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The building was constructed in place of the original Estates Theatre during 1884 - 1886 on the basis of designs by Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer. Since 1920 it has been the home of the Slovak National Theatre. The most outstanding personalities of the world opera scene have performed here, names such as F. Saliapin, P. Mascagni, R. Strauss, G. Filip, M. Freni, P. Capuccili, R. Reznikov, and J. Obrazcova. The dancers M. Fonteyn, A. Alonso, V. Vasiliev and many others have also performed on its stage. At present there are resident opera and ballet companies, and it has nurtured many renowned personalities of the current opera scene such as Peter Dvorsky, Josef Kundlak, Jan Galla, Eva Jenisova, Edita Gruberova and Lucia Poppova, who perform at the world's top venues.
Also see Slovak National Theatre website at www.snd.sk and information on Bratislava art and culture events from BratislavaGuide.com.
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Claire wrote on 06.07.2014 at 01:04:42:
Hello :) can you please send me details of your program for July 2014? Thank you
Sharon wrote on 12.04.2012 at 23:53:13:
May I please have a schedule for May 12 & 13, 2012. We will be in town for these two days only.
Thank You.
darina snyder wrote on 22.02.2012 at 16:32:55:
Please let me know what opera or balet is playing in May 23 0r May 25/2012. Also the price in American $ .Thank you Darina
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could I have a list of events for june and July?
musicals, plays, and Concerts, please.
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Could I have your program of events for April and May. Operas and Concerts.


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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Defense Secretary William S. Cohen carried the case for increased defense spending to the American people Jan. 28 in a speech to the Illinois legislature here.
WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials are taking advantage of satellite communications and the World Wide Web to improve the quality of life of service members, reservists and defense civilians.
WASHINGTON - The United States will cut its Bosnia force by 700 troops in April during a 10 percent strength reduction announced by NATO, Pentagon officials said Jan. 26.
WASHINGTON - The United States is meeting Iraq's increased aggression head-on and will continue to do so as long as it lasts, according to Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon.
WASHINGTON - A U.S. missile fired at an Iraqi radar site Jan. 25 went astray and exploded in a residential neighborhood near the city of Basra in southern Iraq.
WASHINGTON - Qaseem Ali Uqdah and Abdullah Hamza Al-Mubarak share a common goal. Both former enlisted men aim to help make life a little easier for people in the armed forces who share their faith.
WASHINGTON - The Reserve component chiefs led by example Jan. 25 by receiving the first in a six-shot series of anthrax vaccinations here during a ceremony at the Reserve Officers Association midwinter conference.
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department will enroll up to 66,000 military retirees over age 65 in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program at eight locations nationwide.
WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials insist the mandatory anthrax vaccine has proven to be safe.
SEOUL - After arriving here mid-afternoon Jan. 14, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen flew directly to Camp Humphreys, south of here, to meet U.S. soldiers before returning to the capital for talks with Korean officials.
WASHINGTON - The fiscal 2000 DoD budget "reflects the effort we have made to listen to the men and women who are serving us," said Defense Secretary William S. Cohen. "We hear them, we understand what's on their minds and we want to help."
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 1999 - Between 18 million and 22 million former and current service members are eligible to receive certificates honoring them for their parts in winning the Cold War.
WASHINGTON - U.S. officials are consulting with NATO allies to see what course of action should be taken to deal with the latest violence in Kosovo. Designated NATO forces are now on 48- hour alert.
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon will spend $6.6 billion over the next six years to develop and possibly deploy a limited national missile defense system.
WASHINGTON - Imagine serving four years on active duty and then getting a full college scholarship -- and $400 a month to live on.
SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Thousands of U.S. service members are part of the relief operation here in Honduras, but the effort's special for one soldier -- he's helping to rebuild his home.
WASHINGTON - Military volunteers often perform many hours of service to their communities and the military wants to recognize their efforts.
WASHINGTON - The United States is sending a Patriot missile battery to Turkey as a precautionary measure against Iraqi threats made immediately after Operation Desert Fox in December.
WASHINGTON - Military families stationed where there are no Defense Department schools now receive an allowance to send their children to a private or boarding school of their choice.
WASHINGTON - Sometimes, one person's troubles can trigger a whole lot of change. That's what happened when family policy officials here learned of one service member's plight.
WASHINGTON - The Year 2000 computer problem won't affect DoD's ability to pay service members, and troops don't need to do anything special to protect their personnel or medical records, Deputy Defense Secretary John J. Hamre said here Jan. 14.
FORT LEE, Va. - Commissary shoppers starting Feb. 1 face a new $25 administrative fee if their checks bounce on the Defense Commissary Agency.
SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Churches and companies throughout America were readying to send food and supplies to Central America in November even before Hurricane Mitch's floodwaters receded. But how to get it there?
SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - The 53 airmen and soldiers of the Joint Task Force–Bravo Joint Security Force here have one of the most important jobs of all -- keeping U.S. personnel and their equipment safe and secure.
WASHINGTON - DoD continues to need two more rounds of base closures, said Robert Bell, special assistant to the president for national security affairs.
SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Hurricane Mitch body-slammed them two months ago, but the Honduran people have dusted off and now seek help in standing on their own feet again. They ask for seeds.
WASHINGTON - WASHINGTON U.S. air forces patrolling the northern no-fly zone struck Iraqi missile sites in two separate incidents Jan. 14.
TOKYO - Defense Secretary William S. Cohen reacted sharply to North Korea's demand for payment in order to open a suspected nuclear site.
MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan - For Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Machrael, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen's promise to improve the military retirement system couldn't come at a better time.
WASHINGTON - U.S. and coalition pilots are operating in a highly charged environment now that Saddam Hussein has stepped up violations of the no-fly zones over Iraq, according to Navy Capt. Mike Doubleday, a Pentagon spokesman.
WASHINGTON - Desert Fox has left Saddam Hussein shaken and desperate, according to Marine Corps Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, who headed the December operation.
FORT JACKSON, S.C. - "You have a length of rope and you have to get your team and all your gear up that 15-foot wall. Oh, and you can't touch anything below four-and-a-half feet. That's contaminated. Time is of the essence. Do you have any questions?"
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PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. - Make basic training tougher. This is the challenge given to the military services by Defense Secretary William S. Cohen.
CATACAMAS, Honduras - Joint Task Force-Bravo's "hub and spoke" logistics system is proving its effectiveness every day in getting relief supplies to those who need it most in this hurricane-ravaged nation.
WASHINGTON - Reports from DoD's oldest TRICARE region show a high level of success in controlling costs, improving access and maintaining quality.
TOKYO - Pledges to U.S. service members of better pay and benefits and promises of assistance to East Asia security mark Defense Secretary William S. Cohen's visit to Japan and South Korea Jan. 10-16.
WASHINGTON - The United States is sending more planes to the Persian Gulf in light of Saddam Hussein's persistent violations of the no-fly zones over Iraq.
WASHINGTON - Two new TRICARE demonstrations promise expanded health care at least temporarily to thousands of military retirees and eligible family members over age 65.
WASHINGTON - Service members and spouses want better operating hours and child care at their fitness centers, and more organized physical activities, according to a recent defense survey.
WASHINGTON - The president's proposed fiscal 2000 defense budget will meet the military's most critical needs, the nation's top military leader told Congress Jan. 5.
WASHINGTON - In the fourth strike against Iraqi targets in 11 days, U.S. air forces in the northern no-fly zone over Iraq fired upon an Iraqi mobile missile system.
WASHINGTON - White Sands Missile Range, N.M., is seeking military and civilian participants from throughout DoD for its 11th annual Bataan Memorial Death March April 18, 1999.
WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein, in the aftermath of Operation Desert Fox, is venting his frustration by challenging coalition forces patrolling U.N.-mandated no-fly zones, Pentagon officials say.
WASHINGTON - Settlement of a disputed contract for the delivery of military health care in the northeastern United States favors DoD and military health care beneficiaries, TRICARE officials announced Dec. 28.
WASHINGTON - The Federal Employees Group Life Insurance program enrollment open season will be from April 24 to June 30, Office of Personnel Management officials recently said.
SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Commerce, trade and much needed supplies are once again flowing throughout the hurricane-ravaged countryside here thanks to the long, hard efforts of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps bridge builders.
WASHINGTON - U.S. strikes against Iraqi military targets last month during Operation Desert Fox did more damage than defense officials first thought.
WASHINGTON, DC - The Air Force Thunderbirds air demonstration squadron will perform more than 70 shows at more than 40 locations this year in the United States, Canada and Europe.
WASHINGTON - President Clinton pledged Jan. 2 in his weekly radio address to increase defense spending $12 billion in fiscal 2000.
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La Crosse police hope a web of surveillance cameras in the downtown area will help catch criminals and deter crime.
The La Crosse City Vision Foundation is trying to raise $475,000 to help police install 41 cameras that will continually record activity downtown. To some it feels like 'big brother' is watching. Resident Ryan Hyland says downtown businesses already have their own cameras.
But, Police Chief Ron Tischer tells WKBT-TV his officers don't have the time to constantly monitor activity. He says they will be clearly marked as police surveillance cameras and will be focused on streets, alleys, sidewalks and parking ramps.
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Throw them in jail why should they be any better
I am so glad it might finally get started it has been a long wait
Well me and my wife both smoke so we won't feal bad when we don't donate anything to others. because every time we light up we are giving.
I agree with that. Forecasters must own stock in milk and bread,thats pretty smart, because they shure can't predict the weather.
What about the rest of the state.Come on fast Eddie
Whats the odds of that lol
Whats the odds of that lol
What a low life ass they should do the same thing to him
Thats a good point elaura99 that way he could have said that something ran out in front of him and the camera would have showed the kid not in his seat.
That is a good one Koffee that would maybe keep them off the streets.
Well thats good to here, now maybee there won't be a rate incress for awhile lol
I would just like comment on a freind at work he got a call at 4:30 in the morning and they wanted his bank card number they said there was a proublem with his account so he gave it to them. Lucky for him he gave them his mac number which they could not get money from him,so learn from this no one should be looking for your bank info at 4:30 in the morning
She should have been able to keep her permit


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Here Comes the Devil (2012)
Checked this out today and really enjoyed it. It's about a couple of kids who leave their parents to go up and explore these caves reminiscent of picnic at hanging rock. They don't come back till the next day, but they're acting strangely. This one felt like a real throwback of the Euro horror of the 70's. Some over the top twists and turns and gory scenes. It kept me entertained that's for sure. I would recommend checking it out.
I loved it. I checked it out based on a recommendation and don't regret watching it.
Highly Recommended!
Surprised I have never heard about this movie - Ill have to give it a rent
The Blu-Ray is released tomorrow. I saw the review on DVDTalk: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/63322...mes-the-devil/
and it's pretty glowing. Netflix already shipped the Blu Ray to me. Can't wait.
Never heard of this before, will be picking it up shortly.
Blu-Ray.com Review: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Here-C.../88951/#Review
I liked this, but not as much as I was hoping I would. I liked some of the 70s cinematography styles they did, but I didn't realize the whole thing was more of a mystery film, ala Don't Look Now (I only glanced at the plot synopsis in the reviews I saw). So yeah, it was good, but it immediately got packed back in the red envelope and dropped in the mail.
I also had a similar reaction. It's a bit above average and certainly worth a look.
Congratulations to the guy in Here Comes the Devil who marries the world's blotchiest wife, both of whom are also up for horniest, worst parents. After leaving their children alone in a town where the street cleaners freeze in morbid ecstasy at the sight of bloody underwear from a menstruating teen (after peeking into the women's public restroom, because that's the only way a street cleaner can get off), the parents finger-bang in the car. With not a care in the world, they then take a snooze while the children investigate a giant, dark cave (VAGINA, the film announces). Once the polizia return the now distant, disaffected kids (sans bloody underwear), the parents bump bumpy faces again. It's all good on Serial Killer Hill!
This just popped up on Netflix streaming...
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What a summer! NOW can we get serious about solar cooking?
I am a San Antonio native, born and rasied right here, and I must say that this past summer has been the most brutal I have ever experienced! A persistent high pressure system kept rain and even clouds away, and drove temps higher than normal. As someone who's used sunlight to cook for almost a decade, this […] [Read More]


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Looking for your suggestions of good places to find both fresh, gluten-free baked goods/snacks and beer. Bonus points if you keep a gluten-free diet due to health concerns, so you can verify that the establishment(s) are careful with their baking methods.
My bro-in-law is a sensitive celiac. With the 4th coming up but not much time between now and then, I'd like to buy some delicious food and beers for him so he doesn't have to spend another holiday drooling over things he can't eat.
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Paige Spell and Jacob Blevins each set new school records as both track teams took first place at the home non-conference meet on Tuesday.
The women's track squad scored 94 points, well ahead of second place Grayson County who had 29.
On the men's side, Ashe won easily as well with 113 points. Grayson County was second with 28 points and Oak Hill finished third with one point.
Spell set the new school record in the high jump with a leap of five feet, two inches.
For Blevins, his new school record came in the long jump where his jump measured in at 20 feet, 11.5 inches.
Overall, Ashe had a first place finish in nearly every event.
Maize Chapman took first in the women's pole vault, clearing the bar set at six feet, six inches. R.J. Burke won the pole vault on the men's side, clearing eight feet, six inches.
The Huskies swept the top three finishing spots in the men's high jump. Tyler Church, Hunter Argetsinger and Sam Hudler each saw their jump scored at four feet, 10 inches.
In the shot put, Madison Little won the event with a toss of 29 feet, two inches. Makayla Hartzog finished fourth with a throw just over 21 feet. Little also won the discus with a throw of 101 feet, a full 31 feet ahead of her teammate and second place finisher, Katie Orr.
Ashe took the top four scoring spots in the men's shot put. Brandon Wingler, Dominic Maxwell, Jake Woods and Parker Dunne rounded out the top four. In the discus event, Wingler was second, Dunne finished third and Maxwell was fourth.
Aspen Domske grabbed first in the women's long jump with a leap of 15 feet, six inches. Spell, Hailey Richardson and Erin Bingham finished out the top four. Domske was also the top finisher in the triple jump which measured in at 28 feet, five inches.
Austin Bennett won the men's triple jump with an impressive leap of 38 feet, 10 inches, nearly three feet ahead of second place John Bilbrey of Grayson.
Ashe's domination carried over to the track events.
Bingham captured first in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 16.59 seconds. Spell came in second in 17.43 seconds. Bingham was also the top finisher in the 300 hurdles, crossing the line in 52.9 seconds.
Blevins blistered the competition in the 110-hurdles, crossing the finish line in 15.90 seconds, well ahead of Church who grabbed second place in 20.03 seconds. In the 300 hurdles, Zach Outen edged Blevins in the event with a finishing time of 44.59 seconds.
Ashe had all five of the top finishers in the women's 100-meter dash. Amber Hare was first in 13.3 seconds followed by Richardson (13.6 seconds), Taylor Kripps (14.7 seconds), Trinity Bost (14.8 seconds) and Morgan Girtman (16 seconds).
Not to be outdone, the men grabbed the top six spots in the same event. Blevins was first in 11.3 seconds, Bennett came in second in 11.5 seconds while Outen and Richard Isaacs both finished in 11.6 seconds. Argetsinger crossed the line in 12.1 seconds and Ronald Goodlanger was sixth in 12.6 seconds.
In the 400-meter dash, Burke finished second for the men in 58.6 seconds. Ashe teammate Landon Bush was second in 61.4 seconds.
In the first long distance event, Victoria Reed finished first in the women's mile run with a time of 6:06. Garreth Berry and Helmer Alvarez took second and third in the men's mile.
Berry and Sophie Wolfe were the winners in the two-mile event. Berry won the men's race in 12:41 while Wolfe won the women's event in 16:50.
The final event was the 200-meter dash, which was yet another win for both teams. Hare won the women's race in 28.3 seconds, just ahead Richardson (28.8), Chapman (31.4) and Girtman (35.1). Bennett grabbed first for the men in 23.6 seconds. Isaacs, Bush, Burke and Church rounded out the top five.
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What the Heck? U.S. Arresting Undocumented LEAVING the Country
The L.A. Times reports that U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend undocumented immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they're catching them on the way out. At various times near the Tijuana-San Diego border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have been setting up checkpoints, boarding buses headed to for Mexico and pulling off people who lack proper documentation. The undocumented immigrants they apprehend are typically turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol for processing. Unless they have serious criminal records or numerous immigration violations, most are returned to Mexico within a few hours, the agents say. Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center of Comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego, said he was not aware of similar crackdowns in the past. The checkpoints make sense for intercepting contraband, but targeting undocumented immigrants voluntarily leaving the country is a "bizarre" way of handling the illegal immigration question, he said.


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Attendance this summer totaled 420,467. This in contrast to 2005, which played to 456,033. So the Muny played to 35,566 fewer customers in 2006. Divide that figure by 53 performances (seven shows a week for seven weeks, plus an extra four performances of The Wizard of Oz), and on average this summer the Muny played to 672 fewer viewers per night which doesn't sound like a major dent in an 11,000-seat theater.
But now multiply those 672 unsold seats times an arbitrary median ticket price of $36 per seat times 53 performances, and you arrive at a theoretical $1,282,176 in lost revenue, a tidy sum that helps to explain (and perhaps even justify) the Muny's conservative programming policy. Throughout most of his tenure, executive producer Paul Blake has rarely veered from staging the same old tried-and-true titles. The financial stakes are too high to produce a show simply because it might provide wonderful theater. Better to stick with the more commercial titles.
But what is commercial? Commercial is what people are willing to pay to see. It just might be that the pendulum is swinging away from Blake's "if-we-stage-it-they-will-come" policy; this summer there was a direct link between quality and attendance. Not only was the dance-happy Seven Brides, buoyed by a star performance from Kate Baldwin, the most satisfying evening of the summer; it also was the box-office hit of the summer, the only show to average more than 9,000 patrons per night. The Muny management would have us believe that there's no link between quality and box office; they say that advance group and single ticket sales made Seven Brides the audience favorite before the season even opened. But advance sales are only part of what goes into making a hit.
Yes, good reviews are nice, and advertising plays a small role, but primarily what makes a hit is word-of-mouth. If viewers are excited by a show, they'll talk it up. Fast. But for the first six weeks of this season, there wasn't much to talk about except for and here's a surprise to everyone, including the Muny staff the pop-rock musical Aida. In his pre-show chat prior to each performance of season closer Seven Brides, Blake was quick to take credit for Aida. "We felt we should do new shows," he said.
Excuse me? Let's review the last five seasons. Out of thirty-five productions, only six were new. Of those six, two were revues. The Muny-created Hooray for Hollywood was hardly something to shout about; Side by Side by Sondheim may have been new to Forest Park, but it was 26 years old by the time the Muny ever-so-timidly premiered it. The four more-conventional musicals included a misconceived production of The Fantasticks (which took 42 years to reach the Muny) and Blake's own adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's (about which the less said the better).
That leaves two Disney productions: last year's Beauty and the Beast and Aida. Beauty and the Beast, a deserved success, is a well-crafted, affecting piece of stagecraft that fits neatly into the ongoing Muny tradition of presenting one show per summer geared to children. The Muny did well by it, with a stellar cast featuring several of the show's Broadway alums. But why did audiences embrace Aida?
Apart from the obvious reason it was new to the Muny stage surely part of its success can be credited to the scenic design. Aida was the sole production this summer to be staged essentially on a unit set. The show flowed; it had a different dynamic from the other six musicals, whose designs relied on those slow, scenery-hanging booms to open and close, open and close. In shows like Gypsy and Oliver!, seemingly every time an important song was about to be sung, like aggravating clockwork the booms would close, severing both performer and audience from the environment. By contrast Aida moved quickly, and the evening was over by ten o'clock. How refreshing was that? Last summer Jesus Christ Superstar also benefited from a unit set. It too sported a higher energy level than the other 2005 offerings.
When the Muny debuted in 1919, its operas and operettas were mostly one-set affairs that worked well on the cumbersome stage. If scenery changes were required, they occurred during the act breaks. But over the decades musicals have become ever more dependent on elaborate scenery and quick changes. It's long past time for the Muny to address the challenge of how to catch up with current technology in more creative ways than opening and closing a boom.
There's something else the Muny needs to address: the changing nature of the material. In his onstage remarks, Blake boasted that the Muny stages its own productions; gone are the days, he said, when the Muny was relegated to merely booking shows. But where is the shame in booking quality?
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Kissing strangers may be exciting and who does not like kissing etc but, since you know that it has been many years for me and excruciating because of your connection to me while volume is increased with drugs. That was a fast reunion. I just wonder why you all hate me so much.
Jeeze all this in a Thread titled Advil someone, I don't know or care to..
When Avril worked on the song for the flopped film "Alice in Wonderland" with Johnny Depp, her marraige to Whibley fell apart as the relationship between Depp and Vanessa Paradis began falling apart. Now this.
guess I will have to wait until film casting begins before I find a date for the prom...
I stand corrected that my date offer will be accepted no matter what and to let them get back together if they want. That would be great but, who can follow your zig zag soap operas? I will just stick with Av and her friends who can come with us too of course.
I have to admit I got more than halfway through this thread and couldn't continue. Only because there were too many tangents.
In regards to Gary Oldman and Alan Rickman, both are awesome actors....but I just don't see it. I especially can't see it in Rickman after he's played Snape in Harry Potter...its just weird! (No offence!)
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NEW YORK - Texas pastor Joel Osteen is getting his own channel on SiriusXM satellite radio.
Osteen, who preaches to 40,000 people each week at Houston's Lakewood megachurch, already shows his messages on the Trinity religious TV network and other television stations across the country.
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"I'm tired of being looked at in the dating show guy," says Ray J in the above extra from this week's Ray J & Brandy: A Family Business. He expressed similar sentiment during the show, and yet, virtually the entire episode was about him…as the dating show guy. (That makes this is the third series/season chronicling his Season 1 choice, Cocktail.) While the episode did little beyond shading in what happened during the For the Love of Ray J 2 Reunion, the extras in this post help with even more shading, showing the arguments with Cocktail that went down offstage.
Even more telling is Ray's assessment of his second season: "I felt like not a lot of people watched it like they did the first time, so I didn't think I was actually gonna get a reunion." How's that for honesty? He's talked about keeping it "one hunnid" in the past, but has he ever done so to this extent?
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My initial reaction after the McCain speech was " workmanlike" and "basic." But I rewatched the last ten minutes or so. Upon further review I have to conclude that it is political art practiced well. It's not flowery or over the top, but it is stirring. I leave it to professional speechwriters to tell me otherwise, but it seems that it is not the language itself that is so moving. It is the core idea: we can and should all stand up for our country. Yes, McCain is an especially effective presenter of that idea, but the emotion stems not from his biography or the language, but from the central core idea.
And that, it strikes me, is the difference between the Obama and McCain speeches. I can't for the life of me recall a single line now from Obama's speech or really what the animating idea was. "George W. Bush's presidency stinks," I suppose. Really, the message was base partisanship — throw the bums out. And so it isn't hard to understand how a speech like that quickly fades from memory.
But when there is a motivating message of high principle — stand up for your country and resist partisanship — it is easier to recall the text of the speech itself. Of course, it helps that the most stirring part of McCain's speech was at the very end with the message as the repeating cadence ("Stand up for. . . ").
Unlike the Seinfeld-ian Obama speech and campaign (which leave one meandering around in a field of intellectual "nothingness") McCain's speech, like his campaign, is about something other than not letting the Democrats get their mitts on the White House. And it could not be more different that Obama's message.
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Rumour has it that a number of French surfboard shapers have gathered together and agreed not to touch or repair any boards made in China as a way of protecting their living. Who knows if this is true but it does sound typically French and I'm all for a bit of direct action, but is this the way to go and are Chinese boards destroying the cottage industry of board shaping or just making the sport accessible to more people?
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4.0 out of 5 stars One Tip Backward and One Tip Forward
The author is a magazine writer and a good one. Magazine writers pretty much screwed up the definition of organizational theory several years ago via word of mouth so perhaps it is time to re-invent the concept of 'theory' as it realtes to word of mouth communication. One Tip backward and one Tip Forward. So it goes.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but Outdated
There are two observations that need to be made at the outset of this review:
1. I read this book after reading "Outliers" and so I expected to be 'wowed' in much the same manner; which I wasn't. Having said that, however, I still found the book to be quite interesting, as much of the information presented a novel (at least to me) way of looking at what happens...
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but Outdated,
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There are two observations that need to be made at the outset of this review:
1. I read this book after reading "Outliers" and so I expected to be 'wowed' in much the same manner; which I wasn't. Having said that, however, I still found the book to be quite interesting, as much of the information presented a novel (at least to me) way of looking at what happens around me.
2. How can I say a book that's barely 12 years old is "outdated"? Well this was written before the advent of facebook, twitter, texting, blogs (at least as we know them today), and, in fact, the internet as it is today. Which leads to Gladwell making an illustration that now seems laughable: A "connector" faxing his friends to tell them about a great restaurant. Yeah, faxing. So I say this book seems outdated simply because the "word of mouth" phenomena has drastically changed. I'm sure all of us have a relatively HUGE sphere of influence through facebook, amazon reviews, etc. that just didn't exist when this book was written. So bear in mind, we live in a vastly different world than that to which Gladwell was writing.
As to the specific content of this book, Gladwell has it broken up into 8 chapters, which could really be just 2 sections:
1. What it takes to have a "social epidemic" and 2. "Case Studies".
In the first section he talks about the type of people that must be involved in social epidemics; namely "connectors" (who bring people together), "Mavens" (who bring information to the people) and "Salesmen" (who make us love it). The first section also deals with "stickiness", a characteristic of social epidemics that I can best liken to the part of a song that gets stuck in your head. It's that something that makes it unforgettable and makes you keep coming back. And lastly, he deals with the intrinsic part that "context" plays in the microcosm of social epidemics.
In the second section, as would be expected, we see examples of all of these 'necessities' working in concert to bring about "social epidemics".
All things considered; I enjoyed reading this book, as I enjoy reading anything that puts new thoughts into my head, but it just ins't as captivating or relevant as I had hoped.
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1.0 out of 5 stars No analysis, just amusing stories,
J. J. Baker-bates (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
This book is presented as an explanation of what it is that might cause something to go from insignificance to ubiquity. It in fact does nothing of the sort and is actually just an amusing collection of stories.
It is well written as a social history, and has a light, journalistic style good for dipping into, but the reader is left absolutely none the wiser as to why any of it happened. I would therefore class it as pretty much a waste of anyone's time.
One thing that particularly annoyed me about this book is that chaos theory - a branch of mathematics almost 40 years old, for the analysis and prediction of exactly the sort of thing this book is wondering about - is mentioned only once: as a footnote.
That's like writing a book about why planets stay in orbit around the sun, and mentioning astrophysics as an aside.
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2.0 out of 5 stars NETWORK EXTERNALITY? PAY IT FORWARD? NO, TIPPING POINT,
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Some voracious reading of research on...
(1) "Network externalities" and "network effects" from economics and
(2) WOM (word of mouth) research from social/cognitive psychology
...and shamelessly rehashing them with a doozy touchy-feely spin on "small things can inspire big things" a la "Pay it Forward" (that Helen Hunt/Kevin Spacey rigmarole) -- and lo and behold, you have a tipping point for a book that people are stomping over each other to buy and magically provoke their thinking about marketing or sociological phenomena.
Indeed every once in a while we need a business book that summarizes and makes sense of all that goes on in academia, so even such blatant intellectual debauchery would be fine as long as the BASIC professional integrity of attribution was upheld. The very least one can expect from such a self-proclaimed "biography of an idea" endeavour is an honest acknowledgement of WHERE the idea came from.
As though it was not embarrassing enough that epithets like "maven" and "connector" are well established in WOM or network externality research since nearly 20 years, we were also fed with the MOST commonly used illustrations -- faxes becoming important because other people had faxes, or some quaint fashion catching up overnight (Hush Puppies in this case, but it could be any number of things), or how broadband has swept our world, or the success of a TV show -- these are all primetime textbook examples to explain the very fundamental concepts of network externality in ECON 101. Some arcane mention of epidemiologists' theories does not count because the whole hypothesis here is to provide something that is "beyond the world of medicine and diseases". Not one mention of the "Network Externality" in the book or in the glossary at the end.
To its minor credit, the book is written with a readable flow although expect to have each and every minutiae explained in a "for dummies" style. For e.g., the perfectly simple notion that yawning is visually and aurally contagious is explained over 2 pages of relatively small print with about 100 mentions of the word yawn. Yawn. Such excruciating fleshing out of material is understandable of course, given how little of substance there really was in this "thinking" to begin with.
The text wallows in its conflicting logical morass. Remember, "small things" are supposed to make a big difference. A winding 40 pages are devoted to crime combat in NY under a newly appointed police chief. Forgive me if this concerted annual effort by a legitimate full-fledged police force does NOT sound like a "small thing" to me.
We are told "What must underlie successful epidemics is a bedrock belief that change is possible". Unfortunately, all the examples Gladwell cites such as a sweeping shoe vogue, faxes becoming popular -- these are all a matter of happenstance instead of a concerted effort by individuals at a point in time. Such is indeed the true nature of contagious phenomenons as he himself mentions at the outset, there is no "bedrock belief" until afterwards when someone sits and analyzes the event. I could also hypothesize that a lot of these mini-revolutions happen when an optimal chain of events is accidentally (unintentionally) spurred on by some triggers in society/environment etc, but that is for another day.
As though this were not enough we are treated to semi-pompous implications. For e.g., page 131: "There is something PROFOUNDLY counter-intuitive in the definition of stickiness that emerges from all these examples". Really? Would have been nice if it were apparent instead of having us hit on the head with it.
Come to think of it a "big effect" is a pretty flaky/subjective concept anyway. How could this supposed big effect be sustained? Where are hush puppies now? As for NY's crime rate, many experts such as Andrew Karmen from CUNY (John Jay) believe that the drop in crime rates in NY in 1980s or 90s is insignificant, homicides in the city have risen 10-fold since 1950. How about faxes -- and their big effect being eaten by another big effect (email)?
What is most piquing though is that in a round-about way we are offered Polyanna solutions as a result of this 3-pronged theory of network externality. One priceless gem emerges when we are convinced how cleaning a subway system would be enough to solve crime rates (with the Bernie Goetz case as a lynchpin). My retorts won't fit this review.
Whether this is a legitimate business book or a mere avante-garde coffee table thoughtpiece, one would have at the least expected some sort of an organized framework to plan for these "small things" or to sustain the "big effects". None is forthcoming. As for me, the very fact that well-established research is packaged here in a 250-page drawl as a pretentiously seminal idea is quite a put-off in itself. A simple 5-6 page HBR article would have done the job just fine, but then that wouldn't make a lot of money for Gladwell, would it.
If you are in business and hope to use this stuff for a spiral marketing/branding effort, you'd do a lot better getting your hands on some WOM literature than this inchoate theoretical indulgence.
Highly over-rated material, this.
4.0 out of 5 stars One Tip Backward and One Tip Forward,
Gary L. Packwood (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
The author is a magazine writer and a good one. Magazine writers pretty much screwed up the definition of organizational theory several years ago via word of mouth so perhaps it is time to re-invent the concept of 'theory' as it realtes to word of mouth communication. One Tip backward and one Tip Forward. So it goes.
Move quickly throught the first section on epidemics (sophomoric)but focus on the author's practical defintion and description of a 'maven'...the human with a database mind and how that type of mind fits within various communication and business systems that are emerging across the world. That theme of the importance of the 'maven' in business or in social systems that runs throughout this book is worth the price of the book.
If respect for the mavens among us reaches a tipping point this author will have achieved a new 'theory' of organization design which will move him from the magazine racks to the coffee shops where ...the really important decisions are made now days.
Nice Read. Try it. You'll like it.
2.0 out of 5 stars Mildly Interesting, but mostly obvious,
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This review is from: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
As an entrepreneur, the subject of how trends are created is of particular interest. Unfortunately, I have three basic criticisms of this book:
1. It holds nothing terribly new. It assigns labels to principles that are fairly common sense. An example is the author's discussion of "Connectors", or people who have a lot of influence in creating trends, as they know many people within different social spheres. The fact that people who have a large number of personal connections, in various settings, have the ability to "connect" others should be fairly obvious (e.g., Paul Revere was more successful than his counterpart in spreading the message about the British because he knew who to tell, namely officials or other influential individuals - as opposed to the town's janitor, I suppose). Most of the author's principles are similarly unrevolutionary.
2. Trends vs. Fads. Most of the "trends" discussed are in fact not trends at all, but fads. For example, the author embarks on a lengthy discussion of how Hush Puppies became a national fashion fad after some trendy youths began wearing them. Sadly, this isn't a trend at all, but a fashion fad that only lasted a few months. If you're interested in fads, this book is probably more relevant. As someone interested in how national and global trends are "tipped," I was largely disappointed.
3. Selective Research. To illustrate his hypothesis on the "Power of the Magic Number of 150," the author relies on discussions of the number of people in various hunter-gatherer groups, to the obscure religious group the Hutterites, both of which tend to divide themselves up in groups of about 150 people. I can't help but think you could find similar arbitrary data on just about any number you chose (What about the magic number 500?)
Overall, although there were a couple of mildly interesting conclusions in the book, the work generally only states the obvious as revelation, and consistently fails to provide any quantitative justification for his conclusions. I wouldn't recommend it at all, but if you're determined, please email me. I'll make you a great deal on mine.
3.0 out of 5 stars A Drawn Out Way to Make Its Point,
C. Ryan (Winthrop, WA United States) - See all my reviews
The underlying premise of the book is that socio-economic and political phenomenon often can be explained by analogy to an infectious disease. Something - the apparent resurgence of Hush Puppy shoes among "hip" people, is one example the author provides - seems to come out of nowhere and can't be explained by conventional cause and effect. That is, the Hush Puppy company was not promoting the product but youthful, New York City "trend setters" found them in thrift shops, their friends and "followers" started wearing them and demand skyrocketed in an exponential fashion. The natural phenomena that best explain this are epidemics; they start small with a few victims and then can spread rapidly to millions of people.
Gladwell's basic premise is a useful construct for understanding some social-economic phenomena. And any student of history knows that relatively few people can make enormous changes, with Christ and his original 12 disciples being the most dramatic instance. But Gladwell takes much too much space to drag out the same basic point. One chapter of nauseating detail about the evolution of the children's television program Sesame Street is the most pointlessly drawn out part of the book. Also Gladwell relies solely on anecdotal evidence with little statistical support and no original research.
If you can find a magazine article on this topic - and it sounds like some of the chapters are reworked articles - you may learn all you need. The writing is well done; there are no charts or graphs to illustrate the principles. I'd give it two-and-a-half stars if that was possible.
3.0 out of 5 stars Exponential or Gradual Growth?,
R. K Shah (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
Perhaps the first thing one can say about this book is that it challenges our fundamental assumptions as well as our innate conception of reality. In plain English, this book tells us that life is not a gradual process, that the phenomen which we experience in our day to day routines are not built up, but rather that the world in which we live has become this way as a result of epidemics and exponential growth.
Above all this book is management theory at its best and trend analysis at its worst. Gladwell discusses how one can really create an epidemic or change the ways of the world whether it be the crime rate or the number of people who smoke. He argues that in every trend there is a tipping point, a point at which an otherwise common growth turns into an explosion.
Gladwell uses psychology and market research studies to show that the world is not in fact gradual but is rather exponential. He bases his arguments on the law of the few, the stickiness factor and what he calls the power of context.
Gladwell's book can be broken down into three basic parts. A guide on how to use people to spread an epidemic. A guide on how to tweak one's message to make sure that it is an epidemic worth spreading, and finally a guide on how to use context to make sure that the first two steps actually work. This book is revolutionary in that it teaches one how to create and distribute a product, whether that product be a pair of shoes or breast cancer awareness.
Gladwell fails when he tries to analyze smoking and the tipping point of this phenomen but overall he succeeds in that he provides a counterweight to the prevailing business idea that suggests that greatness is built over time and not exponentially grown. This book is an easy read and a pleasant one at that. Should you disagree with Gladwell, this book will still be useful as a topic of discussion at the dinner table or your next cocktail party. However, should you agree with Gladwell, this book may aid you where it matters, in the boardroom and perhaps even in your daily life.
4.0 out of 5 stars Proportionally Epidemic,
roy christopher "roychristopher-dot-com" (Chicago, ILL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
Journalist Malcolm Gladwell has put together what is easily one of the most readable books about social phenomena out right now. Borrowing by analogy from epidemiology, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is a clear, concise analysis of social epidemics and why they "tip" ("The Tipping Point" is the name given to the moment in an epidemic when a virus reaches critical mass). Gladwell says, "If you talk to the people who study epidemics - epidemiologists - you realize that they have a strikingly different way of looking at the world. They don't share the assumptions the rest of us have about how and why change happens."
After studying tipping points in epidemics, Gladwell decided to look for them in other places. He found them in Wolverine's Hush Puppy shoe sales, Paul Revere's midnight ride, the child-captivating shows of Sesame Street and Blue's Clues and the most relevant analysis of teen smoking I've yet to read, among other things. Gladwell also covers case studies of people who have successfully manipulated Tipping Points by launching their own epidemic campaigns.
By breaking down the elements of epidemics into easily understandable pieces and processes, Malcolm Gladwell has written what could almost be considered a metamarketing sourcebook. As he says, "The point is that by the end of the book I think the reader will have a clear idea of what starting an epidemic actually takes. This is not an abstract, academic book. It's very practical. And it's very hopeful. It's brain software."
4.0 out of 5 stars Diagnosing social epidemics -- a prescription please?,
Julie Mathiesen (South Dakota, USA, Pepperdine Student) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
In "The Tipping Point", Malcolm Gladwell weaves disparate tales of trends and phenomena to create meaning and understanding of change and change forces. He analyzes everything from breakaway fashion developments to fluctuations in crime rate to the captivating nature of children's television programs. He compares trends to infectious outbreaks of disease and contends that messages are spread in a similar epidemiological fashion.
The author diagnoses the essential players in the outbreak of social epidemics. His "Law of the Few" states that connectors, mavens and salesmen are the essential cogs in the cycle that serve to generate and proliferate messages to the point of critical mass, or the Tipping Point. Connectors have relationships with many people. Mavens have deep knowledge about particular subjects and are anxious to share it. Salespeople influence people to take action. The power of the few can turn a small and seemingly insignificant notion into an international phenomenon. Gladwell explores this recurrent pattern and makes it understandable.
An examination of the important qualities of infectious messages indicates they must be "sticky" in order to take hold. They need that little extra bit of interest or flair that causes the idea to hang around in your thoughts for awhile - messages must be memorable.
Messages also generate power based on the context in which they are received. When and where you hear or see something is powerful. Environment makes a significant difference. It's important to note this factor is one over which society can exert some control. Eliminating graffiti in subway stations reduced overall crime rates in New York.
Missing from the book is a strong and clear prescription. How can people harness this knowledge of social epidemics to affect positive change? The idea that we can indeed create a revolution of change, very quickly, and with little resources is a hopeful and inspiring message. The implications could be far reaching for business, international relations and education.
4.0 out of 5 stars The Tipping Point - A Text for Transformational Leaders,
This review is from: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
"The Tipping Point", by Malcolm Gladwell, is an essential text for individuals (business, educational and government leaders...) who seek to better understand and generate positive social epidemics within today's society. As Gladwell states, "the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics." Gladwell aptly calls this process, The Tipping Point.
Gladwell's insightful argument is that ideas, products, messages and behaviors spread like viruses. To support his argument, Gladwell, describes how Hush Puppies shoes in the 1990s suddenly became fashionable after years of steady decline in sales or how Paul Reveres "word of mouth" ride alarming colonists of an imminent attack by the British spread more effectively than his counterpart, William Dawes, who was carrying the same message. So, how can we better understand why some trends "tip" and others don't? Gladwell argues there are 3 rules which can provide us with insight into the Tipping Point: The Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of Context.
Marketing industry personnel can take a direct lesson from Gladwell's The Tipping Point. Yet, where the text is most effective is how The Tipping Point can be utilized by transformational leaders to better understand why social trends -fall of crime rates in urban cities, teen suicide and smoking - suddenly spike or dissipate within communities. Understanding human nature is not an exact science. Therefore, by critically examining societal epidemics and their tipping points, transformational leaders can better serve their communities by instilling positive changes/trends to remedy negative societal epidemics.
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DMX Says Iyanla Didn't Fix His Life, She Made It Worse
His personal life has also been a bit of a mess. He was married to Tashera Simmons for 11 years, but he had several extramarital affairs, which led to the birth of some of his 10 children.
With that kind of background, you might think he'd be the perfect candidate for Fix My Life, inspirational speaker Iyanla Vanzant's show on Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network.
The rapper is featured on an episode of the show that aired Saturday, but now he's saying Iyanla didn't fix his life, she made it worse.
"DMX agreed to be a guest on Iyanla: Fix My Life with the understanding that she would be helping his relationship with his 10 children," X's rep Domenick Nati said in statement distributed to AllHipHop.com. "When he arrived for the taping, most of the content was focused on his struggles with drugs and poor parenting. Iyanla did not 'fix' DMX's life, just made his image worse, and doesn't not have DMX's personal written consent to use the footage."
While DMX was not able to stop the 90-minute show from airing, he is trying to move on. Last week, he made a surprise appearance at Alicia Keys' show at Madison Square Garden. And he seems intent on fixing his career with a new a new album and film in the works. The album is said to include Swizz Beats and he's trying to nail down Timbaland, Dr. Dre and Kanye West for guest spots. On the film front, X will appear in Blame It On The Hustle with Mekhi Phifer and Ving Rhames.


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Crossing Greenland
Crossing the largest island on the Earth by ski
It was my first real attempt at cross-country skiing, and my Finnish friend Pasi had borrowed a special sit-ski, designed for someone like me to use. It didn't fit well. To improve it, we improvised with duct tape, rope, and a kiddy's plastic sledge, which made the sit-ski look more like an eccentric traveller's trolley of junk than a piece of high-tech sports equipment.
The sit-ski needed to fit me like a glove so that I could plant my ski poles just ahead of my body and pull down on them to propel myself forward. We struggled to perfect the fit, but the daylight hours were short so we set off anyway. I could barely budge the sit-ski more than a few inches with each lunge on my poles. Without the use of my abdominal muscles, I flopped around like a rag doll at every twist in the trail.
As twilight fell, I felt wearied and bruised, frustrated and beaten. Cross-country sit-skiing scared me. There was no way to brake, stop or turn with the two skis fixed in parallel, not to mention the pain of defrosting fingers. For once I was glad that I lacked sensation below my spinal injury as we thawed ourselves out with hot drinks and fatty food. I shivered for hours, my toes like ice pops, my dysfunctional body thermostat utterly confused. I hugged a hot water bottle, then sat in the sauna wearing thermal underwear until the heat eventually penetrated my bones.
It was the most difficult sport I had ever attempted, and my skill seemed non-existent. At the end of a disheartening week of skiing, it seemed like a bolt of madness when Pasi said: 'We should all ski across Greenland.'
It was an outrageous idea. I couldn't ski; I couldn't keep warm. But an excited voice in my head began whispering, 'Yes, yes, yes!' I couldn't imagine how it would be possible, but I grinned at the thought of skiing over miles of sparkling ice to experience an otherworldly place. I just had to battle the gremlins of uncertainty that lingered: in the idea, in my ability, and in all of the things that could go wrong.
For each concern, we made a plan and listed possible solutions, no matter how odd they might have seemed. Slowly, my confidence grew. When I discovered that some Spaniards had skied across Greenland the long way down, from north to south, on a sofa mounted on a sledge and powered by a kite, our plan didn't seem quite so mad.
Skiing the void
When it comes to disability sport, equipment is everything. The right fit, and an extra strap in just the right place, can make all the difference between being a wobbling wreck and a high-performance athlete. I stopped worrying about how I would squat and hover and avoid a frostbitten bum when Hilleberg made me a tent with a toilet flap in the floor of the inner, and I borrowed a titanium-and-carbon-fibre toilet seat fitted with snow feet from Equal Adventure.
A rape alarm made it onto the packing list, too. This was a desperate measure to scare off a polar bear in the event that our unarmed party encountered one. At least I felt better armed with something, given my inability to run away, and the fact that my worries had been exaggerated by the other team members joking that when it came to polar bears, it was a case of 'survival of the fittest: it'll eat you first'.
It took only a few months for our idea to grow from a seed buried in a compost of obstacles to a firmly rooted sprout of possibility. We planned to cross Greenland from east to west: 700 kilometres from coast to coast. We would attempt to ski an almost straight line, with a deviation for Dye 2, a Cold War US radar station. Dye 2 was the only mark in the midst of the blank white map, a historical landmark and an abandoned fossil of war, with a shining white sphere that houses a radar. More importantly for us, it was a feature in the void – something to aim for.
At last, we were on the east coast of Greenland, on the edge of the ice. The air was still and the first day of skiing lay before us. The only sounds were our breathing lungs and scraping skis. Our strategy was to ski for 55 minutes, then break for five. We called each hour a 'leg'. There would be a minimum of eight legs a day, with a longer break for lunch. In this way, we would be sure to cover 20 kilometres each day and cross the country before our rations were exhausted.
It didn't take long for the monotony of the journey to sink in. We skied while clock-watching; it was as if we had boring factory jobs and couldn't wait to escape the conveyor belt. By the end of each leg, we were hungry for both food and conversation.
After four legs, it seemed as though we had run a marathon, but the GPS told us we had only covered nine kilometres, which wasn't even half of our planned daily distance. We began our procession again, and I counted legs so hard that I lost count, sure that we had done seven, deflated to discover we had only done six, uncertain my body could take any more. Each hour passed in a blur; my body exhausted, my mind worn out from thinking about what to think about.
Home sweet home
At the end of the first day, the sun was low on the horizon and my chin was numb from the cold breeze. The others were busy building tents. I zipped up my down jacket, silently thanking all of the geese that had been plucked to fill it. In the tent, I wriggled into a short sleeping bag that had been designed especially for me by extreme-equipment manufacturer Rab. It featured thick pile on the bottom and baffles of down on top. A zip ran up the centre and Velcro tabs helped to keep the insulation snug around my legs.
I tried not to feel frustrated with my legs' inability to help me climb into it; after all, it was me who had brought my legs here, not vice versa. I'm determined to ensure that being paralysed from the chest down doesn't dent my fervor for outdoor adventures, and staying active soothes my frustration at three quarters of my muscles not working. I'm often left feeling like a short chunk of jelly that's prone to wobbling over.
As I moved around, I brushed against the inner tent. It was already stiff with ice. The frozen scabs of exhaled breath that had condensed onto the tent wall trickled down the back of my neck – the only part of me still exposed. I tensed up as I felt the ice melt, a cold shot of shivering wetness that ran down the track of my spine and then over the border to a place I couldn't feel. Thank goodness for the roar of the Mountain Safety Research stove. The heat that radiated from it warmed the tent up closer to 0°C than we had been all day.
After hours of cooking, water-melting and camp rigmarole, I lay back in my down jacket, in a second down sleeping bag, on a down-filled mat. I then drifted off to sleep, wondering why I put myself through hours of monotony until my muscles ached and my tendons screamed. After the accident, when I found myself in a wheelchair, perhaps I had needed to know that I could live independently, have an active life, get outdoors, laugh and play. But that was a long time ago. It wasn't like that anymore.
Dashing through the snow
Over the following days, as my arms pumped like pistons and my ski poles rhythmically punched the ice, I continued to search for an answer, but none came. The action was hypnotic, and my thoughts gradually emptied onto the trail until there was nothing left, just the thud of ski poles, the crackle of jackets and the slide of skis and pulks.
Weeks later, fitter and more skilled, I slid over the snow, at times so effortlessly that my arms lay loose at my side, enjoying a ride I would never have imagined possible. Everything shimmered, inside and out. My spine tingled as it only does in special moments. I forgot about the effort, the relentless heaviness of skiing uphill, the sore muscles, the aches that had radiated deep in my bones, and the draining weight of worry and fear.
In spite of everything that we had gone through, I would have endured it all 1,000 times over to feel what I felt that afternoon. The space that yawned around us had reached a space within me, and despite the uncertainty that still lay ahead, I no longer needed to ask, 'Why?'


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Ecological Networks to Safeguard Biodiversity and Human Wellbeing
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Saving biodiversity
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