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Tommie Smith
John Carlos and Tommie Smith (center) at the 200 m award ceremony of the 1968 Olympics, wearing black gloves, black socks and no shoes
|Personal information
June 6, 1944
Clarksville, Texas, United States
|1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
|84 kg (185 lb)
|Sprint running
|Santa Clara Valley Youth Village
|Achievements and titles
|Personal best(s)
|100 y – 9.3 (1967)
100 – 10.1 (1966)
200 – 19.83 (1969)
220y – 19.5s (1966)
400 – 44.5 (1967)[1]
Medal record
|No. 24
|Wide receiver
|Personal information
|6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
|190 lb (86 kg)
|Career information
|San Jose State
|NFL draft:
|1967 / Round: 9 / Pick: 226
|Career history
|Career NFL statistics
|Player stats at PFR
Tommie Smith (born June 6, 1944)[2] is an American former track & field athlete and wide receiver in the American Football League. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Smith won the 200-meter dash finals and gold medal in 19.83 seconds – the first time the 20-second barrier was broken legally. His Black Power salute with John Carlos atop the medal podium caused controversy at the time as it was seen as politicizing the Olympic Games. It remains a symbolic moment in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Early life and career
Thomas C. Smith[3] was born on June 6, 1944 in Clarksville, Texas, the seventh of 12 children born to Richard and Dora Smith. He suffered from pneumonia as a child, but still grew to be an athletic youth. While attending Lemoore High School in Lemoore, California, Smith showed great potential, setting most of the school's track records, many of which remain. He won the 440-yard dash in the 1963 CIF California State Meet.[4] He was voted Lemoore's "Most Valuable Athlete" in basketball, football, and track and field,[5] and was also voted vice president of his senior class.[6] His achievements earned him a scholarship to San Jose State.[7]
On May 7, 1966 while he was at San Jose State, Smith set a world best of 19.5 seconds in the 200 m straight, which he ran on a cinder track.[8] That record for 200 m was finally beaten by Tyson Gay on May 16, 2010, just over 44 years later,[9] though Smith still holds the record for the slightly longer 220-yard event. Since the IAAF has abandoned ratifying records for the event, Smith will retain the official record for the straightaway 200 m/220 yards in perpetuity.[10]
A few weeks later, on June 11, 1966, Smith set the record for 200 meters and 220 yards around a turn at 20.0, the first man to do that in 20 seconds. Six days later he won the NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship. Smith also won the national collegiate 220-yard (201.17 m) title in 1967 before adding the AAU furlong (201.17m) crown as well. He traveled to Japan for the 1967 Summer Universiade and won the 200 m gold medal. He repeated as AAU 200-meter champion in 1968 and made the Olympic team.
1968 Summer Olympics
Leading up to the Olympics, at the U.S. Olympic Trials at Echo Summit, California, San Jose State teammate John Carlos beat Smith and his world record, running 19.92A. Carlos' record was disallowed because of the brush spike shoes he was wearing.
At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico, Smith nursed an injured hamstring into the 200 m final. In the race, teammate John Carlos powered out to the lead through the turn, while Smith got a typically slow start. Coming off the turn, Smith charged past Carlos and sped to victory. Knowing he had passed his training partner and closest foe, his victory was so clear, he raised his arms to celebrate 10 m before the finish line. Still, he improved upon his own world record that would last for 11 years until Pietro Mennea would surpass upon it on the same track. His time of 19.83 was recognized as the first automatically timed world record for the event by the IAAF, nine years later.
The 200 m winners podium was the stage for arguably one of the most iconic moments of the 20th century. As people railed against Apartheid in South Africa and racial segregation in the United States, black American runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists to show solidarity with people fighting internationally for human rights. During what is usually referred to as the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute, the two athletes were booed and forced out of the Games by the president of the International Olympic Committee at the time, Avery Brundage. The third man on the podium, a white Australian named Peter Norman, was vilified by his home nation for wearing his Olympic Project for Human Rights badge in solidarity.[11]
As a member of the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) he originally advocated a boycott of the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games unless four conditions were met: South Africa and Rhodesia uninvited from the Olympics, the restoration of Muhammad Ali's world heavyweight boxing title, Avery Brundage to step down as president of the IOC, and the hiring of more African-American assistant coaches. As the boycott failed to achieve support after the IOC withdrew invitations for South Africa and Rhodesia, he decided, together with Carlos, to not only wear their gloves but also go barefoot to protest poverty, wear beads to protest lynchings, and wear buttons that said OPHR.[12] (See 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.)
Some people (particularly IOC president Avery Brundage) felt that a political statement had no place in the international forum of the Olympic Games. In an immediate response to their actions, Smith and Carlos were suspended from the U.S. team by Brundage and voluntarily moved from the Olympic Village. Brundage, who was president of the United States Olympic Committee in 1936, had made no objections against Nazi salutes during the Berlin Olympics.[13] The Nazi salute, being a national salute at the time, was accepted in a competition of nations, while the athletes' salute was not of a nation and so was considered unacceptable.[13] People who opposed the protest said the actions disgraced all Americans. Supporters, on the other hand, praised the men for their bravery. The men's gesture had lingering effects for all three athletes, the most serious of which were death threats against Smith, Carlos and their families.
Athletics and career
During his career, Smith set seven individual world records and also was a member of several world-record relay teams at San Jose State, where he was coached by Lloyd (Bud) Winter. With personal records of 10.1 for 100 meters, 19.83 for 200 and 44.5 for the 400, Smith still ranks high on the world all-time lists.
Smith, who had been drafted by the National Football League's Los Angeles Rams in the ninth round of the 1967 NFL Draft, signed to play for the American Football League's Cincinnati Bengals and was part of the team's taxi squad for most of three seasons as a wide receiver.[14] During the 1969 season, he played in two games, catching one pass for 41 yards.[15][16]
After his track and football careers, he became a member of the United States National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1978. In 1996, Smith was inducted into the California Black Sports Hall of Fame, and in 1999 he received that organization's Sportsman of the Millennium Award. In 2000–2001 the County of Los Angeles and the State of Texas presented Smith with commendation, recognition and proclamation awards.
He later became a track coach at Oberlin College in Ohio, where he also taught sociology and until recently was a faculty member at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California.
With author David Steele, Smith wrote his autobiography, entitled Silent Gesture, published in February 2007 by Temple University Press.
In August 2008, Tommie Smith gave 2008 Olympic triple gold winner Usain Bolt of Jamaica one of his shoes from the 1968 Olympics as a birthday gift.[17]
In 2010, Smith announced that he would sell the gold medal he won at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. He put his gold medal for the 200 meters and spikes up for auction. The bid started at $250,000, and the sale was scheduled to close November 4, 2010.[18]
Tommie Smith is featured in the 1999 HBO documentary "Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games." The documentary looks at events leading up to, during and after the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, featuring interviews with athletes, including Tommie Smith, John Carlos and George Foreman, activist Dr. Harry Edwards (sociologist), journalists and archival footage of the Games and the fallout after the raised fisted gloves by Carlos and Smith.
- "We were not Antichrists. We were just human beings who saw a need to bring attention to the inequality in our country. I don't like the idea of people looking at it as negative. There was nothing but a raised fist in the air and a bowed head, acknowledging the American flag – not symbolizing a hatred for it."[19]
For his lifelong commitment to athletics, education, and human rights following his silent gesture of protest at the '68 Olympics in Mexico City, Smith received the Courage of Conscience Award from The Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts.[20]
In 2004, was inaugurated in his presence in Saint-Ouen, France, a sports hall bearing his name.
In 2005, a statue showing Smith and Carlos on the medal stand (but not Norman, whose silver medal position is vacant) was constructed by political artist Rigo 23 and dedicated on the campus of San Jose State University.[21]
A mural of the photo taken with Smith on the podium at the 1968 Olympics with Carlos and Norman was painted on the brick wall of a residence in Newtown, New South Wales, Australia, titled "Three Proud People Mexico 68". The house's owner, Silvio Offria, allowed an artist known only as "Donald" to paint the mural, and said that Norman came to Newtown to see the mural and have his photo taken with it before he died in 2006.[22] The mural faces the train tracks linking Sydney city to the Western and Southern Suburbs. In 2012, the Sydney City Council heritage listed the mural to safeguard it, after it had faced possible demolition in 2010 to make way for a railway tunnel.[23] Smith, along with Carlos, was a pallbearer at Norman's funeral in Melbourne in 2006.[22]
On July 16, 2008, John Carlos and Tommie Smith accepted the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage for their salute at the 2008 ESPY Awards held at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, California.
Also, on August 8, 2012 a segment on 11 Alive's 11-on-7 was run about Tommie.
See also
- 1968 Olympics Black Power salute
- Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
- Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame
- Other American Football League players
- Men's 200 metres world record progression
- ↑ Tommie Smith. sports-reference.com
- ↑ Silent Gesture: the autobiography of Tommie Smith (2007). Tommie Smith and David Steele. Temple University Press. p42.
- ↑ http://www.billo.net/pagina_web_0002c8.htm
- ↑ "California State Meet Results – 1915 to present". Hank Lawson. Retrieved December 25, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Tommie's Bio". TommieSmith.com. Retrieved March 6, 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Silent Gesture: the autobiography of Tommie Smith (2007). Tommie Smith and David Steele. Temple University Press. p70.
- ↑ Tommie Smith, Spartacus Educational
- ↑ Tyson Gay aims for Tommie Smith's 44-year-old record . BBC Sport (April 30, 2010). Retrieved on 2010-05-03.
- ↑ Oddi, Vicky (May 16, 2010) Gay sprints to 19.41 world best on 200m straight. USATF Press release. Retrieved on 2015-06-13.
- ↑ Edwards Announces Retirement. Track and Field News. Retrieved on June 13, 2015.
- ↑ Haddow, Joshua. "We Interviewed Tommie Smith About the 1968 'Black Power' Salute". Vice.com. Retrieved March 6, 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Zirin, Dave. Resistance: the best Olympic spirit
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "The Olympic Story", editor James E. Churchill, Jr., published 1983 by Grolier Enterprises Inc.
- ↑ Moore, Kenny (August 5, 1991) [1]. Sports Illustrated
- ↑ Tommie Smith, WR at. Nfl.com. Retrieved on June 13, 2015.
- ↑ Tommie Smith NFL & AFL Football Statistics. Pro-Football-Reference.com.
- ↑ Time To Dance: Usain v Asafa, Puma, August 25, 2008<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Tommie Smith selling '68 gold medal". espn.com. Retrieved October 14, 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Roy, George (Director) (1999). Firsts of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Games (documentary).<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ The Couage of Conscience Award, The Peace Abbey, retrieved August 22, 2008<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Crumpacker, John (October 18, 2005), OLYMPIC PROTEST: Smith and Carlos Statue captures sprinters' moment, San Francisco Chronicle, retrieved August 22, 2008<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Tovey, Josephine (July 27, 2010). "Last stand for Newtown's 'three proud people'". The Sydney Morning Herald.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Campion, Vikki (July 24, 2012). "Graffiti granted wall of protection in Sydney". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved January 1, 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to [[commons:Category:{{#property:P373}}|Tommie Smith]].
- Official Tommie Smith website
- Interview with Tommie Smith
- Tommie Smith entry at Databaseolympics.com
- 1968 Olympic 200 Meters on YouTube
- Barra, Allan. "Fists Raised, but Not in Anger" The New York Times, August 22, 2008
- Thomas, Katie. "For Australian Athletes, a Voice From the Grave" The New York Times May 23, 2008
- "In-flight film will urge Olympians to protest", The Daily Telegraph, May 24, 2008
- "Norman loses his spot in history", Sporting Life, October 17, 2005
- "Norman dies after heart attack", Fox Sports, October 3, 2006
- "Peter Norman, man on podium for Black Power salute, dies", USA Today, October 3, 2006
- Reed, Ron. "Norman to receive a final salute", The Herald Sun, October 6, 2006
- Hoy, Greg. "Fellow athletes pay tribute to Peter Norman", Australian Broadcasting Corporation, October 10, 2006
- Blackistone, Kevin B. "'68 protest more than a memory" at the Wayback Machine (archived July 1, 2001), The Dallas Morning News, August 23, 2008 (Archived original)
- "Peter Norman dies after heart attack", The Age, October 3, 2006
- "Bitter price of Olympics' iconic image", Sydney Morning Herald, October 17, 2003
- Wise, Mike. "Clenched Fists, Helping Hand", The Washington Post, October 5, 2006
- "Norman Remembered as an Unflinching Champion", The Australian, October 9, 2006
- "Carlos, Smith act as pallbearers at funeral of podium mate from 1968 Olympics" at the Wayback Machine (archived March 11, 2007), MSNBC, October 9, 2006 (Archived original)
- Rees, Margaret "Australian athlete supported American civil rights struggle", World Socialist Web Site, October 23, 2006
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Hughson house
Parent's bedroom
2:00 am
Mom, Dad and 4 year old son
All is quiet and family is in a DEEP slumber...Enter 4 year old son...running into parent's bedroom crying. (Picture all of what you're about to read happening in half a milli-second)... Dad jerks upright, Mom is startled hearing running footsteps, and crying. Half out of it, she believes there's someone else coming after her son. She cowers into her husband believing her head may be in danger and screams twice while her husband summons their son towards him (why would he come closer, with Mom screaming in terror??) at the same time he 'protects' her from the 'intruder' by getting on top of her. He says in her ear "it's ok, it's ok". She snaps out of her moment of terror realizing her 4 year old was just reacting...to... a... bad... dream.
Oh, for the love of Pete! This is not the first time I've been scared out of a slumber because of Nolan having a bad dream, but this takes the cake. In the past, he's tiptoed into our room and stood at the side of the bed, my side of course, and I awake to the sound of 'someone' breathing heavy in my ear. Heart rate hits the fan! I'm appreciating Ethan's preferred way of seeking solace during bad dreams...he stays in bed, pulling up the covers over his face, and calls for us in an ascending manner...therefore allowing me to gently awaken and console him without a racing heart.
Oh, how different our kids can be!

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#1095 - Wednesday, June 5, 2002 - Edited by Jerry - Home: http://nonduality.com/hlhome.htm
"If you really want to know your mind, the body will
always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the
emotion or rather "feel" it in your body. If there is
an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be
the lie, the emotion will be the truth. Not the
ultimate truth of who you are, but the relative truth of
your state of mind at the time." ~ Eckhart Tolle (The
Power of Now)
This is book, "The Power of Now", along with my regular
Sufi Studies is my current books at hand. I was
wondering what "book" is sitting on your nightstands or
end tables at home ... adding to your "Now"?
I love Nonduality Salon. I am very happy to be a part of
this wonderful community. Thank you for accepting me
These are the books in the backpack: being
bodies--buddhist women on the paradox of embodiment;
Fighting Fit--boxing workouts techniques and sparring;
and A Writer's Workbook.
Here is quote by Linda Ruth Cutts (from being bodies)
that your Tolle quote inspired me to copy here:
"...I went into the zendo and tried to speak about Dogen
Zenji and Zen. If you're a nursing mother, various
hormones get secreted that make you feel completely
relaxed, like a big cow, which is just what you're
supposed to be. So I had what a friend calls "milk
mind." You can't really put two and two together. A cow
doesn't give the best Dharma talk. I fumbled, I
couldn't remember what I was going to say and it was
very embarrassing. I was later chastised: "If you're
going to give a talk at Tassajara, and the guests are
there, you should prepare..." Many years later I
realized that if I had gone to the zendo and said, "I
just finished nursing my baby, and now I'd like to tell
you about how I love zazen. And aren't we all happy to
be here"-- if I had spoken the truth--this is who I am,
this is what I'm doing, I am a nursing mother--if I had
spoken authentically from where I was, without trying
to be somebody else, without trying to be a Zen
Teacher, it would have been fine. But I was pretending
to be something different. I didn't confess who I was.
It's not that you have to dig down to your deepest
darkest most horrible secrets and express them at every
moment, it's just a matter of looking at who you are
and what's going on, and speaking from there. And when
you do, it's such a relief to everybody around you, and
to yourself, too."
Do you have a felt sense of your current state of mind
as reflected in bodily-felt "emotion"?--in other words,
do you have access to this "realtive truth of your
state of mind" that Tolle suggests is available through
attention? I'd be interested in anyone that can speak
to this, from that place...
Last night saw the movie Life as a House. Great
expression of love and humor. It's a very moving and
inspirational movie. Very funny, too. Made me aware of
the 'house' I'm living in.
Jerry, I saw Life as a House a while back. I laughed
when I saw that you mentioned it in reply to Maralena's
post about finding the state of one's mind through
attention to what is going on in the body. I laughed
because when I saw Life as a House, I bawled through the
entire second half. I'm not talking a few squirts of
saline from the old tear ducts. I'm talking buckets of
liquid, so much so that I was dehydrated for days
afterwards, so much so that my husband had to change
his shirt, so much so that at one point I was drowning
in fluid and began to gag to clear the air passage.
Great gasping wretched keening! Nearly puked three
times, had my head hanging over the edge of the bed and
all. Left me with a giant hangover. Good grief.
I did, however, really dig the scene where the main guy,
a model- builder for an architect, went on a rampage and
destroyed 20 years of models he had built. Hurrah!
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I have zero intelligence when it comes to romantic love
and I'm an absolute doofus about it.
I fell more easily in love with ideas than ppl, ppl
didn't count till I was long into my teens and at that
time I couldn't understand why these idiots were
attracted to each other. Scrap that, they deserved each
other, they were all small and narrow minded, I had
nothing to do with them and they had nothing to do with
Yup, cynical me.
A neighbor in Rainy Town (oh that perfect place for old
cynics) correctly identified me as a cynic on first
meeting and never let me forget that she saw I was a
cynic from the get go.
But tonight feels like a good night to be cynical and
say it out loud. :)
What I did today:
Vacuum cleaned the house and washed the bathrooms. Of
course Susee managed to soil one floor a few hours after
I finished.
Ate dinner.
Wrote a lot, something which surprisingly turned into a
story with an ending. I'll edit tomorrow instead.
More cynicism:
A friend called and we'll meet up to go to the HS
reunion on Sat. We also agreed to do hiking day trips
during the summer so that'll be a nice way of getting
out more. Wow, between that and the meetings, I'm
actually on the verge of getting *GASP* that thing which
is called "a life". What will happen next ? I may do
like the trolls of old and crack at the light of dawn.
My friend also asked me along on a 11 day jaunt across
the mountains in the central massif together with some
other experienced hikers. No. I've never been in the
mountains for more than day at a time and that much time
away from any comp would have me in serious withdrawal
after a few days. She agreed that a few 3 day trips
would be a better way to build experience than suddenly
11 days in the mountains. Still, it would be nice to
become a more experienced hiker so I could join them for
longer trips. It would be nice to spend that much time
in the mountains, I have been kind of dreaming about it
for some time now.
A lab mate of mine went with her boyfriend for a 6 day
trip in the mountains. Before the trip she bought 6
bottles of red wine. Afterwards she told me those were
the only way she had survived the trip, even though they
were damn heavy to carry. Each day when all that
mountain air and free nature sucked, she looked forward
to pitching the tent up in the evening, sit down while
her b/f made dinner and start on the wine. By the end of
each evening she was well sloshed and too tired to care
that there was another 6 hours of hiking to be done the
next day. She was looking forward to the next bottle of
wine. :) Not exactly a mountain trip I would recommend,
but I can understand her sudden withdrawal from
civilization and annoyance of nature in general when it
all got to be too much.
Norwegians do a lot of hiking and crossing the central
massif is rumored to be one of the best ways of spending
a holiday. Some do it, some don't, but those who haven't
are kind of embarassed about it. I haven't done it yet
and I still dream about doing it. The thing is, when you
place internet addicted geeks or lab rats like my friend
and I suddenly out into a massive no holds barred
nature, we're talking no houses, no restaurants, no
cafes, no toilets, no people, no computers, no roads for
days of travel here, without warning or prior
preparation, that can probably be very damaging. :)
I pride myself in knowing I'm well traveled, urbanly
trained and fearless enough to be able to go to any
place in the civilized world within 24h should the need
arise. Beijing, Mexico City, Frankfurt, name the
building and address and I'd be able to get there no
problem even if I don't know the language of the place.
However, that's the civilized world. When it comes to
the uncivilized world, the wilderness, I'm as lost as a
lab reared monkey suddenly let back into the jungle. I
don't know how to make a camp fire, I barely know how to
pitch a tent. In a real jungle, I wouldn't last an hour
on my own.
But as with all animals reared in captivity, the
curiosity of what's out there and the idea of the
wilderness, remains and doesn't vanish just like that,
even if the animal knows she's not well adjusted to the
wilderness at all.
Hmmm.... I'm not even sure I want to get out into the
wilderness before I can get bring the net and
preferrably a game or two as well with me. And maybe
some music too. Me indoors only geek, you Jane.
Oh and btw, someone commented on tv today that "why
would we want to genetically engineer ppl for better
health, physical strength, perfect looks and all the
other silly stuff we seem bent to engineer for when we
rather ought to engineer ppl who are capable of being
more loving, compassionate, gentle and caring instead?"
I thought that was such a great take on it. I've never
heard anyone say anything like that before. The thing
is... traits such as positive self confidence,
compassion, gentleness and balanced mental health seem
to be so unimportant in so many ppl's eyes... I guess
fear drives this world too much, too bad it's ruining
it. What can I say ? Bloody wanker cowards !
OK, that's enough cynicism for one night.
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Telecom giant MTN's earnings plunge over Nigeria fine
South African telecoms giant MTN said Thursday that headline earnings last year fell by 51 percent, weighed down by $600 million it put aside to cover a huge fine imposed by Nigeria.
Without counting the fine, earnings were down 14 percent, chief executive Phuthuma Nhleko said.
MTN's Nigeria operation was slapped with a $3.9 billion penalty in October 2015 for failure to disconnect 5.1 million unregistered SIM cards.
The company said it had made provision of 9.2 million rand ($594 million) toward the fine.
It has so far paid out $250 million to the Nigerian government as it tries to negotiate a settlement.
The company said it had agreed to withdraw its legal challenge over the fine in the Lagos High Court, to enable the two parties to try to reach an agreement.
"We are working as urgently as we can to get an amicable solution of this matter," Nhleko said.
The MTN share price on the Johannesburg stock exchange rose seven percent after the announcement of the company results compared to the close on Wednesday.
Nigerian authorities ordered unregistered SIM cards to be deactivated for security reasons, as the country battles Boko Haram Islamists as well as criminality, especially kidnapping for ransom.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is MTN's largest market, where it now has 61.3 million subscribers out of a total of 232.5 million.
Nhleko said 2015 was "an exceptionally difficult year for the company — I will probably say the most difficult year it has ever experienced in its 21-year history".
During the year, MTN had to disconnect 10 million subscribers — 6.7 million of them in Nigeria and 3.7 million in Uganda.
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Before The Hunger Games, before Battle Royale, there was another movie based on a book about a dystopian future where an evil government distracts the masses with a popular series of gladiatorial deathmatches. Runners, are you ready for... The Running Man?
It was 1987, and some Hollywood producers decided hey, what better time to take a moderately well-regarded King/Bachman novel and totally change the entire thing, turn it into an Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle, and generally make everything five million times more eighties? What better time, indeed.
Earlier this week my girlfriend and I were trawling Netflix in search of something to watch, and we saw that The Running Man had joined the Netflix lineup. She told me she had never actually seen the movie. Well, I thought. That settles that.
And so I fired up this movie, one that I'd watched so many times on VHS as a kid, for the first time in more than ten years. So many years later, I was excited to see how far my memories of the film lay from reality.
The next hour and forty minutes was an adventure. And today, thanks to the wonders of screenshot keyboard shortcuts, you can relive that adventure with me. I'll say up front that this article turned out to be a lot more involved than I'd expected going in, but much like The Running Man itself, if you just go with it we'll all probably have a good time in the end.
Here we go.
The title screen is already pretty great, with the crusty "graphics" look on the font designed to imply like, that things are computerized? That it's the future? I don't know, I feel like someone threw that title sequence together in half an hour.
The opening lore-scrawl is also pretty good, at least partly because its colouring makes it look like a VHS FBI warning. Also of note: This apparently all happens within the next three years. Look out for paramilitary zones and iron hands!
We meet Arnold "Ben Richards" Schwarzenegger as pilots a cop helicopter over a crowd of protesters in LA.
Much like Batman's detective vision, Ben's futurecopter can detect that there are no weapons in the crowd. (No weapons in a crowd of 1,500 Angelenos? If you say so, movie...)
Ben gets the order to kill everyone, and he says he's not into it, and a fight breaks out in the cockpit. He's almost knocked from the aircraft, and we get the first of this movie's many, many excellent "Arnold Schwarzenegger flails like a goon" shots:
So Ben gets arrested and then winds up in this weird futuristic work camp outside of LA where the guards all wear respirators.
I guess they do that just to look scarier? But maybe the air is also polluted.
We get our first shot of sweaty Ben after a bunch of time has passed. He's carrying a massive girder, and this is just PEAK SCHWARZENEGGER right here, dude is rocking some straight-up arm-boulders. This is as good a time as any to reflect on the fact that this man would go on to become governor of one of the most powerful states in the U.S.A.
We then learn that this movie features not one but two musicians, and they're even billed together, like a really odd bill at the House of Blues. Mick Fleetwood will be playing the role of the resistance leader, and Dweezil Zappa will be playing Stevie, a guy in a beret that we'll meet in a little bit.
Speaking of music...
The music for The Running Man was composed by Harold "Axel F" Faltermeyer, which I did not remember at all but which makes TOTAL SENSE. Suffice to say, the music for The Running Man is super great.
Man, I wish Harold Faltermeyer would do music for every movie.
Anyway there's this perimeter fence set up that keys to all the prisoners' neck-bands and if it's armed, it will blow them up. Which is a good way to keep people in a worksite, I guess, except that when the guard enters the code to turn the fence off it doesn't ***** out the numbers because in 1987 no one had even thought of that concept yet.
So the guard enters the code and it's super obvious what the code is so a nerdy guy named Harold played by classic 80s Hey It's That Guy! Marvin J. McIntyre sees it and memorizes it. Then Ben and his friend William, played by Yaphet "Lt. Giardello" Koto, pretend to fight, a riot breaks out, and a prison break gets underway.
It's really all a distraction so that Harold can disarm the head-exploding fence, though.
Harold thinks that he's entered the code, but he hasn't really. And then the best scene ever happens, when this guy Chico makes a run for it...
...and everyone's like "Chicooooo!" "Noooo!"
"Nooooo!" "Stop, Chicooo!"
...because the perimeter is still armed, but then of course Chico runs past the perimeter anyway because they had to show the viewers what happens when someone tries to run through the perimeter.
Well, this is what happens:
Aw man, sucks about Chico. It seemed like everyone liked him.
Anyway, then Harold gets the perimeter actually shut down (just in time, bud) and he and Ben and William all make their escape. And we get this amazing shot of the 2017 Los Angeles skyline:
The city has a monorail, and lots of searchlights! Fade up on this shantytown that really reminds me of the shantytown in They Live, where everyone is watching the hottest TV show on the air, The Running Man:
And everything is dire, and the world is fucked, and of course television is somehow to blame, etc. It's all very "The future as imagined in 1987," which is a running theme throughout The Running Man and it's something that I really like.
And you see the host for the first time, and he runs this hype reel of the show...
but then you realise about halfway through when you see this:
...that, hey, wait a minute, this hype reel is footage from the movie we're about to watch! That's Ben and Amber dodging Dynamo's car, and then later we see Buzzsaw riding his motorcycle at Ben! Is this video...from the future?? Or maybe they just snuck that footage in because they didn't want to shoot new stunts just for a clip reel...either way, this is some "Watching Spaceballs in Spaceballs" action right here.
Our threesome makes their way through the shantytown and then they run into this classy gentleman:
His name is "Stevie" and he's played by Dweezil Zappa, and he is a RESISTANCE FIGHTER which you can tell because of his studded leather jacket, his cool pins, and his beret.
Then there's this whole scene where Mick Fleetwood deactivates their bomb-collars and we learn that the TV has LIED and told everyone that Ben actually killed everyone in that crowd, instead of being the one guy to say he wouldn't do it.
It's all kinda weird, since, why did the government decide to kill everyone in the crowd anyway? If they just do that kind of stuff regardless, why do they need a scapegoat? Anyway.
We get a pretty badass shot of Ben lighting a match for his cigar, because he is a badass who DGAF. Then he's outta there, to go find his brother and get out of LA.
Cut to the ICS building (that's the evil all-powerful network that airs The Running Man) where we first meet The Running Man host Damon Killian as he's greeted by adoring fans outside the building.
And this janitor bumps into him, and Killian is super nice to his face but then afterward tells his bodyguard to have the guy fired, instantly establishing him as a prototypical Suit-Wearing Corporate 80s Villain. "Killian" almost rhymes with "Villain," when you think about it.
So Ben turns up at the ICS building as well, dressed up as a member of The Village People:
I don't even know where to begin with this, so maybe I should just leave it, but I love the idea that 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger could ever go incognito, ever, anywhere, but that if he tried he'd do it by dressing up as a Sexy Construction Worker.
He gets into his brother's apartment and isn't there long before this lady played by the lovely Maria Conchita Alonso shows up and starts working out in her négligée.
Jesse Ventura, rocking a full head of hair, is the star of the workout video, which appears to sort of just involve him prancing around while a bunch of dancers in leotards do spins in the background:
One time he turns up on the screen and he's UPSIDE DOWN
What is even going on? Oh, right. So she's working out in her underwear, like you do:
And then just after seeing a news report about evil Ben Richards' escape, she looks up and speak of the devil!
Now, given how weird and uncomfortable this movie gets later on, this whole "Giant guy in underpants pinning down hot girl in HER underpants" thing isn't all that gross here. It's weird, and like they can't figure out whether to play it for laughs or not? Anyway, she tells Ben she got the apartment after his brother was sent off for re-education, Ben tries to tell her he's innocent, she doesn't believe it, she tries to run, he ties her up.
Ben goes through her stuff and finds that she has some bootleg cassette tapes, which is so excellent, because it's so totally 80s to imagine that in the year 2017 people will still be using cassette tapes, and he also learns that the woman's name is Amber and that she's a singer/composer who writes music for the network. (I think we learn her name here? Anyway, her name is Amber Mendez.)
The whole thing is intercut with these scenes of Killian seeing Ben's escape on the news and deciding that he Must Have Him on the show, since The Running Man's ratings have plateaued and they need a new star.
We meet Killian's assistant Lenny, played by Classic 80s/90s Arsehole character-actor Kurt Fuller.
Killian gets on the phone and talks with his pinkie stretched out, so we know he's a real fancy jerk, or something. He says that they're gonna get Ben to be on the show, and we all know it will happen, and basically this whole part of the movie is boring foreplay and they need to get on with it.
So then Ben takes Amber to the airport to try to hop a flight to Hawaii, and I have to say that this is a really ill-advised scheme.
I mean I guess his thinking was that by having a woman go with him, he'd stick out less, but once again HE IS ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER and also he's got his hand on her neck like he's about to strangle her. Which he in fact threatens to do. This seems like a shitty plan, is what I'm saying. So of course, after a few minutes she punches him in the nuts and runs away screaming, the cops spot him, he makes a run for it, and this happens:
Net-gun! I remember when I was a kid I thought the net-gun was really cool, and wondered if policemen really kept that kind of thing lying around. Probably not? Anyway, it's so cool.
Ben gets thrown into a cell where he has a face-to-face with Killian, who offers him a spot on the show. Ben tells Killian to fuck himself, so Killian says he'll send William and Harold on the show if Ben won't do it, so of course Ben agrees.
We then get this weird scene where they strip Ben to his underpants and put these plastic blocks in his teeth to block his jaw and then give him like, two shots, which don't seem too bad. All that for two little shots?
But it does give us the AMAZING official Netflix background still for the movie. Behold:
Yes. That is how Netflix advertises this movie. A+, guys.
In that photo it looks like they're just torturing the fuck out Ben or something but seriously, they're just giving him that one shot in the shoulder. Maybe it was full of acid or something, I don't know. What I DO know is that the doctor in this scene is a picture-perfect 80s Handsome Arsehole archetype:
Look at this piece of work, he even lights up a cigarette once Ben has been prepped for the show.
Though again I ask, what were they even doing? Putting a tracking device in him? It isn't clear, and it never really comes up again in the movie. Oh well, whatever. They gas Ben to sleep and it's time for the show to begin.
OH WAIT before that Amber watches a newscast about Ben getting captured and they make up all this stuff about how he killed all these people at the airport and she's like "Wait, you mean maybe our evil corporate overlords are lying to us?"
And then this ad for a show called Climbing For Dollars comes on and it involves a guy climbing a rope putting money in his teeth while angry dogs try to kill him, and it looks SO GOOD that I sort of wish they'd made this movie about that show instead of The Running Man:
Anyway I'm starting to realise that if I don't move things along this article will be even way longer than it already has been so let's get this show on the road.
The Running Man is underway, and we get all these intercut scenes of Killian getting prepped, and gladiator "stalkers" like Buzzsaw showing up. Buzzsaw is all 'roided out and he lifts his motorcycle above his head for the fans:
...and the crowd is just Going Wild, which is a running theme in this movie, just shot after shot of people going apeshit for this corny show, because it's the best thing going in their sad shitty lives:
Like on the TV there are just these dancers dancing, right?
But then we cut to this lady in a bar straight losing her shit over how exciting it all is:
Anyway there's this weird scene where Ben walks past Amber and her friend (remember Amber works at ICS) and her friend seems weirdly turned on by the idea that Ben could've raped Amber but didn't.
Which Amber takes to mean that hey, maybe Ben really isn't a bad guy. She begs off their plans and goes to do some investigating.
Killian brings Ben out and they put him in this weird car thing, and then Killian tells him that he'd hate to send him in alone, so instead he's sending in William and Harold with him! Oh, that arsehole!
They look really uncomfortable because they're sitting in their sleds vertically, while Ben gets to sit horizontally. Anyway, Killian gets ready to launch Ben into the tournament zone and the grandmas are just going nuts for it:
And Ben says "Hey, Killian!"
"I'll be back."
And, awesomely, Killian is sort of just nonplussed and doesn't quite know what to say, until he finds his composure and says "Only in a rerun." Zing?
They blast all three guys through the tubes and then there's this super long sequence where they keep showing everyone blasting through tubes on sleds, since clearly someone who worked on the movie invested a lot of time in making the tube sequence, even though it goes on forever and is weird and jarring.
And then they're in the game, and we're off! There are these motorcycle dudes who are in there for some reason (?) and they get the three runners going toward the first arena. I took a screenshot of this guy because he gives them a really intense look:
Meanwhile Killian picks this lady out of the audience and has her pick a stalker to kill the three contestants. She picks... Subzero!
Who was not yet a Mortal Kombat character, and in 1987 was instead a big hockey player dude with a bladed hockey stick.
The three guys find themselves closed into this arena covered in ice,
which of course means that Subzero is about to turn up in full hockey player regalia and start knocking them around.
There's a fight, it's pretty cheesy, and no one really gets hurt. Here I find myself wondering what would have happened if Chico hadn't run ahead and gotten blown up. Would he be here, too? Would he be helping fight Subzero, swapping jokes with the guys? Oh, Chico. All the things that might've been.
Anyway at one point Sub launches this explosive hockey puck (!) that knocks Ben out. But he doesn't manage to kill anyone before Ben pulls down some barbed wire and clotheslines him on it.
And so dies Subzero:
And everyone is super stunned, since I guess this has never happened before:
Awwww, poor Subzero.
And Ben gets his first of several nonsensical one-liners when he says "Hey, Killian! Here is Subzero. Now PLAIN zero."
Killian assures some guy on the phone that things will be handled, and that this'll be great ratings, and that the next stalker will kill Ben and friends. So then he gets this indecisive audience member:
...who can't make up his mind whether he wants Dynamo or Buzzsaw. He can't choose! Well, he doesn't have to, Killian says. He gets both! (Given that the audience members get prizes for how well the stalkers do, that doesn't really seem fair, does it? Oh well, I guess ICS is evil so whatever.)
First we re-meet Buzzsaw, who is played by Gus Rethwisch and is THE BEST and makes THE BEST FACES:
And then we meet Dynamo, who is played by Erland van Lidth and is just THE WORST and he demonstrates that by singing opera while dressed as a ridiculous christmas tree and shooting electricity from his hands.
The thing he shoots says CLAP IF YOU LOVE DYNAMO and everyone claps even though seriously, who the fuck could love Dynamo, I mean come on. I feel sort of like people just saw that it said "CLAP IF YOU LOVE" and they started clapping because that is a kind of beautiful sentiment, then "DYNAMO" popped up and they were already clapping and didn't stop because it'd be awkward.
Also I forgot to mention this but Amber went and investigated what really happened during Ben's fateful helicopter ride and got herself caught, so they make up a bunch of hilarious lies about her (She cheated on her college exams and slept with two or even three men in a year!), put her in a jumpsuit and fire her off down the tubes into the game. Because reasons!
So she runs into Ben, Harold and William right as Dynamo and Buzzsaw are entering the arena.
Buzzsaw rides a motorcycle, and Dynamo drives this terrible shitty little car that is so much worse even than what I would have imagined for him, it's really perfect.
This guy is way more psyched about Buzzsaw and Dynamo than I am, continuing this movie's habit of showing gleeful audience members being kind of too excited for whatever non-exciting thing is happening on screen. I mean ok, I'm a little psyched for Buzzsaw, but I'm still not as psyched as Mustache up there is.
So Dynamo and Buzzsaw set after our heroes, and before long they're split up. Ben and William are taking on Buzzsaw while Amber and Harold have made a run for the uplink station. (Oh yeah, Harold has been tracking uplink stations to try to hack into the network and bring it down, because that would probably do something to someone and help save the world in some way...well it probably wouldn't, anyway, go with it.)
Buzzsaw comes at Ben and keeps swinging his saws from his motorcycle, which seems like a pretty shitty way to kill people, but he misses but eventually wounds William.
Sorry you can't see Buzzsaw in these screenshots, just use your imagination. Then Buzzsaw throws this bolo around Ben's waist:
and drags him around...
and makes this face:
...and the whole time the indecisive audience member is getting showered with prizes...
...which, again, not fair. But then Ben manages to knock Buzzsaw off of his motorcycle..
...and we cut to Harold and Amber, who are hacking into the uplink.
Harold is able to hack in despite the fancy tech locking it down:
It's a Hexagonal Decode System! Dude must be a genius.
But of course, just after he says the code out loud so Amber can memorize it, stupid Dynamo shows up and kills him with a bolt of stupid electricity.
Meanwhile, Ben examines Buzzsaw's post-crash body and finds that he's not dead at all, and pretty soon they're grappling and fighting over Buzzsaw's saw.
It's at this point that my girlfriend says "I'm sensing that this is a 'Live by the chainsaw, die by the chainsaw' kind of deal." She's not wrong. But first, Buzzsaw and Ben have a competition to see who can make a better pooping face:
...aaaand so ends Buzzsaw.
Meanwhile Dynamo has chased Amber down and Ben comes running to her rescue, distracting Dynamo from...whatever he was doing... and getting him to chase him in his shitty little car.
It's a really slow and boring chase, and Dynamo's car looks so dumb:
But THEN, in the best turn of events ever, Dynamo's car turns out to be so shitty that he tries to drive it up a hill after Ben and can't make it, so it flips over a bunch of times and pins him. What a fitting way to go out!
Dynamo's trapped in the car with no power shouting "Cut to commercial!" but Ben won't kill him, because he is a Good Man and that's not what Good Men do. Instead, he and Amber flee the scene.
She tells him that Harold didn't make it, and they head back to where Ben left William, only to find that Buzzsaw's saw did more damage than we'd originally thought. William totally dies, telling Ben to head for the uplink, use the code Amber memorized, and shut the network down, else their deaths would be in vain. Hopefully no one in the TV studio was watching that, or they'd know the good guys' whole plan...
Killian is obviously starting to get worried, and he appears to Ben in a private broadcast to offer him a job as a stalker. Ben refuses, obviously. So next up comes Fireball, played by the one and only Jim Brown, who despite being a professional athelete-turned-film actor is somehow waaaay too dignified for this movie.
Fireball has a flamethrower and a jetpack, and moves as slowly and awkwardly as every other stalker on this dumb TV show.
This old grandma gets to choose who she thinks will get the next kill, and you're not going to believe this, but she chooses Ben Richards! Which is against the rules, but whatever, she doesn't care, she's old!
"Swearing grandma" trope notwithstanding, this is actually a moment I really like — the moment when the tides turn and the audience finally figures out that the hero is actually pretty rad and worth rooting for. It's basically a way less emotionally charged version of the time the people in Rue's district hold up their fingers to Katniss and start a riot, like, the idea that the people out there are seeing what you're going through and have begun pulling for you. I like this lady.
And soon the people in the slums betting pools are putting bets on Ben too, and before you know it he's in the running with 100-1 odds.
So then Fireball turns up in the zone and starts chasing Ben and Amber and it's totally dumb and not scary but the camera keeps cutting to him running
and then them running
and then him running
and then their feet
and eventually they get split up and Amber winds up in a room with the dead bodies of the previous years' "winners," who obviously didn't win anything at all.
And Fireball finds her and is about to kill her but at the last minute Ben pulls the hose out of his flamethrower and knocks him down, because Fireball is a big clumsy idiot and in no way all that threatening.
And then Ben says "Need a light?" and throws a flare on Fireball, which causes him to explode and die.
Bye, Fireball! You were kind of the worst stalker of all, maybe even worse than Subzero!
After this, Jesse Ventura gets a super undignified scene where his ex-stalker TV host/workout coach character comes into the TV operations room and yells at Killian about how this is garbage, and how he really wants to go fight like a gladiator. And the whole time he's wearing this:
...which certainly does suggest that in his heyday, his stalker persona "Captain Freedom" was probably even dorkier than Fireball. It's not clear quite what's going on, but Killian kicks Captain Freedom out of the room.
Ben and Amber run some more, but then they get captured again!
But captured by whom? We'll find out, but first..
The Running Man Dancers take the stage to do a weird funeral dance for the fallen stalkers, while this pre-recorded tribute to those dudes' awesomeness and patriotism plays.
While their sexy dance is happening, Kurt Fuller is Kurt Fullerin' it up, making a fake video showing Captain Freedom killing Ben when that actually hasn't happened at all:
We meet Ben and Amber's new captor, who is none other than resistance leader Mick Fleetwood.
Hey again, Mick! Meanwhile the public is shown this faked up video where Captain Freedom kills Amber and Ben and it's pretty good, first he breaks Amber's neck and does this:
and then he rams fake-Ben onto some spikes:
And I think maybe that's the best image from this entire movie, though I'm not sure. If I were Arnold Schwarzenegger I'd print that out and mount it in my dining room.
OK, deep breaths. The movie is almost over. We've made it pretty far! Let's see this through.
Mick Fleetwood tells Ben that they're going to take over the station to buy time while another team shuts down the signal, which will keep the station off the air long enough for...something...to happen...uh, it's not clear. Anyway Ben says that these men need a leader, because Dweezil Zappa isn't enough. They need...
...Ben Effin Richards, baby! And I'll pause here to note that "Ben Richards" is super not the sort of name that most 80s Schwarzenegger characters have — "Dutch," "Kalidor," "John Matrix" — because it was the name of the guy from the book. "Ben" just kinda doesn't fit here. But hey, we've gone with it this far. Ben to the rescue!
Ben leads his team on a strike on the studio while the show does its post-game, and the other good guys hack into the network relay to shut it down, and the Running Man Dancers do a victory dance:
And then the good guys hack into the signal and put on this outstanding video that says, in no uncertain terms:
And it shows the dead victors, and it shows what really happened when Ben tried to stop the massacre that got him arrested, and the whole time I'm wondering how ICS is somehow the same thing as the government, and what the government even looks like, and what any of this will have to do with anything remotely resembling reform or change.
But the guys in the control room seem worried about the video, and they're about to go to a different satellite and change the feed when who should show up but...
Stevie and his beret! Thanks, Stevie, I knew you'd be helpful eventually.
Meanwhile Ben storms the studio and stops Killian cold by saying "I told you I'd be back!" And Killian still doesn't really seem to get it, like, I guess he hasn't seen The Terminator, and then shooting breaks out.
Meanwhile backstage, Amber is sneaking around with her futuregun...
...when who should show up...
...but Dynamo!
He knocks her to the floor and then you start to get this weird feeling like they're going to do a rape scene, and you start super hoping that that's not going to happen...
Amber is clearly hoping that too, and you're wracking your memory to remember if that happens in this movie that you watched when you were 12, and then he's on top of her and you're super duper wishing that none of this was happening...
...and, oh god...
...and then Amber shoots the fire safety faucets in the ceiling and electrocutes Dynamo...
...and the scene ends and we can all just briefly meditate on the fact that wow, that was a shitty scene that didn't really need to be in this movie.
I think Amber agrees.
Meanwhile Ben is leading the attack in the studio, and definitely not getting almost-raped, and in fact is doing the thing everyone does in this movie where they shoot assault rifles from chest-level without looking down the barrel or anything. The bad guys do it too:
How can they hope to fire with any accuracy? Anyway, soon the bad guys are all dead, and it's just Ben and Killian.
They have their standoff, which is being aired live to everyone at home, including this displeased lady:
Killian hems and haws and tries to talk his way out of this:
and tries to bring in his scary security guard to take Ben down...
...but even his bodyguard won't help him, because Killian made a crack about the dude using steroids earlier in the movie (sorry I forgot to mention that part) and the guy is basically like, "You're a prick, whatever, I'm out."
So, Ben grabs Killian and locks him into another of those speed-sleds from the beginning, and gets him ready to launch.
Just before he launches, Killian looks at him and super earnestly says, "Drop dead!"
I'm not kidding, he actually says "Drop dead!"
And so Ben responds with a pithy "I don't do requests." (What is the frame of reference for this quip?) He fires Killian into the tubes. Time for yet another big tube sequence!
but this time there's no net to catch Killian's sled (maybe Ben knew that somehow?) so Killian launches straight out and into a big billboard of himself endorsing Cadre Cola...
which promptly explodes...
...because this is an 80s movie and everything's always exploding.
Ben is pretty psyched. And everyone in the audience is losing their minds over how TOTALLY AWESOME that was:
So then we come to the end of the movie, and what an end it is. First, "Restless Heart/Running Away With You" by John Parr begins to play.
We see Ben standing there in the studio:
and then Amber comes out of the hall, fresh from wandering off and surviving Dynamo's rape attempt:
he sees her...
..and she sees him, and they get closer...
And they kiss! Yay! I was rooting for those two.
Then he puts her neck in a romantic death-grip, since, ok, uh, why are you doing that Ben.
And they walk off, and he totally still has her neck in a vice-grip, and it's weird but I guess they're in love so hey, whatever.
The screen in the LA shantytown reads "Please Stand By," and without any sense that things in this fucked up world will maybe be ok, or that the network will remain off the air for more than a couple hours, or that all those people died for any real reason, we fade to credits.
We did it! We shut down the network! We survived The Running Man and got the girl and everything! Let's close this out in the only way that feels appropriate: With a video montage of everyone's favourite dancers doing what they do best:
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Red Sky at Morning
A-Hai People
The A-Hai are an ethnic group found spread across the islands of the neck. Predominately found on the Island of White Sands, the A-Hai have spread out to various islands in the central portion of the neck. They tend to have strained relations with other native groups and countries through out the west. They are often extremely distrustful of outsiders as past experience has shown that most will take advantage of the A-Hai.
The A-Hai are mainly a group of hunter gatherers that predominately inhabit small fishing villages. Most of the small islands they reside on are incapable of sustained agriculture and the greater portion of their diet includes aquatic fish and plants which is occasionally substituted with whatever can be found on land.
They mainly worship local nature dieties but also have a number of heroic icons of importance. Traditions are generally passed down orally between tribal groups and is seen as a purview of women.
While village chiefs tend to be men who make decisions of importance, a village's moʻolelo paa (translated as "the holder of stories") is seen as a principle advisor and local sage. The Holder of Stories is usually the oldest woman in the village and is given great reverence. It is not unusual for the Chiefs and Holders to have disagreements which often leads to the division and seperation of villages and tribal groups.


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Wow, I haven't Daybooked for ages! Is it really January 2011? Am I no longer waking twice-nightly to feed an infant? Am I really getting out and about some evenings?
Outside my window: I don't know; the curtains are closed. I'm trying not to face the day yet. I took part in a concert last night, then chatted to my husband, then had a broken few hours sleep with a teething baby and a wakeful 6 year old. Hence trying to immerse myself online and be in denial about the world outside my window!
Thoughts: That my whole body, to my eyes, feels absolutely hurt by tiredness, and that going to receive the Eucharist today may restore me spiritually, but I am not looking forward to shepherding the girls through everything at Church, which always drains me physically. I am already snappish and a little sad, and in desperate need of grace.
Thanksgiving: For music, its therapeutic powers, its bringing people together, and just the amazing sounds it makes that can reduce me to tears!
Kitchen goings-on: Not a great deal. Due to various delivery issues over the Christmas season, we cancelled the veg-box, and any cooking I'm doing is more related to the fact we have started baby Rebecca on solids. Last night was frozen pizza, and no one is cooking today either as we are off on an outing with the first picnic of 2011. I didn't get around to baking a cake for the concert last night, and I have promised my 6 year old a stem ginger cake but I don't know when it will materialise.
Reading: Thoroughly enjoying re-reading the Beezus and Ramona books with my 6 year old. I loved these when I was young. My Bible reading plan for the evening has gone to pot, but I am writing an assignment on the Sermon on the Mount, so reading some interesting New Testament study books in my 'spare' time.
Listening: The TV is telling the girls a story. I know that life will improve once I decide I have to throw myself into the day rather than sitting at the laptop, but I'm not ready to take that plunge just yet.
Wearing: Pyjamas and robe and big comfy slippers.
Around the house: Now I have two girls in school, and only the baby at home, I'm getting a bit more on top of the house, or the laundry, at least. It's only just ticking over though, really, but that just had to be good enough. Baby still naps in the kitchen in her buggy during the daytime, so the 2 hrs I have free at that point is rarely spent doing noisy kitchen jobs :-)
A Favourite Thing: Singing. Rehearsals for last night's concert only started at the beginning of January, but the fact that we were doing excerpts from Les Miserables did it for me. My friend played Schindler's List on her violin, another sang The Way You Look Tonight, and these were enough to get me emotional! So happy to be able to return to performing when the baby is so small. I love to sing!
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The library, which had a circulation of 336,503 for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, has the most volunteer workers in the county library system, Malecki said. About 100 volunteers donated 15,330 hours last year, which at minimum wage represents a $70,000 gift to Brannon Library by residents, he explained.


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On a completely unrelated topic, today was class picture day. As I was doing my hair this morning, I thought, why am I primping and getting all pretty? Why am I wearing my "good" clothes? Wouldn't it be better just to throw my hair up in a ponytail and throw on those clothes that I wear everyday? You know, the ones that I don't really get that upset over if some sweetie gets paint or marker on them. I mean, years from now, will my cuties look at this class picture and think, "Who is that lady with the nice clothes and hair standing behind us? Mrs. Spradlin always had her hair in a pony and never wore really nice clothes like that!" So, do you get all "dolled up" on picture day, or are you one of those teachers I aspire to be? You know - the ones that look like it's picture day everyday!


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Born on September 29, 1901 in Rome, Enrico Fermi was the youngest of three children born to Ida De Gattis and Alberto Fermi. Though all three of their children were gifted, the couple, she a school teacher, he a Chief Inspector of Communications, would never know the extent to which their youngest child would influence our world. The Fermi's children were born just one year apart from each other, which left Ida unable to care for them all at once. Subsequently, the youngest two were placed in the care of a nurse. Because Enrico's health was poor, he was not returned to the family until he was 2 years of age. Understandably, it took him some time to adjust to his family. Of great comfort to him was his brother, Giulio, with whom he was extremely close, both emotionally and intellectually. The two of them spent time together designing electric motors, and drawing plans for airplane engines, which were indistinguishable from those of adult professionals. Though he was clearly gifted, Enrico did not do well at writing in school. He also had a very short fuse, leaving him prone to temper tantrums. He was extremely shy around adults, and was known to have a generally disheveled appearance. For instance, it was not uncommon for his mother to make him wash his face at street fountains when they were out in public. In 1915, the Fermi family was devastated by the death of Giulio, Enrico's brother. While his mother was openly demonstrative about her grief, Enrico seemed more reserved. It appears that he may have sublimated his grief by plunging himself into study. He voraciously devoured information on mathematics and physics. Once, he picked up a couple of antique volumes of elementary physics, and spent the next several days pouring over their contents. He told his sister, Maria, that he did not realize until later that they were written in Latin, and not Italian. At the age of 17, Enrico Fermi earned a scholarship to the University of Pisa by writing an essay on the characteristics of sound. By the young age of 21, with a thesis on x-rays, he had already earned his doctorate. Shortly thereafter he went to Germany and studied at the University of Gottingen under Max Born, after which he returned to teach at the University of Florence. In 1922 he was invited by the University of Rome to become a professor of theoretical physics. It was there that he met a young science student named Laura Capon, whom he married in 1928. She bore him two children, a daughter named Nella in 1931, and a son named Giulio in 1936. In 1934, Fermi began experimenting with bombarding various elements with neutrons, and found that slow moving neutrons produced what he then thought were new elements called transuranics. He believed that the bombardment caused the uranium nucleus to absorb a neutron, thus changing its atomic weight. For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1938. What was really happening, he thought, was that he had split the atom, and the so-called elements he observed were really radioisotopes of known elements that resulted when the atom was split. No one, at the time, had any idea what was to come from this research. At about the same time, Fascism was on the rise in Italy, and the Nazi Party was taking over Germany. Fermi, whose wife was of Jewish descent, knew it was time to leave. So it was that Fermi and his family took the opportunity, while in Sweden to accept the Nobel Prize, to immigrate to the United States, where he took a post as professor of physics at Columbia University in New York. It was there, and later at the University of Chicago, that he began experimenting with nuclear fission, and in 1940, he and his associates confirmed that they were actually splitting atoms, and they realized that the process produced tremendous amounts of energy. Moreover, a self-sustaining chain reaction could take place, whereby one atom's nucleus is split, it releases energy and additional neutrons, which then bombard other atoms and split other nuclei, and so on. The problem was that this reaction would eventually go too fast, and would result in an atomic explosion. They realized, though, that under control, the reaction could produce a steady flow of energy. Fermi was now heading the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, which was established by Roosevelt to create the world's first atomic bomb. The concern was that Hitler would get hold of the technology first, in which case there was a terrific threat to millions around the world. So, in order to control the chain reaction, Fermi and his team set up what is called an atomic pile. This was a method of setting up the equipment which allowed Fermi to insert cadmium rods into the fission process to slow it down or bring it to a halt. Similarly, he could remove them to accelerate it. On December 2, 1942, Fermi and his team set up their equipment on the squash court at the University of Chicago. It was a very dangerous undertaking, because if their theories or calculations were incorrect, it could result in an explosion strong enough to destroy a significant portion of the city. Fortunately for the residents of Chicago, their calculations were accurate. Instead of an explosion, they produced the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear reaction. From there, the construction of a nuclear bomb was merely a matter of engineering. A coded message to the government told of his success: "The Italian navigator has just landed in the new world." This marked the dawn of the nuclear age. In 1944, Enrico Fermi became a U.S. Citizen. The Manhattan Project was moved to New Mexico, and from 1944 to 1945 he held a position as Associate Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. On July 16, 1945, Fermi was in attendance as the first atomic bomb was detonated at Alamogordo Air Base. After the war, he took a job at the newly established Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago, where he continued his work in the field of neutron physics. He remained at that post until his untimely demise on November 29, 1954. Just day's prior, he had been the first recipient of the Atomic Energy Commission Award. In 1955 the element Fermium was named in his honor, and in 1956, the Enrico Fermi Award was established to perpetuate his memory and to recognize others like him. Fermi's work has been steadily expanded upon and refined in the years since his death. Nuclear reactors have been built globally, and now supply much of the world's electrical power. As well, radioactive materials are used in a wide variety of industrial applications, such as food preservation, cancer treatment, and checking the integrity of welds in pipelines and bridge supports. 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Syria: A Cautionary Note
Fool Me Once…
Let's not make the same mistake that we made in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. I grant that Assad is an awful person. Maybe he could use nerve agents to kill his own people. But this isn't about "could," either he did or he didn't. There are some nagging questions about Syria and the chemical attacks.
Why would Assad pick the exact time that UN inspectors are already in Syria to launch a large scale chemical attack? Seriously, Assad is a bad guy to be sure but how could he run Syria for decades if he, his generals, and top advisors are all morons? This is what we are asked to believe. The regime is determined to retain power and they have the rebels totally outgunned. Why would he do the one thing that could instantly shift the balance of power?We have been told that they waited too long to allow the UN inspectors access to the area, thus demonstrating guilt. However as I understand it, the official request to inspect the area was delivered on Saturday, permission was granted on Monday. Making statements to the press does not count as something that a nation state like Syria needs to reply to. It needs to be in writing so the Syrian government can evaluate what exactly is being asked and what's in their best interest.
After all they're kind of busy with a civil war. "President Assad, did you get a chance to watch the TV news?" Five days? Not really. Depending on what time the official request was made on Saturday and what time the request was granted on Monday, could have been as few as 36 hours. Not bad.
We have been told that they launched conventional missiles to destroy evidence of their crime. However, the military had been bombing the area all along. The civil war isn't over. Why would they stop now? Assad has killed over 100,000 people and no doubt plans to kill as many as it takes to hold on to power. But the idea that he would use sarin gas seems highly suspect. Besides, chances are that much of the evidence, gas residue, witnesses, and the victims would not be gone as a result of additional attacks. Who would actually think that would work?
Why are we in such a hurry? In the lead up to the Iraq invasion, Bush, et al, didn't want to wait for the UN weapons inspectors to finish. A few more weeks and Hans Blix and the inspection team would have finished and we would have been saved from the disaster that is Iraq. Had we been a little patient, over 4000 of our young men and women and countless Iraqis would be alive and millions of broken hearts would have been spared a lot of grief.
It seems to me that there must be a different answer. One that isn't so obvious. The rebels have much to gain. Do I believe there could be some radical jihadist who would gas a bunch of innocent people to get the west involved? Sure, why not? There are radical evangelical Americans who called for all the LGBT folks to be put in a concentration camp. However, I don't believe the rebels have missiles to deliver the deadly payload. There is a short list of States that might like nothing better than to get the US to help overthrow Assad, neglect all of its own citizens, and ultimately to go broke. Until we have definitive proof of who is responsible we should not act. If we do get proof we should do something smarter than bomb some country (people) back to the stone age for the sins of their government.
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by K. W. Jeter
Feared and admired, respected and despised, Boba Fett enjoys a dubious reputation as the galaxy's most successful bounty hunter. Yet even a man like Boba Fett can have one too many enemies...
When Boba Fett stumbles across evidence implicating Prince Xizor in the murder of Luke Skywalker's aunt and uncle. Fett makes himself an enemy even he fears: the unknown mastermind behind a monstrous deception, who will kill to hide his tracks. Fett also finds himself in possession of an amnesiac young woman named Neelah, who may be the key to the mystery - or a decoy leading Fett into a murderous ambush. Fett's last hope is to run through the list of Xizor's hidden enemies. And since Xizor's hidden enemies are almost as legion as Fett's, the chance of survival is slim - even for someone as skilled and relentless as Boba Fett.
This book is the third book in the Bounty Hunter Wars series. if you haven't read The Mandalorian Armor and Slave Ship, you might want to turn back.
I have to say, I didn't enjoy this book as much as I did the other two. The other two were about setting all the pieces in place and glimpsing only small parts of the puzzle, whereas this one was more about tying all those parts together. There were fewer chapters about the past to fill in missing pieces from the present, which left this one as a much more straightforward narrative. It's a good story and it completes the trilogy well, but it didn't grab my attention the same way that the other two books did.
That being said, it's still a great series and definitely one I'd recommend if you're a fan of Star Wars. It's a well rounded series with a lot of intrigue, action, and mystery. Definitely worth picking up.


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Scenes from a Snow Day. Jason Joyce found a bunch of videos taken of the blizzard and its aftermath by amateur filmmakers.
It appears most in the legislature spent yesterday creating a blizzard of press releases. Republicans accusing Dems of standing for special interests and Dems firing back that the GOP special session is a sham.
Partial privatization of Commerce Department passes.
North Park Street has a post detailing a series of allegations that Kyle Szarzynski, candidate for the 8th district on the Common Council, misused student funds as the head of the Student Tenant Union.
Milwaukee Common Council members urge the legislature to oppose voter ID legislation.
Assembly Democrats block vote on auto insurance bill which would lower minimum coverage requirements.
Van Hollen declares health care law "dead" in Wisconsin. Trust me, it ain't over yet J.B.
Nice: Profile of Eileen Bruskewitz.
Depressing: Will Wisconsin's emerging tech survive under Walker?
Great website for Sconnie enthusiasts. I don't know why it was discontinued.
Private fundraising gain even more emphasis in the chancellor's plans for UW. But private donations were down last year. Down from 2009, the heart of the recession?
Ron Johnson seemed to predict that some Senate Demeocrats would support repeal. Not the case.
Jim Rowen on wetlands bill: A bad favor for one developer stays alive in the legislature.
Mayor Dave knows what counts during election season. Check out his facebook profile for a video he took while riding on a snow plow.
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Assembly Bill 1989, a bill that would allow California's underage college students studying beer brewing and winemaking to taste the alcoholic drinks they create as part of their coursework, will advance to the California Assembly floor for a vote, according to a report from the Sacramento Bee.
Assemblyman Wesley Chesbro (D-Arcata) introduced the bill back in February, noting that students in enology and brewing classes have trouble graduating on time because they cannot take tasting classes until they are over the age of 21. Chesbro also explained that other states like Oregon and Washington have already enacted legislation to help their college students.
"Of course, we want to ensure we protect California's reputation as a much better wine state than those states," the Assemblyman told the Sun-Star.
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Ben Stokes was "pretty chuffed" to make the fastest Test century ever recorded at Lord's as he and Alastair Cook put England in a strong position to strike for victory over New Zealand.
In their second innings England reached 429-6 at the end of day four, for a lead of 295 runs to take into today.
Stokes hit 15 fours and three sixes in his 85-ball century, which he reached with a single, making up for the disappointment of being dismissed for 92 in his first innings.
"We finished off really well. We're 430-6 now, quite far ahead of the game, and everyone upstairs is in a really, really good mood," said Stokes.
"I rode my luck a bit I guess with a couple of top edges but I guess you need a bit of luck to succeed. Things just went my way all day.
"I was pretty nervous when I was in the nineties again, but to get that one away was a pretty special feeling and to do it at the home of cricket as well was fantastic and it's something I'll never forget."
Cook plundered an undefeated 153 at a more circumspect pace, enjoying the sight of Stokes cutting loose before the Durham player fell for 101.
"Cooky just let me keep on going on with it," added a delighted Stokes.
"I felt when I was in I'd got this far I might as well keep having a hack.
"Things paid off and I'm pretty chuffed with that."
Stokes also reminded New Zealand of the last time they faced a fourth-innings run chase at Lord's: the May 2013 clash when the Black Caps were bowled out for a lamentable 68, as Stuart Broad steamed in to take seven wickets.
"I wouldn't want to say what the plans are because I don't have a clue," Stokes said of the final day in this match.
"But we find ourselves in a really, really good position at the moment because of how we've played today.
"You know that playing at Lord's you can lose wickets quickly – it happened last time here when England played New Zealand – hopefully Jimmy (Anderson) and Broady can produce something like that and we can get a win."


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2016 marks the tenth and final year for the Network and Information Sciences International Technology Alliance (NIS ITA) collaborative research programme. We recently showcased some of the key scientific achievements alongside great examples of the impact of our work at the UK Capstone Event. This was held in the beautiful wood paneled Maxwell Library at IET London: Savoy Place, providing a delightful contrast between the historical venue and the leading edge research and emerging technologies being showcased at the event.
This unique collaborative programme between leading UK and US academic, industry and government organisations was created to advance the fields of Network and Information Science and to build rich and deep collaborations between the organisations and individuals involved. The particular focus of the research has been on rapidly formed coalition teams working at the edge of the network in a high-tempo operational environment.
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There were over 100 attendees with a diverse set of interests across the two days of the event, mainly drawn from UK government and industrial organisations. The morning agenda consisted of a series of plenary presentations on a variety of topics ranging from research, science and technology, collaborative aspects of the programme, the impact of the work and the perspective of external peer reviewers. In the afternoon the attendees were able to visit eight separate demonstrations for more detailed discussions with researchers from organisations across the alliance about their work. The demonstrations spanned from new techniques relating to fundamental scientific advances achieved on this programme, through to other examples that have already been used in various projects or applications, taking the research towards wider adoption.
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One demonstration showcased agile processing of mission-relevant information from both sensors and humans at the edge of the network, using a technology known as edgware fabric. This included the integration of a body-worn development platform from Airbus UK, in the form of an instrumented vest worn by one of the presenters. Other demonstrations highlighted: the potential value of reasoning over uncertain information, and how this can be supported by formal techniques for argumentation; aspects of Network Tomography, especially when applied in a coalition context and when considering external networks over which the user has no control; new cryptographic possibilities arising from Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Verifiable Outsourced Computation; the use of Sensor-Mission matching techniques; applications of a Dynamic Distributed Federated Database in a secure information processing environment, and; experiences from the 2014 NATO summit in the UK, trialing human-machine conversational interaction technologies with teams in field.
All of these demonstrations highlighted the rich and deep collaborative bonds that have been built between the researchers on the programme, with every demonstration having contributions from multiple organisations across academia, industry and government.
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In addition to the demonstrations the IBM team also showcased the "Science Library" application that has been developed using ITA technology known as Controlled English (CE) and the ce-store. The Science Library provides a rich user interface to the 1000+ journal papers, conference papers and patents that have been created by the ITA consortium throughout the life of the programme. You can see this for yourself at nis-ita.org and explore the publications, authors and organisations involved.
Starting in 2006, the ten-year NIS ITA programme had funding of $92M provided jointly by the UK Ministry of Defence and the US Army Research Laboratory. IBM Research in the US and IBM Emerging Technology in the UK successfully led this consortium of leading academic and industrial partners throughout the 10 years of the programme, culminating in this final Capstone event showcasing just a few of the key achievements realized during the programme. This UK Capstone event follows the very successful sister event held in the US in 2016 at the Network Science Research Laboratory at the Army Research Laboratory Adelphi site. You can read more details about the US Capstone event here. These two Capstone events for the NIS ITA programme are the grand finale for ten years of highly successful collaborative research involving over 850 authors from 160 organisations spanning 25 countries. You can read much more about the programme, the science and some of the other stories in our eponymous book: "Network and Information Sciences International Technology Alliance".


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I've been wanting to do a lot of work around Mental Health and use my Blog to really help people. So when I was kindly offered the opportunity of reading and reviewing Gail Mitchell's 'Loving the Life Less Lived'* for Mental Health Awareness Week 2017, I couldn't turn it down!
Now I've never really gone into the Mental Health issues that I suffer with on my blog before – however I do have a more personal post coming soon! But I was told that Gail had suffered with both anxiety and depression throughout her life and had learnt that through accepting her mental illnesses, she had found a way to cope with them and has even shared throughout her book her tips and 'toolbox' on how she did this and how we can do this too.
Gail is really relatable throughout the book and that is one of the first things I noticed through reading. I related to her straight away and because we suffer with similar mental health issues, when she described feeling certain ways, I just completely understood how that felt. She describes the different mental illnesses that she had faced in detail – which can also help people who don't suffer with them the begin to understand what they are. And she is completely honest throughout the book, she shares everything that she has been through.
I think this book could definitely help anyone suffering with mental health issues, you realise that although you feel alone going through it, you actually aren't and there are so many people suffering with similar issues too. If you are dealing with a mental health issue, or even if you aren't and you know someone who is, I would definitely recommend picking up this book and giving it a read. This book and Gail have definitely encouraged me to start focusing more on looking after myself and talking a lot more openly about my mental health too.