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By Tony B
From: Around Boulder, CO
Nov 6, 2001
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b PG13
Well, this time Charles and I disagree on the Protection. Perhaps I was too tenuous to place, or perhaps it is my height, but I found myself struggling a bit for good gear on this route. My partner, who is shorter than I agreed that the gear was difficult or lacking. Then again, I normally climb in Eldo, not Boulder Canyon.
The moves are very cool, however, and very worthwhile.
By George Bell
From: Boulder, CO
Nov 7, 2001
|It was probably 6 years ago when I did this, but I recall the runout moves are at the start before the roof, where it is only 5.8-9. Another way to start this climb is the first pitch of Night Vision (10b, look for 2 bolts left of Huston's Crack). This is much easier than the 10d thin crack right of Huston's Crack, and doesn't require big cams and grunting like Huston's Crack.
By Chris Dawson
From: Denver, CO
Apr 11, 2002
|There is a variation to this route, that I'm not sure has an established name or anything, but I'm sure it's been climbed before. Instead of starting up the left-facing corner into the overlap, it's possible to climb start about 6-8 ft. to the right. This leads up into incipient cracks with sparse pro above the overlap. Moves felt like hard .9 or easy .10, but it's been a while, so I'm not sure my memory serves correctly. Eventually, the pitch wanders up into easier, though steep ground with a nice crack and good pro. Pretty much the whole thing can be done in one long pitch. Once again, I'm not sure how much different this is from the East Crack described, but it seems to me that it's a different pitch altogether. Please anyone feel free to correct me or inform of the proper name for the climbing described. One quick note on bees on Cob. I have been up there on a day when some people knocked off a sizeable nest and there were bees all over the place. Crawling on my legs as I led the second pitch of Empor! Just please be careful of those pesky bastards, they're everywhere anyways, we don't need to climb through angry swarms.
By TBD
Jun 24, 2002
To me, it made more sense to climb straight up to the roof just left of the belay. There is a thin crack system that offers plenty for small nuts. Once reaching the roof travers a couple of feet to the right until you can reach the good horizontal crack above the roof.
I think this route can be sewn up with a set of RPs or micro stoppers. I didn't place a single cam on the whole pitch.
By Ken Heiser
From: Boulder, CO
Aug 9, 2004
rating: 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
|I led this route last week for the first time and really enjoyed it.We did the first pitch of Night Vision to start.I found the gear to be excellent and easy to place. Really fun route and a good after work excursion.
By rob coppolillo
Mar 31, 2006
|Did somebody put a bolt on this thing...? Looked across today at it and it seemed like there was a new bolt below the fixed pin by 10 ft or so. Maybe a face variation, or from my perspective, it wasn't on the East Edge? I hope not! That route has great character and doesn't need anymore fixed gear on it.
By Dana Ernst
Apr 1, 2006
|The bolt that you saw is probably one of the bolts that got replaced on the second pitch of Night Vision (see comments there for details).
By Stephanovich
From: Boulder, CO
Jul 10, 2007
|Great climb, rack I used: RPs 5+ 4, to 00, a 0.5 (WC) cams, to pitons, a #8 stopper, #1(WC)cam, to a #2BD cam one 60m pitch, fun moves good gear 5.10a.
By Aeon Aki
Jul 20, 2008
|As Chad's comment notes, it is easier to climb and protect this route by beginning left of the small dihedral. From there I traversed under the step roof and pulled over on the right getting back in line with East Edge. From there, instead of taking the pin-scarred crack, I climbed more or less straight up using a variety of cracks and edges. Certainly this is the line of least resistance on the left side of Cob Rock but watch what you pull on up there as there are numerous loose flakes that are difficult to avoid and could do a lot of damage if they came off.
By Shane Zentner
From: Colorado
Jul 20, 2008
|I placed two #3 stoppers, two green Aliens, and one blue Alien throughout the pitch above the roof. The gear is where it needs to be(kind of), although I found placing the gear very challenging and difficult. Indeed, the crack gets progressively harder until the piton (the pin could be 4-6 feet lower in my opinion). The finger crack on the third pitch is worth the effort.
By Marty Combs
From: Boulder, CO
Jun 14, 2012
rating: 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b PG13
|I definitely agree with the above comments concerning sketchy gear. the placements leading up to the crux are mediocre at best. If you were to blow the crux move and zipper, good placements lower will definitely hold. It still makes for a spicy lead. The climbing itself is great.
By Andy Hansen
From: Longmont, Colorado
Jul 15, 2012
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
I'll second (and third for that matter) the option to climb straight up off the belay (as for Night Vision) up the thin crack and traverse right underneath the roof and get back into East Crack after a few 5.8 moves.
I thought 5.10b was a pretty accurate difficulty rating for this climb considering I have bigger fingers but still really enjoy thin finger cracks. I stayed primarily in the crack and thought the gear was great and everywhere I needed it to be. However, if you're uncomfortable climbing above thin gear, this might not be the route for you. Beautiful climbing and a nice position.
By Jeff McLeod
Aug 16, 2012
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b PG13
|I didn't bring enough small gear for this route, so for me the protection was poor. But the corner at the beginning is definitely runout with injury fall potential. Also there is a loose rock at the top of the last pitch (end of the 5.7 crack) that could easily come out and cause trouble.
By SendaGorilla Bishop
From: Boulder
May 24, 2013
Wow! This will be my first route comment. Not to say others I have climbed were less worthy, just that this was a pretty big lead for me.
A big confidence builder, and one hell of a good time! What a sweet line.
I gotta say though, I disagree about the "sketchy" gear. I have one word and I'll say it three times: NUTs, nuts, nuts!
It's all I placed (besides the perfect black Alien) and the cracks ate them up like candy. PERFECT, bomber placements. However, they are a bit "tricky" to place only because of the thin ass stances at which you must place them...you must be quick...decisive and keep moving, but it's all there.
Anyway, loved it. Gonna have to do it again, via Night Vision.


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Make first main topic Psychological effects than the second main topic Sociological effects.
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I. INTRODUCTION – Wireless technology has allowed the human race to become a freer species with the ability to transcend societal norms and also bypass expected behaviors.
II. BODY - Psychological and Sociological Effects of Wireless Technology on Humanity
A. Psychological Effects
1. Accepted for ease of use
2. Rejected for potential privacy issues
3. Favored because it makes life move faster, information in seconds
4. Feared due to increased dependency
5. Change is expected, baby boomers vs. next generation
6. Advertisements by celebrities, ease of use and multiple applications capture public
7. Human are less physically social and more wirelessly connected (Facebook).
8. Humans are so dependent that life is chaos without it.
9. The mind is weakened because complex decisions/choices taken by applications.
10. The techno illiterate are left behind in the wake of the techno elite.
11. Wireless technology penetrates all Maslow's hierarchy levels except perhaps self-
B. Sociological Effects
1. Consumerism is the necessary food for those with money to burn.
2. Consumer groups support spending because of their own profits: the more who buy?
the money that is made.
3. Society becomes physically disconnected while virtual connects are established, cyber
over flesh and blood.
4. Society needed faster means to communicate and receive information anyone in the
world, hence wireless technology.
5. Wireless technology provides anonymity so all are on an equal playing field in terms
of class, gender roles, race and norms.
6. The younger generation benefit (fast learners) the older generation is harmed (left
7. Relationship becomes more diverse and less solidified by human contact.
8. Cybercrimes increase exponentially, healthcare needs increase (sedentary lifestyles) and
education is broadened by online classes.
A. Society negatively shaped by wireless technology
B. Limited boundaries produced by wireless technology has shaped humanity into a
disconnected entity not bound by the traditional laws of society.
C. Technology is not bad simply those who wield it must have a mature level of
Not bad but maybe just a little more detail pertaining to wireless technology itself, some of it is a little broad. Also can you make the conclusion into a paragraph form. :)
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Its basically the Psychological and Sociological effects that wireless electricity technology will have on society if it became a popular technology.
Psychologically humans would forgo their usual pleasantries and take on a more instinctual approach. Simply telling people what's on their minds via virtaul connection with no fear of reprisal. Sociologically humans would gravite toward the most knowledgeable about the technology, clinging to them to gain elite status. Basically, devoid of concious thought simply relying on what they have been told. That's my take on it. What do you think? Need something more concrete than that?
No I guess that should be good. Was kind of a weird area to research that's why I needed help hehe. Thx :)
Okay. I'll include those thoughts within the outline and make the ending a paragraph. As soon as I'm done, I'll upload the revision for you.
Although it's on wireless electricity specifically not wireless technology as a whole. Wireless electricity is a new idea and hasn't been implemented on a large scale yet so that is why it's supposed to be about the Psychological and Sociological effects of Wireless Electricity if it became popular.
It's not about wireless communication it is about wireless electricity.
Okay, let me rethink some concepts and go back over the outline.
Cool thanks. Yeah after looking at it again you are a bit broad. Needs to be more specific about wireless electricity.
Here's the revised outline.
I. INTRODUCTION – Wireless electricity will change the world by freeing humanity from the fears of fuel shortages and cause connectivity between diverse societies.
II. BODY - Psychological and Sociological Effects of Wireless Electricity on Humanity
1. Accepted for cleaner source of fuel
2. Rejected because it's new in the market
3. Favored because it's accessible to
4. Feared because it challenges the energy giant (electric companies)
5. Change will be painful and gradual
6. Advertisements based on freedom of electronic device placement within the home or
office, no more being chained to the outlet. Plus no more fears of high electricity costs.
7. Peace of mind would be increased, one less necessity to worry about.
8. Humans would be naturally skeptical about the range of functionality concerning this
new technology. For example this technology is limited by line of sight, anything
outside that parameter would not be powered up unless moved.
9. The human will either run scenarios about all that could go wrong or of everything that
could go right.
10. The electricity companies will be left behind along with their loyal customers.
Change waits for no one and those who don't learn fast and accept willingly are
11. Wireless electricity permeates Maslow's physiological and safety needs. This type of
energy can keep people warm and provide fuel for cooking. It can also keep them
safe by powering their home security systems.
1. Consumerism encourages the customer to buy-buy-buy, in this situation it may
encourage customers to look elsewhere.
2. Those involved with the stock market and those who own/operate the electricity
companies would advocate blocking the use of this new technology because they can't
control it or compete with it.
4. Society must change with the technology because holding to the past would be costly
and time consuming.
5. Wireless electricity would put the majority of humanity on a level playing field. You
won't need already established electricity to run your electronic devices the power
will be supplied to you.
6. The youth will embrace wireless electricity as a means to escape our world of energy
bondage, the older generation may not accept it and cling the energy bondage. What's
familiar to you is safer than trying something new and better.
7. Relationships would change on a national scale because the balance of power would be
tipped concerning fuels and energy consumption. Example the Middle East will no
longer be top dog with the oil but rather second fiddle.
8. Certain crimes would become more visible, healthcare would become more risky and education in the benefits and detriments of this technology will increase.
Society has many different parts but they all function together to make a single entity. This entity requires ease of use, bargains, benefits and quality. Energy has kept humanity a slave to foreign countries like the Middle Eastern nations and also to those who are in control in the United States. The introduction of wireless electricity breaks those relationships of dependency where one party was subservient to the other. Now both sides can stand as equals on the playing field. This new technology does have its limitations including being new and line of sight; however the potential benefits outweigh them. At the rate that technology is advancing it will be no surprise that the current limitations will have solutions within the next 2 to 3 years
Looks good except maybe the introduction. Could it be a few more sentences. :)
Do you want me to upload the entire outline again or simply the revision for the introduction paragraph?
just the paragraph. :)
Okay - Wireless electricity will change the world by freeing humanity from the fears of fuel shortages and cause connectivity between diverse societies. Powerhouses like the Middle East will now be on equal terms with the nations who purchased oil from them. The amount of money saved could be used toward more needed projects such as education improvement, new job development and reduction in human suffering.
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The mutilated corpse of a young prostitute is discovered in a squalid apartment. Angela Murphy has recently started working as a detective on the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland's largest city. Just days into the job, she's called to attend this grisly murder. She is shocked by the horror of the scene. It's a ghastly sight of blood and despair. To her boss, Frank Martin, there's something horribly familiar about the scene. Is this the work of a copycat killer? Will he kill again?
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Breaking the Thomas Malone case was an achievement but nothing could prepare DC Angela Murphy or her colleagues for the challenge ahead. Escaped psychopathic sociopath John Baptiste is big, powerful, and totally out of control. Guided by his perverse religious interpretation of morality, he wreaks havoc. An under-resourced police department struggles to cope not only with this new threat, but also the ruthless antics of gang lord Jackie McGeachy. Pressure mounts along with the body count. Glasgow has never felt more dangerous.


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By the Numbers: Jan. 4
IQ test, anyone?
Geniuses all of types–but mainly of the depressed, disillusioned or schizophrenic variety–dominated theaters nationwide this weekend during the otherwise happy holidays.
A Beautiful Mind, featuring Russell Crowe as Nobel Prize-winning John Forbes Nash Jr., tallied up a whopping $19.9 million through Wednesday, Jan. 2, at a maximum of 525 theaters since Dec. 21. That puts to shame seasonal underachievers The Majestic and Joe Somebody, which both debuted in wide release on the same day as A Beautiful Mind.
Father doesn't necessarily know best in The Royal Tenenbaums, a quirky comedy starring Gene Hackman as the patriarch of a gifted but truly dysfunctional family. Directed by Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums has amassed $11.5 million from Dec. 21 through Wednesday at a maximum of 291 theaters. Anderson's previous offering, the equally eccentric Rushmore, made a lowly $17 million in 1999 despite terrific critical acclaim.
The heartrending but inspirational A Beautiful Mind should brace itself for a bigger bow than The Royal Tenenbaums when it expands Friday to 1,800-plus theaters. The Ron Howard-directed drama quickly emerged as a strong Oscar contender, thanks in part to great reviews and a handful of Golden Globe nominations. Crowe could pull a Tom Hanks and earn himself an Oscar for the second consecutive year, following last year's win for Gladiator. He gives a quiet and sincere performance as the socially inept mathematician whose promising career fizzled in the 1950s as a result of his schizophrenia.
Howard's no stranger to causing a stir at the box office. The former sitcom star now ranks as of one Hollywood's highly sought-after directors following the smashes Splash, Apollo 13, Parenthood and Ransom. His last film, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, hauled off $260 million during the 2000 holiday season.
After earning $7.7 million last weekend, A Beautiful Mind looks set to corral between $15 million and $20 million in its first weekend in wide release. A possible slew of Oscar nominations will help A Beautiful Mind to become Howard's fourth $100 million hit in five tries, and his fifth in total.
The Royal Tenenbaums has critical momentum on its side, plus the promise of dominating the Oscar nominations in the acting categories. Anderson cast Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller and Luke Wilson as Hackman's messed-up kids.
Anjelica Huston, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray and Danny Glover costar, providing The Royal Tenenbaums with an insurance policy against some (wrongful) accusations that it, like its protagonists, is flawed and often too peculiar for its own good.
The Royal Tenenbaums should enjoy a hefty bump from last weekend's $4.9 million take as its expands to 751 theaters. If all goes well, The Royal Tenenbaums could surpass the totals for two recent Owen Wilson offerings, both costarring his Tenenbaums colleagues. The war yarn Behind Enemy Lines, with Hackman, has $51 million through Tuesday. Zoolander, the Stiller-directed fashion satire, has $45.1 million through Tuesday.
The first new wide release of 2002 is, ironically, a sci-fi thriller originally scheduled for summer 2000. Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, Impostor represents another oft-delayed film that Miramax genre label Dimension will unceremoniously dump without much warning. Texas Rangers, Dimension's last such release, was mowed down without so much as a fighting chance when it debuted late November in 402 theaters to a gutless $319,000.
Strangely, the studio once displayed enormous faith in Impostor. An impressed Dimension threw money at director Gary Fleder in 1999 to expand what was then a part of The Light Years Trilogy into a stand-alone, feature-length film. Once slated for an Aug. 11, 2000, release, Impostor moved back and forth on Dimension's schedule, from fall 2000 to spring 2001, then fall 2001, spring 2002 and, to what seemed like a firm date, Dec. 25, 2001. Dimension then belatedly settled on Jan. 4, allowing Miramax to shift Kate & Leopold from Dec. 21 to Christmas Day. Fleder, in the meantime, directed Don't Say a Word while the film was kept out of theaters and trimmed to secure a PG-13 rating.
In what sounds like a post-apocalyptic Fugitive, Gary Sinise stars as an engineer on the run after authorities suspect him of being an alien. Vincent D'Onofrio and Madeleine Stowe costar.
Dick's adaptations have enjoyed mixed success. Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, floundered upon its 1982 release but has since become a cult classic praised for its unique vision of a future urban skyscape. Under Paul Verhoeven's guidance, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale became Total Recall, the Arnold Schwarzenegger trip to Mars that grossed $119.3 million in 1990.
Given its odd history and quiet release, Impostor looks set to vanish without causing much of a stir. Impostor, however, will no doubt serve as an appetizer for Philip K. Dick fans eagerly awaiting this summer's Minority Report, marking Tom Cruise's first collaboration with Steven Spielberg.
Impostor also will fall prey to the ongoing success of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Peter Jackson's magnificent adaptation of the first book in the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy continues to live up to expectation. After just 15 days in theaters, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring has tracked down a precious $179.3 million. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone made $201.9 million during the same period, but it was playing at 300 more theaters. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring should fend off a serious challenge this weekend from A Beautiful Mind to retain the box office pole position and soar past the all-important $200 million mark.
Speaking of the boy wizard, Harry Potter celebrated 2002 by almost doubling its Christmas weekend take of $7 million to $11.9 million. With $293.2 million through Wednesday, Harry Potter not only reigns as the year's top box office attraction, but, on Thursday, likely supplanted The Sixth Sense as the 10th top-grossing film released domestically. Thanksgiving's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets now faces the daunting task of becoming one of the most popular sequels ever made.
Put George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts in a film directed by Steven Soderbergh and its success is almost guaranteed. Ocean's Eleven keeps hitting the jackpot at the box office weekend after weekend. The jazzy remake of the Rat Pack crime caper beat out a slew of newcomers to reclaim the No. 2 spot last weekend, stealing off with $139.2 million through Wednesday. That ranks as a personal best for both Pitt and Soderbergh, whose Erin Brockovich and Traffic earned, respectively, $125.5 million and $124.1 million. If all continues to roll in Clooney's favor, Ocean's Eleven could beat The Perfect Storm's $182.6 million to become his highest grosser.
Tom Cruise can't expect Vanilla Sky to do the same for him. Cameron Crowe's much-maligned remake of Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) dropped a mere 5 percent last weekend, from $12 million to $11.5 million, and now has a good but far from great $72.8 million through Wednesday. That's less than what Mission: Impossible 2 made in its first five days in May 2000. Still, Vanilla Sky managed to surpass Cruise's other recent critically mauled drama, Eyes Wide Shut, which ended up with $55.6 million. With competition from A Beautiful Mind, however, Vanilla Sky should fall hard and fast long before it can reach $100 million.
Don't expect a reversal of fortunes for The Majestic and Joe Somebody, both of which should disappear from theaters when Oscar hopefuls Black Hawk Down, The Shipping News and I Am Sam storm theaters later this month.
The Majestic, featuring Jim Carrey in fine dramatic form, held steady in its second weekend, but that's not saying much when it debuted with $4.9 million. With only $18.9 million through Tuesday, The Majestic will likely represent a post-Ace Ventura: Pet Detective career low for Carrey. His last flop, Man on the Moon, wrestled a mere $34.5 million from audiences in 1999.
Joe Somebody, with $15.9 million through Tuesday, also stands as a personal worst for Tim Allen. For Richer or Poorer, a lazy comic take on Witness, mustered only $31.6 million in 1997.
The jury remains out on Ali and Kate & Leopold.
Ali came out with both fists flying, earning a record $10.2 million for a Christmas Day release. Fatigue set in last weekend, as Michael Mann's biography of the ex-Cassius Clay punched up a lower-than-expected $14.7 million and has $41.4 million through Wednesday. Audiences seem to prefer A Beautiful Mind, which made more money Wednesday in limited release than Ali at 2,446 theaters.
Chances are the $105 million Ali will not go the distance should Oscar voters turn a blind eye to Will Smith's unenthusiastically received portrayal of the Greatest.
Meg Ryan has not enjoy a hit since re-teaming with Tom Hanks for a third time in You've Got Mail. After disappointing results with the tearjerker Hanging Up and the political thriller Proof of Life, Ryan returns to the realm of romantic comedies with Kate & Leopold. The time-bending yarn, co-starring Hugh Jackman as a 19th-century blueblood transported to 21st-century New York, opened Christmas Day with a lukewarm $2.5 million but made a respectable $9.7 million last weekend. Its total through Wednesday is $23.4 million, guaranteeing Ryan her biggest hit since You've Got Mail. Not that the dull and cliché-ridden Kate & Leopold will come close to matching the $115.8 million that You've Got Mail made in 1998.
Two animated adventures should continue to keep kids amused this weekend. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius soared to $51.5 million on Wednesday, making it the third consecutive hit spin-off of a popular Nickelodeon TV show. The smart Jimmy Neutron should landed safety between The Rugrats Movie's $100.4 million and Rugrats In Paris's $76.5 million.
Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc. experience a major power surge last weekend, jumping 61 percent last weekend from $3.8 million to $6.1 million. Its total is $240 million through Wednesday, bringing its well within reach of Toy Story 2, which, at $245.8 million, stands as the most successful of the four Disney/Pixar collaborations.
Shrek lost its box office crown in late December when Harry Potter surpassed its $267.6 million gross. Chances are the green but not-so mean ogre could find himself unexpectedly caught in the shadow of two energy producing monsters and a lost little girl.


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Imagine yourself in Paris in 1890.
The Eiffel Tower, built the year before for the World's Fair, looms over the city. Below, a sense of the new is everywhere, from the grand avenue of Champs-Elysees to the music hall Folies Bergere.
You are in the middle of La Belle Epoque (The Beautiful Era), a time of relative peace and prosperity in France that lasted from about 1871 to 1914. It brought about the creation of a Paris that introduced grand boulevards and extensive parks to what had been a city of twisted, narrow streets.


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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Summer Days Are Gone To Soon
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I love lululemon. Well okay I love their skirts, I don't have anything else by them, but if I did, I bet I would love it :)ReplyDelete
Love the first part of the post, did you write that?
Beautiful but sad poetry. I always find this time of year bittersweet. The end of summer magnifies the passage of time for me.ReplyDelete
Yay for Chicago! I've done 2 super hot ones and vow never to do another.
Love Lulu!
I love Lululemon too. Just went there yesterday and bought the cutest running skirt and shirt ever! Good Luck in Chicago! I am sure you will do great things!ReplyDelete
I wore that exact tank for my half marathon and it was perfect!!!!! 18 sleeps!!!!ReplyDelete
I love your clothes in every single picture. You're my running + style guru. :)ReplyDelete
18 sleeps... I hope I can run!! Ahh. I will be so devastated. I'll be there either way, so if I'm not running, I'll be cheering you on.
oh my word - you are getting so close! love that lulu top. looks great!ReplyDelete
Awww your pup looks so cute on the boat! Our dog, Cooper, LOVES the boat. I can't believe the marathons are coming up so soon!! Love your pics!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh! Britt I am SO excited! 18 days....yeehaw!!! you have come SO far in such a short period of time and I know you feel the confidence and don't need me telling you this..but this race is YOURS! and I hope you will run it that way. Don't pay attention to what anyone else is doing...just run YOUR race! the race YOU have worked so hard to prepare for! it's gonna be AH-MAZING!!!ReplyDelete
side note...those shorts....also MY FAVORITE shorts and yes, BEST SHORTS I"VE EVER OWNED TOO!;) xx
Ah, I'm so excited for you!!ReplyDelete
And btw, awesome song.. I had it stuck in my head the other day, lol.
The race will go well for you. I would have to rethink my understanding of the universe if it did not considering the preparation you put in. I hope the weather is perfect for you but if not have fun with the challenge. Promise to smile for the finish camera?ReplyDelete
Taper always leaves me with too much energy, don't always like it. Hard to reduce calories sometimes too. I am inspired to get in a 3 or 4 hour run this fall so I can relate to you marathoners.
Triathlon gear is loaded with pockets - shorts and shirts. I find mens running clothing can be lacking in some areas in comparison to tri gear. If you find yourself in need of more running shorts/shirts you may be suprised with what you find in tri clothing.
Britt I need those shorts from lululemon...three pockets?! And you look so cute in them. If you remember the name of them, let me know. I've never been to a lululemon store and don't know where to start.ReplyDelete


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Why We Need a Democracy Index
Our election system is run badly. Although many people are aware of the problem and eager for a solution, reform efforts have gotten surprisingly little traction. This book explains why election reform has yet to catch hold and offers a promising new solution for getting change passed: a "Democracy Index," which would rank states and localities based on how their election systems perform.
The best evidence we have suggests that our election system is clunky at best and dysfunctional at worst.* Ballots are discarded. Poll workers are poorly trained. Registration lists work badly. Lines can be too long. Machines malfunction. Partisan officials change the rules of the game to help themselves and hurt their enemies. Election administrators cannot agree on what constitutes a best practice, or even whether there is any such thing. Authority is decentralized, so it's hard to know who's to blame when a problem occurs. Most experts agree that the system we use to run our elections is chronically underfunded, often poorly run, and sometimes administered in a partisan fashion.
*Rather than repeat the phrase "the best evidence we have" in every other sentence of this book, let me offer a general caveat about the diagnoses offered here. As chapter 2 makes clear, it is difficult to make precise claims about the current state of the election system because the data are so sparse. What I describe here are the symptoms that experts routinely see and the field's best guesses as to their root causes. These assessments are based on the best information available, but better information would be necessary to state these claims with certainty. One of the main points of the book is that we should be deeply troubled by our inability to know whether the system is working or not.
People assume that the fiascos we saw in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 are outliers, crises caused by a level of partisanship and mismanagement that does not exist elsewhere. Partisanship and mismanagement surely played a role in those debacles. But both states were also in the wrong place at the wrong time, victims of a turnout tsunami that too few states are equipped to handle. A crisis is not around every bend in the United States. But that's only because elections usually aren't close enough for these routine problems to affect the outcome. Unless we fix the underlying causes, debacles can occur almost anywhere.
In 2006, a hotly contested congressional race took place in Florida. The margin of victory? 373 votes. The number of people who went into the voting booth but did not cast a ballot that counted? 18,000.1 A malfunctioning computer in Carteret County, North Carolina, lost 4,400 votes during the 2004 election, with no means of recovering them.2 The same year poll workers in Orange County, California, gave the wrong ballots to 7,000 people in a primary election, a mistake that may have affected the results in several races.3 During a 2006 primary, election workers in Maryland forgot the cards they needed to start up the election machinery. More than 200 precincts could not open until late morning.4 That same year, a group of computer scientists discovered it was surprisingly easy to steal votes by inserting a virus into the electronic voting machines used by 10 percent of Americans.5 In Colorado, long lines at polling places deterred about 20,000 people from voting, 20 percent of expected turnout.6 A subsequent review largely blamed Colorado's new software, which was "of decidedly sub-professional architecture and construction and appears never to have been tested in any meaningful manner."7 That's expert speak for "tut, tut, tut."
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, is probably lucky that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann doesn't choose a "worst election system in the world." Problems seem to occur every cycle. After suffering the long lines and chaos that afflicted many Ohio counties in 2004, Cuyahoga denizens opened their morning papers to read headlines like "Election StaffConvicted in Recount Rig."8 In May 2006, election workers lost 70 computer memory cards containing voting records, 15,000 absentee ballots had to be hand-counted because the machines could not read them, and numerous polling problems occurred. It took five days to report the results.9 All of this led Ohio's new secretary of state, Jennifer Brunner, to demand the resignations of the entire board.10 But problems persist. In November 2007, the server used to count votes repeatedly froze and crashed.11 Worse, administrators discovered that "20 percent of the printouts from touch-screen voting machines were unreadable and had to be reprinted."12 All of this might be quite funny—a local government version of The Office—if election results weren't riding on it. "God help us," said one county official, if the next presidential race "depend[s] on Cuyahoga County."13
At first glance, it looks like reform ought to be easy to pass in the United States. There's a good deal of agreement that we have a problem and a myriad of proposals for solving it. Not a week goes by without someone issuing a report or proposing a change. In 2007, close to one hundred reform bills were circulated in Congress, with more than nineteen hundred proposed in state legislatures. Hundreds of academic articles addressed reform issues. Dozens of good-governance groups offered hundreds of reports and proposals on their websites.
The political environment also seems receptive to change. Who, after all, is against democracy working better? One suspects that the word democratic is routinely appended to policy proposals only because it conveys more gravitas than "motherhood" or "apple pie."
Finally, the fiascos we've seen in recent years should have provided a powerful impetus for change. Reform is a notoriously crisis-driven industry. It is always tough to get anything on the legislative agenda. But "electoral meltdowns"14 have been a regular occurrence in recent years. Just ask any academic who specializes in elections. Many of us have moved from laboring in obscurity to serving as commentators on CNN. Like a plague of tweed-clad cicadas, we return from academic hibernation every couple of years to feed on whatever election controversy is brewing.
Despite all of this, serious reform has not yet gotten traction in this country. Even in the wake of the 2000 fiasco—which made the United States an international laughing stock—all Congress could do was pass the relatively toothless Help America Vote Act. The Act has helped us make genuine progress in several areas, as I explain in the next chapter. But it addressed only the symptoms of the Florida debacle, not its root causes: inadequate funding, amateur staffing, and partisanship.
Just think about that for a moment. There's a strong consensus that we have a problem, lots of potential solutions, a reform community ready to act, and a cause that voters support. Yet even a crisis like the 2000 election prompted only modest reform. If that's not a sign that we need a new approach to reform, I don't know what is.
Why hasn't reform gotten much traction in the United States? Partisanship and localism generate political tides that run against change. Unlike most developed democracies, state and local officials run our elections, leading to what one scholar has termed "hyper-decentralization."15 Worse, many of those local officials have strong partisan ties. This unusual combination of partisanship and localism not only results in a poorly run system, but makes change hard to come by. At worst, election officials administer elections in a partisan or unprofessional fashion. At best, they have few incentives to invest in the system and lots of reasons to resist change. These factors combine to stymie reform.
Unfortunately, voters and reformers have been unable to alter this perverse political dynamic. Voters have only a haphazard sense of how well elections are run, and no comparative data that would tell them which systems work and which don't. We do not even know how many people cast a ballot during our last presidential election,16 let alone how well our election system is performing. Voters learn that there's a problem only when an election is so close that the outcome is in doubt. That's like measuring annual rainfall by counting how often lightning strikes.
Reformers similarly struggle in today's political environment. Even when lightning strikes—when there's a crisis that could energize a coalition for change—debates about reform quickly descend into highly technical arguments that voters have no yardstick for judging. Even when reformers manage to get policymakers' attention, they lack the information they need to make a credible case for change. Reformers work hard to overcome these obstacles, but most ask policymakers to ignore their self-interest and do the right thing. Little wonder that reform hasn't yet gotten much traction.
The dilemma is clear. While the basic ingredients for change exist—a national consensus that there's a problem, an active reform community, an intuitively popular cause, and semiregular crises to place the issue on the agenda—political incentives create a drag on reform efforts. The problem is hardly insurmountable. If reformers can persuade legislators to restore the voting rights of felons,17 improving our election system is surely a cause with political legs. But we need to align the incentives of politicians with the interests of voters on this issue. We need to give local officials a reason to pay attention. We need a new approach to election reform.
This book offers a new approach. It argues that we should create a Democracy Index that ranks states and localities based on election performance. The Index would function as the rough equivalent of the U.S. News and World Report rankings for colleges and graduate schools.* It would focus on issues that matter to all voters: how long did you spend in line? how many ballots were discarded? how often did voting machines break down? The Index would tell voters not only whether things are working in their own state, but how their state compares to its neighbors.
The Democracy Index is unusual because it works with political incentives, not against them. By providing the right information in the right form, it has the potential to create an environment that is receptive to change. It is a data-driven, information-forcing device designed to generate pressure for reform while helping us make more sensible choices about which reforms to pursue.
First, the Democracy Index pulls together the right information: comparative data on state and local performance. Comparative data on bottom line results should reveal problems that haphazard data conceal, helping us pinpoint solutions and make the case for change. Today reformers and
*This sentence might not inspire confidence in those familiar with the foolishness the U.S. News and World Report rankings have engendered. As I explain in chapters 2 and 4, however, the Index addresses easily quantifiable, nuts-and-bolts issues that lend themselves to quantitative measurement in a way that educational quality does not. Moreover, while "teaching to the test" is always a worry for any ranking, a well-designed Democracy Index is a good deal better than having no test at all.
election officials argue incessantly about which direction we should go. But no one has a map that tells us where we are now. Comparative data would give us that map.
Second, the Index packages the data in the right form: it ranks states and localities against one another. By distilling performance data into a highly accessible form, the Index gives voters a rough sense of how well their system is doing, precisely the information they need to call election officials to account. A ranking should work for the simplest of reasons: no one wants to be at the bottom of the list.
Because the Democracy Index provides the right information in the right form, it should harness the two major obstacles to reform—partisanship and localism—in the service of reform. An Index would make election problems visible and concrete to voters and policymakers alike. And it would give politicians a reason to care about how well the system is working.
Even if the Democracy Index failed to gin up political support for reform, it should still improve the handling of elections. We typically assume that voters and politicians alone can hold administrators accountable for their missteps. In many fields, however, bureaucrats police themselves based on shared professional norms. Peer pressure, it turns out, can be just as effective in the workplace as it is in high school. By providing a professional touchstone in the field, the Democracy Index could help generate a consensus on best practices, something sorely needed in election administration.
While the book's central purpose is to make the case for a Democracy Index, it is animated by a larger theme. We have a "here to there" problem in election reform. We spend a great deal of time thinking about what's wrong with our election system (the "here") and how to fix it (the "there"). But we spend almost no time thinking about how to get from here to there—how to create an environment in which reform can actually take root. Reform advocates work tirelessly to help specific projects blossom. But they are fighting this battle on difficult terrain, and almost no one is thinking about how to change the terrain itself. We've spent too much time identifying the journey's end and not enough time figuring out how to smooth the road that leads there.
There is little point in continuing to fight the same fight in the vague hope that something will eventually take. We should take a step back and figure out how to create an environment that is more receptive to change generally. It is time to think less about the end game and more about the interim strategies and institutional tweaks that will help us get from here to there. The Democracy Index is just such a solution.
The "Here to There" Problem
The "here to there" problem is endemic in election reform circles. Scholarly proposals often have a "just add water" quality, as if merely announcing a good idea is enough to get it passed. The problem is perfectly captured by a New Yorker cartoon, with two professors poring over a complicated math problem. A simple notation explains the key step in the equation: "Then a miracle occurs." To be fair, some academics have thought hard about why reform is difficult to pass, with partisanship and localism being the usual suspects in most analyses. But phrases like "the perils of partisanship" or the "problem of localism" are usually punch lines to the story, not starting points for the analysis.
A handful of scholars have written sporadically about the here-to-there question.18 Unlike scholars who specialize in areas like campaign finance or redistricting, however, we do not think of ourselves as addressing the same question or writing in the same field.19 We haven't thought systematically about what connects our work to each other's or to the broader project of election reform.
This is surprising. After all, most arguments for election reform depend on a single premise: process shapes substance. Academics are quick to tell you that the structure of our political process (campaign finance law, redistricting rules) helps determine the substance of our policies (who gets elected, what gets passed). But they do not apply that lesson to election reform. The structure of our political process also determines what kind of election reform gets passed. Or, in the case of the United States, it creates an environment where precious little gets passed.
The here-to-there problem is not confined to the academy. Blue-ribbon panels and good-governance groups often propose overhauling our election system or enacting laundry lists of nuts-and-bolts proposals. Though reformers who labor in the political trenches are painfully aware that we cannot "just add water" to get change passed, most spend too much time describing the change they want and too little time thinking about fashioning a political environment that is receptive to it. Take a look at the final report of the Carter-Baker Commission,20 the most high profile reform effort in recent years. It offers pages of detailed recommendations but says almost nothing about what we could do to ensure that at least some of these recommendations see the light of day.
Reformers, of course, spend a lot of time thinking about the here-tothere problem for specific projects. They work tirelessly to build support for this or that proposal—educating the public, lobbying officials, filing lawsuits. But good-governance groups lack the resources they need to grapple with the here-to-there problem writ large. That's because reformers are beholden to funders. And funders tend favor big over small, end goals over interim solutions, silver bullets over institutional tweaks, substantive proposals over procedural fixes. As one reform advocate ruefully told me, "Process is not sexy."21 And the here-to-there question is process squared— changing the reform process to make more significant procedural reforms possible. For funders anxious to see concrete results—bills passed, reports issued, news articles written—"smoothing the path for election reform" looks like a nebulous project indeed.22 The result is that the people who know the most about how the reform process works have the fewest opportunities to change it.
Solving the Here-to-There Problem
If the work of reformers is to be something other than a Sisyphean task, process should be our main focus, and smoothing the path for change ought to be at the top of the reform agenda. Here-to-there proposals may seem modest when compared to typical reform proposals, like calls for public financing or nonpartisan election administration. But these wide-ranging reform proposals have been met with a deafening silence. We have plenty of ideas about what kind of change we want. What we need is an environment in which change can happen.
The Democracy Index offers a quintessentially here-to-there solution. It does not create national performance standards. It does not take power away from partisan officials. It does not even endorse a set of best practices for administering elections. Instead, it pushes in the direction of better performance, less partisanship, and greater professionalism. The Index does so not by trying to resist the fierce push against change generated by our political system's twin engines—partisan warfare and local competition—but by harnessing partisanship and localism in the service of change. It is a modest reform that makes bigger, better reform possible. It gets us from here to there.
This book is organized as follows.
Chapter 1 canvasses the problems we see in our election system and identifies their root causes: partisanship and localism, which have produced a badly run system and stymied efforts to change it. The chapter argues that the first step toward meaningful reform is to reverse the political tides that have run so long against reform. A Democracy Index—described in some detail at the end of the chapter—represents one such solution.
Chapters 2 and 3 explain why the Democracy Index should alter the political incentives that too often prevent reform from getting traction. While most businesses and government agencies measure relentlessly, election administration—which is ripe for quantitative analysis—is a world without data. These chapters show how difficult it is to run an election system—let alone improve it—in a world without data. And they explain why a ranking system represents a particularly effective strategy for distilling election performance data and prodding election officials to improve. An Index should affect the three major leverage points in the reform process, giving voters the information they need to hold election officials accountable, putting pressure on policymakers to do the right thing, and helping administrators police themselves.
While a Democracy Index can correct the perverse political incentives that stymie reform, chapter 4 warns that it could also introduce different problems into the reform calculus. A poorly designed ranking might push states to compete along the wrong dimensions and create incentives for election administrators to cook the books. There are strategies for mitigating these problems, but these risks go hand in hand with the benefits associated with ranking, and it is important not to ignore them.
Chapter 5 considers the here-to-there question in miniature—how to make the Democracy Index a reality. This chapter first addresses the political question—whether the Democracy Index itself is likely to get traction. The proposal has already garnered significant attention from policymakers, academics, and foundations. It has been incorporated into separate legislation by Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Congress has set aside ten million dollars to fund model data-collection efforts by the states. And several major foundations have already poured significant resources into the early stages of the Index's development. Nonetheless, as further detailed in this chapter, obstacles remain. Chief among them are collecting the necessary data and getting buy-in from election administrators. While there are reasons to be optimistic about the idea's future, even a modest proposal like this one will need some help along the way.
This chapter also returns to the question introduced in chapter 1—what should a Democracy Index look like? It details the challenges involved in creating one. Any effort to assemble it will involve what political scientist Paul Gronke calls a "pushmi-pullyu" process.* The designers of the Democracy Index will have to toggle between the ideal and the real—the things they want to measure and the data that actually exist—in determining what is ultimately included in the Index. This chapter suggests some creative strategies for obtaining the data we need and offers examples of the metrics the Index might include.
The book concludes by returning to the broader theme that animates it: how to get from "here to there" in election reform. The Democracy Index is part of a larger shift in reform circles. The new generation of reformers is moving away from top-down regulation to market-driven solutions. They eschew civil-rights rhetoric for data-driven policymaking. Unyielding in their idealism, they are pragmatic, even eclectic, in their approach. The concluding chapter notes that the Democracy Index offers some larger lessons about what drives reform and argues that the Index beats out most other reform proposals for a simple reason: it should help make those proposals a reality.
*One hopes that the process gets farther than did the magical creature in the Dr. Dolittle books.


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SHANGHAI, China — Billed as bigger than the Beijing Olympics, the latest and largest world's fair doesn't disappoint when it comes to scale, in every mind-boggling respect.
The Shanghai World Expo 2010, which opened May 1, cost an estimated $55 billion (some sources say up to $95 billion) to get off the ground. It sits on 2 square miles of prime Shanghai real estate, straddling the Huangpu River, making it the biggest world's fair in the 159-year history of such events.
More than 18,000 families and 270 factories were moved to make room for the expo, the construction of which stretched over seven years — all for an event lasting six months.
Organizers estimate that it will be visited by 70 to 100 million people before it closes Oct. 31, with daily crowds of 400,000 or more.
That's an enormous number of people, and you notice it instantly, from the queues to get into the expo to the crowds on the concourses and pavilions inside. Getting inside the popular European and American pavilions means waiting for an hour or longer outside in 80- to 90-degree heat and high humidity. The dominating $220 million Chinese pavilion is already fully booked for the months of May and June, so unless you're a VIP with special reservation, you can't get in at all.
In the past, there would've been no question as to whether queuing up for hours was worth it. That's because what was there would change the future: Fax machines, microscopes, industrial processes, and even the superhighway system all made their first public appearances at world's fairs.
The Shanghai World Expo 2010 comes up short in that respect. Apart from stunning architectural spaces, there's nothing new, exciting, or controversial on display — a far cry from say, the 1939 world's fair.
This expo isn't so much a world's fair as a China one, with other countries and global corporations exhibiting as curiosities for the people of a rapidly developing country to see. Only an estimated 5 percent of visitors will be from overseas. For millions of Chinese visitors, the event is a first real contact with the outside world.
For them, the expo is meant to be picture of their future.
If so, it's an ambitious one.
No Pavilion of the Future worth its salt would be complete without sci-fi space imagery. Here's the official expo mascot, Haibao, clad in a space suit and breathing apparatus. The pavilion exhibits ideas about future cities, including one in space for Haibao to suit up in.
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Video Everywhere
Shanghai World Expo 2010 is arguably the most video-wall–dense environment on the planet. With few exceptions, just about every single pavilion features video displays.
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Britain's Seed Cathedral
The United Kingdom scores the award for the coolest and weirdest pavilion, one that combines beauty with a hint of space-alien menace. This is not a Photoshop artifact, but what the building actually looks like. Called the Seed Cathedral, the pavilion is clad in 60,000 acrylic rods containing plant seeds collected during a biodiversity project.
Like most other structures in the expo, the British pavilion will be torn down after the fair closes. That seems a terrible waste. Couldn't these be left for future generations?
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Industrial-Strength Sculpture
Like the overall expo, the industrial street art on exhibit is on a gigantic scale. What this field of huge steel balls with wires melded into them symbolizes we can't say, but they're certainly impressive.
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The Path of the Heart
The remarkable industrial street art in the corporate sectors of the expo is worth checking out. Here's Lin Gang's The Path of the Heart.
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Greening of the Fair
The expo makes attempts to earn sustainability brownie points: Expo visitors are ferried around in electric buses running on supercapacitor engines, and buildings are cooled by gas-fueled air conditioning.
Here, an overhead walkway runs for miles in the middle of the expo, with electric vehicles that ferry passengers around on it for 10 yuan (about $1.50).
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Week's Worth of Wonders
The expo covers two square miles and expects 70,000 to 100,000 visitors a day, so plan on spending at least a week if you want to to see all of it. You'll need plenty of stamina, too.
In a few months' time, all of it will be dismantled. Only the Chinese pavilions will be left, and nobody knows what the expo area itself will be used for.
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Not All Hustle and Bustle
European luxury goods draw crowds to the pavilions, but Bologna's isn't as pulsing as some others.
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Super-Power Nap
An expo visitor displays his prowess in that most Chinese of super-powers: taking a nap anywhere, anytime.
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On Guard
Shanghai and the expo itself are crawling with security staff. Police, army and civilians in uniform are everywhere. All are infallibly polite and helpful, but the heavy security presence can be unnerving.
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Out of Season
Tyrolean-marching-band participants at the expo experience the hot, muggy Shanghai climate. Their thick, furry animal suits are clearly better suited to the Alps than they are to eastern China.
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Traditional Technology
It's not all high-tech at the expo: Some traditional technologies are on display here, too. Sculptor James Rickard of the Maori Arts and Crafts Institute in Rotorua, New Zealand, carves a portal out of a tree trunk for his country's pavilion at the expo.
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300-Grand Piano
Some of the real opulence in the pavilions is out of ordinary expo goers' sight in entertainment and meeting areas rented out to corporate customers. This $300,000 Australian grand piano is made out of 10,000-year-old excavated pine wood.
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Future Shanghai
The city of Shanghai will benefit for years from the expo, thanks to the billions spent on infrastructure: Six new subway lines were constructed, along with several roads and other civic works.
And the city has been spruced up, even though some of the new stuff is already starting to look frayed in places, and is of dubious taste. Using reams of blinking LEDs for street lighting may save energy, but clashes horribly with the pretty architecture of old Shanghai.
For a glimpse of just how horribly wrong LED lighting can go, check out the video below, which shows a 20-second snippet of a monorail journey under the Huangpu River, through a tunnel enhanced by a strange light-and-sound display.
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Bali terrorist explosions that caused the death of so many Australians vacationing there that Australia endured the biggest single peacetime loss of life since World War II.
About 11:05 p.m. local time on Saturday 12 October, a man carrying a plastic bag walked towards Paddy's Pub, which is opposite the Sari nightclub, a popular Westerners-only venue in Kuta, the main nightclub district of Bali.
About the same time, a woman parked a mini-van in a no-standing zone in front of the Sari nightclub. The van blocked the busy one-way street, causing an instant traffic jam. The man with the plastic bag threw it into Paddy's, then ran off. Meanwhile, the woman leaped from the driver's seat of the mini-van and ran to another vehicle, a 4WD-style one, which took off with her as a passenger. A few seconds later, a device in the plastic bag thrown into Paddy's detonated, the explosion driving patrons and staff onto the road outside the Sari nightclub. A second, larger blast occurred some 3 to 35 seconds later as the explosives in the parked mini-van were detonated.
C4 plastic explosives in the roof of the van were used as a primer to set off the bomb made of chemicals AMX, RDX and nitrate either by timing device or remote-control. This main bomb obliterated the Sari nightclub, two other buildings, killing and maiming hundreds of people, creating a crater 5 meters (nearly 2 stories) deep and 15 meters wide. The vehicle containing the bombers sped away possibly to a port on the north of the island where they may be ferried to Java, the main island of Indonesia. At least 180 people died in the blast with dead or seriously injured people coming from at least 23 different countries. The bodies of many, if not the majority, of the deceased are so charred or traceless, that it may take weeks or months to identify them via DNA analysis, if they can be conclusively identified at all. With the deaths of at least 30 Australians so confirmed and some 140 more listed as missing and presumed dead, Sunday, 20th October, was declared a national day of mourning in Australia.
Various members of Jemaah Islamiyah, a violent Islamist group, were convicted in relation to the bombings. On 9 November 2008, the perpetrators Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim and Huda bin Abdul Haq were executed by firing squad on the island prison of Nusakambangan at 00:15 local time (17:15 UTC).
On 9 March 2010, Dulmatin, nicknamed "the Genius" – believed to be responsible for setting off one of the Bali bombs with a mobile phone – was killed in a shoot-out with Indonesian police in Jakarta.
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