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Al Gore introduced a five point plan that "…would simultaneously move us toward solutions to the climate crisis and the economic crisis--and create millions of new jobs that cannot be outsourced," at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Gore claims that the two major crisis's we currently face can be alleviated through the same steps:
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Ode to Pugsley
Beyond that, it seems being sick and going to the gym isn't very condusive to good posts for my photo/lifestyle/training blog, so I thought today I'd do a blog dump of sorts. I have a picture of downtown Juneau as seen from the Treadwell Ditch trail, taken Jan. 14. I also thought I'd include my latest NPR post. Like many cyclists, I have a bad habit of humanizing my bikes. A while back, I wrote an apology letter to Sugar. Recently, for my NPR blog, I wrote a love letter to Pugsley. I was running on minimal sleep and what was probably the beginning of my contribution to cold and flu season when I penned it. So it's a bit loopy, but it's sincere...
Dear Pugsley,
I'll never forget the first time I laid eyes on you, dangling from the ceiling at the Anchorage REI. An arctic blast of nitrogen-freezing proportions was ripping outside as I browsed the headlamp aisle. That's when I first caught a glimpse of your well-endowed wheels. I felt like a Valley girl in a bad '90s rap video ... "Oh, my, god. Becky, look at his butt. It is so big." You looked like one of those fixie guys' Frankenbikes. But, you know, who understands those fixie guys, anyway?
You moved on to other things. So did I. I was new on the winter bike scene, and convinced that studs were more my type. Those carbide-pierced tires were so punk rock, and I was thrilled by the way they gripped onto ice and never let go. But when the snow really started to settle in the relationship, the studs just bogged down like a pothead with a Nintendo. I came to realize that studs and I had no real future.
The next winter, I went looking for something a little more willing to commit. That's when I found SnowCats, the wide rims that fit on a regular bike. I outfitted them with semi-wide tires and together we hit the snow, finding more float and more opportunities than before. But there was still something missing in my life, a certain longing that was just out of reach.
The final blow came as I was pushing my SnowCats over a loose, narrow trail, and watched in wonder as a cyclist passed me, riding. His bike was equipped with the same wide tires I had seen at REI that fateful winter day. The tires of Pugsley. The next day, I told the SnowCats we had to talk.
I'll admit I had my doubts, Pugsley. In a sport that cherishes sleek and thin, you were excessive and obese. You wore the purple remnants of somebody's bad '90s ecstasy trip, and even when they finally painted you gray, I could still see your skewed fork and crooked frame and offset rims — purposeful deformations just to make room for all that excess fat. But once I finally took the plunge, I was amazed at your strength and grace. You plowed over boulders like they weren't even there, then floated atop sand like you weighed an ounce. When the winter finally came, with our powder-blasting downhill rides and soft trail traverses, I knew it was love.
It's true what they say, Pugsley: Once you've had fat, you can't ever go back.
I like fat bikes and I cannot lie.
So now I just wanted to tell you that I'm so glad we met. We have a long and treacherous trail ahead of us, and I wanted to let you know that I trust you completely. You are my bike. And for better or worse, for faster or slower, in bonking and in health, I know you'll carry me through. I need you, Pugsley. Like I've never needed a bike before.
With love,
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- Vito said...
That left me a little misty eyed. Some day down the road I to shall have a Pugsley. I wish you a speedy recovery and once again good luck. I'll be sending some positive energy your way.
Nigity - "Always keep a smile in your heart." - 12:34 AM
- Angel Pasos said...
Jill, when all this ends, and you finish the race, you should take a rest and spend a long time in a sunny beach.
Regards - 6:32 AM
- Suds said...
I've never wanted to be a bike more than I do right now... LOL!
"I like fat bikes and I cannot lie."... too funny Jill! - 8:03 AM
- bettymountaingirl said...
That is so wicked clever
- Eric said...
"..like a pothead with a nintendo"
that cracked me up, thanks! - 9:17 AM
You may still have a touch of a fever.... - 9:23 AM
- Dan & Cyn's Place said...
My goodness, couldn't all this sappiness wait until Valentine's Day? ;-)
Cynthia in the Valley - 9:52 AM
- Benson said...
Fat bikes and the woman that rides one. Can't be beat.
Great love letter. - 11:06 AM
- monkeygirl said...
you do not mind if I print that off and glue it to some pink and red construction paper hearts and give that to my pugsley for valentines day do you. roflmao.
- Albert A Rasch said...
Miss Jill,
I understand exactly where you're coming from, what you feel.
Well pretty close. My thing is firearms, fine well crafted hunting guns, the kind that makes you wonder why something so beautiful can be so difficult to live without.
I have my Pugsleys...
Holland & Holland, Wesley Richards, Rigby, the list goes on...
Your pictures are great and I took a look at your novel, I will read it as time allows. So far I like what I read.
Albert A Rasch
The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles - 2:39 PM
- Vito said...
Jill, I agree with Angel. I know you are going to fare well, but when you are done, you really deserve a some kind of enjoyable break. You deserve it!
Nigity - "Always keep a smile in your heart." - 4:46 PM
- Jill said...
Thanks all ... I nearly forgot that Valentine's Day was coming.
Vito and Angel ... I appreciated the sentiment, but Iditabike is my vacation :-) - 11:46 PM
- Vito said...
Jill...That's why appreciate what you're doing so much. What a way to spend ones vacation. I love it!
Simply awesome... but everyone knows Pugsleys are girls... right? Winter love from Minnesota, where we love our Pugs too!


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The family of 8-year-old Martin Richard, one of three killed in the Boston Marathon bombing, thanked law enforcement for the arrest but added: "None of this will bring our beloved Martin back, or reverse the injuries these men inflicted on our family and nearly two hundred others. We continue to pray for healing and for comfort on the long road that lies ahead for every victim and their loved ones."
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Sarah Taylor's possible inclusion in the Sussex men's 2nd XI is not an aspirational move for women's cricket as a whole
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There has been a lot of discussion over the past few days regarding the news that Sarah Taylor may play some matches for Sussex (men's) 2nd XI next season, as a wicketkeeper. Much of this has been along the lines of praising the development as being welcome and, indeed, far too late in coming.
But if Taylor's selection, and the idea of mixed cricket generally, is such a positive move for female cricketers, why did the Women's Cricket Association, the governing body of the sport until it merged with the ECB in 1998, ban matches with men until 1970?
Might there be another side to this story of seemingly linear progress towards fully mixed cricket?
The WCA's ban on official mixed cricket matches was enforced right from its formation in 1926. One of the founders of the association, Marjorie Pollard (by all accounts an extremely formidable woman), wrote a book in 1934 entitled Cricket for Women and Girls in which she outlined the reasoning behind the policy. There were three main reasons why Pollard felt mixed cricket would be a bad thing for the women's game, and all three still hold true today.
Firstly, she was keen to stress that the pioneers of women's cricket in the 1930s needed to "develop a style and a game of our own". "No one tries to bowl as fast as Larwood, no one tries to hit like Constantine... the standards are different."
Imitating the men's game was not going to cut it. These pioneers of women's cricket needed to work out their own ways of playing the game they loved, to adapt it to their own needs. As Pollard put it: "Batting for women is different - the strokes that we need are drives and pulls or anything that really hits the ball."
The bowling was also different: less fast-paced (even less so in the 1930s than now) and therefore needing a more skilled placement of the ball.
This is still the case today; the biggest fans of women's cricket would not deny that it is a different game in many ways to men's cricket. But note that Pollard did not say that the women's game was in any way worse than the men's game. In fact, she argued that in some ways the "outlook, attack and method of self-expression" of the women's game led to a greater focus on skill and less on physical intimidation, which she saw as positive (and indeed which was recognised as such by many English commentators at the height of the Lillee and Thomson era).
The problem with mixed cricket is that it suggests precisely the opposite to this: that the women's game is inferior to the men's game and that female cricketers should in some way attempt to match up to the men.
As Selma James stated in the Guardian this week: "Women who have broken through the glass ceiling in other areas have changed our perception of what women can accomplish. But it has rarely changed the rules and possibilities for most of us. We prove we are as good as men, and men are once again the standard that women must strive for."
Do we really want women cricketers to be striving to be "as good" as male ones? Do we really want the media coverage of women's cricket to be dominated by men talking about what a "big step up" it is from the women's game to the men's game and how they'll never be able to cope with truly fast bowling? Don't we want women's cricket to be covered in its own right and on its own terms? The WCA did.
Pollard's second, related, point was that in order for women's cricket to be taken seriously by the general public, women needed to be seen to be playing the game in a meaningful manner. For the decade after the formation of the WCA in 1926, female cricketers faced a huge amount of media ridicule. Letters and articles in national newspapers described women's cricket as "a joke" and "a sacrilege".
The type of mixed matches that were taking place at this time would only have enhanced this ridicule: for example, in men v women matches, the men often batted with broom handles or with one hand tied behind their back. Pollard and the WCA wanted to move away from the perception that women were this laughably inferior to their male counterparts. They wanted, more than anything, to be taken seriously and considered as cricketers in their own right.
As Pollard wrote: "It is so often cropping up in the Press. We are told that we shall never play cricket like men... men will not realize that we do not want to play like men."
This statement seems to me equally applicable in today's media climate. For the last few days, in every single discussion I have heard on this subject, the same questions have come up. Won't Taylor's male opponents feel they have to slow down their bowling when she faces them? How will she possibly cope in such a fast-paced game? And the old chestnut: what if she gets hurt? (Because there is clearly more of a risk to Taylor than there was to all those England players facing Lillee and Thomson in 1974-75 without helmets.)
Do we really want the media coverage of women's cricket to be dominated by men talking about what a "big step up" it is from the women's game to the men's game? Don't we want women's cricket to be covered in its own right and on its own terms? | |||
There is a danger with this kind of coverage that it becomes extremely patronising (some of it has been, some of it less so). But this type of coverage also, to reinforce the point I made above, takes the focus away from the actual cricket. Will the women's World Cup make it on to the front page of the Guardian next month? I somehow doubt it.
Thirdly, Pollard was quite firm about the WCA's intentions as a governing body: "We do not wish to follow, we wish to go our own way - run our own Association, play our own cricket in our own way."
The WCA would not initially let men serve on its executive committee and was never keen on utilising male umpires or coaches. Why? Because they recognised the importance of having control of their own sport, making decisions about the way they wanted to play the game themselves. Sussex's recent statement that whether Taylor plays depends on further assessment reminds us that it is a group of male selectors who will decide whether Taylor will play for them next season, regardless of any media furore surrounding that decision.
The 1998 merger of the WCA with the ECB has brought with it countless benefits for the women's game, but it also appears that more and more of the decisions affecting female cricketers are being taken by men.
The idea of men controlling women's cricket is entirely in contradiction with the vision of the WCA back in 1926, and frankly, if women had sat back and relied on the efforts of men to launch and establish women's cricket in Britain (and elsewhere), the sport would probably have been set back by at least 50 years. A cricket set-up that is fully mixed will only advance male control of the women's game, and I'm not convinced this is an entirely positive thing for the women involved.
Why did the WCA change its policy in 1970? It was not done with the desire to promote mixed cricket at a serious level. Instead it was recognition of the trend towards holding matches of men's against women's teams for fund-raising purposes. The money-making potential of such matches was not to be sniffed at by an entirely amateur body that relied on donations to fund international cricket tours. It was a decision made for practical purposes and the WCA continued to argue that serious mixed cricket was an unlikely and probably undesirable prospect.
Evidently Taylor is an excellent player and nothing should take away from the fact that if she does play for Sussex, it will be a fantastic achievement for her personally. However, let's not get carried away.
Colin Cowdrey wrote the following back in 1976, in the foreword to Netta Rheinberg and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint's history of women's cricket, Fair Play: "The all-male cricket party is over. How many men will be playing for their counties by the 1980s, I wonder? There will be Maids of Kent aplenty challenging Denness, Luckhurst, Asif, Shepherd and Julien. Bachelor Alec Bedser may find himself, as chairman of selectors, having to consort with four ladies. Mighty Tony Greig can no longer rest secure in his size and strength, mindful that brute force alone did not keep Goliath going too long."
Decades later, that vision looks overly optimistic. Will it ever come to bear? It seems to me both unlikely and not necessarily something that female cricketers, and fans of the women's game, should aspire to.
Raf Nicholson writes at womenincricket.blogspot.co.uk
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We're saddened to report that Peter Kohn, the longtime Middlebury College lacrosse field manager, passed away this morning at University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa. He suffered a heart attack last Saturday while on a fishing trip near his home in Cape May, N.J., and never recovered.
Kohn, the subject of a 2005 documentary, Keeper of the Kohn, had worked in the sport for over 50 years.
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Back in April, early forecasts for a record 2013-14 US soybean crop pushed prices down far enough for even die-hard bulls to declare lights out on the bull market. It was a given that the coming record crop would replenish low inventory levels that had resulted from strong domestic and foreign demand.
Initially, the wet spring that hampered corn planting was not viewed as problematic for soybeans, because its planting window closes much later. But as the planting season dragged on without any significant progress, traders began to worry that the crop would be planted late enough to extend the growing season into frost season.
As of the most recent crop progress report, 92% of the crop has been planted, compared with 99% last year at this time and the five-year average of 95%. Those numbers don't tell the whole story, though. About a third of what's been planted just made it into the ground over the past two weeks. Last year the crop had been almost completely planted several weeks previously. At this point, a disaster has been avoided, but the shorter growing season will give bears something to worry about throughout the summer.
The June crop report maintained its May estimate for the 2013-14 US crop at 3.39 billion bushels. The jump in the estimate for ending stocks, to 265 million bushels, up from a record low 125 million bushels, or 4% of consumption, can hardly be an accurate reflection of current developments and will almost certainly be revised downwards in the coming months.
The forecast for record average national yields of 44.5 bushels per acre is very courageous, given how late the crop was planted. The only time US yields were even close to that level was in 2009-10. Excluding that season, the five-year average yield was 41.28 bushels per acre. While the excessive precipitation was certainly beneficial, particularly after subsoil moisture was compromised during last year's drought, it is a very optimistic estimate.
The quarterly stocks report, scheduled for release on June 28, will be important to determine how strong domestic consumption has been and just how tight old-crop ending stocks will finish up the marketing year. The accompanying acreage report will be far more significant, though, because it is a more accurate reflection of how many acres farmers planted.
One other note on the domestic front: Soybean oil received a new lease on life when Congress instituted biodiesel incentives early last year, which included a $1-per-gallon tax credit. The USDA estimates that soybean oil usage for biodiesel will grow during the 2013-14 marketing year to a record 5.4 billion pounds, 10% above 2012-13 usage. That represents 27% of total U.S. soybean oil consumption. To put that in perspective, consider that as recently as 2009-10, only 8.7% of U.S. soybean oil was used as biodiesel.
The outcome of the U.S. growing season is crucial after U.S. supplies for the 2012-13 marketing year have been all but depleted, as illustrated. New-crop prices will certainly gyrate with the inevitable threatening weather forecasts, but there is no real urgency.
Brazil and Argentina have produced record crops of 85 million tonnes and 54.5 million tonnes, respectively. That's up from 83 million tonnes and 51 million tonnes the previous year. Global ending stocks are estimated at 73.69 million tonnes, or 27.3% of consumption. That is just shy of record burdensome stocks we saw in 2006-07 and 2010-11. Although that figure is highly tentative, because US acreage and yield estimates are probably already too high – not to mention the unknown of the weather in July and August – it is still likely to be a substantial improvement over the past two seasons, when the global carryover averaged only 22.5% of usage.
To some degree, current price levels have factored in the overly optimistic USDA estimate for the US crop. Perfect weather will erase any price gains in a hurry. On the other hand, bears are also at the mercy of the weather. The upcoming USDA quarterly stocks and acreage reports, as well as the July monthly crop report, will incorporate much more up-to-date information about old-crop supplies and prospects for the new crop.
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