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by Jeffrey Strahl
In mid-October 2011, I posted a review of David Ray Griffin's new book, 9/11 Ten Years Later — When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed at Amazon, here.
Dear Readers,
Please submit your comments on this article at the link to Amazon, provided below by Mr. Strahl. 911Truth.org published this article; the author is not available to be reached through email to this site. We look forward to reading your comments there.
This review drew comments from James B, one of the two top people at Screw Loose Change, a leading "debunking" website used as a reference by many an internet opponent of 9/11 truth. The result was a major debunking of Screw Loose Change. This piece is intended to help those who in the future will go up against the likes of Screw Loose Change, since the trap's nature is both the content of the SLC argument as well as its form. The focus of our exchange was the evidence regarding events at the World Trade Center (WTC) on 9/11, where three steel frame high-rises were destroyed. This is the part of my review which is relevant to the debate:
Being someone with an engineering degree, it's no surprise that I find the strongest part to be Chapters 2 through 4, which deal with the three steel hi-rises which came down on 9/11. Chapter 2 has been posted previously on the web as an article, a challenge to left-leaning despisers of 9/11 truth to explain nine apparent miracles required to explain how the official story could be made congruent with the physical evidence.…Continue reading
CIA Criminal Revolving Door: CIA Officer "Albert" Involved in False Intelligence Linking Al-Qaeda to Iran, Iraq
by Kevin Fenton
Reprimanded for Torture, Retired, then Back to CIA as a Contractor
A recent book by former FBI agent Ali Soufan shows that the same CIA officer was involved in generating intelligence that falsely linked al-Qaeda to first Iran and then Iraq. The officer was also involved in a notorious torture episode and was reprimanded by the Agency's inspector general.
The officer, who Soufan refers to as "Fred," but whose real first name is "Albert" according to a February 2011 Associated Press article, served at the CIA station in Jordan in 1999. During that time, al-Qaeda, aided by a collection of freelance terrorists headed by Abu Zubaidah, attempted to commit a series of attacks in the country, known as the Millennium Plot. However, the attacks were foiled by the local Jordanian intelligence service, working with the CIA and FBI.
During the investigations of the plotters, Albert drafted a series of official cables that were later withdrawn. Although the withdrawing of the cables was first mentioned in a July 2006 article by Lawrence Wright for the New Yorker, Wright did not mention what was in the cables or by whom they were drafted. The content of one of them and the drafter were first revealed upon the publication of Soufan's book in mid-September 2011.
According to Soufan, one of the twelve withdrawn cables falsely stated that the group of… Continue reading
by David Ray Griffin
Professor Paul Zarembka has written a critique of a chapter of my recent book, 9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes against Democracy Succeed . 1 The chapter in question is entitled "Phone Calls from the 9/11 Planes: How They Fooled America." I thank Dr. Zarembka for taking my chapter seriously enough to write his critique. 2 However, I submit that my chapter not to be guilty of the charges he levels.
At the beginning of his critique, Zarembka states that I seem intent on "exposing just lies and only lies" — on "turning up stones everywhere with the word 'lie' written on them." A computer search shows that my chapter contains no instances in which I used the term "lie," "lies," or "lying." I certainly did, to be sure, suggest that various aspects of the official story are false. This would be grounds for reproach if these suggestions were based on errors, and Zarembka suggests that they often are. Indeed, to adopt his formulation, he seemed to be intent on turning up stones everywhere with the word "error" written on them. But the charge that my chapter is filled with errors cannot be maintained.
At the conclusion of Zarembka's critique, he said that he found "weakness" in my chapter's "internal logic." This charge by Zarembka, however, reflects the fact that he simply failed to understand the logic of some of my arguments, or certain facts relevant to those arguments.
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By Rory O'Connor and Ray Nowosielski
October 14, 2011
A growing number of former government insiders — all responsible officials who served in a number of federal posts — are now on record as doubting ex-CIA director George Tenet's account of events leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Among them are several special agents of the FBI, the former counterterrorism head in the Clinton and Bush administrations, and the chairman of the 9/11 Commission, who told us the CIA chief had been "obviously not forthcoming" in his testimony and had misled the commissioners.
These doubts about the CIA first emerged among a group of 9/11 victims' families whose struggle to force the government to investigate the causes of the attacks, we chronicled in our 2006 documentary film "Press for Truth." At that time, we thought we were done with the subject. But tantalizing information unearthed by the 9/11 Commission's
final report and spotted by the families (Chapter 6, footnote 44) raised a question too important to be put aside:
Did Tenet fail to share intelligence with the White House and the FBI in 2000 and 2001 that could have prevented the attacks? Specifically, did a group in the CIA's al-Qaida office engage in a domestic covert action operation involving two of the 9/11 hijackers, that — however legitimate the agency's goals may have been — hindered the type of intelligence-sharing that could have prevented the attacks?…Continue reading
Scientists' Analysis Disputes F.B.I. Closing of Anthrax Case
By WILLIAM J. BROAD and SCOTT SHANE
October 9, 2011
The New York Times
A decade after wisps of anthrax sent through the mail killed 5 people, sickened 17 others and terrorized the nation, biologists and chemists still disagree on whether federal investigators got the right man and whether the F.B.I.'s long inquiry brushed aside important clues.
Now, three scientists argue that distinctive chemicals found in the dried anthrax spores — including the unexpected presence of tin — point to a high degree of manufacturing skill, contrary to federal reassurances that the attack germs were unsophisticated. The scientists make their case in a coming issue of the Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense.
F.B.I. documents reviewed by The New York Times show that bureau scientists focused on tin early in their eight-year investigation, calling it an "element of interest" and a potentially critical clue to the criminal case. They later dropped their lengthy inquiry, never mentioned tin publicly and never offered any detailed account of how they thought the powder had been made.
The new paper raises the prospect — for the first time in a serious scientific forum — that the Army biodefense expert identified by the F.B.I. as the perpetrator, Bruce E. Ivins, had help in obtaining his germ weapons or conceivably was innocent of the crime.
Both the chairwoman of a National Academy of Science panel that spent a year and a half reviewing the F.B.I.'s scientific work and… Continue reading
October 6, 2011
History Commons Groups
A large number of new entries have been added to the Complete 9/11 Timeline
at History Commons describing important events that took place on the day of
9/11, while other new entries add to the growing body of information about 9/11-related
training exercises.
One new entry describes how, from 1998, the US Secret Service included computer simulations of planes crashing into the White House in its training exercises. Another notable exercise was held early on the morning of September 11 in the White House Situation Room, based on the scenario of a terrorist bombing in the Middle East.
Also relating to training exercises, new details have emerged about an FBI anti-terrorist unit that was stranded away from Washington at the time of the 9/11 attacks. The Critical Incident Response Group arrived in San Francisco the day before 9/11 for a week of training. Such was the unit's importance that the White House made getting it back to Washington a priority in the hours after the attacks.
New entries describe two mistaken reports of hijacked aircraft on the morning of September 11. One of these aircraft was thought to be targeting NORAD's operations center in Colorado. This incorrect information may have caused NORAD to close the massive blast doors to the operations center. The other aircraft was thought to be heading toward Air Force One as it flew President Bush away from Sarasota, and this may have been one reason why Air Force One… Continue reading
September 21, 2011
SecrecyKills.com [website no longer exists]
Despite threats of prosecution from the CIA, the makers of 9/11: Press For Truth have released their new documentary podcast Who Is Rich Blee?
12 September 2011
A former FBI agent has told the BBC that he is being prevented from telling the truth about the events of 9/11 and what has happened since.
Ali Soufan alleges that crucial intelligence was not passed on from the CIA before the attacks in 2001.
He has written a book detailing some of his claims and has been speaking to the BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera in his first on camera interview on the subject.
In response to the allegations in this report the CIA issued a statement to the BBC that said: "Any suggestion that the CIA purposely refused to share critical lead information on the 9/11 plots with the FBI is baseless."
"The suggestion that the Central Intelligence Agency has requested redactions on this publication because it does not like the content is ridiculous."
The CIA decline to comment on the record about the accusations regarding waterboarding and interrogation.
Unofficial transcript of video, "Former FBI Agent says truth of 9/11 remains hidden" :
Gordon Corera: Stepping out of the shadows, appearing for the first time on camera, Ali Soufan, the former FBI agent with an eyewitness account some people don't want him to tell.
Ali Soufan: They are trying to stop me and others from telling the world what really happened over there.
Gordon Corera: He believes huge mistakes were made with devastating consequences. Born in Lebanon, Soufan had… Continue reading
By Kevin Fenton
Although the story of the CIA's actions in the run-up to 9/11 is complicated, at a fairly early point in any examination of them it becomes clear the agency committed multiple failures, and that these failures enabled the attacks to go forward. The key issue that remains in dispute ten years on is whether these "failures" were deliberate or simply the product of overwork and incompetence. Making an informed judgment means taking the time to look at all the failures, put them in order, and analyze what it all means.
Perhaps the most comprehensible problem is the scope of the CIA's failings. There was not one error by some lowly neophyte, but a massive string of failures. As Tom Wilshire, one of the key CIA officials involved in the withholding of the information commented to the Congressional Inquiry, "[E]very place that something could have gone wrong in this over a year and a half, it went wrong. All the processes that had been put in place, all the safeguards, everything else, they failed at every possible opportunity. Nothing went right."
In addition, some of the failures were extremely serious. For example, the alleged failure by Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, to inform CIA Director George Tenet that Flight 77 hijacker Khalid Almihdhar was in the country in August 2001 is simply beyond comprehension. Added to this, the failures were committed by a small group of intelligence officers, centered on Wilshire and his… Continue reading
by Sibel Edmonds
Filmmakers Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy join us to discuss their extensive research, interviews and findings which have resulted in the unmasking of three former top CIA officials- George Tenet, Cofer Black and Richard Blee- and their role in withholding intelligence on two key 9/11 hijackers and subsequent cover-ups. Duffy and Nowosielski provide us with a detailed account of their new interview with former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke and his allegations against the CIA officials- Tenet, Black and Blee — accusing them of knowingly withholding intelligence from the White House, the FBI, Immigration and the State and Defense Departments. They discuss two key CIA analysts who were instrumental in this cover up, a joint statement issued by the three accused CIA officials in response to Clarke's allegations, and more!
Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy produced the film "Press for Truth," which documented the journey of four 9/11 widows as they lobbied the Bush White House to convene an independent commission to probe the attacks. They recently launched a new transparency web site SecrecyKills.com.
On Thursday, the CIA threatened the journalists behind Who Is Rich Blee? with possible federal prosecution if the investigative podcast is released in its current form.
We are delaying that release while we consult with others and weigh… Continue reading
by: Jeffrey Kaye and Jason Leopold
Senior Pentagon officials scrubbed key details about a top-secret military intelligence unit's efforts in tracking Osama bin Laden and suspected al-Qaeda terrorists from official reports they prepared for a Congressional committee probing the 9/11 terrorist attacks, new documents obtained by Truthout reveal.
Moreover, in what appears to be an attempt to cover up the military unit's intelligence work, a September 2008 Defense Department (DoD) Inspector General's (IG) report that probed complaints lodged by the former deputy chief of the military unit in question, the Asymmetrical Threats Division of Joint Forces Intelligence Command (JFIC), also known as DO5, about the crucial information withheld from Congress, claimed "the tracking of Usama Bin Ladin did not fall within JFIC's mission."
But the IG's assertion is untrue, according to the documents obtained by Truthout, undercutting the official narrative about who knew what and when in the months leading up to 9/11.
Much of JFIC's work on al-Qaeda and Bin Laden remains shrouded in secrecy and has not been cited in media reports revolving around pre-9/11 intelligence, which has focused heavily over the past decade on CIA and FBI "intelligence failures." Only a few details about the military intelligence unit have surfaced since then, notably in two previous reports published recently by Truthout.
JFIC was the intelligence component of United States Joint Forces Command (JFCOM). In 2005, it was renamed the Joint Intelligence Command for Intelligence. Last month, JFCOM was shuttered, reportedly due to Pentagon budget cuts,… Continue reading
THE PROJECT CENSORED SHOW ON PACIFICA RADIO – Friday, September 9, 2011 – 8-9am Pacific time
Hosts Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff welcome Tony Hall and Kathy McGrade and will discuss the history of the 9/11 truth movement, among other topics.
Friday, September 9, 2011 –
Related from Project Censored:
Release of Censored 2012 in September Celebrates 35 Years of Project Censored.
Unanswered Questions of 9/11: 911 Prewarnings, Building 7 Collapse, Flight 77 and the Pentagon, Israeli Involvement, United Airlines Put-options, War games, Atta and the $100,000, 9/11 Terrorists Still Alive
See also:
911 Footprint 10 Years Later – Special Broadcast, September 11, 2011
Pacifica Radio's Memorial Broadcast Explores the Human Story of 911's Impact
Produced by Verna Avery-Brown in cooperation with Pacifica Radio Archives, Democracy Now! KPFA, KPFK, KPFT, WBAI and WPFW. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Houston, Washington DC, New York )
Listen on your local Pacifica station and streamed here on Pacifica.org from:
12:00 PM EST to 9:00 PM EST
11:00 AM CT to 8:00 PM CT
9:00 AM PT to 6:00 PM PT
KPFA-Berkeley live
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Also to be broadcast on KKFI-Kansas City
And online, as always, at Pacifica affiliate No Lies Radio, NoLiesRadio.org
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When terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon on Sept.…Continue reading
by Philip Shenon
In a new documentary, former national-security aide Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers–then covered it up. Philip Shenon on George Tenet's denial.
With the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks only a month away, former CIA Director George Tenet and two former top aides are fighting back hard against allegations that they engaged in a massive cover-up in 2000 and 2001 to hide intelligence from the White House and the FBI that might have prevented the attacks.
The source of the explosive, unproved allegations is a man who once considered Tenet a close friend: former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, who makes the charges against Tenet and the CIA in an interview for a radio documentary timed to the 10th anniversary next month. Portions of the Clarke interview were made available to The Daily Beast by the producers of the documentary.
In the interview for the documentary, Clarke offers an incendiary theory that, if true, would rewrite the history of the 9/11 attacks, suggesting that the CIA intentionally withheld information from the White House and FBI in 2000 and 2001 that two Saudi-born terrorists were on U.S. soil–terrorists who went on to become suicide hijackers on 9/11.
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By Jason Leopold Truthout
With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 just a month away, the intelligence failures leading up to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have started to attract fresh scrutiny from former counterterrorism officials, who have called into question the veracity of the official government narrative that concluded who knew what and when.
Indeed, recently Truthout published an exclusive report based on documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and an interview with a former high-ranking counterterrorism official that showed how a little-known military intelligence unit, unbeknownst to the various investigative bodies probing the terrorist attacks, was ordered by senior government officials to stop tracking Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda's movements prior to 9/11.
And now, in a stunning new interview made available to Truthout that is scheduled to air on a local PBS affiliate in Colorado tonight, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, for the first time, levels explosive allegations against three former top CIA officials – George Tenet, Cofer Black and Richard Blee – accusing them of knowingly withholding intelligence from the Bush and Clinton White House, the FBI, Immigration and the State and Defense Departments about two of the 9/11 hijackers who had entered the United States more than a year before the attacks. Moreover, Clarke says the former CIA officials likely engaged in a cover-up by withholding key details about two of the hijackers from the 9/11 Commission.
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A Significant Stimulus for the Reform that Never Came
10 August 2011
by Kevin Fenton
Zacarias Moussaoui, one of the numerous "20th hijackers," was arrested ten years ago next Tuesday, outside the Residence Inn in Eagan, Minnesota. The arrest was one of the first events in a case that gave the FBI a chance to blow open the 9/11 plot, but resulted in abject humiliation for the bureau when its headquarters' string of errors was exposed in the press.
The Moussaoui case is a poster boy for the state of our knowledge about the attacks: we have some of the details, but know some are missing. Also, two key questions remain unanswered. This despite the wealth of information that came out at the trial and the fact that Moussaoui, although largely ignored by the 9/11 Commission's final report–partly due to the forthcoming trial–was a major topic of the Justice Department inspector general's report into the FBI's pre-attack failings.
These are the bare bones of the case: Moussaoui had been a known extremist for years prior to his arrest. Before the bureau first heard his name on August 15, he had been under surveillance by French and British intelligence and the CIA, although the agency would claim it only knew him under an alias. He was sent to the US for flight training by alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, possibly to participate in 9/11, possibly to participate in a follow-up operation. However, he was a poor student and… Continue reading
by Kevin Fenton
Published at 911truth.org
Following the airing of allegations by former counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke that the CIA deliberately withheld from him information about Pentagon hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, former CIA director George Tenet, former CIA Counterterrorist Center chief Cofer Black and Richard Blee, a mid-level agency official who occupied two key counterterrorist positions before 9/11, have responded with a joint statement.
Clarke said that information about the two men was deliberately withheld from him in January 2000, at the time of a key al-Qaeda meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which the CIA monitored. Clarke alleged that, based on his knowledge of how the CIA works, Tenet authorised the deliberate withholding. Clarke added that the information was clearly important in the summer of 2001, when the CIA knew that Almihdhar was in the country and, in the words of one of Blee's former deputies, was "very high interest" in connection with the next al-Qaeda attack. However, the CIA continued to withhold some information from both Clarke and the FBI.
Mark Rossini, one of Blee's former subordinates at Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, has previously admitted deliberately withholding the information from the FBI. According to Rossini, in early January 2000 he and a colleague, Doug Miller, knew they should notify the FBI that Almihdhar had a US visa and presumably intended to soon visit the US. Miller even drafted, but did not send, a cable informing the FBI of Almihdhar's visa. However, Rossini says he… Continue reading
Published at Colorado911Visibility.org
Press Contact: Robert Boutton (323) 300-5376 www.SecrecyKills.com
In a never-before-seen interview, Richard Clarke, former White House Counterterror "Tsar" to Presidents Clinton and Bush, goes on record about what he believes happened at CIA in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks, accusing then-CIA Director George Tenet and two of his deputies of deliberately not informing the White House, FBI, and Defense Department about two future hijackers inside U.S., then covering up from the 9/11 investigations. His comments air and stream Thursday, August 11, 2010 at 7 p.m. MDT on Colorado Public Television (CPT12) and simultaneously go live on SecrecyKills.com , along with CIA reaction.
News of the premiere set off attacks on Clarke from three of those he singled out. Tenet and former CIA officials Cofer Black and Richard Blee, chiefs of CounterTerrorist Center and Bin Laden Station respectively on 9/11, have issued a one-page joint statement to the producers calling Clarke's comments "reckless and profoundly wrong." Significantly, this is the only statement Blee has issued publicly since the intelligence failure of September 11th and, indeed, the first time his real name has been made public in the major media.
Filmmaker-journalists John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski conducted the interview in 2009 for a documentary to be released on the 9/11 tenth anniversary entitled "Who Is Rich Blee?", promising further revelations from Commission Chairman Tom Kean and other government insiders, produced by transparency advocates SecrecyKills.com in association with media company Globalvision, winner of the George Polk Journalism Award.…Continue reading
Just one of the Legacies of 9/11
by Kevin Fenton Boilingfrogs
Two of the terrorist hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, communicated while they were in the United States to other members of al Qaeda who were overseas. But we didn't know they were here, until it was too late.
The authorization I gave the National Security Agency (NSA) after September the 11th helped address that problem in a way that is fully consistent with my constitutional responsibilities and authorities. The activities I have authorized make it more likely that killers like these 9/11 hijackers will be identified and located in time.
-President Bush, December 17, 2005
In the aftermath of 9/11, reams of newsprint were given over to discussing the CIA and FBI failures before the attacks; the agency had some of the hijackers under surveillance and allegedly lost them, the bureau was unable even to inform its own acting director of the Zacarias Moussaoui case. However, the USA's largest and most powerful intelligence agency, the National Security Agency, got a free ride. There was no outcry over its failings, no embarrassing Congressional hearings for its director. Yet, as we will see, the NSA's performance before 9/11 was shocking.
It is unclear when the NSA first intercepted a call by one of the nineteen hijackers. Reporting indicates it began listening in on telephone calls to the home of Pentagon hijacker Khalid Almihdhar's wife some time around late 1996. However, although Almihdhar certainly… Continue reading


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The torpedo is so good and smooth. I've been eyeing this Dogfish 120 minute in my local store. So expensive.
That was an unbelievable barrel at the end. That dude will never forget that one.
The damage isn't bad at all? Wow.
Beach Haven isn't the only beach/township on LBI. Just saying...
In that "V" zone. Sh*t sucks.
Interesting... right down the road from where I live.
I'm right across the bay from ya!
Yeah, it was serious business... the paddle out to the wave was intense in itself. Also read that there was a massive great white sighting that same day off Cape Cod. Eeekk!
Haha, I'm staying and I'm about 3-4ft above my bulkhead. House is likely to be flooded.
Did you purposefully spread misinformation? As "motion" pointed out, Jenk's is not a big wave spot as you say, and it for sure is not even near LBI. Get with it dude!
I can get there in about 15 minutes on the ski!
I honestly have no idea about the "corner" but I know the reef I surfed and lets just say it was pretty much way out in the middle of the the ocean. Won't give up any names or exactly where it is.
What? Winds are going to be ENE 20+mph... good luck.
I surfed a reef next to Ruggles during Hurricane Bill! Epic experience!
Just curious how you are "closest hotel to the surf in Bocas"? Of the breaks you named on your website, there are already hotels/places to stay right next to them. It's been over three years now, but...
What? Did you just discover the internet?
My good friend just spent July and August traveling/surfing Indo... he didn't speak of any worries. I will have to ask him again.
Lol at those who think it's the best and who surf with that many. Am I the only one who surfs with at most couple people in sight?
Proof or it didn't happen...
You're in a spec of this world that is covered by sea. Go explore and maybe you won't be so pessimistic.
I agree. I was going to say... to think of all those waves he could have had if he was on a bodyboard. : )
But we can all surf. Obviously given if you have an injury that prevents you from surfing, that doesn't count... but most bodyboarders can surf and surf well! We just choose not to! So keep trying...
And most big wave slabs out there. : )
Surfers hate on bodyboarders because it's easy and lame! Everyone on Swellinfo can do this all day long!
BTW I bodyboard. Detect the sarcasm.
I've witnessed it. Such a magical place. Stand up broken board heaven!


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The subscriber list isn't just a target for e-mail blasts.
"There's a diametric shift in the publishing business," says Lisa Moore, senior VP, business development, at Direct Media. "It's a whole new world, a channel shift, and the consumer is in control. Publishers are still using direct mail but mailing less and using only their best lists. Many are embracing the Web and other alternative approaches."
Looking to attract a younger audience, for example, New York tried renting targeted direct mail lists. "The segment wasn't responding as well as we hoped," says acquisitions director Stacey Stambleck. "So we launched an event series targeting a younger audience and included a subscription to the magazine. We concluded that younger people are just more responsive to events than they are to direct mail." On the other hand, New York's core subscriber list still responds well to direct mail.
In May 2008, Rodale launched its Marketing Decisioning Platform (MDP)—"probably our largest direct response effort ever," says Janine Slaughter, senior VP of customer marketing at Rodale. The MDP initiative combined online and offline data into a single database to allow greater segmentation and targeting. The database now includes 30 million e-mail addresses. Results have been pretty remarkable, as Rodale has been able to reduce its volume of promotional material by 30 percent and increase its conversion rates by 40 percent. "We have a lot of platforms," she adds, "so having that unified customer base allows a lot of targeting capabilities and a lot of direct-promotion and cross-promotion."
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While offline product sales are still a significant part of Rodale's business, the biggest gains in the last year have resulted from moving its customers online. "Our ability to combine online and offline has stepped up pretty dramatically," says Slaughter. "The magazines have done a tremendous job moving their readers online for more in-depth information and tools. That drives readers to register, subscribe to online newsletters, and provide email addresses. Then we leverage those names."
Offering products online also allows Rodale to target upsell efforts when the customer is in the ordering stream. Men's Health, for example, has found that men like PDF downloads and therefore is developing a series of PDF products that are either free or cost a few dollars.
Rodale is changing the way it looks at customers by appending data, coming up with new formats, and working with the editorial teams to bring new customers onto the file and to develop new products based on the interests of existing customers. "If customers show interest in a book on weight loss, we can quickly and inexpensively develop companion products—a DVD, a journal, a cookbook—and create a string of promotions around weight loss," Slaughter explains. "Everyone in the company is constantly rethinking how to keep people interacting on our sites."    Â


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Education Secretary Arne Duncan and New York Times' David Leonhardt to Discuss Wide Range of Education Issues at Aspen Ideas Festival
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will participate in a Q-and-A with New York Times (NYT) editor David Leonhardt at 2:40 p.m. MT, Wednesday, July 2, at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado.
1960s Freedom Riders to Commemorate 50th Anniversary of Civil Rights Act of 1964 with Civil Rights Bus Ride
A half-century ago, courageous civil rights activists rode Greyhound and Trailways buses into the segregated South, enduring brutal beatings by the Ku Klux Klan, fire bombings and the wrath of Birmingham (Alabama) Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor. They came to be known as "Freedom Riders."
Deputy Director of White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics to Address UT-Austin Male Student Leadership Summit
Marco Davis, deputy director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics (WHIEEH) will give the opening keynote address at the UT-Austin Male Student Leadership Summit at 1 p.m. CT on Friday, June 27.
Senior U.S. Education Officials to Participate in Several Events as Part of the 2014 International Society for Technology in Education Conference
Richard Culatta, director of the Office of Educational Technology (OET) will visit Atlanta June 27-29 to participate in several events as part of the 2014 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference.
Senior U.S. Education Official Michael Yudin to Join Discussion on Successful Partnerships at New England Workplace Inclusion and Equality Summit
Acting Assistant Secretary Michael Yudin will join a panel discussion on building successful partnerships to help individuals with disabilities enjoy competitive integrated employment at the New England Workplace Inclusion and Equality Summit on Friday, June 27, in Providence, Rho
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Chase Utley can be quite the awkward bastard on tosses to first base. His throwing motion is so strange that I will never be fully convinced that Utley isn't a natural lefty. If he can't throw to second base, who would be stupid enough to put him at third base? I'll answer that question with another question: have you seen Ryan Zimmerman?
It's hard not to notice the parachutes Ryan Zimmerman sends from third base. It is a strange side-arm, nearly underhand motion you might use if you were ordered to safely throw an egg onto a pillow from 127 feet. It is almost embarrassing to watch a professional athlete soft tossing pop-ups from third. If that is what he does with routine grounders, just imagine the disaster on anything not hit directly at him.
Herein lies an intriguing peculiarity and a reason to possibly see Chase Utley manning the hot corner someday: Zimmerman has no problem on the bang-bang plays. Watch him charge a dribbler or range to his left for a ball in the hole and you can see why he owns a 2009 Gold Glove. Time is the issue with Zimmerman, and the less he has the better he is. Which brings us to the only reason we would give two craps, which is how it applies to Chase Utley.
Maybe Zimmerman suffers from a similar syndrome as Chase. It certainly would explain why Utley double and triple pumps before releasing two-foot throws. He just has too much damn time. As long as Utley does not have time to think and can rely on instinct he seems to have no issues.
But...it is a long throw from third base and balls come a lot quicker at than they do at second base. Just because Polanco made a seamless transition to third does not mean the same will be true for Utley. Don't forget that Polanco has two Gold Gloves at second.
But as Jim Carrey said in Dumb and Dumber, "so you're telling me there's a chance." If Utley was somehow competent at third, it would open up a spot for Galvis at second, allow Frandsen to be a utility guy, and maybe save Utley's knees from potential disaster.
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The last month I have almost doubled my readership. Especially from the UK and USA, but also Spain and Chile. I am really amazed how many genuine readers who find their way to this site! An honor, indeed, and it gives me energy to continue the search for the meaning of life….The article who has had the biggest amount of readers, is the one about Fakes and Cheats. (See also the comment page following the article, which is full of opinions.) But also the article Thoughts after meeting a female explorer. An article basically about how difficult life becomes, the one of an explorer, once the lights fade away. This compelled one of the most honest and genuine explorers on earth in my view, CuChullaine O´Reilly, also a very good friend, to write this much sought after article on the subject:
Ethical Exploration
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There have been a number of entries on Mikael's blog recently which, though apparently unrelated, do in fact share a common thread – namely the theme of ethical exploration.
Mikael first released a very important article which examined the topic of "Fakes and Cheats." Though the focus was on polar liars, the topic could have just as easily have been laid at the door of any type of exploration. Equestrian exploration and long distance travel, for example, has its share of frauds lurking in the closet.
The most notorious of these charlatans was the Old West impostor, Frank Hopkins. Though the fantasies which make up the Hopkins Hoax are too numerous to list here, his most ridiculous mounted deception involved the fanciful claim that he made a lightning-fast winter time ride from Germany to Mongolia, a journey which the ice-delivery man could not have undertaken as he was in fact living in New Jersey with his wife and four children. Hopkins abandoned his family at the depth of the Great Depression, absconding with a young neighbour woman, and spent the rest of his days lurking on New York's Long Island. From there he peddled wild stories to an American press already addicted to lurid tales involving off-beat countries and phoney claims of resounding bravery.
Hopkins might have been a pathetic footnote to equestrian travel history, if the Walt Disney studio had not decided to release the movie, "Hidalgo," which they perpetrated as having been based on Hopkins' "true story." In reality, the man couldn't spell "truth".
Hopkins lied, not by accident, nor to appease sponsors, but to fuel his maniacal desire to aggrandize himself at the expense of authentic heroes. Yet anyone who follows the exploration news released by ExWeb will have seen far too many current examples of people who have sold their souls in order to attain fame and fortune. For example, recently there was a well documented case involving a fraudulent mountain-climbing claim. As Mikael rightly noted in one of his introspective articles, people do make genuine mistakes, in which case, as our host suggests, they should apologize.
But what if it wasn't a mistake? What if the so-called explorer was, like Hopkins, throwing out the rules, riding rough shod over the truth, chasing a buck, prostituting their personal integrity in exchange for a quick roll in the hay with that whore "fame"?
As Mikael's sleepless night recently demonstrated, it's easy to announce that you're an explorer, yet how do you pay the bills without selling your soul? In an age of electronic media, instant news and the cancerous onslaught of reality-based television, how do individuals maintain their personal integrity in the face of a world who is willing, nay even eager, to wink at exploration exploitation? How can the public trust the media which aggrandises a liar like Hopkins?
The answer, if I may suggest it, is always a personal one. It is a concept which goes by various names, including ethics, morality, principles, standards, ideals. Few men offer us a more dignified example of those rosy words than the Antarctic explorer, Frank Wild.
Born in Yorkshire, Wild is one those quiet heroes of Antarctic exploration whom we would do well to remember in this day of exploration chicanery. In 1901 this modest man accompanied Captain Robert Scott to Antarctica on the Discovery expedition. In 1908 he travelled with Sir Ernest Shackleton when that champion nearly bagged the South Pole. In 1911 Douglas Mawson placed Wild in charge of his Antarctic base camp. Between 1914 and 1916 Wild barely managed to survive the horrific series of accidents that crippled the Trans-Antarctic Expedition. This included being marooned on Elephant Island, where he survived on a diet of penguins and seaweed. Finally, in 1921 Wild returned to Antarctica for the last time. During that journey Sir Ernest died of a heart attack, yet his loyal lieutenant assumed command and completed the expedition.
Because he was a genuine hero of exploration, Wild was awarded the Polar Medal with four bars by the British government. The Royal Geographical Society awarded him their Patron's Medal. The diminutive explorer was made a Freeman of the city of London and honoured with a CBE by Britain's monarch. Cape Wild on Elephant Island and Mount Wild in Antarctica both bear his name.So, I ask you then to ponder how cruel was Wild's ultimate fate, as before he died in 1939, virtually penniless and largely forgotten, this brave explorer had been reduced to taking jobs as a storekeeper, cotton farmer, hotel barman, mine manager and railway worker? And what does it say for the true value of the man when I reveal that Wild's Polar medal recently sold for £132,000 !
What we mustn't lose sight of, nor encourage to occur, is the base betrayal of exploration's higher goals. As Frank Wild proves, and Mikael Strandberg recently learned, no matter how many medals a king hangs about your neck, when the fanfare fades you are still left with a host of unpaid bills and a crowd of vindictive enemies who will envy your success and even steal your dog.
One should never be tempted to pawn exploration's greater glories for a dose of fizzy, transitory, cheap fame. A recent case of exploration exploitation was revealed in Nepal, where a Sherpa announced that he is planning on taking his ten-year-old son to the top of Everest. Why? So that the child can beat the already dubious record set this year, when a 13-year-old California boy became the youngest person to climb that sadly soiled peak. This isn't the act of a reasonable father. These are the actions of a money-hungry sperm donor.
What are we to make of the startling dichotomy between Wild's genuine bravery and the Nepalese parent's aggressive ambition? Why should we care? Because our frail planet is in desperate need of genuine exploration heroes. Allow me to explain.
In the summer of 2008 an area of the Arctic sea ice twice the size of Great Britain disappeared over a couple of weeks. Nor is our globe's trouble confined to the Poles.
Five hundred miles off the coast of California a rotating oceanic current called the North Pacific Gyro is acting like an oceanic toilet bowl. Lodged within this plastic vortex, which is nearly six times the size of Great Britain, is an estimated 100 million tonnes of man-made waste and debris, including plastic bottles, tyres and chemical sludge.
Of equal worry are two other recently discovered facts. For the first time in the history of our planet, a single species, humanity, has become the dominant ecological force, and scientists predict that fifty per cent of all known species currently inhabiting the Earth will be extinct within the next fifty years.
In the face of what appears to be an on-coming climatic catastrophe, why do the wanderings of Arita Baaijens and Mikael Strandberg matter? Who cares if she disappears into the Sahara with her camels or if he ventures back into the frozen wastes of Siberia again? If their journeys don't make a buck, pull in an audience or promote a product what good are they?
This isn't a new message. It is the cynical philosophy of transitory greed. It's the siren song which every explorer confronts, in the dead of the night, when they awake, in a cold sweat and wonder, like Frank Wild, Mikael Strandberg, Arita Baaijens and others have done, why they've made such a difficult personal decision. This is the late-night soul-chilling moment when they wonder why they forsook a normal job, a dependable emotional relationship, a pension, in fact all the things that their peers sought, and found, embracing instead the explorer's constant companions, personal confusion, emotional despair and financial loneliness.
As Wild proves, you don't become an explorer because of the pay. That's why in this day of celebrity authors, lying politicians, venial television stars and common day crooks, the handful of true explorers shine like bright stars in a world full of transitory mediocrities.
Ethical exploration has always been one of humanity's sterling accomplishments, because lodged within that tiny cadre have always been a handful of men and women, like Mikael and Arita, who throughout the long march of our species, have summoned the courage to march away from the safety and taboos of their hereditary village, and set off into the unknown in search of scientific and personal knowledge.
Our species will always need ethical explorers who continue to seek the outer edges of knowledge. As Frank Wild proves, television can't make you a hero of exploration. Only your own rock hard grip on personal ethical behaviour will steer you through the shoals of deceit and onto the shore of true spiritual bravery.
CuChullaine O'Reilly is the Founder of the Long Riders' Guild, the world's international association of equestrian explorers and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers' Club. He is currently completing the "Horse Travel Handbook," the most comprehensive equestrian exploration guide ever written. This is his second article as a guest writer. Read his first here!
A very thoughtful post. I agree with many of your points. I think the community of explorers, in many respects, mirrors the broader human community. There are some who are motivated by principle, others who are motivated by fame or self-aggrandizement. Most I suspect are somewhere in the middle, influenced by principle and self-interest (just like the rest of us!). I don't agree though that "Ethical exploration has always been one of humanity's sterling accomplishments." To the contrary, most expeditions into the unknown had very specific commercial, political, or military motives. Even those expeditions that "set off into the unknown in search of scientific knowledge" e.g the voyages of James Cook, the Western Surveys, or NASA's Apollo program, had, I would argue, political motives that were stronger than the scientific ones. As for those of us who travel and explore for "personal meaning" need to look critically at their own motives. The George Mallorys and Chris McCandlesses of the world have great passion and drive, but their motives are usually far more complex than then make them out to be.
Dear Michael Robinson,
Forgive my muddled writing, as if I had thought to explain myself properly, you would not have raised a noteworthy criticism of the opinion piece.
You wrote, "I don't agree though that 'Ethical exploration has always been one of humanity's sterling accomplishments.' To the contrary, most expeditions into the unknown had very specific commercial, political, or military motives. Even those expeditions that set off into the unknown in search of scientific knowledge' e.g the voyages of James Cook, the Western Surveys, or NASA's Apollo program, had, I would argue, political motives that were stronger than the scientific ones."
The examples you provided, i.e. NASA, Cook, etc., certainly reflect documented national efforts to expand mankind's general knowledge, all the while enriching the host nation and all too often the individual explorer as well. Christopher Columbus certainly springs to my mind, when I contemplate the idea of pushing into the unknown, armed with a flag, a religion and an empty pocket book. Thus, you were right to point out that history is replete with similar examples.
Yet, because of my work with the Long Riders' Guild, when I penned the article I was quietly focusing in my mind on the individual efforts of equestrian explorers, who nearly always either travel alone or in twos. Unlike current expeditions to the Everest summit, with their caravans of sherpas, mountains of gear, hefty budgets, etc., Long Riders are largely independent, self contained and solitary. They also represent that critical point which I forgot to mention in my article, namely the vital role of the "citizen explorer," as opposed to the nationally endorsed or commercially sponsored "super" expedition which you rightly brought to our attention.
In contrast to the national expeditions, throughout history Long Riders have set off to ostensibly reach a distant geographic point, all the while many of them are busy internalizing and contemplating a wide variety of thoughts, possibilities and impressions. It is this profound "silence of the saddle," which featured so prominently in the lives of Charles Darwin and Jonathan Swift, both of whom were enthusiastic Historical Long Riders whose equestrian journeys provided a spark for their later famous literary works, i.e. Swift wrote "Gulliver's Travels," with its famous talking horses, after having ridden his beloved mare across Ireland, and Darwin happily explored three continents on horseback, every time the Beagle gave him an opportunity to go ashore.
Yet, just like the main-stream exploration world, modern Long Riders have given us both remarkable heroes, who epitomize the concept of the citizen explorer, as well as mounted knaves, who have ruthlessly exploited the public's trust.
The Australian Long Rider, Tim Cope, epitomizes the former, in that his recent 6,000 mile solo journey from Mongolia to Hungary, was not only a modern "first," it also resulted in Tim documenting the tremendous cultural impact which mounted nomad culture continues to exert on the world. Here is a link to Tim's noteworthy and noble expedition.
Sadly, at the same time Tim was riding in the hoofprints of Genghis Khan, the Guild became aware of the most ruthless case of equestrian travel exploitation in modern history. The knave involved in this case was caught by a reporter who had been tipped off to the fact that though the fellow claimed to be riding from Mexico to Canada, he was in fact comfortably living in his girl friend's house in Las Vegas. The reporter observed the con man standing on the front lawn, talking on his cell phone in Las Vegas, while pretending to be sitting next to a campfire in Wyoming. What's worse, this fellow had defrauded numerous private businesses, fraudulently claimed he was supported by the Roy Rogers orphanage, and even misused the "Cowboys for Christ" organization, all the while he was busy collecting funds for a phony children's charity. Here is a link to the notorious case.
After Mikael published my opinion piece, a trusted travelling comrade from Sweden, Hadji Abdul Haq, shared his thoughts on the need to emphasize ethics in exploration.
"There is plenty of material here for thought, for anyone venturing on the exploring track. As this article points out, to be an ethical explorer is not for the faint of heart. An explorer needs to have guidelines for right and wrong. Not only do they make it possible for the explorer to judge himself and his actions against a constant ethical barometer, it also reassures the public that the explorer's actions are not based on what he thinks is the best for himself at any given moment," the Muslim philosopher said.
As my article pointed out, regardless if you are riding across Mongolia or walking to the North Pole, everyone of us who shares our personal dreams, and professional ambitions, with the public has created a de facto agreement wherein we present ourselves as being trustworthy. Moreover, regardless if the cheater is exposed for having falsely claimed to have climbed Mt. McKinley, to have lied about racing across Australia or caught riding across America fraudulently disguised as a Christian cowboy, the end result is that the public's trust is always eroded and the noble enterprise of exploration is soiled.
Trust, not money, and regardless of any flag, needs to be the foundation on which modern exploration is based.
Kind regards,
Thanks for following up CuChullaine. Yes, I can see how the context of story changes things. I do not know much about the Long Riders Guild, but I can see how they frame the arguments you make here. My research in exploration has made me a bit jaded about motivations since I often see such a disconnect between public pronouncements and private actions. Moreover, the expeditions that I have looked at most closely — polar expeditions — often had very big stakes (e.g. wealth, prestige, celebrity) that make it difficult for explorers to disentangle their own motives. But I need to be careful not to interpret all expeditions according to this single framework. I see this more clearly now that I have begun to branch out into other arenas of travel and exploration:
Good luck in you work!
The skeptic 'sound' of Michael Robinson's comment as to the 'real' motives of the adventurer/explorer is lacking in my view a true understanding of the unmistakable effect of the sailing away from the safe harbor.
Whatever were the initial motives that drove one to sail away from the safe harbor and venture into the unknown chances are that the effect of the initial motives will not last long but rather be replaced by new motives and new horizons that one could never foresee before.
One should only make his way into the freezing brutal ice field of Siberia or wave goodbye to a small cheering crowd on the shore and row into the unforgiving horizon to find out if those initial 'safe shore' motives (i.e., Robinson's 'fame' or 'self-aggrandizement') really 'hold water' or else ( see for example – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLJSQ0XbfUA&feature=player_embedded ).The growing weakness of these arguably driving motives is especially evident when one chose to make the daring voyage alone, with no one to rely on, when no one can even see him or her in their misery and extreme depravation state. When no one could give a hand. When there is not even a single person to witness what could turn to be his or her last moments.
As a matter of fact one can make the argument that those who cheat as to their journey are actually the one who could not bear the inevitable loss of their initial motives and by that deprive themselves from what could be their greatest discovery of all. As Roz Savage put it in her usual wonderful way (during her row across the Atlantic ocean): "It doesn't matter the person I was at the start of the race," she said,"She doesn't exist anymore. What matters is the person I'm now. The lessons I have learn along the way and that I'm putting it into practice." The new motives or horizons that are waiting to be discovered are far greater than fame or alike, The illuminating personal effect that comes with the desire to push the known or 'forced' boundaries and go further beyond is much precious than the cause of doing so for the sake of scientific or geographical discoveries or for political or military reasons. It is rooted in the living quest for breaking out of the darkness and the growing sense of freedom, illumination and eventually happiness that such ventures brought and bring to the true doer.
I think that one of the reasons that adventurers find it hard to adjust when they return to the shore is because they find that their inner values and perspective had changed quite a bit and they feel confused by the contradiction between what they experienced and learnt and what the culture of the 'safe harbor' regards as important, sound or safe. The contradiction between a society that value order, stability and the reduction of chaos vis a vis the adventurer's realization of the beauty of Nietzsche's insight that "one must still have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star."
The contradiction between a culture that was pushed and forced to think that achieving security is what life is all about vis a vis the adventurer's realization that as Helen Keller wonderfully put it that "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
The group of the true adventurers might be very tiny in size but its importance to and impact on humanity is nothing short than priceless. They carry the most ancient flame of the human spirit and remind us that personal freedom is not just a slogan or mere empty words. It is something that is within our reach if we only let ourselves the chance to truly Explore. Dream and yes Discover.
I once read that a physician name Dr. MacDougall placed dying patients upon a scale in order to measure the weight of the human soul. MacDougal postulated the soul was material and therefore had mass, ergo a measurable drop in the weight of the deceased would be noted at the moment this essence parted ways with the physical remains. He found that the human soul weights just 21 grams. Now what is a body, no matter its weight, without this 21 grams? Nothing. What are we and where would we be without this tiny group of truly dancing stars?
JR: I agree with you that many explorers and adventures seek to "break out of the darkness" in search of a "growing sense of freedom, illumination and happiness." Certainly these things motivated me on my travels to the Arctic, the Middle East, and other places. And at moments — usually when I was most alone or most in danger — I felt the world peel away and something profound emerge. These were searing experiences for me and I will never forget them. Despite my skepticism about motives, then, I believe that extreme experience has the power to change people, lead to deep insights, and altered states of being. (I write about this here: http://timetoeatthedogs.com/2009/08/05/blue-hole/)
Yet even if high adventure leads to moments of self-discovery it does not follow that high adventure is ethical or that its "impact on humanity is nothing short than priceless." Exploration, after all, involves moral decisions of greater weight than pursuing freedom, finding enlightenment, or escaping civilization. It has consequences for those left behind — spouses, children, parents — as well as those who are charged with rescuing adventurers in trouble — helicopter pilots, sherpas, Inuit guides, and Coast Guard crews.
I wonder: is the 'culture of safe harbors' as you put it, is really a world devoid of challenges and dangers? Or is it that the challenges are simply more complex? After all, the risks of climbing an 8000 meter peak are daunting, but knowable. The expedition has a beginning, a dangerous climax, and an end. By comparison the world back home is more messy, open ended, more difficult to assess. Where does one find the inner chaos that makes one dance between reason and madness? Ascending the Eiger? Or staying up all night with a crying child?
You are on the right track. Keep going.
Hi Mikael,
I've been diving into your blog posts with the little free time I have
left these days. The long debates about the ethics of exploration, and
even the definition of exploration has floored me. I know I'm a rookie
in the world of adventures, and completely naïve to the reality of
long expeditions. I have to say, I've never given much thought to
defining myself. I'm just going on a bike trip and mountain trek, and
the reason I chose to publicize the event was to help with the
fundraising for the children's centre.
When writing press releases, creating my blog heading, and doing
interviews, I loosely tossed around the terms I read in the writings
of explorers and other cyclists. Maybe I figured everyone would
understand that this trip has always been simply 'because I want to do
it'. My experience in Peace Corps has taught me that it would be a
wasted opportunity to do something like this and not try to raise
money with it. So, I came up with an expedition name, even designed a
logo, proposed the idea to my favorite charity and town, and wrapped
it all in a nice PR package for internet consumption. It looks like
the plan is working, as I've already raised 300 British Pounds without
cycling one meter. I have to say though, that I'm doing all the leg
work now so that the fundraiser is on autopilot after I start. I don't
want to think or worry about the money coming in while I'm actually
out on the road.
In a very roundabout way, what I'm trying to express here is two
things: I'm doing this trip because I want to, and I'm learning the
importance of full-transparency in what I do. I'm going to start off
from Lake Assal on a bike. Right now, that's all I can say with
absolute certainty. Anything that changes along the way is part of the
trip. I'll improvise as I go, because hey, this is Africa. If I ever
make forward progress using a means beyond my own power, I'll admit
it. If I detour from my route, I'll explain why.
People have asked me if this has been done before (traveling from the
lowest point on Africa to the highest, by human power), and I don't
really know. I think Riaan Manser might qualify. To me, it never
mattered if anyone did it before me. I still want to do it, and
experience it for myself. I'm going solo because no one that I invited
wanted to come along. However, people are really talking me up. They
think that I'm the most noble person in the world, or the biggest
badass. I feel that neither are true. I'm just Kyle, and I'm going for
a bike ride.
I don't want the praise to go to my head. I'm a generally humble
person, and Ethiopia has enhanced that trait in me. I don't want to
fall into the stereotype of being the amateur man in his mid-twenties
that thinks he can conquer a mountain, or be faster than the next guy.
Thank you for putting these thoughts out there. It seems that you have
taken some professional and personal attacks as a result, but this was
obviously something people had strong feelings about.
I'm just as flawed as anyone else, but with only a few weeks before I
start a trip that has become bigger than I ever imagined, I'm going to
keep the points stressed by you and your readers in my head. Hopefully
I'll succeed in reaching the top of Kilimanjaro, but more importantly,
I hope I reach it with integrity.
You're an inspiration! Thanks for creating a website that's about more
than your own personal achievements. It's good character that makes
heroes. I'm still at a point where I'm defining my own values in life,
so a little guidance goes a long way for me.
Kyle Henning
Just saw this link at http://www.adventure-journal.com/2012/10/the-list-the-9-biggest-adventure-hoaxes/
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