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Grid Documentation
Grid is one of the fundamental views in Agile Toolkit. The goal of it's implementation is to be lightweight, extensible and fast. Select topic in the left sidebar, or you can also visit one of the resources below:
How to use Grid?
Grid is designed to show structured data organised into rows and columns. Grid introduces ability to format each column depending on it's type as well as to perform a custom formatting. If you wish to specify a custom template for rows, then look at Lister instead.
To get grid working, you would need some data to show in it. It can be either a static data or dynamic based on SQL query or a Model. Best practice is to use Grid with Models or dynamic data source, which also allows to use features such as column sorting and pagination. Grid never loads all the data into memory, so it's well suited for displaying data from large SQL tables.
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MVC Grid
The best use of Grid is when you are using it together with Model. This is suggested way of implemetning your application. Please note that MVCGrid is used instead of regular grid. MVCGrid inherits all the properties, but also properly implements column population from the model.
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Interacting with Grid
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South Boston, VA – A two car accident at the intersection of Norwood and Broad Streets led to one of the cars going into a home on Wilborn Avenue Monday.
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Chicago White Sox: 5 Thoughts Following Their 19-2 Rout Over the Rangers
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In a battle of division leaders Tuesday night, the Chicago White Sox trounced the Texas Rangers 19-2 during the first of a three-game series at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago (Yahoo! Sports).
All-Star pitcher Chris Sale quieted the Rangers and their top-ranked offense, holding the Texas to just five hits and one earned run over 7.1 innings.
The White Sox offense jumped on Roy Oswalt early, who gave up 13 hits for the second consecutive game. The 34-year-old hurler was recently signed by the Rangers, who have lost starting pitchers Neftali Feliz and Colby Lewis to the disabled list.
During last night's rout of the Rangers, the White Sox matched their season high of 21 hits in a game. The 19 runs scored was the most runs in a game for the White Sox since they beat the St. Louis Cardinals 20-6 in 2006.
The White Sox remained two games ahead of the Cleveland Indians in the AL Central, and picked up a game on the Detroit Tigers, who dropped their second game in a row to the last-place Minnesota Twins.
The two teams will square off again today on Independence Day, and the White Sox will try to keep the fireworks show going against struggling Rangers starter, Scott Feldman.
Was last night's impressive offensive display by the White Sox a sign that the team is heating up like the nation's record tempera tures? Here are five thoughts following the White Sox's 19-2 win over the Rangers.
Kevin Youkilis, known for his energy and plate discipline, was a popular player in Boston, loved by fans and teammates alike (via MLB.com). While the White Sox's recent trade for Youkilis to fill their void at third base has been lauded by most, there have been some detractors over the aging Youkilis' arrival in Chicago.
Youkilis' struggles this season have carried over from Boston to Chicago. Youkilis carried a slash-line of .233/.307/.360 into Tuesday night's contest with the Rangers. He appeared to finally arrive last night at the Cell, bashing a two-run line drive homer over the left field fence, sparking the White Sox's rout of the Rangers.
He would finish the night three-for-six, with four runs driven in. After his first inning home run, Youkilis added a pair of RBI singles, keeping the procession line on the base-paths moving for the White Sox.
Youkilis acknowledged the crowd after his home run, raising his helmet amidst chants of "Youk!", which were heard throughout the night.
For the White Sox, who have been desperate to fill their void at third base, and their fans, Tuesday's performance was hopefully a sign of great things to come for Kevin Youkilis in Chicago.
On the heels of last season's historically poor performance, Adam Dunn continues to make Chicago fans forget his terrible debut season with the White Sox.
Dunn's 2011 numbers read like a dead-ball era shortstop's stat line on a last place team. He struck out 177 times in 415 at-bats, while managing just six hits in 94 at-bats against left-handed pitchers.
Perhaps most disappointing of Dunn's performance last season was his microscopic slugging percentage of .277.
The home run bashing Adam Dunn of the National League was just a rumor for White Sox fans, as he was roundly booed following most of his failed at-bats.
2012 has been a return to form for Dunn, and during Tuesday night's destruction of the Rangers, Dunn's performance was emblematic of his All-Star output this season.
Dunn smacked his 25th home run in the first inning, and finished the evening two-for-two, with three runs scored and two runs driven in. Dunn also managed two walks, adding to his league-high total of 66 free passes.
With a trip to the mid-summer classic next week, Dunn has exorcised his demons of 2011, and continues to perform as was expected when he signed with the White Sox last season.
After being named to the American League All-Star team this past week, Chris Sale matched up against baseball's most potent offense, the Texas Rangers.
With 50 wins already under their belt, and a scary plus-100 run differential going into Tuesday night's contest, the Rangers were a tough test for the 23-year-old Sale.
As he has done this entire season, Sale quieted his opponents, and tossed another quality start, his 11th of the season.
Sale improved his earned run average to a stellar 2.19 during the White Sox's 19-2 win Tuesday, and is second only to Jered Weaver of the Angels, who tossed a shutout Monday against the Indians.
In his first year since moving from the bullpen, Sale has dominated hitters on both sides of the plate. While he has held left-handed hitters to a measly .190 batting average, right-handed hitters have only managed a .201 batting average this season.
The young lefty has quickly become the team's ace and will proudly represent the White Sox at next week's All-Star game, and possibly many more.
Looking back to the offseason following the White Sox's 88-win 2010 campaign, the addition of Adam Dunn had fans dreaming of one of the most potent lineups in the league. Pundits had the White Sox penciled into the postseason with their 1-2 punch of Adam Dunn and Paul Konerko (via Yahoo! Sports).
Then they played the games.
The White Sox buckled under the expectations in 2011, while Adam Dunn and Alex Rios helped bury the club into a hole that they never got out of.
Both players, who carry hefty contracts, were major disappointments, helping the White Sox finish near the bottom in offense for 2011. The White Sox offensive output were ahead of only Oakland, Minnesota and Seattle last season.
2012 has been a different story, however.
The White Sox can now boast of a 19-run effort against the Texas Rangers last night, this following last week's 14-run output against the Yankees in New York.
The team now ranks fourth overall in team offense in the American League. Paul Konerko and Adam Dunn were named All-Stars Sunday, and the White Sox could have legitimately had two more All-Stars in A.J. Pierzynski and Alex Rios.
During last night's win over the Rangers, Pierzynski bombed a three-run homer over the right field fence, his 15th of the season. Alex Rios went three-for-four with three runs driven in.
With at least four All-Star-caliber hitters in the lineup, on top of recently acquired Kevin Youkilis, and the always improving Alejandro De Aza, the White Sox are fast becoming one of the most potent offenses in baseball.
While it's easy to call someone a genius following a 19-run effort by their ball club, rookie manager Robin Ventura continues to impress the only way he knows how—quietly and professionally.
In stark contrast to the blustery era of Ozzie Guillen when he was at the helm of the White Sox clubhouse, Ventura seems to have pushed all of the right buttons this season. A return to form by players such as Adam Dunn and Alex Rios has definitely helped, but Ventura has his team in first place in July, a feat few expected.
Ventura has managed an always evolving pitching staff, managing young pitchers like Addison Reed, Hector Santiago and Nate Jones. While they have had their struggles, they are still anchoring a staff that is sixth best in the American League.
Ventura appears to be the unquestioned leader of the team, and with only his stellar playing career as his managing credentials, Ventura has acted professionally, as expected (via the Chicago Sun-Times).
While it could be argued how much a manager impacts the outcomes of ballgames, a departure from Ozzie Guillen's need to play a National League style in the American League has been welcome.
Guillen will always be revered for being in charge during the White Sox's championship run of 2005, but his clubhouse antics, as well as his penchant for "small-ball" despite having lineups filled with home-run-hitting sluggers made it easier for fans to handle his departure (MLB).
While it remains to be seen how Ventura handles a losing clubhouse, hopefully for the White Sox and their fans, they won't find out this season.


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Sherri Irving and Shannon Gardner came up with the idea to bring a bodybuilding fitness show to Duluth about three years ago.
And in May, it will become a reality.
"We have so many competitors from our region. We thought, why not?" Gardner said.
The Iron Viking of the North Bodybuilding, Physique, Figure, Fitness, and Bikini Championships will be held at the DECC on Saturday, May 11th.
The promoters, Irving and Gardner, expect about 100 competitors to take the stage.
They themselves also have competed in competitions.
But the average Joe should not be intimidated.
"Many people start out in this sport just trying to lose some weight. Then they see results, and take it to the next level," said Irving.
Gardner added, "It's different than running a marathon. It also involves a very restrictive diet, which can be a challenge when others around you are eating whatever they want. We focus on being lean muscle."
At the competition, there will also be a contest winner announcement, for a weight loss competition.
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Tenses and Sentences?7 replies Forums · General English Grammar & Vocabulary, Listening & Speaking · General English Grammar Questions Anonymous: Tenses and SentencesI have to decide whether each of these sentences are one of the following:
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Very Good Recipes of Cinnamon and Buns
There are 19 Cinnamon and Buns recipes on Very Good Recipes.
Do you like cinnamon and buns recipes?
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Click on the title of a recipe or the photo of a dish to read the full recipe on its author's blog.
Šveđanke / Swedish Cinnamon Buns
By Kuhinja zaposlene zene
02/10/14 23:52
(please scroll down for recipe in English) Anin post sam prvi put zapazila na Pinterestu, a onda u listi novoobjavljenih postova i moram priznati da su i fotografija i pecivo ostavili snažan utisak na mene. Toliki, da sam se već sutradan latila posla, što...
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Cinnamon Bun Cookies
By Lucy's Friendly Foods
12/09/13 12:01
'It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas' what with carol services, Christmas concerts, Christmas fairs and the Christmas box emerging from the attic! Expect some really seasonal recipes in the next couple of weeks, but I thought we'd start … Continue...
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Kanel snegle / Kanelbullar / Cinnamon Snails–Swedish Cinnamon Buns
By Nivedhanam
12/01/13 09:30
To me, cinnamon is the flavor of the Winter baking season.. Lot of houses will smell heavenly from the fruity aroma of cinnamon. Kanel Snegle is the Swedish version of the very popular American Cinnamon Rolls. The Swedish version are less stickier and sweeter...
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Overnight Cinnamon Buns
By mbakes
11/28/13 14:19
I've posted a cinnamon bun recipe before, it was two summers ago and at that point I was a novice to yeast (still am a novice to yeast). I remember, as I was slicing through the longest piece of cinnamon encrusted 'rolly polly' I had ever seen, being so...
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Kanel Snegle- Swedish Cinnamon Buns | We Knead to Bake #11
By Experiments,Emotions & Experiences with ...
11/27/13 14:17
After few days of being netless I thought atleast now I will post my Swedish Cinnabuns which were baked for We Knead to Bake #11. I love cinnamon rolls and never leave a chance to bake them. I have tried several versions and definitely loved the Swedish...
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Kanel Snegle/Kanelbullar - Swedish Cinnamon Snails/Buns
By Priya's Versatile Recipes
11/24/13 12:00
After baking a 100% wholewheat bread, for this month's of We Knead To Bake, a monthly baking event by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen,we are baking the humble cinnamon buns or cinnamon snails. Kanel Snegle/Kanelbullar,this Swedish cinnamon buns are tremendous...
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Cinnamon Bun Cake
By Lucy's Friendly Foods
10/28/13 13:28
Mmm, these cinnamon buns baking in the oven this week have scented the house with the irresistible sweet spicy warmth. I've tried countless cinnamon bun recipes over the years, but this is by far my favourite, giving lovely authentic results … Continue...
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Apple, raisin and cinnamon sticky buns
By Lancashire Food
10/05/13 19:44
In celebration of autumn and our apple trees in the garden being laded with some gorgeous apples, Mr Lancashire Food baked by special request some lovely sticky buns. The photography is phenomenal but please be assured they tasted even better than they...
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Tiny Rewards, Better Days [Cinnamon-Almond Butter Buns with Bittersweet Chocolate]
By The Gouda Life
08/22/13 20:39
Some days require a pick me up and there's no shame in allowing yourself a simple pleasure to help you navigate through the rest of your afternoon or evening with a smile on your face. Especially if that smile was brought on by the warm yeasty scent of...
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Instant Cinnamon Buns by Tammy
By Living the Gourmet
05/07/13 16:10
There is something so comforting about the sweet smell of cinnamon and oranges, and it tastes even better when warm and gooey…fresh from the oven. It's perfect in the morning…and even better at the end of a long day of work. There are more recipes out there...
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Whole Wheat Mini Cinnamon Buns
By Vanevalentine FOOD
04/22/13 21:25
Hello there, I'm back in Belgium! After spending a whole week in Sweden, I'm now back home and full of... Continue reading » The post Whole Wheat Mini Cinnamon Buns appeared first on vanevalentine FOOD.
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Easter Spelt Cinnamon Buns
By Princess Misia Recipes
03/27/13 21:53
This is my favorite recipe from the Luscious SPRING edition – Easter spelt cinnamon buns! They are light, just sweet enough and if you make them this weekend I am sure they will take a center stage at your Easter brunch! Best served warm! Ingredients Dough:...
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Cinnamon Buns for Busy People
By LondonEats
02/24/13 22:59
I'm a mega fan of a good cinnamon bun (as well as their cardamom cousins). But much as I love to make buns using yeasted dough, but there is one problem – these are recipes that taste great when they're … Continue reading →
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Skinny-fied Strawberry Coconut Cinnamon Buns ~ Skinny #SundaySupper
By Juanita's Cocina
02/17/13 13:00
This week's #SundaySupper is being hosted by my sweet friend Sue, from Sue's Nutrition Buzz. Sue challenged me us. She wanted us to go healthy this week. Okay, if you've spent any time looking around the Cocina, you know…healthy/skinny recipes aren't really...
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Double Quick Apple Buns Sprinkled with Cinnamon Sugar
By The Hidden Pantry
01/26/13 18:01
Warm, oozing with apple goodness, and topped with crisp sugar and cinnamon this treat is a winner!I had a half quart of apple pie filling left from having made apple turnovers and needed to use it or loose it to eventual spoilage....."brainic" I am not...
Healthy Cinnamon Buns
By HoneyBeeSweets
01/10/13 15:24
Whenever I think of cinnamon buns, the image of the bread covered with a oogey layer of thick icing on top always pops up. If you have ever tasted one that looks like that, you will know how sinfully good but also sinfully sweet it is! But who can resist...
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Sticky buns - upside down cinnamon rolls in sticky caramel sauce with walnuts
By foodforthought
12/07/12 15:39
Pre nekih mesec dana imala sam priliku da probam cinnamon rolls, u original pakovanju koje je brat doneo po povratku iz Amerike. On je naprosto bio opčinjen njima, pa je eto preneo i tu pomamu za cimetom i na mene. Teško žabu u vodu naterati! :) Sticky...
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Cinnamon Coconut Buns
By Taste Of Pearl City
10/17/12 21:08
Yesterday was World Bread Baking Day. After missing my chance for last year, I was desperate to attend it this year. Unfortunately whenever I try to bake for some important occasions, I experience these power load shedding, fuse gets burnt and finally no...
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Whole Wheat Cinnamon Apple Buns
By It all tastes Greek to me
09/21/12 16:50
Thank you all for your kind words about my little ones health, he is feeling much better now and he's back to school! So weekend ahead of us and what better way to start a Saturday or Sunday morning but with a hot, gooey, fragrant, caramelized apple cinnamon...
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One of the mistakes a marketer commits when creating an email campaign is to test different elements before incorporating them in the final mail that he or she sends out. But the good news studies have been done into that and it was found that tweaking some of the items of an email can increase conversion. I am putting that down below.
Step 1: Tweak the subject line
Before you click send you should ask yourself if the subject line of your email message is powerful enough to make people to open it. You should check the length of the subject line, placement of words, and nature of words used in the subject. Make the subject powerful by using action words and actionable by infusing urgency.
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There are five aspects of an email body: greeting, opening paragraph, closing paragraph, theme, tone and mood. When creating an email message, you should be careful about these things. One way to do this is to create a profile of an ideal reader and tweak these to suit its taste buds.
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Step 4: Tweak call to action
This looks too obvious to be overlooked, but the astonishing fact is that most of the mailers sent out do not have any defined call to action line or button, and some of them have more than one, which confuse the readers. Neither of the situations is desirable. Before sending a mailer out you should ask yourself and brainstorm with your team to find the one action you would want your readers to take. Include that "one action" in your mail body.
Step 5: timing
If you do not time your mail delivery well, your mail will certainly go unopened, despite every other thing being right. Call a meeting and brainstorm to understand a day in your recipients' life. You should also look at what your competitors are doing to get a sense of it. Time your email delivery accordingly.
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Thank goodness the Colts didn't ask the Jerry Jones for permission to speak to his GM. Rather they're interested in their assistant director of player personnel Tom Ciskowksi:
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He went into About this Mac > More Info > Logged in with his Apple ID: This showed the warranty and other information, and everything was green.
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You should ask the seller why he wants to sell a relatively new computer.
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Look into Apple-refurbished MBAs ... come with fully warranty and you can add AppleCare.: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac
And do as carl wolf suggests ... find out the reason and do not ignore your gut if the explanation sounds hinky.
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He said that he wanted to get a desktop or a larger computer. Being a freshman it could have been a gift he's wanting to replace. I don't know much about apple warranties, but I just wanted to be sure that if something did turn up that it would be covered.
I'm planning on calling the local store to ask about that scenario.
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Ideally it should have all its original packaging and its charging adapter including both the power cord and "duckhead" (look it up). An original invoice would be nice too, to ensure that it is really his to sell.
Plug its serial number in here to verify it has been registered for AppleCare:
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He who registered it can un-register it, no one else, so make sure he does that. Then, register it using your Apple ID. Use the same Apple ID you used to log in here, or whatever Apple ID you have been using - don't create a new one.
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In response to John Galt; he said that if I wanted it he would wipe/reload the OS, and log out of his Applie ID at some point before or after. Would this satisfy what you meant?
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And Ryan Johansen of the Columbus Blue Jackets would be in the same category.
Boston's Tyler Seguin and Carolina's Jeff Skinner are, technically, still eligible for the tournament - but don't even go there.
But there is most certainly a chance that the Anaheim Ducks could loan winger Devante Smith-Pelly in time for the final evaluation camp that opens Dec. 10. He's probably the best bet. And Smith-Pelly was a force at the summer evaluation camp.
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Women can't have it all and neither can men
With extraordinary timing, just after last night's post on high-powered career women, The Atlantic's July issue was released with a cover story addressing exactly that issue. In her essay, former director of policy planning for the US State Department Anne-Marie Slaughter has given her treatise on why she left that dream job after just two years in order to be with her family and how society can change our expectations in order to better accommodate work-family balance.
I can't do her argument justice, so please go and read the essay (it's very important). There is, however, one point that I would like to focus on relating my post yesterday (my bold):
Magazine – Why Women Still Can't Have It All – The Atlantic.
Still, the proposition that women can have high-powered careers as long as their husbands or partners are willing to share the parenting load equally (or disproportionately) assumes that most women will feel as comfortable as men do about being away from their children, as long as their partner is home with them. In my experience, that is simply not the case. …
This supposition is the issue. Slaughter does give evidence later that is closer to my perspective, however it does not seem to change her perception from what she has encountered in her "experience" (my bold):
To be sure, the women who do make it to the top are highly committed to their profession. On closer examination, however, it turns out that most of them have something else in common: they are genuine superwomen. …
Seeking out a more balanced life is not a women's issue; balance would be better for us all. Bronnie Ware, an Australian blogger who worked for years in palliative care and is the author of the 2011 book The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, writes that the regret she heard most often was "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me." The second-most-common regret was "I wish I didn't work so hard." She writes: "This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship." …
What I glean from this type of thing is the harm that is genuinely being done by gender-normative assumptions — not just to women, but to us men as well. The assumption here is that men won't care about being away from their family and will naturally just spend more time working.
It seems that people have been extremely reluctant to acknowledge the sacrifices that men at the top actually make in order to be there. It could be that this phenomenon that we're seeing is not a case of society having created top-jobs that women can't do because women care about family too much. Maybe it's a case of society having created top jobs that are extremely difficult, and the women who were born into the egalitarian era are just beginning to discover how true this is.
I am a little offended by this idea that it is something reasonable to expect of men, but unreasonable to expect of women. Even Slaughter here has made the assumption that the men around her were not hurting just as much about the fact that they weren't spending time with their family.
Maybe the difference was not that she had some kind of inherent need that they didn't feel — maybe it's simply that it is more socially acceptable for her to make the decision to sacrifice career for family because, while she may be seen as "betraying her feminist principles", she will not face the stigma that the men would of being "weak", "not dedicated enough", or — dare I say — "girly".
Of course, evolutionary psychologists would disagree with this idealised view that human nature is so malleable and would argue that men and women really are wired that way. Even accepting this as true, the furthest that this argument can go is to say that most women on average will be inherently more likely to want to sacrifice their careers for their families than most men. There would still be countless men and women who do not fit this characterisation.
Men have, of course, become much more involved parents over the past couple of decades, and that, too, suggests broad support for big changes in the way we balance work and family. It is noteworthy that both James Steinberg, deputy secretary of state, and William Lynn, deputy secretary of defense, stepped down two years into the Obama administration so that they could spend more time with their children (for real).
Going forward, women would do well to frame work-family balance in terms of the broader social and economic issues that affect both women and men. After all, we have a new generation of young men who have been raised by full-time working mothers. Let us presume, as I do with my sons, that they will understand "supporting their families" to mean more than earning money.
I don't see why this needs to be a "framing" issue. Why can't we just accept that work-life balance is important for everyone? This idea that it's a "feminist" fight immediately isolates anyone who does not define themselves that way. This is not about making work easier for women or men, it's about strengthening families, improving peoples' working lives and improving the wellbeing of parents and children.
And where are the Unions on this one? It seems a hell of a lot more important than keeping those damn foreigners from taking our jerbs.
That said, I will end with the point made here by Rod Dreher — who, as he describes in that post, is a man who sacrificed his career to spend more time with his family.
Slaughter is still hanging onto the 1960′s feminist dream that women can "have it all" and that is what her solutions are geared towards. Her solutions would definitely help with peoples' work/family balance in general, however they would not allow women to "have it all".
The unfortunate reality is that no one can ever have it all. It is impossible to do everything. There is no conceivable way that someone can work a 60-hour week and still have a huge amount of time with their families and there is no way that someone who works less than that can compare with someone who does work that much. At some point, everyone has to make a trade-off: some will choose their family, and some will choose their career. We can try to ease the conflicts as much as possible, but they will never go away completely.
Why do they hate Mona Eltahawy for speaking about Arab women?
Posted by MK in Culture, Middle East, Politics on April 24, 2012
Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy has a piece in this month's Foreign Policy on the problems faced by women in the Arab world. This is a very important article and I would encourage you all to read it, but I want to highlight the central point in her thesis — which has been proven overwhelmingly by the response that has exploded literally hours since her article went online (the print edition is not even out yet).
Eltahawy begins her essay with the point that when anyone normally brings up the issue of Arab women, they are shouted-down with problems women face in the West. As if this is a reason not to speak about something far, far worse.
This is the third-worldist cultural relativism that I have highlighted a few times. It is the insipid prejudice of low expectations — using "cultural differences" to justify holding others to a lower standard. It's hard to even imagine the outcry that would follow a white, American pastor coming out in support of female genital mutilation — yet one of the leading clerical celebrities in the Arab world does so unashamedly and no one blinks. He even gets invited to hang out with London Mayoral candidate and career antisemite Ken Livingstone.
If no one says anything, nothing will ever get done about this. Good on Eltahawy for standing up to the cultural pressures trying to crush her into silence. Elections in Egypt will not bring democracy so long as female candidates cannot even have their faces on electoral material.
Why Do They Hate Us? – By Mona Eltahawy | Foreign Policy.
So: Yes, women all over the world have problems; yes, the United States has yet to elect a female president; and yes, women continue to be objectified in many "Western" countries (I live in one of them). That's where the conversation usually ends when you try to discuss why Arab societies hate women.
But let's put aside what the United States does or doesn't do to women. Name me an Arab country, and I'll recite a litany of abuses fueled by a toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend. When more than 90 percent of ever-married women in Egypt — including my mother and all but one of her six sisters — have had their genitals cut in the name of modesty, then surely we must all blaspheme. When Egyptian women are subjected to humiliating "virginity tests" merely for speaking out, it's no time for silence. When an article in the Egyptian criminal code says that if a woman has been beaten by her husband "with good intentions" no punitive damages can be obtained, then to hell with political correctness. And what, pray tell, are "good intentions"? They are legally deemed to include any beating that is "not severe" or "directed at the face." What all this means is that when it comes to the status of women in the Middle East, it's not better than you think. It's much, much worse. Even after these "revolutions," all is more or less considered well with the world as long as women are covered up, anchored to the home, denied the simple mobility of getting into their own cars, forced to get permission from men to travel, and unable to marry without a male guardian's blessing — or divorce either. …
First we stop pretending. Call out the hate for what it is. Resist cultural relativism and know that even in countries undergoing revolutions and uprisings, women will remain the cheapest bargaining chips. You — the outside world — will be told that it's our "culture" and "religion" to do X, Y, or Z to women.
Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman. The Arab uprisings may have been sparked by an Arab man — Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire in desperation — but they will be finished by Arab women.
GFC: American "mancession" and British "womancession"
There has been a lot of fascinating coverage in the Atlantic over the past couple of years regarding the impacts that the GFC have had on men in the workforce — most famously, Hannah Rosin's 2010 cover story 'The End of Men'.
Today, Jordan Weissmann is arguing that the neologism coined in response — "mancession" — is misplaced, since men are always the gender to be more adversely affected by a recession.
Perhaps it's finally time to retire the phrase "mancession."
During the past few years, that grisly portmanteau has become a popular shorthand for the way men seemed to suffer a special degree of misfortune during the Great Recession. Male-dominated industries, particularly construction, had been at the heart of the housing bust and the ensuing downturn, and their job prospects diminished more as a result. Hence, a new turn of phrase was born.
And it is accurate. Men's employment did indeed crash further than women's. But here's why we might want to consider putting "mancession" on ice: It turns out men have gotten the brunt of every economic downturn for the past thirty years. In other words, every recession has been a "mancession."
On the other hand, Tanya Gold in The Guardian argues that the current recession (and the Tory Government) is affecting women far more.
I will type until my fingers bleed; these are the worst of times for women, and the best of times for inequality, which is not a buzzword to be mocked but a phenomenon that is paid for in human tears. At a TUC event last month we lamented: we are going backwards. Women are leaving the workforce in ever greater numbers, to meet the usual fate of women who don't work in a shrinking state divesting itself even of free access to the Child Support Agency and legal aid – poverty, and indifference to poverty. When the current vogue for retro style rolled in – cupcakes and Mad Men and Julian Fellowes's reactionary fantasies – I thought it was a trend. I didn't realise it was a prophecy, hung with other assaults on women's needs, such as protesters standing like righteous zombies outside British abortion clinics. (Be pregnant, is their message. Be grateful).
I do want to note that while Gold offers some compelling figures, she also said this:
the long-hours macho working culture that thrills business because it enables men's psychological dominance
Right. That sounds like the reason businesses would want people to work more. I think you nailed it there Ms Gold…
There are some interesting questions being raised though: why is the recession affecting men more in the US and women more in the UK? Is that, in fact, the truth? Was the GFC sexist? Does Gold refuse to work long hours because it is "macho" or because she is lazy?
How to really help Africa/International Women's Day-after
Posted by MK in Culture, Ideology, Middle East, Politics on March 9, 2012
Our friend Joseph Kony totally overshadowed International Women's Day yesterday — which is a horrible thing to do, add that one to the list. Also, a lot of people criticised me for being too negative about Kony because I was "trying to stop people to take action". But more on that later. Anyway, I thought I would post a few items that would have been relevant yesterday while also making a few positive suggestions of campaigns that would help Africans more than wearing a Kony armband.
1. The "Girl Affect"
The crux of this is described in the following moving infographic:
Or much more eloquently by Nicholas Kristof in a recent New York Times Magazine article:
The Women's Crusade – NYTimes.com.
if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount importance, in an economic and geopolitical sense the opportunity they represent is even greater. "Women hold up half the sky," in the words of a Chinese saying, yet that's mostly an aspiration: in a large slice of the world, girls are uneducated and women marginalized, and it's not an accident that those same countries are disproportionately mired in poverty and riven by fundamentalism and chaos. There's a growing recognition among everyone from the World Bank to the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to aid organizations like CARE that focusing on women and girls is the most effective way to fight global poverty and extremism. That's why foreign aid is increasingly directed to women. The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution.
And it can be found on Facebook.
2. Holding Islamists to account
The downside to that Kristof piece was this:
Yet another reason to educate and empower women is that greater female involvement in society and the economy appears to undermine extremism and terrorism. It has long been known that a risk factor for turbulence and violence is the share of a country's population made up of young people. Now it is emerging that male domination of society is also a risk factor; the reasons aren't fully understood, but it may be that when women are marginalized the nation takes on the testosterone-laden culture of a military camp or a high-school boys' locker room. That's in part why the Joint Chiefs of Staff and international security specialists are puzzling over how to increase girls' education in countries like Afghanistan — and why generals have gotten briefings from Greg Mortenson, who wrote about building girls' schools in his best seller, "Three Cups of Tea." Indeed, some scholars say they believe the reason Muslim countries have been disproportionately afflicted by terrorism is not Islamic teachings about infidels or violence but rather the low levels of female education and participation in the labor force.
This almost certainly confuses cause and effect. The "Islamic teachings about infidels or violence" are, by and large, the reason behind the low levels of female education and participation in the labor force. I particularly dislike calling these teachings "Islamic"; they are not Islamic, they are Islamist. I have spoken to plenty of Muslims who have explained to me in detail why there is nothing Islamic whatsoever about not educating women and slaying the infidels.
Moreover, the denial of Islamist discrimination is an example of a third-worldist well-meaning condescension. This leads to the kind of situation described yesterday by Isobel Coleman, Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at Council on Foreign Relations:
Why the Arab Spring Hasn't Been Better for Women – Isobel Coleman – International – The Atlantic.
One theme is that women played an essential role in the Arab world's uprisings, only to be marginalized once transitions began. Moushira Khattab, a former Egyptian ambassador to South Africa and minister of family and population, writes that women joined men in calling for freedom in Tahrir Square. Since then, though, "the train of change has not only left them behind, but has in fact turned against them…
Dormant conservative value systems are being manipulated by a religious discourse that denies women their rights." Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist, says flatly that "the 'Arab Spring' is not an accurate description" of what has occurred. She notes that after Iran's revolution, "a dictator fell from power, but a religious tyranny took the place of democracy." The uprisings will only be fulfilled, she argues, "when women achieve their rights." For many, the rise of traditional and religious-based politics is deeply harmful to women. Rola Dashti, a former member of the Kuwaiti parliament who lost her seat in the election last month (in which Islamists surged and no women were elected), says that "women's presence and participation in public life–specifically in politics, decision-making positions, and state affairs–moved from marginalization during repressive regimes to rejection with Islamist regimes." She pulls no punches when it comes to moderate Islamists: "the promotion of moderate Islamism by Islamists in power is nothing more than a hidden agenda of radical and extremist ideologies when it comes to social issues and citizens' rights, especially as it concerns women." Rend Al-Rahim, who served as the first ambassador to the United States in Iraq's post-Saddam government and now runs the Iraq Foundation, says that "the retreat in women's rights has more to do with the resurgence of patriarchal, narrowly conservative social mores embedded in ancient tribal customs than with religion. Sharia is only a convenient peg for the deeper instinct of male dominance."
I'll also throw these two videos in while we're at it:
3. Mentorship
A little less international relations focussed for a second (well not really, but anyway), some interesting ideas came to light in this post on the Council on Foreign Relations site:
Politics, Power, and Preventive Action » Ask the Experts: Where Are the Women in Foreign Policy?.
There's a gap in the types of tasks women and men are assigned early in their careers. Intentionally or not, women tend to given more administrative or support work rather than policy or research work; path dependence takes over from there. I recall a prominent scholar regularly asking his female research assistant (RA) to pick up his dry cleaning and take his car to the shop—things he didn't ask of male RAs.
There's also a mentorship gap. Young women have trouble finding men willing to act in that capacity because there are few mechanisms to develop the rapport that underlies a good, productive mentoring relationship. Conversely, men may be concerned about how a mentoring relationship will be perceived and shy away as a result. But mentors are vital for opening doors and offering suggestions and feedback about career choices—efforts that are particularly valuable in the foreign policy world.
So those magazines I like don't seem to run women
Posted by MK in Culture, Ideology, Musing, Political Science, Reading Material on March 7, 2012
A post in the Jewish Daily Forward by Sarah Seltzer led me to this study done by VIDA – an organisation aimed at increasing female representation in literary arts – of bylines in major literary-focussed magazines and book review sections that were written by men and women. The results, shown in a series of piecharts, make for quite bleak viewing:
Before I discuss the results, I have to be annoying and discuss the study methods. As regular readers will know, I generally follow the Tuftian theory on data presentation, meaning that I absolutely hate pie charts and anything else that you can make with Microsoft Office. This is a very ineffective way of showing data, what I want is a nice spreadsheet and maybe a scatterplot – that would mean that I could find trends, averages, standard errors and all of the other things that nerds like me like to look at.
I'll also note that bylines are just a small part of the picture, the study did not include important factors like the breakdowns by gender of: the number of submissions received; the editorial board members; the pool of potential writers; and — especially important — the readership.
Note: gender scholar Danielle Pafunda has written a relatively compelling argument for other factors being less important than they would seem, noting that much of the result still comes down to editorial policy and that the selection process is far from passive (i.e. editors actively source their writers). I am not entirely convinced by this (especially where she claims that the superior quality of women's submissions counterbalances the lower volume), but there is something to it.
Looking at the wrong magazines?
This point was raised in one of the comments on the VIDA site:
Many of the largest-circulation magazines in English are primarily written by and read by women. What you're saying is that if you ignore magazines aimed at women and focus on much smaller magazines that don't tend to be written by and read by women, there are more men. OK.
My question: why are magazines that focus on women uninteresting, unprestigious, and ignored?
What would happen if you analyzed these magazines, instead of the smaller ones you picked?
This is a valid point, what is also not explained by VIDA is what led to the choice of these particular magazines and the list feels quite arbitrary.
Some of the magazines are dedicated book review journals, some are academic literary journals and some are just highbrow magazines with book review sections, including feature-based magazines (The New Yorker, The Atlantic) and political commentary (The New Republic); all of these are left-leaning, all but one are published in the UK or the USA and some that to me would be quite obvious choices have been left out (e.g. Vanity Fair, The New Statesman, The Spectator).
Also, none are web-based magazines, ignoring important publications like Slate and The Daily Beast, and it has included the literary supplement from The London Times, but not from other similarly regarded/circulated newspapers, such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian etc; all of which have literary supplements. This is not to say that these publications would necessarily be any different (although some probably would — Vanity Fair comes to mind in particular), but it would be good to rule that out, or at least to explain the reason some were chosen but not others.
Maybe the topics are the problem?
Some interesting thoughts on this issue come from another Forward blogger, Elissa Strauss (my bold):
Too Pink for the 'Thought Leaders'? – The Sisterhood – Forward.com.
I never bothered to pitch any of the magazines on the VIDA count last year. This wasn't because I didn't think they would pay attention to me because of my gender, but rather because they don't seem to be much interested in covering the things I like to write about. I am talking about topics like gender, sexuality, culture and the intersection of the three.
In the world of the "thought leaders," these "lady issues" are all still largely niche topics. We get an occasional bone thrown at us, like Kate Bolick's piece on single ladies in The Atlantic, but these stories always seem to require a strong first-person angle in order to make them newsworthy. Overall, however, women's issues and gender equity, are just not important or interesting enough to the editors.
There are those that argue that in order for more women to appear on these mastheads, we must leave our comfort zones and take on the "big" stuff like politics and money. I agree, but I also think that it has to go both ways. Sure, more women should, and do, try to inch their way into these beats. But we should also stay determined about the fact that the things we like to read and write about are important, too, and that they don't deserve to always be relegated to an occasional feature or culture piece.
Essentially, she is suggesting that these magazines need to make an effort to have more "female-focussed" content (i,e, publish more stuff that she writes about). As a subscriber to several of these magazines (though admittedly not a woman), I find this a little absurd. As the comment above pointed out, there are already many magazines aimed at women which speak about these kinds of issues – presumably, these are the ones Strauss pitches to – so why change the subject matter of the ones that have other foci? There is a reason that I subscribe to The New Yorker and not Cosmopolitan (or GQ, for that matter).
These are magazines that publish articles on what Strauss refers to as "the 'big' stuff". They are not the most highly-circulated magazines, but they are the most highly regarded magazines amongst left-leaning, English-speaking "intellectuals", which seems to be the market that everyone mentioned in this post is going for. It's not that issues related to gender or sexuality are overlooked in these magazines; they get the occasional feature, but they are not the general focus and nor should they be.
I also don't understand why women can't write on the issues that these magazines do cover: politics, science, culture, the arts and assorted human interest stories; in fact, many women do – maybe not most women, but then neither do most men; again, these are niche publications.
That said, I would really have no idea about this, not being a woman and all. So I would like to pose the question to anyone who made it this far: are the issues that I care about (i.e. the ones I read/write about) really not things that women are interested in? Thinking about it, this does seem true to me anecdotally; I find that I have more male friends with whom I can engage with on these kinds of issues than female friends. What I do not understand is why.
Ingrained culture?
On a similar note, the other common explanation that I found was the theory that women are somehow conditioned in ways that make them less apt for this type of writing. The best example came from the New Republic's Jonathan Chait, responding to Elissa Strauss' article on last year's near-identical list (my bold):
My explanation, which I can't prove, is socialization predisposes boys to be more interested both in producing and consuming opinion journalism. Confidence in one's opinions and a willingness to engage in intellectual combat are disproportionately (though not, of course, exclusively) male traits. I've come across several writers in my career who are good at writing in the argumentative style but lack confidence in their ability. They are all female.
Now, a magazine can try to encourage women to have more confidence in their opinions and their right to engage in debate and challenge others. I like to think I've done my part here. But overwhelmingly, by the time they reach this stage in their career, the battle has already been lost.
I also have trouble dealing with this argument for the simple reason that most of Chait's response was describing the soft affirmative action at the New Republic and how many women seem to be around the office, if not writing the bylines. I feel like there must be something else going on.
What's More
This post is getting much too long, so here are some more responses that are worth reading for anyone still interested: Roxane Gay wants affirmative action; Robin Romm notes the cycle of literary awards and accolades; Ruth Franklin shows that the problem may not be the magazines, but the publishing houses.
And for the record, my favourite female writers:
- Alana Newhouse: editor-in-cheif, Tablet
- Jennifer Rubin: columnist, Washington Post
- Maureen Dowd: columnist, New York Times
- Dina Rickman: assistant politics editor, Huffington Post UK
- Diaa Hadid: Mid-East based Associated Press reporter
- Sally Neighbour: prolific Australian freelance reporter
- Latika Bourke: ABC (Aust) political reporter
Again, I am quite puzzled by the issue and would appreciate any thoughts on it. You can reply in the comments section, by email or on Twitter (see the "About" section on the right of the page).
Israel, women, haredim and the halacha of apartheid
Posted by MK in Culture, Jewish Identity, Middle East on November 19, 2011
As I have covered before, the Arab world has recently been going through a cultural gender-identity crisis as the backwards and oppressive thinking that pervades the region is taking a growing economic toll. The principal opposition to modernising Arab culture in general comes from political Islamists who genuinely idealise a 7th Century way of living, although they do allow special dispensation for some of the 21st Century's developments (mostly its weaponry). Sadly, unlike most other unsavoury trends in the region, this wave of intolerance that is sweeping the Middle East is not passing over the doors of the Children of Israel.
Following on from this story about the High Court ruling against the forced separation of men and women in public streets, it seems that the Haredi community are continuing to champion the "Apartheid Israel" label and fiercely battling to keep the fairer sex off the airwaves and at the back of buses. I kid you not.
'Gender segregation practices are 'apart… JPost – National News.
Religious IDF soldiers also refused to listen to women singing at an army event because of a prohibition within Jewish law of listening to women sing in person.
A complaint was submitted to the broadcasting authority about the exclusion of women on the haredi radio station Kol Berama, and the issue of gender-segregated buses in haredi neighborhoods has also not been resolved.
[MK Tzipi] Hotovely made her comments during the first-ever hearing of the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women into the issue, initiated by MK Einat Wilf (Independence).
"The committee… sees the exclusion of women as apartheid which contradicts the values of the state of Israel and Jewish law," Hotovely said. "We have to fight this phenomenon of radicalization that is being expressed through the exclusion of women [in public life], because it seriously injures [the rights] of women and society as a whole."
… The committee said that it would be asking that Egged and the Transportation Ministry provide within three months a document detailing any occurrences in which the ruling of the Supreme Court outlawing gender segregation on buses is infringed.
MK Orit Zuaretz (Kadima) was also present at the hearing and further proposed that Egged demand that its drivers complete a form whenever any incident of segregation occurs.
Oh, and I'll add to that: off billboards.
Jerusalem mayor battles ultra-orthodox groups over women-free billboards | World news | The Guardian.
Jerusalem's secular mayor, Nir Barkat, has pitted himself against the city's swelling ranks of ultra-orthodox extremists by demanding that local police enable women to reclaim their position in the public domain.
Over recent months, women's faces have disappeared from billboards across the city amid mounting pressure applied by the powerful ultra-orthodox lobby, who find the female image offensive.
Several advertisers have erased female models from their posters in Jerusalem. Elsewhere in Israel, the winter campaign of Israeli clothing brand Honigman features a model cosily dressed in winter knits. In the capital, the woman's head has been removed from the image, leaving just her arm and a handbag.
This kind of thing has no place in Israel. It's backwards, it's harmful to society as a whole and, most of all, it's un-Jewish. This stems from an insular and extreme community that is more than happy to piggyback off the rest of society when they receive their welfare cheques, but otherwise do everything that they possibly can to isolate themselves (many of them are not even Zionists). Fortunately, some are speaking out. Here's haredi Rabbi Chaim Amsalem explaining why the encroaching gender Apartheid is un-Jewish.
The traditional Jewish approach to wo… JPost – Opinion – Op-Eds.
Let me begin by making a clear and loud declaration for all to hear: There is absolutely no basis in Jewish law for the separation of men and women on buses or public streets.
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, the greatest Orthodox halachic authority of the 20th century, made this very clear in his responsa, where he ruled that there was no problem with riding the New York subway, where men and women are often pressed together in very tight quarters. This applies all the more so when simply sitting in close proximity on a bus.
Aside from the fact that Jewish law certainly allows men and women to sit together on the bus or walk on the same side of the street, there is actually a specific halachic transgression that occurs when such extreme actions are taken … even according to the warped understanding that Jewish law does mandate the separation of men and women in these circumstances, there would certainly be no justification for demeaning a woman by forcing her to move to the back of the bus.
Granted, Jewish law does mandate the separation of men and women during prayer and specific other times, but nothing beyond that. The Torah opens society to women and cautions that it is the man's responsibility not to "stray after your eyes."
But this isn't just about buses. This is about growing extremism in the haredi world, part of which includes the demonization of women.That is the reason in certain neighborhoods the Clalit healthcare fund has stopped giving children stickers with pictures of little girls on them, and the reason some haredi newspapers will not print pictures of women. Some go as far as doctoring photos in order to remove women in adherence of this policy.
… Right at the beginning of Creation, the Torah says God created one being in the following way: "Male and female He created them."
If there was only one being, why does the Torah say "them" and describe it as both "male and female"?
The Talmud explains that God fashioned an original being which embodied both male and female characteristics and then separated that one being into two. Why? Why didn't He make them into separate male and female beings from the start?
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, one of the most prominent Orthodox rabbis of the 19th century, explained as follows: "So that what was previously one creature was not two, and thereby the complete equality of women forever attested [to]."
… But our tradition goes even beyond demanding equality.The Talmud teaches that the Jews were redeemed from slavery in Egypt due to the merit of Jewish women, and that the women did not worship the golden calf or believe the negative report of the spies about Israel. Our salvation in the Hanukka and Purim stories came because our women rose to the occasion. According to our tradition, women have binah yeteira – an increased ability to understand and comprehend. That quality has saved the Jewish people throughout history.


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In the wake of the avalanche on Manaslu that killed 11 people comes a story of phenomenal achievement. Benedikt Böhm from the Dynafit team has become the first person to ski the 8156-meter peak without oxygen and he did it in under 24 hours Base Camp to summit and back.
The achievement is even more remarkable considering the role the Dynafit team played in quickly coming to the aid of those who needed help immediately following the tragedy. Avalanche survivor Glen Plake told us, "Those guys are flat out the heroes of all this. The rescue took place because of them."
Böhm told us, "The avalanche hit at about 4:30 in the morning when we were all in our tents. By 4:45, we were already up the mountain helping people. We called Kathmandu to send rescue helis and then we stayed with the victims and helped them with oxygen, food, and boots for the next six hours until they had all been evacuated.
After we had done everything we could, the six of us on the Dynafit team went back to Base Camp to re-group. We were all pretty shocked by what had happened. Some of us had had enough, and we all respected and supported each other's decision."
Sebastian Haag, Constantine Pade and Benedikt Böhm however, decided to make one last attempt to climb the peak because of the years of preparation and mental commitment. The fact that they had done everything possible to help the victims of the accident helped them make the decision. Böhm emphasized, "The decision to try for the summit after such a tragedy was a difficult one, but ultimately I decided to climb in their honor. It also helped me cope with the emotional challenges I was also going through from being first on-scene to such a tragedy."
Glen Plake added, "I fully support their decision to go back up the mountain. For them to play such an important part during the rescue, then re-gather and summit, is amazing. Those guys are total heroes."
After a few day's rest, Böhm and Sebastian Haag left Base Camp at 6:00 pm on the 29th. After five hours they arrived at Camp 2 and picked up Constantine Pade. By the time the team reached Camp 3 at 6500 meters, Haag and Pade had begun to fall behind.
When Böhm arrived at Camp 4 at 7400 meters at 4:00 in the morning, conditions had deteriorated. Böhm told us, "It was a crazy storm that we weren't expecting at all. Our forecast had been for 30km/hr wind but another group that was up there told us it was 100 km/hr. When I got to Camp 4 I found an empty tent where I could wait for Basti and Consti. I put my skis outside the tent so they would see them, but after an hour or more I looked out of the tent and saw that Basti had passed Camp 4 and was on his way to the summit. I caught up with him after 15 or 20 minutes and saw that he was moving slowly and that his nose had frostbite. I went ahead of the team and did the final 150 metres alone to reach the summit at 9 in the morning, after 15 hours of climbing."
Whereas most alpinists would take this rare opportunity to languish in one of the biggest moments of their lives, Böhm's summit wasn't so, "I didn't have a big summit celebration. Instead, I took a scarf that a lama gave me and wrapped it around a carabiner that I had used to carry the boots that we carried to the avalanche victims and took some time to remember the victims."
Böhm waited on the summit for his Haag and Pade for almost an hour but eventually turned towards the bottom. Haag and Pade had decided to turn back below the summit in order to save their energy for the extremely difficult ski descent.
"I met Basti and Consti on the way down and they decided to come down with me and we skied down together. It was the worst ski descent ever. Everything was wind-packed, totally unpredictable, and just really, really bad. When we got to Camp4, we took off our skis and traversed a bit because the route was icy and we didn't want to risk it. We put them back on again at 7300m. As we skied beneath the big serac we could see the huge avalanche crown above us. It was four meters deep!
"Below that the ski descent got even worse because of the avalanche debris. It was no fun at all, we were just eating altitude. It was hard to find the way but once we got to C3 the route became obvious again although it was still difiicutl because of all the avalanche debris. By that time it was getting late – about 11:00 or 12:00. The morning had been unusually warm below 6000 meters and we were shocked to see how the crevasses had really opened up and seracs had fallen. We had to throw ropes and gear to get over the crevasses, which took us a long time. In the end it took 8.5 hours of seemingly endless ski descent that you should usually be able to ski in four hours in good conditions, no problem.
"So after 23.5 hours we were back in base camp."
For those keeping score at home that's 15 hours up, 8.5 hours down, 3300 meters elevation gain, no supplemental oxygen. The typical ascent of Manaslu by climbers using oxygen takes four days. Respect.
When asked why he didn't use supplemental oxygen when it would have made his attempt so much easier, Böhm explained, "Everybody can do what they want, I don't judge anyone for using oxygen, but for me it's 100% clear. For me, it's like doing a marathon with a bike while everyone else is running. It's not my style. I prefer being pure and under my own resources. Of course we used the fixed ropes, but other than that we were totally self-contained. On top of that, a speed ascent with oxygen is a joke, it's like taking drugs. What's the challenge if you give yourself such a huge advantage like that? But I would never judge anybody else for using it. I saw a Japanese guy on the summit, he was like 70 years old and he was crying. For him, oxygen was great.
Big congratulations to Benedikt Böhm, for his massive achievement and for doing it in style. And full respect to the entire Dynafit team for going to the rescue of their fellow alpinists when they were in need. True heroes, one and all.
Follow Bene on his future expeditions at www.dynafit.com.


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Two students jog past a large banner that boasts, "Ravenstown," at McDaniel College. The Ravens decided to make their Owings Mills facility their training camp home, leaving the Carroll County city in which they trained for 15 years.
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Phil Micallef - 20 April 2010
Cardiff-based septet Los Campesinos! are also now on the bill, as well as electro star Uffie
and leaders of the Berlin electro scene Moderat.
A total of 31 acts were newly confirmed today,
with a host of genres on offer throughout the festival, ranging from indie to drum n' bass, and punk and metal to reggae
and dancehall.
Bands already booked in for appearances include Faith No More, Fun Lovin'
Criminals, The Maccabees and The Ravonettes.
Click here to see the latest Dour Festival line up.
Dour Festival 2010 takes place in the village of Dour in the Walloon region of Belgium
from 15-18 July.
Tickets are on sale now with weekend tickets, including camping, available for
Click here to
buy tickets for Dour Festival.
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