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Oh and fantastic playing the piano as well!! You can tell!! You are that good!!! Wow!! Love love love this!!!! Keep doing it!! Wish I could play..... anything!!
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Back for another listen!! I really like this!!! You did such a great job with this!! I don't know why you didn't make it! I would buy a cd!! Got any? Great job!!!!!!!!
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Wow that was great!!! You got my vote.
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This my favorite song! Great job, you sang it beautifully
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Great voice, from the heart! Great job!!!!!
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this is th ebest voice i have heard yet byfar in this contest. wonderful range. full of soul. did great justice to this song.
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Very nice voice!! Great song too!! :) Good luck in the contest!
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This is a very talented young man. I feel he could really go far if given a chance.


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As the semester is quickly coming to a close, we finish our papers and prepare for final exams with the anticipation of Christmas right around the corner.
When Christmas is mentioned, the first things that come to the minds of many are the decorations, the gifts and a two-week vacation. I have discovered that although Christmas is supposed to be about celebrating the birth of Christ, we usually manage to make it all about us.
Once December rolls around, many of us hear the question, �What do you want for Christmas?� from our friends and family. So, we come up with a list of perishable items that will satisfy us for the time being and spend the weeks prior to Christmas day buying gifts for others.
Much time, effort and money go into making others and ourselves happy at Christmas. Because of this, we neglect to focus on what truly matters: Jesus. This year, instead of making Christmas a self-centered affair, ask what does Jesus want for Christmas?
According to a blog written by John Piper, pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jesus tells God what he wants in his longest prayer in John 17. The climax of his desire is found in verse 24. �Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am.�
�What Jesus wants most for Christmas is that his elect be gathered in and then get what they want most � to see his glory and then savor it with the very savoring of the Father for the Son,� said Piper
Jesus� desire is for his elect to be with him where he is and to see his glory. We were made to see and savor his glory. According to Piper we are to see his glory but also savor it, relish it, delight in it, treasure it and love it. John 17:26 says, �I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.�
So, rather than self-pleasing this Christmas, see Christ in all his fullness so love may reach far beyond half-hearted human capacities.
Piper said this is what Jesus prays for us this Christmas: "Father, show them my glory and give them the very delight in me that you have in me."
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Snowflake (gorilla)
Snowflake (Catalan: Floquet de Neu, Spanish: Copito de Nieve; c. 1964 – November 24, 2003) was an albino gorilla. He is the only known white gorilla so far, and was the most popular resident of the Barcelona Zoo in Spain.
Originally named Nfumu Ngui in Fang language ("white gorilla") by his captor, he was then nicknamed Floquet de Neu (Catalan for little snowflake) by his keeper Jordi Sabater Pi.[1] On his arrival to Barcelona where he was given an official reception by the then Mayor of Barcelona, Josep Maria de Porcioles, in November 1966, he was called Blancanieves ("Snow White") in the newspaper Tele/Exprés.[2] But he became famous with the name given to him by Sabater when National Geographic Magazine featured him on the main page in March 1967, with the English name Snowflake. This name spread among the press (Stern, Life, Paris-Match). Sabater himself called the gorilla Copi or Floquet, and in the later years Nfumu. The asteroid 95962 Copito, discovered by Spanish astronomer J. Manteca, is named in his honour.[3]
The official story is that an ape specialist, Jordi Sabater Pi, found the animal in 1966 in Ikunde, in the Spanish colony of Spanish Guinea, modern-day Equatorial Guinea. The only albino gorilla known to man, he was captured outside Nko, in the Equatorial forest of Nko, near Rio Campo, in the Rio Muni region, on October 1, 1966, by Benito Mañé, an ethnic Fang farmer, who had killed the rest of his group (all charcoal black in color) in order to obtain this unusual albino specimen. During the massacre, his mother was shot by Mañé whilst she tore a banana stem apart in his banana plantation. The small creature was found clinging to his mother's neck, his head buried deep in her black fur. Benito kept him at his own home for four days and then transported him to Bata, where he was purchased by Sabater Pi, who worked for the Barcelona Zoo's Ikunde Center, in Spanish Guinea, and paid 10,500 pesetas for the gorilla. A National Geographic-funded study of gorillas in the region was underway at the time of Snowflake's discovery.
Snowflake was a Western Lowland Gorilla. He spent most of his life at the Barcelona Zoo in the Parque de la Ciudadela. He was known worldwide, mentioned in tourist guides and put on postcards, becoming the unofficial mascot for the city. Barcelona Zoo director Antonio Jonch in wrote in 1967:
"The gorilla was a male about two years of age. Morphologically it was normal except that it was white, skin and hair being completely devoid of pigmentation. The eye had a blueish sclera, a normal cornea, and a light blue iris which was very transparent to transillumination. Accommodation and refraction were normal. The media were transparent and the fundus of the eye normal and totally depigmented. The choroidal vessels were perfectly visible and the pupil was normal. The animal displayed marked photophobia which caused it to close its eyes repeatedly when exposed to bright light. In diffuse light similar to that in its biotope, we calculated that it blinked on an average of 20 times a minute."[4]
During his life at the zoo, he fathered 22 offspring (of whom six survived to adulthood) with three females and lived to see his grandchildren. None of his offspring were albino. His last son, Urko, died in August 2003. At first, the Barcelona Zoo was not aware just how unique of a specimen Snowflake was. They sent a message to Sabater Pi saying, "Please send more white gorillas." The zoo later hoped to produce an entire family group of white gorillas through selective breeding.
At the time of death he was thought to be between 38 and 40 years old; the average lifespan of a gorilla in the wild is 25. Since 2001, he had suffered from an unusual form of skin cancer, almost certainly related to his albinism condition, known as oculocutaneous albinism type 1 or OCA1. In September 2003, it was publicly announced that he was dying.[5] Thousands visited the zoo to say goodbye before he was euthanized in November 2003.
A scholarship for research on primatology was created in memory of and homage to the albino gorilla. Snowflake's fame also helped to promote awareness of the endangered gorilla species. "If we do nothing there will be no more gorillas in 30 years," Sabater Pi said at the presentation of his book.
The gorilla became a main character in the novel Memòries d'en Floquet de Neu ("Snowflake's Memories") by Catalan writer Toni Sala. Sabater Pi also dedicated a book to the gorilla, under the title Copito para Siempre ("Snowflake Forever"). He also makes a brief appearance in Italo Calvino's novel Mr. Palomar. Nature on PBS devoted an episode to him. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins wrote of Snowflake in his poem, "Searching," published in his 2008 collection, Ballistics. [6]
Snowflake appears on the front cover of dance music act Basement Jaxx's album Rooty.[7]
While playing at FC Barcelona, Dutch football player Ronald Koeman was nicknamed Copito de Nieve because of his blond hair.
Snowflake appeared on The Triplets (Les Tres Bessones) episode "The Triplets meet King Kong" as a guest of honor for the appearance of King Kong in Barcelona's Olympic Stadium.
In 2011, there was a CGI film called Snowflake, the White Gorilla that depicts the fictional life of Snowflake (voiced by Ariana Grande).
In 2013, it was revealed that Snowflake was an albino gorilla due to inbreeding.[8]
- ^ Sabater's pictures, at the Sabater Pi Collection at the Universitat de Barcelona
- ^ anuaris.cat
- ^ "Asteroide Copito de Nieve"
- ^ Duplaix-Hall, Nicole; Antonio Jonch (1967). "The White Gorilla (Gorilla g. gorilla) At Barcelona Zoo". International Zoo Yearbook. Vol. XIII. London: Zoological Society of London. p. 196. OCLC 604039131.
- ^ Staff writers (22 September 2003). "Albino gorilla dying of skin cancer". BBC News. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
- ^ http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/04/poetry-billy-collins-searching/38447
- ^ "The world's only albino gorilla was the result of INCEST - and his lack of colour meant he died from skin cancer, claim scientists". 19 June 2013. Daily Mail. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
- ^ http://on.aol.com/video/snowflake-the-albino-gorilla-got-white-fur-due-to-inbreeding-517822739?hp=1&playlist=127155&ncid=webmail6
Further reading[edit]
- Riopelle, A.J., "Snowflake the world's first white gorilla", National Geographic 131:442-8, March 1967
- "Unique in all gorilladom: Roman Luera Carbo's Snowflake", Life 62:69-70, March 31, 1967
- Riopelle, A.J., "Growing up with Snowflake", National Geographic 138:490-503, October 1970
- Jonch, Antonio, "The White Gorilla (Gorilla g. gorilla) At Barcelona Zoo", International Zoo Yearbook Vol. XIII, 1967, pg. 196
- Schmeck, Harold M. Jr., "First Known White Gorilla Is Found", The New York Times F. 23 pgs. 1:5 & 41:2
- "Rare albino gorilla dies", The Montreal Gazette, November 25, 2003, pg. A.21
- T. Rhodes, "Story Of My Life", CH 7 pg. 154


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In the U.S., black men who have sex with men (MSM) are less likely to be on antiretroviral treatment and less likely to be virally suppressed than white MSM, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study presented earlier this week at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C.
Although African Americans make up only 11% of the U.S. male population, they account for 37% of new HIV infections among MSM. The study, presented by Linda Beer, Ph.D., set out to determine whether behavioral or clinical differences contributed to this racial disparity.
The researchers analyzed data between June 2009 and May 2010 from the Medical Monitoring Project, a surveillance project designed to learn more about the experiences and needs of people who are receiving care for HIV. Their study population included 691 white MSM and 313 black MSM, all in HIV care.
In terms of durable viral suppression (i.e., all viral load measurements in the past year were less than 400 copies/mL), only 51% of black MSM met this criterion compared to 73% of white MSM. Since lower viral load decreases the likelihood of HIV transmission, lower rates of viral suppression among black MSM may contribute to higher HIV incidence among this group.
In terms of sexual behaviors, the researchers did not find any significant difference between black and white MSM when it came to unprotected anal sex with an HIV-uninfected partner or partner of unknown status. But they did note that white MSM were 9% more likely to report having more than four sexual partners in the past year.
Beer noted that the study population was limited to those in care, and suggested that the racial disparities in the entire HIV-infected MSM community are likely higher, since studies have shown African Americans are less likely to be linked to and retained in care.
"Our measure was whether or not they had continuous health coverage over the entire previous 12 months," Beer said. "We did find higher prevalence of not having continuous health care coverage among black MSM compared to white MSM, which hopefully the ACA [Affordable Care Act ] will be able to address."
The researchers are beginning to explore how adherence and choice of HIV regimen contribute to the differences in viral suppression.
A similar study finding higher HIV rates in young African-American MSM was also presented at the conference.
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Dan Barber shares some elegant stories about food production and ecosystem services. In these two talks he highlights the importance of food production that is sustainable and emphasizes a chef's desire for the highest quality food anywhere.
The debate that I am proposing does not disregard the importance of high quality food; rather it is to identify the importance of increasing the quantity of all foods.
Several studies have identified that food processing, government policy, transportation, and food waste are all factors that increase hunger and decrease the availability of food throughout the planet. Some would even argue that increasing food production is unnecessary if we could just better distribute the food we are already capable of producing.
The ecosystem is a complex entity, many of the services provided by organic and sustainable farm practices are not capable of 'scaling-up' to produce enough food for the growing world population. As it is now, 1 billion people are either malnourished or undernourished and the number is increasing every day. These people are not interested in foie gras, they are interested getting just one more calorie to satisfy their hunger. Sure food quality is important, but how much does that foie gras cost? It may be as much as an entire month's salary for some of the poor people on our planet.
Perhaps the agricultural industry of today is not perfect, but at least its target is feeding billions of hungry people (not a few rich people). Without the efforts of the agricultural industry, billions more people would go hungry every day.
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cinematicbrix (08/30/2013) [-]
Good joke, but it still really doesn't explain how there was only 1 customer that day.
#36 to #33
2scared2login (08/30/2013) [-]
See, the whole day thing makes sense. After all, it fits with the facts. For one thing, it takes awhile to get all that done, regardless of whether you have to convince someone to do it or help them do it or just make the decision as to what you will buy. Further, he admitted he had to leave the store to sell multiple of the items. Now your stupid ********** that there was only one customer is much easier to work around. There are almost no facts supporting your ********** . He worked with one customer. But he was also away from the desk for much of the day. So any number of them could have come in and not talked to him about buying something. And if you only average 20-30 people in a day, in just about any store that isn't in the middle of no where (which an all in one store is not likely to be) then there has to be more people working. We have three gas stations in a town with a population of 1,000 people. Every one of them gets more customers in an hour than that.


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Background Simultaneous DSC/SWAXSDesign and Setup of the S3-MICROcaliXMeasurements and ResultsSummary
Scanning calorimetry (DSC) has been combined with small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and was incorporated into the laboratory S3-Micro SWAX-camera system. It is based a on a brilliant, point-focussing laboratory X-ray microsource/optics and equipped with a fast and reliable 1D dual-detector system for simultaneous SAXS and WAXS measurements.
Simultaneous DSC/SWAXS provides real-time information on the nanostructural events during enthalpic transitions, a topic essential e.g. in food-, drug- and pharma-analytics. In the following application note we present the results of DSC/SWAX measurements of anhydrous milk fat (AMF - 20 mg) performed with the S3-MICROcaliX in a cooling- (80° to -8°C) and subsequent heating- scan from (-8°C to 50°C).
S3-MICROcaliX in the laboratory: The microcalorimeter sample-stage is integrated into the SWAXS-camera (S3-MICRO) which is equipped with two independent linear 1D-PSD detectors for simultaneous SAXS and WAXS measurements, respectively. Dimensions approximately: 80 x 15 x 40 cm.
Figure 1. The MICROcaliX system from Hecus.
Detail of the microcalorimeter sample stage: Capacity: 20 ìl in 1.5 mm quartz-capillaries. Max. heating-rate: 5°C/min. Max. temperature-range: -30 to 200°C. Dimensions of the block: 4.5 x 6.5 x 22 cm.
DSC/SWAXS scan of AMF: Starting at 80°C (where the sample was equilibrated for 10 min in order to erase any crystal memory) the sample was first cooled down to -8°C with a scan rate of -3°C/min. After equilibration for 20 min at this temperature the sample was heated up to 50°C with a scan-rate of 2°C/min. Exposure time for SWAXS-spectra was 15 s per frame (4 frames/min) throughout the entire scan.
The corresponding signal of the microcalorimter (blue) is displayed in the middle between the SAXS and WAXS-plots and shows various endo- and exo-thermic transitions at temperatures indicated in the plot (the sample-temperature during the scan and equilibration is given in red). The respective d-values of the Bragg-peaks originating from the lattice structure of the sample are also indicated in the SAXS and WAXS patterns.
As it can be seen from the DSC-signal and SWAXS-curves, the crystallization and melting transitions are not "symmetric", i.e. during melting the structure undergoes an additional transition not present in the crystallization process.
Authors - M.Kriechbaum, P.Herrnegger, S.Bodner and P.Laggner Source - Hecus
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4 nights | November - MarchThe holiday focuses on Iceland's intriguing volcanic landscape and includes the chance to visit the area affected by the Eyjafjallajokull in 2010 on a thrilling 8WD ice truck excursion as well as other scenic highlights and the chance to view the northern lights. from £695find out more »
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3 nights | June - AugustThis short itinerary has been designed to provide a taste of this magnificent island. Accommodation for the entire stay is at the well appointed and comfortable Hotel Glymur, in an ideal setting on the 'whale' fjord just north of the capital. Sample the volcanoes, water... from £765find out more »
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Doctors at Holy Spirit Hospital Perform United States' First Non-Trial TAVR Procedure using the SAPIEN device
Rajesh Dave, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Chief Medical Executive, Holy Spirit Cardiovascular Institute, and Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at The Ortenzio Heart Center at Holy Spirit, and Vincent Park, MD, Cardiovascular Surgical Institute, together successfully performed the United States' first (non-trial, commercial use) transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) using the Edwards Lifesciences' SAPIEN device at Holy Spirit Hospital. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Edwards SAPIEN Transcatheter Heart Valve Model 9000TFX and accessories for commercial use on November 2, 2011.
The TAVR procedure allows doctors to implant an artificial heart valve as they would a coronary stent without opening the chest or using heart and lung bypass machines. This procedure is especially beneficial to patients who are too sick to undergo conventional open heart surgery. "With TAVR we can now significantly improve life expectancy and quality of life for patients who have very limited treatment options," says Dr. Dave. "When patients are treated with medical therapy alone, because they cannot have surgery or are at a high risk for open heart surgery, we've seen very poor outcomes—in recent trials and clinical practice. "TAVR represents one of the greatest advances in treating cardiovascular disease."
Dr. Park, a cardiovascular surgeon, makes a small incision into the patient's groin, allowing access into the artery for Dr. Dave to implant the SAPIEN device using a balloon catheter.
Two TAVR procedures were performed on Monday, December 12, and one was performed today. The first patient, a 93-year-old male, was discharged today, two days after undergoing this procedure.
Capital Cardiovascular Associates has offices on the East and West Shores, including 5 Capital Drive, Harrisburg, and 101 Erford Road, Camp Hill. The phone number is 724-6450. Cardiovascular Surgical Institute is located a 423 North 21st Street, Camp Hill. Both practices are services of Holy Spirit Health System.


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The Miss
Johan Bruyneel's personal website states he is the "most victorious sports director." It doesn't distinguish which sport.
As marketing claims go, this is one that is tough, if not outright impossible, to refute. The man has guided four different riders to an incredible 13 Grand Tour victories—each of the Grand Tours with two riders. Since he retired from racing and became a sports director he has only missed a Grand Tour victory in one year: 2006. You'd have to add the resumes of Jose Miguel Echavarri and Cyrile Guimard to even come close to his achievement. Bruyneel is nothing if not a king maker.
As to those other sports, Don Shula is considered the greatest NFL coach of all time and his Super Bowl record is 2-4. Chuck Noll is 4-0 and he's only considered fifth best. Phil Jackson's 10 NBA Championships is a record in that sport. It has taken the New York Yankees several owners and 77 years to amass its 26 World Series titles. And based on my limited research, no FIFA coach comes close to these records.
So one can reasonably make the argument that Bruyneel is the best coach in professional sports.
Does a sport director have an obligation to achieve more at a Grand Tour than win the overall classification? Of course, the answer is yes. There are stage wins, classification jerseys and, yes, overall classification places at stake.
What makes the '86 La Vie Claire team memorable? First, second, fourth and seventh on GC. In addition to Greg LeMond's yellow jersey, Bernard Hinault took the polka dot jersey, Andy Hampsten won the white jersey for the best young rider, the team took the team classification and Hinault took the combativity award. And then there were the six stage wins: one each for LeMond, Nikki Ruttimann and Jean-Francois Bernard and three for Hinault.
Astana may have gone into the 2009 Tour de France as the most talent-rich team ever assembled, but this was one supergroup that flamed out before the album was finished. Astana had five riders who had previously finished in the top five on GC; ultimately the team placed two riders in the top five. The team's only two stage wins came at the legs of Alberto Contador.
So how is it that a team with so much promise couldn't deliver more? There are several reasons. First, the course worked against them. Because Bruyneel places such emphasis on achieving the overall win, individual exploits that gain team members stage wins (such as George Hincapie's stage win at Pla d'Adet in 2005) were reined in due to the lack of mountaintop finishes. Overall, the team conserved its efforts in order to be prepared to defend the yellow jersey.
Next, the competition was good, really good. Armstrong stated that he was better than 2003; we have no reason to disbelieve him. The Andy Schleck was a little better on the climbs, Wiggins was better on the TT and Contador was better, well, everywhere. It's tough to win stages if the field isn't constantly on the defensive. In '86, LVC had the competition almost invariably on the defensive.
Finally, Armstrong played the role of teammate as it should be played. While some may see him making the stage 3 split as an offensive move, it was really a defensive move—he didn't instigate the move but made sure not to lose time. Hinault showed what it looks like to have a teammate attack the yellow jersey on stage 19, the day after the finish atop l'Alpe d'Huez when the team's leadership was supposed to have been decided. Andy Hampsten said it was one and only time he ever chased a teammate.
The difference between La Vie Claire and Astana is one of inversion. On La Vie Claire, the rider who freelanced was the lesser rider, Hinault. On Astana, it was Contador who went off the playbook. However, the lack of stage wins or other distinctions really can't be blamed on that, it's the fact that Armstrong simply didn't attack Contador on the mountain stages.
The greatest failing of Astana in 2009 was Alberto Contador's attack on stage 17 on le Grand Bornand. Without that attack the Schlecks would not have moved from fifth and eighth on GC to second and third; it is the single biggest reason Andy Schleck finished on the podium.
Attacking and undermining a teammate's GC position—two teammates' positions, in fact—isn't an unwritten rule, it's written. Don't take my word for it. Andy Hampsten said, "A racer in 2nd can't work with an opponent in 3rd to move them both ahead one place." While the situations aren't exactly the same, Hampsten was referring to the reason why LeMond wasn't permitted to work with Stephen Roche in a breakaway in the '85 Tour.
I know there are riders out there who think Contador's attack was justified, but it hurt the team by moving Armstrong down a spot on the GC at the finish in Paris and ensured that Andreas Kloden had no shot at the podium. A sweep of the podium spots (even though it was unlikely Kloden would have overcome Bradley Wiggins) would have been an historic distinction in the modern era for Bruyneel. It would have been a fresh feather for the sport's best director.
So what went wrong for Bruyneel? In short, Contador. Contador exposed his naiveté to team goals following the 2008 Vuelta by saying after the finish of the race, "I will only say that it's not normal that someone that is supposed to be working for you finishes less than one minute back in the GC."
Contador was insecure. Why? Team leadership is earned; it's not an elected office, and had Leipheimer leapfrogged him in GC on the climb up Navacerrada, what would he have had to be upset about? Any team's first goal should always be to win the race. For some reason, Bruyneel's goals for the team weren't Contador's goals.
Bruyneel's job was to reassure Contador that he was the strongest Grand Tour rider in the world. Despite more than adequate evidence to back this up, he didn't succeed. When Armstrong came out of retirement, the problem only got worse. Put yourself in Bruyneel's shoes. What would you have said to Contador?
I would have told him, "Relax, let Lance play his games and play his hand. It'll be good for us. It will confuse the competition in the early days of the race. Rest assured, you're the strongest rider on the team and you'll have everyone's full support. And once Lance knows you're stronger, he'll have your back." Had Lance proven to be stronger, Contador's freelancing couldn't have done much to hurt the team. At that point Bruyneel would have been free to say, "I'm sorry Alberto, but my first duty is to win this race and you're simply not strong enough."
It's hard to imagine Bruyneel would have said anything different. But whatever he said, it didn't work. That's the stunner. Many sports writers would spin this as Bruyneel's great failure. I've met the man and couldn't say that to his face, so I won't say it here. Besides, I just don't see it that way. It's a miss, something that didn't go to plan. I'm sure it is a frustration that has him stymied. Imagine playing a game of chess and not being certain where your queen would move next. It might check the king, but leave a rook open at the same time. Thanks bro.
Contador's actions will give some of the smarter team directors pause. Even if Tralfamadoreans carried the Schlecks off to mate with Montana Wildhack, I don't think Riis would hire Contador next year. Will Vaughters still want him if he believes he won't take direction? Rest assured, he won't have any trouble finding other employment. There are plenty of teams that want him and three or four that could potentially pay him what he's worth.
The problem is that even if he didn't need help this year, he'll need help next year against Saxo Bank, Radio Shack and Garmin—if they don't sign him. And thanks to that parting shot about not respecting Armstrong (You may not like him, but what sort of rider wouldn't respect his accomplishments?), we can all rest assured that even if Radio Shack can't beat him, they will send nine men to ride against him.
What might make the 2010 Tour de France most memorable is if the sport's greatest director can defeat the sport's greatest Grand Tour rider … with a lesser rider.
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A Week in the Life, Part III
Perhaps the luckiest rider on the entire U.S. Postal Service Team was Kenny Labbe. Having given up full-time racing 12 years ago after a promising junior career, Labbe took a job with the Postal Service as a letter carrier. Each day after doing his route in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, Kenny trained for the local racing scene. When The Postal Service began to sponsor a team in 1995, Labbe thought it a great coincidence that his employer was involved with pro cycling, and felt this would be his only shot at his proverbial fifteen minutes of fame.
"He e-mailed me every day for about two years," team director Bruyneel explained. "Kenny kept me up to date on all the races he rode in the American mid-west. He told me how he trained and what an honor it would be to just be at a training camp with the team." Bruyneel shook his head in disbelief. " He was willing to take vacation time and even pay his own way to the camp in Santa Barbara last year."
When the First Union Grand Prix series rolled around last spring, Labbe was called on by the team to help out with some of the chores of professional racing. "I'm a big boy," Labbe crows, "If I can do one thing to help the team, it's to offer a big draft for some of the guys. I'll give up a wheel, or shag bottles all day if I have too. This is just a dream come true for me."
There is a fine line between dreams and nightmares. On the hilliest day of camp, the team crisscrossed some of the highest mountains in southern Spain. Being built like a linebacker can help the team out in an American criterium, but on a day such as this, it was all about suffering for Labbe. All of the other riders' remarks at the dinner table about his size and how much he eats must have been ringing in his ears as he labored over category one climbs used in past years of the Vuelta a Espana. At times taking turns with Bill hanging onto the team car, Labbe decided over one summit it was time to lead the team down the mountain.
Unfortunately, just as he sprinted past the group, fresh from hanging onto the car, the road pointed back up towards the winter sky. Hincapie jumped as Kenny went by and got the good draft. As gravity took its toll, Kenny slowed while the team raced past him. All the riders swept around him at a speed so fast, he was unable to get back into the draft of the pace line. When he looked over his shoulder for the team car, he found Dirk DeMol had swung the car into the opposite lane, forcing Labbe to dig within and fight to get back up to the group. He chased for quite sometime down the treacherous descent and along the valley floor.
After that same descent, Bill admitted that he was done. "We were going about 60 mph for the longest time," he said wide-eyed. "Then we'd hit the brakes HARD going into the turns. I kept looking over the edge of the cliff and thought, 'this isn't even racing; this is just fun for these guys!'" He shook his head in disbelief of how casually the team put their lives on the line every day. "They all rode the same line down the mountains, all 21 of them in a single line. At the back there's a lot less thinking of how to take the turns, but geez, I thought about my wife … and my baby … and my job; it was crazy. I ache from going down just as much as going up the mountains!"
As I suspected, the week went by faster than I thought. Bill and I were packing for our early morning departure home when Dylan walked into our room. He was dressed in his team-issue athletic pants, sandals and a soccer-style jersey with the Postal Service logo. His floppy Air Jordan hat covered his entire head, and he could barely see in front of him as he talked on his cell phone to his girlfriend back home.
For a second I flashed back to the days Dylan and I drove across the country as amateurs, sleeping in dive motels when we could afford to and in the back of his car most of the time. He smiled at me then nodded in amazement, " Who would have thought we'd be here in Spain riding our bikes?"
"Who would have thought," I answered back, equally amazed.
A Week in the Life, Part II
Heading towards the first small hill of our first day, I was talking with new team member Tony Cruz. As we caught up on each other's lives since racing against each other as juniors, I had to excuse myself for not answering his questions. I apologized, in a ragged voice, that after reaching the top of the hill I would resume our conversation. He played down the fact that while I was suffering, the team was climbing at a casual 20 mph! A hole in the pace line opened and he excused himself as he closed the gap. This left Bill and me to wallow in lactic acid as we shook our heads at how calmly these guys flew over the undulating Spanish countryside.
The big news for the Postal Service this year is the signing of Roberto Heras to the team. He was 2001's mountain revelation in the Tour de France and winner of the Vuelta a Espana, Heras brought much needed strength to help Lance in the mountains of the Tour that year.
The magnitude of Heras' signing did not hit me until we were rolling through a town early on during a training ride. The whole team went under a pedestrian overpass just as about 100 children crossed the bridge. Dressed in school uniforms and matching backpacks, the children went wild as they stopped in their tracks to watch us pass beneath them. Screaming and yelling out, "Andale-Roberto Heras, Lance Armstrong, Arriba, Arriba!" Bill and I looked at each other dumbfounded by the children's enthusiasm as the team didn't miss a beat tearing through traffic and into a large roundabout in downtown Carpe at a mellow 25 mph.
Bill and I were absolutely wasted after only three days of riding with the team. We awoke to aching, dead-tired muscles on the fourth day of camp. Lying motionless, staring at the ceiling, waiting for the other to attempt getting out of bed, Bill broke the silence, "Isn't it amazing how much more fit these guys are? They are on a whole 'nother planet. Did you see how Cedric and Benoit just coasted through those little towns, looking sideways at each other and chatting as if we were standing still? If people tried that on the club rides or even in the Cat. II races, bodies would be everywhere!" I nodded my head then winced; even my neck was sore from being in the drops for so long the previous day.
"And going up the hills," Bill went on, "Heras and Rubiera just kept talking and cruising along like it was no big deal. Did you see that? I think that was right before you got dropped."
I remembered the moment vividly. I cracked and slowed down before grabbing onto the team car. Dirk DeMol was driving and leaned over the passenger seat, to say to me, "We were wondering who would come off first? Your friend, he looks like a sprinter, but you … you surprised us. We thought you would be the climber!" As my lungs failed to adequately get oxygen to my muscles, or brain for that matter, I had no response. My 5'-8" frame and 150 lb. body seemed fit for a part time racer, but riding alongside the best pro cyclists in the world, I looked and felt like a chunk.
Over the top of one particular mountain, Bill had been gripping the car's door and chatting with Alan the head mechanic when George Hincapie slipped back to grab some food and full bottles. Wanting to stay out of the way and feeling revived from the respite of the car, Bill let go and rode in the car's draft.
As Hincapie came alongside the car, we were heading into the descent and the team was riding at around 30mph through some tight turns. He, in a word, was smooth. Every move I saw this guy make over the course of a week was like water. He flowed. From waiting for the elevator after dinner, to hopping off his bike at the end of a seven-hour ride, Hincapie was as graceful as Gene Kelly.
So the car heads into the first turn, a pretty tight one, and Hincapie has his left arm in the window and his right hand on the brake hood. He's not gripping the hood, just resting his hand on it. He grabs some bottles but is not yet finished when he's interrupted by the winding road. Staying glued to the car—and without a single unnecessary movement—he slides right through the tight right bend at about a sixty-degree angle, all the while his elbow still rests in the doorframe. Then he puts some food wrapped in foil into his jersey pocket, stands up out of the saddle, and bridges the gap from the car, not just to the back of the group, but all the way to the front, so as to lead the charge down the mountain.
"It's hard enough just hanging onto the car going straight, much less a stunt like that," Steve Swartzendruber, the Trek representative to the team, pointed out at dinner after Bill told us the story.
A Week in the Life
Written by James Newman
Illustrations by Bill Cass
Two working stiffs get the chance to live the life of pros during a 2002 U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team training camp in Altea, Spain.
It is always a shock for me to see how little pro bike racers are in real life. Almost horse jockeys, they're tiny. Even George Hincapie, at over six feet, is rail thin and maybe weighs a buck and a half. While watching the team file out one by one for a morning ride, I couldn't help but recite their names and accomplishments in my head. "Cedric Vasseur—solo stage winner and yellow jersey owner for a few days in the '97 Tour; Viatcheslav Ekimov—Olympic Time Trial gold medalist; Jamie Burrow—World Cup under 23 Champion …" and on and on. But when Lance walked out from the hotel's back lobby, last of the team's 21 riders, he seemed huge. Not thick, or excessively muscular, just simply larger than life. I was beside myself. It didn't seem real that I was going to ride with the whole U.S. Postal Service team for a week.
Just two weeks prior, my old racing buddy, Dylan Casey, who was in his third year as a pro with the First Division American team, asked me to come down from Portland to the Bay Area for a visit right after the new year. Knowing that riding with him alone would mean certain suffering for me, I enlisted another close friend, Bill Cass, into the scheme. After all, misery does love company.
"I can get out of the office for a week at the end of January," Bill told me on our first Saturday club ride after the New Year.
"That's no good, Dylan will be at training camp with the team in Spain at the end of the month," I said. We rode on our fender-clad bikes in silence for a few minutes as the nearly freezing rain numbed our bodies even through multiple layers of high-tech fabrics.
Bill broke the silence, "Hell, let's go to Spain!"
Bill is probably best known to you through the illustrations that used to grace the pages of Bicycle Guide and bicyclist; he keeps himself busy with a day job as a footwear designer for Nike and creates the Ride for the Roses poster used by the Lance Armstrong Foundation. He and Lance stay in close contact; Bill developed the cycling shoes that the Tour de France champion has worn since his comeback from cancer. With the help of Dylan and Lance putting in the good word for us with team director Johan Bruyneel, Bill and I were given the green light. We boarded our plane after a minimum of planning, last minute training and, of course, talking our wives into our foolhardy plan.
I could clearly see that Lance Armstrong wass a leader and motivator. When the team is out training, Lance was in charge. Even from the back of the bunch where he spent the first half hour or so each day chatting with Bill or me, he called the shots. If someone didn't point out a pothole, or stood up while pedaling and inadvertently shoved his bike backwards into the front wheel of the rider behind, Lance let him know. "Who owns that," he asked as someone swerved while Lance hit the hole in the road. "Hey, take it with you," he yelled as another of the riders stood up to pedal and Lance had to lean his front wheel into the other rider's rear wheel to keep from crashing.
After those first few minutes each day with Armstrong, we never saw him again for the rest of the ride. Well, actually we could at times see him. If the road turned and we could make out the head of the group, there he was. Lance would stay on the front for nearly the entire ride. No matter how long the ride was, there he was—at the front, leading his team. Headwind, tailwind, uphill and down, Lance set the pace and rode like a motorcycle. He lead some of the smoothest, fastest five hour rides of my life.
That year the team had three camps instead of the usual two. The first camp was in Texas just before Christmas. A second camp in Tucson, Arizona was more business related and gave the press a chance to get interviews and photos of the team. The Spanish camp was designed solely for training the team of the reigning Tour de France champion. The swanky Hotel Metia Hills, which the Postal Service would be calling home for the next week, was, unfortunately, in a poor geographical location for cycling. The hotel and surrounding resort community sit atop a steep, mile-long climb. This simple "driveway" served to bring already broken men (Bill and me) to a state of groveling at the end of each day's training ride.
End Part I
Hushovd Sees Green
Mark Cavendish is as entertaining a sprinter as we've had since Mario Cipollini retired from the sport. As small as a Cooper S and just as fast, he's as interesting on the road as off. Unafraid to talk a little smack before a stage, you can be certain he'll back it up with an acceleration befitting a top-fuel dragster.
Just one problem, his mouth cost him the green jersey. No matter what you thought of the bunch sprint on stage 14 (it seemed no worse to me than many I've seen), Thor Hushovd thought Columbia-HTC's Cavendish interfered with his progress and filed a protest. The race judges agreed and relegated Cavendish to the back of the group.
Had the result stood, Cavendish would have gained 13 points in the green jersey competition and Hushovd would have picked up 12. Instead, Cavendish got no points and Hushovd picked up 13.
Afterward, Cavendish said that if Hushovd were to win the green jersey of the points competition when the race finishes in Paris, it would be because of the relegation, suggesting that Hushovd might not be a worthy victor. Hushovd answered him on stage 17 by entering an early breakaway and taking the 12 points available in the first two intermediate sprints.
It was a gutsy move. It was real racing, apart from the larger considerations of the yellow jersey and even the inevitability of the stage victory by a climber. Even if Cavendish hadn't been relegated, Hushovd would have increased his lead in the Green Jersey competition from 4 points to 16.
Had the relegation not occurred, and Cavendish kept his mouth shut, he would have gone into the final stage of the Tour just 4 points down on Hushovd. A victory on his part would have given him the Green Jersey for keeps. Without the stage victory, Hushovd would only need to finish a place behind him to keep the jersey,
But because Cavendish suggested that Hushovd could only win the jersey with the points gained due to the relegation, Hushovd got mad and, as the proverbial "they" say, he went on a tear. With the 12 points he gained during his breakaway he was 25 points ahead of Cavendish going into the final stage. The only way he could win the final Points Classification was if he won the stage and Hushovd finished in 15th place or lower. Oops.
History will show Hushovd won the Green Jersey by 10 points, two fewer than he gained on his breakaway on stage 17. Without those 12 points, Cavendish would have taken the Green Jersey off of Hushovd at the finish line in Paris.
Cavendish's off-the-bike statements have animated the race as much as his legs have, making him arguably the most entertaining rider at the 2009 Tour de France, but I wonder if watching the Green Jersey slip away due to one remark might make him think more before speaking. We have to hope not; the race already has too many guys making guarded statements. The race is more fun if Cavendish speaks like he sprints.
Photo: John Pierce, Photosport International
Love for Lance
In losing the 2009 Tour de France Lance Armstrong has experienced something many of us wouldn't have dared guess. He's feeling the love. The Lance backlash has un-backlashed for some people. People of every nationality who reviled Armstrong have turned about face and are, almost inexplicably, fans again.
Nowhere was this more apparent than at the Annecy time trial. Though one could hear the occasional jeer (and one guy did moon him) on the climb of the Cote de Bluffy, Armstrong rode to the cheers of thousands.
Some sports writer somewhere will attribute this to the French psyche, postulating that the French have such a history of defeat they could only love a loser, turning a profound event into the butt of yet another joke about the French.
That Armstrong would experience a turnaround in public opinion here in the United States isn't as surprising, nor is it as apparent. Armstrong has continued to have legions of fans and those who did dislike him did so for a variety of reasons: that he was overexposed and no other capable cyclists got any mainstream media attention, that he was too dominant at the Tour de France, that there are strong allegations of doping, that he rained on Contador's parade.
The dislike the French have felt for Armstrong (and dislike is putting it lightly) has been simpler and more uniform in nature, which is what makes the turnaround so much more dramatic and complete.
For the French people, if not the French media, their dislike of Armstrong was rooted in his dominance. Three is, indeed, a magic number. It seems to be the point beyond which the crowd begins to turn; it happened to Miguel Indurain, and for some folks, it happened following Mark Cavendish's third stage win at this year's Tour. When Armstrong took the yellow jersey at the 2002 Tour de France, French opinion began to change of the great champion.
By 2003 most of France was united against Armstrong and his dominance in their mind was intertwined with their belief that he must be doping. With each successive win his utter authority in the race only reinforced the belief that his achievement was superhuman.
Now, in defeat, he is human once again. One of us. People who haven't cheered for Armstrong in years have been shouting for him to put in a big performance, ironically just the sort of performance that made people dislike him in the first place.
Image: John Pierce, Photosport International
Team Lance? Team Radio Shack.
The waiting is over. No Starbucks, no Nike, no Oracle. Officially, what we know of Lance Armstrong's new team is that it will be sponsored by Radio Shack and that the seven-time winner of the Tour de France will compete at the Tour of California and the Tour de France as a cyclist, but that he will also compete through the season as a runner and triathlete.
Yes, sports fans, Lance Armstrong will make a return to triathlon.
No other sponsors, riders or team personnel were named except that the team will be managed by Capital Sports and Entertainment (CSE), the same team that managed the US Postal and Discovery Channel cycling teams. Radio Shack said the team would compete at the ProTour level.
Those are the facts. What can we infer from the announcement?
First, the ProTour license will likely come from Astana. Second, the team will be directed by Johan Bruneel. Third, Levi Leipheimer, Chris Horner, Yaroslav Popovych and Jose Luis Rubiera will ride for the team; many others from the former Discovery Channel formation are likely to follow. Fourth, the LiveStrong Foundation is likely to have a sponsorship role in the team. Fifth, the team will ride Trek bikes with SRAM components.
Will Alberto Contador be a part of this formation? It's too soon to tell. Bruyneel and Armstrong may not want a rider, even one as talented as Contador, who can't stick to the game plan and rides only for himself. Contador may not want to be on a team where he feels even the faintest whiff of a challenge to his leadership.
When Alberto Contador attacked on le Grand Bornand and dropped teammate Andreas Kloden, he did more than just dash Kloden's hopes for the podium. He torpedoed Astana's historic bid to sweep the podium of the 2009 Tour de France, a feat not achieved in the modern era of the event. Maybe that didn't matter to Contador, but this should have: He damaged his team's ability to defend him on the slopes of Mt. Ventoux.
Had Contador not attacked, it is likely Armstrong would have come back to the leaders, if not on the climb, then on the descent. Given the way Kloden had to raise his pace to try to regain the leaders, Armstrong wouldn't have had to work as long to pull back the gap. In a lead group of Contador, Kloden, Armstrong, Schleck, Schleck and Nibali, there would have been no reason to gift the stage to Frank Schleck, and Astana, with three cards to play, would have had a good chance of taking the stage.
Coming out of the stage 18 time trial, the GC would have still been Contador in the lead, but Wiggins would have been second at 2:28—enough to dismiss him as a threat to Contador on Mont Ventoux, but Armstrong would have been third at 3:06, with Kloden at 3:10, both close enough to have a real shot at taking second and third overall could they drop Wiggins on Ventoux, an act they both have previously managed. Schleck would be an also-ran to this quartet with obstacles on all sides to GC advancement.
With two teammates so close in time to Contador, their defense of yellow would have been easier by neutralizing virtually any attack before it started. Instead, Contador's attack lifted the two Schleck's from 5th and 8th on GC to 2nd and 6th.
As it stands now, there are four riders within 34 seconds of each other, each within striking distance of a podium spot. If Contador hadn't attacked, he could well have had a tranquil ride up Mont Ventoux, but now the Tour organizer's very wish—fireworks—is guaranteed on the slopes of the Geante de Provence.
Based on his unwillingness to listen to his team director before attacking on le Grand Bornand, and his previously stated distaste for Levi Leipheimer's podium finish at the 2008 Vuelta, it is fair to surmise that Contador isn't comfortable having other capable GC riders on his team. In his particular instance, as both the best time trialist and best climber present at the 2009 Tour de France, we must grant that Contador doesn't need a team to win the Tour. But what of those riders who toiled for him no matter how superfluous their efforts might seem?
Even Eddy Merckx knew when to throw a domestique a bone. Why deliberately torpedo the aspirations of your teammates? Armstrong had already conceded the win to Contador. Contador said he attacked to neutralize Wiggins. What? Wiggins was already dropped. No one attacks a dropped rider. When you attack, you are attempting to drop someone on your wheel, which makes Contador either a liar or not very bright.
If it seems that I have a personal stake in this, a desired outcome, that's not the case. I find the possibility of an Astana podium sweep to be an interesting and historic outcome, but I also find historic the possibility of Great Britain's first podium finish. Wiggins' transformation from Olympic Gold Medalist on the track to Tour de France contender to be fascinating. And should the two Schlecks take the lower two podium spots that will mean Contador will face a very formidable threat in 2010. Maybe Contador didn't need a strong team this year, but the confidence that would come with finishing second and third could make the Schlecks a force majeure in 2010.
Carlos Sastre won the 2008 Tour de France not because he was the strongest rider, but because he was on the strongest team and the strongest rider in the race—Cadel Evans—stayed with Andy Schleck when Sastre attacked. Evans knew he couldn't follow every attack and so he chose to stay with the stronger of the two teammates, hoping they would bring Sastre back. He rolled snake eyes on that one.
The 2010 Tour could play out similarly: Contador on a weak team isolated and Frank Schleck attacks and Contador stays with brother Andy. And who would Contador have to thank for boosting the Schleck's confidence? Himself.
Image: John Pierce, Photosport International
Among the names that have been mentioned as potential sponsors of the new Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel team have been Nike, LiveStrong and, more recently, Starbucks.
An anonymous source with knowledge of Starbucks' branding initiatives has informed RKP that there are Starbucks/LiveStrong co-branded designs have been prepared for in-store displays. The natural question of why Starbucks would consider affiliating itself with a ProTour cycling team might have something to Starbucks impending launch of an instant coffee called VIA, not to mention its presence in more than 50 countries worldwide.
Starbucks' CEO Howard Schultz is known to be a big cycling fan and lunched with Armstrong prior to his departure for the Tour de France.
Armstrong's team announcement will be interesting.
Oracle Cycling
File this under www.curiousdevelopments.com. We have zero info, but one can't help but wonder if this isn't linked to Armstrong's coming announcement, the announcement he is scheduled to make on 7/23. Oracle has the horsepower to fund a cycling team, not to mention reason enough to want the significant international presence that comes with a ProTour team. Anyone recall the Novell-sponsored team of the 1990s?
There's a form to subscribe to the Oracle Cycling e-mail list. What are the chances a note will go out 7/23?


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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. - At 401 yards, the No. 14 hole on the Old White TPC beckons to pros needing a quick birdie.
On the back right corner of the tee box, a plaque reads: "228 to layup; 242 to carry bunker."
For much of the West Virginia Amateur field, the cross-bunker is a royal pain, constricting the fairway at a critical point. For PGA Tour pros in the Greenbrier Classic, it's merely ornamental.
In a practice round, Tuesday that bunker illustrated the challenge 13-time State Am champion Pat Carter faces.
First, Wes Short Jr. blasted his drive down the left edge of the fairway, going 290 or so. Charles Howell III then blocked his ball right, but cleared the bunker by plenty.
Carter stepped up, and it didn't go well. He went right and failed to carry that bunker - and even worse, the ball skipped up to the hosel-snagging fescue that lines the top of the Old White sands.
Fortunately, it was Tuesday and Carter picked that ball up. If he gets that lie Thursday or Friday in the first two rounds of the Classic, par would become a miracle.
It didn't bug him that he was perpetually behind the other two after his drives. He knows the difference in playing the game for a living vs. selling insurance while playing the game when you find time.
"It's knowledge," Carter said. "They get the best equipment at any given time. They're just specimens on the golf course. I mean, they just hit the ball so far, they can dig the ball out of the rough. I don't play that much anymore, to keep a nice routine and swing going.
"I mean, they're just head and shoulders better in every aspect of the game."
But Carter has the most course knowledge of the entire 156-man field, and Short picked his brain for all 18 holes during their practice round Tuesday.
Short needs to. The 49-year-old native of Austin, Texas, is playing on a major medical extension that is going to expire this weekend.
It's a sad story. He suffered a back injury in his 12th start in 2007, and has been limited to three events in the last five years. Without going into gory detail, the terms of his exemption are this: He must earn $743,061 in 12 tournaments to retain his Tour privileges.
The Classic is his 12th event, and he has earned $70,435 thus far. Let's make this simple: He has to win this week to keep his card.
Sleepy Hollow Country Club general manager Jonathan Clark knows Short, and Sleepy Hollow pro Jimmy Harrison is good friends with Howell. Howell is playing in his fourth Classic, so he knows his way around; for Short, Old White is a new experience.
"I was telling him some lines," Carter said of Short. "He's more normal to my type of game, even though he's a little bit longer. First time here; he played well so I look for some good things out of him this week."


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