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To live with ghosts requires solitude.
—Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
FOR DAYS, I'd been searching Mexico's Sierra Madre for the phantom known as Caballo Blanco—the White Horse. I'd finally arrived at the end of the trail, in the last place I expected to find him—not deep in the wilderness he was said to haunt, but in the dim lobby of an old hotel on the edge of a dusty desert town. "Sí, El Caballo está," the desk clerk said, nodding. Yes, the Horse is here.
"For real?" After hearing that I'd just missed him so many times, in so many bizarre locations, I'd begun to suspect that Caballo Blanco was nothing more than a fairy tale, a local Loch Ness mons - truo dreamed up to spook the kids and fool gullible gringos.
"He's always back by five," the clerk added. "It's like a ritual." I didn't know whether to hug her in relief or high- five her in triumph. I checked my watch. That meant I'd actually lay eyes on the ghost in less than . . . hang on.
"But it's already after six."
The clerk shrugged. "Maybe he's gone away."
I sagged into an ancient sofa. I was filthy, famished, and defeated. I was exhausted, and so were my leads.
Some said Caballo Blanco was a fugitive; others heard he was a boxer who'd run off to punish himself after beating a man to death in the ring. No one knew his name, or age, or where he was from. He was like some Old West gunslinger whose only traces were tall tales and a whiff of cigarillo smoke. Descriptions and sightings were all over the map; villagers who lived impossible distances apart swore they'd seen him traveling on foot on the same day, and described him on a scale that swung wildly from "funny and simpático" to "freaky and gigantic."
But in all versions of the Caballo Blanco legend, certain basic details were always the same: He'd come to Mexico years ago and trekked deep into the wild, impenetrable Barrancas del Cobre—the Copper Canyons—to live among the Tarahumara, a near- mythical tribe of Stone Age superathletes. The Tarahumara (pronounced Spanish- style by swallowing the "h": Tara- oo- mara) may be the healthiest and most serene people on earth, and the greatest runners of all time.
When it comes to ultradistances, nothing can beat a Tarahumara runner—not a racehorse, not a cheetah, not an Olympic marathoner.
Very few outsiders have ever seen the Tarahumara in action, but amazing stories of their superhuman toughness and tranquillity have drifted out of the canyons for centuries. One explorer swore he saw a Tarahumara catch a deer with his bare hands, chasing the bounding animal until it finally dropped dead from exhaustion, "its hoofs falling off." Another adventurer spent ten hours climbing up and over a Copper Canyon mountain by mule; a Tarahumara runner made the same trip in ninety minutes.
"Try this," a Tarahumara woman once told an exhausted explorer who'd collapsed at the base of a mountain. She handed him a gourd full of a murky liquid. He swallowed a few gulps, and was amazed to feel new energy pulsing in his veins. He got to his feet and scaled the peak like an overcaffeinated Sherpa. The Tarahumara, the explorer would later report, also guarded the recipe to a special energy food that leaves them trim, powerful, and unstoppable: a few mouthfuls packed enough nutritional punch to let them run all day without rest.
But whatever secrets the Tarahumara are hiding, they've hidden them well. To this day, the Tarahumara live in the side of cliffs higher than a hawk's nest in a land few have ever seen. The Barrancas are a lost world in the most remote wilderness in North America, a sort of a shorebound Bermuda Triangle known for swallowing the misfits and desperadoes who stray inside. Lots of bad things can happen down there, and probably will; survive the man- eating jaguars, deadly snakes, and blistering heat, and you've still got to deal with "canyon fever," a potentially fatal freak- out brought on by the Barrancas' desolate eeriness. The deeper you penetrate into the Barrancas, the more it feels like a crypt sliding shut around you. The walls tighten, shadows spread, phantom echoes whisper; every route out seems to end in sheer rock. Lost prospectors would be gripped by such madness and despair, they'd slash their own throats or hurl themselves off cliffs. Little surprise that few strangers have ever seen the Tarahumara's homeland—let alone the Tarahumara.
But somehow the White Horse had made his way to the depths of the Barrancas. And there, it's said, he was adopted by the Tarahumara as a friend and kindred spirit; a ghost among ghosts. He'd certainly mastered two Tarahumara skills—invisibility and extraordinary endurance—because even though he was spotted all over the canyons, no one seemed to know where he lived or when he might appear next. If anyone could translate the ancient secrets of the Tarahumara, I was told, it was this lone wanderer of the High Sierras.
I'd become so obsessed with finding Caballo Blanco that as I dozed on the hotel sofa, I could even imagine the sound of his voice.
"Probably like Yogi Bear ordering burritos at Taco Bell," I mused. A guy like that, a wanderer who'd go anywhere but fit in nowhere, must live inside his own head and rarely hear his own voice. He'd make weird jokes and crack himself up. He'd have a booming laugh and atrocious Spanish. He'd be loud and chatty and . . . and . . .
Wait. I was hearing him. My eyes popped open to see a dusty cadaver in a tattered straw hat bantering with the desk clerk. Trail dust streaked his gaunt face like fading war paint, and the shocks of sun- bleached hair sticking out from under the hat could have been trimmed with a hunting knife. He looked like a castaway on a desert island, even to the way he seemed hungry for conversation with the bored clerk.
"Caballo?" I croaked.
The cadaver turned, smiling, and I felt like an idiot. He didn't look wary; he looked confused, as any tourist would when confronted by a deranged man on a sofa suddenly hollering "Horse!"
This wasn't Caballo. There was no Caballo. The whole thing was a hoax, and I'd fallen for it.
Then the cadaver spoke. "You know me?"
"Man!" I exploded, scrambling to my feet. "Am I glad to see you!"
The smile vanished. The cadaver's eyes darted toward the door, making it clear that in another second, he would as well.
It all began with a simple question that no one in the world could answer.
That five-word puzzle led me to a photo of a very fast man in a very short skirt, and from there it only got stranger. Soon, I was dealing with a murder, drug guerrillas and a one-armed man with a cream-cheese cup strapped to his head. I met a beautiful, blonde forest ranger who slipped out of her clothes and found salvation by running naked in the Idaho forests, and a young surf babe in pigtails who ran straight toward her death in the desert. A talented young runner would die. Two others would barely escape with their lives.
I kept looking, and stumbled across the Barefoot Batman ... Naked Guy … Kalahari Bushmen ... the Toenail Amputee... a cult devoted to distance running and sex parties ... the Wild Man of the Blue Ridge Mountains ... and ultimately, the ancient tribe of the Tarahumara and their shadowy disciple, Caballo Blanco.
In the end, I got my answer, but only after I found myself in the middle of the greatest race the world would never see: the Ultimate Fighting Competition of footraces, an underground showdown pitting some of the best ultra-distance runners of our time against the best ultrarunners of all time, in a 50-mile race on hidden trails only Tarahumara feet had ever touched. I'd be startled to discover that the ancient saying of the Tao Te Ching — "The best runner leaves no trace" — wasn't some gossamer koan, but real, concrete, how-to, training advice.
And all because in January, 2001, I asked my doctor this:
"How come my foot hurts?"
I'd gone to see one of the top sports-medicine specialists in the country because an invisible ice-pick was driving straight up through the sole of my foot. The week before, I'd been out for an easy, three-mile jog on a snowy farm road when I suddenly whinnied in pain, grabbing my right foot and screaming curses as I toppled over in the snow. When I got a grip on myself, I checked to see how badly I was bleeding. I must have impaled my foot on a sharp rock, I figured, or an old nail wedged in the ice. But there wasn't a drop of blood, or even a hole in my shoe.
"Running is your problem," Dr. Joe Torg confirmed when I limped into his Philadelphia examining room a few days later. He should know; Dr. Torg had not only helped create the entire field of sports medicine, but he also co-authored The Running Athlete, the definitive radiographic analysis of every conceivable running injury. He ran me through an X-Ray and watched me hobble around, then determined I'd aggravated my cuboid, a cluster of bones parallel to the arch which I hadn't even known existed until it re-engineered itself into an internal Taser.
"But I'm barely running at all," I said. "I'm doing, like, two or three miles every other day. And not even on asphalt. Mostly dirt roads."
Didn't matter. "The human body is not designed for that kind of abuse," Dr. Torg replied.
But why? Antelope don't get shin splints. Wolves don't ice-pack their knees. I doubt that 80% of all wild mustangs are annually disabled with impact injuries. It reminded me of a proverb attributed to Roger Bannister, who, while simultaneously studying medicine, working as a clinical researcher and minting pithy parables, became the first man to break the 4-minute mile: "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up," Bannister said. "It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."
So why should every other mammal on the planet be able to depend on its legs except us? Come to think of it, how could a guy like Bannister charge out of the lab every day, pound around a hard cinder track in thin leather slippers, and not only get faster, but never get hurt? How come some of us can be out there running all lion-like and Bannister-ish every morning when the sun comes up, while the rest of us need a fistful of Ibuprofen before we can put our feet on the floor?
But maybe there was a path back in time, a way to flip the internal switch that changes us all back into the Natural Born Runners we once were. Not just in history, but in our own lifetimes. Remember? Back when you were a kid and you had to be yelled at to slow down? Every game you played, you played at top-speed, sprinting like crazy as you kicked cans, freed-all and attacked jungle outposts in your neighbors' backyards. Half the fun of doing anything was doing it at record pace, making it probably the last time in your life you'd ever be hassled for going too fast.
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle — behold, the Running Man.
Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everything else we love — everything we sentimentally call our "passions" and "desires" — it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run. We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known.
Soon, I was setting off in search of the lost tribe of the Tarahumara and Caballo Blanco -- who, I would discover, had a secret mission of his own.
Excerpted from Born to Run by Christopher McDougall. Copyright © 2009 by Christopher McDougall. Excerpted by permission of Vintage, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Q: BORN TO RUN explores the life and running habits of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico's Copper Canyon, arguably the greatest distance runners in the world. What are some of the secrets you learned from them?
A: The key secret hit me like a thunderbolt. It was so simple, yet such a jolt. It was this: everything I'd been taught about running was wrong. We treat running in the modern world the same way we treat childbirth – it's going to hurt, and requires special exercises and equipment, and the best you can hope for is to get it over with quickly with minimal damage.
Then I meet the Tarahumara, and they're having a blast. They remember what it's like to love running, and it lets them blaze through the canyons like dolphins rocketing through waves. For them, running isn't work. It isn't a punishment for eating. It's fine art, like it was for our ancestors. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle — behold, the Running Man.
The Tarahumara have a saying: "Children run before they can walk." Watch any four-year-old – they do everything at full speed, and it's all about fun. That's the most important thing I picked up from my time in the Copper Canyons, the understanding that running can be fast and fun and spontaneous, and when it is, you feel like you can go forever. But all of that begins with your feet. Strange as it sounds, the Tarahumara taught me to change my relationship with the ground. Instead of hammering down on my heels, the way I'd been taught all my life, I learned to run lightly and gently on the balls of my feet. The day I mastered it was the last day I was ever injured.
Q: You trained for your first ultramarathon—a race organized by the mysterious gringo expat Caballo Blanco between the Tarahumara and some of America's top ultrarunners—while researching and writing this book. What was your training like?
A: It really started as kind of a dare. Just by chance, I'd met an adventure-sports coach from Jackson Hole, Wyoming named Eric Orton. Eric's specialty is tearing endurance sports down to their basic components and looking for transferable skills. He studies rock climbing to find shoulder techniques for kayakers, and applies Nordic skiing's smooth propulsion to mountain biking. What he's looking for are basic engineering principles, because he's convinced that the next big leap forward in fitness won't come from strength or technology, but plain, simple durability. With some 70% of all runners getting hurt every year, the athlete who can stay healthy and avoid injury will leave the competition behind.
So naturally, Eric idolized the Tarahumara. Any tribe that has 90-year-old men running across mountaintops obviously has a few training tips up its sleeve. But since Eric had never actually met the Tarahumara, he had to deduce their methods by pure reasoning. His starting point was uncertainty; he assumed that the Tarahumara step into the unknown every time they leave their caves, because they never know how fast they'll have to sprint after a rabbit or how tricky the climbing will be if they're caught in a storm. They never even know how long a race will be until they step up to the starting line – the distance is only determined in a last-minute bout of negotiating and could stretch anywhere from 50 miles to 200-plus.
Eric figured shock and awe was the best way for me to build durability and mimic Tarahumara-style running. He'd throw something new at me every day – hopping drills, lunges, mile intervals – and lots and lots of hills. There was no such thing, really, as long, slow distance – he'd have me mix lots of hill repeats and short bursts of speed into every mega-long run.
I didn't think I could do it without breaking down, and I told Eric that from the start. I basically defied him to turn me into a runner. And by the end of nine months, I was cranking out four hour runs without a problem.
Q: You're a six foot four inches tall, 200-plus pound guy – not anyone's typical vision of a distance runner, yet you've completed ultra marathons and are training for more. Is there a body type for running, as many of us assume, or are all humans built to run?
A: Yeah, I'm a big'un. But isn't it sad that's even a reasonable question? I bought into that bull for a loooong time. Why wouldn't I? I was constantly being told by people who should know better that "some bodies aren't designed for running." One of the best sports medicine physicians in the country told me exactly that – that the reason I was constantly getting hurt is because I was too big to handle the impact shock from my feet hitting the ground. Just recently, I interviewed a nationally-known sports podiatrist who said, "You know, we didn't ALL evolve to run away from saber-toothed tigers." Meaning, what? That anyone who isn't sleek as a Kenyan marathoner should be extinct? It's such illogical blather – all kinds of body types exist today, so obviously they DID evolve to move quickly on their feet. It's really awful that so many doctors are reinforcing this learned helplessness, this idea that you have to be some kind of elite being to handle such a basic, universal movement.
Q: If humans are born to run, as you argue, what's your advice for a runner who is looking to make the leap from shorter road races to marathons, or marathons to ultramarathons? Is running really for everyone?
A: I think ultrarunning is America's hope for the future. Honestly. The ultrarunners have got a hold of some powerful wisdom. You can see it at the starting line of any ultra race. I showed up at the Leadville Trail 100 expecting to see a bunch of hollow-eyed Skeletors, and instead it was, "Whoah! Get a load of the hotties!" Ultra runners tend to be amazingly healthy, youthful and – believe it or not – good looking. I couldn't figure out why, until one runner explained that throughout history, the four basic ingredients for optimal health have been clean air, good food, fresh water and low stress. And that, to a T, describes the daily life of an ultrarunner. They're out in the woods for hours at a time, breathing pine-scented breezes, eating small bursts of digestible food, downing water by the gallons, and feeling their stress melt away with the miles. But here's the real key to that kingdom: you have to relax and enjoy the run. No one cares how fast you run 50 miles, so ultrarunners don't really stress about times. They're out to enjoy the run and finish strong, not shave a few inconsequential seconds off a personal best. And that's the best way to transition up to big mileage races: as coach Eric told me, "If it feels like work, you're working too hard."
Q: You write that distance running is the great equalizer of age and gender. Can you explain?
A: Okay, I'll answer that question with a question: Starting at age nineteen, runners get faster every year until they hit their peak at twenty- seven. After twenty- seven, they start to decline. So if it takes you eight year to reach your peak, how many years does it take for you to regress back to the same speed you were running at nineteen?
Go ahead, guess all you want. No one I've asked has ever come close. It's in the book, so I won't give it away, but I guarantee when you hear the answer, you'll say, "No way. THAT old?" Now, factor in this: ultra races are the only sport in the world in which women can go toe-to-toe with men and hand them their heads. Ann Trason and Krissy Moehl often beat every man in the field in some ultraraces, while Emily Baer recently finished in the Top 10 at the Hardrock 100 while stopping to breastfeed her baby at the water stations.
So how's that possible? According to a new body of research, it's because humans are the greatest distance runners on earth. We may not be fast, but we're born with such remarkable natural endurance that humans are fully capable of outrunning horses, cheetahs and antelopes. That's because we once hunted in packs and on foot; all of us, men and women alike, young and old together.
Q: In BORN TO RUN, you ask the question: If humans are born to run, why do so many of us hate it?
A: Because our brains are crafty. They're schemers. The brain's job is to figure out the most fuelefficient way to run the machines, so it's always looking for ways to rest and store up energy. For about two million years, that was a great strategy – our brains convinced us to only run when we absolutely had to, which meant we'd always have fuel on hand in an emergency. But now that we've created a lifestyle that almost never forces us to rely on leg-power, that lingering fuelefficient function of our brains could be the downfall of our species. We're literally lazing ourselves to death.
Q: One of the fascinating parts of BORN TO RUN is your report on how the ultrarunners eat –salad for breakfast, wraps with hummus mid-run, or pizza and beer the night before a run. As a runner with a lot of miles behind him, what are your thoughts on nutrition for running?
A: Live every day like you're on the lam. If you've got to be ready to pick up and haul butt at a moment's notice, you're not going to be loading up on gut-busting meals. I thought I'd have to go on some kind of prison-camp diet to get ready for an ultra, but the best advice I got came from coach Eric, who told me to just worry about the running and the eating would take care of itself. And he was right, sort of. I instinctively began eating smaller, more digestible meals as my miles increased, but then I went behind his back and consulted with the great Dr. Ruth Heidrich, an Ironman triathlete who lives on a vegan diet. She's the one who gave me the idea of having salad for breakfast, and it's a fantastic tip. The truth is, many of the greatest endurance athletes of all time lived on fruits and vegetables. You can get away with garbage for a while, but you pay for it in the long haul. In the book, I describe how Jenn Shelton and Billy "Bonehead" Barnett like to chow pizza and Mountain Dew in the middle of 100-mile races, but Jenn is also a vegetarian who most days lives on veggie burgers and grapes.
Q: As you report in BORN TO RUN, Dr. Dan Lieberman is a scientist at Harvard who is currently studying the effects of barefoot running. What exactly is barefoot running and the theories behind it?
A: The logic almost smacks you in the face. We've accepted this notion that running requires specialized, protective footwear, but Dr. Lieberman points out the absurdity of that idea. For nearly 2 million years, we got along just fine with bare feet. So why, all of a sudden, do we need foam under our feet? And it's not because of asphalt — hard surfaces have been around forever. The Tarahumara still run mega-miles on stony canyon trails. Dr. Lieberman is convinced that running shoes aren't just useless, but dangerous — he believes they cause many of the injuries they're supposed to be preventing.
Q: You take a pretty strong stand against the traditional running shoe companies in BORN TO RUN, and are currently running "barefoot" in Vibram FiveFingers. Can you tell me a little more about what the shoe companies are doing to our bodies?
A: Here's a story I don't tell in the book. While I was writing it, I was mortified to suddenly come down with a case of plantars fasciitis, a nagging heel pain that's the vampire bite of running injuries. Once you get it, you never get rid of it. I knew the problem couldn't be my running style, because I was sure I'd already perfected Tarahumara-style technique. I saw a series of top podiatrists, therapists and sports-medicine doctors and nothing helped. This went on for more than a year. Then I visited a barefoot-style running coach who cured me in three minutes. True story. Three minutes. He videotaped me running, showed me what I was doing wrong, and the pain vanished. It wasn't an inflammation, as every doctor had told me. It was an imbalance, caused by running shoes. I'd tried to split the difference between barefoot and shod by wearing a neutral running shoe, but even that amount of cushioning had caused me to lose my feel for the ground. I'd regressed back to my sloppy old style. The second I lost the shoes, the plantars fasciitis vanished.
That's my argument against shoes. I'd love to hear the argument in favor of them. Do you know there is not a single study that shows that running shoes do anything to prevent injuries? Not one. They've been around for 40 years, and as far as anyone can tell, they do nothing except look cool and lighten your wallet.
Q: Logistically, how did you organize your research and experiences while writing BORN TO RUN?
A: Trial and error, heavy on the error. I wrote nearly half the book before realizing I hadn't even gotten to the Tarahumara yet. I shredded that draft and started over. This time, I was halfway in before my agent pointed out that I was writing about the wrong race, in the wrong country, in the wrong century. I'd gotten totally absorbed in the history of Leadville, Colorado, home to one of the wildest ultraraces on earth, not to mention a tradition that exists today of miners running marathons over mountain passes alongside packmules. Back to the shredder, back to the beginning. The problem with writing about running is also the delight – dig into the history a little, and you'll find a fantastic amount of lost lore and incredible characters. Choosing and organizing was a bear. In the end, I managed to navigate by three key elements I wanted to get across: the joy of Tarahumara running; the evidence that we were all born to not only run, but love it; and the unreal drama that explodes when you turn a pack of ultrarunners loose on virgin trail.
Q: In this difficult financial time, we're experiencing yet another surge in the popularity of running. Can you explain this?
A: When things look worst, we run the most. Three times, America has seen distance-running skyrocket and it's always in the midst of a national crisis. The first boom came during the Great Depression; the next was in the '70s, when we were struggling to recover from a recession, race riots, assassinations, a criminal President and an awful war. And the third boom? One year after the Sept. 11 attacks, trailrunning suddenly became the fastest-growing outdoor sport in the country. I think there's a trigger in the human psyche that activates our first and greatest survival skill whenever we see the shadow of approaching raptors.
"A tale so mind-blowing as to be the stuff of legend." —The Denver Post
"McDougall's book reminded me of why I love to run." —Bill Rodgers, San Francisco Chronicle
"Fascinating. . . . Thrilling. . . . An operatic ode to the joys of running." —The Washington Post
"It's a great book. . . . A really gripping read. . . .Unbelievable story . . . a really phenomenal book." —Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
"One of the most entertaining running books ever." —Amby Burfoot, Runnersworld.com
"Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history. . . . [McDougall] seeks to learn the secrets of the Tarahumara the old-fashioned way: He tracks them down. . . . The climactic race reads like a sprint. . . . It simply makes you want to run." —Outside Magazine
"McDougall recounts his quest to understand near superhuman ultra-runners with adrenaline pumped writing, humor and a distinct voice...he never lets go from his impassioned mantra that humans were born to run." —NPR
"Born to Run is a fascinating and inspiring true adventure story, based on humans pushing themselves to the limits. It's destined to become a classic."–Sir Ranulph Fiennes, author of Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know
"Equal parts hilarity, explanation and earnestness—whisks the reader along on a compelling dash to the end, and along the way captures the sheer joy that a brisk run brings." —Science News
"Born to Run is funny, insightful, captivating, and a great and beautiful discovery." —Lynne Cox, author of Swimming to Antarctica
"A page-turner, taking the reader on an epic journey in search of the world's greatest distance runners in an effort to uncover the secrets of their endurance." —The Durango Herald
"Driven by an intense yet subtle curiosity, Christopher McDougall gamely treads across the continent to pierce the soul and science of long-distance running."—Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers


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I worry for you day and night. The newsreels are shocking! Nuclear weapons have destroyed both D.C., as well as Leningrad. It appears as though no further nuclear attacks were carried out, probably out of fear of total nuclear war. Major cities all across North America have increased the frequency of nuclear drills by nearly 10 fold. On top of that, the Prime Minister has reportedly gotten Flaciota Flu and is unable to do any of his duties. The world is in chaos, and we don't even have an effective leader! Speaking of Flaciota, it seems as though Abigail has also been infected. They've quarantined her to a hospital room, but her chances of survival are slim at best, on top of that, she doesn't even know if her husband made it out of West Berlin or not. I must stop writing now, but I want you to know that I love you, and I miss you. Come home alive.
James Shepard
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Thread: Top ten scenes
May 28th, 2011, 01:58 AM #16
May 28th, 2011, 05:25 AM #17
Too tired and drunk to post my top 10 just yet... but I already love this thread! I'll get back to y'all.
May 28th, 2011, 06:11 AM #18
I agree that that line would have been amazing in the first episode. Maybe Ned will say it to someone else. He and Arya have a nice bond in the show and I'd like to see him speak to her before he goes.
I'd also say that I don't think anyone's meaning the manlove, just the creepy armpit shaving. xD
I would have liked to see the Feast after the Tourney, too. A lot of chances for fun there. Joffrey could have shown his dark side (which would have made him giving Sansa a necklace more meaningful). Could have got some drunken Hound, and of course, I know Addy would have been hallerious.
I also forgot a lot of these which were amazing, but I'll say the Old Nan scene fer sure. She told that tale like a pro.
I also really liked the Wildling scene in the Wolfswood, despite the lack of wolves. I really like Ousha (especailly when she's speaking to Lewin, too), she looks spooked.
May 28th, 2011, 08:52 AM #19
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No apology necessary. We're all just here to discuss books we love and what we love and don't love about them. It's all good.
3rdI - The scene with the fight between Sandor and Gregor would have been a top scene for me too except for one thing that jumped out at me. When Robert yelled for them to stop fighting The Hound INSTANTLY dropped to one knee in submission to the command of the King. Instantly! (???) That simply did not seem at all like the way Sandor would comply to anyone's command. Ofcourse he would comply, but not instantly to a knee with head bowed like that. No way. That was just not in keeping with the character at all. Gregor reacted much more in keeping with his character I thought. Still a great scene though.
May 28th, 2011, 10:35 AM #20
Plus, I liked that bit because it was more of him mocking Gregor. (As in he used the kneel to dodge the blow Gregor was going to deliver, which then went right over his head.) Gregor got flustered. xD
May 28th, 2011, 11:53 AM #21
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I just re-read the first book and still don't see him instantly obeying Robert like that. He was never Robert's creature.
However as you mentioned, I could see him doing it to irk and show up Gregor ... I need to watch the scene again.
June 1st, 2011, 11:35 PM #22
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in no particular order
1. bronn's duel.
"you don't fight with honor"
"no. he did"
2. khal drogo going irate over the attempt on dany's life
3. viserys' "crowning"
they really portrayed this scene just as i imagined. and viserys' smile when he thinks he's getting what he always wanted actually made me feel for the guy, just like in the book.
4. sandor v gregor and the cutting of his horse's head
i especially loved how sandor ducks gregor's swing by bowing to the king
5. littlefinger and varys' argument
6. arya's first "dancing" lesson
i just really loved the actor who played syrior
7. tyrion's confession
8. cersei and robert's conversation
9. jaime v eddard
10. tyrion slapping joffrey.
nothing could be more satisfying. well, almost.
i love this show. i don't really remember what they've changed from the books and what they haven't, but either way it's worked great, even if the books did everything better. i have enjoyed the added scenes however, i thought they did a solid job with them and that they fit perfectly with the tone of the series.
June 2nd, 2011, 07:22 AM #23
Hmmm, my favorite scene has not been mentioned!
Jon and Sam discussing their respective virginities, for me this was a touching, well executed, funny, and revealing scene. Sam in particular is pitch perfect for me.
June 2nd, 2011, 08:21 AM #24
There are so many great scenes in this series, and most of my favourites have already been mentioned.
One I haven't seen mentioned, is when Viserys is choked by Rakharo after he threatened Daenerys. It's just great to see how Viserys reacts to being humilated like that, and his expression when Jorah refuses to obey his command.
I really like Rakharo, and I like his interactions with Irri, in the two scenes where they talk to each other.
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Yeah y'all nailed most the best ones, I really like the Drogo scenes, Viserys crown, and when hes getting all wound up in front of his horde. Jason Momoa nailed Drogo.
April 27th, 2013, 04:42 AM #27
Well, I'm reviving this discussion, because there are a lot of good scenes in season 3. My favourite scenes so far are:
- All the Jaime & Brienne's Road Movie scenes
- Pretty much every scene with the Queen of Thorns, but especially the one with Varys
April 27th, 2013, 03:16 PM #28
good picks.
"Did you send the ravens, Sam?" that opened the season should be there, too.
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I don't have a top 10 list or anything, but Jaime's scene with Brienne in the baths in the Kissed By Fire episode is a top one for me. Very well done by both of them. Even though Brienne doesn't say much, you can see a lot on her face there. And Nicolai Coster-Waldau is hitting it out of the park this season.
May 6th, 2013, 08:28 AM #30
There are a lot of good scenes. But a truly great scene doesn't happen very often, and it shouldn't. But the great scenes so far, IMO.
Little Finger and Varys' chat. The dramatized one.
When Dany buys the slaves, speaks his language, then commands her black to spit fire.
When Khal Drogo decides to attack Westeros after they tried to assassinate Dany.
I'm sure there are more that I am forgetting, but these stand out to me. The rest that you all mentioned are very good scenes, but these were amazing imo.


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Publisher: Playdom
Playerbase: High
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Type: Social Game
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Platform: Facebook
Pros: +Nice graphics. +Cool arcade style. +Difficulty mode options for dungeons. +Chat interface. +Original gameplay for a social game.
Cons: -Limited customization. -Item shops lack variety. -Gameplay feels repetitive at times.
Kogamu Overview
Kogamu is a side-scrolling arcade style fighting action MMORPG set far off in the future. After a devastating technological apocalypse the town of Neo Essen and surrounding areas are in dire need of help. An unknown source of nanotechnology has mutated innocent citizens and wildlife into disgusting goblins and monsters harassing locals. Players become gunners or town defenders to protect the villagers from these now dangerous creatures and unlock the secret behind this mysterious mutation. Shoot fire ball slinging goblins, chat, and complete various quests with friends. This isn't your average social Facebook game like FarmVille or Happy Aquarium. Similar to Ninja Saga players enter a more refined browser based massively multiplayer online role playing game. Grab a gun and prepare to save the world in Kogamu. Kogamu looks and plays like the client based brawler MMORPG Dungeon Fight Online.
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By Ange Perdu
Kogamu is a 2D side-scrolling arcade style fighting action MMORPG where players become gunners or town defenders in a world hit by a technological apocalypse. People and animals have been turned into hideous creatures in the form of goblins and Minotaurs. Players must protect their village and nearby cities from these new monsters while trying to solve the puzzling mystery behind recent events. Kogamu features a different type of RPG experience unlike popular Facebook games that involve virtual farming such as FarmVille or fish tank games in Happy Aquarium players interact in real time environments with other players to accomplish tasks. Kill thousands of monsters, complete quests alone or with a party, chat, explore dungeons, and save the human race from destruction in Kogamu.
Goblin Invasions, the Gameplay
In Kogamu players take on the role as town defender. These heroes also referred to as gunners must protect innocent villagers from evil creatures. Armed with a light pistol players shoot and kill an assortment of goblins and complete various quests. Players earn XP, gold, and special items for completing quests. To accept missions click talk on NPCs standing in the center of town. Quests range from passing messages through NPCs to tracking down and battling specific monsters. Some missions require users to collect dropped items like goblin hands, horns, or manticore meat. Locate missing townspeople or explore various dungeons. The majority of missions require entering areas like Hideo's Forest or the Bullet Caves occupied by dangerous creatures and killing them. Once accepted users enter the designated area or dungeon. Collect the broken bones of vanquished foes, gold, dropped beast coins, armor, and new weapons after defeating enemies. These items can also be sold for gold.
Kogamu has a rare arcade style of gameplay. Players cannot return to their base city once they've entered a dungeon. All enemies have to be destroyed. Shoot, kick, knee, and blast away at goblin goons, fodders, soldiers, and even gigantic Minotaur Berserkers. Blood splatters in the air and on the ground when enemies are dealt hard blows. The controls are mostly keyboard based. Users have to press X to attack and use the arrow keys to navigate through environments. Points are tallied for hit combos, mastery, style, and exploration. Once a dungeon has been cleared a score screen appears calculating point percentages. High scorers can choose a free random reward by clicking on a turned over card. A more valuable mystery reward can be purchased for an optional coin fee. A cool feature in the game is the ability to revisit any dungeon and choose a higher level of difficulty. There's a big difference between normal mode and advanced. Goblins are more aggressive and challenging. Fierce Ember Goblins shoot intense fire balls while other brawlers attack. Although Kogamu is an entertaining action MMO the quest and monster slaying can be repetitive at times.
Magical Flamethrowers or Whirling Strikes
In Kogamu players can customize their hero with different combat skills and weapons. Switch from a direct to angled shot by learning the raising maneuver at the skill trainer. Go head to head with magical combat moves like the whirling strike and jack spike. Transform your gun into a flamethrower to blast away at massive Minotaurs for an advantage. Each specialty move is unlocked at various levels and must be purchased using skill points gained through leveling up. Performing these skills uses mana points. Similar to an arcade game players press designated lettered keys to execute basic to melee attacks. There's an integrated chat system that allows players to instantly message or invite other players to join their party. Working together with friends is essential for surviving more challenging dungeons and fighting off monsters.
Exploring the Jungle of Skulls
The dungeons in this game add to its appeal. New more challenging dungeons unlock as quests are completed. Players are slowly able to explore other cities stretching across the land. Enter the Shiro Isle, the troubled town of Lancaster, the eerie Valley of Doom, and the Jungle of Skulls killing dangerous monsters along the way. Despite the nice graphics depicting lush green grass, ruins, and temples many of the dungeons look exactly like the previous one. There are only a few small differences in each environment. While exploring dungeons destructible objects like barrels often hide additional coins. Maps display current location and rooms that haven't been cleared. A big red skull appears where a boss character awaits for battle.
Crummy Leather Pants & Boots
Many of the items in the shops are very basic. Players can buy a pair of crummy leather pants, helm, bracers, soldiers' leggings, shoulder pads, chest plates, and shields. There's nothing fancy offered in Kogamu. The blood bruise belt is made out of rotten rat-hide. Each item adds a small amount of durability or strength to the character wearing it. A few specialty accessories like the ring of fortitude boosts constitution and the belt of heroes aids in willpower for complex missions. Although there's an even mix of physical and mystical armor it isn't much variety. Health and mana is restored through drinking and eating special snacks like the honeymead drink or magical gelatin.
Final Verdict: Good
Kogamu is still in beta phase but it has a lot of potential to become a solid MMORPG on Facebook. The interesting story concept of a technological apocalypse combined with an entertaining arcade style of gameplay makes it unique game. Players become gunners a type of hero sent save mankind. Fight off hordes of goblin creatures with an assortment of magical skills or weapons. Go on missions. Use the chat system to form parties with other players and clear out dungeons together. Similar to Ninja Saga Kogamu stands out from the typical simulation games online bringing a fun hardcore action MMO to the masses.


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EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Boeing Co. says the stress tests for its new 787 jetliner's wing and fuselage went as planned. On March 28, workers at Boeing's Everett, Wash., plant bent the wing of a special test 787 by 150 percent of the most extreme forces it would experience in flight — about 25 feet upward at the wing tip.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Five days before Toyota announced a massive recall, a U.S. public relations executive at the automaker warned colleagues in an internal e-mail: "We need to come clean" about accelerator problems, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday. "We are not protecting our customers by keeping this quiet," wrote Irv Miller, group vice president for environment and public affairs.


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Steve Nash is the All-Star guard for the Phoenix Suns has forged a partnership with Nike to create the Nike Trash Talk, a basketball shoe made from manufacturing waste. The "waste" comes Nike's own production facilities—scraps that would otherwise have been discarded. The Trash Talk is modeled after Steve Nash's current shoe, the Nike Zoom […][Read More]
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Leaders from the private sector, NGOs, international organizations, and civil society combine talents and perspectives to help "make the healthy choice the easy choice" for consumers
Washington, D.C., 3 December 2009 - Representatives of major private sector companies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), international agencies, and civil society organizations have gathered at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) on December 3 to launch a public-private partnership whose goal is to reduce the burden and cost of chronic diseases in the Americas by working together to promote healthier lifestyles and preventive health care.
The new Partners' Forum for Action on Chronic Diseases—a partnership initiated by PAHO/WHO, in consultation with the International Business Leaders Forum, the World Economic Forum, and the Pan American Health and Education Foundation—will bring together a range of talents and perspectives to help raise awareness about chronic diseases, advocate for changes in public policy, and expand existing and develop new initiatives aimed at reducing risk factors and improving treatment of chronic diseases.
Dr. Mirta Roses, Director of PAHO/WHO, said the enhanced partnership approach represents a paradigm shift to actively engage other sectors, including a diverse range of other partners. "Our vision is to prevent over 3 million deaths, reduce suffering and the upward cost spiral, and improve productivity, through joint action over the next 10 years."
Chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are the leading causes of premature death and illness throughout the Americas. They account for some 4.5 million deaths each year in Latin America and the Caribbean, or 77 percent of all deaths in the region.
Yet chronic diseases are in large part preventable. Experts say that as much as 80 percent of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes and 40 percent of cancers could be prevented by modifying a handful of risk factors, primarily unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, tobacco use, and the harmful use of alcohol.
The Partners' Forum will seek to mobilize support from people and institutions in different sectors-health, industry, civil society, and the international community-to advocate for and catalyze the necessary changes in public policy, marketing, medical care, and individual behavior that are needed to reduce risk factors and improve preventive treatment for chronic diseases. The Partners Forum will also serve as the regional forum of the Global Non Communicable Disease Network (NCDnet) of WHO.
James Hospedales, coordinator of chronic disease prevention for PAHO, said the time is right for an initiative such as the Partners' Forum.
"We see growing consumer concerns about the quality and costs of health care and lack of access to care for people without health insurance. At the same time, we see growing demands to put people first in policies on transportation, climate change and the environment, trade, and agriculture. All this contributes to a political and social environment that is highly conducive to scaling up efforts to fight chronic diseases."
A central element of the Forum's efforts to promote healthy lifestyles will be to "make the health choice the easy choice," said Hospedales.
"You do this by promoting healthier agro-industrial practices, healthier public policies, and healthier behaviors like biking and walking, using public transportation, and eating locally grown food. By bringing together partners from a wide cross-section of society, we can do this more effectively by working together to raise awareness, support current initiatives, and create new, innovative ones that take a common approach and have a real impact on the chronic disease epidemic."
Members of the new Partners' Forum will include representatives of PAHO and the World Health Organization (WHO), Grupo Bimbo, Groceries Manifacturers Association, the InterAmerican Heart Foundation, Consumers International, Merck & Co. Inc., Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, 5-a-Day, Ciclovías, Kraft Foods, the Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and the CARMEN Country Network among others.


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Reconnecting with Portsmouth's sister city in Ghana
Monday, January 7, 2013
PORTSMOUTH — Celebrating a nine year partnership, members of the Greater Portsmouth's Black Heritage Trail, Inc. met for tea Sunday afternoon to recall the historical events connecting the Granite State with Accra, Ghana, Portsmouth's sister city in Africa.
Cunningham, shared history and facts dating back to 1957 regarding issues of race and equality in the state that contrasted events taking place at the time in Ghana, which during the same year became the first African state independent from Colonial power.
Cunningham said her interest in venturing to Ghana was in part because of its language — English — and also due to the strong ties to the Seacoast.
The Atlantic slave trade, employed during the 17th century, she explained, had direct ties to Portsmouth with many engaging the practice. She said the location of Strawbery Banke was the site where ships would bring young boys and girls to be sold as slaves.
"Every place in the country was benefiting from slave trade," she said.
Attending the talk was local photographer Peter Randall who in 2006, visited Ghana with others to create the book, "Ghana, an African Portrait Revisited."
"The New Hampshire connection with Ghana is really pretty strong," he said.
He spoke of another and more current connection to a location near Ghana by a local resident who began The Women's Trust to help empower women there through micro-economic loans, funding for girls to attend school and assistance with the elderly.


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We are planning on doing Cairns to Sydney in a motorhome between 3rd and 16th January. Have booked the motorhome already. It's our first time with a motorhome, although have done a lot of tenting in the past. so not too worried about that side of things.
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FSB annual meeting picks Lynch to lead directors Retiring directors Houghton, Steele recognized
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
DOVER -- Federal Savings Bank held its annual meeting at the Bank's main office in Dover on January 24
Houghton and Steele were formerly recognized during an evening reception at the Orchard Street Chop Shop.
The Bank will recognize employees at its annual employee meeting in February and looks forward to the upcoming release of its 2012 annual report.
Since 1890, Federal Savings Bank has operated as a true community bank, a "mutual" bank. The bank has offices in Dover, Barrington, Durham, Portsmouth and Rochester. For more information, call 1-800-426-2265, visit www.fsbdover.com or www.facebook.com/FederalSavingsBank.


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The rest would be pretty accurate though. However, having said this, the sound support's VERY primitive and the network support's also that way- you'll want to probably consider using OpenAL-soft or Portaudio for sound and Grapple or OpenPlay (I'd vote for Grapple, myself- while it's an LGP originated LGPL library, there's a REASON we ditched OpenPlay and spent 4-6 months inventing Grapple...) for the networking.
Theory sometimes is the reality. Sometimes, it's not so- it's not always the impedance mis-match between the APIs that is the problem. It's the atrocious code that VC++ allows a studio to get away with that is the real bugbear in a porting project.While SDL is not DirectX, it's a close equivalent and it did make Loki's task of porting DX games relatively more straight forward than without. At least that was the theory, hehe.
Keyboard and joystick is close enough to not be too much of an issue. Simple sound playback is also not an issue. Simple networking is not an issue. Basic threading as well. For positional and more complicated Audio, OpenAL was supposed to be the biggie- on MacOS and Windows, it still is. With OpenAL-soft, it should be back on track for Linux. Grapple should handle many of the network solutions- unfortunately, it's not interoperable with DirectPlay.
2D graphics is dealt with nicely so that differences in getting a framebuffer plane is simplistic- and in some cases, some functionalities are hardware accelerated on the platform where possible. 3D is handled by your system's OpenGL layer, but it provides a clean wrapper framework to tie into it portably.
All in all, if you WRITE a game with SDL, OpenAL, and Grapple, you'll end up with a title that will cleanly run on Linux, MacOS, Windows, and more. There may be some performance glitches on some platforms (On Windows, it wraps DirectX with a thin shim, but it's still there... And so on, and so forth...) but all in all, it's not a bad way to make a game if you want to target things easily.
Pretty much every one of them that I know of brings in SDL to provide the threading handling, user input handling, and OpenGL abstraction handling. It makes life a bit easier.I reckon some commercial Linux games use this (all Loki ones, I think) as well as games like Neverwinter Nights.
YOU feel old? Damn, I feel ancient.I'm sure Svartalf can provide more accurate info. I feel old already. hehehe.


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Saturday, January 5, 2013
PORTSMOUTH — First, the Seacoast Mavericks got their city.
On Jan. 25, the team will host its first hot stove dinner in Portsmouth, with Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Sam Fuld of Durham the headliners.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Advocates for the more than 5,600 Kansas children in the state's foster care system gathered at the Statehouse on Monday to raise awareness and support for youth in need of good homes.
The event, the goal of which sought to increase awareness about foster care and help children find homes, began with Gov. Sam Brownback signing a proclamation marking May as Foster Care Month in Kansas.
Gina Meier Hummel of the Kansas Department for Children and Family Services said the number of children entering foster care was increasing, attributing that to more families dealing with substance abuse.
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Advocates put on an informational fair, which was coordinated by the Kansas Department for Children and Family Services. Blue wristbands were distributed to show support for foster children and efforts to find them homes.
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Christian Sauerman, a former foster child and member of the Kansas Youth Advisory Council, said there were a lot of stereotypes still associated with being in foster care. He coped with his mother's mental health issues -- which caused his own -- before he was finally placed in foster care at age 16.
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"There are a lot of issues. I encouraged them to try to have a better outlook for themselves and get them to graduate," he said.
Meier Hummel said that, in addition to those in foster care, there are approximately 990 other children who were awaiting adoption through the state. Half of those children have a family that is moving toward adopting them.


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