The Saucony Triumph ISO 5 is a high-cushion, high-mileage trainer that can work for any neutral runner. Although it is very pricey, you get a lot for the money.
This shoe is for any neutral runner. It is great for high miles and would be a welcome shoe for a beginner or a heavier runner.
Each year, the "Big Boys" of running release their full cushion trainers. These shoes are heavy duty, and are made for heavy mileage. However, you'll also pay a heavy price tag to get your hands on a pair.
These heavy hitters are also some of the most well-known offerings on the market. Brooks gives you the Glycerins, Nike the Vomeros, New Balance the 1080s, Adidas the UltraBounce, Mizuno the Creations and for Saucony the Triumphs.
These shoes all come in roughly at the same price point, and offer many of the same features. However, perhaps my favorite that I've tried in the past year is the Triumph ISO 5.
The Saucony Triumph ISO 5 is the top-of-the-line neutral trainer for the company. These shoes offer tons of technology and cushion to log the long miles.
However, there is also a ton of energy return to help you kick up the pace when you want to. This shoe will compete against the other max cushion offerings — Glycerin, Vomero, 1080, Creation.
When these shoes arrived, I loved the look of it and thought the grey colorway was a great look — especially with the splash of bright orange. They were not just great to look at, they were incredibly comfortable for all-day wear.
On my first run, it was like running on air. The cushion was more than enough but still provided a lot of energy return.
The sole unit didn't get a full update like last year's model. And that is a good thing. The Triumph ISO 4 was one of my favorite shoes of 2017, and sometimes it is frustrating when shoe companies mess with a good thing.
In this case, Saucony decided to only do some slight updates on the 8mm-drop (32mm heel, 24mm forefoot) sole unit.
New this year, Saucony added 2mm of EVERUN Topsole cushioning. This provides even more energy return than in past years' version of the shoes.
This increased topsole sits atop the midsole of EVERUN material that is incredibly cushioned and energetic.
This midsole sits atop a new Tri-Flex Crystal Rubber outsole which is designed to help increase flexibility, adaptability, and durability of the shoe.
This rubber is a thinner layer than the previous model and this new rubber is more pliable, making for easier changes of direction.
This outsole had better grip than last year's model, and I felt more comfortable tackling snow on my run or the freezing rain I had a couple of times while testing it. Truly this held up well.
The downside of this sole unit is that it is a bit heavy. This really only showed up once I got past 12 miles, and even then it wasn't a great deal.
However, when I compared runs between the Triumphs, Ride ISO and Altra Escalante my ground contact time was on average 25ms more per stride longer in the Triumphs than in the other two shoes.
This is something that is weird to measure, but I decided to look at that with this offering, and it is evidence of the extra weight carried in the shoe.
The upper features Saucony's ISO upper, which helps lock in your foot while moving and adapting throughout the run. The ISO upper is a technology the shines in all the correct ways.
Last year I said the ISO upper may have been the most comfortable upper in which I ran, and that has not changed. In fact, this year's model has been updated and improved.
They updated the mesh material to include a new engineered Jacquard mesh which is intended to flex more naturally with the foot while providing lightweight breathability.
This mesh material of the upper is incredibly breathable, this helped with some of the warmer runs I did, but it wasn't so porous as to make my feet cold during cold, wet runs.
The update on this ISO upper pushes the laces and eyelets further back to help expand the system and help lock your feet in. The ISO moves and adapts to your feet as you move through your gait.
This footbed starts narrow in the heel, opens a little in the midfoot and opens even more into a wide forefoot. This all comes in an upper which fits perfectly to size (at least at the size 13 I order).
Since last year I had been looking forward to see what Saucony would do with one of my favorite 2017 offerings, and I was not disappointed.
While talking to one of my running buddies, I was discussing my thoughts on these shoes and realized that I literally was not mentioning a single negative thing. These shoes were that impressive.
While there was plenty of cushion for those long runs, the topsole offers a great amount of energy return for the higher paced runs. This combo means that I always look forward to going on a run in these shoes.
As stated before, the only real drawback is that this shoe is a little more hefty than many shoes out there. However, this is a small drawback.
Overall, this is again one of my favorite shoes of the year. The combination of technologies and the superior offering that Saucony put out there more than make up for the high price tag.
If you are looking for a max cushion neutral trainer with tons of energy return, this is one that is well worth checking out.
We purchased a pair of Saucony Triumph ISO 5 from runningwarehouse using our own money. This did not influence the outcome of this review, written after running more than 50 miles in them.
Hate to say it, but Saucony has turned the Triumph into a heavy brick. The original ISO was a wonderful shoe, but Saucony has continued to mess with it until they've basically ruined it.
I never ran in the original. However, I feel like these ones are much more responsive and ready to dial up the speed than the ISO4. Hope you find another shoe you enjoy.
I think the problem with me and the Triumph now is that I personally don't like the full length EVERUN midsole, which is just personal preference. I do however like the Triumph 5 better than the 4. I have the Saucony Ride ISO and I like it. The EVERUN top sole combined with an eva midsole seems to work well for me. Thanks so much for your reviews, I always look forward to them and get a lot out of them.
The ISO5 seems indeed bottom heavy and the fit is too loose, not matter how I lace it. But the cushioning is very responsive and the outsole rubber seems to be quite durable. I really like it for long non technical trail cruises.
I tried them briefly in the store, I have mixed thoughts about them. Love the breathable upper, but they seem firmer especially at the heel than my saucony triumph iso 3, they were less flexible and heavier. When I stood or walked in them they felt very dense and nearly brickish, but when I ran in them they seem a lot better -softer, smoother with great impact protection. I want to be able walk and run in these.
I also tried the new New balance 1080 v9 , ( which some reviews are raving about – much better than the v8 version) they were softer, more flexible with faster transitions than the iso 5's.
Do the iso 5's soften up and become more flexible? Otherwise they are too firm for me especially under the heel. I love saucony but they heavy duty trainers seem to get heavier, less flexible and need to soften there underfoot feel. I will go and give them another go but I may have to change brands 🙁 which is disappointing.
Also new to the Triumph ISO 5 is the addition of an interwoven, breathable mesh upper which, when combined with the existing ISOFIT technology which adapts to the shape and movement of your feet provides an exceptionally cool and comfortable feel that securely locks the foot in place. The FORMFIT contoured footbed simultaneously cradles your foot, providing a custom, sock-like fit and pillow-like comfort. Those who suffer from underpronation, a.k.a. supination, will also appreciate the support and stability that provided by the combined construction of midsole and upper.
After putting more miles on these I dislike them even more. The fit is too loose (the ISO 4 was too tight), the ride is awful (feels like a dead, heavy, slab of rubber), and the cost is too much. Saucony is loosing its way pushing EVERUN and the ISO fit system.
These look like fantastic shoes that I'd love to try, but I'm a bit weary that the sole/heal of the triumph 5 appears to be quite straight without much if any of an upward curve. I'm not a dramatic heal-stricker, but I run with a bit of a roll to my stride and I'd be worried that the back of the sole unit would get beat up and the ride would be somewhat clumsy. I'd appreciate any thoughts you have on this issue. Thanks!
After trying a lot of shoes lately….I have to say this is the winner to me.
Better transition than the previous model, perfect cushion, perfect fit.
Weighted? Maybe, but the rest is almost perfect.
I'm very happy to find them.
Featuring more EVERUN cushioning than ever before (2 millimetres more to be exact) and a redesigned upper that continues to deliver exceptional comfort with every run, the Saucony Triumph ISO 5 is a distance runner s dream. This highly cushioned neutral trainer is designed to comfortably take you from the start to the finish of any and every run, especially your longest and most taxing workouts.
I've had all 3 shoes you mentioned (Freedom, ISO 3, ISO 5) to me the ISO 5 is the more cushioned shoe. It's definitely softer than the Freedom and ISO 3 on the run. I would also say it's more responsive than the ISO 3. Remember, the cushioning system is different in the ISO 5 than the 3, with the 5 being a full length EVERUN midsole, so it is going to have a different feel to it. Whether that's good or bad will depend on the person.
With how newly released they are, they won't be on any sizable discount for quite some time.
In my experience, the ISO 5 is softer than the 4s. I would say the flexibility is about the same as the 4. I personally felt more spring return from the 5s, but I was comparing to a pair that was a year old and had 250 miles on it, so take that with a grain of salt.
I would say you'd have no problem doing a tempo or a recovery in the ISO 5. I don't know that they'd hit the mark for track runs necessarily, but they can check off basically the rest of it. Hope that helps.
Michael, could you list the differences with the Ride iso?
Rides are more responsive, lighter and better at upping the tempo or being on the track. With the lower stack, it is also slightly more flexible.
Triumphs are softer, meant to log those long miles. Although more responsive than maximal offerings, it is still more for logging slower miles than pushing the tempo a ton.
Both have the new ISO upper and superior breathability.
Biggest distinction really is the price tag. The Rides come in at $120 and I've happily logged 10+ mile runs in them. So if I'm buying, I might be persuaded toward them. However, the Triumphs are a better shoe.
You get more, but you pay more.
I went from running in the Triumph ISO 3 to the ISO 4 and disliked the ISO 4. My main problem with the 4 was the firmness upfront. Almost every time I ran in it when I'd get done I'd think, "I hate this shoe". I now have the ISO 5 and find it much better cushioned upfront. I'm not sure it's as flexible, and may be a tad less responsive than the 4, but the better cushioning seems to make up for all of that. It's definitely a much better shoe to run in.


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Chet Ruminski
"Michael Moore: Trump does not want to be president"
I totally agree. So what do we do now with a business manager that doesn't have a clue about how to be a politician. There are many theories about why he ran but the proof he didn't want to win is obvious.
First: He told about when he told Melania he was going to run for president. She said if you run you will win. That sounds like a warning. Like are you sure you want to be president. Nothing was said about how great that will be for the country or the world.
Second: His spending was very low and when it got down to the wire and Hillary was ahead there was no huge increase in spending trying to make up the difference.
Third: He never really sounded or acted presidential to instill confidence in voters.
Fourth: His actions are independently unilateral and seem more vindictive than political.
Fifth: He had no business entering into Ivankas marketing problems.
Sixth: His appointments are just like what anybody that wasn't a politician would do. Just picked names of upper echelon people seemingly at random.
I have read multiple pieces saying they don't think he wanted to win. There must be meetings of politicians talking about what to do. It is too obvious to not be stirring up opposition.
jaredsxtn
Why would anyone run for President if they didn't want to be President?
Donald wants to be President because he's a narcissistic psychopath who craves attention more than anything else in this world. Now he gets to slowly figure out that the office he now holds is bigger than any one person.
Let's just hope some mean tweet sent his way doesn't start WWIII before he is either impeached or we vote him out.
Central, FL
To a large degree I agree with your comments Chet. What a social / political / humanitarian side show. We are doomed to suffer through this mess as a poignant reminder that your vote counts and you should get off of your ass and do the right thing...... next time.
He ran to show he's the best choice and in his mind the most popular. Actually playing government. No.
Ft.myers, FL
I guess the point is that the guy never even took the time to learn what is Presidential. He acts like an uneducated farmer; has no manners or etiquette. An typical example is the visit of the Japanese Prime Minister. He kind of "forced" him by holding his hand and patted on it with his other hand for at least 45 seconds. When I used to travel and did deals worldwide, my company instructed me about the cultures of those countries and the "do's" and "don'ts". Sorry but you don't shake an Japanese hand that way. It also showed when the Japanese was speaking that Trump looked very insecure and did not know how to stand "relaxed"; he looked more like an construction worker lost in space. I think the guy has an super huge inferiority complex and therefore does not know to give the right "body language". Absolutely, this idiot is not suited at all to be President; especially if he refuses to follow the customs and etiquette of foreign countries,who are not charmed by an "red neck" from the US.
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Yes Jared, absolutely correct; how was your "honeymoon"? Learned to speak Dutch on Aruba??
Trump may have misjudged the enormous task of the presidency, but he wouldn't have undertaken the campaign if he didn't think he could win. Many of us have called him a buffoon -- I'm guilty of that. But buffoons do not win the presidency of the United States without a carefully crafted plan to win. Donald Trump plays to win. He has no time for losers.
This election was less about critical thought on the issues of the day, and more about emotions. Donald Trump knows how to play to one's emotions and control the messaging...propaganda if you like. It's a page torn out of the play book of a certain despotic ruler of the last century.
"Why would anyone run for President if they didn't want to be president?"
Because he wanted something else ' to use the campaign to pressure NBC contract negotiations.
deathandtaxesmag.com/300499/trump-nbc-a...
Trump has a 30 year history of running for president for a short time. But he doesn't have a history of getting or wanting to get Americans good paying jobs.
This is the sixth time Trump was running for President.
mashable.com/2015/06/16/donald-trump-pr...
tvguide.com/news/donald-trump-president...
How serious are the Trumps about the Presidency when his wife chooses to support their son instead of taking her place in the Whitehouse as first lady supporting the leader of the free world.
nypost.com/2016/11/20/melania-and-barro...
"But none of this was a worry, as "Trump for President" was only a ruse that was going to last a few months."
m.huffpost.com/us/entry/11545026
At the end of the campaign when the polls showed him losing he put 10 million dollars in and ended the campaign 6.7 million dollars in the black.
" Donald Trump is a false-flag candidate. It's all an act, one that benefits his good friend Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party that, until recently, counted the reality show star among its adherents."
Obvious that nobody was happier than jaredsxtn that Trump was running. Almost everybody thought that Trump running guaranteed a Clinton victory.
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Schmidt said:
"But buffoons do not win the presidency of the United States without a carefully crafted plan to win. Donald Trump plays to win. He has no time for losers."
Schmidt you are validating and giving credit to Trump for having planned a carefully crafted campaign. His campaign was a continuous insult to rationale sensitive compassionate people. More crafted to lose than win. But inspite of that he is now president and you are saying it was the result of a carefully crafted campaign?
lonely bird
imo, der ubergroppenfuhrer ran to see if he could win. he knew or was told what buttons to push on an emotional level and said button pushing worked in enough states to provide the electoral votes. (hey, al hamilton? your defense of the electoral college in federalist 68 turned out to be a sham.) he didn't and doesn't appear to have any actual plans or programs beyond sticking a bunch of re-warmed radical rw libertarian free marketers in place on the domestic front and engaging in a combination of isolationist from a trade standpoint and aggressive from a militarized standpoint foreign policy.
2 years max and we will be engaged in more war despite his bullshit about opposing war. his so-called secret plans to get daesh will be a complete mess. more money wasted and a continuation of debt-and-spend republican policies designed to destroy government and create the consolidation state.
Trump is not a politician. He is a failure of doing away with the 98% top income tax bracket and a tax code that benefits the country.
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Yes he and his cronies follow Mein Kampf closely; I'm amazed that people in this country don't realize how dangerous these distorted minds are for this country.
Good topic.... Trump ran for president largely as a self-promotion gimmick, never expecting, and never wanting to become president.
From the start its been my perception that his goal was to promote himself in such a way that he got millions of new customers buying his products, staying at his hotels, playing golf on his golf courses.... He expected to loose, and wanted to loose, because by loosing he becomes a martyr of all that he claims is wrong. This allowed him to say anything he wanted during the campaign that would make him popular with millions of people would be loyal to him after the election.
If Clinton had been elected, he could continue to attack her endlessly, say\tweet anything he wanted and never have to fullfill any campaign promises. He could claim he lost because the system is corrupt, the media is corrupt, etc, etc, etc. He would not have to prove anything that he says is true. By loosing he could remain in the spotlight in such a way that he had a lot more control, but not have take action.
Trump is a sales guy and promoter, once the deal is done, he hands everything over to others to handle the details. He's the front man, not the guy who runs the show day to day.
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Durham, NH
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Trump is a sales guy and promoter, once the deal is done, he hands everything over to others to handle the details. He's the front man, not the guy to runs the show.
Excellent comment! I agree 100%. I don't believe anyone in the country was more shocked and upset that Trumpy won than Trumpy himself!
I think there is a 85% chance Trump will resign before the end of presidency . If he does not resign, i think there is 99.99% chance that after 3 years he will announce he will not run again.
My evaluation is primarily based on having watched his carreer since the 80s. He loves being, more-or-less, a Frank Santra personality in the business world. The guy that is at the center of every activity\event\etc. If he can't be the primary focus of admiration\love, then he does not truly enjoy those activities and avoids them unless there is some short\long term goal that serves his interest. During the campaign, he thrived at the rallies. This has worked for him as a private citizen and made him very rich (although not as rich as he claims).
As I commented previously, I don't believe he truly thought he would beat Hillary Clinton, thus he would not have to give up his lifestyle, and by loosing the election, it would have left him in a better position to continue his promotion of the Trump brand around the world, making deals, and a being pop culture celebrity wherever he goes.
If he does resign, a good chance he'll announce its because of "personal and health reasons". He may resign simply because he doesn't want to be president anymore and\or be pressured out for political reasons that he wants left alone. Imagine what would happened if his full taxes returns for the past few years were leaked, there is a high probability that there are some questionable business dealings that he could not explain away.
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So I did do thinking, and then said that we could come to the woods when we gets married, and have a holiday honeymoon here. Monty did think this was a goody idea, and then we did talk and talk and talk about getting married.
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This conversation about Limpets proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that you two are meant to be a married couple. You act like you're married already!
I is doing the planning, but we is not getting married until I has won every competition in the Limpets.
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Carlos Cruz-Diez is one of the founding fathers of the Op Art movement, and his revolutionary sculptures and paintings push the boundaries of light and space through their kinetic qualities. Cruz-Diez was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1923. He began his formal training at the School of Applied and Plastic Arts in 1940 and received his degree as a professor of applied arts in 1945. The following year, Cruz-Diez became the advertising director of the agency McCann-Erickson. In 1947, the first exhibit of his work was on display at the Instituto Venezolano-Americano. Cruz-Diez traveled to Paris in 1955 and was struck by the Le Movement exhibit of Op Art at Galerie Denise René. In 1960, Cruz-Diez relocated to Paris with his family. And five years later, Cruz-Diez's art was featured in the influential exhibit The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The influential, and controversial, show included the work of Bridget Reilly, Ellsworth Kelly, Josef Albers, and Max Bill among others.
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"Detroit is charting a new path back and (is) a guide for other cities to follow," says Richard Florida, event host and director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto.
Panel discussions will focus on how the city of Miami, which was transformed into a global business destination, and how private companies had an impact on the city's downtown core, with artists and creative types contributing to the city's revitalization, among other topics.
Speakers include Don Katz, founder and CEO of Audible.com, a seller and producer of audio entertainment; Robert Elmes, executive director of the Galapagos Art Space, a creative entertainment space that is moving from Brooklyn to Detroit in 2016; Randall Fogelman, vice president of business development for Detroit's Eastern Market; J.J. Curis, gallery director of the Library Street Collective in Detroit, among others.
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By Conor Andersen European Editor on November 9, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )
George Orwell got a lot of things right, and one of the things that I think he got right, [along with the other, more talked about insights of his], was the way that he ended what is arguably his most famous book, 1984.
At the end of the novel, there is no hope for political reform or the return of liberty, the hero, Winston Smith, has been broken, his personality evacuated, crushed, made to be as pliable as putty.
This was deliberate, I think. Orwell knew something it has taken me years to realise, namely, that all apparently variant streams of political ideology tend to converge.
The form this process takes is one of a deliberate and concerted move towards totalitarianism, this is not to be understood as some mere metaphor, and it's not to say that there are discernible similarities between apparently opposed political parties, no, it's to say that every state, and therefore the world, is heading towards an almost homogenous totalitarianism, subdivided, but essentially the same everywhere.
In 1984, Orwell paints the picture of the world as being divided into three monolithic, post-nuclear war, super-states, roughly along the lines of the continental divides, this is actually what is happening, albeit slowly, and barely noticeable without intensive study, but it is happening nonetheless.
I don't obviously think it's possible for the version of this nightmare that Orwell gives us in his novel to be reproduced, except on the small scale. It's not necessary to have 24-hour surveillance of every individual, having cameras in all the places that matter, is enough, in terms of state surveillance and control.
But the political reality is that everywhere is trending to the same point, that of totalitarian politics, one that is concerned almost exclusively in dealing with and working for, large-scale industries, finance, private security firms, and multinational service companies.
The workers are to be bent into shape by the economic blackmail-pressures of 'recession', out-sourcing of jobs, and the changes to employment and welfare laws that we see overtaking western democracies. That reform is needed, is rarely disputed by any sensible observer, but that the reforms taking place are beneficial only to large corporations and specific financial elites, is not about to be admitted to by government.
The slow ebbing of the political tide in western democracies, belies a sea-change that is just sub-surface, the next few decades are really going to be something people will look back on and wonder why they didn't see it coming.
All across the north western hemisphere, states that have been liberal democracies, have sunk into the mire of oligarchical collectivism, the central topic of Goldstein's book in Orwell's dystopian novel. Oligarchical collectivism, is when politics and business become one and the same thing, not overlapping, not strongly connected, actually the same.
The politicians we see now are not ideologues, they are not revolutionaries, they are not social reformers, no, they are corporate lobbyists who have got into political office to further their own careers. The few that are not like this don't matter, they have no power, and none of the corporatists will allow them space in the political playground.
This means that the days of genuine politcal reform are virtually over, the word 'reform' when used by politicians now, has no positive connotations, it is a euphemism for legal change that will benefit the corporatists and the security services, and not the common people.
Everyone will work for corporations, it is nearly the case already, and when it is the case, and when the corporations have finally and fully become the governments of the world, then the new-old adage of being the victims of our own systems will become actually and completely true.
Corporations will not be voted out, they will not institute reform that may affect profits, corporations will only support a minimum standard of living, and the only alternative will be to starve. Corporations will go to war for resources, corporations will become the law, as well as the state. The police, armed forces, security services, and health service, are all being privatised as I write this, (this is in the country formerly known as Great Britain).
The ruling class in Britain are in the forefront of this changeover, leading the way in modern corporate totalitarianism. In many ways, most people do not need to have realised any of this to still be, unwittingly, working towards it, just doing the job they do to pay the bills, is supporting corporate designs by working for them, which, for the vast majority of people, being employed by a corporation, is pretty much unavoidable.
Accountabilty, and social justice, are the first noticeable victims for the TV goggling majority in the west. Jobs, infrastructure, and any kind of even remotely secure economy, are all subject to where the greatest profits are to be made.
Controlling the disenfranchised, disillusioned poor of the west has become, and will be more and more, the job of global security companies, who are being empowered to 'save the police time' by taking over the detection, apprehension, and incarceration of people, who may then become convicted of crimes befitting a custodial sentence in one of the many private prisons that have sprung up here in the last three decades, while more are planned to eventually replace the state run prison sector entirely.
It is no coincidence that the same firms that have taken work from the police, are running the prisons. Sections of the British police have become privatised, not the front line, and not the top brass, but the middle section, the bureaucrats are now all civilians, accountable to their employer, rather than to the public and the crown.
The trend towards totalitarian control is easy to spot once one has noticed certain things, it's as if it becomes a knack, like spotting the next jigsaw piece, the news items that seem innocuous, the political statements where what remains unsaid is the important thing, as it so often is anyway. I don't think we're headed to a "Brave New World" – I think we're headed towards a dystopia of such proportions as even Orwell would probably have been shocked at, one that will take maybe thirty years to become solidified, but it's already on its way, of that I am sure.
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From my journal, letters, and other writing about internally expelled Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza (once I can enter Gaza), plus their ancestral homelands. These dispatches based on my latest work in Palestine-Israel from mid-May to mid-July 2019.
The 1948 Palestinian exodus from Lydda and Ramle, also known as the Lydda Death March, was the expulsion of 50,000–70,000 Palestinian Arabs when Israeli troops captured the towns in July that year. The military action occurred within the context of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The two Arab towns, lying outside the area designated for a Jewish state in the UN Partition Plan of 1947, and inside the area set aside for an Arab state in Palestine, subsequently were transformed into predominantly Jewish areas in the new State of Israel, known as Lod and Ramla.
Rajab Mustafa Ghanem
In Israel's first months, largely Arab cities emptied as inhabitants were forced to flee. Photograph by David S. Boyer / Corbis
For this writing I draw gratefully from Fareed Taamallah's interview in Arabic, translated by him and revised slightly by me. Published on his Facebook page.
Rajab Mustafa Ghanem, 19 years old in 1948, the Year of the Nakba, worked with his father in a grocery store in the city of Lod/Lydd. Hearing about Jews forced to flee from Europe, he believed Palestinians were to live with them and give them shelter because they were victims of war. Forced from his home by what he called "Zionist gangs," his family fled by foot, carrying no food or water, first to Ramallah, and then by truck to Gaza, the Bureij refugee camp. After Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, he moved to the Amari refugee camp in Ramallah. He never saw his city again, nor his father and mother who remained in Gaza and died there. Today, 90 years old, he told us his only wish is to die and be buried in dignity in his hometown, Lod, and not in Amari as a refugee.
Dahmash mosque, Lod/Lydda
One early morning day in May 1948, the Zionist militia or gangs attacked the city with planes, tanks and artillery and told people to surrender. The men were asked to go to the Dahmash mosque. Many went there and the mosque was filled with men. But there was no room for Rajab and his father. The gangs entered the mosque and ordered the men and boys to lie on the ground, shot and killed hundreds including some of Rajab's friends and relatives.
With Rajab's son (R)
With Fareed Taamallah, my colleague and translator
The Zionists forced thousands of people of the city, including Rajab and his family, to go east out of the city on foot without allowing them to carry anything, out of town, into the unknown. They walked all day without water or food, and some died on the way. Until they arrived in Ramallah a few days later. Then from Ramallah, he went by truck with his family to Gaza, specifically the Bureij refugee camp. He lived in Gaza until 1967 after the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip by Israel, he moved from Gaza to the Amari refugee camp in Ramallah where he lives with his family to this day. He has not seen his city since 1948, nor his father and mother, who died in Gaza in 1995. Today he is 90 years old and he told us the only wish he has is to die and be buried In Lod, in his hometown in dignity and not as a refugee.
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The ziggurat algorithm is an algorithm for pseudo-random number sampling.  Belonging to the class of rejection sampling algorithms, it relies on an underlying source of uniformly-distributed random numbers, typically from a pseudo-random number generator, as well as precomputed tables.  The algorithm is used to generate values from a monotonically decreasing probability distribution.  It can also be applied to symmetric unimodal distributions, such as the normal distribution, by choosing a value from one half of the distribution and then randomly choosing which half the value is considered to have been drawn from.  It was developed by George Marsaglia and others in the 1960s.

A typical value produced by the algorithm only requires the generation of one random floating-point value and one random table index, followed by one table lookup, one multiply operation and one comparison. Sometimes (2.5% of the time, in the case of a normal or exponential distribution when using typical table sizes) more computations are required. Nevertheless, the algorithm is computationally much faster than the two most commonly used methods of generating normally distributed random numbers, the Marsaglia polar method and the Box–Muller transform, which require at least one logarithm and one square root calculation for each pair of generated values.  However, since the ziggurat algorithm is more complex to implement it is best used when large quantities of random numbers are required.

The term ziggurat algorithm dates from Marsaglia's paper with Wai Wan Tsang in 2000; it is so named because it is conceptually based on covering the probability distribution with rectangular segments stacked in decreasing order of size, resulting in a figure that resembles a ziggurat.

Theory of operation
The ziggurat algorithm is a rejection sampling algorithm; it randomly generates a point in a distribution slightly larger than the desired distribution, then tests whether the generated point is inside the desired distribution.  If not, it tries again.  Given a random point underneath a probability density curve, its x coordinate is a random number with the desired distribution.

The distribution the ziggurat algorithm chooses from is made up of n equal-area regions; n − 1 rectangles that cover the bulk of the desired distribution, on top of a non-rectangular base that includes the tail of the distribution.

Given a monotone decreasing probability density function f(x), defined for all x ≥ 0, the base of the ziggurat is defined as all points inside the distribution and below y1 = f(x1).  This consists of a rectangular region from (0, 0) to (x1, y1), and the (typically infinite) tail of the distribution, where x > x1 (and y < y1).

This layer (call it layer 0) has area A.  On top of this, add a rectangular layer of width x1 and height A/x1, so it also has area A.  The top of this layer is at height y2 = y1 + A/x1, and intersects the density function at a point (x2, y2), where y2 = f(x2).  This layer includes every point in the density function between y1 and y2, but (unlike the base layer) also includes points such as (x1, y2) which are not in the desired distribution.

Further layers are then stacked on top.  To use a precomputed table of size n (n = 256 is typical), one chooses x1 such that xn = 0, meaning that the top box, layer n − 1, reaches the distribution's peak at (0, f(0)) exactly.

Layer i extends vertically from yi to yi+1, and can be divided into two regions horizontally: the (generally larger) portion from 0 to xi+1 which is entirely contained within the desired distribution, and the (small) portion from xi+1 to xi, which is only partially contained.

Ignoring for a moment the problem of layer 0, and given uniform random variables U0 and U1 ∈ [0,1), the ziggurat algorithm can be described as:

 Choose a random layer 0 ≤ i < n.
 Let x = U0xi.
 If x < xi+1, return x.
 Let y = yi + U1(yi+1 − yi).
 Compute f(x).  If y < f(x), return x.
 Otherwise, choose new random numbers and go back to step 1.

Step 1 amounts to choosing a low-resolution y coordinate.  Step 3 tests if the x coordinate is clearly within the desired density function without knowing more about the y coordinate.  If it is not, step 4 chooses a high-resolution y coordinate, and step 5 does the rejection test.

With closely spaced layers, the algorithm terminates at step 3 a very large fraction of the time. For the top layer n − 1, however, this test always fails, because xn = 0.

Layer 0 can also be divided into a central region and an edge, but the edge is an infinite tail.  To use the same algorithm to check if the point is in the central region, generate a fictitious x0 = A/y1.  This will generate points with x < x1 with the correct frequency, and in the rare case that layer 0 is selected and x ≥ x1, use a special fallback algorithm to select a point at random from the tail.  Because the fallback algorithm is used less than one time in a thousand, speed is not essential.

Thus, the full ziggurat algorithm for one-sided distributions is:

 Choose a random layer 0 ≤ i < n.
 Let x = U0xi
 If x < xi+1, return x.
 If i = 0, generate a point from the tail using the fallback algorithm.
 Let y = yi + U1(yi+1 − yi).
 Compute f(x).  If y < f(x), return x.
 Otherwise, choose new random numbers and go back to step 1.

For a two-sided distribution, the result must be negated 50% of the time.  This can often be done conveniently by choosing U0 ∈ (−1,1) and, in step 3, testing if |x| < xi+1.

Fallback algorithms for the tail
Because the ziggurat algorithm only generates most outputs very rapidly, and requires a fallback algorithm whenever x > x1, it is always more complex than a more direct implementation.  The specific fallback algorithm depends on the distribution.

For an exponential distribution, the tail looks just like the body of the distribution.  One way is to fall back to the most elementary algorithm E = −ln(U1) and let x = x1 − ln(U1).  Another is to call the ziggurat algorithm recursively and add x1 to the result.

For a normal distribution, Marsaglia suggests a compact algorithm:

 Let x = −ln(U1)/x1.
 Let y = −ln(U2).
 If 2y > x2, return x + x1.
 Otherwise, go back to step 1.

Since x1 ≈ 3.5 for typical table sizes, the test in step 3 is almost always successful.

Optimizations
The algorithm can be performed efficiently with precomputed tables of xi and yi = f(xi), but there are some modifications to make it even faster:
 Nothing in the ziggurat algorithm depends on the probability distribution function being normalized (integral under the curve equal to 1), removing normalizing constants can speed up the computation of f(x).
 Most uniform random number generators are based on integer random number generators which return an integer in the range [0,  232 − 1].  A table of 2−32xi lets you use such numbers directly for U0.
 When computing two-sided distributions using a two-sided U0 as described earlier, the random integer can be interpreted as a signed number in the range [−231, 231 − 1], and a scale factor of 2−31 can be used.
 Rather than comparing U0xi to xi+1 in step 3, it is possible to precompute xi+1/xi and compare U0 with that directly.  If U0 is an integer random number generator, these limits may be premultiplied by 232 (or 231, as appropriate) so an integer comparison can be used.
 With the above two changes, the table of unmodified xi values is no longer needed and may be deleted.
 When generating IEEE 754 single-precision floating point values, which only have a 24-bit mantissa (including the implicit leading 1), the least-significant bits of a 32-bit integer random number are not used.  These bits may be used to select the layer number.  (See the references below for a detailed discussion of this.)
 The first three steps may be put into an inline function, which can call an out-of-line implementation of the less frequently needed steps.

Generating the tables
It is possible to store the entire table precomputed, or just include the values n, y1, A, and an implementation of f −1(y) in the source code, and compute the remaining values when initializing the random number generator.

As previously described, you can find xi = f −1(yi) and yi+1 = yi + A/xi.  Repeat n − 1 times for the layers of the ziggurat.  At the end, you should have yn = f(0).  There will be some round-off error, but it is a useful sanity test to see that it is acceptably small.

When actually filling in the table values, just assume that xn = 0 and yn = f(0), and accept the slight difference in layer n − 1's area as rounding error.

Finding x1 and A
Given an initial (guess at) x1, you need a way to compute the area t of the tail for which x > x1.  For the exponential distribution,  this is just e−x1, while for the normal distribution, assuming you are using the unnormalized f(x) = e−x2/2, this is  erfc(x/).  For more awkward distributions, numerical integration may be required.

With this in hand, from x1, you can find y1 = f(x1), the area t in the tail, and the area of the base layer A = x1y1 + t.

Then compute the series yi and xi as above.  If yi > f(0) for any i < n, then the initial estimate x1 was too low, leading to too large an area A.  If yn < f(0), then the initial estimate x1 was too high.

Given this, use a root-finding algorithm (such as the bisection method) to find the value x1 which produces yn−1 as close to f(0) as possible.  Alternatively, look for the value which makes the area of the topmost layer, xn−1(f(0) − yn−1), as close to the desired value A as possible.  This saves one evaluation of f −1(x) and is actually the condition of greatest interest.

References
  This paper numbers the layers from 1 starting at the top, and makes layer 0 at the bottom a special case, while the explanation above numbers layers from 0 at the bottom.
 C implementation of the ziggurat method for the normal density function and the exponential density function, that is essentially a copy of the code in the paper. (Potential users should be aware that this C code assumes 32-bit integers.)
 A C# implementation of the ziggurat algorithm and overview of the method.
   Describes the hazards of using the least-significant bits of the integer random number generator to choose the layer number.
 Normal Behavior By Cleve Moler, MathWorks, describing the ziggurat algorithm introduced in MATLAB version 5, 2001.
 The Ziggurat Random Normal Generator Blogs of MathWorks, posted by Cleve Moler, May 18, 2015.
  Comparison of several algorithms for generating Gaussian random numbers.

 .  Illustrates problems with underlying uniform pseudo-random number generators and how those problems affect the ziggurat algorithm's output.

Pseudorandom number generators
Non-uniform random numbers
Statistical algorithms

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