you off other books in this genre?
Just the author and narrator
Very disappointed, couldn't get into the book at all, neither the storyline nor the narrator, I managed about half an hour and put it away in disgust.
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About Our Pricing in 2019, and our Vise Knobs
Pricing for 2019
If you've followed our work for any amount of time you've known that we don't like to sit still. Although there's something to be said for keeping things static, the "traditional workholding" philosophy, we are also of the mindset that improvements should always be sought after, unless they veer too far from the path of tradition.
Or, and let's be honest here, get too expensive.
From the very outset we designed our vises not to a price point, but to a standard of design and function first, then we looked hard at how to make these things relatively affordable. There was a whiff of this in the air when we debuted our M series handwheels, and when we went to double lead screws and added two knobs to the Glide Leg Vise. We kept things under control by offering our C series vises, with simpler materials and finish, but equal function. Due to a number of circumstances beyond our control, we've come to another crossroads and decisions must be made.
Metal prices have gone up. Labor prices have gone up. And being Iowa boys, down to earth midwest types, we've held off on raising our prices for (yes, we had to look it up) 7 years. Every few months our costs go up. The price of materials changes. Labor prices increase. What do we do? We eat it, and have been for 7 years. We try to make small, innocent changes that don't affect our product in order to keep from jacking the price up.
In hindsight, what was done with a pure intent turns out to be a pretty bad way of doing business. Hopefully we can learn our lesson and gradually increase prices, when necessary, instead of making big increases less frequently. Over the course of 2019, you will see some of our prices go up. Some might not. We don't sit at desks like bean counters and carry our costs to the third decimal point. Believe it or not, we start with "what's a fair price" before we even look at our costs. It's how we'd treat a family friend, and it's how we view every customer.
Vise Knobs
Somewhat related to the topic of pricing is the material we make our vise knobs from. That's about to change. In fact, if you've placed an order recently, you will likely be getting vises with our new knobs. Because we can't just make changes without a rational explanation (more "Iowa boys" coming through) here goes.
In the beginning we turned our own knobs in house (the person writing this is the "we") from cocobolo. I could only keep up for so long, and the cocobolo started irritating my body. We hired a professional turner to take over the work. Then cocobolo got really expensive and the government started controlling it, which made it even more expensive. So we moved to Dymondwood. Good stuff, looks like rosewood. Then the Dymondwood factory burned to the ground and they never rebuilt. We've been using NOS Dymondwood ever since. We've now run out, and for a brief period we used some knock-off Dymondwood from China. It was decent, but we had no idea what it was made from, and what kind of dust we were breathing when making them. Then we added infused beech. Also, good stuff, but sourcing wood, drying it, milling it, infusing it, then turning it ended up being another inventory headache. Then some uncontrollable parameters changed and the price of the knobs doubled. We had absorbed the increases for years, but this was one we couldn't. The cost on a Glide, with three knobs, would have increased more than anyone, especially us, would stomach.
So here's where we're going. From here on out all our Glide M and Glide C knobs will be made from aluminum. Yeah, sounds pretty awful right? We thought so too. Until we started really thinking about it. Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the world. We have no problem sourcing it. It's ready to use. Those are all compelling manufacturing reasons. But how will it feel in the hand? That's what really matters, right? Anodizing? Makes for pretty colors, and is durable, but its fairly cold and harsh. Powdercoat? Perhaps too plastic-y to the touch. On the only contact point between the vise and the human body, we wanted better.
Then it hit us as we were handling our cameras. Satin black wrinkle coating. Bingo. For decades this finish has been used on everything from the cameras that went to the moon, classic sports car interiors, tool handles, stereos and electronics. It has a tactile feel, its warm, and it looks great with our handwheels. Plus, its an economical choice that will allow us to keep our prices from getting out of hand. If you're into classic industrial design as we are, we think you'll love our new knobs. Are they a departure from the classic wood we've always used? Obviously, but we don't think they are any less, just different. And lets' face it, there's a lot of opportunity for exhibiting some exotic wood on a bench build. This way our vises will match any choice of wood you like for the rest of your bench.
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McCarthy develops large, diversified staff
The Packers will bring 22 coaches from various backgrounds into 2015
McCarthy develops large, diversified staff The Packers will bring 22 coaches from various backgrounds into 2015 Check out this story on packersnews.com: http://pck.rs/1A4l9fq
Weston Hodkiewicz, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 8:52 p.m. CT Feb. 17, 2015 | Updated 11:50 a.m. CT Feb. 18, 2015
Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy, right, works with offensive line coach James Campen during practice in the Don Hutson Center.(Photo: H. Marc Larson/Press-Gazette Media/@HMarcLarson)
There are many ways to build a coaching staff in the NFL.
Every head coach has a philosophy. The number of assistants and job titles vary from team to team. Gus Bradley and the Jacksonville Jaguars employ as many as 25 coaches, while Bill Belichick and the reigning Super Bowl champion New England Patriots are carrying only 16.
Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy finalized his staff last week. The 95th team in franchise history will be coached by 22 assistants, including four strength and conditioning coaches, and one coaching administrator.
Broader focus gives McCarthy greater impact
Offensive coordinator Tom Clements' promotion to play-caller made the Packers one of the few NFL teams that possess two associate head coaches. Linebackers coach Winston Moss has been entrenched in that role since 2007.
Like the rest of the league, the Packers' staff has exploded in size over the past 20 years. McCarthy has used the extra manpower to develop his assistants much like the approach general manager Ted Thompson takes with personnel.
More than half of the team's coaches have worked for only one NFL team, including offensive coordinator Edgar Bennett, offensive line coach James Campen and strength and conditioning coach Mark Lovat.
McCarthy values diversification, too. When experience is needed, McCarthy hasn't been afraid to bring in a veteran coach like Mike Solari or Ron Zook to augment a position.
"I think that the good thing about here is it's not necessarily about titles," said Jason Simmons upon his promotion to assistant special teams coach last week. "I know my title has changed, but they've grown me each year, given me more responsibility. Coach Mike allows us, as everyone knows, to address the team at points. He builds us as coaches. This has been great for me."
Packers assistant special teams coach Jason Simmons. (Photo: H. Marc Larson/Press-Gazette Media/@HMarcLarson)
Simmons, 38, played in the NFL for 10 years. Coincidentally, his first coach happens to be his new boss, Zook, who officially was promoted to special teams coordinator last week. The two worked together in Pittsburgh in the late-'90s when Zook was coaching the Steelers' special teams.
Simmons came on board with the Packers in 2011 as a coaching administrator. He was promoted to a defensive and special teams assistant last year. Along with assisting defensive coordinator Dom Capers, Simmons was the third in command on special teams behind Shawn Slocum and Zook.
Zook has high hopes for special teams unit
With McCarthy taking on a larger role with special teams, the Packers were able to carve out a new defensive position focused on aiding Capers. The job eventually went to former Oklahoma defensive line coach Jerry Montgomery. He'll serve as a defensive front assistant.
Montgomery, 35, quickly rose through the college ranks. Although he was seen as a top-flight recruiter, his ultimate goal was to reach the NFL. Now, he'll learn under Capers' wing much like he did in Oklahoma under Bob Stoops.
"It's a great opportunity to learn from one of the best and figure out how I want to run my defense when I get the opportunity to be a defensive coordinator," Montgomery said. "I'm going to learn what we do here and adapt and help where I can. We won't be worried about what I believe in and those things. I'll be buying into what we do here in Green Bay."
The makeup of McCarthy's staff is wide-ranging, from the 60-year-old Solari to 31-year-old offensive quality control coach Luke Getsy.
Solari was the most intriguing addition to the Packers' staff. He comes to Green Bay after coaching one of the league's most productive offensive lines in San Francisco for the past five years. When the 49ers revamped the coaching staff after Jim Harbaugh left for Michigan, it allowed Solari a chance to take a step back and survey the NFL landscape.
Instead of running his own room elsewhere in the NFL, the veteran coach decided to reunite with McCarthy. The two served as assistant coaches together in Kansas City in the 1990s under Marty Schottenheimer.
"The thing that was important to me was the people," Solari said. "This time here I did something unique and something different. I was really patient with where I was going to go because I wanted to make sure it was a good move and not jump at the first thing, and take my time and make sure I was with a very good staff.
"My level of time in the NFL, I thought the most important thing was to be patient, make a great decision."
Bennett continues rise through coaching ranks
Despite the success under McCarthy, there hasn't been a lot of upward mobility with the coaching staff other than Joe Philbin being hired as Miami's head coach in 2011. Another McCarthy understudy, Ben McAdoo, allowed his contract to expire and left to coordinate the New York Giants' offense.
The Packers routinely have blocked assistants under contract from interviewing for coordinator posts elsewhere, but McCarthy has been increasingly loyal to those who have stayed. He's showered several assistants with titles and promotions and fired only two coordinators (Bob Sanders and Slocum) in 10 years.
The 22 men who will develop the 2015 team come from all different backgrounds. The Packers hope this collection of coaches will be enough to groom the franchise's fifth Super Bowl championship squad.
"I've said it before and told the football team on the day it was my time to talk to the team, I came here for one reason, to have the opportunity to win a Super Bowl," Zook said. "I think with the situation we have with the Green Bay Packers, it doesn't guarantee it, but you're going to have a chance.
"I know this — the best chance we have of winning is everybody buying in and doing the same thing. Mike has the white hat on, we're all following Mike."
— whodkiew@pressgazettemedia.com and follow him on Twitter @WesHod
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International Trade Law Compass
Understanding USMCA: What to Expect from the 'New NAFTA'
December 18, 2019 – Alerts By Joseph Rohe
On December 10, representatives from the United States, Canada and Mexico signed an amended United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that incorporates revisions negotiated by House Democrats and agreed to by the Trump administration. The USMCA is not yet a "done deal" and must still be ratified by the three countries before it takes effect. At that point, USMCA would replace the now 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Obtaining approval by the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives was generally viewed as the primary hurdle in getting the USMCA ratified. We expect to see ratification by the three countries in the coming weeks. In the United States, the amended deal is expected to be put up for debate and a vote in the House later this week, with the Senate taking it up in January.
Key features of the USMCA include strengthened provisions for oversight to ensure that Mexico abides by its commitments and is subject to penalties for noncompliance, and a mandate that Mexico relax its labor laws in order to allow for easier workforce unionization, which in turn will drive up labor value. Additional major changes are as follows:
The automotive manufacturing industry will arguably experience the most significant, far-reaching changes from NAFTA to USMCA. They include:
North American value content for vehicles must be 75% (increased from 62.5% under NAFTA) in order to qualify as an "originating" product that is eligible for duty-free treatment.
At least 70% of the steel, aluminum and glass utilized in production of an automobile must originate in North America to allow the automobile to be eligible for duty-free treatment.
A New Labor Value Content requirement — a first for any U.S. trade agreement — requires 30% of work performed on automobiles manufactured in North America to be performed by laborers earning at least $16 per hour (approximately three times the average for autoworkers in Mexico) in order to qualify for duty-free treatment. This content requirement moves to 40-45% by 2023.
Mexico must relax constraints to allow its autoworkers to form and join labor unions.
An original version of the USMCA included several benefits to pharmaceutical companies. These benefits have been stripped from the amended version of the deal, as outlined below. Various alternatives are being discussed to protect biologics.
Removed: A 10-year IP protection that would have protected pharmaceutical companies from competition with "generic" drugs for a period of 10 years.
Removed: An additional 3-year IP protection for new-use drugs (i.e., existing drugs that are qualified for treatment of new diseases).
Canadian barriers to U.S.-produced dairy and other agricultural products have long been on President Trump's radar. With the amended USMCA, a number of barriers have been reduced or removed, including:
Allowance for increased dairy product sales to Canada
Allowance for increased egg and poultry sales to Canada
Canada to abolish the "Class 7" pricing system, which is a specialized tariff on ultra-filtered milk, a high-protein dairy concentrate used in making dairy products such as cheese and yogurt.
Businesses with North American operations that have been taking advantage of duty-free treatment under NAFTA will need to completely re-evaluate their operations to ensure their products continue to qualify for status under USMCA as originating products of North America. Moreover, businesses with substantial operations in Mexico should expect to see increased costs and possibly competition associated with those operations. Although the current NAFTA rules will remain in place until the USMCA comes into force, businesses should prepare for the new rules in 2020.
Fox's experienced team of international trade attorneys is here to assist clients as they transition North American operations from NAFTA to USMCA.
Joseph W. Rohe


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Oriflamme 50k – March 2010
Written on May 8, 2011 by Elizabeth in Race Pictures, Race Recaps, Ultramarathons
This was a great race—I felt the best I had during a race so far for the 2010 season. It started on a bad note: we'd driven down to Julian from LA the night before, and had horrible traffic leaving the city. The first hour we traveled 13 miles. We finally arrived in Julian close to 10 pm. The B&B was cute, but our room (and bed) was tiny. We settled in to sleep around 11, but I could NOT get to sleep. I literally tossed and turned most of the night. I would guess I dozed around 2am, and got up at 5, with periods of wakefulness in between. So I was exhausted and not feeling my best at the start.
The good news is that we were only staying 10 miles from the start, so we didn't have far to go, and got there about 6:30. It was really cold! After waiting in a long bathroom line and getting my number pinned on, the 7am start whistle came quickly–I wasn't quite ready for it, and was still waiting for my Garmin to get the satellite signal!
Lucky number 53!
The sign of an true trail race: a long line for the bathrooms.
Here we goooooo…
The start of the race is wonderful–nice, easy singletrack, rolling hills, nothing too steep up or down. I tried really hard to not go out too fast this time, and not repeat my crash and burn from San Juan Trails. The first 6 miles are all that rolling singletrack, through green hillsides. I ran almost all of it, but tried to be conservative and walk up the steeper, longer hills. I was doing about 10 minute miles and felt really comfortable at that pace. I also started eating gummies pretty early on, and tried to drink regularly. Jason had filled my water pack and had put the bladder in upside down, so I had some trouble getting water, but I didn't want to stop till the aid station, so I made do.
After 6 miles, you hit a wide dirt road and it's aaaalll downhill to the next aid at mile 9.75. This section was trickier, because again I didn't want to go too fast, but I didn't want to lose time being too cautious. It was very rocky in parts, but fortunately I think I'm getting much better at the downhills, because I didn't get cramps and I didn't have to slow down too much (and I only got passed a few times–I did some passing myself!) This section was pretty much a breeze, but I was getting impatient, because we'd been told that the aid was at mile 8, and I couldn't figure out why it was taking so long to reach. Overall, though, the first 10 miles were pretty effortless.
Finally hit the aid after a little more than an hour and a half. Spent some time rearranging my bladder, and grabbed a few Girl Scout Thin Mints and a handful of potato chips for the road. The next section was pretty flat through the valley, not too interesting to look at, and pretty soon the road got really wide and very sandy. It was like running on the beach! It was actually kind of difficult and took a lot of energy. Fortunately the next aid was very close–around mile 13, so it arrived pretty quickly. The last section to the turnaround also seemed to take forever, because it was still that annoying sand that sucked all forward momentum, and it was also hard to see people on the return trip, and wonder if you were close to the turnaround. Toward the end we were running through some serious desert with lots of cacti close to the trail. The turnaround was just an RV with some water and a box of stickers to put on your bib to prove you made it.
The long, unwinding sand road
High-tech turnaround system
Heading back, I hit the mile 13 (now mile 18) aid station feeling good, but I started to slow down on the long, slow slog back to the final aid before the climb. It was pretty warm, and I was tired, my left big toe was really hurting, and I was so sick of running in the sand. I didn't really walk, but I was definitely doing a slow shuffle. My mile times for this section were 11-12 minute miles, which is a pretty slow trot. I took a few walk breaks, but tried to keep running, because I knew I'd be walking up the big hill soon enough. Within a mile of the next aid station I found a perfect hiking stick, and decided to carry it to help me climb. It was annoying to run with, but I rationalized that I would soon stop running, so I made it work.
The final aid station in the distance
Got to the last full aid station (mile 22ish) and got more cookies and water, then settled in to start hiking. In the beginning I was passed by a number of people who jogged up, but after awhile I started passing them again, as I got into my powerhiking rhythm. I even jogged occasionally myself, but mostly turned up my music and concentrated on climbing strong. I felt pretty good during this time. I ate a lot of chia gel, and mostly didn't worry about not going too quickly. I think the hiking stick helped a lot, my back didn't feel strained, and although my arms worked harder, it was worth it to take some pressure off my legs. It helped that the climbs weren't too strenuous. They were uphill, for sure, but nothing as brutal as Horsethief at San Juan Trails or Holy Jim at Twin Peaks.
My trusty hikin' stick, also good for beating up the competition
At the 25 mile mark I hit the nice singletrack section, and after a few more climbs decided to say farewell to my loyal stick. I ditched it and started running…and surprisingly started feeling really good! I was doing solid 9-10 minute miles, and had some great energy. The rolling hills and beautiful scenery helped, as did the packed trail. For the most part I was alone at this time, although I caught glimpses of a guy or two behind me. After 3 miles of keeping my good pace, I started to flag, and wonder how close I was to the finish. I also thought I had a chance to break 6 hours at this point. Sadly, not that close. There was a water stop around mile 28ish, and when I learned I still had 3 miles to go, I lost a little steam. But I still kept running, climbed strong, and passed 2 more people during this time.
What kind of plants are these? They were completely Seussical and awesome
Singletrack to take me home
After crossing the road, I knew I had less than a mile to go, which was good, because I was running out of steam. I also knew I would just miss the 6 hour mark, which was disappointing. But I kept running and kept pushing. About a tenth of a mile from the finish, the guy behind me passed me, with the encouragement of his annoying spectator girlfriend who showed up and ran beside him. Hmph! But still, it was a nice ending stretch, a gentle downhill cruise to the parking lot. I finished feeling GREAT. Not too tired, not too sore, with energy in the bank. I did have a monster blister on my left big toe, but otherwise no problems. And my recovery was fantastic–no soreness or limping, working out again the next Monday! A completely excellent race.
This is why I always try to tape my toes
Relaxing with two slices of pizza by my side.
Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010
Elevation gain: 6,000 feet
Garmin time: 5 hrs 56 min
Official time: 6 hrs 7 min (30th/115, 3rd in age group)
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One Response to Oriflamme 50k – March 2010
October 25, 2011 | 11:34 pm
Great story on Oriflamme. I'm planning on doing this as my first 50k in 2012.
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