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While Java is a very practical language, used nowadays to implement a large array of software applications, it also has its own share of problems. I am not the first and won't be the last person to touch on the many issues raised by its design, especially in the areas of syntax and support for non-OO concepts.
While design problems are an interesting issue for technical discussion (especially if you are a programming aficionado), it is clearly not the main reason why someone would decide to use a language or not. Mostly, you have to answer pragmatic considerations such as "do you know how to use the language well?" and "does the language provide support for the type of problems I want to solve?"
Despite this, here I will consider only two of the design problems in Java that I haven't seen discussed in other places.
Safety versus Performance
The first problem is related to the security focus of the language. As Java was initially sold as the language of the Internet, the fact that it was designed for safety looks like a very important issue. After all, nobody wants to download and install software that is unsafe and untrusted.
The mistake of Java, however, is that it tries to achieve safety at the level of byte-code execution, thinking that this is the most important aspect of security – or at least so important that it would be able to fix most of the security issues we might encounter in a networked world. For example, every time you load a Java class (or set of classes), the runtime mechanism has to spend a good amount of time trying to determine if the code is safe or not.
Security checks at the byte-code level take time and effort from the part of the runtime system. The big problem with this, however, is that only a small fraction of all code written in Java really needs the security checks that are in place. For example, even if you're writing code that will never be in contact with the Internet, you still need to pay the price for this heightened level of security when using the Java runtime. The unintended consequence of such decisions is that the security system exists mostly to slow down the execution of programs, while complicating the class loading process.
Moreover, it is now understood that security at the programming language level is of very little importance for the safety of the overall system. If a malicious programmer wants to do something bad through a downloaded application, there are thousands of avenues that can be pursued, for example, by just getting enough information directly from the user. In most cases this can be done without even having to bother executing unsafe code.
That is why modern mobile applications are digitally signed: to make sure you know its origin. Trust, in the digital world as everywhere else, comes from knowing who created the code. It is part of a reputation system, not simply result of the analysis of the code itself. Moreover, with all the security measures imagined by its designers, Java turned out to become a big vector of malware infection. So much for the supposed safety offered by the language.
Over-Engineering the JVM
Another important innovation of Java is that it made the JVM, its virtual machine, the center of attentions. Unlike other languages that consider the description of the virtual machine simply as a detail that is hidden from users, Java decided to make it a public requirement for implementers, in order to guarantee the compatibility of code written at the JVM level and provide the Java-compatible seal.
While there are interesting advantages in using a well-defined set of operations interpreted by a virtual machine (for example, the ability to transfer compiled code over different architectures), the end result of this type of low-level focus is to bring unnecessary attention to specific areas, in detriment to the overall needs of the language. Java is nowadays certainly paying the price for these early decisions.
In a new language, the syntax and runtime system should be the main focus – not the virtual machine where the programs are executed. Case in point: the implementation of Javascript is constantly improving, with a performance that nowadays approaches (and sometimes exceeds) that of Java, at least for some application areas. The main reason is that designers of Javascript engines have fewer limitations on what they can do. In particular, they can improve the intermediate code as the execution engine matures and new approaches for optimization are necessary.
The same has been true for other interpreted languages, such as Smalltalk. But this natural evolution of the op-codes and other internal representations of compiled code cannot be easily achieved in Java, because the definition of the JVM over-specifies its execution mechanism. For example, it determines the exact representation of the compiled byte-codes. Therefore, even if a better way of representing and executing Java programs becomes available, it cannot be used by compliant virtual machines.
These are issues that may be seen as easy to overcome, but that in fact permeate the way the language is approached by users and implementers. Avoiding this is not possible for Java anymore, and programmers have to learn to live with the limitations of these early decisions, or look for better ways to express themselves. Either way, it is important to learn from past problems and avoid repeating them. Newer languages such as Javascript seem to have used a few of these lessons.
About the Author
Carlos Oliveira is a software engineer and the author of Objective-C Programmers Reference.
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In an Objective-C class it is possible to declare instance variables with different levels of visibility. For public variables, any class or function that has a pointer to the object can access the content. Private ivars, however, are available only to the class itself.
Objective-C also provides protected instance variables, which can be read or written by the class where they are defined. These variables can also be accessed by any class that inherits from the containing class. These accessibility levels provide some assurance that the compiler will enforce the visibility of a particular variable. This, in turns, contributes to a better code organization.
It would be great to have the same levels of accessibility for methods, as well as for ivars. However, Objective-C does not work in this way. Messages are resolved only at run time, which means that the compiler cannot enforce such access rules during compilation.
While there is no way to enforce access rules on methods, we can use categories as a simple technique to reduce methods visibility. This is possible because a category can be created as an effective way to encompass one or more methods that are known only in the local (file) context.
Defining Categories
We need to define a new category at the beginning of an implementation file. You can use any name for that category. Traditionally, people have used the name Private for this purpose, but Objective-C also allows the name of the category to be empty, resulting in anonymous categories.
In that case, we don't need to worry about the right name for the category. But the greatest advantage of using anonymous categories is that there is no need to create a separate implementation section in your file, thus reducing the amount code to maintain.
The content of the anonymous category will be composed of all methods we would like to make private. These methods can be accessed only by code pertaining to the original class and contained in the same implementation file. Here is an example, where we implement a Library class with an anonymous category. The only method in that category is getPrivateBookTitles.
// file: Library.h @interface Library : NSObject { // instance variables here } // standard methods here @end // file: Library.m @interface Library () - (NSArray *) getPrivateBookTitles; @end @implementation Library @synthesize numericProperty = _numberOfBooks; // give a different name - (NSArray *) getPrivateBookTitles { NSArray *books = @[]; // code to find private books return books; } @end
Even when using anonymous categories, it is necessary to keep in mind that the mechanism doesn't offer run time protection for methods declared in this way. After all, it is still possible for the user of a class to send a message that will be resolved to a method in such a category.
Remember that the mechanism of message dispatching works in such a way that doesn't care about the target of the message – as long as the message can be dispatched successfully. If you really don't want some code to be executed by external classes, the best way to achieve this would be to use a static C function.
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The Aam Aadmi Party's decision to seek a referendum on government formation (Dec. 19) — and the overwhelming response it has got — is another experiment that needs to be hailed; it is food for thought for psephologists. With its clear vision, the party is emerging strong, its source of strength being drawn from the aam aadmi and by empowering them transparently.
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With reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum leading one of the majors' top rotations, the San Francisco Giants' pitching isn't a concern.
Getting consistent production from the offense will likely determine the team's chances of making its first playoff trip in six years.While Lincecum takes the mound in the opener of a three-game series against the Cincinnati Reds, the Giants' offense looks to build on one of its top games of the season.San Francisco (64-54) defeated the New York Mets 10-1 on Monday to split the first four contests of a season-high 11-game road trip and move within one game of wild-card leading Colorado.Before batting practice, manager Bruce Bochy talked to his team about finding ways to play better on the road. The Giants, who haven't been to the postseason since 2003, responded by winning for the fourth time in six road games after losing 10 of 13 away from AT&T Park."His message was to let it all hang out," said Aaron Rowand, who homered and had four hits. "We're going to play to win, not play not to lose."San Francisco's bats came to life Monday, pounding out a season-high 18 hits for its third victory in eight games. The Giants, who have scored the fifth-fewest runs in the majors (472), have plated seven total runs in their last five losses.While the offense has struggled at times, a pitching staff led by Lincecum (12-3, 2.19 ERA) and Matt Cain boasts a major league-best 3.49 ERA.Lincecum was the verge of recording his fifth complete game of the season in Wednesday's 4-2, 10-inning win over the Los Angeles Dodgers, but came up just short. The right-hander entered the ninth having allowed one run and two hits with the Giants leading 2-1, but gave up a run and two hits and was removed with two outs.Despite the disappointing finish, Lincecum still struck out seven Dodgers to increase the major's best strikeout total to 205 and lowered his major league-leading ERA.Lincecum, who is 6-1 with a 1.53 ERA in his last 10 starts, wasn't his sharpest against Cincinnati on Aug. 7, giving up three runs and six hits with seven strikeouts in a 10-5 loss, but didn't get a decision.The Giants dropped two of three to the Reds two weeks ago, and have lost four straight games at Great American Ball Park.The Reds (50-67) lost the final three games of a four-game series against Washington -- owners of baseball's worst record -- and are a major league-worst 8-24 since July 11.Cincinnati had a chance to beat the Nationals on Sunday, but Washington scored twice in the eighth to win 5-4. Rookie second baseman Drew Sutton allowed the go-ahead run to score from third when he lobbed a relay throw to first baseman Joey Votto."We have to keep learning," manager Dusty Baker told the Reds' official Web site.Baker gives the ball to Homer Bailey (2-4, 7.48), who is set to make his first start since leaving Wednesday against St. Louis with a bruised left foot.Bailey didn't record and out and last just 12 pitches after Albert Pujols lined a single that hit his foot. The right-hander allowed singles to all three batters he faced, and all three scored in the 5-2 loss.Bailey opposed Lincecum and the Giants two weeks ago, and permitted five runs and nine hits in six innings, but didn't receive a decision. He has yielded at least five runs in five of his 10 starts this season.Copyright by STATS LLC and The Associated Press
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San Francisco | Cincinnati | |
Night | 59-50 | 55-55 |
Grass | 88-74 | 77-82 |
Current Streak | W1 | W2 |
Last 10 | 6-4 | 7-3 |
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H. Bailey 8-5, 4.53 ERA Last Game: 10/4 vs PIT 6.0 IP, 0 ER Dec = Win |
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1. | E. Velez, LF | C. Dickerson, CF |
2. | E. Renteria, SS | W. Taveras, CF |
3. | P. Sandoval, 3B | J. Votto, 1B |
4. | B. Molina, C | B. Phillips, 2B |
5. | R. Winn, RF | W. Balentien, LF |
6. | R. Garko, 1B | A. Rosales, 3B |
7. | A. Rowand, CF | R. Hanigan, C |
8. | J. Uribe, 2B | P. Janish, SS |
9. | T. Lincecum, P | H. Bailey, P |
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In 2014, the total amount earned by just the top 5 films in India netted ₹ 1940 Crore! Quite an impressive number! We thought we would give you a look into those top 5! Bear in mind that this countdown is based on pure fact and figures and what films the audience came out in droves to see! You may have liked some of the films and some of them you may have not – but come what may, these are your top five grossers for 2014.
Starring – Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Amol Gupte, Anupam Kher, Dayananad Shetty, Sameer Dharamadhikari, Ashwini Kalsekar, Sharat Saxena, Zakir Hussain, Mahesh Manjrekar
Director – Rohit Shetty
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The sequel to the 2011 film Singham, actor Ajay Devgan reprises his role as Bajirao Singham with Kareena Kapoor Khan playing the female lead. »
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This is a movie as its own death wish. To call it cheap, lazy, and perfunctory grants it a dignity that implies there was another path it could have taken. I'm "biast" (pro): nothing
I'm "biast" (con): not a fan of the franchise
(what is this about? see my critic's minifesto)
I figure French fauxteur Olivier Megaton (Taken 2, Colombiana) jumped his own shark when he chose that nom de cinema, but if not, he's definitely done it now with Taken 3. It wouldn't be fair to call this a movie: it's more a phony, forced assemblage of stilted dialogue, incoherent action sequences, inexplicably sociopathic behavior on the part of its supposedly sympathetic protagonist, and bad self-referential "jokes" about the many idiocies of the franchise it has now, we can hope, killed for good. This is a movie as its own death wish. »
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Bollywood churns out on average 120 plus films a year, with 2014 reaching 142. So to think all of them will go down in history as being successful is rather naive. But what about the ones we thought would work wonders but came up short? The ones that left us thinking, "Why was this allowed past the editing board"? Even ones that somehow managed to cha-ching the money registers sky high. 2014 had its fair share of films that fit all these categories. BollySpice brings you the biggest disappointments of 2014.
10. Holiday
A.R.Murugadoss blew everyone's mind when he told a tale of an anterograde amnesia patient desperately seeking revenge for the murder of his girlfriend in Ghajini. Yet when it came to a follow up film, one could say Holiday fell short of all the trimmings to recreate the magic. The writer in Murugadoss failed to see the shortcomings of his story, »
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Bang Bang (2014) ReviewPlot65%Acting75%Action76%Directing74%Music and Songs75%Fun, Colorful filmNice action sequencesHrithik Roshan is a good Action heroSome of the Bollywood obligations slow it down a bitSome comedic elements could irritate75%Overall ScoreReader Rating: (1 Vote)64%
We are all familiar with Hollywood remaking Asian films, but sometimes it also happens the other way around. This is the case with the Bollywood smash hit Bang Bang, which is a remake of the 2010 Tom Cruise action-fest Knight and Day. One might wonder why of all the films that can be remade, this one was chosen, since it wasn't such a big hit and generally isn't seen as a great film. But when you have Bollywood mega star Hrithik Roshan in the lead role, and the biggest budget ever used for a Indian film at your disposal, it might turn out to become something quite spectacular.
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2014 gave many gems to adore like Queen, Finding Fanny and Haider, but for every good film there's a Humshakals, It's Entertainment and Action Jackson. With every editorial on the new changes in Bollywood, there's the inexplicable popularity of duds that have Ajay Devgn loudly zipping up his trousers or Saif running around London like a dog. It's baffling that films like Bang Bang or Kick work, but the modest failure of Humshakals had us filled with glee, maybe next year the audiences will finally give up on Sajid Khan. This year's Razzies features some repeat offenders (looking at you Jackky!) and some newbies who should know better.
Awful Actress – Katrina Kaif in Bang Bang
Every time, we want to forgive Katrina Kaif for her blandness and poker face, she gives us another lacklustre performance to trash. It's a bit too easy here in Bang Bang, »
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IBio To Join GE Healthcare Bioprocess Tour
iBio, Inc. (NYSE AMEX:IBIO) today announced that Terence E. Ryan, Ph.D., iBio's Senior Vice-President, will represent iBio in joint marketing presentations with representatives of GE Healthcare as part of the GE Healthcare Bioprocess Tour in Taipei, Shanghai and Beijing beginning today and extending through April 15. This series of presentations is the first international business development initiative under the joint marketing agreement announced September 1, 2010 by iBio, GE, and Fraunhofer USA Center for Molecular Biotechnology (CMB).
Dr. Ryan will describe the iBioLaunch™ Platform for the expression of recombinant proteins in whole plants for subunit vaccine and biotherapeutics applications, and scientists from the GE Healthcare site in Uppsala, Sweden will present their latest advances in downstream protein purification, highlighted by their advanced chromatography matrices and chromatographic equipment.
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Missouri men's basketball coach Frank Haith was the head coach at Miami for the past seven seasons before being hired by the Tigers in April.
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Nevin Shapiro, who is now in prison for running $930 million Ponzi scheme, was a Miami booster between 2002 and 2010.
Missouri football team hunting for return man
A large group of players are competing to succeed Carl Gettis as the Missouri football team's punt returner.
Wives of Pinkel, Alden to host football clinic for women
Attendees will have brunch while watching a Missouri Tigers football practice.
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Senior offensive lineman Elvis Fisher is scheduled to have surgery on Tuesday to repair an injured tendon in his left knee.
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Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin spoke Monday after receiving authority from the board of regents to take any action he deems necessary in terms of conference realignment.
Missouri offensive tackle Fisher injures knee
Missouri senior offensive tackle Elvis Fisher left practice with what coach Gary Pinkel characterized as a serious knee injury.
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On consecutive possessions during Saturday's scrimmage, Lawrence burst through holes and broke away for 60-yard touchdowns. The runs were the highlight of the morning for the offense, which performed erratically.
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Meetings fuel speculation that Texas A&M is leaving Big 12
Realignment of college athletic conferences is on the agenda for a meeting of the Texas A&M board of regents and is the topic of a Texas House Committee on Higher Education hearing.
Missouri football team's practice grind put into perspective by Marine
Maj. Sean Quinlan of the Marine Corps drew parallels between his troops and the Tigers while also pointing out the differences when he spoke to the team Wednesday evening.
Sheldon Richardson joins Missouri's fall football camp
The former nationally heralded recruit made his first appearance at the Tigers' practice Thursday.
Missouri football defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson cleared to practice Thursday
Richardson, a nationally heralded recruit, was not in uniform for the first week of Missouri's fall camp because he awaited a final eligibility ruling from the NCAA.
Missouri's Trey Barrow making transition from kicker to punter
The Moberly native is listed as No. 1 at punter on the Missouri football team's depth chart.
Costello returns as mentor to Missouri quarterbacks
Jimmy Costello is back for his final year of eligibility, putting other plans aside to act as a mentor to James Franklin and the younger quarterbacks.
Missouri walk-on brings 'rock and roll' attitude to offensive line
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Josh Ferris served for the Navy in both Afghanistan and Iraq, but now he's here in Columbia with his dad and some family friends for the Missouri football team's Fan Day.
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IF YOU HAD WON ONE OF endurance sports' most grueling contests, twice, and your chief rival had won it once, and if his tanned mug and chiseled pecs had appeared on the covers of Runner's World, Trail Runner, Marathon & Beyond, SF Weekly, and this very publication, and he had bantered with not one but two late-night talk-show hosts and had been granted a 44-city book tour and a product-endorsement deal from a national cosmetics company and a major sponsorship from The North Face, and you had notif, in fact, you'd gotten only one late-night TV appearance, along with The Tony Danza Show, as well as some free sneakers and sports drinks, and you'd had to share your big 60 Minutes segment with your rivalyou could go about things one of two ways. You could shrug and chalk it up to "that's how the shallow world works; he's a sex symbol and I'm not," or you could set out to prove that you deserve some attention around here.
If you were Pam Reed, you'd choose the second option. Which is why, just north of Tucson, Arizona, on a Sunday morning in late March, the 44-year-old couldn't remember if she was running north or south, or what she was supposed to do when she got there. By that night, she was still running. She'd been running since Friday morning without stoppingexcept to pee, standing up, among the roadside brittlebushfor a total of 238 miles so far, and her goal of 300 miles dangled at least another night away. The pee thing was an art she'd perfected during 15 years of ultramarathons, and she's scarily good at it, to the point that it involves no undressing and no sticky legs. She hasn't yet worked out how to pee while running, as many men do, but don't put it past her.
Reed's course was a 12.5-mile-long stretch of I-10 frontage road. The plan was to run back and forth on it for 24 circuits without sleep breakspast the casino billboards, the derelict black Dodge van, and the sign that read truck hauling. The terrain was flat and unspectacular, humming with semis from the interstate.
"God, I can't believe how long this is taking," she said, but casually, as if she were standing in line for postage stamps. Her bent arms swung mechanically. Her feet glided low over the asphalt, planting without a sound. Thin and spindly, she appeared smaller than five foot three; her face looked vacuum-wrapped, like skydivers' faces look when they're free-falling, an image aided by the upward spikes of her short blond hair. Reed's pretty blue eyes shone with determination. Although there were no competitors around to spur her on, she did have one specter in mind: Dean Karnazes, a fellow ultrarunner who'd appeared glowing and nearly naked on the cover of the February 2005 Runner's World. That image was enough to propel her through three sleepless nights and 45 bottles of vanilla Ensure.
Karnazes, the 42-year-old San Franciscobased president of Good Health Natural Foods, had broken Reed's two-year winning streak the summer before at the Kiehl's Badwater Ultramarathon, a grueling 135-mile race from the bottom of Death Valley to a finish line halfway up Mount Whitney. The year before that, Reed had beaten him there by 25 minutes, in a race that lasted more than 28 hours, in up to 127-degree heat. And the year before that, in her very first Badwater, Reed beat her nearest competitor by more than five hours, and the nearest woman by ten.
None of that helped ease the sting of the Runner's World cover, the latest in a mounting stack of glossies and television appearances by Karnazes. And this was all before his memoir, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner, published in March by Tarcher/Penguin, sold 50,000 copies and climbed to number 18 on the New York Times bestseller list.
"When I won Badwater, I didn't think that much of it," Reed said the night before starting her 300-mile run. "But what bothers me is he gets a cover of Runner's World. They only did a little blurb on me."
Her feelings, she said, were not personal. "It's not him; it's our society. Dean is a really nice guy. I'm not jealous of him, but women need to get some recognition at some point. Running has politicized me."
On the cover, alongside Karnazes's heaving quads, ran the text DEAN KARNAZES WANTS TO RUN 300 MILES (WITHOUT STOPPING).
So Reed had an idea. She'd scoop Poster Boy. As a goal, it was arbitrary. Only a handful of ultrarunners had run so far in one outing, and going 300 miles without resting at all, Karnazes and Reed each hoped, could be a first.
Reed is as tough as a desert tortoise. She runs 110-plus miles a week in the Arizona sun, and she doesn't use sunscreen, her theory being that it blocks the body's evaporative cooling. Her skin is more like a hide, and it has served her well. She's given birth to three children, Timothy, 20, Andrew, 16, and Jackson, 10; stepmothered two others, 16-year-old Jonathan and 19-year-old Greg; been a high school cheerleader and run track in Negaunee, Michigan; played tennis at Michigan Tech; suffered 15 years of anorexia, including two hospitalizations; lost most of her teeth (thanks to a genetic predisposition); and become an ultrarunning phenom. Since she started competing in Ironman Triathlons in her late twenties, she's run more than 40 races longer than 100 miles, and 100-plus marathons, including two "double Bostons"back-to-back laps of the Boston Marathon. In 2003 she broke the U.S. women's 24-hour track record and, last year, the 48-hour women's record for her age group.
All this, and in dentures.
DEAN KARNAZES IS THE KIND OF GUY who does pee while running, as detailed in Ultramarathon Man, along with other amusing anecdotes of the running life, such as puking all over his company Lexus after his first ultra, in 1993, and passing out spectacularly at mile 72 of his first Badwater attempt, in 1995.
This past June in Squaw Valley, California, Karnazes arrived at the 100-mile Western States Endurance Run in top form, sauntering toward the medical check-in flanked by his wife, Julie, a dentist; kids Alexandria and Nicholas, ages ten and seven; and a representative from The North Face, which sponsors the event and has sponsored Karnazes off and on since 1999. Western States is the country's oldest and most prestigious ultra trail race, and Karnazes was eager to earn a special 1,000-mile silver belt buckle for completing the event for the tenth time. He wore snazzy red North Face surf shorts and a pair of North Face trail shoes he helped design, and his veins popped commandingly from his calves, which were shaped like paleolithic clubs. People snapped his picture while he ate lunch or strolled around, and, at one point, a man in running clothes sidled up and excitedly thrust out his hand.
"Hi, my name is Mark, and I just read your book," he said. "I want you to know it really inspired me. This is my first 100-mile race."
"Hey, thanks, man. Glad you enjoyed it. Good luck tomorrow," said Karnazes, flashing his high-voltage smile. "Karno" appears at ease with his celebrity, a status that was, until he came along, completely foreign to the world of ultrarunning. For most competitors, Zenlike suffering is its own reward, but Karnazes is either a more social or more pragmatic animal. After weighing in at race headquarters (157 pounds at five foot nine, blood pressure 108/70, heart rate 40 beats per minute), he jogged to the concession room to sign his book.
To almost everyone's surprise, including his own, he says, crowds have flocked to Karnazes's book signings, lining up to hear his moving account of how he runs to live life to the fullest and to honor the memory of his sister, who died in a car accident as a teenager. "I like to get up there and tell my story," he says. "If it's inspirational, if that's what people get out of it, it's kind of a rush, actually. Almost like an ultra in a sense, like a drug, and then when you're finished, people are applauding."
Karnazes's unlikely media breakout is all the more surprising given that he's not even the world's best ultrarunner, though both he and Reed routinely finish near the top of the pack. But the two have managed to shake up the sport in ways that other ultrarunners can'tor won't. They've done this in two ways: first, through their over-the-top pursuit of brutal distances, and second, through their wholly unapologetic pursuit of fame. Since Karnazes started competing in ultras in 1993, he's won only one major title, the 2004 Badwater, where he bested Reed. But no one can touch Karno in the marketplace.
A cross-country, volleyball, and surfing star in high school in San Clemente, California, and a windsurfer at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, Karnazes started running long distances on his 30th birthday, when he jogged all night to stave off an early midlife crisis. By the late 1990s he was wowing the Bay Area by soloing the 199-mile Relay from Calistoga to Santa Cruz, a feat he's now accomplished seven times. He ran the first South Pole Marathon, in 2002, posing nude post-race at the bottom of the world. Last year, he ran 262 miles, ten marathon distances in a row, to raise money for Organs 'R' Us. Did we mention that he cross-trains by surfing, rock-climbing, and mountain-biking?
"He's a dream," says Katie Ramage, who manages The North Face's athlete team. "He's smart. He's driven. He's photogenic. We have a category called media darling, and he gets the highest ranking." The cosmetics company Kiehl's, which sponsors Badwater, underwrote Karnazes's book tour, a fine complement to its line of Vital Sun Protection and Facial Fuel Energizing Moisture Treatment. Dashing into the Kiehl's store in Las Vegas for a signing last summer, Dean joked to the crowd that he was late because he'd had to mousse his chestnut locks.
It's a tough act to follow.
"Have you seen him? He's great-looking," groans Pam Reed. She was also at Western States this June, sans entourage. Her husband, Jim, would serve as pacer, chauffeur, and hander-over of Red Bull and Ensure. Reed almost didn't come to the 2005 event, but, like Karnazes, she wants to nail ten of these babies, and this was number six. Lately, though, she'd been pushing herself too hard, first on her Arizona highway solo, then by running a London Marathon, followed the next morning by a double Boston ("That was a mistake!" she said afterwards), then running 178 miles at a 48-hour race in France.
On race day, bounding into the aid station at the top of a 36-switchback climb at mile 47, Karno looked as fresh as trailside lupine. He unfurled his shirt, poured ice water over his head, and filled his bottles. "I feel good," he said. "I enjoy watching the sky." Then he grabbed a cookie and chased off after the Tanzanian in 11th place.
Reed, for her part, was struggling. At 5:30 a.m., she was slogging the remaining few miles en route to a 25-hour-59-minute time, four hours before the race's 30-hour cutoff. Her husband had quit pacing her after 20 miles, leaving her to navigate the nighttime forest on her own. "This is the worst ultra I've ever run," she said at mile 96.8. "Everything hurts. Everything." Karnazes, meanwhile, had leaped across the finish line in seventh place at around 11 p.m. the night before, finishing in 18 hours and 14 minutes. After a quick water douse, he peeled off his socks. Not a blister or blackened toenail in sight. "Hey," he said, standing up and shaking his arms. "That was fun!"
No wonder Reed wants to gag on her GU2O.
NEITHER OF THEM HAD WON. While Karnazes stood with his sponsors posing and hugging, the race's victor, a sweet, skinny 31-year-old named Scott Jurek, lay wrapped in a sleeping bag, tethered to an IV. Jurek is Western States' Lance Armstrong: He's won the thing seven years in a row, setting an astounding course record of 15 hours 36 minutes in 2004. After his 2005 win, he gave a short interview to a local TV station, then threw up. What's that about?
First, you need to understand that Jurek's obscurity is not only typical; it's standard, part of the sport's unspoken code of modesty, humility, and silent suffering. Up until recently, there's been no fame or glory for ultrarunning, which shows little sign of becoming a mass phenomenon. Last year, 12,000 to 15,000 people finished an ultra in the U.S., compared with some 150,000 triathletes and 423,000 marathoners. Fewer than 20 runners participated in all four races of ultra's trail-running grand slam: Western States, Colorado's Leadville 100, the Vermont 100, and Utah's Wasatch 100.
Ultrarunning is bigger internationally, but it's still such an underfunded addition to the global roster of sportsthe International Association of Ultrarunners' 24-hour world championship has been held regularly for only the last three yearsthat members of the U.S. team, to which both Karnazes and Reed belong, had to pay their way to the July 2005 race in Austria. While triathlon is now an Olympic sport, ultrarunning probably never will be, since nobody wants to see the marathon, being ancient and Greek and all, getting upstaged. And because ultramarathons are not exactly spectator-friendlywho wants to watch a bunch of endlessly running runners endlessly running some more?there's barely any TV coverage or big money in the game.
The sport's figurehead in this country is Marshall Ulrich, a 54-year-old veteran of 111 ultras, including 13 Badwaters (which he won four times). Ulrich has a reputation for suffering some of the best hallucinations in ultra lorechasing a silver-bikini-clad siren through the desert and watching Mount Whitney squirm violently with millions of lizards. He's climbed the Seven Summits and competed in nine Eco-Challenges, and he's appeared on Dateline and the Today show. But he gets nowhere near the exposure of Karnazes.
Ulrich and Jurek aren't the only ones achieving great things under the radar. Few Americans have heard of ultra's greatest living star, Yiannis Kouros, a Greek racer living in Australia. In addition to breaking records in almost every road or track ultra eventfrom 24- and 48-hour races to 100-mile competitionshe ran 300 track miles in 60 hours in 1984, did 1,000 miles in ten days in 1988, and still competes at age 49.
And no one paid attention when John Geesler, a 46-year-old maintenance man from St. Johnsville, New York, ran 300 miles in 69 hours on a track a few months before Pam Reed's long solo. No official records are kept for three-day races, so it didn't make a splash, and Geesler didn't think to seek one. "Right after I did that race, I heard Dean was on the cover of Runner's World," Geesler says. "It's a coincidence that he's getting all this publicity for wanting to do 300 miles when I had just done it. Maybe it doesn't count in their eyes because I took a one-hour nap. That's OK with me. To each his own."
Geesler's next goal is to break the U.S. track record of 554 miles over six days. Even if he pulls that off, it's unlikely to make prime time.
So why do it? Because other people can't, and because there just may be something deep inside the human animalor at least some human animalsthat hungers to run this far. According to a paper published last year in the journal Nature, humans may have evolved to a higher plane specifically because of our predilection for running. Bipedalism, sweating, and springy tendons like the Achilles are handy for walking, the theory goes, but critical for running long distances. Two million years ago, endurance may have allowed our ancestors to run prey to exhaustion. Eating more fat and protein, we could develop smaller guts and larger brains. Running is us.
"People think we're crazy and psychotic and bizarre, and yes, some of us are very Type A or competitive," says Jurek, "but there's a spiritual side, too. You really learn about yourself when you bring yourself to that edge. It gives you a glimpse of what you're really made of and even the meaning of life, a vision of the soul. It's an evolved, instinctual thing to do."
Although Jurek does receive a modest sponsorship salary from Brooks running shoes, in addition to his job as a physical therapist, he hasn't written a book or graced a box of cereal. That suits him fine. I caught up with him the day before Western States. He was busy whipping up avocado-and-algae pudding and happily staying out of the spotlight.
"I think I'll pass on Dean Karnazes's image," he said. Like many runners, he finds the Pam-and-Dean rivalry annoying.
"To have this little sideshow going on," he said, "I don't think that's the essence of the sport."
JUREK ISN'T ALONE IN feeling that way. Here's an obscure sport finally getting some attention, but for a reason that makes many competitors break out in the mental version of athlete's foot: the preening of two of its stars. Racers joke about Karnazes leaving a mirror at the midway aid stations. When he was described on 60 Minutes in March as possibly having run farther than anyone else alive, computer listserv junkies jumped all over the claim as bogus, citing Kouros and others. While other runners have certainly gone farther, the question of whether running so far nonstop is a "first" opens up a morass of other questions, like what constitutes "nonstop" and how fast you have to be going to still call it "running." When Karnazes appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman that same month, one scribbler on the Ultra listserv vented, "Dean Karnazes is just another self-promoting huckster."
It was the 60 Minutes segment that really hyped the rivalry, focusing as it did on the two Badwater front-runners as they competed in 2004. Before the race, Karnazes told Lesley Stahl, "Coming in second is the worst thing you could ever do, because no one said, 'You had a great finish at Badwater.' They just say, 'You lost to Pam.'"
Still, Karnazes maintains, being targeted by Reed for one-upmanship is a surreal experience. "We've raced a dozen times together, and she's won once," he says. "I'm a little bummed she's playing up the Badwater thing. She wants to get revenge. It's not like I'm the only one who beat her." (Reed came in fourth.) But the envy makes sense. Karno has what Reed yearns for: a lucrative running life.
Cash helps, because the road to glycogen-powered enlightenment isn't cheap. Like most elite ultrarunners, Pam Reed loses money. Between event fees, travel, and gear, she spent close to $25,000 last year. A fraction of that was covered by two speaking fees and a few free productsshoes from a Tucson running shop, some Ensure, and all the Red Bull she can drink. (As a "friend of Red Bull," Reed does get some expense money, but she still sits a rank below their top athletes. "I want to be that, their top level," she says.) Although the family is comfortableher husband, Jim, is a tax accountant and they spend summers in posh Jackson Hole, WyomingReed's global competitions strain their finances. What Reed would like is, yes, a little validation, but mostly some cold, hard cash.
Hence the stunts. "Dean and I are oddly similar," says Reed. "We've done off-the-wall things."
Karnazes seeks out his very own categories. Only three men ran in the 2002 South Pole Marathon, the other two in snowshoes. Although Dean finished second, he made it known that he won the "running division," becoming the first person to complete a polar marathon in sneakers. Last year, he traversed the Western States course in winter, a supposed first. In 2003, he set out to run 300 miles nonstop on a mountainous course, but quit at mile 226. Now he's considering retracing the steps of legendary Greek messenger Pheidippides, who carried dispatches from Athens to Sparta in the Battle of Marathon in 490 b.c. In his book, Karno compares himself to Pheidippides; for good measure, he plans to run wearing full armor.
Karnazes knows that some of his colleagues rag him, and responds by pointing out that his runs raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for leukemia and organ donation and increase the sport's visibility. "In my defense," he says of his book, "it's a memoir. It's not a definitive statement on ultrarunning. I never claimed to be an authority on ultrarunning or necessarily a good ultrarunner.
"It's either jealousy or whining," he says of his detractors. "I wish they'd come to the bookstores and see how inspired people are about it."
Their real problem, he feels, is with the very idea of the chummy, clannish sport undergoing a makeover. Many runners want to keep the races small and obscure, an attitude that chafes him. "I find it comical that people are saying you're giving away the Garden of Eden," Karnazes says. "I'm like, Shit, I can see that about a fishing hole or a secret surfing break, but there's a lot of open road in this country."
And some ultrarunners agree with him. "This sport needs to be a little more mainstream, as opposed to so extreme and underground and hidden," says Shannon Farar-Griefer, 44, who in 2001 became the first woman to run a "double Badwater"for a total of 292 miles (with naps). A Los Angeles resident who looks like a cross between Goldie Hawn and Olympic marathoner Paula Radcliffe, Farar-Griefer appeared in a Slim Fast commercial and is writing a memoir.
"I love it that Pam and Dean are doing this," she says. "Three years ago people would have whooshed me away. Now I can jump on their thing. I just sent Energizer my portfolio. It's time for a new bunny."
IT'S TOO EARLY TO TELL how many converts Karnazes and Reed will bring to ultrarunning, since it takes newbies a solid year to train for their first race. But no one can deny that Karnazes is revolutionizing the sport, inspiring many weekend warriors to take it up a notch.
"We'll see bigger numbers," says Western States race director Greg Soderlund, "and a lot of that is because of Dean's book." Reed, too, wants to spread fitness fever. "I want to be an inspiration to girls and other women that they can do anything they want," she says, "and not just let categories like 'mother' limit them."
Money and fame aside, both Karnazes and Reed are motivated more by primal need than anything else. For years they toiled in obscurity, running simply because they couldn't stop. On the surface Karno is a jokester who says he has no problem balancing his training schedule, his job, and his family life. But an easygoing ultrarunner is an oxymoron: On a typical weekend, he'll run all night and play normal dad during the day. And easygoing people don't generally quote Dostoyevsky ("Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness") or write things in their book like "If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone . . . you're choosing a numb existence."
Reed races almost monthly, because she is, by all appearances, completely obsessed. She simply can't sit still: If she's at an airport, she runs laps around the parking lot; if she's in the car with her family, she gets out while they eat, and they pick her up down the road an hour later. "I might have ADD," she says. "I'm very hyper. I've never not run, even two days after my C-sections."
It's possible to view Reed's drive to outrun Karnazes as a spin cycle of desperation. No matter how many races she wins, she'll probably never achieve his media stature, and she'll put her body through hell in the process. In other sports, ability is determined by points or scores or time limits, but in ultrarunning, rogue competitors like these two could theoretically just keep running until they drop.
The jury is still out on how running ultras may affect bodies like Karnazes's and Reed's. Over the short term, it's not uncommon for runners to seize up, retch, or pass out. Some suffer acute renal failure caused by tubular necrosis (when waste from muscle breakdown infiltrates the kidneys), or hyponatremia (a life-threatening low sodium concentration). On a 100-mile run, racers can lose and consume up to one-third of their weight in fluids and damage muscle tissue to the extent that it can take months to recover. They may suffer "leaky gut" syndrome, in which intestinal contents make their way into the bloodstream, resulting in nasty digestive problems. And they may be suppressing their immune systems, aging prematurely, and lowering their sex drive.
As a woman trying to prove herself against men, Reed pushes it even harder. Although she works from her home office as the race director of the Tucson Marathon, she still runs carpools, gets dinner on the table, and attends Jackson's Little League games. Further complicating the picture is her history of anorexia. Off and on for 15 years, starting in 1976, Reed struggled with the disease, taking laxatives, except while pregnant. In 1991, she quit after it finally dawned on her, during a hospital stay, how skeletonized the bodies of other anorexics were.
"It was so stupid," she says. "Just stupid. I was like, Never again." So she replaced one compulsion with another, relatively healthier one. And she's taking it as far as she can.
IN ARIZONA, SOMETIME before the moon set on Picacho Peak at an ungodly hour Monday morning, Pam Reed passed Dean Karnazes's personal best262 miles. It had taken him about 75 hours, and it took her 67. "It felt good to pass Dean's record," she says. "But, you know, he was running on hills. It's just going to feel good to go 300 miles." Her form looked almost no different from nearly three days earlier, but her speed was even slower, down to 20-minute miles. Earlier in the night, she'd nodded off for a few seconds as she ran; now she was listening to AC/DC on her 16-year-old's iPod Shuffle.
At 1:57 p.m., 79 hours and 57 minutes after beginning, Reed shambled across the 300- (actually the 302-) mile mark. She hugged her three sons and her parents, who'd been camped beside the road for four days in a Minnie Winnie, cooking her pasta and oatmeal. A few local reporters gathered, and she answered questions and took off her shoes. After 302 miles, she had exactly one blister. The previous evening, the 60 Minutes segment had aired, and by June she would finally secure a long-sought book deal from Rodale Press to write about overcoming anorexia to become an elite athlete. "I want my book to be more on life and how hard it is to be a mom and person and wife," says Reed. "To continue on with training, there's a huge price you pay."
Still, the feeling of achievement was sweet. "I love it that I did it," she said.
Karno probably didn't feel so good, although he acted as if he hardly noticed. He said he'd revised his goal from 300 miles to 500 miles anyway, and that he'd try it on a flatter course, possibly from San Francisco to Los Angeles. "I would never discount what Pam's done," he said. "I applaud anyone who can run that far, but it seemed kind of contrived. It's just not where my heart is, running around in circles. What she did and what I did are so different. I ran 262 miles through the mountains.
"As in every ultra," Karnazes emphasized, "I just compete against myself. I gotta say, I think her ego is bigger than mine."
Not one to take a challenge lightly, Reed upped the ante. In May, she invited Karnazes to join her in a head-to-head 500-mile race sometime within the next year. "The rule would be 500 miles and whoever gets there first," said Reed. "Whatever happens, it would be a win-win." In June, Karnazes said he would accept if the right course and charity could be lined up.
Finally, their rivalry could be openly expressed.
It would be like Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs!
Like Seabiscuit and War Admiral!
Or not. By early August, Reed was reconsidering, thinking maybe she'd do a 500-miler across the state of Arizona instead. In July at Badwater, she'd had to settle for fifth as Jurek, in his first appearance at the race, wiped out the competition. She hadn't even gotten to face Karno: He'd skipped the event to compete at the world championships in Austria, where he came in 34th overall. Now Reed just seemed tired of it all. "How much more do I have to prove here?" she asked. "I'm not getting any younger. I should forget about Dean." But then again, she added, laughing, "I really would like to run 500 miles. How sick is that?"
For many in this publicity-shy sport, a cease-fire would be a relief. "There are some people for whom any race is never enough," says Ulrich, the Badwater master hallucinator, who describes himself as a "recovering" endurance addict. "I look at them and see they've got a long way to go and a lot to learn. I have respect and appreciation for them. But when you start comparing yourself to other people, it's a bad road to go down. You should be happy with yourself."
Words to run by, no doubt. But perhaps not just yet.
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Yesterday we had unseasonally warm temperatures (10 degrees C when it is typically -10 to -20!) and most of the snow has melted. As a result, my coldframe is once again visible and accessible. I had left my min/max thermometer in there and much to my surprise the minimum temperature was only -8 (quite impressive considering we've had many days in the -20s.) And, the 'Regal' and 'Longstanding Bloomsdale' Spinach look as happy as they do in the spring!!!
So, I picked spinach and we're going to have it for salad tonight. This is by far the latest (or earliest?) harvest I have ever had from outside. One of the items on this summer's agenda will be to build another coldframe. Fresh vegetables from outside at this time of year sure is a novelty!
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text: "This project gave us a chance to excel at what we do best - capturing heart-felt performances from real people and telling great stories," stated East Pleasant EP Sarah Roebuck. "Projects that are both high-impact and multifaceted are ideal, as they're exactly what we designed East Pleasant and Pleasant Post to be able handle. Our entire team did a great job bringing everything together."