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The biggest loss from the Hawley house fire was the daughter's belongings
Hawley, MN (WDAY TV) - A rural Hawley home is in ashes tonight after a blaze that had three fire departments on scene.By WDAY Staff Reports , January 08, 2014
Man Rescued From Crookston House Fire
(WDAZ-TV) - Crookston firefighters had to rescue a man from a burning house early Thursday morning. Two occupants of the house got out by themselves, but firefighters had to use a ladder to get the third person out.By WDAZ Staff Report , May 31, 2012
Grass Fire Ignites Fuel Tank at Abandoned Farmstead
NEAR MANVEL, ND (WDAZ-TV) - A grass fire that started Thursday evening three miles north of Manvel ignited a fuel tank and came close to further damaging an abandoned farmstead.By WDAZ Staff Report , May 10, 2012
4 Escape Mentor, MN, House Fire
MENTOR, MN (WDAZ-TV) - Four people were able to escape a house fire in Mentor on Sunday by climbing through a window. The Polk County Sheriff's Office says the fire was reported at 8:30 p.m. Sunday at 17550 320th St. SE. in Mentor.By WDAZ Staff Report , May 06, 2012
GF Fire Department: Smoking Materials Caused Tuesday House Fire
GRAND FORKS (WDAZ-TV) - The Grand Forks Fire Department says a house fire last week that injured two people and caused around $135,000 in damage was caused by improper disposal of smoking materials.By WDAZ Staff Report , April 30, 2012
Early-morning Grand Forks House Fire Injures 2, Causes $135K in Damage
GRAND FORKS (WDAZ-TV) - An early Tuesday morning house fire left two residents injured and caused over $130,000 in damage, according to the Grand Forks Fire Department.By WDAZ Staff Report , April 24, 2012
Man Helps Neighbor Out of Burning Home
FISHER, MN (WDAZ-TV) A wood stove fire damaged several rooms at a house in Fisher on Thursday morning, but a neighbor helped the homeowner out of the house during the blaze.March 08, 2012
Unoccupied House Destroyed in Polk County Fire
WOODSIDE TOWNSHIP, POLK COUNTY, MN (WDAZ-TV) - The Polk County Sheriff's Office reports that an unoccupied house was destroyed in a fire Thursday morning.By WDAZ Staff Report , August 25, 2011
1 Dead in Grand Forks House Fire
One person was killed in a house fire early this morning in Grand Forks. The Grand Forks Fire Department was dispatched to a home at 1104 Boyd Drive shortly after 4 a.m.By WDAZ Staff Report , April 27, 2011
Arson Suspected in Crookston House Fire
An arson investigation has been initiated in Crookston, after gas cans were found in the kitchen of a house that had been on fire.April 20, 2011
Fire Causes Major Damage to Rural Grand Forks Home
Fire heavily damaged a rural Grand Forks family's home Saturday. About 25 firefighters from Thompson and Manvel responded to the fire at 1155 South 83rd Street at around 7:15 a.m.April 02, 2011
North Grand Forks House Fire Investigation Complete
The Grand Forks Fire Department says an electrical outlet on the outside of the house caused a north Grand Forks house fire earlier this week.April 01, 2011
North Grand Forks Home Destroyed in Fire
The Grand Forks Fire Department responded Tuesday night to a house fire at 925 North 3rd Street, just off of Gateway Drive.By WDAZ Staff Report , March 29, 2011
Cause of Fatal Grand Forks House Fire Determined
The Grand Forks Fire Department concluded its investigation on the house fire at 443 Campbell Drive on Friday, February 25.By WDAZ Staff Reports , March 07, 2011
Victims of Friday Grand Forks House Fire Identified
The Grand Forks Fire Department has identified the person who died and the other who was injured in Friday's early morning fire.By WDAZ Staff Report , February 26, 2011
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- They might not be quite ready for harvest in your own back yard, but relatively fresh spring salad greens are available year round in the grocery store. I'm not talking about mustard, creasy, dandelion, collard or escarole, but rather about tender greens for salads. Whether purchased or harvested, these delicate greens don't last long.
The spring mixes or mesclun are great bases for salads. Made famous in sandwiches, watercress also stars in salads and soups. Cooks use peppery arugula in pastas, soups and pestos. Versatile spinach stars in soups, casseroles, appetizers, salads -- just about any dish besides dessert.
Salads can be a simple toss of greens and a dressing, or an elaborate and hearty combination topping of chopped vegetables, grilled meats, cheese, nuts, eggs or fruits.
However you build your salad, a salad spinner is an indispensable tool. A thorough wash with cold water and quick turn around the spinner renders clean, relatively dry greens that are salad-ready.
Nuts add crunchy, well, nuttiness to salads. Their flavor is considerably enhanced when they are toasted, either in a 400-degree oven, in a toaster oven, on the stovetop, or even in the microwave. Watch them closely until they turn a golden color, which will quickly deepen to an inedible burnt brown, within a matter of seconds, it seems.
Add protein in the form of hard-boiled eggs, tofu or leftover grilled flank steak, chicken, shrimp or fish to make a salad a meal. If you're watching calories and fat, go easy on cheese, chips, nuts, Chinese noodles, pepperoni and high fat dressings.
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I like to dress salads that have fruit with a simple, sweet vinaigrette, often made with raspberry or red wine vinegar. Tailor the vinaigrette with soy sauce for the Asian salad or omit the sugar and add oregano and basil for Italian, Greek or Caprese salads.
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1/4 teaspoon pepper, divided
1 small garlic clove, minced
3 cups spring mix salad greens
1 medium nectarine, mango or peach, thinly sliced
1/2 cup fresh raspberries
1/2 cup fresh blackberries
2 tablespoons pine nuts, toasted
1/4 cup goat cheese, optional
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Jordan nearly created the biggest surprise in the Asian Zone second qualifying round for 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ when they narrowly missed out on a place in the last eight, finishing only three points behind favourites Iran.
In a group that also featured Qatar and Laos, Iran were unquestionably the side tipped to advance with Qatar widely regarded as their closest rivals. However, Jordan, under Egypt's legendary coach Mahmoud El-Gohary, came from nowhere to pose the strongest challenge to Iran.
They opened the campaign brightly with a 5-0 win over Laos before overcoming Qatar by a single goal. Playing in the intimidating Azadi Stadium in Tehran, they then shocked hosts Iran with Haitham Al Shboul scoring the only goal seven minutes from time. But lack of experience took a toll in the crucial back-to-back return leg when they lost 2-0 on home soil. After beating Laos in the penultimate match, their qualifying campaign ended in an agonising way as they lost the all-important match to Qatar.
Despite the failure, the progress made by Jordan was evident with the team firmly cementing their place as one of Asia's emerging powers. The rapid development can be attributed to El-Gohary, who laid the foundation for the current national team after taking over in 2002. Backed by the strong support from the football-mad royal family of Jordan, he instilled discipline and professionalism in the young team, which subsequently earned a place at the AFC Asian Cup 2004 prior to the decisive 2-0 FIFA World Cup qualifying defeat against Iran.
However, this momentum didn't last too long with the team rarely making an impact on the continental level over the past three years. They didn't qualify for the 2007 Asian Cup finals, and failed to win the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Championship which was held on home soil in June. The results saw El-Gohary step down with Jordan handing the reins to Portuguese coach Nelo Vingada.
Vingada was given only a short period to prepare his new team ahead of their opening fixture for South Africa 2010 against Kyrgyzstan. He still managed to achieve the initial goal of guiding Jordan to the qualifying third stage with a penalty shootout win.
Despite losing out to Korea DPR in the third round opener, Vingada's men rebounded against Turkmenistan in the second game with a 2-0 win. On the third matchday, Vingada's men caused a sensation, holding Asian giants Korea Republic to a 2-2 draw in Seoul, Hassan Abdel Fattah scoring two late goals to secure a notable result for the Jordanians.
However, Jordan failed keep up the momentum, as they lost 1-0 to Korea Republic at home before going down 2-0 to Korea DPR in the crucial penultimate group game in Pyongyang. Nevertheless, the Jordanians managed to end their campaign on a high after a 2-0 home win against Turkmenistan, in which Abdel Fattah scored a brace to become the section's top scorer.


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When Stan Brock started Remote Area Medical (RAM) in 1985, never in his wildest dreams did he think his services would be needed in the United States, the wealthiest country in the world.
RAM began as an all-volunteer mobile medical clinic that provided free and immediate health care to people living in remote areas of the Amazon rainforest. In 1992, he was asked to bring the clinic to Knoxville, Tennessee. He was shocked by what he saw.
"People were in desperate need of the most basic care," he said at RAM's most recent expedition in Oakland, California last month. "It didn't occur to me when I first came to this country, but it wasn't long before I could see there were similarities between people who don't have access to healthcare in a place like the Amazon and people who have access but can't afford it in America - and they're all in the same boat."
An estimated 50 million Americans are uninsured and another 25 million are underinsured, meaning they can't pay the difference between what their insurance will cover and the total cost of their medical bills. Someone files for bankruptcy every 30 seconds in the US because of a serious health problem, according to a Harvard University study.
Since 1992, RAM has conducted 640 expeditions in the US. When the travelling medical clinic comes to town, the lines begin forming at around midnight. An average of 3,000 people are treated at a typical four-day event. Over 90 per cent of the patients are in desperate need of basic dental and vision care. Each clinic costs roughly $100,000 to run, requires over 1,000 volunteers, and takes an entire year to organise.
When patients entered the clinic at the Oakland Coliseum, they were greeted by smiling volunteers, rows upon rows of dental chairs, optometric stations, and tables covered with medical tools, gloves, and equipment.
When Milka Guiterrez heard that free healthcare was being offered, she moved her schedule around to get a good place in line. On Sunday night, long after her three kids were sound asleep, she left her house at 1am. She was number 474 in line.
Shortly before patients began entering the makeshift clinic five hours later, Guiterrez ran home, grabbed her kids, and returned with her fingers crossed. She got lucky.
She and her kids had eye exams and dental work. Her eight-year-old daughter Paloma was in pain from the drilling, but managed to crack a smile. "When I used to smile, there was yellow stuff everywhere," she said wiping away tears. "I was so embarrassed. I stopped smiling when I was six. It hurts, but now I'm happy."
After 12 years with the US Postal Service, Anita Moore was hurt on the job and lost her health insurance. She got in line at 3:30am. By 6pm, she had her eyes checked, her teeth cleaned, two fillings, and four extractions.
Six months ago, she had an injury and hasn't been able to lift her arms above her shoulders. The pain went away after 15 minutes of acupuncture at the clinic. "I was so happy because I couldn't lift. I was just shocked. Now I can move them around," she said. "It's a blessing."
Les Kuller, an unemployed construction worker who got in line at 5:30am, lost his health insurance when his wife passed away two years ago. He got a molar fixed, had his blood pressure checked, was given a pair of eyeglasses, and had chiropractic and physical therapy work. He was so touched by the care he received and the volunteers he met, he came back the next day to join them.
"The least I could do is give back," he said. "On one hand, this is so incredibly amazing that all these volunteers can pull this together. On the other hand, it's a sad commentary about what the hell is going on in Washington and why the hell these knuckleheads can't walk across the aisle and shake hands and figure this thing out."
Kuller says he hopes people standing in overnight lines for basic medical care "embarrasses the hell" out of politicians. I heard similar sentiments from several people receiving care at the clinic.
When profit comes before care
Democratic politicians proudly point to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the bill that was signed by President Obama in March 2010, as real progress, but Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), an organisation of doctors who support healthcare for all, say the bill is nothing more than a false promise of reform.
Instead of eliminating the real problem, the new legislation will enrich and further entrench the profit-driven, private health insurance industry, and leave 23 million people still uninsured in 2019, according to PNHP.
If Republicans have their way, the 45 million seniors and people with disabilities who rely on Medicare will see their out-of-pocket costs double - or do without treatment altogether.
RAM founder Stan Brock doesn't like to talk about politics. He's too busy making sure people get treated. RAM's next stop is in Pikeville, Kentucky. From there, he and his team will head to Cocke County, Tennessee, Wise County, Virginia, and Chicago, Illinois. Because he's has had so many requests from all over the country, he sees no end in sight.
This is what happens when profit comes before care.
UnitedHealth's first quarter profits this year rose 13 per cent to $1.35 billion from $1.19 billion last year. UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley's total compensation of $101.96 million last year made him the highest paid executive in the country.
The US is the only major country in the industrialised world that doesn't guarantee healthcare to all of its citizens. It's unconscionable that 45,000 people in the US die every year because they can't afford care.
Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who believes that the US should put patients over profits, recently re-introduced the American Health Security Act, which would provide every citizen with healthcare coverage through a state-administered, single payer program.
Here's a fact from the PNHP that never made its way through the noise machine during the so-called healthcare debate - which was shaped by the insurance industry from the beginning. It should be repeated over and over again. the bureaucracy and paperwork of the profit-making health insurance industry consume one-third of every healthcare dollar.
Streamlining payment through a single-payer system would save more than $400 billion per year - which is enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all.
RAM's Stan Brock says a single-payer system, as long as it covers dental and vision, would put him out of business in the US. "That would allow us to go back to the Amazon, Central America, Haiti - and other places where we belong."
Rose Aguilar is the host of Your Call, a daily call-in radio show on KALW in San Francisco. She's the author of "Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey into the Heartland."
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Yeah, if you can't tell, I'm a Directioner ;) - April 25, 2012 at 8:38 PM
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I'm all for capitalism and bare-knuckled competition. In fact, much as I bag on Microsoft, it's precisely because I respect it as an organization that I devote any time to it at all.
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Dog Wars app for Android is Trojanized
An older version of a controversial Android app called "Dog Wars" has been modified to include a Trojan horse that takes actions without the device owner knowing it, according to security firm Symantec.
The app sends a text message to everyone in the contact list that says, "I take pleasure in hurting small animals, just thought you should know that," and signs United States-based devices up for a text alert service operated by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Irfan Asrar wrote in a post on the Symantec blog.
"We have no reason to believe that PETA had anything to do with this app, and that it is most likely the work of someone attempting to associate the app with PETA," he writes.
A PETA representative provided this statement when asked for comment: "We don't know who created this version of the app, but we think it is ingenious. When someone creates a game that glorifies animal abuse, you can bet that people will come up with clever, smart ways to take action against it." … Read more


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The weekly Farmers Market at San Marco Plaza has added new vendors and is now offering free-range chicken and grass-fed beef, lamb and pork.
The market, open Fridays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., also offers fresh produce, breads, candles, novelty crafts and more.
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- We noted yesterday that WWE is planning to release Bret Hart's Dungeon Collection on DVD and Blu-ray March 5th, 2013. Courtesy of WWEDVDNews, here is the official synopsis:
"For nearly 30 years, Bret "Hit Man" Hart travelled the globe proving he was "The Best There Is, The Best There Was, and the Best There Ever Will Be". From his roots in his family's own Stampede Wrestling, to the bright lights of WWE, WCW, and his watershed return to the ring in 2010, no Superstar could match his unmistakable presence in the ring. Known as the "Excellence of Execution", he is widely regarded as the greatest technical wrestler of all time, evidenced by multiple reigns with the Tag Team, Intercontinental, WWE and World Heavyweight Championships. Now in this collection, compiled by the Hit Man himself, fans can experience Bret Hart's best matches never-before-released on DVD. Bret takes the viewer behind each match in a brand new, revealing interview detailing the inside stories surrounding these ...
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Patients who visit the clinic will undergo an in–depth personal and family health history, or "cancer risk assessment." That will help experts know if you'd be a good candidate for genetic testing. Not all cancers are hereditary, but some common ones, like breast and colon cancer have a genetic link.
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And she got in to both of the bars where the poetry readings were held The first was more of a pub on campus, but the second was truly a bar with a room upstairs for special events. I got a couple of funny looks, but nobody asked us to leave. The bartender even came up to say hello and ask how old she was. |
Really?????? Duuuuuude. Wow. NOBODY gets into the pubs here with a baby, we've all tried. Do they know they could lose their liquor license? (Stupid, yes - happens, yes. It was actually a question on the "Serving it Right" test.) An Irish friend of mine went on a spectacular rant at the doorperson at the "Irish Times" pub here when they wouldn't let her in with her 5-month-old baby - over there, you can totally take kids into pubs, as God intended. Glad your trip went well!
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We're very pleased to announce the first round of Locations from Sherlock S3 are now available to view on our website, with more updates to come soon!
Head to www.sherlockology.com/locations now!
Presenting Sherlockology on Set: A Visit to 221B, our final Sherlock S3 behind the scenes piece chronicling our trip to Cardiff last year, where Arwel Wyn Jones gave us an indepth tour around the sets.
This article is laden with pictures of things you might have never seen inside 221B, but also SPOILERS for all episodes in Sherlock S3.
Here's our latest blog for Metro UK, our further, deeper, SPOILER-FILLED reaction to Sherlock S3E3 His Last Vow.
Sherlock S3E3 His Last Vow was once again the most watched television programme of the day in the UK yesterday, bringing in 8.77m viewers in initial overnight ratings.
This is a drop of 70k viewers from the previous episode, still a far smaller drop than the viewer loss from episodes 2 and 3 of previous series.
By way of comparison, S2E3 The Reichenbach Fall pulled in 7.9m viewers in overnight ratings in January 2012.
Steven Moffat, co-creator, executive producer and writer of Sherlock said: "It isn't supposed to be like this. Sherlock began life as a surprise hit, and now in its third series, it's rating higher than ever. This show, which we all thought would be our vanity project destined for 3 million in the ratings and possibly an award from an obscure European festival, has become a barnstorming international phenomenon. If I live to be a very old man, I might be able to explain how any of that happened - drop me a line in about forty years, I'll do my best. Till then, on behalf of Mark and Sue and myself - who started all this, not so very long ago – thank you all for the very best of times!"
Presenting 'Sherlockology on Set: A Day on Location In Cardiff', our second behind the scenes look at The Empty Hearse, this time on a closed set visit during filming with Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey!
Please note, as with our last set report, this article contains some spoilers for Sherlock S3E1 The Empty Hearse.
After so long a wait, we're already here.
Following the unique preceding episodes, Sherlock takes another distinct tonal turn with the finale of Series Three. This time, we're heading into far more mature territory in terms of the characterization and plotting, Steven Moffat's script taking the viewer on a relentless rollercoaster of emotion and jaw dropping, unexpected twists.
Make no mistake, this is arguably the darkest episode in the series' history, going to places it has never trodden before. It is emotionally devastating in ways completely different from The Reichenbach Fall, while retaining a vein of tight, fierce humour that relies explicitly upon character based incident and wordplay that is also markedly different from the comedy that appears in The Sign of Three, for example.
Paramount to the harder edge that defines His Last Vow is Charles Augustus Magnussen, magnificently played by Lars Mikklesen. Magnussen is a repellent, icy foe, a man so assured of his personal power over others it gives him the justification to behave how he likes. Completely different from Andrew Scott's volatile yet insanely endearing Jim Moriarty, this is a luridly predatory, genuinely skin crawling and frightening villain, someone who can stand toe to toe with Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes and yet, shockingly, dominate the room.
Without any specifics, the deployment of this striking new antagonist induces a case - from the very start of the episode - that causes the leading characters to be placed into situations that we have never seen them. Some we have potentially been anticipating for a long time, others come out of nowhere. This is not what some have cited as the 'fan service' that has appeared in The Empty Hearse and The Sign of Three, more a logical follow-through from previously established events and a fulfillment of some possibly long held suspicions that coalesce into some dramatic final closing scenes.
That said, His Last Vow continues the trend of this third run of episodes in defying the expectations of an audience, a grand adventure that raises the series to striking new heights. Steven Moffat's script is magnificently Canon-laden, reverential asides and cunning deviations running throughout in full effect, and it also features plenty of further expansion and development. As some of the events in The Sign of Three may have signposted, these are now very much Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss' versions of these beloved characters, true yet not slavish to the originals written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the character based aspects of the narrative here flow from developments that we have already seen.
Visually, this is another stunning episode, the use of location in particular giving it a scale that eclipses the previous two installments. Nick Hurran has been handed a gift of a screenplay and certainly doesn't squander it, turning established rules on their head at times and extrapolating others to new places. The Art of Deduction, in particular, undergoes a striking and extended renovation within the visual context of one showpiece, uniquely dramatic sequence. David Arnold and Michael Price's score somehow keeps getting larger and more expansive. It's impossible to wonder how much higher and - dare we say it - operatic the pair could take the themes they have developed across the three series of Sherlock from here, but by now familiarity with the motifs they have created is not a problem but an utter boon, not reliance but distinctive calling cards that heighten the emotional response to what you are seeing.
Yes, as we've already said, His Lost Vow is an emotional experience. To say anymore of the how's and why's that that is the case would be churlish and wrong. Like The Empty Hearse, this is an experience that should be Experienced, unsullied with prior knowledge or spoilers of what is coming. Though there is one thing we will say, to ensure your viewing of this barnstorming finale to the third series of Sherlock is complete.
When the end credits start, do not turn off your television or change the channel. Watch to the very close.
And that is the only Clue we will give you.
Here's our latest blog for Metro UK, where we dig deeper into The Sign of Three.
Please note the blog contains some SPOILERS.
Read the Blog on the Metro UK website.
An unusual and unique instalment of Sherlock, The Sign of Three is a complex, rip-roaring and extremely funny episode that takes the series into tonally new territory, while preserving many of the elements that we all love from the past.
It's no secret that the second episode of Series Three is centred on the wedding of John Watson and Mary Morstan. It forms the backbone of the narrative and setting, with the entire duration dipping in and out of a critical part of the happy day through a complicated branching structure that leads the characters, and us, to some wildly unexpected places. Perhaps more so than any other episode of Sherlock, this is the one that demands a repeat view to truly appreciate the intricate nature of the events we're shown. The script is credited to all three writers for the first time in the series' history, with Steve Thompson leading, and elements of the style of each are evident throughout the duration.
Following on from The Empty Hearse, the emphasis remains on the relationship between the characters. There is delightful interplay between the supporting cast, and a genuine further deepening of the friendship between John and Sherlock, all expertly played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. The events at the end of The Empty Hearse have solidified them. While we may have become used to the notion of these characters living in the modern day, The Sign of Three is the first time we see the pair fully enmeshed in modern social culture - with surprising and utterly hilarious results that may possibly provide more talking points than anything in the series opener.
Like the preceding episode, while there is a central case in the narrative, it is not immediately apparent, with over a third of the duration of the episode running past until it fully forms. When it does though, it's a story element that isn't engineered to serve the characters in the same way that the terror plot of The Empty Hearse is. Instead it's a good old fashioned mystery, a very cleverly constructed piece of writing that allows both Sherlock and John to shine in their unique ways, and highlights how dependent they both are on the other now when placed into dangerous situations. Mary continues to be an excellent addition to the cast as well, Amanda Abbington a warm, wonderful presence who continues to effortlessly interact with both the leading characters and is utterly accepting of the wild and strange adventures the pair find themselves thrust into.
The Sign of Three is visually astonishing to look at, featuring true visual pizazz thanks to director Colm McCarthy. The entire episode is infused with stand-out moments, including a memorable and quite beautiful new introductory shot for 221B, a striking use of split screen editing, and a dramatically different and new visualisation of Sherlock's deductions. It also goes without saying that the scoring of David Arnold and Michael Price continues to be sonic delight, going into pulse-pounding and dramatic new places that are unique to this instalment.
The warmest, funniest episode of Sherlock in existence, The Sign of Three sees the series stepping quite boldly into broader comedic tones and more emotional themes. The friendship of Sherlock and John is clearly the front and centre of this new series, and Sherlock's overt (and covert) reactions to the changes in John's life give everything a subtly moving, powerful undercurrent. But despite all the lightness and fun that infuses the episode, the close brings us a few tiny flecks of foreboding for the series finale in His Last Vow, and we can't help but feel the humour that has defined the opening two parts of Sherlock Series Three is a very clear and conscious presence due to what may lie ahead…
Here's our latest blog post for Metro UK, where we dive deeper into The Empty Hearse now it has aired on UK TV.
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The Cut Off
On any stage of the Tour de France, a rider can be excluded from the race for not finishing within a certain percentage of the stage winner's time. It's a cruel way to find out your race is over, a bureaucratic broom wagon letting you know you're done. In this year's event, Vasil Kiryienka, William Bonnett, Denis Galimzyanov, and Björn Leukemans fell prey to the clock.
This Tour de France also called time on the career of Alexandre Vinokourov. Past his prime when he returned from a two-year doping suspension, Vino clung to the idea that he could still pull off one last, big win. The Stage 9 crash that hurled him off an embankment and broke the head off one of his femurs told the aging Kazakh everything he needed to know about his future in the cycling game.
Less dramatic in their exits from the pool of potential Tour winners were Levi Leipheimer, Ivan Basso and Christian Vande Velde. All of them strong. All of them great on their day. None of them able to put together enough good days to live the dream. Of the three, only Basso has ever actually won a grand tour, two Giri d'Italia, but will Liquigas bet on Basso for the Grand Boucle again next year, or has the home truth that a pure climber of Basso's quality can't win the modern Tour without being able to time trial well (Are you listening Andy?) finally sunk in? Basso will be 34. He won't be getting faster against the clock. Perhaps the organizers of the Giro will craft a hilly, swan song course for him next year, but don't count on it.
Leipheimer was 3rd in the '07 Tour, and he has a pair of Vuelta podiums to his credit, but at 37 we can now stop talking about his chances to succeed Armstrong as the next American winner. Both he, and Vande Velde for that matter, likely suffered for overlapping with the Texan, never getting quite the support they might have deserved in their strongest years. Vande Velde's best Tour finish was 4th in '08, before crashes began robbing him of the biggest race days.
Two other riders now outside the time limit are Denis Menchov and Carlos Sastre, both grand tour winners in their prime. Their Geox-TMC squad didn't merit a Tour invite in 2011, which leaves Menchov 33 and Sastre 36, out to pasture, regardless of who is paying their salaries next year. The Tour waits for no one.
Finally I would offer, perhaps controversially, the Schleck brothers. Many people take it as a given that Andy will, one day, stand atop the podium in Paris, and anything is possible (Just ask Carlos Sastre). But, pure climbers seldom win the Tour de France, Sastre, Pantani, Van Impe, Bahamontes, Zoetemelk. There are few enough that you can name them off the top of your head and explain the odd circumstances that allowed them to win.
Sastre and Pantani stand alone in the modern era when the team concept, centered around defending and neutralizing many stages, led to an ability to win with calculated bursts of aggression rather than three weeks of strong riding. Sastre probably owes much of his '08 win to the absence of a single dominant rider (a la Armstrong) and the tactical nous of Bjarne Riis. Pantani, a serial attacker, won in the brief space between Indurain and Armstrong, again when there was no one dominant rider to let the peloton know when to chase and when to sit in.
Today, without a strong time trial, that top step can be extremely elusive, though still possible with the right tactics. What is clear from the 2011 race though is that the Schlecks currently lack the tactical acumen to pull it off as well. It is not possible for pure climbers to sit in the pack on a long mountain stage. All applauded when Andy attacked early to put time into all his rivals on Stage 18 to the Galibier, but by then it was too late. He and his brother, who made every elite selection of climbers throughout the race, had already passed up opportunites as Superbesse, Luz-Ardiden and Plateau de Beille.
Rather than looking around to see what Contador, Evans and the rest might be thinking, Schleck ought to have been on the attack early and often. In fact, it wasn't until a late race consultation with Francesco Moser that Schleck the younger dared to risk showing his hand, which tells you everything you need to know. The Schlecks don't just lack time trialling ability. They lack courage.
Think back to Liege-Bastogne-Liege when the brothers were off the front with Philippe Gilbert and couldn't find a way to beat the mercurial Belgian. When you're two up in the final kilometer, you have to win. Unless you just don't know how.
To be sure, there is still time for Andy, and even Fränk, but there is a big gap in their skill sets, and time is running out.
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TdF '11 – Week 1 Losers
The cliché says you can't win the Tour de France in the first week, but you can certainly lose it. It's a shame really, because so many pro teams organize their season around the Tour, the possibility for stage wins, for sponsor publicity, for glory. Something simple like the swerve of a car or a wet bend in the road can play havoc with a pack of riders grand tour thick and first week nervous.
Those who lost the Tour in the first week are easy to list: Alexandre Vinokourov and Team Astana, Alessandro Petacchi, Jani Brajkovic, Chris Horner and Team Radio Shack, Tom Boonen and his QuickStep squad, and Bradley Wiggins.
Aging Vinokourov fractured his pelvis in a gruesome looking crash over a concrete barrier and down into a ditch. The sight of his teammates gathered around, along with a team doctor, carrying him back up onto the road, signaled the end for the Kazakh team. Vino went off to hospital. The rest rode desultorily up the road to chase onto the neutralized peloton. Even Roman Kreuziger, who might have pretended to be riding for GC, injured his wrist earlier in the week. Not sure what the boys in electric blue and yellow will do for the next two weeks, but we will see.
Another elder statesman of the road, Alessandro Petacchi, has managed to be involved in exactly nothing in the opening stanza. Tipped as an outside bet to nick stage wins off Mark Cavendish, the Italian has instead been conspicuous only by his absence.
Team Radio Shack are going only slightly better than Team Astana. One possible GC man, Jani Brajkovic, crashed out with a concussion and a broken collarbone on Stage Five. Chris Horner left the race two days later also with a dramatic head injury. Levi Leipheimer has been on the deck as often as Captain Ahab, falling out of GC contention, and then Andreas Klöden, the Shack's one remaining hope, injured his back on Stage Nine. They'll drag themselves to the finish, but this, apparently, will not be the year Johan Bruyneel forgets his old buddy Lance.
QuickStep are never in France riding for the general classification, but with major crashes leading to the abandonment of Tom Boonen, their best hope for a stage win, and heavy injuries to Sylvain Chavanel, their strongest breakaway chance, QuickStep will likely be walking away with nothing in 2011.
Team Sky also lost their main GC hope when Bradley Wiggins did his collarbone on Stage Seven. With Geraint Thomas, Stage Six winner Edvald Boasson-Hagen, and Rigoberto Uran still in the race, Sky has plenty left to ride for, but conceding the GC battle must hurt a team whose stated goal is to win the Tour with a Briton.
There is also a small group whose fate is still too hard to discern.
Much has been written over the past week about Alberto Contador's misfortunes and seeming vulnerability. When he lost more than a minute on Stage One, commentators were already saying his race was over, but these storylines are predictable. In truth, an on-form Contador can pull back his current deficit in a single Alpine attack. More worrying for the Spaniard is that multiple crashes have left him battered and bruised, especially a bad right knee which could steal his explosiveness in the steeps. Furthermore, his SaxoBank-Sungard team never seems to be with him. Even when he's tucked into the peloton, his support team is seldom in evidence. Will they be there when he needs them most, in the Pyrenees and Alps?
Another too soon to tell is Ivan Basso. The Italian decided to forgo a defense of his Giro d'Italia title to focus on the Tour, and now, at the end of the first week, Basso has managed to remain upright, but he is 3:36 down on GC, and he's a crappy time trialist. You can count three or four GC faves Basso will outclimb when the road turns up, but the podium will be a big stretch.
Perhaps the biggest question mark hangs over Tour Director Christian Prudhomme. On the one hand, first week drama is always good for the Tour as the real fireworks seem to fly on the climbing stages of weeks two and three. However, the riders and teams are feeling as though the course is too dangerous, and some high profile crashes and injuries reinforce the notion that the new game in grand tours is putting the participants through the wringer.
Multiple accidents involving caravan vehicles call into question the Amaury Sports Organization's ability to manage all the moving parts, and cramming 22 teams of 9 riders each through some of the tiny roads of northern and central France looks like a not very good idea too. Fans, especially those who've never crashed, seem to love the carnage, but in the end, we all want to see the race decided by the quality of the riders, not by simple attrition.
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A Different, Different Approach
In light of the reports regarding Alberto Contador's imminent, one-year vacation, we're thinking double extra hard about different ways to clean up the sport. The other day we discussed the need for greater decisiveness from the UCI and more draconian application of the rules.
Who really has the power in pro cycling? It's an imprecise question. It yields some obtuse answer about the various parties involved, the UCI, the state federations, the Pro and Pro Continental teams, the sponsors and the race organizers. Assign percentages. Divide and debate.
A more precise question is: Where's the money?
It is true that the UCI, federations, teams and sponsors all have an interest in clean racing, but it is also true that each of those stake holders has some motive for winning, regardless of the methods. The UCI needs champions in order to grow the sport. More than that, they need spectacle and drama. They need superhumanity. Obviously, doping scandals hurt their brand, but what weapons have they got? We've already talked about how ineffective their current approach has been, suspend and litigate.
The federations also want champions, riders from their countries standing atop podiums. They want clean athletes, but they only really need their athletes to be cleaner than the others. They also have no real power, just a smaller player in the suspend and litigate system.
The teams are the most compromised. They need to appear to be clean, but if they don't win races, it doesn't matter much whether they're clean or dirty as a dormant coal mine. They lose sponsorship either way.
The sponsors have money, it's true, but they're in the same boat with the teams. They want the publicity that comes from winning races. They want a spot in the Tour caravan. Doping scandals may or may not hurt them. Festina reported selling more watches in the year following their team's expulsion from the 1998 Tour.
That brings us to the race organizers. It brings us to the Amaury Sports Organization (ASO).
As most folks know, the ASO runs the Tour de France, the biggest cash cow in the sport. What they may not know is that they also own and/or operate the Tour of Qatar, Tour of Oman, Paris-Nice, Critérium International, Paris-Roubaix, Flèche Wallonne, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the Vuelta España, Tour de l'Avenir and Paris-Tours. In short, ASO is the gatekeeper. More than anyone else, they have the power.
So what if the ASO implemented its own anti-doping policy, some more clearly stated variation on what they do now. Yes, Tour director Christian Prudhomme has been sending the teams messages for years. Embarrass the Tour and you become persona non grata in France, in July. But the rules aren't written, and they're not hard or fast.
If the ASO made the simple policy of barring riders who had tested positive from competing in any other of their races, it would send a shock wave through the peloton. Gone would be David Millar, Ivan Basso, Alexandre Vinokourov, et. al. It would be a loss, but it would be a tolerable one to get our sport back from middle pages of scandal-addicted newspapers.
Not being able to race in ASO races would decrease even the most talented rider's value so significantly as to virtually end their careers. Am I really going to pay Vinokourov's salary only to have him compete in the Giro and some subsection of the rest of the season? And what if Giro director Angelo Zomegnan buys into this approach? To borrow and phrase from another sport, game, set, match. Over.
I am sure that the deal hammered-out between the UCI and race organizers to guarantee selection to the biggest races for the entire list of ProTeams contains some provision for teams who harbor convicted dopers. I would argue that there is almost no way, under law, for the ASO to be compelled to allow the participation of riders whose presence might devalue their primary assets.
The ASO could make this happen. But will they?
Over the last decade, the ASO has acquired a number of big races, expanding their cycling portfolio to its current size, and glancing down the list you will see three of the seven spring classics, two of the three grand tours, the most prestigious one week stage race (Paris-Nice) and one of the big fall classics (Paris-Tours). How many more races would they need before they could effectively take cycling private, marginalize the UCI, and run their own show? It seems outlandish, but … outlandish is what cycling does, isn't it? Perhaps it will take a paradigm shift like this, a breakaway if you will, to win the race against doping. Perhaps this is our last, best hope.
FGR#24 Wrap
Wasn't this guy supposed to burn down Italy?
I already have Grand Tour hangover, that malaise that settles in when there isn't a daily race to follow by television/live web feed or text updates. This just-finished Giro d'Italia was simply the best three-week tour in my memory. Constant lead changes, ferocious crashes, valiant and successful breakaways, the GC boys spinning away at the steepest climbs in Europe—these are the things that cycling fans want to see, and this year's Giro delivered them all in spades.
Ivan Basso, he of the curiously rehabilitated reputation, earned what had to feel like a highly redemptive maglia rosa. Between a wishy-washy half acknowledgment that his previous approach to high-end racing had left something to be desired and signing up with Dr. Aldo Sassi, the hottest trainer in the pro peloton, Basso is back in a big way, not to mention his Liquigas squad, who came in as contenders and rode away as champions, with Basso on the top step and Vincenzo Nibali in third. Basso danced in the pedals when he had to, but his team also did an excellent job of sheltering him from wind and the predations of three weeks in the saddle.
Nibali and Basso showed that having multiple captains can work on the road, and also that the younger rider will, eventually, win a Grand Tour, perhaps with Basso as his super domestique. Stranger things have happened on teams not called Astana.
Pre-race favorite Cadel Evans fared not so well, ending in 5th place in the general classification, though he consoled himself with the points jersey. Evans did the World Champion's jersey proud by racing strong, attacking when he could and generally behaving as though he belonged on the front of the pack. Unfortunately, his BMC squad was nowhere when Evans needed them most. Evans' former Lotto team perfected that trick. BMC just picked up where they left off. You have to wonder what might have been for the scrappy Australian had he been paced into the big climbs as Basso was.
Other talents also announced themselves. Young Richie Porte of Saxo Bank and Matthew Lloyd of Omega Pharma-Lotto, both Australians, forced themselves onto the scene with some daring rides and some stiff defenses of colored jerseys. This writer really enjoyed watching them ride and make names for themselves over the withering efforts of older riders like Alexandre Vinokourov and … um … well … I'm just glad Vinokourov didn't win anything.
Mention must be made, finally, of David Arroyo. The 30-year-old from Caisse d'Epargne emerged from the shadows of his better known teammates to take the biggest prize of his career, a second place in a Grand Tour. The Spaniard was gutsy all through the Giro, and dug deep to defend the maglia rosa when he had it. In the end, Basso was too much for him, but Arroyo has laid down a marker with team management, now that Alejandro Valverde has been consigned to a two-year ban.
As regards the questions floated in the Group Ride, let me just float some opinions on questions not already addressed above. First, Italian podium girls are not hotter than French ones. They are equally hot. If my VO2 Max wasn't closer to my shoe size than to the population of your favorite restaurant on a Friday night, either one would serve as ample motivation to earn a post-race peck.
The Tour of California, for me, detracted from the Giro, which is deeply unfortunate because the ToC is a great race. Still, what if George Hincapie had been riding for Cadel Evans instead of riding loops around downtown LA? A concurrent ToC forces the big teams to make decisions that hurt cycling fans. Scheduling fail.
Andre Greipel definitely deserves to ride the Tour de France. Just not for HTC-Columbia. For sale, one rather large, scary-looking German dude. Real fast on a bike. Somewhat whiny. All serious offers considered.
I don't know what happened to Team Sky under the blazing Tuscan sun (and rain). Bradley Wiggins pulled a real Sastre on this one, disappearing almost before he'd even really announced his presence. Perhaps the couch cushions on the super plush Sky bus are just a bit too comfy. Perhaps their espresso maker went on the fritz. Or perhaps they really were just out on a training ride. Doubt it though. I think they just sucked.
That brings me to old Charlie Sastre, who I maligned in the last paragraph. I like Charlie. He just keeps riding and riding, and yeah, that Tour de France win was probably as good as it gets for him, but damn it, you gotta respect a guy who can finish 21 Grand Tours. You just gotta.
And with that, I officially turn the page on the Giro and begin to stare out of windows wondering how in hell Christian Prudhomme can possibly put on a TdF better than what we've just seen.
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Friday Group Ride #20
The Spring Classics season is over. And now that I'm done crying in my espresso over it. It's time to shift the mental gears for Grand Tour time. Ignore that grinding sound. My mechanic said it would work itself out, eventually.
And so, let's take the Group Ride away from race predictions. Who really feels predictively competitive about the Tour of Romandie?
No. This week, in the aftermath of Alexander Vinokourov's win at Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Mark Cavendish's profane victory salute in Romandie, I'm thinking about character. I am looking at today's pro peloton and wondering who the real good guys are. Who, amongst our champions, has the character to go along with his victories? Who has the poise? Who has the class?
Of course, we've always had our villains, and I believe they're a necessary part of the equation. They bring brashness and audacity (Cavendish). They play as foils (Vinokourov) to the good, clean talents pedaling for glory. The bad are often more entertaining than the good, and we all like to be entertained.
What I want to know this week is who you admire? Who will be remembered, not just for their palmarés, but also for the manner in which those victories were won?
My mind goes immediately to a rider like Jens Voigt, the breakaway artist loyal to his team, who suffers with a smile on his face, who makes the hardest parts of bike racing look like fun and respects the riders around him for their power, intelligence and effort.
Then there's Phillipe Gilbert, outspoken about clean racing, a hard rider on a weak team, an intelligent and humble champion, who can beat stronger riders with his mind, rather than his radio.
There are other worthy riders, of course, but I'll let you name them.
Image: John Pierce, Photosp0rt International
Alexander Vinkourov's victory at Liege-Bastogne-Liege was met with boos and questions. It comes less than a year following his return to cycling after a two-year suspension for doping during which time the rider shed no light on his past. Vinokourov has voiced his displeasure with the reaction to his success, and released a letter voicing his views, which you can read here.
Padraig has also written a post concerning the convicted doper's win at one of the five Monuments.
Yesterday's Liege-Bastogne-Liege gave us almost everything we look for from a Spring Classic, crashes, attacks, splintering chase groups, breakaways, and an unlikely winner. The name of that improbable champion was the one thing that left something to be desired in the minds of many cycling fans. You could tell from all the booing at the finish line and the wave of articles questioning the result, based on that rider's checkered past. Despite a stunning and classy win, cycling just isn't sure about Alexander Vinokourov.
There seem to be two strains of thought as regards the ongoing exploits of Mr. Vinokourov. There are those who view him as an unrepentant doper, a rider who cheated, never confessed and then came back at the top level to plunder anew. Then there is an admittedly smaller group who say the Kazakh has paid his dues, served his suspension and is, therefore, entitled to continue with his career.
I find myself curiously caught between the two. Ambivalent.
Certainly, I have sympathy with the skeptics. I have always been a believer that how you do something is at least as important as having done it. And so, when I ponder the growing field of convicted dopers returning from suspension, I am able to draw some distinction between David Millar, honest, contrite, outspoken and humble, and someone like Vinokourov, who has been seemingly oblivious to the seriousness of his transgressions. He has been neither contrite nor humble. Having served his time, he is back to feed at the trough. Full stop.
But is that a valid distinction?
Millar and Vinokourov both cheated. Both served suspensions. Both have, theoretically, changed their behavior to that prescribed by the governors of the sport. Those are substantive changes, no matter how they're effected.
Does it matter that Vinokourov has not become an outspoken critic of doping within the sport? If each returning rider cast himself in this role, would the gesture become hollow? And is the sword not, in fact, double-edged? Would the same people who pillory the Astana rider for not being contrite enough, call him a hypocrite if he spent too much time extolling the virtues of clean sport? Quite how Millar has turned this trick for himself is a bit of a mystery, but, by all accounts, the British rider has always been more charming than his Kazakh counterpart.
At root, are we, as fans, entitled to more bowing and scraping? Or are the sport's laws and punishments enough?
I don't know. I ask myself if I'm not maybe simply biased toward riders I like better on the bike. I can forgive Pantani his transgressions, to some degree, because he gave us such drama. Danilo DiLuca also falls into this category maybe. But the less emotionally compelling riders like Vinokourov, Alejandro Valverde (unconvicted) or Jan Ullrich suffer a greater wrath. They cheated, AND they failed to entertain properly. This double transgression may be the real problem.
Today, Vinokourov has come forth with an open letter that seeks to address his situation more fully. It's hard to read it and not feel an ounce of compassion for the man, who, at 36, is only trying to salvage something of a damaged career.
Would we prefer that he simply go away? For doping to go away, do the dopers all have to go, permanently? If so, we need to change our rules and procedures. Now. Before this dynamic plays itself out into absurdity.
The whole situation brings to the forefront some of the central challenges for the UCI going forward, how to reintegrate the sport's transgressors and how to convince cycling fans that the punishments doled out are proportionate to the crimes being committed.
What we are seeing with Vinokourov is that, though the UCI has sanctioned his return, the tifosi have not, and neither have the cycling press. Perhaps these are just the consequences. You can cheat, and you can go away for two years, and you can come back, but all that will be left for you are these begrudged victories. You can stand on the podium and kiss the girls and hold the bouquet. You can even pocket the prize money, but you will never be allowed to win again.
Is that fair? I have no idea.
FGR#19 Wrap
Let's just get this one thing straight before we go any further. Alberto Contador does NOT hug teammates he doesn't like. If the 2009 Astana saga didn't teach us that, then we learned nothing at all. So, all you conspiracy-theorists who think Vinokourov attacked his teammate when the aforementioned teammate wasn't expecting it, I'm sorry. Circumstances on the ground just don't confirm that theory.
If anything they suggest that Astana and Contador have now learned how to use psychological misdirection to spring a surprise on the peloton. Be afraid, Johann Bruyneel. Be very afraid.
Right, so now, onto the race.
Wow! Even watching the emotionally flat, Sporza web-feed in Flemish I was excited by this year's Liege-Bastogne-Liege. There were the Schlecks mixing it up at the front of the race. There were attacks galore from all and sundry. There was Alejandro Valverde sucking on Phillipe Gilbert's wheel. And Gilbert! Was anyone NOT rooting for this guy to catch the break?
Alas, he just left it too late.
Even as they came inside 2k to go, I thought maybe Kolobnev was going to pull a Tchmil on Vinokourov, storming away at the death in that impassive Russian way. But no, instead we got Vinokourov, some people's villain, whipping the crowd into the sort of frenzy usually reserved for professional wrestling events.
It was a beautiful race, if not a wholly pleasing result. Despite all that, we've gotten 24 solid hours of hand-wringing drama out of it, so, to my mind, a fitting end to the Spring Classics season.
No one predicted a Kazakh victory, so we remain awash in stickers at RKP HQ. No worries. There will be plenty more opportunities to win.
As to the many recovery solutions you proffered, some were funny, some were old-school reliable and a few had the novelty of a new group from Campagnolo: attractive, yes … but reliable? We'll let you know how a few of these work out. Not trying the milk bath, though.
Next up is what I'd call the season's taint race, the Tour of Romandie. It taint a classic, and it taint a Grand Tour, a dubious distinction indeed.
Image: John Pierce, Photosport International


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