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Q: cannot load such file when trying to start new rails app I'm trying to start a new rails app and for some reason my computer is no longer recognising rails....it's been working fine on every other rails app I've been working on until now.
When I typed;
rails new test_app -d postgresql -T

It threw up this error:
/home/camillavk/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/bin/rails:23:in `load': cannot load such file -- /home/camillavk/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/gems/rails-4.2.0/bin/rails (LoadError)
        from /home/camillavk/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/bin/rails:23:in `<main>'
        from /home/camillavk/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `eval'
        from /home/camillavk/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `<main>'

The same error is being thrown when I type rails -v. But when I type which rails I get
/home/camillavk/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/bin/rails

I then tried to run gem install rails and all it says is 1 gem installed
Any ideas on why rails is doing this on my computer and how to fix it?
*EDIT
gem env:
RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 2.4.5
  - RUBY VERSION: 2.1.5 (2014-11-13 patchlevel 273) [x86_64-linux]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /home/camillavk/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /home/camillavk/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.5/bin/ruby
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /home/camillavk/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/bin
  - SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: /home/camillavk/.gem/specs
  - SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DIRECTORY: /home/camillavk/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.5/etc
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86_64-linux
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /home/camillavk/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5
     - /home/camillavk/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5@global
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
     - "gem" => "--no-rdoc --no-ri"
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - https://rubygems.org/
  - SHELL PATH:
     - /home/camillavk/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/bin
     - /home/camillavk/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5@global/bin
     - /home/camillavk/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.5/bin
     - /usr/local/sbin
     - /usr/local/bin
     - /usr/sbin
     - /usr/bin
     - /sbin
     - /bin
     - /usr/games
     - /usr/local/games
     - /home/camillavk/bin
     - /usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_25/bin
     - /home/camillavk/.rvm/bin
     - /usr/local/sbin
     - /usr/local/bin
     - /usr/sbin
     - /usr/bin
     - /sbin
     - /bin
     - /usr/games
     - /usr/local/games
     - /home/camillavk/.rvm/bin

A: In case anyone else runs into this issue, I figured that rvm was just getting confused so I told it to use an older version of ruby
$ rvm use 1.9.3

THEN I ran rails new again. This time it worked so I changed into the new app, opened up the gemfile and in there told it to use the newer version of ruby again.

A: @camillavk,
Please see if the following rvm website link helps (make sure the info. included in these files mentioned in the article is accurate when you check them).
When I first started to use rvm, I used to have such issues as well so I am very careful to define all the rvm setup files for my rails projects.
RVM Projects

A: I just figured out a exactly the same problem and just used the following command:
gem uninstall -a

Which deletes all unnecessary gems. After that my environment worked well.


Zak Hardaker has vowed to use the hostile reception at Castleford to his advantage tomorrow night.
The full-back played a starring role during the Tigers' whirlwind 2017 campaign and was shortlisted for the coveted Steve Prescott Man of Steel – only to be suspended ahead of their maiden appearance in a Grand Final, which they lost.
And he is braced for a noisy reception in his first match against his former club.
Hardaker said: "I understand it's going to be hostile and I know I'm going to get some stick. It's going to be a little bit upsetting but I'm preparing for it. I hope it will spur me on though and work in my favour.
Hardaker was banned for 14 months for testing positive for cocaine and after being axed by the Tigers, Wigan handed him the chance to revive his career.
Asked whether jeers may be unfair given he was sacked, the 27-year-old replied: "I've been in rugby for 10 years now, and if Sam (Tomkins) got booed at Wigan when he didn't do anything wrong then I know what's coming my way!
"The difference is (the DW) is a huge stadium so Sam was a bit far from the booing on Sunday, but at Castleford the fans can almost touch you so it'll be a bit different.
"I've got mixed emotions. I'm upset with how it finished and I enjoyed my time there – the lads and the fans were great with me.
"When I saw the fixture list initially I didn't think about it too much because it was eight or nine weeks away, but it's flown around.
"I don't think my mum is going to go because it's her birthday - though I've warned her she may hear the abuse even more because it'll be on the TV!
Hardaker has made steady improvement this season and scored his first try for the club in last Sunday's 42-0 thrashing of Catalans.
With the three-quarters all impressing, Adrian Lam declared his back-five the best in Super League - and Hardaker is certainly enjoying the link-up play with his fellow backs.
He said: "Our back five is brilliant; Saints are the ones to catch but our back-five is really good. We're getting a good connection together. I'm really looking forward to seeing how it develops when the ground firms up.
"Budgie is quicker than he was before. I've played against him and he was quick then – If he can catch a few more balls we'll be alright! Gilly shows what he can do at centre, he's a genius at times. Dom and Sarge have been playing really well too.
"I was frustrated with myself that I couldn't be Man of Steel in round one, but Lammy sat me down and said he thinks I'll hit my peak by Easter.


We handed out a folder with the Bhajans/shlokas we will be covering this year. Hope this helps you with reviewing it at home. Since our little ones are beginning to read, I dont ask the kids to open the folder in the classroom. We rely on our listening skills and repititons to help with the memorising. Do encourage them to recite the shlokasand bhajans when they do the prayers.


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Toni Land Press Release February 2, 2021 Pacific Northwest recording artist, Toni Land, nominated for New Music 2021 Awards
Pacific Northwest award winning singer songwriter, Toni Land, has recently been nominated for the New Music Awards 2021 in the categories of "Breakthrough Artist of the Year; Adult Contemporary Female Artist of the Year; and Adult Contemporary Breakthrough Artist of the year. Nominees this year include Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande. As an independent artist, Land is definitely playing in the game with the big girls and boys now.
With her 7th album release planned soon, Land's reputation as a prolific and stellar songwriter precedes her. As a recipient of multiple awards including Best Songwriter by the International Acoustic Music Awards and the Portland Songwriter Association, Land is known for her comparisons to singer songwriters such as Sheryl Crow, Lucinda Williams and Taylor Swift. Her songs have been called "fresh, vivacious and slightly irreverent" by S. Rick Teverbaugh of the Herald Bulletin, and "eclectic, funny, moving, and thoughtful, …with a lovingly wicked slant" by Wayne Richards, former President of the Portland Songwriters.
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By Brittany Farb,
The Digital Age of Marketing
Taking a chunk out of consumers' wallets might require an upheaval of traditional mass-marketing campaigns. A recent report by analyst firm Gartner predicts that digital strategies like social and mobile marketing will influence at least 80 percent of consumers' discretionary spending by 2015.
Analysts say digital marketing campaigns are "critical" in making up for increasingly ineffective mass-marketing strategies. Gartner's operational definition of digital marketing includes "addressable branding/advertising, contextual marketing, social marketing, and transactional marketing" that "extends the marketing process through channels such as the Web, email, video, mobile and social applications, point-of-sale terminals, interactive television, digital signage, and kiosks."
"Mass marketing is no longer a long-term strategy," Adam Sarner, research director at Gartner, said in the report. "Marketers still need to shift their traditional campaign management strategies around executing campaigns to a customer and move toward a digital marketing, two-way engagement approach." According to Sarner, mass-marketing campaigns have generated only a 2 percent response rate and are on the decline.
Gartner further predicts that a customer-focused strategy that uses digital techniques and channels will result in increased engagement, response, and conversion rates. The report states that mobile marketing in the United States reached $877.2 million in 2010, a 138 percent jump from the $368 million spent in 2009. And, by 2014, 6.7 billion devices will be connected to the Internet, and developing social CRM applications will reach $1 billion by 2013, an increase from $600 million in 2010, the firm says.
Sarner argues that using these tools for collaboration is key for developing effective marketing campaigns. "Today, activity on the Internet has shifted back to its roots in interaction and participation," he said in the report.
The report explains that while digital marketing provides opportunities for two-way engagement, digital channels, access to a customer view, and precise metrics, marketers should consider campaign management a "way to orchestrate the complexity of a complete online and offline marketing strategy, while incorporating the evolving customer approach of digital marketing."
"Successful campaign management strategies have shifted from interruptive push toward two-way conversations and addressing mutually beneficial approaches to customers' wants and needs, which a digital marketing approach can provide," Sarner said in the report.
Sarner also insists "these channels can't be just a port for traditional campaign methods. Although most marketers are using more than one digital channel, their approach is often no different from a spam model, where success is driven by high volumes and attempting to make a profit from nearly everyone who accepts the offer," he said in the report. "Just using digital channels is not the answer."
But not everyone is convinced social media will be that far-reaching. Esteban Kolsky, founder of ThinkJar, is skeptical about Gartner's forecast numbers. He believes 80 percent is a "very dramatic number" and questions how it will be reached by 2015. Because the market is still new, it's still too early to make a "globally sweeping" prediction. "You're basically saying that four out of five people will be basing their decision on social media," he says. "We don't have that today, and we won't have four out of five people actually connected to social media in 2015."
Instead of eliminating mass marketing, Kolsky suggests marketers take a more integrated approach to engage consumers. "You see campaigns that reach out via one channel and then occupy another," he says. "You may get a tweet that links to an online property or you go to a community and you have an account to follow on Facebook or Twitter. You don't see campaigns that are separate; you see multichannel campaigns."
Associate/Web Editor Brittany Farb can be reached at bfarb@destinationcrm.com.


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Four New Ambassadors Present Letters of Credence to President Barrow
In a flurry of diplomatic activities at the State House in Banjul on Tuesday, 13 November 2018, His Excellency, President Adama Barrow received four new diplomatic envoys accredited to The Gambia.
Diplomats from Sierra Leone, China, Cuba, and India were the first to take turns to present their Letters of Credence to the President in what is expected to be a busy week of hectic diplomatic engagements. Since his coming to power barely two years ago, ending The Gambia's global isolation has been at the heart of President Barrow's foreign policy goals. States all over the globe have responded positively sending establishing political and economic ties the country.
High Commissioner of the Republic of Sierra Leone
Her Excellency Lucretia Marian Shereef, Sierra Leonean High Commissioner to The Gambia, was first in the lineup of diplomats to meet President Barrow. A career educationist with over thirty years' experience in teaching, she expressed joy for being designated to The Gambia in a diplomatic capacity, adding that her focus would be on strengthening educational ties between the two countries, among other areas of interests.
President Barrow thanked her country for the mediatory role it played during The Gambia's political crisis. According to him, he and President Maada Bio are considered to be part of the new crop of democratic leaders in the sub-region, hence their focus should be on promoting integration, democracy, and youth empowerment.
Ambassador of the People's Republic of China
For his part, His Excellency Ma Jianchun, the new Chinese Ambassador in Banjul was the next to present his Letter of Credence to President Adama Barrow. Mr. Jianchun comes from a commercial background and has up to 15 years' experience as a commercial diplomat in Africa and the Middle East. He promised to work with the government of The Gambia in consolidating bilateral ties in the framework of the development blueprint that emanated out of the 2018 Forum for Africa-China Cooperation Summit in Beijing.
President Barrow in extending best wishes to President Xi Jinping expressed hope for the new China-Gambia relations. He also expressed delight that a contractor has already been identified for the two bridges and highways (funded by China) to be constructed in the Upper River Region. This would be followed by the laying of foundation stone soon.
"I am so pleased with the relations of our two countries and my government and I will give all the support we can to China," President Barrow said, urging for a more close collaboration to enhance economic growth and modernization of agriculture in The Gambia.
High Commissioner of The Republic of India
After receiving the Letter of Credence of the High Commissioner of the Republic of India, Rajeev Kumar, President Barrow expressed appreciation for the support given by India to The Gambia, especially in the areas of education, agriculture, and infrastructure. He particularly thanked the country for the construction of the national assembly building in Banjul.
Value addition to local produce, technological innovations, and health service deliveries are very high on the government's development blueprint, the National Development Plan, President Barrow said, adding that technology is also a great tool for the empowerment of the youth.
Urging India to open a diplomatic mission in The Gambia to foster closer ties between the two governments and peoples, the president highlighted that India is currently the biggest exporter of cashew nuts from The Gambia.
Ambassador Rajeev Kumar spoke to the State House media corps after the presentation and said his discussion with the President touched on Gambia's seaport expansion and development. According to him, The Gambia's strategic location makes it more preferred gateway for many West African traders.
Republic of Cuba
The Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba, His Excellency Ruben Garcia Abalenda also met the president to present his Letter of Credence. During the closed-door session, the President also thanked the Cuban leader and her people, through its new Ambassador, for standing by The Gambia in its most difficult times. Cuba provided support to the health sector by deploying doctors to The Gambia and training Gambian doctors in Cuba.
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The founder of $1 billion self-driving truck firm TuSimple says human truckers having to spend hours on the road is a 'tarnish on the glory of humanity'
Charlie WoodDec 8, 2019, 15:34 IST
Courtesy of TuSimple
Xiaodi Hou is TuSimple's founder, president and chief technology officer.
The founder of self-driving truck firm TuSimple, Xiaodi Hou, says that truck drivers being required to work long hours on the road is a "tarnish on the glory of humanity."
Hou was responding to a question about human truckers who fear that automated trucking might lose them their jobs.
TuSimple, which is valued at over $1 billion, develops tech to automate long-haul truck journeys without human intervention needed, though its vehicles still have a human as a failsafe. The company straddles both China and the US.
Speaking to Business Insider, Hou also explained why traditional trucking associations are actively working with, and not against, his firm.
The founder of self-driving truck unicorn TuSimple says that human truck drivers being required to work long hours on the road is a "tarnish on the glory of humanity."
Xiaodi Hou is the founder, president and chief technology officer of TuSimple, which develops tech for automating long-haul truck journeys without human intervention needed. The self-driving trucks still have a human truck driver and an engineer present at all times, as a failsafe.
The company is based in San Diego, California, and splits its operations with China. The firm's US presence comprises offices in San Diego, California and Tucson, Arizona, from which it oversees its long-haul US operations.
It also boasts offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Fukuoka, Japan. Hou said he will expand its presence further in the next two to three years - a goal he said stemmed from "the confidence of our general stability."
Founded in 2015, TuSimple has enjoyed huge investor interest. It was valued at just over $1 billion after a $95 million Series D fundraise in February. It went on to add a further $120 million, bringing the round to $215 million. Its backers include global delivery giant UPS, US chipmaker Nvidia, and Chinese tech firm Sina, owner of Weibo.
Though TuSimple currently retrofits existing trucks for pre-existing truck companies, it aims to have a factory-produced self-driving truck on the road by 2023.
TuSimple doesn't think it will completely replace drivers with self-driving trucks
Speaking to Business Insider, Hou was asked how he'd respond to truckers who (rightly or wrongly) fear that their jobs are at risk.
"This is my first time responding to this question in English, but here goes," he said. "To drive a truck for 11 hours per day, without even taking a shower every day, and getting far away from their home, is really a tarnish on the glory of humanity.
"You don't hire chimney sweeps nowadays, and people don't harvest the way they did 500 years ago."
Asked what he'd say to those truckers who value the work, Hou said his company complements - and doesn't compete with - the traditional trucking industry.
"The transition is actually slower than you thought," he explained. "The transition is not like, 'tomorrow, all of sudden, trucks will be autonomously driven.' It's not like that. Autonomous driving is more likely to involve the retrofitting of existing trucks rather than the building of new trucks.
A self-driving truck retrofitted with TuSimple's tech.
"It'll be a very gradual thing, and truck drivers still need to [drive] trucks. Think about the gap we have [in terms of] truck driver shortage. The average truck driver age is 51. I don't think even [on] a very optimistic view, we can fill up that gap within the time frame it needs to be filled."
According to a July 2019 report by the American Trucking Associations, the US trucking industry was 60,000 drivers short of the number required to meet industry needs in 2018, up nearly 20% from 2017's shortage of 50,700.
"Secondly, we don't actually think self-driving trucks are going to deprive any truck drivers [of their jobs]," Hou continued. "I don't think we're going to be enemies of the truck drivers. We're actually very good friends with the American Trucking Associations.
"We're helping the associations to solve problems that they can't solve alone, by themselves."
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Antarctic ozone hole getting smaller
8 October 2004, source edie newsroom
The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is now 20% smaller than it was last year, according to leading scientists from New Zealand.
Restricting the use of ozone depleting chemicals appears to have paid off as research shows the Antarctic hole is repairing itself
Ozone measurements taken by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have shown that the hole peaked at around 24 million square kilometres this year, compared with 29 million square kilometres in 2003 (see related story).
"Measurements from the ground at Scott Base suggest that there is slightly more ozone this year that the average for recent years," NIWA atmospheric scientist Dr Stephen Wood stated. "But ozone levels are still lower than before the ozone hole started forming in the early 1980s."
A clear improvement in the state of the ozone layer has been seen by scientists since the Montreal Protocol was passed in 1989, reducing the quantity of man-made ozone depleting chemicals in the atmosphere (see related story).
However other factors, such as the Antarctic cold during the polar winter, which also contribute to ozone depletion are more difficult to control, according to Dr Wood, who cautioned against reading too much into the measurements just yet.
"We need to see smaller of less severe ozone holes over a number of years before we can say for certain that ozone is recovering," he warned.
The ozone-depleted air is currently well contained over Antarctica, Dr Wood said, with the only the extreme tip of South America at risk of being affected. But he also expressed concerns that New Zealand could be indirectly affected at the end of the year.
"When the ozone layer breaks up, ozone depleted air moves into surrounding areas. The later it breaks up, the higher the sun is in the sky over New Zealand and the larger the effect on UV levels," Dr Wood said. "If New Zealand experiences a combination of lower ozone with high sun and few clouds, skin-damaging UV levels can be extreme."
By Jane Kettle


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Lawyers involved with this mess include Roberta DeAngelis, Colm Connolly, Kelly B. Stapleton, Mark Kenny, Preet Bharara	& of course Paul R. Traub.
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Home/Business/Why US politicians are trying to break the world's oil cartel now
Why US politicians are trying to break the world's oil cartel now
Editor's Note: A version of this story first appeared in CNN's Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region's biggest stories. Sign up here.
A decades-old, failed effort by United States politicians to break the chokehold of a select few countries on the oil market has found new life as the war in Ukraine raised prices to an almost 14-year high.
A US Senate committee on Thursday passed a bill that could expose the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its partners – most prominently Russia — to lawsuits for collusion on boosting oil prices. The vote took place just hours after the cartel and its allies rebuffed the West once again and stuck to plans for a moderate modest ramp up in production.
To become law, the bill has to go through the full Senate and House, then be signed by the President. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the administration has concerns about the "potential implications and unintended consequences" of the legislation. She said the White House is still studying the bill.
The bipartisan bill, the "No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2021" or "NOPEC," would strip OPEC and its national oil companies from sovereign immunity that has protected them from lawsuits for decades. This means that oil states would no longer be immune from the jurisdiction of US courts if they breach terms of the bill if it turns into law.
The Biden administration has struggled to control oil prices after Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted energy markets and drove up inflation at home. Western sanctions and a potential EU ban on Russian oil risks leaving a market gap that could exacerbate the situation. And with the midterm elections due in November, the window to calm inflation is getting narrower for the President.
"It is simply against Hungarian national energy security and cannot be done."
Spokesperson for Hungarian Prime Minister @zoltanspox tells @elenigiokos why Hungary does not agree with the EU's proposed embargo on Russian oil as it stands: pic.twitter.com/82To9kpLHb
— Connect the World (@CNNConnect) May 4, 2022
A CNN poll released Wednesday showed that a majority of Americans think Biden's policies have hurt the economy, while 8 in 10 say the government is not doing enough to combat inflation.
Only Saudi Arabia and the UAE have the necessary spare capacity to immediately ward off any shocks caused by a Russian shortfall. The OPEC members have refused to raise output substantially, opting instead to stick to a series of gradual production increases agreed with Russia.
Frustrated at Riyadh's refusal to heed US calls for more oil, politicians from the President's own party have been pushing him to get tougher on Riyadh. Last month, nearly three dozen House Democrats called on Biden to "recalibrate" the relationship with Saudi Arabia, calling it a bad strategic partner, according to reports.
"We are not schoolchildren to be treated with a carrot and stick," said senior Saudi prince Turki Al-Faisal in a recent interview. He blamed the US' own energy policies "for the state they are in."
While the NOPEC bill has unsuccessfully tried to make its way through Congress before, today's landscape is very different, said Robin Mills, founder and CEO of Qamar Energy in Dubai.
Mills told CNN why American politicians are making a new attempt to crush OPEC:
How is this attempt different from earlier ones?
There have been various versions of this since 2000, and it pops up whenever oil prices are high. It has never passed, and it never really got much traction. This time, in the government, it has gotten more traction, partly around Russia.
Biden is also under political pressure because of inflation. There is some political milage to blame OPEC for high oil process.
How have Saudi Arabia and other OPEC states responded to such attempts in the past?
They have always lobbied against it, and they will lobby again. I am not sure how strong their lobbying power is right now. They are not particularly popular in Washington at the moment, but they have their lobbyists.
[There is] the US petroleum lobby as well, API [American Petroleum Institute] and other organizations that have typically been against this bill because they benefit from OPEC restraining production and keeping prices high. So they tend to oppose this bill on the ground.
How do you think oil producing states will respond to the bill?
I don't think Middle Eastern countries can keep restraining production and refuse to play the game. They can be more cooperative and agree to increase production [but] they wouldn't want to be seen doing that under pressure. The EU ban on Russian oil imports will take some time to have effect [so] OPEC and OPEC+ could have a few extra months where it becomes clear that there is a shortage of oil, and that gives them a reason to say: "well, we will increase production and makeup this gap." So they can do that as a market measure without appearing to give in to political pressure.
How likely is this bill to be passed in the Senate and House? Is there a chance that Biden will pass it too?
Having another card to play will be quite appealing to the administration, even if they don't let it go all the way. The NOPEC bill is an additional element at a time when the US doesn't have that many cards to play [against oil producers]. Many of those bills have come up in the past, and there is always some national security argument that [oil producing states] are our allies, that we don't want to disturb our relationship with them, and that they are important to the oil market. But this time there are a few elements that may give it a better chance.
[Biden] would have to either let it pass, or he would have to say, "I have vetoed it because the Saudis agreed to something for us" [like] agree to increase production or something. He can't just veto it for no reason because that is just one more weapon against him from both the Republicans and the Democratic progressive left, saying he is [doing the] Saudis a favor at a time when oil prices are high.
Not vetoing it would be seen by Saudi Arabia and other producers as quite a hostile move.
Could passing this bill have a detrimental effect on the US itself?
The recovering prices have been very good for the US oil industry. But practically there isn't that much spare capacity [in the US]. Even if Saudi and the UAE used all their spare capacity, the market is still pretty tight, and with Russia coming off, the market will get tighter.
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US says it is preparing for a world both with and without an Iran nuclear deal
The United States is now preparing equally for both a scenario where there is a mutual return to compliance with Iran on a nuclear deal, as well as one in which there is not an agreement, the State Department said on Wednesday.
Background: The main sticking point in talks is Iran's demand that its Revolutionary Guards be removed from the US' list of foreign terrorist organizations. On Wednesday, the US Senate passed a non-binding resolution that calls on the Biden administration not to agree to a nuclear deal with Iran unless Tehran accepts tough minimal requirements, such as preventing oil exports to China, curbing its ballistic missile program, and the continuation of sanctions on the Revolutionary Guards.
Why it matters: A failure in talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal would deprive oil markets from over a million new barrels of Iranian oil that could ease the rise in crude prices and in turn tame inflation.
Iran to execute Swedish-Iranian on spying charges by May 21
A Swedish-Iranian sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges will be executed on May 21, Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency said on Wednesday. The Swedish foreign minister called for his release in a call with her Iranian counterpart.
Background: Ahmadreza Djalali, a doctor and researcher, was arrested in 2016 while on a visit to Iran. His sentence was announced shortly before the trial of Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prosecution official arrested by Swedish authorities in 2019, ended in Stockholm. Noury faces a maximum life sentence on charges of international war crimes and human rights abuses. Iran has called the accusations "baseless." The verdict is due on July 14.
Why it matters: Iran's Revolutionary Guards have arrested dozens of dual nationals in recent years, mostly on espionage charges. Rights activists have accused Iran of using them as bargaining chips. Iran, which does not recognize dual nationality, denies taking prisoners to gain diplomatic leverage.
At least three killed in attack on Israel's independence day
At least three people were killed and four injured in an attack in the central Israeli city of Elad on Thursday, according to Israel's emergency response services. Police said the incident involved two suspected assailants. One fired a rifle while the other attacked people with an axe or a knife, police said. The suspects have still not been apprehended.
Background: The attack marks the latest in a series of violent incidents that have put Israel and the Palestinian territories on edge in recent weeks. Dozens have died in attacks in Israel and the West Bank since March 22, according to a CNN count.
Why it matters: The attack comes after a period of clashes at Jerusalem's al Aqsa mosque compound, where Palestinians have protested the presence of Israeli troops. Only Muslims are allowed to visit the holy site during the last 10 days of Ramadan each year. Ramadan ended last week and groups of Israeli Jews began visiting again on Thursday.
Turkey: #sigarazammi (cigarette rise)
Turks, already frustrated with record inflation and an economic downturn, got one more burden on their budgets this week: the price of cigarettes.
The nation, which has historically had one of the highest proportion of smokers in the world, has been falling in the ranking of late, according to reports. Still, 31% of adults in the country of 81 million are smokers.
The price of cigarettes has risen by 2 lira ($0.13) for some brands, accounting for a 5% to 10% climb depending on the type of cigarette, according to Ozgur Aybas, the president of the alcohol and cigarette dealers platform known as Tekel. A hashtag lamenting the rise was trending in the country.
"Enough!" one Twitter user posted on Thursday about the rising price of cigarettes. "I quit just in time," another posted, saying they gave up the habit more than a month ago.
The rise in the price of cigarettes came on the day the Turkish Statistical Institute reported that annual inflation had reached a two-decade high in April, to almost 70%. Month-on-month consumer prices rose 7.25%. The average monthly household disposable income in the country stood at about $430 as of 2020, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute.
Ali Babacan, former economy minister and current leader of opposition party Deva, tweeted "We are experiencing a destruction where the purchasing power of people who earn money by working is destroyed."
#enflasyon, or inflation, was also trending in Turkey.
In February, Turkey's economy and finance minister said country will see single-digit inflation by June 2023, when parliamentary and presidential elections are expected to take place.
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Saudi billionaire prince Alwaleed bin Talal appeared to have a change of heart about entrepreneur Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter, i which the prince holds a stake.
On April 14, the prince tweeted that he didn't consider Musk's offer to "come close to the intrinsic value" of Twitter and rejected the offer as "one of the largest & long-term shareholders."
Musk shot back, asking how much of the company Saudi Arabia owns "directly & indirectly" as well as his country's views on "journalistic freedom of speech."
On Thursday, Alwaleed tweeted it was great to connect with his "new friend" Musk, opting to roll his $1.89 billion stake into the deal rather than cashing out.
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3Q: Maria Zuber, daughter of coal country
MIT's vice president for research describes how growing up in eastern Pennsylvania shaped her views on climate policy.
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Email: allenkc@mit.edu
Maria T. Zuber, vice president for research and the E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics within the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, recently published an op-ed in The Washington Post that described her personal history growing up in eastern Pennsylvania's coal country and argued for a strategy to support coal industry workers as the world transitions to new, clean energy sources. Zuber spoke with MIT News to share her thoughts on how we can address climate change while also improving the economic fortunes of coal communities.
Q: You grew up in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, a place that got its name because of the discovery of anthracite coal there in the late 18th century. Can you tell us about your experience growing up in coal country and what inspired you to write about it?
A: Both of my grandfathers were coal miners. They both contracted black lung disease, one dying much too young and the other living longer but suffering mightily from both health problems and underemployment. My grandfathers worked in the mines at a time when the coal industry in eastern Pennsylvania was in the midst of a long decline. My home town, Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, was a place where prosperity and economic opportunity vanished with the decline of the anthracite industry.
During the recent presidential campaign and subsequent to the election, I've read a lot about how the intellectual elite doesn't understand the plight of blue collar workers who have lost well-paying jobs and, with that, their hope for the future. And I thought, "Wait a minute, that's the story of my family." The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I was in a position to shine a light on this issue and maybe even contribute to improving the situation.
Q: How does this personal history you've described affect the way that you think about climate change?
A: On the one hand, I can really understand why we hear so much about the "war on coal." That's a product of the deep anxiety that people feel when they experience such seismic changes caused by things like changes in the global supply and demand for coal, or automation in mining that makes it possible to get more coal with fewer workers. People do feel like they are under attack, that their way of life is under attack. We need to really try to recognize that.
On the other hand, my life's passion, and my career focus, has been science. And as I've said many times, the scientific evidence is overwhelming: If we keep emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, then global temperatures are going to continue to rise, and that carries with it unacceptable risks — disruptions to food and water supplies, rising sea levels that could put coastal cities at risk, and so on.
So the way I look at it is that we have two responsibilities: We need to take urgent action to address climate change by moving to clean energy, and we also need to take care of the people who do difficult and dangerous work so that we can power our modern economy and enjoy our standard of living.
Q: With this dual challenge in mind, what do you think we should we do for coal communities?
A: The good news is that, in the long run, transforming our energy system so that it emits zero carbon will create more jobs than it destroys. But if we don't plan this transformation in an orderly way, then we will see avoidable negative economic impacts on coal communities.
As a start, I propose three things we can do. First, we should aggressively pursue carbon capture and storage technology, which catches carbon dioxide from coal power plants before it is released into the atmosphere and stores it underground. We'll need to improve capture efficiency, lower the deployment costs, and better understand the environmental impacts. The MIT Energy Initiative has launched a low-carbon energy center focused on these challenges.
Second, we should expand the use of coal for things that, unlike combustion and steel production, do not produce significant carbon emissions. About nine-tenths of coal production is used for electric power. But researchers here at MIT and at other research institutions around the country are exploring whether coal can be used more widely as a material for the production of carbon fiber, batteries, electronics, and even solar panels.
Third, though, we have to recognize that even if carbon capture becomes practicable and we expand other uses for coal, the industry's fortunes will never fully revive, because of factors like cheap natural gas and the rapidly declining costs of wind and solar energy. So we need to support policies that would promote economic development; help coal workers find employment in other industries, including renewables; and preserve healthcare and retirement benefits for retired coal miners. Fortunately, these are all policies with bipartisan support.
The risks of climate change make it clear that we have to stop burning fossil fuels, especially without the use of carbon capture and storage technologies. But we do have choices to make about how we transition to clean energy. We can choose to do it fast enough to head off some of the worst risks of climate change, and we can choose to do it as fairly as possible for communities that have long depended on fossil fuels. These are not impossible challenges, but they do require that we all work together. I think this is the kind of problem that we at MIT are attracted to tackle. We won't solve the climate change problem without solving the jobs problem.
Topics: Climate change, Sustainability, Administration, Environment, Alternative energy, Energy, Emissions, Industry, Climate, Greenhouse gases, coal, Carbon, EAPS, School of Science, MIT Energy Initiative
Writing for The Washington Post, Prof. Maria Zuber, MIT's vice president for research, outlines how the U.S. can reduce coal emissions without "declaring war on coal communities." Zuber argues that the U.S. must "commit to helping the workers and communities that are hurt when coal mines and coal plants reduce their operations or shut down."
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Editors Blog: 2013 a Year to Remember for Wigan Athletic
This time 12 months ago, I don't think anyone in the world of football saw what was going to happy to our club. After a long list of injuries our players were on their way back and we had a run of games that were winnable. Get a few points we could have been mid-table and flying.
By HeapyLatic Dec 31, 2013, 4:04pm GMT
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Looking back now it is easy to point fingers and say what went wrong; the continual injuries to key defensive players, the lack of January signings (or lack of luck in January), players our of form in key games. Then you look at the club run and the games there were our team really showed their class.
Had we kept that group of players fit and healthy for the full season, I think it would have been an even bigger year for the Latics. As it is we have to make do with just an FA Cup win, oh dear me!
Looking back of the end of the Roberto Martinez era it is hard to say what cost us the most for our League status. Was it the injuries, was it the managers lack of a plan B, or was it the cup run that finally took its toll. Earlier in the year it was the lack of ability to tie games down.
In the second half of the year we had the lead in four games. Had we gone onto win those games it would have been an extra nine points. That would have lifted us comfortably into 11th place on 45 points. What a huge difference winning the games you take the lead in would have made!
Saying that I would take winning the FA Cup over survival. We did something that a team hasn't done in a long time in the FA Cup and that was bring the win for the Underdog back. We were such rank outsiders that none was giving us a chance of winning the game, that it just felt like we would.
Every Wiganer in that stadium had a feeling we could do it. It seem fated that the year we would go down, something bigger would happen to us in the cup.
Yet with mixed results on the pitch. Turmoil off it was sure to follow. The departure of Roberto Martinez meant the strings that held the team together fell apart as our FA Cup winning squad was broken apart. Players leaving on free transfers, and others deciding to join Martinez himself at Everton.
Dave Whelan took his time to find the new man, and we got Owen Coyle. I will now to try and fairly judge what that man did to this club. Over pre-season I was really happy with what I saw both on and off the pitch. Some very good acquisition, pre-season performances were very good and things didn't seem as bad as we had feared.
Start the season and the 4-0 battering of Barnsley saw the clubs confidence lift and the fans looked on Owen Coyle a little better.
It still took time for us to adjust but under Owen Coyle we managed to have a fantastic home record. Away from home we were poor. No tactical plans and lack of team fitness began to shine through from Coyle's men as they couldn't complete a full 90 minutes.
Eventually after five defeats on the bounce he had to go to stop the rot. What Coyle will be most remembered for what be any of that though, it will be as the manager who lead us in Europe and gave us our first European goal, wins and points.
Latics six game European adventure will live in my memory and all of ours for years to come as one of the historical moment in our clubs history. Ironically we were the oldest club in our group and it makes you realize how long and well established the game truly is in England.
So has we close out the year we can look back on all the joy and moments of the year. How things have changed though. We started with a Spaniard and via a Scotsman we have ended up with a German in charge. With improved performances under Uwe Rosler the team now have a lot to prove as we start 2014.
If it is has half as good as 2013 we are going to be in for one hell of a ride.


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Haiti's suffering is a result of calculated impoverishment
By Seumas Milne - January 20th, 2010
There is no relief for the people of Haiti, it seems, even in their hour of promised salvation. More than a week after the earthquake that may have killed 200,000 people, most Haitians have seen nothing of the armada of aid they have been promised by the outside world. Instead, while the US military has commandeered Port-au-Prince's airport to pour thousands of soldiers into the stricken Caribbean state, wounded and hungry survivors of the catastrophe have carried on dying.
Most scandalously, US commanders have repeatedly turned away flights bringing medical equipment and emergency supplies from organisations such as the World Food Programme and Médecins Sans Frontières, in order to give priority to landing troops. Despite the remarkable patience and solidarity on the streets and the relatively small scale of looting, the aim is said to be to ensure security and avoid "another Somalia" – a reference to the US military's "Black Hawk Down" humiliation in 1993. It's an approach that certainly chimes with well-established traditions of keeping Haiti under control.
In the last couple of days, another motivation has become clearer as the US has launched a full-scale naval blockade of Haiti to prevent a seaborne exodus by refugees seeking sanctuary in the United States from the desperate aftermath of disaster. So while Welsh firefighters and Cuban doctors have been getting on with the job of saving lives this week, the 82nd Airborne Division was busy parachuting into the ruins of Haiti's presidential palace.
There's no doubt that more Haitians have died as a result of these shockingly perverse priorities. As Patrick Elie, former defence minister in the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide – twice overthrown with US support – put it: "We don't need soldiers, there's no war here." It's hardly surprising if Haitians such as Elie, or French and Venezuelan leaders, have talked about the threat of a new US occupation, given the scale of the takeover.
Their criticisms have been dismissed as kneejerk anti-Americanism at a time when the US military is regarded as the only force that can provide the logistical backup for the relief effort. In the context of Haiti's gruesome history of invasion and exploitation by the US and European colonial powers, though, that is a truly asinine response. For while last week's earthquake was a natural disaster, the scale of the human catastrophe it has unleashed is man-made.
It is uncontested that poverty is the main cause of the horrific death toll: the product of teeming shacks and the absence of health and public infrastructure. But Haiti's poverty is treated as some baffling quirk of history or culture, when in reality it is the direct consequence of a uniquely brutal relationship with the outside world — notably the US, France and Britain — stretching back centuries.
Punished for the success of its uprising against slavery and self-proclaimed first black republic of 1804 with invasion, blockade and a crushing burden of debt reparations only finally paid off in 1947, Haiti was occupied by the US between the wars and squeezed mercilessly by multiple creditors. More than a century of deliberate colonial impoverishment was followed by decades of the US-backed dictatorship of the Duvaliers, who indebted the country still further.
When the liberation theologist Aristide was elected on a platform of development and social justice, his challenge to Haiti's oligarchy and its international sponsors led to two foreign-backed coups and US invasions, a suspension of aid and loans, and eventual exile in 2004. Since then, thousands of UN troops have provided security for a discredited political system, while global financial institutions have imposed a relentlessly neoliberal diet, pauperising Haitians still further.
Thirty years ago, for example, Haiti was self-sufficient in its staple of rice. In the mid-90s the IMF forced it to slash tariffs, the US dumped its subsidised surplus on the country, and Haiti now imports the bulk of its rice. Tens of thousands of rice farmers were forced to move to the jerry-built slums of Port-au-Prince. Many died as a result last week.
The same goes for the lending and aid conditions imposed over the past two decades, which forced Haitian governments to privatise, hold down the minimum wage and cut back the already minimal health, education and public infrastructure. The impact can be seen in the helplessness of the Haitian state to provide the most basic relief to its own people. Even now, new IMF loans require Haiti to raise electricity prices and freeze public sector pay in a country where most people live on less than two dollars a day.
What this saga translates into in real life can be seen in the stark contrast between Haiti, which has taken its market medicine, with nearby Cuba, which hasn't, but suffers from a 50-year US economic blockade. While Haiti's infant mortality rate is around 80 per 1,000, Cuba's is 5.8; while nearly half Haitian adults are illiterate, the figure in Cuba is around 3%. And while 800 Haitians died in the hurricanes that devastated both islands last year, Cuba lost four people.
In her book The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein shows how natural disasters and wars, from Iraq to the 2004 Asian tsunami, have been used by corporate interests and their state sponsors to drive through predatory neoliberal policies, from radical deregulation to privatisation, that would have been impossible at other times. There's no doubt that some would now like to impose a form of disaster capitalism on Haiti. The influential US conservative Heritage Foundation initially argued last week that the earthquake offered "opportunities to reshape Haiti's long-dysfunctional government and economy as well as to improve the public image of the United States".
The former president Bill Clinton, who wants to build up Haiti's export-processing zones, appeared to contemplate something similar, though a good deal more sensitively, in an interview with the BBC. But more sweatshop assembly of products neither made nor sold in Haiti won't develop its economy nor provide a regular income for the majority. That requires the cancellation of Haiti's existing billion-dollar debt, a replacement of new loans with grants, and a Haitian-led democratic reconstruction of their own country, based on public investment, redevelopment of agriculture and a crash literacy programme. That really would offer a route out of Haiti's horror.
This article was first published in The Guardian


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I like energy bars. There, I said it: I like energy bars. I like the way they fit conveniently in my jersey pocket. I like the way they keep me from bonking. I even like — and I know some of you will scoff, but it's true — the way they taste.
But energy bars have a huge problem. An obvious problem. A terrible problem. A huge, obvious, and terrible problem. And it must be fixed. Now.
The problem is this: their wrappers. The wrapping material is incredibly difficult to tear. And if it tears, it tears in the wrong direction and may as well not have torn at all.
It's as if the energy bar manufacturers have forgotten that they're making food that is intended to be unwrapped and eaten while gloved and riding a bike, and are instead focusing on creating contrivances designed to keep their precious food away from raccoons.
Here is a ProBar Fruition bar, a delicious (and Vegan!!!) energy bar.
Currently, it is my favorite on-bike food, because it's about the right amount of food I like to eat while riding, it's moist, and it tastes good. I like these so much that I even eat them sometimes when I'm not on the bike.
But they are murder to get open.
How is it possible that the tear actually went perpendicular to the angle I'm pulling it? How?!
And it's not like the tiny little pieces of wrapping I've just torn off with my teeth have vanished, either. They're flapping in the wind, hanging from my clenched teeth. Which means I have to somehow discard the tiny little piece of paper. Sure, I could spit it out, but that's littering. Or I could swallow it, but then I'd probably get excruciating cuts all down my throat as the foil made its way down my gullet (and really, that would just be the beginning of my problems).
Grab the little piece of paper and stuff it in a jersey pocket.
Try the whole "ripping with teeth" process again.
Try using my tongue to enlarge the little hole I created.
Weep pathetically, due to overwhelming hunger pangs.
Try to squeeze the food through the small hole I've created.
Ride no-handed and see if I have any better luck opening the package with two gloved hands than I did with a gloved hand and my teeth.
Meanwhile, though, I've completely dropped away from the group I'm riding with, and have probably also veered toward oncoming traffic.
Wrapper has a tensile strength less than Tyvek or steel belted radial tires.
Wrapper does not require scissors, boxcutters, or high-powered industrial lasers to begin a tear.
Once the wrapper begins to tear, it continues to tear in the direction at least roughly similar to the direction of force from which the tear came. In other words, the tear should not capriciously turn and run in some direction cunningly calculated to prevent food from escaping from the package.
If the package has a "Tear here" indicator, it shall be printed sufficiently large that one does not need a jeweler's loop to find it, seeing as how I often forget to bring my jeweler's loop on rides.
If the package has a "Tear here" indicator, one should be able to reasonably be able to assume that tearing there will produce a desirable effect (Note: Having a teeny-tiny corner of packaging coming off in your teeth does NOT count as a desirable effect).
Honestly, I just want to get to my food. Without falling down. And without having to try over and over and over. And over. Is that so much to ask? I'm begging here.
P2: This package requires sustained effort and multiple attempts to open, but if you practice and are hungry enough, you'll eventually get this open. Safe for experienced riders to open while riding in a group. Mountain bikers should only attempt opening this if they are on a two-mile stretch of non-technical trail.
P3: This package will resist your efforts to open it as if it were guarding the contents of the package with its life. Do nor attempt to open when riding with other people, because you will almost certainly cause an accident.
P4: Attempts to open will likely result in severe paper cuts. Attempting to open while riding a bike — regardless of bike type or terrain — is severely dangerous and is not recommended under any circumstances. This package is, in short, just trying to be mean.
If you ask me, this is what the UCI should be focusing on right now.
A "Hey, Come Watch a Movie With Me, Ask Me a Question, and Get Awesome Free Stuff" Note from Fatty: This Thursday, as part of the Utah Bike Summit, I'll be at the Jordan Commons Megaplex for a 7:00pm viewing of Race Across the Sky: 2010 Leadville Trail 100. I'm going to be participating in a Q&A session following the movie, and will be bringing awesome schwag from Twin Six, PRO Bar, and Citizen Pictures (the makers of the movie) to hand out. If you're even remotely local, buy tickets and come on out. The 15 seconds during which I'm in the film are truly inspiring. Ha.
RAWROD (Ride Around White Rim in One Day) is — as far as I'm concerned — the official start of Spring. I've done this ride more times than I can count. Really, I have. I don't have any idea how many times I've ridden this 100-mile mountain bike loop near Moab, Utah.
I've written about riding RAWROD with friends. I've written about nearly being the victim of catastrophic biological functions while riding it. I've gone to court because of throwing rocks off a cliff at RAWROD. I've made a pretty-darned-long video of the RAWROD experience.
But this year, I did it more easily than I ever have before. In fact, there were times when it felt pretty close to effortless. Which came as a bit of a surprise, because a lot of other people talked about how bad the weather — rain and wind — was and how deep the sand was for much of the course.
Then most folks got to their night of little sleep and lots of listening to the wind crush their tents. The Runner and I drove out to our hotel. So yeah, I'm soft. But I slept great and got a shower the night before the ride, not to mention use of a toilet the morning of the ride (which is very very important to me, for reasons I don't think I need to go into).
When we got to the start of the ride on Saturday morning at 7:00, the signs weren't promising. It was cold. The sky was dark, and looked like rain.
But I bravely got on my bike and began the ride, The Runner at my side, her son The IT Guy staying with us.
We rode for an hour, trying our very hardest to ignore the fact that the weather was getting progressively worse. Specifically, it started to rain.
And then it began to rain harder.
And then it began to snow.
And I admit — I can admit things like this because I am a confident person and am unafraid of what others might think of me — there was a moment when I considered bailing out on the ride and calling it a day.
The Runner and The IT Guy were considering similar options.
As you will see, however, we not only finished the ride, but we did it all together, in grand style, and — this may sound like boasting, but I swear I'm just being honest — feeling totally fresh and strong.
By the time we got back to the campsite, it had been nearly 35 miles and 2.5 hours since we had started the ride.
Then we (The Runner, The IT Guy, and I) had a change of heart. We changed into dry clothes and — while Kanyon Kris made the sensible decision to head on home — started the ride over, right from the beginning.
It was a bold move, but we agreed: we had what it takes — although just barely — to start over and do the entire loop. Heck, if we really pushed ourselves, we might even catch the group, now at least two hours ahead.
The Runner, The IT Guy (who, for convenience's sake, I shall hereafter refer to as "Blake") and I took off, settling into a formation that would not change for the entire day: Blake in front setting a blistering pace, The Runner and I riding side-by-side a short distance behind.
Staring intently ahead, keeping pace with Blake, The Runner agreed.
As we rode in our tight bunch, I couldn't help but notice — I wasn't at all winded. Sure, the rough terrain jostled me around — there's no avoiding that — but I was breathing easily. I rarely needed a drink, and the food in my jersey remained untouched.
Yes, I was aware that it was a long ride and that if I went too hard for too long I could run out of gas, but that seemed a far-off prospect. The three of us had endless power, and we weren't afraid to show it off.
It continued to rain, but now it didn't matter. I didn't feel it, and I swear I wasn't getting wet.
Even as we flew past Musselman Arch and across the floor of the White Rim, I thought to myself, "This may be the first time I've done this ride where I've had the energy to look around," and it was astounding.
"I need to spend more time with my head up instead of looking at my front wheel for hours on end," I noted to myself. In fact, I believe I'm going to make that my primary goal for riding this year: enjoy myself and look around.
That said, we continued at a ridiculously fast pace.
As we reached White Crack (don't even bother making a joke about the name of the place, they've all been done), we caught the main group of riders — a remarkable achievement, I think you'll agree, considering it wasn't even time for lunch.
That would come at Vertigo Void.
"Come on over to the edge," I said. Then — as I always do, I crawled the final several feet to the edge, laid on my stomach and looked down. Blake followed suit.
"Oh, now I get it," Blake said. Because from that position you can see that you are on an overhang that goes back further than you might care to consider. And the drop is 400 feet straight down.
The weather had cleared up some; everyone agreed it was now really quite a nice day for biking. New clouds were gathering, however, and we knew that it would rain again soon. So we gathered our stuff and began the second half of the ride, still feeling good and strong.
I don't mean to boast. Really, I don't. But The Runner, Blake, and I did things on this ride that I would never have believed possible. All three of us cleaned Murphy's Hogback and just kept going. Then all three of us cleaned Hardscrabble Hill, where we waited for Kenny to catch up.
Yes, that's right. We waited for Kenny to catch up.
And to Blake's credit, he did not back off. He continued to push the pace.
We hit miles and miles of deep sand, but while others got off their bikes and walked, we kept riding.
And then, finally, we hit the big, final climb of the day. Horsethief. And while I'd like to go on dramatically about how difficult it was to climb, it just wasn't. The three of us rode up to the top as effortlessly as we had ridden the whole day: Blake in front, The Runner and I slightly behind.
We finished. Strong, and as one of the first groups of people. Plus, we had gone 135 miles, instead of the 100 everyone else had ridden that day.
Pretty darned impressive, if you ask me.
PS: I should probably mention that after biking the first 35 miles — 17.5 miles out, and then another 17.5 miles back to the campsite — we got off our bikes and rode the remaining 100 miles in a truck, as the Sag Wagon for everyone else. A minor point, right?
This morning, Team Fatty-Philly Co-Captain Jen Yuan (Philly Jen) emailed me, saying one of the most-loved members of Team Fatty — Ryan Suenega — has passed away while hiking a treacherous trail in Hawaii.
I knew him only a little bit from Philly, and since then through Facebook, but his kindness, generosity, good humor and his gentle spirit are all reflected in the remembrances on his FB page. Team Fatty lost a good one.
A friend of Ryan's has posted a blog entry with a little bit more about what happened, and what a remarkable person he was.
For myself, I appreciate that Ryan spent his life having fun and helping others. And he died in context of the way he lived. I can't help but admire that.
Team Fatty's thoughts and prayers are with Ryan's family and friends. We're going to miss him.
A Note from Fatty: Today's guest post comes from Tim Joe Comstock. It's an awesome story, beautifully told.
I live in a trailer park in Florida. Not a nice retirement-villa-on-wheels trailer park where the elderly neighbors swap recipes and check in on each other and play shuffleboard in the fading twilight of a rosy pink sunset kind of trailer park.
The trailer park I live in is a really crappy side-of-the-highway trailer park where the dentally challenged neighbors swap drugs and have fist-fights in the shimmering glow of the pale moonlight and the occasional blue strobe lights of a police cruiser perks up the evening's entertainment.
Not that I see much of this action, not really, because while the evening's misadventures go on outside my window I am safe inside staring at a computer screen bearing images of sweet and shiny new bicycles that I can't afford. And reading cycling blogs by people who live seemingly charmed lives of high-paying office jobs that leave them plenty of energy and money to spend their off time riding around wearing expensive clothing that I also can't afford while they ride the above-mentioned out-of-reach bicycles.
But while I may sound bitter or disillusioned, I am not. Because I ride a bicycle too. The same roads my "superior" colleagues pedal on are open to me, also. And listen, man, I ride them. After thirty years of hard labor in the construction industry, after two marriages and houses and kids and lawyers, topped off with this never-ending "recession" and all the loss that results from loss: I ride my bike. A lot.
One day a few months ago at a convenience store I was admiring a pair of touring bikes parked outside. A Raleigh Sojourn and a Trek 520. A mild-mannered fellow in full kit, a guy about my own graying age, came out and I complimented him on his bike. We were discussing the worth of disc brakes vs. cantilevers when his wife joined us, glancing nervously at my baggy shorts, sleeveless t-shirt, scruffy beard and long, bandana-bound hair. And the beer in my hand.
"Well, honey, he knows all about bikes, and he seems perfectly all right…" All of this while I sat there, bemused (to say the least) and a flood of emotions went coursing through my already fairly beat down soul. But one of my saving graces at this point in my misspent old age is I don't get offended nearly as much as I did when I was still an upright citizen.
But I got off the bike.
To her credit, she caught what she had done and tried to lighten the moment by giving me a strained smile and saying, "Well, you're either a really smart homeless person or…" and then she realized that there was no happy ending to that sentence either and so I just laughed and said "Have fun on your ride, guys," and went back into the store for another beer.
Today, several months later, I was into mile 30 on my Saturday ride, just cruising along on my 1981 Schwinn LeTour, loving the day and day-dreaming on the empty country road that I like to use for my day-dreaming ride when a guy comes out of nowhere and passes me. I say "Hey!" like I always do, but he just goes on by on his carbon Cervelo.
I'm sitting here in my crappy trailer park by the highway, watching the sunset, sipping a beer and gazing fondly at my old Schwinn leaning against the wall. I'm savoring the the moment when the guy finally caught up with me back in town, where I was waiting at a red light.
A Note from Fatty About How You Can Be The First Person in The World to Own the Ibis Mojo SL-R: Some bikes are just a little too beautiful for me to even try to describe. I just see them and am gripped, instantly, by bike lust.
It's the latest step in the evolution of the Ibis Mojo: a stiff, light trail bike. Pretty much good for everything you'd want a mountain bike for. Would you like to have this bike? Of course you would.
Would you like to be the first person to have this bike? Darn straight you would. And you might be, if you help my BFoFF (Best Friend of Fatty Forever) Chuck Ibis as he raises money for the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship.
Basically, you just donate multiples of $5 to the stewardship today (because today's the last day of the contest), and then Chuck will draw a random winner from the $5 tickets purchased.
You'll be doing something good for something you care about — building an awesome trail network — and you may just wind up with bragging rights for one of the sweetest-looking MTBs I've ever seen. So go donate now.
Unfortunately, just thinking about that drop-in can scare me off a trainer. In my year and a half of racing, I've never even finished with a pack. And due to a recent knee-cracking accident on the road, my quads are about as thick as my neck.
If you're falling behind, here's a summary. My moment is super non-macho. It's a rite of passage tale.
And because I'm feeling edgy, we're gonna Tarantino this one.
And that was my proudest moment. So let's back it up about two hours. Cue that funny, DJ scratching vinyl, old school VHS rewind sound.
I race/raced for the University of Arizona the last couple years. (Go Cats!) This particular story comes from my very first race, The Squash Blossom Classic in New Mexico, in the Fall of 2009. I was racing Collegiate C's with another first-timer and good friend.
We were prepared to go hard for 19 miles of perfect New Mexico singletrack with a couple hundred other people. By "prepared," I mean we remembered to bring water and a bike. We had no clue what we were getting into.
I tried to eat and drink during the race, but it's harder than it sounds. Maybe if I had some meat-ergy snacks, things would've been different.
Anyway, the last 7 miles were rough. There were a couple minor wrecks that left me with nothing but gritty bottles and frustration. I was so dehydrated I stopped sweating. Bad news.
As I'd find out later, the rider behind me was a lady in the 40+ category. And she was obviously faster, since she had started 15 minutes behind me.
I like to think I'm pretty bright, so by this point I had realized I wouldn't be toting home any hardware. I was racing for pride at this point. The race had become a duel. Just her and me.
That last 2k I busted my rear end. I quickly realized what I thought was 100 percent was more like a B+. I've never been in more pain or had more fun on my bike. I could hear her behind me the whole way. Spectators were yelling for both of us, wanting to see a sprint finish. As I came over the top of a quick rise with only 50 meters to the line, I glanced back and saw her about 25 meters behind me. I did my best Cav for another second or two, then coasted across the line. Victory!
You woulda swore I had just crested Alpe D'Huez in front of Eddie, Greg, Lance, Andy and Alberto. Even though I had finished 10th out of 11 in my category, I had the taste of victory in my mouth. Or was that blood?
I rolled about ten yards past the finish line, clipped out my right foot and promptly fell to the left. Right in front of everyone. If my proudest moment was the perfect storm, then this was one hell of a calm. I laid there, catching my breath, reveling in rest.
I cleaned up, chugged twelve gallons of Gatorade, and took a painful trip to the Porto-john. Before the race, I was nervous. I didn't feel like a member of the club. These people were racers. They knew something I didn't.
But after that random guy helped me up and congratulated me, I was instantly comfortable. These were my kind of people. I belonged. And I finally knew what makes us cyclists.
We'll shave our legs, upgrade to carbon, shiver through arctic morning rides and frighten people with tan lines, just to destroy ourselves and end up with our face in the dirt. Because once our legs stop shaking long enough to get up, we have an indescribable feeling of accomplishment and millions of friends to share it with.
My Bio: I'm a senior at the University of Arizona, studying Economics. I've been a serious cyclist for a couple years, but am currently sidelined with a broken kneecap. I originally hail from Grand Junction, Colorado, where the dirt is tacky and the track single. I'll graduate in May, but have absolutely no idea what I'm doing or where I'm going. So if any of you readers are hiring, I'd love to hear from ya… Thanks for reading.


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