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Lance Armstrong greeted me at the front door, barefoot, holding a glass of Cabernet. Though we're neighbors among the rolling hills of Austin, Texas, we're not especially close. Occasionally we bump into each other around town and talk about politics. We are, in other words, acquaintances. So when he invited me to dinner in mid-August—at my instigation—my plan was to discuss the Olympics and his future in Texas politics. Armstrong insisted he had something important he wanted to tell me in confidence.
Since I know Armstrong's disdain for small talk, I was somewhat taken aback when the world's top anti-cancer advocate (and seven-time winner of cycling's premier race, the Tour de France) immediately launched into a diatribe about recent charges in the press—first printed in our local paper, the Austin American-Statesman—that he was the single largest consumer of water in town, with most of his habit (222,900 gallons in June alone) going to maintain the greenery around his three-acre estate. He complained that the paper had invaded his privacy zone by splashing across its front page an aerial photo of his Spanish colonial mansion, all 8,000 square feet of it.
"That bothered me, 'cause it's my home," he said, offering up tuna-tartare hors d'oeuvres and pouring generously from an uncorked wine bottle. (In collaboration with a friend, Armstrong has his own boutique label.) In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety. So even though I knew Armstrong to be a fierce competitor, I realized that he'd be riled by winning the "water hog" title. Especially when the item was picked up by the newswires and the blogs.
"It's where my kids roll around in the grass," he told me, "and swim in their pools and throw their footballs and kick their soccer balls." (His ex-wife, Kristin Armstrong, with whom he has remained quite close since their 2003 divorce, lives only a few miles away, so he spends a lot of time with their children, eight-year-old Luke, and Grace and Bella, their six-year-old twins. Armstrong's actually one of the best hands-on fathers I've ever met.) He told me he considered the photo and the article "an invasion. It bothers you when it runs in The New York Times and every paper across the United States. I was in Santa Barbara for the summer, and it ran in that local paper. I was thinking, Oh my God. But it gets back to politics. I mean, I think from the mind of Texas media they're already thinking, This guy's planning something political. And so they'll look at your voting record, they'll look at your water bill. If you get into a fight at a bar with a bouncer, they'll write it."
But surely he hadn't asked me to dinner to talk about his plumbing. I began to wonder if, instead, he'd wanted to confide in me—as a historian and a journalist—about his purported plans to run for governor. Word had it that he'd been making the public-appearance rounds and setting his sights on 2010. He has Dallas roots and a ranch in Dripping Springs. While many in Texas have pegged Armstrong as a Republican (one of his advisers is Austin's Mark McKinnon, who has helped burnish the images of both George W. Bush and John McCain), he nonetheless seeks the counsel of John Kerry and has decidedly Democratic leanings.
"What about the rumors," I asked him, "that you'll run for governor?"
He answered slyly, "Down the road, something like that might be possible. Probably in 2014."
My host, who has an interior designer's eye, gave me a quick tour. He's created a home that is immense and fluid, with beautiful dark woods and shades of maroon. The spread, while spectacular, has something of a playground feel: wheeled toys are scattered about as if in Legoland. Here and there, the walls are dominated by museum-quality canvases by Ed Ruscha, colorful minimalist pieces bearing concise slogans—pure and direct and in your face, like Armstrong himself. A few years ago, he said, he'd had a chance encounter with the painter whose work he'd been collecting.
While dining at Chef Melba's in Hermosa Beach, California, Armstrong heard an obnoxious voice, with a thick New Jersey accent, coming from the table behind him: "Hey, kid, what are you gonna do for work this summa?!" Armstrong worried that he had a kook on his hands. "I'm talkin' to you, kid. What are you gonna do?" Armstrong got pissed, he recalled. "I was like … I think this motherfucker's talkin' to me. So I wheeled around in my chair. It was fucking Don Rickles. And I started laughing. Anyway, he's like, 'Meet my friend Ed.'
"And I go, 'Hey, Ed. I'm Lance Armstrong.' And he goes, 'I'm Ed Ruscha.' And I'm like, 'Ed Ruscha?' He's like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.' It was fucking crazy. My main guy was having dinner with Rickles. I told him about how much [his paintings] Speed Racer and Safe and Effective Medication have meant to me."
We moved out to the back terrace, overlooking the surrounding grounds, the gardens, a designer pool nearby. Like a couple of back-fence neighbors, we pulled up lawn chairs to chew over the local news. Armstrong read aloud a retaliatory letter to the editor—a screed, in fact—that he'd drafted but never sent to the Statesman. I considered this a wise choice. He'd need the support of his hometown newspaper if he'd ever make a run for the statehouse. Furthermore, the editors had consistently promoted his Austin-based anti-cancer efforts, in glowing fashion, for more than a decade; it was best to cut them slack.
And the talk, as it always must with Lance Armstrong, turned to cancer.
Back in October 1996, after winning two Tour stages, he'd been diagnosed with an aggressive strain of testicular cancer. He had had two surgeries: one to remove a cancerous testicle, another to remove two cancerous lesions on the brain. An additional 8 to 10 golf-ball-size tumors were found in his lungs. He'd been a dead man walking. Seeking the best specialists, some of whom happened to be at Indiana University Medical Center, he underwent a round of B.E.P. chemotherapy (Bleomycin, Etoposide, and Platinol), followed by three rounds of V.I.P. chemotherapy (Ifosfamide, Etoposide, and Platinol). He was only 25 years old and had been given less than a 40 percent chance of survival. Victim Armstrong, however, fought the odds and won, going on to take an unprecedented seven straight cycling crowns. Once a year, now, he does blood tests, his levels normal, though the fears of remission always persist. It's the same test that women use for pregnancy. "Back in '96," Armstrong likes to joke, "I was really, really pregnant!"
As I listened to him, my chief worry was that Armstrong's cancer had returned. Could that be what this dinner was all about? Perhaps he wanted me to be his Boswell, to document his fight going forward. Though he's among the most focused and tightly wound people I've ever encountered (and, paradoxically, one of the most unflaggingly upbeat), he seemed particularly intense that night. His lapis eyes seemed to smolder. He fidgeted with his BlackBerry, a skull emblazoned on its back. His restless hands bespoke surplus energy. (Lance and Kristin often text-message each other XXOO notes.)
My heart sank as I considered what he'd gone through: lost testicle, chemo, baldness; the struggles, the titles, then his choice to return to Austin and retire from racing for good.
I knew a bit of his history as an advocate for others who shared the disease. He'd started the Lance Armstrong Foundation (L.A.F.) in Austin in 1997, a little mom-and-pop organization. Over time, he understood that survivors were sometimes too afraid, psychologically, to talk about cancer, let alone spread the word. So, in 2003, he created LiveStrong, in effect an anti-cancer brand, designed to raise public awareness, largely through a Web site that could act as a gathering place for fellow survivors. Within a decade Armstrong had helped raise $265 million, his organization hosting bike-race fund-raisers across the country, creating survivorship programs, posting medical resource guides online. Like his friend Bono, Armstrong had redefined celebrity leveraging, becoming a regular 365-days-a-year walking-talking Jerry Lewis Telethon. (In Armstrong's last appearance on the Forbes Celebrity 100, in 2005, his estimated annual income was $28 million, largely accrued through endorsements and support from companies such as Nike, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Trek Bicycles.)
President George W. Bush and Armstrong, right, take a ride on the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas, August 20, 2005. By Paul Morse/the White House/A.P. Photo.
The real breakthrough had come in 2004. Nike came to him with the idea of having people wear plastic yellow LiveStrong wristbands—the color of the jersey worn by each day's leader of the Tour de France. "I thought it was a terrible idea," Armstrong told me. "I didn't think it worked. Seemed like a loser. They were going to give us five million of these bracelets to sell for a dollar. But they also were going to donate a million dollars to kick it off. So I looked at that and went, 'Sweet. We've never had a million-dollar donation. We like that!' I didn't know where we were going to store all of these silly yellow bands."
It was his then girlfriend, rocker Sheryl Crow, whom Armstrong now credits with transforming the bracelets into a national anti-cancer symbol (selling 60 million units and counting). "Sheryl was performing on the Today show and started handing them out to kids and people in the audience outside," he recalled. "She was so popular that they took off." (Today, Crow, herself a cancer survivor, wears the yellow.)
Next, Armstrong's entire team volunteered to wear them in the Tour de Georgia. Then, during the pre–Tour de France trials, Nike sold them at roadside stands. "Suddenly you started seeing fans wearing them," Armstrong said. "And then [at] the Olympics in Athens … the track-and-field event happened. Hicham El Guerrouj wore one. Soon we had a lot of support in Hollywood. And I don't know where people got them. I didn't ask them to wear them. They just got them. You know, little kids see Hillary Duff, and she has a whole arm full of them, and next thing you know teenagers start wearing them." (That year John Kerry, a prostate-cancer survivor, wore one on the campaign trail. "I appeared at a huge rally in Sioux City, Iowa, in May '04," Kerry told me during the Democratic Convention, in Denver, a week after my dinner with Armstrong. "A woman grabbed me in the rope line and told me a tragic story of her sister's fight against cancer. She handed me a bracelet and I put it on.… It was terrific to remind people that we're not doing enough on the cancer front. We're way, way behind. I didn't care if some Republicans thought it was silly.")
In 2007 Armstrong and L.A.F. got behind a pivotal state initiative, Proposition 15, under the tagline, "Texas Holds the Cure." Largely spearheaded by former executive director of the Texas Chamber of Commerce Cathy Bonner (who had watched her close friend, ex-governor Ann Richards, die from esophageal cancer), the bill appropriates up to $3 billion through general-revenue bonds to support the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas—the largest such state investment ever.
The first time I had seriously imagined Armstrong as a politician was last May, when he'd appeared before a Senate committee assessing how America battles cancer. He was as electric as C-span gets. And his message couldn't have been clearer. This year, 560,000 Americans will die from cancer, he said (close to the human loss suffered in the entire Civil War). The epidemic claims more than 1,500 citizens a day. Put another way, 1.4 million Americans this year will have a doctor tell them, "You have cancer." More Americans have cancer right now than the populations of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska combined.
As we sat in our terrace chairs overlooking the manicured vista, Armstrong nervously fingered the yellow band on his wrist. He insisted he had something on his mind. "Something huge," as he put it. I braced for the worst.
Then, in almost robotic fashion, he said, "I'm going back to professional cycling. I'm going to try and win an eighth Tour de France."
For a moment I gaped at him. Was I being punked? (Armstrong would later tell Doug Ulman, the president and C.E.O. of L.A.F., that my eyes bulged into saucers, like some boinged-out character in a Ralph Steadman illustration.) As the news sank in, though, I realized he was deadly serious. I knew from Armstrong's memoir, It's Not About the Bike, that his VO2 max (the gauge by which the human body's capacity to transport and use oxygen is measured) is superhuman, his ship-sail lungs uncommonly efficient.
But at age 37? A 2,000-mile, 23-day race, much of it uphill? By next July? I asked him, rather ungraciously, if he wasn't too old to get back into shape that quickly.
He laughed. And he was off and running. "Look at the Olympics. You have a swimmer like Dara Torres. Even in the 50-meter event [freestyle], the 41-year-old mother proved you can do it. The woman who won the marathon [Constantina Tomescu-Dita, of Romania] was 38. Older athletes are performing very well. Ask serious sports physiologists and they'll tell you age is a wives' tale. Athletes at 30, 35 mentally get tired. They've done their sport for 20, 25 years and they're like, I've had enough. But there's no evidence to support that when you're 38 you're any slower than when you were 32.
"Ultimately, I'm the guy that gets up. I mean, I get up out of bed a little slow. I mean, I'm not going to lie. I mean, my back gets tired quicker than it used to and I get out of bed a little slower than I used to. But when I'm going, when I'm on the bike—I feel just as good as I did before."
I wasn't totally buying it. "Are you really 100 percent going to race in the Tour de France?"
"One hundred percent!" he replied. "One hundred percent!"
Over filet-mignon dinner in his library, I realized anew that there is an unhinged directness about Armstrong that is refreshing. No slack, no waste. Just raw essence. He speaks like an old wire-service ticker. And as I listened I gathered that he had two main hurdles in this wild new race—beyond his physical prowess, his age, his health. First, he couldn't just cruise up to the starting line; he would need the approval of the Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the governing body that oversees the Tour. Second, two words would now dominate his vocabulary: "transparency" and "authenticity." Nobody would be able to call him a "doper" this time around, no matter how circumstantial or bogus the evidence. Like Carlos Sastre, who won the Tour this past July, Armstrong assured me that he would do whatever it took to become a contender—random blood samples and parameter readings—to prove he was a clean rider. In fact, he said, he'd hired a video crew, which was starting to chronicle his journey to the Tour, including his tests, for a possible future documentary.
Every morning, Armstrong explained, he was up at 5:30 training: riding his bike through the Hill Country, lifting weights, sizing up the European competition, jogging for ungodly miles around Lady Bird Lake. He had hired former pro triathlete Peter Park—a Santa Barbara strength and conditioning coach who owns two California gyms—to whip him into shape. His main cycling coach of nearly 20 years, Chris Carmichael, had now picked up the pace. Meanwhile, Johan Bruyneel, his "directeur sportif," would run and manage his team, developing comprehensive tactics for winning the Tour.
What's more, he said, this was, first and foremost, about cancer. Whatever personal or athletic demons he was taking on, he would use his return to cycling as a way to spread his message.
By dessert his decision made perfect sense to me. After turning a death sentence into seven yellow jerseys and a national anti-cancer mission, he was cranking it up a notch, to the world stage.
Playing Cassandra, I asked him, pointedly, "What if you fall off your bike?"
He simply flashed me the Look, as Sports Illustrated has called it, a blowtorch stare of cobalt blue. While the Look is meant to unnerve any recipient, which it does, that night it seemed the clearest window into Armstrong's psyche. Here was the resolve that had beaten back cancer more assuredly than chemo. Here was the piercing glare that turned the tables: you need to be better informed about this disease.
Suddenly, I felt like a philistine for having bare wrists.
As I drove home after dinner, the clouds in the Austin sky were inflamed by dry lightning. Only a fool, I thought, would doubt Lance Armstrong's determination to win the Tour de France—arguably sport's most grueling event—yet again.
Early the next morning I phoned him. I asked him to consider giving me his first "comeback" interview, for Vanity Fair. Perhaps I would even cover the backstory, in book form. On both accounts he seemed cautiously pleased; my guess is that he'd been scheming for this outcome all along. As we talked, I understood the stakes. As the P.R. drumbeat picked up over the coming months, the exposure for LiveStrong, and the sales of those wristbands, would surely balloon.
Unfortunately, Armstrong told me that any interview would have to wait. With a private plane always at his disposal, he was headed to purchase a home in downtown Aspen, his new headquarters as he began training at high altitudes in conditions simulating the Alps and Pyrenees. From Colorado, he would be on to Philadelphia to participate in a LiveStrong Challenge ride and run. But we quickly arranged a follow-up meeting, back in Austin.
When I arrived at his house the next Sunday, however, I encountered a surreal scene out of When We Were Kings—part reality show, part Entourage. I'm still not sure which. Upon entering the compound I was greeted by a small film crew, camera rolling. In cinéma vérité fashion, they were already starting to document Armstrong's road to the Eiffel Tower, and I had unwittingly become part of the narrative. Joining us for dinner was Team Armstrong: L.A.F.'s Doug Ulman, agent Bill Stapleton, L.A.F. executive Morgan Binswanger, business manager Bart Knaggs, and media consultant Mark McKinnon.
Quite clearly, I'd flown right into the spiderweb. Not that I was too surprised. Earlier that afternoon, while reading up on my neighbor, I'd stumbled upon an old CNN clip, which quoted a top cycling journalist: "Armstrong is wary at the best of times, keeping tabs on everyone who keeps tabs on him. I soon came to find out that reporting on Armstrong meant that he was also reporting on you." After a few minutes, I bristled and asked the crew to turn off the cameras.
Then I threw a wrench into the works.
"What if you fall off your bike?" I asked, as I had at our dinner, figuring someone had to be the garden-party skunk. "What if you lose?"
A chorus of rattlesnake hisses came my way. It was clear that I wasn't of their ilk. My naked wrists were noticeable. "I can't believe you asked that," said a disappointed Stapleton, deflated. "We don't go there."
A cardinal rule of Team Armstrong is never to contemplate failure. When the subject is cancer—Ulman is also a survivor—failure is not an option. Winning is far less important than not losing.
By the end of the evening, however, they had agreed to cooperate with a story. And an eager Armstrong wanted to have me start the very next day.
In the morning, I stopped at the sleek L.A.F. headquarters, near downtown Austin. "We're looking for a president who'll provide leadership on the cancer front," Ulman explained, ladling out strong doses of LiveStrong Kool-Aid. "Twelve months from now, if we've done our job, the new president will appoint people to lead this war on cancer. And we'll be holding them accountable for what they agree to do. We need transformative change. Cancer needs a Cabinet-level position or a cancer czar."
Having spent the morning at the foundation, I arrived for my 11:00 am interview, chez Armstrong, 18 minutes late. Lance greeted me at the door, slightly miffed. Punctuality is hugely important to him.
As we settled into the library, I asked him whose advice he had sought as he came to his decision. Three weeks before, he said, among the first two people he brought into the loop were the key women in his life: his mother, Linda Armstrong Kelly (who gave birth to him in Plano, Texas, as a 17-year-old single mother), and his ex-wife, Kristin, a devout Catholic. "I definitely tell my mom everything," Armstrong says. "But my ex-wife is [also] a very important lady to me. She is somebody I'm very close to. When I went to Iraq and Afghanistan to visit the troops last Christmas, I sought her permission. I had her over for dinner and asked her if I could go. She said, 'I think you can go but, if for any reason in the next three or four weeks I have doubts or I'm uneasy about this, I'm going to tell you and I'd like you not to go.' And I said, 'No problem.' She prayed for me and felt good about it. And same with this comeback. Essentially, I asked her permission."
I asked whether he'd told his ex-fiancée Sheryl Crow about the Tour yet. He responds with laughter. "Nooo," he says. "We don't talk too much." As a cancer survivor, though, she'll be excited about the news? "Yeah, yeah," he sighs. "I don't know."
I quickly realized that with his brutal new regimen, he would have little time for hitting the nightspots or playing the field, two of his most public preoccupations over the past couple of years. He's recently dated Kate Hudson and Tory Burch, and has been seen out with Ashley Olsen. And from his perspective, even if he's merely "hanging out with my buddies, hanging out with women, hanging out in clubs," the press accounts tend to blow up his encounters into steamy affairs.
Basically, he believes his 2006 breakup with Crow—only a few months after they'd announced their engagement—caused a kind of backlash against him as a serial Casanova. "It was a very public split," he explains. "Then, just a month later, she was diagnosed with cancer. It was a one-two punch. It was a very—I mean very—difficult time, let me tell you. Tricky for me and tricky for her. And they, you know, gave me a hard time. I was living the life of a single guy. And you know people see me with pretty women or stars and they say, 'What is this guy doing? He's got an ex-wife and an ex-fiancée who's been newly diagnosed, and he's got three children. What the hell's he thinking?'.… Once [the paparazzi] sniff a little of [you, out on the town], they stay on you. They don't go away until you go away. So now I'm only going to be seen training, because that is now where I'm at."
The impetus to come back, he says, sprang upon him quite unexpectedly over the summer, in Colorado. Armstrong had an epiphany on August 9 after placing second at the Leadville Trail 100 Mountain-Bike Race—a 100-mile "Race Across the Sky," which climbs to more than 14,000 feet. That ascent, cycling upward in a crosscurrent, tripped something primal in him. "It wasn't a lightbulb going off," he says, but a realization, combined with a gradual frustration "with the rhetoric coming out of the Tour de France. Not just the Tour on TV but the domestic press, the international press, the pace, the speeds at which participants rode. It's not a secret. I mean, the pace was slow.
"Then Leadville, this kind of obscure bike race, totally kick-started my engine. For me it's always been about the process.… The process of getting there is the best part. You start the season a little out of shape, a little heavy. You get in better shape. You lose some weight. I mean you're just crafting this perfect program. For several weeks I [had] trained [for Leadville] and went riding by myself. Obviously beautiful territory and fresh air, just feeling fit, losing weight, getting strong—living a very healthy lifestyle. I thought, This might be fun to try again."
Armstrong's next Station of the Cross was to get the blessing of his L.A.F. colleagues in Austin. If his homeboys thought the Tour was a bad idea, that'd nix it. He laid it out for them this way: A segment of the population considered him an "asterisk athlete." They believed the charges—never proven—that during his 1999 Tour de France he had used the endurance-boosting hormone EPO. (In 2006, an independent Dutch investigator, appointed by the International Cycling Union, had cleared him of doping during the 1999 Tour, but rumors, especially in France, had still dogged him.) Armstrong vowed to create a comprehensive anti-doping protocol and to undergo one of the most vigorous testings ever devised for an athlete.
In addition, he promised, "We're going to be completely transparent and open with the press. This is for the world to see.… And everybody was supportive. Bart—because he's my best friend—looked at me like, Do you really want to do this? That was the extent of his skepticism. But everybody else was like, Let's go!"
Behind it all, naturally, was not just a yellow jersey, but that yellow bracelet. He was distressed by America's halfhearted war on cancer. Under the Bush administration, the annual budgets for the National Institutes of Health (N.I.H.) and the National Cancer Institute (N.C.I.) has gone down. While America spends approximately $12 billion a month in Afghanistan and Iraq, the entire annual N.C.I. budget is about $5 billion. President Bush, in fact, had had the gall to invite Armstrong to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, to go for a ride—it made a good photo op—only to shy away, in Armstrong's estimation, from ramping up the cancer fight.
Armstrong, though disappointed in the administration, personally likes Bush. "I've known President Bush since '95 or '96," he says. "He was governor. My neighbors knew him and we went over there to his office … Very likable guy in person. I mean, politics aside—a lot of people obviously don't agree with the politics—but, I mean, the guy is decent."
Armstrong gets somewhat agitated, however, when pushed about whether Bush used him as a patsy. Essentially, Armstrong claims, he was taking a page from the Bono nonprofit playbook: talk to all-powerful people. He shifts the conversation to Bill Clinton. "Look, when President Clinton was in the White House after I won the Tour, I presented him with the yellow jersey and a bike. We had seven minutes, we were told, but I think we stayed about 57. We walked around the Rose Garden, and they have this amazing magnolia tree. Epic. Massive. Huge. And I love magnolias; they're my favorite tree. And I said that's an amazing magnolia. And he just stopped in his tracks. He proceeded to give the whole history of the Rose Garden, the White House, everything he could see. It was unbelievable." The Clinton administration doubled funding to the N.I.H. in the 1990s.
Not pacified by his Clinton spiel, I press him to justify his Crawford bike ride. The Look now kicks in. "Cindy Sheehan [the anti-war activist, whose son, a G.I., had been killed in Iraq] was there [protesting down the road from the ranch], and suddenly it was advertised—publicized—that I was going to ride there," Armstrong recalls. "We got a lot of calls about my going. 'How are you going to handle Cindy Sheehan?' 'Are you going to tell him to stop the war?' This was August of '05. We went to war in '03. I was in Europe leading up to the war and of course the war was tremendously unpopular in Europe.… I was on the record. I said, 'Listen, bad idea. We've got no business going there. We've got a lot of other stuff we need to solve.' "
Clearly Armstrong was caught in a Catch-22 situation. If he saw Sheehan in person he didn't know if he could enter the Crawford compound in good conscience. But around the same time, Sheehan's mother suffered a stroke, calling Sheehan away from her sit-in. "The anti-war people said, 'You better stop, otherwise you're in trouble.' " Armstrong recalls. "And the White House basically said, If you do stop then you better keep stopping, stay stopped. But you know what? At the end of the day, he's the president of the United States of America. He's the most powerful man in the world, and as a cancer survivor and as a very active advocate you have to go.… And let's not forget: At the end of the lunch I asked him for a billion dollars. I said, 'You need to increase the budget at the National Cancer Institute by a billion dollars, right?' "
When asked if the president ever ponied up, Armstrong says, matter-of-factly, "I never got it." As a consolation prize, though, Karl Rove phoned him; it can't get more depressing than that for a health-care advocate.
For the first time all day, Armstrong leans forward in his armchair, getting worked up. As if crystal-balling, he imagines himself as president, his aides informing him every day that 1,500 Americans have died from the illness. "Imagine if I go to sleep [in the White House] and I wake up the next day and they come in the afternoon and aides say, 'Another 1,500 died today, sir.' I can figure that out. That's a fucking problem! So there's 1,500 … 1,500 … 1,500 … I mean, after 20, 30, 40 years of that, people start to take that as just part of the deal. And it shouldn't be.
"If cancer got a whole new name tomorrow and a whole new set of fears associated with it and it had the toll that it does, we would act. Look at all those other things they act upon. Forget war and terror. Look at sars. Remember the bird flu? Remember all that stuff? aids, people freaked. Those were new, scary issues that all of a sudden were going to come jump into your house and ruin your life.
"Obviously," he says, emphatically, "we need health-care reform in the United States. It's not a fair system. A third of the society doesn't have access to decent care. It's not right." He then goes on to outline the emergency measures America needs to put into place, sounding positively Ruschaean: "Prevention. Screening. Detection. Survivorship." But his huge beef—besides governmental lethargy and those pesky tabloids—is tobacco. According to the American Cancer Society, smoking accounts for at least 30 percent of all cancer deaths. "It's the only product you can buy, and if you follow the instructions, it will kill you," says Armstrong. "Twenty-four states and D.C. are now smokefree—we're aiming for all 50."
Somehow, Armstrong has managed to work into his schedule enough downtime to answer thousands of letters from kids with cancer and leukemia, in a personal, non-form-letter way. "These days I've been doing these video messages," Armstrong told me. "I'll sit there with a little camera and record a minute-long video and just give a shout-out to them and e-mail it. They love it. They keep it forever, show it to their family and friends."
The subject swings, inevitably, to the dreaded topic: doping. Another reason Armstrong is entering the Tour is to bury the notion, once and for all, that drugs helped propel him to victory, that his generation of cyclists were deviants. By winning the 2009 Tour, under rigid anti-doping strictures, he believes he'll forever silence the doubters. "You know, when I first came back, in '98, '99, there was a huge revenge factor," he explains. "I was basically just not wanted by the sport. And was kicked out of the French team because I was cancer sick and so I was angry at people. And I was going to come back and prove that a survivor could do that. There's a little of that revenge spirit in me now.
"There's this perception in cycling that this generation is now the cleanest generation we've had in decades, if not forever. And the generation that I raced with was the dirty generation. And, granted, I'll be totally honest with you, the year that I won the Tour, many of the guys that got 2nd through 10th, a lot of them are gone. Out. Caught. Positive Tests. Suspended. Whatever.… And so I can understand why people look at that and go, Well, [they] were caught—and you weren't? So there is a nice element here where I can come with really a completely comprehensive program and there will be no way to cheat."
Armstrong recognizes that the European press may very well be laying in wait for him, hoping he'll fail. "I didn't go out of my way to make friends with the French media," he says. "In fact, I was combative. I was unavailable, arrogant, and I was that way to a lot of them. Anybody who wrote a negative article: Done. Never speak to them again. I won't do that this time. I mean, these daily or weekly [phone conferences]? Everyone's invited. From the bitterest of rivals I've ever had in the pressroom: Get on call. If you've got a question, ask it.… They'll realize that I'm not messing around." The difference this time, he says, is that he won't be flaunting his Americanism in their faces. "The constituency that I represent," he says, "is now cancer survivors."
Can Armstrong rehabilitate his image with the European press that easily? I was in the Netherlands at the height of the anti-Armstrong frenzy in 2005, and I wonder whether he's in for a fresh wave of pummeling. They smell the stubborn Texan in Armstrong, and it turns them off as much as the Bush doctrine. "Ultimately," he says, "the people like who they like and don't like who they don't like. They make up their own mind. The papers loved to write that I was the most hated athlete in France, but I'm the guy who rides through that kind of shit. They don't sit on the bike with me and so, you know, out of 100 people, did you have 10 people throwin' shit at you, yellin', 'Dopé, dopé'? Yeah. But you had 90 goin', 'Allez Lance! Allez Lance!' I can do the math on that. My approval rating is 90 percent. Fuckin' A. I like that.
"Look," he insists, "I plan on holding a press conference [saying] I never cheated. I won seven Tour de Frances, fair and square. I'm going back.
Another obstacle Armstrong faces is having his Tour attempt written off as another Brett Favre–ean resurrection. Second—or third or fourth—acts aren't all that interesting anymore in America. But he insists this is different, since he will get no salary for the 2009 season (although his speaking fees and endorsement deals clearly won't suffer). "Everybody in cycling has a team and takes a team salary," he says. "I am essentially racing for free. No salary. No bonus. Nothing on the line.… This one's on the house. And you know what? At the end of the day, I don't need money.… Not only will I be fine, my kids will be fine, my grandkids will be fine."
Money, however, matters to his foundation. And Team Armstrong claims to have recently made a crucial allegiance with the likes of Bill Clinton, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, and several other eminences to be named later, who have plans to announce a global cancer summit, possibly inviting various heads of state to Paris around the time of the Tour. Armstrong insists, "France is an important country, regardless of what people in the red states say—and a good country. So you start there, and obviously you're at the hub of Europe. And you can have tons of involvement from leaders there [and] why wouldn't you have the president of the United States there?" And in two weeks, Armstrong will expound on his anti-cancer program at a Clinton Global Initiative forum in New York City.
While it all sounds rather lofty, it's really the small stuff that Armstrong's starting to sweat. He has begun a regimen of "epic workouts." Because he needs curvy mountain roads to train on (Austin only has hills), he'll be spending a lot of time in the Rockies and Solvang, California, in the coming months. "I'm doing a bunch of core stuff, power stuff in the gym," he says. "Just constantly changing shit up." While Armstrong's exact strategy remains sketchy, he might race in the Amgen Tour of California in February, and the Giro d'Italia in May.
That weekend I watch Armstrong run in the Austin leg of the Nike+ Human Race, held in 25 cities worldwide to benefit L.A.F. and two other charities. The 10-kilometer race in Austin fields about 15,000 runners, who gather at twilight on a summer Sunday. (In 2007, Nike debuted a LiveStrong apparel and footwear line and pledged to donate net profits to the foundation.) Ben Harper performs near the finish line, as thousands of exhausted athletes down Evian, text-message babysitters, talk about grabbing a late dinner at a Whole Foods organic bar. These are Lance's folks—passionate and fit, singing along to "Diamonds on the Inside." Optimism is the prevailing vibe.
Armstrong, true to form, seems disappointed he didn't win the charity race. "I did awful," he says, crestfallen. "But look at Harper. He's in great shape. He wrote the best Katrina song, 'Black Rain.' I asked him to play it at the end." Every few minutes, rather healthy-looking women come over to give Armstrong platonic hugs. "I've got to get to bed soon," he says, almost relieved at the concert's end. "Up tomorrow before dawn."
I ask him what he misses most now that he's in monkish training mode. "Salsa and chips," he says. "That's it."
Two days later, I sit in on an Armstrong workout session in his two-and-a-half-car home garage. Even with the garage door open, it's 100 degrees. The brown indoor-outdoor carpeting makes the setting seem like Wayne's World. Free weights are all around. Dressed in baggy green Nike shorts, Armstrong, shirtless, runs through a sick set of pull-ups, medicine-ball exercises, and crunches, all executed at a rapid pace. Conversation is clipped with grunts and groans. I notice a scar on his upper chest where the catheter was inserted during cancer surgery.
The White Stripes are playing on the stereo. You can feel that music is a fuel to him. "From Lyle Lovett to Led Zeppelin," he says of his musical tastes. "When I'm in the garage, I put on satellite radio, like adult alternative. Elvis Costello, great, you can train with that. The next song might be Bob Dylan, great. Next song might be Coldplay, great. Next song might be Foo Fighters, great.… I've got 4,000 or 5,000 songs on my iPod."
Nearby, he has his separate bike garage, where cycles, including kids' bikes, hang from the wall in all shapes and sizes. There's also a 1970 black GTO convertible. He has me pick up a Madone 6.9 black cycle, a custom vehicle for riding around New York. "It's light as a feather," he says, admiringly, lifting it with ease. "Weighs about 13 or 14 pounds, due to the carbon-fiber fork."
Team Armstrong says their leader is asymmetrically negative; that is, on a scale of 1 to 10, if Lance wins the Tour de France, he'll only achieve the status of a two or three. But if he loses, he'll be a minus 1,000. Worst of all, there is no guarantee that the Tour's mandarins at the A.S.O. will allow him to race. Plagued by doping dilemmas, rider departures, team withdrawals, and chronic bickering between participants, the A.S.O. has become hyper-selective about who races. If the A.S.O. balks, there's no telling how low he'll sink.
High on top of his bookshelves, in special alcoves, are his seven blue Tour trophies. Desperately, he wants an eighth. And if for some strange reason the A.S.O. doesn't "invite" Armstrong and his team to the Tour de France, he plans on pleading his case directly to the current French president, Nicolas Sarkozy. "I've already put a call in to him," Armstrong says. "Look it up. He's said strong things about me in the past."
A couple of hours later, I do look it up. And, sure enough, Sarkozy has praised Lance Armstrong. Back in 2003, while serving as French interior minister, Sarkozy commented on how inspired he was that Armstrong had overcome cancer to repeatedly win the Tour de France. Armstrong's courage moved him. There are about eight million cancer deaths in the world annually, and Armstrong is leading the way to a new consciousness about the disease. "If we don't applaud and support him," Sarkozy once said, "who should we applaud and support?"
"I fear failure," Armstrong admits, during a quiet moment. "I have a huge phobia around failure. And that's probably a good thing. The thought of losing this thing—anything—I mean, it could be the Tour, it could be Proposition 15. We're down at the state capitol [and] these guys are debating it back and forth, amending the bill. The thing looks like it's gonna die. I mean, the tension was so high. Doug [Ulman] looks at me and goes [whisper voice], 'Man, this is fun!' And I said 'Doug, it is only fun if we win.' And for me, I think a lot of that stems from just the illness and the diagnosis and the process there. Because failure there is death. Loss there is death. And victory is living. Which people just assume they're going to do. I mean, most people—cancer survivors—don't always assume that. But I was scared. You know, from that point on, I associated loss with death. And so I didn't. It was burned in my mind forever.
"I don't like to lose in anything. Anything."
Contributing editor Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University.
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Wayne Rooney is sticking to his guns over his wish to leave Manchester United despite David Moyes' appointment as successor to Sir Alex Ferguson.
Rooney, who has two years left on his contract, told Ferguson two weeks ago he wanted to leave the club but the 27-year-old was told he had to stay at Old Trafford.
A United spokesman confirmed to Press Association Sport: "Wayne Rooney is not for sale."
Moyes, who first gave Rooney his debut as a 16-year-old at Everton, will now have to tackle the fall-out of the current impasse between player and club. Sources close to Rooney made clear that he and his representatives will adopt a wait-and-see approach to Moyes' appointment.
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Down 0-2, Rangers look to work home magic againby Dan Rosen
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(Bruins lead best-of-7 series, 2-0)
Big story: Boston gained a 2-0 lead with late surges in each of the first two games at TD Garden. They dominated overtime in Game 1 and Brad Marchand scored the winner at the 15:40 mark. They took over in the third period of Game 2 when Marchand scored at the 26-second mark and never looked back, cruising to a 5-2 win.
For the second time this postseason, the Rangers face an 0-2 hole coming back to Madison Square Garden. They were able to win four out of five against the Washington Capitals to advance to the Eastern Conference Semifinals, but no team in NHL history has ever won back-to-back playoff series in which they trailed 0-2.
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Rangers: Despite being down in the series, the Rangers feel confident because they're home for Games 3 and 4.
"You have to believe in yourself, in your teammates that you can do it," goalie Henrik Lundqvist said. "We've been here before, but we're not looking too far ahead. We're looking at [Tuesday], we're looking at the first period [Tuesday], and get a good start at home, build some confidence there and we'll see where it takes us."
The key for the Rangers is to establish their forecheck early. They did that in Game 2, but couldn't sustain it in the third period after Marchand's goal.
Another key is to be better in front of Lundqvist. Rangers coach John Tortorella said his team was guilty of making uncharacteristic mistakes that led to goals for Boston.
"Some of the mistakes we made [Sunday], it was surprising, and a lot of it was off the rush, but I think that can be fixed because I think that's one of the strengths of our game," Tortorella said. "That's why I'm very encouraged. I think we're going to be OK here. Like I said, you don't want to be down 2-0, we know what hole we're in, but by no means is this a really bad thing. We need to win a game and try to get momentum on our side."
Bruins: While the play of their three rookie defensemen has been solid, if not spectacular, coach Claude Julien may have a tough decision on his hands either Tuesday or at least in Game 4 because Dennis Seidenberg and Wade Redden are working their way back from injuries.
Seidenberg is the key guy because Julien would likely insert him into the lineup, possibly for rookie Dougie Hamilton, as soon as he's healthy. Redden could still be a healthy scratch.
However, Seidenberg did not take any contract in practice Monday and sat out a 4-on-4 drill that had some risk of contact.
"He practiced with us. He's getting closer," Julien said Monday. "Whether that's the next game or not, we'll see how he feels [Tuesday]."
If Julien wants to, he could use the luxury of a 2-0 lead to wait for Seidenberg to be at least closer to 100 percent. The rookies, including Matt Bartkowski and Torey Krug, have gained his trust.
"The last thing you want to do is get those guys to play on their heels or play afraid to make a mistake," Julien said. "Confidence goes a long way in this game. When coaches are able to give players confidence, it shows because it makes a big difference -- instead of a guy making a mistake and looking at the bench every time, seeing if the coach is mad at him or will take away some ice time."
Who's hot: Marchand leads the Bruins with four points on two goals and two assists in two games against the Rangers. Krug has chipped in with two goals and an assist and both Bergeron and Krejci have three assists so far in the series. Krejci leads the NHL with 16 points in the playoffs. … For the Rangers, Ryan Callahan and Rick Nash each have a goal and an assist in the series.
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I heard they kept changing the bucket because of all the names, so in total I had almost ten tallies I think from all the buckets added together. XD I nearly killed a Roxas with the flagpole
Wow, that's nothing compared to Bob's 70-something from last year.
ok so I know they gave it ot second place but does any one know who actualy won? >.> I'm pretty sure I got like 15... if not more but I am confused as to why every mourning my name was earsed from the bucket -_- (started a new each time)
Quote from: oslapedo on September 03, 2008, 08:01:39 pmWow, that's nothing compared to Bob's 70-something from last year.damn straight. it was like, 74. it ended up they guy that did win was sitting next to me at closing ceremonies.
yeah, but I realized I spent the whole con chasing the bucket and didn't get to enjoy much of anything else. so this year I didn't go after it much. but I can always be proud to say I was the first.
Umm...I don't remember the names, but 1st place wasn't in closing ceremonies, so second place won the bucket, with a grand total of.......18 tallies!


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Description: Interim Final Rule
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has issued an interim final rule with request for comments (final rule) that makes technical and conforming amendments to its regulations governing national banks and federal savings associations. The final rule, which is effective March 31, 2014, amends various regulations in order to make those regulations consistent with the recently adopted Basel III Capital Framework. The Basel III final rule revised the OCC's regulatory capital rules, adding a new common equity tier 1 requirement, revising the definitions of tier 1 and tier 2 capital, and integrating federal savings associations into 12 CFR part 3 and 12 CFR part 6 (Prompt Corrective Action). The final rule makes technical, clarifying, and conforming amendments to the OCC's rules, by providing cross-references to new capital rules, where necessary, and deleting obsolete references. The final rule also makes changes to subordinated debt rules to clarify the requirements subordinated debt must meet and the procedures required to issue and redeem subordinated debt.
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The amendments made by this rulemaking apply to all banks, including community banks. Community banks must comply with the Basel III Capital Framework (and statutory limitations that cross-reference the regulatory capital rules) beginning January 1, 2015, while advanced approaches national banks and federal savings associations must comply with the Basel III Capital Framework beginning January 1, 2014.
On October 21, 2013, the OCC published in the Federal Register the Basel III final rule (78 Fed. Reg. 62018, Oct. 11, 2013), which completely revised the OCC's regulatory capital rules for national banks and federal savings associations. The final rule, in part, reflected agreements reached by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in "Basel III: A Global Regulatory Framework for More Resilient Banks and Banking Systems."2 The Basel III agreements are intended to improve both the quality and quantity of banking organizations' capital, as well as to strengthen various aspects of the international capital standards for calculating regulatory capital. The OCC issued the Basel III final rule in conjunction with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Board of the Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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Brendan Steele topped the Canadian Open leaderboard Thursday at 7-under 65.
OAKVILLE, Ontario — Brendan Steele topped the Canadian Open leaderboard Thursday at 7-under 65, birdieing five of the first seven holes on his back nine at Glen Abbey.
"I love being up here," Steele said. "I played in '06 and '07 on PGA Tour Canada now. And really, got me ready to play the Nationwide Tour, which I played in '08, '09 and '10. It was a great progression in my life. I had a great time up here. Made a lot of friends and spent two summers traveling the country."
The 30-year-old American had eight birdies and a bogey, dropping a shot on his final hole — the par-4 ninth. He won the 2011 Texas Open for his long PGA Tour title.
"Really, just an overall good day," Steele said. "Hit a lot of good shots and was able to hole some putts. When you have a good round like that and you play that well, you kind of have everything going. But today was probably the most complete round that I've had all year, so that was kind of nice. Didn't miss many greens, didn't hit many shots off line, and I was able to roll a few putts in."
Matt Kuchar, a two-time winner this year, was a stroke back along with Scott Gardiner and Scott Brown. Kuchar eagled the par-5 18th hole, his ninth hole of the day.
"It was fun to be out here. It was perfect conditions," Kuchar said. "I feel like last week, conditions were so challenging and so difficult at the British Open, to come here and to play golf that is more friendly and more what we're used to the PGA Tour was great.
"The conditions are spectacular. The course is in great shape. We had very little wind, good temperature, so it was a great opportunity. The par 5s are all attainable and birdieable."
Gardiner was tied for the lead after eagleing the par-3 15th hole, but he bogeyed on the next hole.
"Actually, didn't hit that bad a drive on 16, and went left and got stuck behind a tree and had to lay up," Gardiner said. "And then I hit a pretty good. I missed a 4-foot putt."
Hunter Mahan and David Lingmerth shot 67, and Chez Reavie, the 2008 winner at Glen Abbey, was another stroke back in a group that included Bubba Watson and Trevor Immelman.
"Gave myself a lot of good looks and the greens were rolling true," Mahan said. "It's in great shape right now. In the morning, we'll have perfect conditions."
Brandt Snedeker opened with a 70, and Ernie Els and defending champion Scott Piercy followed at 71. Piercy won last year at Hamilton Golf & Country Club.
Luke Donald, Charl Schwartzel and Canadian Mike Weir shot 73, Dustin Johnson struggled to a 75, and Graeme McDowell had a 76.
Brad Fritsch was the top Canadian at 69. David Hearn, a playoff loser this month in the John Deere Classic, followed at 70.
Pat Fletcher, born in England, was the last Canadian winner, taking the 1954 event at Point Grey in Vancouver. Carl Keffer is the only Canadian-born champion, winning in 1909 and 1914. Albert Murray, a Canadian also born in England, won in 1908 and 1913.
Fritsch birdied his final three holes.
"I think I hit less than 50 percent of the fairways, but I think that's just the nature of this golf course," Fritsch said. "I looked like I got some horrendous bounces. When I was expecting one way, it went the other, and that led to a little bit of frustration. But I stayed patient."


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4 hurt in 3-alarm house fire in S.F.'s Oceanview
Two residents, a firefighter and a police officer were hurt Friday as a blaze gutted two homes and damaged three others in San Francisco's Oceanview neighborhood, officials said.
The fire broke out at a home on the 100 block of Bright Street near the Daly City border about 6:35 a.m., officials said. It spread to three other homes, and a fifth home had visible smoke damage. The blaze went to three alarms before 8 a.m.
The four injured people - two residents who suffered smoke inhalation, a firefighter who experienced chest pain and a police officer with undisclosed injuries - were taken to a hospital, authorities said.
The American Red Cross said 21 adults and a child were displaced. No damage estimate was given.
The 90 firefighters on the scene were hampered by limited visibility from both smoke and fog, Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said. The cause of the fire, which disrupted Muni service, is under investigation.
Brent Walker, who lives on the bottom floor of the home where the fire ignited, said he woke up to an argument and saw smoke seeping through the ceiling.
After he ran out of the house, a neighbor gave him a fire extinguisher. Walker said he hurried back inside and tried to spray the fire, but encountered smoke that was too thick.
Walker said the injured residents were the owners of the home, who lived in the unit where the fire began, and that two dogs were feared dead.
Asked why he went back inside, Walker said, "When it's a neighbor, you don't think about yourself."
Walker said he and others were "just blessed to be alive," because the fire broke out as residents slept. "Nobody realized how quickly it was moving."
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Tech soccer team played to a bittersweet tune Sunday afternoon. While there was much celebration in the air for the Golden Eagles' annual senior day match, the day ultimately ended on a low note as the EIU Panthers won in overtime 3-2.
For the second straight game, the Tech defense played the opposing team to a halftime stalemate, not allowing a goal and holding the Panthers to just three shots on goal.
Junior forward Ellie Iaciofano kept her stellar season rolling, scoring in the 49th minute to give the Golden Eagles a 1-0 lead. She added a second goal in the 68th minute, her OVC-leading eighth score of the year. Senior forward Andrea Meloff provided the assist on the first goal while Iaciofano doubled the Tech lead unassisted. Iaciofano also leads the OVC in points with 18.
EIU would storm back, scoring in the 72nd and 88th minutes to tie the match and eventually send it to overtime. Eastern Illinois scored in the 96th minute to pull out the comeback and earn its first conference victory of the season.
Freshman goalkeeper Jordan Brown provided the Golden Eagles with another solid performance in the net, making nine stops on 12 shots on goal and 23 total shot attempts. She has logged 76 saves on the year, good for second in the OVC to EIU goalkeeper Jessica Taldone. Taldone made six stops in the contest before being pulled in the 69th minute.
The loss bumps Tech's record to 3-7-1 for the season and 1-2 in OVC play.
Prior to the match, the graduating seniors of the Golden Eagle soccer team were honored for their years of hard work and dedication both on the field and in the classroom as student athletes. Each senior was given a framed jersey from head coach Daniel Brizard and Tennessee Tech Director of Athletics Mark Wilson.
The Golden Eagles will return to the pitch Friday, Oct. 5, as they travel to Morehead State for a 6 p.m. CT match under the lights. They will then make a trip to Eastern Kentucky on Sunday, Oct 7, for a 12 p.m. contest against the Colonels.
|From left: Head Coach Daniel Brizard; #6 Jacquie Watkins, her mother Janet, father Gearl, & sister Jaimie; #7 Kerri Reid, her father Benjamin Jr. & mother Cheri; #8 Sarah Gawthrop, her mother Brenda; #12 Kris Cambron, her father Don & mother Cheryl; #15 Andrea Meloff, her father Marc & mother Sherry; #18 Julie Thompson, her father Derry & mother Cathy; #21 Alex Stevenson, Sheri Pharris, Adam Pharris; Director of Athletics Mark Wilson.


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This dude on slashdot complains about "our purely monetary system -- there is no measure for the labor hours, or the quality of those hours, that go into the production of much of anything. The cost of things that can't be measured monetarily is all too often assumed to be "ZERO", but that simply isn't true. Even freeware costs somebody something to make."
Marx had this theory for the source of value. At the time he was writing, there was no consensus among economists for the source of value. Why are diamonds more valuable than water? They couldn't explain that, since obviously water is more necessary to human life. They didn't have the idea of marginal utility, so they were casting about for an explanation. Marx's explanation was that the value of something came from the labor that went into it. Water was easy to get, but diamonds had to be mined from the earth.
Curiously, some people still believe that theory even though there are numerous counter-examples to it. For example, it doesn't take into account time preference. If all else is the same, people value something now over something later. If I hide two packets of gold coins, and offer to sell you their location, one of which you will be told immediately, and the other of which you will be told in twenty years, you will pay more for the first than the second. How can that be, according to the labor theory of value? The same exact labor has gone into each packet.
The slashdot dude has obviously made the same mistake. There is no measure for the labor hours or the quality of those hours, that go into the production of anything. That's not how you assign a value to something. First, since value is relative, everyone assigns their own value to something. There is no such thing a single measurement of value. Second, you cannot assign a value to something by looking at what it cost you. If the value of something was always equal to its cost, nobody would ever sell anything for less than what it cost them. Third, the way you find out how much somebody values something is by looking to see what they will trade for it.
If something is not scarce, it is not an economic good, and you cannot measure its value with anything, much less money. Since it's not scarce, nobody will trade anything that is scarce for it. Doesn't matter what: time, drugs, sex. Or even money. Economics is not about money. It's about figuring out what people will trade for what. So, what would you trade to get a copy of the Linux kernel? Not the bits themselves, I mean the right to use or redistribute the Linux kernel. What would you give up to get that right?
Answer: nothing, because you already have that right. It's not scarce. Its value to you has nothing to do with its cost to you, or to the amount of labor that went into it.


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Like his father and grandfather before him, butcher Lou DeRosa lifts thick slabs of bacon from the glass case at Marconda's Meats and wraps them for a waiting customer.
Tucked away at L.A.'s landmark Farmer's Market, the little butcher stand is selling more bacon than ever — and at prices that tip the scale toward "crazy," DeRosa said. The Danish bacon rings up at $8.98 a pound for America's trendiest meat.
"Prices go up every six months, much more than your typical meat item, because everyone is buying it," said DeRosa, whose family has run the shop since 1941.
The country's love affair with bacon is coming at an increasing cost. The price of the popular cured meat has risen at more than three times the rate of inflation since 2008, the most of any meat, according to government price trackers.
Contributing to soaring bacon prices is California's three-year drought, which made feed for pigs more expensive. In addition, an unprecedented virus has killed about 7 million piglets since 2013, trimming the nation's pork supply by almost 12%, said John Green, director of marketing for the National Pork Board.
But mainly, he said, Americans' hunger for bacon is putting the sizzle in prices.
"Our supply is static since it takes nine months to make a pig," Green said. "That's troublesome since the real drive in bacon right now is consumer demand."
In June, shoppers paid $6.11 on average for a pound of sliced bacon in grocery stores, a record high, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Four years earlier, the average price was $4.05 a pound.
At a Ralph's supermarket in Brentwood, James McMenamin, 27, considered nixing his bacon purchase after double-checking the price tag.
"It seems really expensive," McMenamin said, "but I still need that bacon fix."
Despite the soaring prices, bacon sales climbed 9.5% to a record $4 billion in 2013, according to Information Resources Inc., a market research firm.
Bacon is deeply embedded in American culture and has taken on the status of comfort food, said Ari Weinzweig, author of Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon.
"There's an emotional attachment there," Weinzweig said. "It reminds us of childhood."
Americans are adding more bacon in more unorthodox places: in ice cream, sushi and sprinkled on chocolate chip cookies.
Restaurants are also weaving bacon into menus in more unusual ways to encourage a little impulse eating, Green said.
The salty meat can be found in the potato-bacon terrine at Wolfgang Puck's Beverly Hills restaurant, Spago, and in Denny's maple bacon milkshake.
Breakfast giant IHOP has amped up its bacon offerings.
Since 2010, the chain has added 23 menu items that incorporated bacon, "everything from bacon crepes to salads," said Marie Grimm, IHOP's vice president of culinary innovation.
And an industry first: a bacon-and-cheddar-cheese-infused waffle.
Grimm couldn't say how much IHOP has increased its prices because of rising pork costs because the chain's menu prices vary nationally, but she did say that the high price is an issue.
Bacon's soaring prices are putting a crunch on fast-food chains, where bacon dishes account for 30% to 50% of menu items at popular chains including Carl's Jr., Wendy's and Jack in the Box.
Drivers ordering bacon-topped burgers at drive-through windows will pay nearly $5 on average, the unofficial ceiling on fast-food burgers, according to SpenDifference, a restaurant supply chain co-op in Denver. Its recent restaurant chain survey showed that 93% of the 60 chains interviewed planned to raise prices during the second half of this year.
"We are in unprecedented times, with new markets and price levels we have never seen," said DeWayne Dove, vice president of purchasing for SpenDifference. "The service side is starting to pass along the cost of bacon."
In 2002, a Carl's Jr. bacon cheeseburger cost $1.39. By 2013, it cost $3.29 through the double whammy of beef and bacon price increases.
In addition to paying more for bacon, Dove says customers might be getting less of it.
"A lot of chains are adjusting portion sizes. What used to be three pieces of bacon now is two pieces of bacon for the same price," he said, noting that fast-food diners could soon be paying $6 for a bacon burger.
Plenty of bacon lovers are willing to pay.
Butcher Jim Cascone of Huntington Meats said price doesn't seem to matter when it comes to bacon. The Los Angeles butcher shop is selling 100 cases of bacon a week and has seen a 25% increase in consumption in three years.
"No one ever questions the price," said Cascone, who charges about $7.99 a pound for applewood smoked bacon, up from $4.99 four years ago. "One of my clients just had a bacon party. There's just something about it that romances eaters."
It certainly has that effect for Josh Goldstein, a 24-year-old personal trainer from Manhattan Beach, who says he eats half a pound of bacon every morning and wraps his Thanksgiving turkey in bacon every year. Not even price hikes would change those rituals.
"It has definitely become more expensive, and I buy so much it does add up," Goldstein said. "But bacon is my medicine. It makes everything better."


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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Nigerian Foreign Minister Henry Odein Ajumogobia in the Treaty Room at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 5, 2010. Following their bilateral meeting, Secretary Clinton and Nigerian Foreign Minister Ajumogobia held a joint press conference.
Before discussing the U.S.-Nigerian partnership, the Secretary spoke to Kenya's recent referendum for a new constitution. The Secretary said, "Yesterday we watched with great interest as Kenyans went to the polls to cast their votes on a new constitution. This was the first time that Kenyans have participated in a national poll since the violence that followed the disputed 2007 presidential election. Constitutional reform is the centerpiece of the reform agenda that Kenya has adopted for itself. It is aimed at addressing the underlying causes of violence, and I commend the people of Kenya for participating in large numbers and exercising their right to vote in a peaceful manner.
"While the final results are not in, it appears that about two-thirds of Kenyans have voted in favor of their new constitution. This is an indication that a very strong majority of Kenyans have voted for fundamental change. And we were supporters of both sides of the constitutional debate and, in fact, we urge all Kenyans to reach out to each other, to work together after this referendum to support Kenya's democratic institutions and to move the country forward into the kind of future that Kenyans themselves deserve. And they can rest assured that the United States will continue to be a friend and partner to help build that future."
The Secretary then turned her thoughts to the U.S.-Nigeria bilateral relationship. Secretary Clinton said, "Nigeria is a key strategic partner, not only in Africa but globally. It is Africa's most populous nation, its largest democracy, a significant contributor to peacekeeping efforts across the continent, a crucial partner for economic growth, trade and direct investment with the United States. About one million Nigerians live, study, and work in the United States, providing important people-to-people connections. So today I want to reaffirm how much we value our relationship with Nigeria and how much we both, I believe, can benefit from closer cooperation.
"When I visited Nigeria last year, I saw firsthand the strength and determination of the Nigerian people, their absolute commitment to achieving a stable and democratic future even amidst a lot of challenges. We were saddened by the illness and passing of their president earlier this year, but encouraged by the timely and peaceful succession of President Jonathan. The Nigerian people deserve a responsible government that rejects corruption, enforces the rule of law, respects human rights, and works on behalf of the betterment of the Nigerian people. That is the driving principle behind the U.S.-Nigerian Binational Commission. We are focusing on four critical areas: good governance and transparency, energy reform and investment, regional security and the Niger Delta, and food security and agriculture."
In closing, the Secretary said, "[W]e are making a lot of progress together, and we'll continue to work with Nigeria. Nigeria will be celebrating 50 years of independence October 1st. And we applaud the Nigerian people for all that you have accomplished during the past 50 years. We want to work with you to build on the success so that it becomes even more of a success story."
Read the Secretary's full remarks here.
Joseph A.M. in Oregon writes:
The U.S. government should improve relations with Nigeria and ease the travel restrictions, that have been placed on Nigeria unfairly on a U.S. "State Sponsored Terrorist List", due to a single incident back in December 2009. I am in favor of, and would welcome improving dialogue and a more inclusive engagement with Nigeria; a West African country, faced with many political, religious, economic and cultural challenges.
Pamela G. in West Virginia writes:
It is wonderful to have one African nation remain relatively stable for 50 years but we need the support of many more to cause a true hope for Africa's future.


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This Ecma Standard specifies the characteristics of 90 mm Optical Disk Cartridges (ODC) with a capacity of 650 Mbytes per Cartridge. The Standard specifies three related, but different implementations of such cartridges, viz.
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Provides for data to be written and read many times over the recording surface of the disk using the thermo-magnetic and magneto-optical effects.
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Provides for a part of the recording surface of the disk to be embossed by stamping or other means. This part of the disk is read without recourse to the magneto-optical effect. The part which is not embossed provides for data to meet the requirements of Type R/W.
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Provides for the recording surface of the disk to be embossed and reproduced by stamping or other means. This type of disk is read without recourse to the magneto-optical effect.
Type R/W, Type P-ROM and Type O-ROM are also referred to as "fully rewritable", "partially embossed" and "fully embossed", respectively.
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This Ecma Standard provides for interchange between optical disk drives. Together with a standard for volume and file structure, it provides for full data interchange between data processing systems.
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A community was in mourning today for a young man and woman killed in a road crash.
The victims, believed to have been a couple, died together when the car they were travelling in left a country lane at Euxton, near Leyland, careered into a ditch and hit a tree. They were named locally as former Balshaw High School student Kirsty Belsham and self-employed flooring contractor Alex Wilson, and were both understood to be in their early 20s.
The smash happened at around 11pm on Thursday on Runshaw Lane.
Police say the vehicle, a grey Fiat Punto, failed to negotiate a right-hand bend near the Plough Inn and went into the ditch. It is understood Ms Belsham, who was driving the car, and Mr Wilson, who was in the front passenger seat, both died from catastrophic head injuries.
Officers said they were pronounced dead at the scene. There were no other vehicles involved.
A police spokesman said: "We got a call just after 11pm from a passing motorist reporting a car in a ditch near the Plough public house.
"Patrols attended and found the vehicle. Sadly, the two occupants were pronounced dead at the scene.
"We are trying to establish the circumstances around this collision. We are particularly keen to speak to anyone who saw the car before the incident, or witnessed the accident."
Readers left tributes online today on Facebook. Suzanne Buttery posted: "So sad, thoughts with both families at such a sad time....RIP." Amy Hodkinson said: "RIP Alex, absolutely gutted."
The crash happened on a stretch of road which locals also say has caught out motorists in the past.
Several took to social media to condemn the bend as dangerous.
One said on Facebook: "Such a bad stretch of road, seen so many cars in that ditch, I can't even count. It's awful."
Another wrote: "That corner is slippy. I went in the ditch years ago and the police were slipping walking round that corner. The road needs sorting out."
Sgt Malcolm Bell, of Lancashire Police, said: "We are trying to establish the circumstances around this collision.
"We would be particularly keen to speak to anyone who saw the car before the incident, or witnessed the accident.
"If you were in the Euxton area and saw this vehicle, I would ask you to get in touch."
Anyone with information should contact police on 101, quoting log reference 1495 of March 24.


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Brussels Airlines is the flag carrier of Belgium and part of the Lufthansa Group. It is the largest Belgian airline, operating to more than 50 destinations in nearly 20 European countries and 19 destinations in Africa as well as 2 destinations in the United States. Ink produces two magazines for the airline, and also produces and sells advertising on other media such as boarding passes. It is one of the most targeted and effective ways to reach the Belgian market.
b.spirit, a bi-monthly magazine, is the airline's long-haul inflight magazine, which covers the sub-Saharan African network, two destinations in the United States - New York and Washington DC - and selected destinations in Europe. b.spirit serves as an essential media conduit between western Europe, Africa and the United States with sharp business coverage, fine leisure features, well-informed cultural commentary, illustrations and photography. b.spirit, which is published in English, French and Dutch, also informs passengers of the inflight entertainment highlights and publishes city guides to all long-haul destinations.
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Model Chrissy Teigen and her musician beau, John Legend, reportedly were married Saturday at Lake Como in Italy, accompanied by about 125 friends and family.
Teigen, 27, and Legend, 34, wrote their own vows and saw names including Kanye West, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder and Brooklyn Decker on their guest list, according to a People source. After dinner, Legend played "All of Me," a song he wrote for his bride.
"Everyone was in tears. It was so beautiful," the source told the mag.
Wonder also performed with Legend, Us Weekly reported. Decker, Teigen's fellow Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition buddy, served as a bridesmaid.
The bride wore Vera Wang -- actually, three gowns by Vera Wang, Us said -- ivory for the wedding and for the reception, then crimson for the after-party.
A source told the Daily Mail that the couple chose the picturesque location for their wedding because "that's where they fell in love."
The couple, who got engaged in 2011 after dating for about four years, recently made headlines for a photo on Twitter that teased to the "All of Me" video and showed Legend and Teigen apparently naked in bed, covered by a white sheet that didn't quite cover all of Teigen's toplessness.
Or, you know, not so much. They are married now, after all.
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