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Friday, July 30, 2010

Summer with The Beatles

The Beatles knew that Summer should be spent relaxing at the pool or beach. Yet while doing so they managed to continue looking classy and dapper. Four styles, four ensembles.

Photo: Flickr

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon was one of the 20th Century's greatest photographers along with the likes of Newton, Scavullo, Bailey, Clarke, & Penn. His photos are part of fashion history since not only do they portray fashion at a specific era, but also helped influence it.

Avedon shows us that clothes should be both stylish and functional; and that less is more. Below photographed while shooting an editorial, he opted to wear a pair of Levis 501s, with an epaulettes shirt, and his oval shaped eyeglasses.

Photo: Flickr

Monday, July 26, 2010

Fashion on the Golden Gate

When impressive landscapes & views are combined with elegant clothes, the result is almost perfection as shown on the photo below. A scene that evokes "Vertigo" (which one of its most memorable scenes was filmed here) and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (the clothes) under one of San Francisco's icons: the Golden Gate Bridge.
The male model is wearing a 3 piece dark suit (without the jacket); while the female model wears a minidress with a cape and oversized hat.
Photo: Flickr

Friday, July 23, 2010

Relaxing at the Pool

Benjamin Braddock, who was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in 1967's iconic film "The Graduate", shows us that even when enjoying a sunny day of leisure and relaxation at the pool one can look dapper with a good pair of sunglasses. He is wearing a pair of wrap sunglasses, which were kind of modern in the late 60s. And don't forget the sunscreen while you're at the pool or beach.

Photo: Flickr

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Betty & Francois Catroux wear YSL's Safari jackets

Betty & Francois Catroux proved in 1969 when they were photographed at their home why Yves Saint Laurent is one of fashion's geniuses. The Catrouxs wore YSL's iconic Safari jackets with matching pants and braided leather belts.

A year before, Saint Laurent had released these jackets as part of his ready to wear line, Rive Gauche. 40 years and many trends later, YSL's Safari jacket is still a classic and must have; a versatile piece that can be worn in Summer or Fall.

Photo: Flickr

Monday, July 19, 2010

Steve McQueen: Stylish Summer

Steve McQueen is undeliably one of menwear's style icons. Wearing either a double breasted suit, turtleneck, plain t-shirt, or like in the photo below cuffed khakis with a cotton shirt & gladiator sandals, McQueen was always the "King of Cool".

Who said one can't be stylish and cool during Summer's warm days.

Photo: Flickr

Friday, July 16, 2010

Gunter Sachs

Wearing a simple yet very elegant ensemble made up of white pants and a vertical striped shirt, Gunter Sachs shows that one can still board a plane this Summer like he did back in 1967. While the rule is to always wear a belt with pants, Sachs decided not to do so, giving his outfit a more relaxed air. Also worth noticing are his leather strap watch and the way he pulled up his shirt's sleeves.

Photo: Flickr

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

George Harrison's Espadrilles

In the summer of 1966 George Harrison and his wife at the time, British model Pattie Boyd were photographed while enjoying some moments of relaxation during their vacations. Both opted to wear white, George went for an all white look while Pattie decided to add some contrast with a colored blouse. However George Harrison added some contrast and a touch of style to his ensemble with his dark colored espadrilles.

This summer espadrilles are an essential item. Available in many different colors, I personally prefer dark colored ones, espadrilles are comfortable and fresh.

Photo: Flickr

Monday, July 12, 2010

L.G.R Spring Summer 2011

Once again L.G.R Sunglasses has proven why they're one of the best options out there nowadays for sunglasses; not only because of the quality and materials used on their sunglasses, but also because of their classic, elegant, and vintage inspired designs.

Recently L.G.R has released its Spring Summer 2011 collection which is made up of 4 new models, named after African cities (like all of its sunglasses and eyeglasses).

The Cape Town sunglasses have an almost round shape, reminiscent of sunglasses from the mid 50s. Available in Black (with green, blue, and yellow gradient glasses), Brown, Havana, and Yellow; Cape Towns are ideal to be worn everywhere this Summer, from city streets to the beach.

On the other hand, the Tangier sunglasses available in Black (with green, blue, violet, and yellow gradient glasses), Brown Sunbrown, and Yellow; look like they could have been worn in the 70s or 80s. Tangiers can be worn with both casual and formal ensembles without any problem.

Worth checking out also are L.G.R's Enteara and Siwa models, although these would look great on any woman.

Photos: L.G.R

Friday, July 9, 2010

"A Plein Soleil" & "La Piscine": Two Films With Similarities

"A Plein Soleil" & "La Piscine" are among the best films in French cinema history, and both share several similarities.

Released in 1960 and 1969 respectively, these films' leading characters are potrayed by the same actors: Alain Delon & Maurice Ronet. Romy Schneider appears on both films also, although her appearance on "A Plein Soleil" as Freddy's friend is for less than a minute. On "La Piscine" Schneider's character, Marianne, is a key figure for the plot.

Maurice Ronet's character is murdered by Alain Delon's character on these films. On "A Plein Soleil" Ronet plays Philippe Greenleaf, a wealthy American who meets Tom Ripley (Delon) and both live the Dolce Vita in Rome. They travel to Mongibello to meet with Greenleaf's girlfriend Marge (Marie Laforet). However Tom wants everything in Philippe's life, including Marge, and ends up stabbing Phillippe to death when they're alone at sea.

Below a photo that shows Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, and Marie Laforet having lunch inside Philippe Greenleaf's sailboat.

Nine years later, Alain Delon & Maurice Ronet co-starred on "La Piscine", and another murder took place. This time Delon was Jean-Paul and Ronet was Harry. Both men shared a love interest for Marianne (Schneider), yet things got critical when Jean-Paul became interested in Harry's daughter, Penelope (Jane Birkin). The idylic summer holiday in St. Tropez ended up in tragedy when one night, fed up of Harry's ongoing interest for Marianne after several years, and the fact that he was an obstacle between him and Penelope; Jean-Paul has a quarrel with Harry next to the swimming pool. Harry is drowned by Jean-Paul late at night.

A similar photo to the one posted before, we can see a scene from "La Piscine".

Worth noticing is the fact that "A Plein Soleil" and "La Piscine" have in their titles the location and moment where these crimes that defined their plots take place.

And last but not least, these 2 films are a lesson of Summer style thanks to the clothes worn by Alain Delon, some which have been featured in the blog, and Maurice Ronet such as light colored suits, linen and cotton shirts in dark and light colors, sunglasses, mocassins, and espadrilles.

Photos: Flickr

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

A walk around Via dei Condotti

Peter Sellers & Britt Ekland were photographed in the Summer of 1967 walking around Rome's Via dei Condotti. Sellers who had achieved popularity by then thanks to roles in "The Pink Panther" movies, "The Party", and "Casino Royale"; was wearing a Safari jacket with a light colored shirt. Britt Ekland, Sellers' wife at the time, opted for a belted/turtleneck cotton dress.

Probably after their stroll around Via dei Condotti, the Sellers decided to rest for a while on the nearby Piazza di Spagna.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Terence Stamp

Terence Stamp is an English actor who besides being among the most talented of his generation, was part of the scene in London during the "Swinging Sixties".

Stamp played the role of "Alfie" in theater back in the 60s and declined to portray him in cinema. Antonioni had originally casted Terence for "Blow Up", but Antonioni decided in the end to cast David Hemmings instead.

In the height of his career Terence Stamp dated the likes of Jean Shrimpton (photographed below with him) & Julie Christie.

Photo: Flickr

Friday, July 2, 2010

Sinatra & Jobim: Blame it on the Bossa Nova

What do you get when you combine the amazing vocals of Frank Sinatra "The Voice" with the musical genius of Antonio Carlos Jobim "The Father of Bossa Nova"?

The answer is 1967's album "Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim". This album has Sinatra singing Bossa Nova songs which were made famous 5 years before by Jobim and other Brazilian performers such as Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz. Some of these songs are: "The Girl From Ipanema", "Corcovado", "Meditation", "Agua de Beber", & "How Insensitive". Antonio Carlos Jobim besides accompanying "Ol' Blue Eyes" can be heard singing in some songs.

Their collaboration was a success, that this album was nominated the following year for a Grammy. In November 1967 Sinatra & Jobim teamed up with the legendary Ella Fitzgerald to star in a television special called "A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim". On this special some songs from "Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim" were performed as well as other hits such as "Going Out Of My Head" & "What Now My Love".

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Unless The EU Adopts A Growth Compact Soon, There Will Be Social, Political, And Economic Disaster

Thursday, May 3, 2012
By Paul Martin

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Unless the EU signs up to a Growth Compact soon, we face social, political and economic disaster. Swift action on tax, banking and investment is the way out of the crisis.

Overspending by governments, we have been told, triggered this crisis. Thus the cure lies in immediate austerity, hence the German-led push for a eurozone fiscal compact. But, as demonstrated by the experiences of Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy & now the broader EU, this course leads to biting, deep recessions, rising unemployment and worsening public indebtedness. The IMF has acknowledged as much and the latest alarming data on rising unemployment in the EU is a case in point. A focus on growth, not austerity, is the correct answer for Europe’s ills.
The case for “growth-friendly austerity” relies on the argument that public cuts are compensated for by consumers and businesses spending more, and with greater efficiency. However, the collapse of confidence wherein everyone expects the economy to worsen before (if) it gets better, along with excessive levels of private indebtedness, means that consumers and firms are busy repaying debt or building rainy-day funds, not spending and investing. In terms of exports, what works for small open economies with flexible exchange rates will not work for the economic giants the EU and the Eurozone are, especially as the troubled economies of the Eurozone have fixed exchange with their largest trading partners.

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Friday, November 12, 2004

Nacho Guarache

Nacho Guarche
Originally uploaded by mwthomas87.
Nacho Guarache is a great local comic strip... Far superior to the awful Mallard Fillmore and the nauseating Prickly City. But it can still rub me the wrong way when he goes off on a tangent.

In this strip we have the token liberal - Grandma Fulano - mouthing the following nonsense:

"Maybe it is time we Democrats reevaluate the hard left direction the party has taken the last 40 years"

Last 40 years? What hard left direction is that, Mr. Garza? (Leo Garza is the strip's author) Are you referring to the Civil Rights movement? Social Security and Medicare? Or maybe the New Deal era social justice programs that pulled our nation out of the Great Depression?

She then goes on to say "Maybe we need to seriously reconsider that the party is totally at odds with the concerns and desires and values of 52 million decent and honest Americans."

I assume the 52 million figure is supposed to represent W's popular vote total - which was actually closer to 58 million.
But Garza would have us ignore the fact that 55 million decent and honest Americans voted for John Kerry and find the Republican Party totally at odds with their concerns and values.

Like I said, Nacho is a great strip, but it also has a mean side that comes out most strongly whenever Garza decides to attack people who disagree with his extreme views on abortion.

Playing Whack A Mole in Iraq

As our military wraps up a costly and hard fought effort to subdue insurgents in Fallujah, we are now getting reports that insurgents are popping up in other cities once thought to be under control.

”Despite the apparent success in Fallujah, violence flared elsewhere in the volatile Sunni Muslim areas, including Mosul, where attacks Thursday killed a U.S. soldier. Another soldier was killed in Baghdad as clashes erupted Friday in at least four neighborhoods of the capital. Clashes also broke out from Hawija and Tal Afar in the north to Samarra - where the police chief was also fired - and Ramadi in central Iraq.”

It feels like we are playing Whack A Mole. We bash one mole in Fallujah and three more pop their heads up in different parts of the country.

The Bush administration never thought this process through. They thought the war would have been over six months ago or earlier. So you know they are just spinning their wheels right now with no clue as what to do next. I just hope that those pre-election rumors that Bush would pull the troops out as fast as he could after the election prove to be more accurate than the exit polls. I don’t believe we can subdue an entire nation militarily. We need to pull our forces out and put in a U.N. peacekeeping force composed mostly of Arab and Muslim soldiers to try and clean up the mess that has been made.

A modest collection

I have a rather modest autograph collection that I have accumulated over the
years. I’m not a hobbyist and have never gone out of my way to get specific
autographs so my collections is kind of a random smorgasbord of happenstance
encounters over the years.

My parents got me started on it when I was a kid. I remember my folks
taking me to see “Cowboy Bob” (Bob Glaze) when I was about 6 or 7 and we were living in Indiana - Grissom AFB – in the early ‘70s. Cowboy Bob was the host
of an afternoon children¹s show that was based at WTTV Channel 4 in
Indianapolis. I got a signed publicity photo of him sitting on his horse. I remember he had those long sideburns that were popular back then and somewhat resembled Glenn Campbell.

Around that same time I also got Burt Ward’s autograph. He was the actor who played Robin on the Batman & Robin TV series that aired from 1966-68. A local car dealership had asked him to make an appearance to help them drum up business and my parents took me to see him. I got one of those classic Hollywood publicity photos with Ward in his Robin costume climbing a building. He signed it “Pow, Mike!” with a little smiley face added.

Because we were living on an Air Force Base I had a couple of other opportunities to get autographs. Once we went to see a performance by the Thunderbirds, the Air Force’s precision flying team and afterwards I got several of the team members to autograph my program.
My Dad also took me to see a couple of Apollo astronauts once and I got their autographs as well – Al Warden and Dave Scott.

My autograph collecting kind of dropped off for awhile after my Dad left the Air Force and we moved back to Texas. When I was in high school I went to see Alabama perform at Southwest Texas State University and afterwards I stood in line and got all four of them to autograph a nice color publicity photo. I also got Janie Fricke’s autograph. She was the opening act for them at the time though I doubt many people remember her today.

My senior year I got to go to Gen Con, the big national gaming convention in Wisconsin, with my friend Jimmy. I got several artists and game designers to sign my program while I was there – most significantly E. Gary Gygax the creator of the popular fantasy role playing game Dungeons and Dragons.

In college I had all kinds of fresh opportunities to collect autographs. In 1984 I went to hear former Sen. George McGovern speak and got his autograph afterwards. He was actually running for president that year. I felt a little strange asking for his autograph since I was planning to vote for Reagan, but I was impressed that he was a historical figure.

A few years later, after I had become a Democrat, I went to hear another U.S. Senator who was running for president. His name was Al Gore and he had flown into College Station to give Greg Laughlin a boost in this congressional campaign. I got Gore to sign a slip of paper for me.

Possibly the most significant autograph in my collection was one I came across quite by accident. While living in Connecticut I went to a library book sale in a nearby small town and bought a copy of Lyndon Johnson’s autobiography “The Vantage Point.” As I was walking out I opened the book and saw a piece of paper slip out. It was a bookmark that had been stuck down inside the book where you couldn’t see it and it said “Signed by the author.” I thought “surely not.” But sure enough I flipped to the title page and there was LBJ’s autograph. Wow.

I picked up an autographed copy of Congressman Barney Frank’s book “Speaking Frankly” at Half Price Bookstore.

I got former Texas Land Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate Garry Mauro to autography his book “Beaches, Bureaucrats and Big Oil”

I have two books signed by Molly Ivins, my favorite liberal columnist – Her first one, “Molly Ivins Can’t Do That, Can She?” which I got through mail order while living in Connecticut, and her latest “Bushwhacked,” which I got her to autograph in person here in San Antonio.

When I was in Kerrville working for the Daily Times I got to cover a Memorial Day ceremony at the Admiral Chester Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg. They got the actors Eddie Albert and Cliff Robertson, both WWII vets, to come out and support the museum and I got both of them to sign a program.

I have a number of music CDs signed by artists from the Kerrville Folk Festival – most notably Tish Hinojosa and Robert Earle Keen.

I have several paintings signed by my favorite Texas artist Dalhart Windberg.

Last year I got to see Luis Tiant, the former Boston Red Sox pitcher, while he was doing a promotional gig at a San Antonio Missions baseball game. I got him to sign a baseball card and my book “The Long Ball” about the ’75 World Series which he played a key role in.

And my wife has an autograph from James Watson of Watson & Crick fame, the pair who discovered DNA. She saw him while she was at Cold Springs Harbor on Long Island where his lab is located.

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

History Lesson

George W. Bush now has four more years to wreak havoc, I mean govern the nation and combined with the Republican gains in the House and Senate there have been predictions of sweeping reforms of government programs - everything from overhauling the tax code to make it simpler and more regressive to privatizing Social Security and Medicare.

When Bill Clinton was first elected in 1992 the Democrats had a 55-45 majority control of the Senate - identical to what the Republcans have today. The Democrats also had a 258 to 176 majority in the U.S. House - an 83 seat advantage compared to the (231-201) 30-seat Republican advantage today.
So did Republicans meekly concede that the election had given Clinton a broad mandate to put forth his agenda? Or did they fight Clinton every step of the way?

You might recall that President Clinton had some grandiose ideas about reforming our health care system that fell flat despite his party’s control of both the House and Senate. That’s because they didn’t have total control then any more than Republicans have total control now. Republicans ramped up their use of filibusters when Clinton took office and managed to block a large number of his initiatives. It was the beginning of the gridlock era.

According to a 1995 survey published in the Brookings Review, there was an average of one filibuster per Congress in the 1950s, eleven per Congress in the 1970s, and nineteen per Congress in the 1980s. The 1991-92 Congress, the last one counted in the survey, saw a total of thirty-five filibusters.

Here is a graph that illustrates how much filibuster usage increased at the start of Clinton’s first term. By 1994, TIME Magazine was reporting that the country was “living through a filibuster epidemic.”

Well, you can expect Democrats to return the favor. So don’t expect to see any radical conservative agendas being fulfilled by this administration. They don’t have the numbers or the support to do the things they are talking about. Fortunately for them, our expectations on what governments can accomplish have been greatly diminished since Republicans have assumed power.

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

I'm melting, melting. Ohhhhh, what a world, what a world..

Global warming is back in the news today in a big way. One of the most comprehensive studies ever done has just been released and the results are bad news, especially if you live along a coastline.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists say changes in the earth's climate from human influences are occurring particularly intensely in the Arctic region, evidenced by widespread melting of glaciers, thinning sea ice and rising permafrost temperatures.
A study released Monday said the annual average amount of sea ice in the Arctic has decreased by about 8 percent in the past 30 years, resulting in the loss of 386,100 square miles of sea ice - an area bigger than Texas and Arizona combined....

Did you catch that? An area bigger than Texas gone in 30 years.

...Pointing to the report as a clear signal that global warming is real, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., said Monday the "dire consequences" of warming in the Arctic underscore the need for their proposal to require U.S. cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases. President Bush has rejected that approach.

So what approach does Bush not object to? I couldn’t find it in any of the wire stories I saw, but the Express-News conveniently inserted this paragraph into their version in what I guess was some editors attempt at “balance.”

James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said the Bush administration is spending $10 billion yearly on research into climate change and related issues.
“The president’s strategy on climate change is quite detailed,” he said.

Quite detailed, he says, without offering any details. But $10 billion annually on climate research!!?? I find that kind of hard to believe. But since this quote is only in the E-N version of the story and is not on their web site I’m having trouble verifying it. Still, I find it rather outrageous that a 4-year comprehensive study comes out and the Bush administration’s response is to say that we are going to spend more money conducting more research before we do anything about it. I guess they will just keep repeating their studies over and over again until they get a result that they like.

And here is more good news from Reuters:

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Global warming is melting the Arctic ice faster than expected, and the world's oceans could rise by about a meter (3 feet) by 2100, swamping homes from Bangladesh to Florida, the head of a study said on Tuesday.
Robert Corell, chairman of the eight-nation Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), also told a news conference there were some hints of greater willingness by the United States, the world's top polluter, to take firmer action to slow climate change.

No wonder most of the coastal states voted for Kerry! Oh, and that hint of greater willingness by the “world’s top polluter” was a reference to the McCain-Lieberman legislation that Bush opposes. So much for that.

Purple blob - Election 2004

Election 2004
Originally uploaded by mwthomas87.
Here is one of the best maps yet that depicts the 2004 election turnout. This illustrates how it was a close race better than those misleading county or state maps with the winner-take-all red versus blue makeup.

Here we have shades of purple to represent percentages of turnout in different areas plus the map has been morphed to give a better representation of population density.

Monday, November 08, 2004

The elitist position

Michael Kinsley has an excellent column this week that addresses this charge that those of us on the left are arrogant and elitist.

There's just one little request I have. If it's not too much trouble, of course. Call me profoundly misguided if you want. Call me immoral if you must. But could you please stop calling me arrogant and elitist?

I mean, look at it this way. (If you don't mind, that is.) It's true that people on my side of the divide want to live in a society where women are free to choose and where gay relationships have civil equality with straight ones. And you want to live in a society where the opposite is true. These are some of those conflicting values everyone is talking about. But at least my values — as deplorable as I'm sure they are — don't involve any direct imposition on you. We don't want to force you to have an abortion or to marry someone of the same sex, whereas you do want to close out those possibilities for us. Which is more arrogant?

We on my side of the great divide don't, for the most part, believe that our values are direct orders from God. We don't claim that they are immutable and beyond argument. We are, if anything, crippled by reason and open-mindedness, by a desire to persuade rather than insist. Which philosophy is more elitist? Which is more contemptuous of people who disagree?


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Chroma Cult Mailing October 2, 1986

Chroma Cult Headquarters
Thousand Oaks, California

Dear Chroma Cultist,

Welcome to the cult. I believe that you are one of the several hundred hard-core and dedicated Chroma owners. Fender sold over one thousand Chromas so I am still waiting to hear from more fanatics. Please pass this letter on to anyone with a Chroma.

The reason for having an official cult is to assemble a Chroma sound library for all of us and also to inform everyone of new Chroma developments (products, modifications, etc.). From your letters I can tell that many of you feel alone out there with no support for your favorite keyboard, especially those who live out in places like Burntmattress Idaho. I hope the cult can supply at least a little relief. The Chroma is a great instrument and deserves our continued support.

I figure most of you are interested in getting more sounds to work with, so here's what we'll do. I'll compile original sounds that all of you send in, and then send them back to you on whatever media you use to send them in on. If you don't have any original sounds to contribute don't worry, you can send in a blank disk or cassette and you can still get the sounds. I'm sure those of you who program won't mind sharing with those who don't. So what you need to do is put together some of your favorite original Chroma programs and mail them to Cult Headquarters. Here are the details:

  1. We should limit the number of sets to one or two to make my job easier. I don't plan to do any major editing so try to send originals only. If you only have a couple sounds, put them at the start of the set and enclose a note saying which are original.
  2. You may send the sounds in any of the following formats:
    • Cassette - Use a data type cassette like the ones Radio Shack sells for computer data. Get a long one.
    • Fender/Apple disk - for those of you who use the Fender Music System for the Apple. Send an extra blank disk. I expect there to be more than one disk's worth.
    If you own the Chroma to MIDI Converter from Syntech, you can send the data in MIDI format using the following programs:
    • Macintosh - Use the Chroma librarian [later part of Galaxy] from Opcode Systems []. If you own a Mac and you don't have this program you should get it immediately. Call Paul de Benedictus [21030105] at Opcode [number removed].
    • IBM, Apple, or Commodore - Use Sys-ex from Key Clique, they advertise in Keyboard magazine. [I couldn't find Key Clique on the Web; see Editors & Librarians: Windows for current alternatives. I wasn't aware that there was software for the Apple II which would allow MIDI sysex communication; and I don't know anything at all about MIDI on the Commodore.]
  3. Please send an extra computer disk no matter what format you use because I'm counting on there being a lot of sounds.
  4. You must send your programs by October 30. Please give me some time after the end of the month to compile and package them, I'll try to get them all returned by the end of November.
  5. Enclose $10.00 to cover shipping and packaging. The sounds are not being sold for profit.

New Products

Chroma to MIDI Converter from Syntech (out of business, now sold through Chroma Cult) - This is the MIDI interface to have. (Easy for me to say.) It lists for $349.95 and is available directly or from Syntech dealers. This MIDI box does just about everything you would ever want to do with MIDI and the Chroma. There are sixteen programmable MIDI functions which are remembered by the Chroma. It also works with the Fender/Apple System. Syntech's number is [removed].

Macintosh Patch Librarian for the Chroma from Opcode [later integrated into Galaxy] - This librarian is designed specifically for the Chroma. They also make a real nice sequencer. Opcode's number is [removed].

Memory expander for the Chroma - This modification will expand your program storage to 200 sounds accessible as four banks of 50. The banks are selected with two toggle switches that you mount on the right cheek block of the Chroma or on the back panel of the Expander. Anyone who has done studio work for a client who wants to hear a lot of sounds in a hurry can appreciate this mod. Price is $200.00 and is available now, directly from Chroma Cult Headquarters. Send check or M.O. payable to Chroma Cult. Shipping is included in the price. Please specify if for Expander.

Here is a picture of the modification installed inside the Chroma. Thanks to Dave Bradley [16330135] for this picture.

See the FAQ for pointers to external pictures of the modification. See also the registry entry for 21030229 for a close-up of the toggle switches.

Pressure mod - A proto-type has been completed, a production model will be soon to follow. The mod gives you independent pressure control for each key. The feel of the keyboard isn't affected at all by the addition of the sensors. Cult members will be notified when it's ready to sell. Price will be $300.00.

Breath Controller Mod - This allows you to plug the Yamaha breath controller into the Chroma. It appears to the Chroma as the effects pedal. It gives you much better control than a foot pedal and gets you high while you play. Price is $50.00 from Chroma Cult.

Minister of Information
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The search for psychoeducational content on dual diagnosis typically comes in three forms:

  1. Books written to the professional; the professional then needs to transfer the learning and education into a curriculum format.
  2. Brief workbooks with processing and group discussion questions; the professional then needs to find the comprehensive psychoeducation to fully learn the information on specific topics such as Self-Esteem, Nutrition, Stress Management, and even Neurochemistry, etc.
  3. Curriculum content that has no interactive group exercises; the professional needs to develop the skill building exercises to assist the person in implementing the education presented in group in order to create an actual learning experience.

The curriculum of THE BASICS spans 1,200+ pages of Eight Subjects, Four Drug Appendices, Two Cross-Training Appendices, and 50+ pages of reproducible worksheets and inspirational handouts. That’s a lot of material! With that in mind, there are curriculum divisions literally put into each of the Eight Subjects – dividing each of the Eight Subjects into Four Sections. Additional suggestions for curriculum divisions are also found in the “Master Tips to Professionals.“

Yet, it still posed a challenge for many facilitators, therapists, counselors, and service providers to further divide the curriculum into more usable chunks – while also maintaining a consistent group structure. Another challenge was many counselors were unsure of what to ask or how to further explore specific topics after the presentation of the psychoeducation material. In other words, they needed suggestions of topic processing questions to turn the psychoeducation into an individual learning experience for each group participant.

Divide the curriculum into 100 single group topics of approximately 10-15 pages of THE BASICS each. Design lesson plans to transfer the psychoeducation into a clear format providing consistency within each group setting. Include suggested instructions to group facilitators in each lesson format and suggested time-frames for each section.

Strive to enhance the learning opportunity for each group participant by including suggestions for processing questions and skill building exercises. Structure the skill building discussions and exercises to help each person individualize the psychoeducation in the lesson plan and/or the skill to be practiced.

Organize each lesson plan or individual topic division to include:

  •  Specific psychoeducational content, and
  •  Location of the material in The Basics, Second Edition, and
  •  Handouts and group exercises to be used in each group, and
  •  Suggested topic processing questions throughout each lesson plan.

Design the lesson/group formats to include a consistent group structure of:

Organize the divisions by treatment focus to allow service providers to pick which ones to include in their program. Have each format available at a click – at no cost – so staff can use as many as they want. Just a few topics include:

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Probabilistic Planning for Robotic Exploration

Trey Smith
doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-26, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2007

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Robotic exploration tasks involve inherent uncertainty. They typically include navigating through unknown terrain, searching for features that may or may not be present, and intelligently reacting to data from noisy sensors (for example, a search and rescue robot, believing it has detected a trapped earthquake victim, might stop to check for signs of life). Exploration domains are distinguished both by the prevalence of uncertainty and by the importance of intelligent information gathering. An exploring robot must understand what unknown information is most relevant to its goals, how to gather that information, and how to incorporate the results into its future actions. This thesis has two main components. First, we present planning algorithms that generate robot control policies for partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) planning problems. POMDP models explicitly represent the uncertain state of the world using a probability distribution over possible states, and they allow the planner to reason about information gathering actions in a way that is decision theoretically optimal. Relative to existing POMDP planning algorithms, our algorithms can more quickly generate approximately optimal policies, taking advantage of innovations in efficient value function representation, heuristic search, and state abstraction. This improved POMDP planning is important both to exploration domains and to a wider class of decision problems. Second, we demonstrate the relevance of onboard science data analysis and POMDP planning to robotic exploration. Our experiments centered around a robot deployed to map the distribution of life in the Atacama Desert of Chile, using operational techniques similar to a Mars mission. We found that science autonomy and POMDP planning techniques significantly improved science yield for exploration tasks conducted both in simulation and onboard the robot.

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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Ok, it didn't exactly "rampage". Also, I am posting this very, very late because that's just the way I am. For a more timely review, go here.

As I noted before, after a lot of faffling around with different modes of transportation, I actually managed to find myself in an airport conveniently located about on the East Coast of this country, a mere 1,925 miles (that's about, oh, 3,100 km) driving from where I live, if MapQuest is to be believed. But only a badger-hop or two from where my partner in Blogmeet crime hangs out.

Let me tell you this... after the incredibly polite security people at Heathrow ("excuse me sir, I'm going to search you, is that alright? It's a random search, every twentieth person", and "I'm going to swab your laptop, is that alright?" - I hate to think what would have happened if I'd said "no" though), I didn't think it possible that people could be even nicer when they're looking for ways to deny you entry to a country.

Except that this is Canada, folks. And the East Coast, where people are notoriously friendly (so it's said). Smiley, happy, friendly Customs people, even at 1:00 AM or so. Amazing.

Of course, I *still* had to line up for long enough that the other blogger was beginning to wonder if I was going to show up or not. But I did, and there she was, all bundled up against the weather, grinning like a grinny thing on National Grinning Day in Grinland, and carrying a tote bag that turned out to contain:

And the visit was wonderful, a long and I dare say sometimes rambling chat over the course of about three hours or so, after which she pointed me at the appropriate stairway up to the gates, said "bye" and sent me on my way.

I've really nothing terribly profound to say, other than it was lots of fun. But I'll leave you with a few other observations:

1. I'm not convinced Dawn is quite as short as she may have indicated previously. Judge for yourselves. I'm about 5-foot-10-and-a-bit, plus a bit of Powerpoint head:

2. Dawn may, quite possibly, be the.nicest.person.ever.

3. She gave me a lovely T-shirt with pictures of trilobites on it, which I shall have to keep safe from Junior Ricardipus #1, who will appropriate it immediately if he sees it.

4. That was the first time I've ever been in that particular Province of this particular country. I shall have to return sometime and see it a) during daylight, and b) outside of the airport, pleasant and stylish place though it is.

So there you go. The East Coast Blogmeet, an unqualified success. And it was the First Annual one, allegedly. So stay tuned for next year!

BK said...

'Powerpoint head'?

Is that legal in your jurisdiction?

Oh, and 'fnar'.

Rik said...

Next time you're the right side of the pond, we'll have to arrange something.

pyaygqkz: the former inuit name of St Johns.

Ricardipus said...

rik - absolutely. I just really had no extra time, either at the beginning or end of that trip.

zoe said...

i still want to know if you talked about chainsaws, coz i'm a lumberjack and i'm ok, i sleep all night and i work sometimes ....

Ricardipus said...

Yes, yes we did. But the substance of that conversation is classified. All I can tell you is that Scary's Dr. Teeth was mentioned.

The Wrath of Dawn said...

Yes, Zoe, we really did briefly discuss chainsaws, but as R said, what was said is classified information.

And just for the record, I was not wearing elevator shoes when that picture was taken. Nor was I standing on a box.

The Wrath of Dawn said...

And P.S. - w00t! post, pard'ner.

Thanks for the props.

Ricardipus said...

She *did* have a big yellow happy face superimposed on her head though... as did I.

It's a Canuck thing.

Ricardipus said...

Waaaaaaaaaaah! Your comment showed up as I was posting mine...

Your welcome and thanks for the w00t!

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Last week I ran into an ex girlfriend who I hadn’t seen in several years, not since like I got married. Reminiscing is always fun and she seems happy but all the while I could not shake this unsettling feeling I had in the pit of my stomach. After we parted, it kicked in what was eating at me, she was a psycho girlfriend, not one of those quirky idiosyncratic types that initially is appealing but turns creepy over night, no, she was the Glenn Close type. I started remembering those stranger then life scenes that precipitated the break up, the box left on my doorstep laden with gifted lingerie that met an unseemly demise with a pair of scissors, the tossed brick at my house that narrowly missed my window, and the numerous phone messages that intimated a sexual climax she would  obtain at anything involving my blood being spilled. Ah, good times,  then I  remembered this youtube video:

It is a few years old, but solid gold in revealing the travails involved when getting involved with “passionate” people. Oh, and any video that showcases a soundtrack from one of the best movies ever made, jackpot.

But with the ubiquity of female types out there that take “maintaining relationships” to totally unhealthy levels I figure I can’t be the only one that ever dated an Alex Forrest. I looked purgatory in the face and lived to tell about it.

So here is your chance, regale us with your tales of risking bodily harm,  your image and your own self esteem, just to get laid. I thought my own experience of the cut up lingerie was pretty creepy, can anybody top that?


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Jessica Cox, the star of Right Footed which won the “Best Social Action Film 2016” at the Hollywood Film Festival…

Beloit International Film Festival winners announced

Beloit International Film Festival has announced 10 BIFFY awards for the best of the more than 100 films submitted to this year’s festival.

‘Right Footed’ screens to packed house in SF film fest

Acclaimed documentary “Right Footed” by Nick Spark screened to a packed theater on closing night at this year’s CAAMFest…

“Right Footed” at Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival

The largest Asian American film festival on the East Coast kicks off at 7 p.m. Thursday at International House in West Philadelphia…

The Cinema Touching Disability Film Fest will be held Nov. 6 and 7 at the Alamo Drafthouse Village Lamar. Organized by the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, the film festival screens narrative and documentary features and shorts that address issues faced by people with disabilities. The festival opens Nov. 6 with the documentary Right Footed about Jessica Cox…

“Right Footed” Inspires Thousands with Disabilities

When former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot point-blank in the head in a Jan. 8, 2011 assassination attempt near Tucson, it hit former high school classmate Nick Spark hard…

Radio Calistoga interviews Jessica Cox and Nick Spark

I caught up with Nick Spark and Jessica Cox from Right-Footed. Born without arms as the result of a severe birth defect, Jessica Cox never allowed herself to believe that she couldn’t accomplish her dreams…

Five Reasons to See Right Footed at Vancouver Asian Film Festival

We are excited to be at the Force of Change Program happening this Saturday, November 7 as a Community Partner for the Vancouver Asian Film Festival.  The feature film Right Footed is an exceptional tale of Philippine-American Jessica Cox, who despite being born without arms is living life to its fullest potential.  If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, here are five reasons why you should see Right Footed at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival…

Hollywood Film Festival Announces WinnersHFF Laurel 2015 Gold Jury Prize

Best social impact film went to Right Footed, the true story of Jessica Cox, a woman born without arms as a result of a birth defect, but manages to become fully independent even learning to fly an airplane with her feet.

Armless Fil-Am Shares Story in New Documentary Film

The world’s first armless pilot and first armless black-belt in the American Taekwondo Association has added another item to her ever-growing resume of
accomplishments: the subject of a documentary depicting her life.

Awareness Film Festival Announces Winners

Right Footed won the “Audience Award” at the Awareness Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Offshoot Film Festival Announces Winners

Right Footed won the “Best Documentary” honor at the Offshoot Film Festival.

The Extraordinary Documentary Right Footed

The documentary film Right Footed which tells the amazing story of Jessica Cox – a person who was born without arms as the result of a severe birth defect. Tell us about what brought about the making of this film.

KATU Oregon News: Jessica Cox and ‘Right Footed’ visit Portland

TROUTDALE, Ore. (KATU) — The world’s only FAA certified pilot without arms is in town this weekend for the Portland Film Festival and the U.S. premiere of a documentary about her life called “Right Footed.”

Fox12 Oregon News: ‘Right Footed’ documentary premieres at Portland Film Festival

PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) – Jessica Cox was born without arms, but she doesn’t let that get in the way of achieving her goals. On Sunday she was in Portland for the premiere of the documentary ‘Right Footed’…

Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival Welcomes Jessica Cox and “Right Footed”

We are thrilled to announce that Jessica Cox, the subject of Cinema Touching Disability 2015 feature film Right Footed, will be in attendance at this year’s Festival in Austin, Texas! In the meantime, check out our exclusive interview with Jessica below.

New “Stuck Mic” Aviation Podcast about Jessica Cox and “Right Footed”

Hosted by a team of aviation enthusiasts, the “Stuck Mic AvCast” is one of the flying world’s great forums. This episode is devoted entirely to Jessica, her life story, and the documentary Right Footed.

Napa Valley Film Festival to include “Right Footed” in documentary competition

The Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF), scheduled to take place November 11-15, today announced its Narrative and Documentary feature film line-ups for juried competition.

“Right Footed” selected for New Jersey International Film Festival

The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, in association with the Rutgers University Program In Cinema Studies, presents the New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2015 — the 34th Anniversary of the festival.

Little girl born without arms meets, shares embrace with armless pilot

Meeting your hero can be pretty amazing, just ask 3-year-old Ruth Evelyn Pranke. The littler girl, who goes by RE, was born without arms and recently she got to meet, and hug, armless pilot Jessica Cox. RE and her mother Karlyn Pranke, of St. Paul Minnesota, drove six hours to meet Jessica, ABC News reports.

Incredible photo of Jessica Cox, 3-year-old shows you don’t need arms for a hug

“How do you hug without arms?” That’s one of the top questions Jessica Cox, the world’s first armless pilot, says she answers in her role as a motivational speaker. And a recent photo she snapped with a fan gave the answer once and for all.

Documentary about armless pilot premieres at EAA AirVenture 2015 event

OSHKOSH – Jessica Cox flies airplanes using only her feet. Premiering Thursday at EAA AirVenture 2015 is “Right Footed,” a documentary about Cox, who was born without arms due to a severe birth defect and learned to fly despite her disability. Director Nick Spark said he was inspired to create a documentary about Cox because her life is not just about her struggles but her ability to succeed in aviation. He said Cox flying an airplane serves as an example of what anyone can do with perseverance and determination…

Documentary on Armless Pilot Wins Best Documentary Honors at Mirabile Dictu Film Fest

SAN FRANCISCO – Filipino American inspirational speaker Jessica Cox’s film, “Right Footed,” won the best documentary film award at the Mirabile Dictu Film Festival in Vatican City. “Right Footed” received the “Il Pesce d’Argento” (The Silver Fish) for Best Documentary film at the 6th International Catholic Film Festival held from June 22 to June at the Vatican. All the proceedings were held in Italian so Cox said she had no inkling that her film had won until the last moment, when the trailer was shown…


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Monday, February 14, 2011

Love Walking and Cycling? Come to Tonight's Bike/Ped Committee Meeting

It's a very romantic Bike/Pededestrian Advisory Committee Meeting tonight, starting at 5:30 pm in Room 209 (upstairs) of City Hall:

  • An update on Portland's first proposed "Neighborhood Byway" - a traffic-calmed route that would prioritize bikes and walkers on neighborhood streets between Deering Center and Sagamore Village

  • A call to action regarding grumpy drivers' efforts to remove a traffic calming median island on Woodford Street

  • Ideas for a bike route along outer Congress Street, from Libbytown to the Airport

  • Updates from Augusta (including the status of the Maine Alliance for Sustainable Transportation's ZOOM bus legislation)

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Friday, December 31, 2010

How did you find me?

More with the year-end navel-gazing, here, with the help of Google Analytics, are some of the keywords with which visitors stumbled upon this blog in 2010:

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does the royal alexandra hotel in winnipeg still exist (1)
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reducing taxes on the very wealthy to spur the economy, in good times as well as bad — an idea supported only on the kooky fringes of american political life in 1967 (1)
the bar bar hells hundred acres (1)
the rise and the sprawl (1)
walter krawec winnipeg mayor (1)
why aren't shopping malls open on saturdays in winnipeg (1)
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Thursday, June 26, 2014

So, cost of a soul then?

Next up, defending Chief Wahoo as a lovable scamp of a character not demeaning at all, no sirree Bob...after all the check cleared.

The Washington Redskins have hired longtime Virginia politico and liberal blogger Ben Tribbett to help guide the team's battle over their controversial nickname.

Tribbett, 34, is a native Northern Virginian and lifelong Redskins fan. He was a regular defender of the team's nickname long before the team recruited him to help aid their efforts to defend them.

Might as well be Larry Sabato.

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pansypoo said...

how dead does this horse need to be?


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The Liffey Company takes Riverdance to Asia, commencing with the first tour of China. 100,000 people attend the 11 sell-out performances in Beijing and Shanghai.

The Riverdance Asian tour moves on to Japan for the show’s third Japanese tour, this time adding two new cities: Sendai and Hiroshima.

Composer Mary McAuliffe is the recipient of the first Riverdance scholarship awarded by the Ireland-Canada University Foundation, allowing her to create a Canadian-Irish choral suite for the Newfoundland Youth Symphony Choir.

The Liffey finishes their tour of the Far East with Riverdance’s first performances in Kuala Lumpur

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Before and After

I ventured out yesterday in the bad weather to a couple of Goodwills and struck gold. What I want to talk about first though are the simple things I did to my hall bath to polish it off...well I am almost through with it. I have posted on this room in the past because I am renting, which means no painting and the bath is purple. As I have said before, it is a pretty purple but purple just the same...not my first color choice for any room.

The mirror in the bath is big, and ugly with the silver coming off in places. If I was not on chemo and more steady on my feet, I would have purchased some molding to frame it out and hide that flaw, but I am not, so I improvised. I purchased a baby glue gun at Goodwill and took some of that ribbon I purchased to cover my fiasco lampshade with (another old post) and glued a strip of ribbon to the damaged part of the mirror to hide it.

I found some pretty containers at Goodwill to hold candles. But even better, I found a Shelia Rock poster of her La Laison photo and fell in love with the couple in the picture! The cande holders were like $2.99 and the poster was $6.99. I think I may paint the frame out in white when the weather is better.

I already had the candles and had purchased the two signs hanging on the wall at Hobby Lobby the day after Xmas, to hide a missing towel holder boo, boo.

I have had the topiaries for years and they came from the Dollar Store.

Isn't this couple, timeless and beautiful embracing at the train station?

Now you can see the purple color on the opposite wall with the Arrow Shirt Company sign on it.

So what is left to do? Eventually re-place the mirror and put up a pretty shower curtain. When Joni Webb did her post on her 10 favorite blog re-dos for 2009, one was of a bathroom where the designer had hung a curtain over her light fixture but could still access the light. I am thinking of trying that also and making it match the shower curtain. First I have to find a curtain rod that will come out far enough from the light fixture to hold the curtain I will make. Got any ideas where I might find an extra deep and short curtain rod????

  1. much better!!!!!!!!! i bet it makes you feel better too - love that art work, le liason sp?
    I actually like the wall color and that was a good idea to fix the mirror that way. Good job!!!!

  2. hmm, hanging a curtian over a light fixture. I have never seen that. sounds interesting.
    Love the lavendar color in there with the artwork.

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The Super Heroes 150 miles is a time restricted (12 hour) fully supported, signed and timed sportive.

This year our event is taking place on Sunday 2nd June 2013, once again we will be running rides over 100 miles and 100k across the fantastic riding country surrounding Stratford upon Avon. NEW FOR 2013 This year we are offering an extra challenge –

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31-year-old who was second youngest man to climb Seven Summits killed in Russia's Kola Peninsula...

A Japanese adventurer who eight years ago became the second youngest man to complete mountaineering’s Seven Summits challenge has been killed in north western Russia while undertaking a long-distance bike ride that took him close to the Arctic Circle in the depths of winter.

Haruhisa Watanabe, aged 31, died from multiple injuries sustained when he was struck by a car on Wednesday on the Kola Peninsula in north western Russia, around 300 kilometres from Murmansk.

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The website adds that initially there was confusion about the identity of the cyclist who had been killed, but the Japanese embassy in Moscow has confirmed that documentation found on his body including a passport revealed that it was Watanabe.

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What would be his final journey began in June when he rode across China and Central Asia, including Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia and Turkey, before crossing the Black Sea to Russia and heading north towards the Arctic.

Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.

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Rest easy Watanabe San.


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How to Qualify for Kona - THE RUN

Shorter runs during the week, but did Westcliff stairs at least once a week. Excellent gauge of fitness (and fatigue.)
Longer run routes on Sundays, on hard routes. (I couldn’t push distance, through fear of injury, so really focused on shorter/harder routes.) Max distance was 27km, and should’ve done a few 32km runs. Consistency again therefore the key. Also finished training by 9am on Sunday for the week. Key to ensure that the weekend wasn’t stacked up with sets not completed during the week. Finishing early on Sunday resulted in lots of time to recover for the swim set on Monday morning.
Ran all the 21km events around Jhb area in Jan & Feb, like Dischem, PnP and Pirates.

Race Day Strategy & Nutrition (written for a work colleague)
• Lap 1: Walk every feed station and take on water and something solid. They’ll have half banana’s, energy bars and potatoes. No coke. Take gels.
• Lap 2: Walk every second* feed station and as above. (* its psychology in that you are improving). Try to avoid the coke still, but keep taking gels.
• Lap3: Hammer it home overtaking everyone, downing coke, taking many more gels, anything goes…

Race Day actual
Including transition times I got onto the run course having to do a 3h38 marathon to break 10hrs. This meant running 5min/km, plus 8 minutes to “play” with. Not a lot, but sort’ve in the range. The first km I ran in 4m30s and felt like a rockstar. I was very aware that things can go horribly wrong, especially after such a bike leg. I certainly didn’t want to become a statistic and run a 4h30-5h marathon after putting so much into the bike. “Fortunately” it became clear 8km into the run that breaking 10hrs wasn’t an option. I then reverted back to part 2 of the strategy (and the most important) which was to run the last lap (of 3) or indeed 21km well. I therefore conserved and fuelled up as much as I could, finishing the run in 3h50. Run position: 91st

Nutrition on Race
Water sachet at each station with minor sips. Very cautious of drinking too much and blood rushing to the stomach.
• Coke from the second lap.
• 3 * gels per lap
• 2 * half bananas

Ideal World
Done more heavy mileage in February and spent more time running with others, at least once a week. Also needed to run more at intended/desired race pace of 5min/km. I was adopting the cycling strategy of training well within limits and training at 5m15s, which as it turned out was actual race splits.

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