Antarctica's only multi-stage race -- RacingThePlanet's The Last Desert -- concluded today. Hong Kong ultrarunner Wong Ho Chung, 31, won the race completing 250km over five stages in his first race in the snow! This is Wong's third win this year -- the physical fitness instructor for Hong Kong's Fire Services Department also won the Gobi March (Mongolia) and the Atacama Crossing (Chile). Combined with his second-place finish in the Namib Race (Namibia) 2018, this makes Wong the 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series Champion for 2018!
In the women's competition, Canadian Isabelle Sauve, 42, won both The Last Desert and the 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series ladies' championship. Sauve, a police officer with the Ontario Provincial Police, was the leading lady in both the Atacama Crossing (Chile) 2016 and this year's Namib Race, while she finished second lady at the Gobi March (Mongolia) 2018.
Wong, who completed 251.28km over the course of the race, was followed across the finish line by Romania's Iulian Rotariu, who completed 244.48km in the same time. Third overall was France's Christophe Santini with 217.2km completed.
Belgium's Ann Verhaeghe was second in the ladies' competition with 175.06km completed – 20km behind the leader. The race for 3rd place was exciting as three of the women were all within 10 km of the podium, but was won by Australian Jacqueline Bell, who completed 152.06km. At age 23, Bell is now the youngest female competitor to have completed the 4 Deserts Grand Slam -- running all four of the races in the 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series in one calendar year. Bell is one of 12 competitors who completed this year's Grand Slam.
The final fifth stage of the race took place on Mikkelsen Harbour. The short stage was largely ceremonial with Wong having reached the 250km distance the day before. Sauve, too, proved to be unbeatable having led the competition throughout all five stages, and the winners and finishers were awarded their race medals surrounded by penguin colonies and with an avalanche in the background.
The decisive Stage 4 took place in Dorian Bay. High winds and fog delayed the start, but once competitors were able to disembark The Last Desert expedition ship, they had nearly seven hours of running under rain, snow and high winds. Wong ran 67.2km to reach the 250km mark just before the stage finished, with rival Rotariu completing 62.4km putting him in 2nd place, just 7km behind Wong.
"I knew there was a good chance Stage 4 would be the last day so I really wanted to do my best and reach 250km. I had 7 hours to run 67km. I wanted to get it done and I knew everyone was cheering for me. I felt appreciated and motivated by the others runners and staff. I reached the 250km goal and it was perfect! I want to say a big thank you to everyone that has supported me," says Wong Ho Chung.
Rebecca Walker, an emergency physician, guided blind competitor Vladmi Virgilio Dos Santos throughout the race. Walker has both been a competitor and part of RacingThePlanet's medical team, while Dos Santos is an experienced marathoner and ultramarathoner who joined the 4 Deserts Club as he completed his sixth RacingThePlanet / 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series race. It was Walker's first time guiding Dos Santos, with the pair having met at the Atacama Crossing back in 2014. Walker herself has also completed a number of RacingThePlanet / 4 Deserts Ultramarathons.
There were also plenty of celebrations for competitor Camel Fung - the 65-year old Fung is an amputee having lost his left leg in a road accident 30 years ago. The Last Desert was Fung's third 4 Deserts Ultramarathon, having previously completed the Atacama Crossing (Chile) 2015 and the Gobi March (2016). Fung's wife Chong Bing Ying and Raymond Chak, Fung's loyal friend and supporter, have completed these races with him. Chak's finish saw him join the 4 Deserts Club. Together the three competitors ran to support local Hong Kong charity Zheng Sheng College and Youth Run from RunOurCity.
History was made by Ramiro Alfaro from Guatemala, Iulian Rotariu and Andrei Gligor from Romania, William Chew from Malaysia, Ann Verhaeghe, Joost Muyelle and Kurt Masellis from Belgium, Hichame Moubarak living in Qatar, Annastiina Hintsa from Finland and Bart Van Schilt from Holland as it was the first time these countries were represented at The Last Desert (Antarctica) and the 4 Deserts Club!
Having experienced a week of calm and rough seas, challenging race conditions including blizzards and high winds, but also sunshine and blue skies, competitors posed for photographs with their medals prior to leaving Antarctica behind and return back to their home countries having being part of an unforgettable race full of memories that will last a lifetime.
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The Last Desert (Antarctica) is part of RacingThePlanet's 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series which is the most prestigious footrace series in the world, ranked by TIME Magazine as the "World's Top Endurance Races" and profiled on BBC, ESPN, NatGeo, CNN, ABC, and NBC Sports.
A unique collection of world-class races that take place over 7 days and 250 kilometres / 155 miles in the largest and most forbidding deserts on the planet. Elite and non-elite individuals and teams race self-supported in the most inhospitable climates and formidable landscapes, they must carry all their own equipment and food but are provided with drinking water and a place in a tent each night to rest.
RacingThePlanet's The Last Desert (Antarctica) 2018 gets underway today when competitors from 29 countries are set to begin Antarctica's only multi-stage footrace. Competitors, volunteers and organisers will depart Ushuaia, Argentina to sail across the infamous Drake Passage before embarking on a week-long, six stage race on several locations in and around the Antarctic Peninsula and Mainland.
The coldest of the four week-long races that make up the 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series, competitors have qualified for The Last Desert by having completed a minimum of two previous races in the series, which also includes the Gobi March (Mongolia), the Namib Race (Namibia) and the Atacama Crossing (Chile). With temperatures down to -20?, competitors are forced to contend with severe weather conditions as well as the unpredictability of the daily stage lengths and start times, which are dictated by environmental conditions.
The eighth edition of The Last Desert is proving to be one of the race's most competitive and diverse to-date. Nearly one-quarter of this edition's competitors are women, while 68% per cent of all competitors will join the prestigious 4 Deserts Club upon completion. The race will also feature a number of competitors representing new countries -- while Australia, Hong Kong, the United States and South Korea are the most represented countries, Malaysia, Belgium, Romania, Finland, Guatemala and the Netherlands are nationalities that will be represented for the first time in both Antarctica as well as in the 4 Deserts Club.
A further 12 competitors are set to complete the 4 Deserts Grand Slam (all races in the 4 Deserts Ultramarathons in one calendar year) once they cross the finish line in early December. Having completed 750 km thus far, 4 Deserts Grand Slam contenders including: Australian Jacque Bell who, at 23, is set to become the youngest female to complete the 4 Deserts Grand Slam; Malaysian William Chew; South Korean competitors Hongseok Choi, Heogwak Cheongsin an Dong Hyeon Yoo; Briton Leon Clarance; Tommy Jacobsen of Denmark; Hichame Moubarak who is representing Qatar and France, as well as Bart Van Schilt, who represents Belgium and the Netherlands. Marek Rybiec represents Poland and Takuya Wakoaka Japan, while Wong Ho Chung flies the flag for Hong Kong and is on course to win the overall 4 Deserts Championship.
While this year's youngest competitor is just 21, this year's oldest competitor is 66. Camel Fung of Hong Kong is not only the oldest competitor in the race, but also the first amputee to join The Last Desert. Fung is part of the team 5 Legs Never Quit, which also includes Fung's wife BY Cheong as well as Raymond Chak.
Also competing at The Last Desert is Vladmi dos Santos of Brazil. Dos Santos is blind and is competing in his sixth 4 Deserts / RacingThePlanet Ultramarathon. In Antarctica, he'll be looking to become the second blind competitor to finish The Last Desert. Dos Santos will be guided by Stanford University medical doctor, Dr. Rebecca Walker, who has been both a competitor herself as well as part of the race's medical team.
Stage 1 of The Last Desert is set for Monday, November 26.
RacingThePlanet's 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series is the most prestigious footrace series in the world, ranked by TIME Magazine as the "World's Top Endurance Races" and profiled on BBC, ESPN, NatGeo, CNN, ABC, and NBC Sports.
The unique collection of world-class races takes place over seven days and 250 kilometers (155 miles) in the largest and most forbidding deserts on the planet including the driest, windiest, oldest, and coldest deserts on earth; four hostile environments on four different continents.
Racers of all levels, ethnicities and ages, from 19 to 73, must go beyond the limits of their physical and mental endurance racing self-supported in the most inhospitable climates and formidable landscapes, carrying their equipment and food on their backs; provided with only water and a place in a tent each night. They are supported by the world's most skilled professionals, wilderness medical doctors, research fellows and volunteers.
Racers from 100 nations have competed over the last 15 years, including Afghanistan and The Faroe Islands, mingling around RacingThePlanet's signature campfires with a shared commitment to adventure, authenticity and a refusal to obey limits.
Racers who complete all 4 Deserts enter the elite "4 Deserts Club". Racers who complete all 4 Deserts in the same year are part of the ultra-elite "4 Deserts Grand Slam Club".
The series comprises the Atacama Crossing in Chile, Gobi March in Mongolia, Namib Race in Namibia and The Last Desert in Antarctica.
They will also be hoping for a chance to be crowned the 4 Deserts Champion 2018. The racer who has the lowest cumulative rank from each of the 4 Deserts Ultramarathons when they complete The Last Desert is crowned the 4 Deserts Champion. Wong's recent win in the Atacama Crossing, coupled with a win at the Gobi March and 2nd place at the Namib Race earlier this year, gives him 4 points and puts him as the favourite to become the 4 Deserts Champion 2018 going into the race in Antarctica. His 2nd place rival in northern Chile, Wakaoka from Japan, is his closest competitor for the title.
Hong Kong ultrarunner Wong Ho Chung, 31, has won the Gobi March 2018 in Mongolia, his first win in the 4 Deserts Series. Wong, a physical fitness instructor for Hong Kong's Fire Services Department, crossed the finish line of the 250-km multi-stage race in 20 hours and 34 minutes. He finished 58 minutes ahead of Japan's Wataru Iino, 38. Fellow Japanese competitor Takuya Wakaoka, 34, was the third fastest runner in this year's 15th edition of the Gobi March. This is the first time for an all Asian podium at a RacingThePlanet / 4 Deserts Race.
San Francisco-based German runner Angela Zaeh, 38, was the fastest of the female competitors, finishing in a time of 25 hours and 10 minutes, which gave her an overall finishing position of fifth, just behind Briton William McMillan, 35. Second in the ladies' competition was Canadian Isabelle Sauve, 42, with Japan's Chizuru Inoue, 45, finishing third. This race was notable for 33% of the field being women which is particularly high in this sport.
First held in 2003, the annual Gobi March celebrated its 15th edition by heading to Mongolia. The six-stage race began on July 29 and over the past week, more than 200 competitors from 50 countries followed the footsteps of Genghis Khan in the beautiful Mongolian wilderness. Today's final Stage 6 saw competitors finish the race in Karakorum, the 13th and 14th century capital of Genghis Khan's Empire and now a UNESCO Heritage Site.
In addition to the overall and women's race, the Gobi March (Mongolia) also hosted a team competition. Hong Kong's Never Give Up Team comprised of Chan Chung-Yin (Edward), Alice Lee and Lee's 19-year-old autistic son Celvin Tsang took home team honours, impressing the entire camp with their teamwork and tenacity. Tsang was also the youngest competitor in the Gobi March, while the race also featured two competitors who were in their 70s -- 73-year old Yoshiaki Ishihara of Japan, an original member of the 4 Deserts Club who completed his 16th RacingThePlanet / 4 Deserts Race at the Gobi March 2018 and 75-year old Lee Moo Woong of the South Korea, who, like Ishihara, is a member of the 4 Deserts Club and in Mongolia completed his 11th RacingThePlanet / 4 Deserts Race.
Combined with his second-place finish in the Namib Race in Namibia earlier this year, Wong's Gobi March victory puts him in strong contention to become the 4 Deserts Champion for 2018 – although Iino and Wakaoka will also be in Antarctica for The Last Desert vying for a chance at the title. Wong is also one of 14 competitors attempting the 4 Deserts Grand Slam -- completing the Namib Race, the Gobi March, the Atacama Crossing in Chile and The Last Desert in Antarctica within the same calendar year -- and is sure to be among the favourites for September's Atacama Crossing.
During the Gobi March (Mongolia) 2018, competitors have been challenged on a course that has taken them from the race start in the ruins of Khar Bukhiin Balgas Palace through Mongolia's vast and varying terrain, traversing grassland, fields, sand dunes, rocky mountains, gravel tracks, river crossings, climbs and descents. A self-supported race where competitors carry or wear everything they need for the race with the exception of water and a place in a tent or traditional Mongolian Ger, the competitors also encountered weather challenges throughout the race, as well as The Long March, the much-anticipated 70-km / 50 mile journey from the Mongolian steppe to the UNESCO listed Orkhon Valley area.
[26 June 2018, Hong Kong] - Dean Karnazes, winner of the Atacama Crossing in 2008 and the first person to complete the 4 Deserts Grand Slam. Juan Vicente Garcia Beneito, the only man to have won all 4 Deserts Ultramarathons in the same year. Kevin Lin, who met his Running the Sahara teammates (Charlie Engle and Ray Zahab) while winning the Atacama Crossing 2004. All three will be competing in next year's 4 Deserts Ultramarathon, the Namib Race (Namibia) 2019. Previously called the Sahara Race (Namibia), the Namib Race begins on 28 April 2019.
Karnazes, Garcia Beneito and Lin are just some of the 20 past champions who have so far confirmed they'll be a part of RacingThePlanet's first-ever Race of Champions which will be hosted as part of the Namib Race 2019. Former winners from each race in the 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series -- the Atacama Crossing, the Gobi March, the Namib Race and The Last Desert, as well as the RacingThePlanet Ultramarathon, will join an international group of competitors for a unique edition of the Namib Race.
While the race brings together the past champions, it is also very much dedicated to any first time and returning RacingThePlanet competitors. Nearly 200 competitors are expected to take part. The "race within a race" will be a celebration of the more than 60 multi-stage footraces hosted by RacingThePlanet since the inaugural Gobi March in 2003, and a further 15 years of friendships shared by the RacingThePlanet community.
An early favourite, not only for the Race of Champions but the overall Namib Race 2019, is sure to be Garcia Beneito. Having won all 4 Deserts Ultramarathons in 2012, Garcia Beneito also holds several 4 Deserts records: he holds the record (jointly, with Ryan Sandes) for the Atacama Crossing and is the outright record holder for the Gobi March.
Sandy Suckling is the second-fastest woman to have completed the Atacama Crossing, earning that honour in 2012. Suckling, who is part of the 4 Deserts Club, has raced in seven RacingThePlanet and 4 Deserts Ultramarathons and the Race of Champions marks her eighth. Suckling likened the Race of Champions to a reunion, saying: "It sounds like a big family catch up next year in Namibia so I would love to come." Suckling is always a strong competitor -- she was the third quickest female in the Sahara Race (Namibia) 2018 -- and is sure to be among the competitors to watch next year.
As much as there will be some truly competitive racing, for many returning champions this is more about the reunion, returning to the solitude of the desert and enjoying camp fires in the true spirit of the RacingThePlanet races with new and old friends. Lucy Brooks, who was the female winner of the Gobi March 2007 and the Gobi March's second-fastest female, is one of them; since the birth of her son in 2011 she has only run shorter distances. Although she is beyond excited to be returning to the desert, she says: "My goal this time is simply to get myself to the finish line in one piece - to finish and enjoy myself. For me, at this point in time, that will be as much of, if not more than, an achievement as winning was in the past. Whilst not being able to train to be competitive will feel sad and hard, I'm really looking forward to being able to have a more relaxed approach to the run, to running as part of the pack, meeting more people along the way and having the time to soak up the beautiful country." Lucy's blog tells more about her anticipation as she prepares for the race.
She'll be joined by Gobi March champions including Diana Hogan-Murphy (2009), Denvy Lo (2010) and Clare Thompson (2017).
As more former champions confirm their attendance for the Race of Champions, one thing's for certain - this is a race that's not to be missed! For those who are taking part their first RacingThePlanet race, this is a great opportunity to meet the legends and learn from them.
[8 June 2018, Hong Kong] – It has been confirmed that the National Broadcasting Corporation of Japan, NHK, will film the Gobi March (Mongolia) 2018 for their popular TV Series, GREAT RACES. The series covers four extremely challenging races each year. The races that are selected are unique races which transform people's lives.
The races that have been featured on the popular television programme include the Atacama Crossing 2011, RacingThePlanet: Madagascar 2014, the Sahara Race (Namibia) 2016, a mountain bike extreme race in Australia, the Yukon Arctic Ultra and Tor des Geants.
The Gobi March (Mongolia) is part of the prestigious 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series which will stage its 58th race this July 2018 at the Gobi March.
At the Gobi March (Mongolia), the 13-person NHK crew will focus on top contenders as well as some of the more unique human interest stories gleaned from the competitors from more than 40 countries. In particular, NHK will be following leading competitors Wataru Iino of Japan who came in 2nd just behind Ryan Sandes of South Africa in RacingThePlanet: Madagascar, won the Sahara Race (Namibia) 2016 and won the Badwater 135 in 2017. NHK will also be following the battle of two firemen: Wong Ho Chung of Hong Kong and Vicente Juan Garcia Beneito of Spain, who raced against each other at the Namib Race, the first race of the 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series in 2018. Other competitors which may be profiled include those who are aiming to complete the 4 Deserts Grand Slam (the entire 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Race Series in one calendar year) and a Mongolian competitor who currently lives in Dublin, Ireland.
(5 May 2018, Swakopmund, Namibia). The overall winner, Vicente Garcia, was never able to relax over the seven-day footrace with both Wong Ho Chung of Hong Kong and Ollie Stoten of the United Kingdom close behind. Ho Chung has deep ultra-running experience and Ollie recently completed a record-breaking crossing of Antarctica. Although both Wong and Stoten were new to the 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series, they proved they have the grit and determination to win a race in the future.
The women's division winner, police officer Isabelle Sauve, was also experienced having completed the Atacama Crossing in 2016. She had no trouble taking first in the women's division followed by Christina Khinast of Austria and Sandy Suckling of Australia.
Suckling, a past champion and 4 Deserts Club member, said: "It's amazing out here, people that are complete strangers are just there when you need them." Sandy finished third in the women's division.
Julia Guttridge of the United Kingdom was competing in honour of her late grandfather who was on one of the shipwrecks scattered along the Skeleton Coast, the MV Dunedin Start. Julie finished in 62nd place overall.
Spirit Award recipient Soyoung Jekal of Korea suffered from cancer in her youth and made a promise to live life. Soyoung, who was raising money for a cancer foundation, finished in 79th place.
Tingbo ("Tim") Wu of the United States was competing in his final 4 Deserts race, with a goal of becoming a member of the 4 Deserts Club – only 66 in the world are members. Tim successfully finished the race in 74th place, collecting his 4 Deserts medal at the Awards banquet.
Competitors from 40 nations competed in the self-supported race across the Namib Desert, with many competing to raise money for a charity or just to get away from their fast-paced lives. Competitors ran six stages over seven days totalling a distance of 257 kilometers (160 miles). Competitors had special permission to run along the Skeleton Coast and other areas deep within the Namib Desert.
The Sahara Race was the first race in the 2018 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series ("4 Deserts") which takes place annually in four major deserts in the world: the Namib, the Gobi, the Atacama and Antarctica. Eighty one competitors completed the Sahara Race 2018 out of 88 starters.
It's been a week of challenges, achievements, celebrations, tears, intense heat, freezing nights, misty mornings, shipwrecks, springbok, hyenas and sand dunes in the heart of the Namib Desert, the oldest desert on Earth.
Marisa Holman of the United States summed it up well: "The Namib Desert both takes from you, but also gives back. The sunsets are beautiful, and last night the moon was full and super bright. If I keep investing in Namibia, I know it will reward me."
The next 4 Deserts race is the Gobi March in Mongolia which begins on 29 July 2018 and will feature 230 competitors from 50 countries. Fifty seven (57) races have been held since the series was established in 2002.
Part of RacingThePlanet, the 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series is a unique series of rough country footraces that take place over seven days and some 250 kilometers / 155 miles in remote and culturally rich locations around the world. Competitors must carry all their own equipment and food, and are provided with water and a place in a tent each day. Competitors are supported by professional medical and operations teams.
The 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series is international, each race typically involves competitors from 50 countries who are able to mingle around the campfires and in their geographically mixed tents. The 4 Deserts Ultarmarathon Series encompasses the Atacama Crossing (Chile), Gobi March (China/Mongolia), Sahara Race (Egypt/Jordan/Namibia) and The Last Desert (Antarctica). There is also the RacingThePlanet Ultramarathon – a separate series which moves to a new location each year. The next RacingThePlanet Ultramarathon is RacingThePlanet: New Zealand in March 2019. The series, twice named by TIME magazine as one of the world's Top 10 endurance competitions.
[18 November 2017, Hong Kong]. RacingThePlanet is excited to announce that the 11th edition of the RacingThePlanet Ultramarathon will be held in the South Island region of New Zealand from 3 March – 9 March 2019. The South Island is renowned for its mountains, lakes and glaciers. In the southwest is Fiordland National Park with steep-sided Milford Sound. In the north is Abel Tasman National Park. There are few places in the world where, within the space of one day, you can experience mountain vistas, ancient forests, volcanic landscape and stunning coastline - all while spotting wildlife not found anywhere else on earth. The host town will be Queenstown, famous for its adventure sports.
The RacingThePlanet Ultramarathon locations are carefully selected, with more than two years of scouting and planning going into staging the seven-day race. New Zealand has been a long-requested location for this not-to-be-repeated race location. The locations are selected based on natural beauty and culture with certain infrastructure required to host the 200 competitors, and 100 staff and volunteers. This famed footrace has previously taken place in Vietnam, Namibia, Australia, Jordan, Nepal, Iceland, Madagascar, Ecuador, Sri Lanka and Patagonia. Around 200 competitors from 50 nations are expected to compete in this six-stage, 250-kilometer footrace.
For further information on RacingThePlanet: New Zealand 2019, the RacingThePlanet Ultramarathon series or the 4 Deserts Race Series, email info@4deserts.com or visit our website at www.4deserts.com.
[6 November 2017, Bariloche, Argentina]. Competitors from six continents have begun arriving in the host town of Bariloche in the Patagonia region of Argentina for the tenth edition of the RacingThePlanet Ultramarathon. The RacingThePlanet Ultramarathon is a 250 kilometer (155 mile) footrace which takes place in six stages over seven days. Past locations of this famed footrace have taken place in Vietnam, Namibia, Australia, Jordan, Nepal, Iceland, Madagascar, Ecuador and Sri Lanka.
Nearly 50 countries are represented in the race from far flung countries such as Bulgaria, China, Guatemala, Romania, Poland, Sweden and Uruguay, among others. The countries most represented in this year's race include the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Japan. Approximately 30 percent of the field are female.
The overall field of competition is deep and includes Ralph Crowley (United States), Mads Persson, (Denmark), Iulian Rotariu (Romania) and Neil Weir (Ireland) among a number of other fast participants.
On the women's side, the field is equally impressive with Luisa Balsamo (Italy), Chizuru Inoue (Japan), Magdalene Paschke, (Germany), Lara Reynolds (Denmark resident in Hong Kong) and Sarah Sawyer (United Kingdom) all favoured to take a place at the podium.
Many veterans of the 4 Deserts Race Series / RacingThePlanet will be taking part, with thirty-four 4 Deserts Club members, including four 4 Deserts Grand Slam Plus members and two 4 Deserts Grand Slam members!
To become a member of the 4 Deserts Club requires competitors to have successfully completed all four ultramarathons in the 4 Deserts Race Series.
We are excited to again welcome the infamous Iranian dentist Ash "Ashacama" Mokhtari who is joining his twenty-second 4 Deserts Race Series / RacingThePlanet Ultramarathon – just off the back of his ninth consecutive Atacama Crossing! After completing RacingThePlanet: Patagonia, Ash will hold the record of completing the most races in the 4 Deserts Race Series / RacingThePlanet Ultramarathon series.
In addition, returning to make sure he completes ALL RacingThePlanet Ultramarathons is Yoshiaki Ishihara, 72 years old, from Japan – who is joining his fifteenth race in the 4 Deserts Race Series / RacingThePlanet Ultramarathon series.
Christopher Lewis, originally from Wales but now resident in Japan, will also be competing having successfully completed the 4 Deserts Race Series and all previous RacingThePlanet Ultramarathons.
There are a total of five teams competing for a top place in the race, and each representing a different part of the world: Team Huey, Dewey and Lewey from the United States; Team Hell on Heels from Canada and the United States; Team Hundred Flowers from Japan; Team DigLife with members representing Hong Kong, USA, Uruguay; and Team The Inconceivables -- this is their second race as a team, winning the team category in RacingThePlanet: Ecuador 2015 with family members representing the United Kingdom, Scotland and Australia.
Live website coverage will be available via satellite at www.4deserts.com/beyond/patagonia/live beginning on Saturday, 11 November and concluding on Saturday, 18 November 2017. Breaking news, photos, videos, stage updates, features and results will be posted throughout each day. Social media, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Youtube, will also be updated during each day.
For further information on RacingThePlanet: Patagonia 2017, the RacingThePlanet Ultramarathon series or the 4 Deserts Race Series, email info@4deserts.com or visit our website at www.4deserts.com.
Eight countries and two women make up the Atacama Crossing 2017 Top 10; Zandy Mangold from the United States and Angela Zaeh from Germany were the overall champions.
[8 October 2017 SAN PEDRO, CHILE]. After seven gruelling days in the world's driest desert, runners from across the globe completed the Atacama Crossing. Zandy Mangold (United States) and Angela Zaeh (Germany) won every stage and were unstoppable throughout the race. They claimed the crowns with a comfortable margin. Six countries were represented by the six podium finishers - a truly international race. There were also three British runners in the top ten, including Ben Fox who came third.
The atmosphere was electric in San Pedro Square when competitors crossed the final finish line after completing the last stage of 8kms / 5 miles.
Vladmi dos Santos – the blind competitor from Brazil finished an impressive 42nd place in 48 hours and 34 minutes.
At the Awards Banquet, competitors, staff and friends all celebrated a tough but amazing week in the most beautiful desert in South America. Awards were presented to the overall Top 3, team category winner who was Xiamen University from China and the Age Group winners. Special awards for Spirit and Sportsmanship were presented to Kim & Jerry Bueno from the United and Aniceto de Almeida – the guide of blind competitor Vladmi dos Santos, respectively.
Seven people joined the 4 Deserts Club when they crossed the final finish line in San Pedro. This means they have now completed all the 4 Deserts Races – and were also awarded their 4 Deserts medal. This includes Kathia Rached who is the first Arab woman to complete all 4 Deserts.
Invitations to The Last Desert (Antarctica) were also presented to those who are now qualified for this prestigious race having completed two of the 4 Deserts.


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UKAEA engineer helps initiate effort to produce face shields for the NHS https://race.ukaea.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/RACE-website-friendly-banner-faceshields-1-1024x334.jpg 1024 334 Iain Forcer Iain Forcer http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/06a0e7766b7ec04d93a42a90956fed8e?s=96&d=mm&r=g April 8, 2020 June 9, 2020
A UKAEA engineer has helped initiate a community effort, producing urgently needed face shields for the NHS.
Emil Jonasson, a Control Systems Software Engineer at RACE, is a member of rLAB – Reading's Hackspace / Makerspace. After coming across an open-source design for a 3D printed headband (a component needed to make face shields for the NHS) created by Josef Prusa, he decided to post his idea onto the Hackspace discussion group, with a call for collaboration to support the urgent need for PPE within the NHS.
Two other rLab members quickly responded to Emil's post: Alex Gibson, who owns 3D printing company Edumaker, and Matthew Richards, a Product Engineering Manager at Cisco, Reading (who is also an NHS Community First Responder with South Central Ambulance Service). Matthew had the NHS contacts to quickly determine the need for face shields in the local NHS trusts, as well as their willingness to accept them from "non-standard" suppliers as long as the right processes were put into place, this gave the project the justification needed to proceed.
With support from David Meads (Cisco's Chief Executive UK & Ireland), a 'print farm' with over 30 3D printers has been set up at the Cisco offices in Reading, supported by a team of over 100 Cisco volunteers who have been trained to enable them to keep the print farm going 24/7 over a three shift rota.
As this team of collaborators are not specialised in manufacturing medical equipment, they have worked with independent manufacturing consultants Dr João de Barros and Dr Richard Brydges to design, document and approve the manufacturing procedures and processes. Their work has been pulled into an information pack, with the intent of making this open source, so other printers can use it.
Emil was tasked to source the additional materials needed to create the components for the shields. These included plastic sheeting for the visors, elastic fastenings to adjust the headbands and ZipLock bags (manufactured for food use) to seal the headbands in at the end of manufacturing. Ethan Flynn (Mechanical Design Engineer at RACE) was also keen to support the project and used his contacts from the Plastics industry to help Emil hunt down a supplier for the plastic sheeting needed for the visors, currently much in demand. UKAEA have also helped with the supply chain of materials.
This small community of collaborators are now ramping up production to 300 plus face shields per day, which are being donated directly to the local NHS Trusts .
Emil said: "I feel like we were very lucky, because we managed to get together just the right people with just the right contacts and expertise to make this happen really quickly. This project was set up and delivering face shields within a week, it's amazing what it is now possible to do!"

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Study notes on Nigeria's youth revolt
Edwin Madunagu
Was the #EndSARS protests a victory or a defeat for the country's popular masses?
Adekunle yaba, Lagos state police shooting at residents in their spaces during the curfew. Photo by Ayanfe Olarinde on Unsplash
What actually happened in Nigeria, from October 8, 2020 to the last week of that month? Did we see a protest, a revolt, an uprising, a rebellion, a nihilist-anarchist self-expression, an insurrection, or a revolution? But why have I decided to put "revolution" last? Is it because it is the "greatest" on the list or because it has elements of each of the acts listed before it, but has something that others do not possess, or possess in degrees that are not decisive?
To this loaded question I reproduce an explanatory note which I gave to three younger Nigerians—all female—during the event we desire to give a name. It was an explanatory note which, though not useless, begged the direct question that I have asked. I told them, individually: "Revolution—as we know it today, in fact, every actual revolution—has brought out the best and the worst of human instincts. However, a revolution not only says "No", which other listed acts also say, but goes on to say "Yes" in a self-conscious and self-confident way.
Let us now attempt a "fair" and "liberal" (that is non-ideological and non-partisan) sub-narrative on this latest "class war" in Nigeria. This may begin somewhat like this: At the beginning, some well-educated young Nigerians—Leftists, liberal democrats, pure idealists—came together, directly and with the help of the Internet, decided to initiate a national mass protest, physically and in the social media, against the brutality and apparent impunity of a Nigerian Police formation called the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). This group of young Nigerians—on behalf of the Nigerian youths (roughly ages 18-35), who constituted the main targets and victims of SARS, and on behalf of the Nigerian people generally—demanded, primarily, the dissolution of the fascist police formation. But they also made some ancillary, though equally popular-democratic demands.
The protest which became known as EndSARS, was at first peaceful (that is, non-violent) and was supported by many Nigerians across age, gender, and ideological lines. But soon it was joined not only by thousands of other like-minded youths across the country, but also by other categories of Nigerian youths described as "hoodlums", "miscreants", "outlaws", "thugs", "anarchists", "thieves", "looters", "nihilists", etc. A leading Leftist lawyer (Femi Falana) described these latter joiners, now called "infiltrators" and "hijackers", as "lumpen elements," a category in Marxist class analysis. A veteran Leftist public intellectual and columnist (Biodun Jeyifo, BJ) then supplied a definition of "lumpen", citing Online Dictionary: "Of or relating to dispossessed and uprooted individuals cut off from the economic and social class with which they might normally be identified."
These "infiltrators" and "hijackers", because they were large in numbers and were less disciplined, or rather, lacked disciplining social bases, changed the course and character of the protest. Their appearance alone alarmed the Nigerian state, which then sent in threatening coercive forces to maintain "law and order." It did not take time for these armed agents of the state to start acting against the crowd-initiators and hijackers alike. Unarmed youths were shot at Lekki. The government and the president spoke, but could not persuade many people. Rather, the protest became violent and destructive of public property, private property, and human lives. And when COVID-19 palliatives were discovered in many government warehouses and private homes and offices, the character of the protest changed again. Violent "looting" became its main feature. Many more youths and non-youths now joined, and it became an uprising that savagely invoked an old poetic cry: "That distribution undo excess and each person hath enough!"
It was a class war in its crudest, most savage and most frightening forms. It was a war that was directed not only against perceived "enemies," but also symbols of "enemies." It was a war in which "collateral" damages and self-inflicted injuries were, in summation, as heavy as damages and injuries against enemies and symbols of enemies. Eventually, however, "law and order" was restored, the Nigerian state regained control and began the inevitable "settlement of accounts" with the protest and the protesters: initiators, sympathizers, legitimate joiners, and illegitimate infiltrators and hijackers. End of narrative.
Now, we may ask: Taking the Nigerian youths—as organized or simply brought together in EndSARS protest—as a detachment of the popular masses (as opposed to the ruling class, the power blocs and the state) and taking a long and dialectical view of history, was EndSARS protest a victory or a defeat for the popular masses? And, also taking a long and dialectical view of history, was it a victory or a defeat for the Nigerian nation as a whole?
My answer to this question is heavily qualified: It was a victory at both levels: a victory which was however obtained at a very high price both in human lives and material acquisition, public and private. The task of the Nigerian Left in this regard now becomes to make such victories less and less costly, even if the immediate organizers and inspirers of the struggles believe—erroneously—that they are historically or ideologically autonomous or independent of the Nigerian Left! We may recall or research the role of Karl Marx in the premature uprising of the workers of Paris in 1871 (Paris Commune).
How does the Nigerian Left contribute to making future protests less and less violent and destructive? I propose by expanding the popular-democratic struggle, that is: expanding popular political education, fighting to strengthen and expand the "rule of law" and the enactment of "good laws", fighting for socio-economic reforms to ameliorate the condition of the popular masses, and seeking to influence mass protest movements up to and including the assumption of leadership.
When I discussed the youth protest with a radical female academic, who claims honestly and self-consciously not to be ideological or partisan, her response was that it was a "pyrrhic victory." That is, with reference to Greek history, a victory obtained at a very high cost. In other words, we agreed, except that I would not bring in the Greek history-inspired qualification. I seized on my advantage and asked her: "What will you have regarded as a clear victory for the popular masses in this particular struggle—that is, real victory?" She responded: "Social reform, restructuring, some resignations and dismissals of public functionaries, the decimation of demigods."
Suppose these minimum objectives have not been met, would the EndSARS protest be in vain? I asked my female compatriot. She responded: "Those objectives failing, then let it at least be that notice has been served regarding the masses' capabilities and readiness to ensure that going forward cannot be business as usual." She then added: "I just wish this mass awareness will be reflected in 2023." I accepted the lady's listing and delineation of upper and lower minimum objectives.
At a stage in the EndSARS protest, after the Lekki-Epe Toll Gate shooting, after the president had spoken, after the protest had moved to the massively destructive stage in Lagos, Abuja, Benin, Calabar, and other parts of the country, it began to acquire an ethnic, micro-nationalist dimension. I held my breath and started exchanging calls and notes with comrades and compatriots across the country. Fortunately for the nation and for the Nigerian Left, the "fire" went off. But it went off not because sufficient conscious efforts were made to put it off but mainly because the original struggle, the EndSARS protest, de-escalated and therefore was no longer available to be used or converted by the ruling class in its fight-back.
In conclusion: In the near future we shall discuss the objectives, organization, and conduct of Nigeria's Youth Revolt 2020, or EndSARS Protest. We shall analyze and evaluate the "absence" of "leadership and organization" or the presence of leaders but absence of "central leadership and organization" in the protest. We shall then propose that the tragedy we witnessed was, in part, a reflection of the current weakness of the Nigerian Left, a weakness that ab initio indicated a possible derailment and contributed to setting a limit for that struggle.
Edwin Madunagu, a mathematician and journalist, writes from Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria.
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The class character of police violence
Police violence and the murder of black people in the United States have provoked outrage and protest around the world, including on the continent. But, why is there so little outrage over police violence in African countries?
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Asides from a few isolated cases, Nigeria's police force was never really an investigating force.


The enforcement process is directed at obtaining specific performance of an obligation contained in a document that consists of particular provisions, known as a writ of execution (i.e. an enforcement order). This imposes a non-voluntary obligation on the debtor or whoever is the subject of the order. Enforcement is coercive by its very nature, and, therefore, is always judicial in nature, as it replaces the free will of the debtor, in the sense that its implementation is complete when the debtor voluntarily performs what the state imposes on him.
The applicable enforcement procedure is determined by the type of order that the creditor seeks to impose on the debtor. The CPA establishes a procedure for the enforcement of monetary judgments, i.e. those cases in which the creditor wishes to obtain a monetary sum due and owed by the debtor as well as other cases for the enforcement of non-monetary judgments. The objective of these judgments is to render non-monetary benefits, for instance to perform or to stop performance, or to issue a declaration of intent.
Furthermore, although the CPA regulates the implementation process in detail, the reality is that enforcement procedures can differ greatly from each other. Since their development and the necessary steps required for their enforcement largely depend on the type of obligation whose execution is being sought, the assets of the debtor, and the attitude adopted by the parties are all distinctive factors of each individual enforcement process.


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A six-pack for the priests and darts for the devil worshippers. Eddie Joyce looks back at small town Staten Island life, then and now.
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Presenting the eighth installment of The Bodega Project, where authors from across New York reflect on their communities through that most relied-on and overlooked institution, the bodega. Read the introduction to the series here.
I grew up in Tottenville, out on the southern tip of Staten Island, the southern tip of the state. The last town in an overlooked borough. A peninsula out past the Outerbridge, which, remarkably enough, was named for an actual person: Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge. Growing up, we always thought it was a geographic description. The bridge at the outer end. Of what? Everything. Yet somehow still part of New York City. Put it this way: if you took a small town in Indiana and filled it with New Yorkers, you'd have Tottenville. If that sounds incongruous, well, there you go.
George's Deli was on the corner of Yetman Avenue and Amboy Road, up the block from three schools, and across the street from Our Lady Help of Christians (OLHC), an old red brick Catholic church with a single turret. Every Sunday, after noon mass, an altar boy, still wearing his white cotta and red rope belt, was dispatched to George's to buy a six pack of Schaefer for Monsignor Brennan and Father Burke. Aspects of this story may have been apocryphal. A six-pack, for example, seems a little light.
George's proximity to the church struck a discordant note. A darkness not so much on the edge of town but right in the heart of it. Across from the church no less. A bad element hung around there, teenagers who wore denim jackets dotted with the patches of heavy metal bands: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath. Playing video games, smoking cigarettes, and (gasp) doing drugs. Or maybe they were "on drugs." Our parents weren't sure. Either way, it was bad. What drugs? Didn't matter. This was the eighties and all drugs were the same: one huge frying pan that sizzled then scrambled the egg that was your brain. As a result, we weren't supposed to go into George's. I only went in there on Saturday mornings, after basketball practice, to get a quarter water and a pack of gum. It was dark inside, even during the day; the video games in the back glowed with alluring light. The floors were wooden and a cat strolled around, up on the counter and back behind the register. Being in there by myself gave me an illicit charge; years later, I would feel a faint echo of it whenever I walked into a bar by myself in the middle of the day. Looking for trouble, as my mother might say.
In 1985, when I was in the fifth grade, a fire destroyed the old church. We watched it happen from our classroom down the block, black smoke billowing out of the elongated windows on its side. The fire was found to be the result of an electrical issue but the bad element from George's was blamed. If they were on drugs, they were probably pyromaniacs too. They watched the fire as well, from across the street. They gathered outside George's, skipping school, laughing. I remember watching them laugh and thinking they were evil. Not just bad but evil, like the devil. Only an evil person could laugh at a burning church.
(I was an altar boy in training at the time. Pure as the driven snow. Puberty, with all its occasions of sin, was mere months away. By the time it arrived, mass was being held in the school gym and I was an actual altar boy, on the long road to lapsed. To this day, I blame that fire for my fall away from the faith and by illogical extension, the bad element outside of George's. Those fire-starting, drug-addicted, heavy-metal-head, Satan worshippers.)
Some time after the fire, I was with a friend who wanted to go into George's. This friend was bolder than me and I didn't want to seem timid in front of him. In we went. The store was empty. We took our time, checking out the video games before buying Yahoos and Yodels. (The adolescent version of pairing Cabernet with a ribeye.) We walked out of the store and turned right, in the direction of my house. By the time we saw them, it was too late. A large group gathered around the dumpsters behind the deli. We put our heads down, hoping to pass unnoticed. No such luck.
"Hey carrot top," one guy said, stepping out in front of me. I'd seen him before. He was burly, had a mustache. He was old, even for this group, almost a grown up. One of his eyes wasn't right; it curled into the corner near his nose. He was holding a small dart with a red plastic flight. He stepped very close to me. He raised his hand, pumped his arm, like he was going to throw the dart in my face. I flinched. His friends laughed.
"I'll throw this in your eye," he said, pumping again. I stumbled back. He smiled. We walked away, trying not to look too nervous, but I was scared shitless. My knees kept knocking into each other.
I never went into George's again.
Years went by. I became a teenager, grew tall, broadened out. After a while, I didn't go into George's not because I was scared but because there was no need to go.
Also, it was no longer George's. It was now called Rose & Paul's Deli, though in a hurried, slurry Staten Island accent, it sounded like Rosenpalz, some Shakespearan character who didn't make the final cut in Hamlet. (Even when it was George's, I never associated it with the name George. In my head, it was Georgia's, like the state, which made a certain sense. It was a place, not a name.) Rose & Paul's was a cleaned up cousin of George's, but sold the same fare: after-school snacks, milk and bread, beer.
The summer before I left for college, I got a job as a cleaner at my old intermediate school, IS 34. Over the summer, public schools get a once over: stairwells painted, floors waxed, classrooms cleaned. The other guys — the school's janitors during the year — viewed me with an understandable mix of distrust and disdain. I wasn't much use and I asked too many questions. We worked in the mornings and after lunch, well, everyone went their separate ways. I went to the gym to shoot jumpers. I didn't see anyone again until five when I punched myself out and one of them punched everyone else out. This happened every day, except on Fridays.
On Fridays, we all went to the library after lunch. One of the janitors, Whitey, who liked me, sent me up to Rose & Paul's to buy a case of cold Budweiser tall boys. The first time, when I balked, he told me to say it was for Whitey. Sure enough, when the woman behind the counter saw me carry a case of beer up to the counter, she asked me for ID, a scowl on her face.
"It's for Whitey," I said.
"Oh, okay," she said, taking the twenty he'd given me. "Tell him I said hello."
I'd carry the case back and we'd sit in the library with the windows open, drinking beer while Whitey told stories. Around four, they'd call it a day, ask me to punch them all out. (I guess they trusted me more after a few beers.) Whitey took home whatever beer hadn't been finished. They lined the empties up on one large table, in the corner of the room. I didn't drink much at the time, especially during the day. (College, with all its occasion for sins, was mere months away.) But I nursed a beer or two, to feel like part of the crew. After I punched everyone out, I went back to Rose & Paul's and bought a pack of gum. I chewed every piece while I walked home, hoping it was enough to cover the smell of beer on my breath.
I'd carry the case back and we'd sit in the library with the windows open, drinking beer while Whitey told stories.
This happened all summer, every Friday. The empties piled up, until the entire table was covered. It worried me, that pile of empty beer cans. I kept thinking the kids would come back to school early and see it. But on the Friday before Labor Day, a few days before I left for college, Whitey dragged two large gray garbage cans into the library. He placed them at the end of the table and pushed all the empties into them. A few fell on the floor, spilling beer, but a quick mop with some ammonia and that was that. Good as new.
"And that's how you do it," Whitey said, winking at me. It felt like some hard-earned wisdom was being passed along, though to this day, I couldn't tell you what it was.
I left Tottenville the next week. Not forever though it felt like it. I was only in Rose & Paul's one other time. The following summer, I tried to buy a case of beer, using the "it's for Whitey" trick. But it doesn't work at ten on a Saturday night, especially when you're already drunk.
Rose & Paul's is now Mikey Bagels. (Every deli on Staten Island, it seems, has some association with bagels. Bagel stores have spread across the Island the way bodegas have spread across the rest of the city.) Last week, I stopped in to see it. The store is bright and open with big windows and a handful of tables. On a Wednesday midmorning, it was doing a brisk business: moms chatting over coffee, teachers tucking in to grab tall cans of Arizona iced tea, blue collar workers ordering egg sandwiches. At the far end, where the video games used to be, a television, turned to ESPN, hung over the coffee makers. The attire was working class casual: sweatpants and jean jackets.
Not a bad element in sight. The drugs, however, are definitely there. Tottenville — like all of Staten Island, like almost every working class white part of the country — has been devastated by the opioid epidemic. Before I stopped at the store, I drove around the town for a while, saw a handful of strung out guys strolling the streets. I haven't lived in Tottenville for twenty years but it was still unsettling. And when it's widespread as it is, you can't blame a bad element.
I drove around the town for a while, saw a handful of strung out guys strolling the streets. I haven't lived in Tottenville for twenty years but it was still unsettling.
My mood improved at the store. I bought a cup of coffee and eavesdropped as the moms one table over debated the merits of having a pool in the backyard versus joining the South Shore Swim Club. An old friend, a teacher at IS 34, stopped in to get a snack. We hugged. She's the librarian now, works in the same room where Whitey lined up all those empties. She asked after my family and I asked after hers. We promised to get together, the way old friends do even when they know they won't. She had to run back to school for a meeting. I walked out a few minutes later, took my coffee to the car and drove back to Brooklyn.
Eddie Joyce is the author of Small Mercies. He is working on his second novel. He was born and raised on Staten Island. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three daughters.
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Is There Any Concern With Fluoridation Substances Produced in China?
One of the frequent fear tactics of fluoridation opponents is to put forth claims about fluoridation substances sourced from China, with groundless claims and implications that these substances are of poor quality and rife with contaminants. They will refer to MSDS of raw fluoridation substances which they proclaim to demonstrate the impurity of these substances. This is all entirely irrelevant and of no concern, whatsoever.
All water at the tap in the United States must meet all of the stringent, EPA mandated quality certification requirements under Standard 60 of NSF International. It makes absolutely no difference from where any water additives are sourced. Once that water reaches the tap, it must meet all Standard 60 requirements, or it is not allowed. It's that simple.
NSF Standard 60 mandates that no contaminant be present in water at the tap in excess of 10% of the EPA maximum contaminant level (MCL) for that contaminant. Fluoridated water easily meets all of these requirements, regardless the source of the fluoridating substances. Once added to drinking water supplies, fluoridation substances are immediately and completely dissociated. The products of this dissociation are fluoride ions, identical to those which have always existed in water, and barely detectable trace contaminants in such minuscule amounts, so far below EPA mandated quality certification maximums, that it is not even a certainty that those detected aren't those which already exist in water naturally. After that point, the fluoridation substances no longer exist in that water. They do not reach the tap. They are not ingested. They are therefore of no concern.
A complete list of the contents of fluoridated water at the tap, including precise amounts of any detected contaminants, and the EPA maximum allowable level of safety for each, may be found in the "Fact Sheet on Fluoridation Substances" on the website of NSF International.


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Sure, you probably don't need my help, but here's why I'm boycotting the royal wedding — well, at least after I get through this opportunistic blog post.
Now's not the time to celebrate a monarchy. To cover this day-long farce, many news organizations will divert their attention and resources away from reporting the world's real news: that is, the struggle against entrenched authoritarian regimes (including a handful of real monarchies) in the Arab world where virtually every Friday has seen a "Day of Rage" and civilian casualties. Yet the networks in the West that have championed — even, at times, with a degree of condescension — those youth fighting for democracy in the Middle East, will now turn and fawn over a barnacled, anachronistic institution that for centuries professed it had a God-given right to rule over its subjects. Worse, the British royals extended much coveted invitations to a number of controversial potentates and fellow monarchs, including the Crown Prince of Bahrain, whose government has brutally cracked down on protests calling for political reform in the past two months. The Crown Prince declined the invitation, much to everyone's relief, but don't hold your breath waiting for an Arab democracy activist to be given his spot.
And when is it ever the time to celebrate monarchs, anyway? Human civilization has advanced fitfully over the centuries, through revolutions on the streets and in the mind, to move beyond a world of nations whose sovereignty actually depends on a real sovereign. The majority of people on this planet will get to vote, and those who don't all probably want to. Sure, the British monarchy is a neutered, ceremonial, constitutional thing, but it's still wrapped up in legacies of imperial arrogance and rigid social hierarchy (even as it sponges off ordinary British taxpayers to get by). Monarchies are things you—hello, Americans— tend to overthrow, not venerate. Where real monarchies with real political power still do exist — say, in Morocco, or Thailand, or Tonga, or Swaziland — we tend to cast a jaundiced eye. And what's so special about the House of Windsor anyway? From mad King George III to the stout, unsmiling Victoria to our present purse-clutching Queen, these descendants of an itinerant German line seem singularly memorable for their lack of cheer. That, and their history of suspected Nazi sympathizing.
The royal couple is a royal bore. But that's not the point, you cry: the royal wedding is all about romance and fairy tale make-believe and the thrill of seeing a real princess walk the aisle to her prince charming. Wrong. Despite the desperate attempts of hordes of media to dredge out of the mire some interesting tidbits about William and Kate, it's impossible to escape the fact that this is perhaps the most anodyne, tedious relationship out there of all the anodyne, tedious relationships we're forced to care about. Apparently, the vogue thing now is to emphasize how "normal" the two are with their college degrees and year spent studying abroad and penchant to pick up groceries at a supermarket. But, to be frank, what is the point of a "normal" royal couple? If we don't get jousts, dragon-slaying and the machinations of an evil wizard, this fairy-tale romance could at least generate characters more appealing than a boring prince with a receding hairline and storylines more beguiling than our speculations over Kate Middleton's inevitable royal family-induced eating disorder. And the "ordinary commoner" narrative really has to stop. Getting plucked out of upper-middle class suburban obscurity does not make you Cinderella.
There's no longer an excuse for this sort of Anglophilia. As my colleague Eben Harrell alludes to in a terrific piece on how many in the U.K. don't care about the wedding, the event is likely generating more hysteria outside old Blighty than within. But, at this point, we should know better. Of course, with their comedians and their globally-adored soccer league and cheddar, the Brits have plenty of great cultural exports. But the fascination with the royal family stems from an earlier, fanciful idea of precious, "twee" England — what Joe Queenan writing in our latest issue calls "a demented form of cultural fetishism." It's particularly demented now in an era of British austerity, when the country's inequities and plans for spending cuts have prompted months of demonstrations and protests. Yet here we are, indulging in this ludicrous spectacle of unearned prestige and privilege, one that's insensible to the realm where most people live, make sacrifices and work hard. Yes, class and social status are distinctly British concerns, but so is merit and there won't be very much of that on display in Westminster Abbey.
There'll be no way to escape it. Really, there isn't. We in the media are of course to blame. The intensity of global coverage of the wedding may even crash the whole Internet, which, while hilarious, will only prolong the torture of having to put up with this.
But before the Internet dies, watch this scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail — it's all you need to know about the British monarchy, really.
But if you want to ignore my outrage and see more about the wedding, here are some great photo galleries put together by my colleagues. Even I clicked on them.
A Green Makeover for Westminster Abbey: Trees for the Royal Wedding
Timeless Portraits: Photos of All Time Great Royal Weddings
Royal Faux Pas: What Not to Wear to the Royal Wedding
Kate Middleton's Fashion Evolution
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Formerly of Lexington, MA, Susan Hammond passed away peacefully on Sunday, September 19, 2021, age 78. She is survived by her daughter, Heather Hammond Whitt; son-in-law, Jason Whitt and beloved grandson Spencer Preston Whitt, of Sag Harbor, New York. She is also survived by her sister, Sandra Rogers of Lake Havasu City, Arizona and many dear cousins and friends. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Robert F. Hammond, with whom she will be buried.
Susan was born in Winchester, MA to parents Melba and Joseph DeGiacomo. As a teenager, Susan started a successful dance school for children in the basement of her family home. She never lost her lifelong love of dance, particularly ballet and jazz.
She also never lost her entrepreneurial spirit and drive. Susan launched her own small but successful executive search firm in the 1970s. She then worked with her husband in his executive search boutique. She later served as Director of Human Resources for John Hancock Funds in Boston, MA.
Susan lived in Lexington for several decades where she loved entertaining, cooking, decorating and architecture. When she was not working, she designed and decorated exquisite antique colonial homes with care and reverence for architectural detail. In earlier years, she dutifully went sailing with her family and friends in Ipswich and Marblehead virtually every summer weekend, even though she despised the sport and claimed she could not swim.
We will miss Susan's intellect, charisma, tenacity, her impeccable style, independence, dangerously sharp wit and intrepid conversational skills. Deeply inquisitive, one could count on Susan to strike up a conversation with anyone in or near her orbit. She was the very opposite of a conversational narcissist: when Susan engaged in a conversation with you, she truly listened and sought to learn. That said, she could be counted upon to never hold back her opinion and laugh at the most inappropriate moments.
While she was a lifelong thrifty New Englander, her generous spirit will be remembered by all who knew her.
A private funeral service for close friends and family will be held at Westview Cemetery in Lexington, MA on Saturday, September 25. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Susan's memory to Cure Alzheimer's Fund through the donate link below.
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March 27, 2008 — The winners of the 2007 NAVGTR Awards were announced today, revealing the winners in 45 categories. Multiple awards went to Alyssa Finley, Mauricio Tejerina, Nate Wells, Rob Waters, Scott Sinclair, and Shigeru Miyamoto, twice the number of multiple winners last year.
The awards are presented by the National Academy of Video Game Testers and Reviewers Corp.™, a non-profit media organization with over 1,100 voters honoring the best of the interactive entertainment industry in the fields of art, technology, and production for calendar year 2007.
Out of its ten nominations, Bioshock won eight (8) awards, more than any other game in NAVGTR history. The game, about an underwater utopia and the seedy underbelly of its protective forces, won awards for Art Direction in a Game Cinema, Art Direction in a Game Engine, Direction in a Game Cinema, Lighting & Texturing, Song Collection, Sound Effects, Outstanding Original Action Game, and Game of the Year.
The next highest winner was Mass Effect, with five (5) awards. Mass Effect won in the categories of Original Musical Score, Writing in a Drama, Lead Performance in a Drama, Supporting Performance in a Drama, and Outstanding Original Role Playing Game.
Call of Duty 4 won three (3) awards, while Assassin's Creed, Super Mario Galaxy, The Orange Box, The Simpsons Game, and World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade each won two (2) awards, rounding out the multiple winners. This year, no game achieved a trifecta with wins in all three disciplines of design, art, and sound.
This year, 2K Games and Electronic Arts are tied for the most wins with eight (8) each. Following behind are Microsoft and Sony with six (6) each, Nintendo and Activision with three (3) each, and Blizzard Entertainment, Namco Bandai, THQ, and Ubisoft with two (2) each.
Two years ago, Sony set a publishers' record by winning 11 awards in a single year. The record still stands.
This year, 2K Games holds the highest developer awards tally with 8 wins. Bioware took 5 awards, while various Electronic Arts studios took 4 awards. Infinity Ward, Nintendo, and Valve each took three (3) awards. Blizzard and Ubisoft Montreal took two (2) awards.
Since the inception of the NAVGTR Awards, Nintendo has won 21 awards as a developer, more than any other developer to date. Square Enix follows with 18 awards. Sony and Rockstar are tied with 17 awards to date. Konami has 15; Ubisoft has 14. Namco Bandai and Electronic Arts are tied with 11; Valve and Harmonix are tied with 10. Bioware has 9 awards to date as a developer. Capcom and 2K Games are tied with 8. Sucker Punch and Infinity Ward are tied with 6. Epic, Bungie, and the defunct Clover Studios each have 5. Team Ninja, id software, Double Fine, Blizzard, and Bethesda Game Studios each have 4 awards to date.
This year, four people earned a second NAVGTR award after winning in a previous year — Casey Hudson, Drew Karpyshyn, Shane Dabiri, and David Jaffe. This year there were no additions to the list of 26 winners who have won three or more awards to date.
Shigeru Miyamoto has won ten (10) awards to date, more than any other individual. With the exception of his win for Innovation in Game Play two years ago, Miyamoto has won only for roles as a producer in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Super Mario Sunshine, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Wii Sports, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, and Super Mario Galaxy.
Fumito Ueda and Takashi Tezuka have won five (5) awards to date. Ueda has won 2 awards for ICO and 3 awards for Shadow of the Colossus in the areas of animation and design. Takashi Tezuka has won for Animal Crossing®, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario Sunshine.
Atsushi Inaba has won three awards – two for Okami and one for God Hand.
Atsuko Fukuyama has won 3 awards — two for Animation in a Game Engine (Ico and Shadow of the Colossus), as well as an award for Colossus' character design.
Mathieu Laforce has won three awards. His first two awards were for Graphics, Technical and Lighting & Texturing Effects for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell in 2002, and his third award was for Lighting & Texturing Effects for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in 2003.
Of the 26 past winners who have won at least three awards, Atsushi Inaba, Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, Tracy Rosenthal-Newsom, Yoshinori Kitase, Dan Houser, Mathieu Laforce, Atsuko Fukuyama, Fumito Ueda, Hajime Sugiyama, and Rik Schaffer are the only (11) people that have won awards for work in multiple franchises.
Through annual awards, television specials, videos, cruises, and other future plans, we hope to preserve the history of the medium as well as honor the creative and technical individuals who have paved the way for new ideas and innovations.
The general voting body of more than 1,100 journalists and writers includes contributors for such varied outlets as About.com, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Austin American-Statesman, NBC, CNN, CNN.com, CNNmoney.com, Chicago Sun-Times, Computer Gaming World, Contra Costa Times, Digital Journal, ElectricPlayground.com, FHM, GamersTemple.com, GamingTarget.com, Gannett News Service, Gear, HappyPuppy.com, Kids & Computers, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, National Post, New York Times, Marquee, PC Gamer, Philadelphia Inquirer, PlanetPong.com, Salon, San Jose Mercury-News, USA Today, USAToday.com, Wired News, Wizard Magazine, WOW Weekly, ZDNet, Detroit Free Press, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Play Magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly (Ziff-Davis Media), Evergeek Media, The Ottawa Citizen, The Vancouver Sun, The Regina Leader-Post, EclipseMagazine.com, and hundreds more.
The Academy is currently accepting applications from new analysts/journalists to become voters. For more information, e-mail vote at navgtr dot org with a bio and/or resume.


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Le patronyme Ducarme est surtout porté dans le nord-est de la France (région de Strasbourg) et la Belgique.
Il désigne celui qui habite un lieu-dit le Carme (= le charme, l'arbre, ou une congrégation religieuse de Carmes).

On rencontre le même sens dans le nom Ducarne et Ducarn.

 Daniel G.L.E.Gh. Ducarme (1954-2010), homme politique belge.
 Denis Ducarme (1973-), homme politique belge fils du précédent.
 Jean-Louis Ducarme, ingénieur du son français.
 Joseph Ducarme (?-2014), criminel et chef de gang québécois d'origine haïtienne.

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A look at this week's Rams opponent, the Arizona Cardinals
Rich Hammond
Categories: Los Angeles Rams, NFL, Sports
Arizona Cardinals running back David Johnson missed almost all of the 2017 season with a wrist injury, but he led the NFL in all-purpose yards (2,118) and touchdowns (20) in 2016. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
Seven new coaches, seven losses. Arizona's Steve Wilks is, if nothing else, part of the club, and now he will attempt to record his first NFL victory as a heavy underdog against the Rams.
The Cardinals played their first game under Wilks on Sunday and it didn't go well. Arizona didn't score points until late in the fourth quarter and suffered a 24-6 home loss to Washington.
Wilks, the former defensive coordinator and assistant head coach in Carolina, took a loss in his first week, just like all of the NFL's newly hired coaches. Wilks' challenge might be greater than others, given that the Cardinals are young, rebuilding and perhaps thinking of transitioning to a new quarterback.
Arizona drafted former UCLA standout quarterback Josh Rosen with the No. 10 overall pick in April, but thus far have decided to stick with veteran Sam Bradford, the former Rams quarterback.
The Cardinals' offense slumbered in the opener, as Bradford passed for just 153 yards and threw an interception.
WHO'S COACHING THE CARDINALS?
Wilks interviewed with the Rams before they hired Sean McVay in January 2017, and after last season, he was considered something of a lock to get hired for his first NFL head coaching job.
A former small-college and Arena Football defensive back, Wilks had a 10-year career as a college coach before he got his first NFL job with the Chicago Bears in 2006. Wilks spent three years there, plus two more with the Chargers, before he got hired by Carolina in 2012. The Cardinals hired Wilks in January to replace Bruce Arians, who retired after last season.
$45 million: Potential total of the new contract signed by running back David Johnson last week. Johnson, who missed almost all of last season with a wrist injury, played against Washington but rushed for only 37 yards on nine attempts.
1: Number of third downs converted by the Cardinals' offense in their season-opening loss to Washington. The Cardinals went 1 for 8 on third down.
10: Number of pass targets for Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald in the opener. Fitzgerald, who turned 35 last month, caught seven passes for 76 yards.
The Rams had major problems with Oakland tight end Jared Cook in their season opener, so this could be the much-awaited breakout chance for Cardinals tight end Ricky Seals-Jones.
Seals-Jones caught three touchdowns as a rookie last season, even though he played in only 10 games. Seals-Jones, listed at 6-foot-5 and 243 pounds, is considered to be an offensive talent, but last Sunday, he had just three catches for 19 yards.
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