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Friday Group Ride #182
It is late to run a prediction thread for the Vuelta. Things have happened in Spain. Dramatic things. The stuff that makes Grand Tours so Grand. And yet, we haven't discussed the Spanish race in this forum. All week our good friends Charles and Patrick have been stoking the flames of the thing like Eugene Christophe's young assistant. If you have not "tuned" in, then you have missed the craic, the part of watching a race that makes it a socially constructive and celebratory event. If you HAVE been following by LiveUpdate, then please do the right thing.
And so, here we are. Astana won the opening team time trial (TTT). On Stage 2, Nicholas Roche reminded us that he is still riding bikes professionally and is still, on his day, really good at it. Then Chris Horner became the oldest ever Grand Tour stage winner when he crossed the line at Mirador de Lobeira in Stage 3. Katusha's Daniel Moreno attacked and won on the final climb in Stage 4, before Michael "Bling" Matthews of Orica-GreenEdge opened the sprint battle with a win in Stage 5. Stage 6 saw Tony Martin perpetrate the most brilliant, gutsy, painful solo break that most of us will ever see/remember, only to see it end in tragic failure a few meters from the line. Michael Morkov was the horrible jerk who stole the win from him.
Finally, today, Zdenek Stybar continued to prove that he has something very real to offer on the road by besting World Champ Philippe Gilbert in Stage 7 to Mairena de Aljafare.
Vincenzo Nibali is in the leader's jersey, maybe too early. Michael Matthews is in the sprinter's shirt, with not a lot of sprint having happened. And Nick Roche is in the climber's kit. The top of the GC is clustered closely with 18 riders within a minute of the lead.
There, now you're caught up.
This week's Group Ride asks, who's going to win? How's it going to happen? If Nibali wins, it will be his third Grand Tour win. Will it make him a contender for a race like the Tour? Or is the gap between what he's done in Italy and Spain larger than it looks from the top step of the podium?
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Tuesdays with Wilcockson: Can't wait for Tour No. 100!
October 23, 2012 by John Wilcockson
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Next year's 100th edition of the Tour de France is still more than eight months away, but we already have a good idea of what sort of race it's going to be—even before race organizer Christian Prudhomme reveals full details of the official route on Wednesday in Paris. Some wild rumors have been circulating through the cycling world, including a nighttime stage finish on the Champs-Élysées, which indicate that it's going to be a Tour worthy of celebration. And following Monday's decision by the UCI razing Lance Armstrong's seven Tour victories from the history books, the hope is that there will be total focus on the race itself and not on yet more doping rumors.
Besides the course, which promises at least 10 significant stages, what looks like being a major feature of the 2013 Tour is one of the most competitive fields in the event's history. At least eight of the 22 likely starting teams have a strong chance of producing the eventual champion, while the course appears to be both balanced and demanding. First then, let's take a look at the likely route of the June 29 to July 21 Tour.
We've known since last year that the Tour will visit the French island of Corsica for the first time in the race's 110-year history (the race wasn't contested a total of 10 times through the two world wars). Corsica's terrain is extremely mountainous, except for a coastal plain along the east coast—which will host the Tour's first and only flat stage in Corsica, finishing in Bastia with a likely mass sprint. The second and third stages are both short (around the 150-kilometer mark) and feature significant climbs in their run-ins to Ajaccio and Calvi respectively, which will give us an initial look at the overall contenders.
All the race personnel (except the riders) will take overnight ferries across the Mediterranean to gather the next afternoon in Nice for what will be a strategically decisive stage: a 20-kilometer team time trial along the waterfront. The last time an early TTT was included at the Tour, in 2011, Garmin won the stage by four seconds, while the two teams that produced the final podium (BMC Racing and RadioShack) were separated by just six seconds. But those six seconds gave eventual winner Cadel Evans a psychologically advantage over Andy and Fränk Schleck through the following 10 stages before the Tour reached the mountains.
This year, when the TTT result is added to the two difficult stages in Corsica, a firm hierarchy will exist prior to the first mountaintop stage finish—which looks like being on stage 8 at Ax-3 Domaines in the Pyrénées. Whatever the GC looks like there, it will probably be quite similar a week later when the race reaches the next summit finish, said to be Mont Ventoux, on July 14.
In the week between the two mountain ranges, the Tour will see a second (probably easier) climbing stage through the Pyrénées, a 600-kilometer transfer to northwest France for the first rest day, four sprinters' stages and an individual time trial. This stage against the clock looks like being a specialists' TT on a flat, probably 45-kilometer course in Normandy, finishing at the iconic island of Mont St. Michel. Whichever of the GC candidates does well there will get a nice boost in morale before the crucial stage finish atop the Ventoux, which some believe is the hardest climb longer than 20 kilometers in France.
After a second rest day, the Tour heads to Gap, the gateway to the Alps—where four tough, but different types of stages will decide the eventual outcome. This stretch opens with a very hilly individual TT, again around the 40-kilometer mark, in the foothills north of the turquoise-blue Serre-Ponçon lake. Then comes the keynote stage, one that almost happened two years ago, which climbs L'Alpe d'Huez twice—thanks to a final 50-kilometer loop over the Col de Sarenne, a narrow, rough-surfaced mountain road that is being given a new coat of tarmac, before returning to the base of the Tour's most popular climb.
The next day sees the peloton head north, probably over the Glandon, Madeleine and Croix-Fry passes with an uphill finish in Le Grand Bornand—where Fränk Schleck and Linus Gerdemann were the last two winners. The final alpine stage appears to be an unusual one for the Tour, taking in one big, mountainous loop from the beautiful lakeside city of Annecy. Another 600-kilometer transfer takes the race to its final stage, finishing as usual on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, but according to a report in this Monday's edition of La Dépêche the final sprint could well take place at nightfall—followed by a massive firework display to commemorate the end of this 100th edition.
Despite the early rumors that the 2012 Tour would be a climbers' Tour, the likelihood of a team time trial and two individual tests puts the emphasis back on those riders who are strong in the time trials and the climbs. That would mean that Team Sky's defending champion Brad Wiggins should shoot for a second Tour title rather than, as has been mentioned, go for victories at the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España next year and let teammate Chris Froome lead Sky at the Tour. Obviously, that situation will need to be decided by team management in the next couple of months.
Froome, second at this year's Tour, is obviously strong against the clock and in mountaintop finishes—like several other probable contenders, including Saxo-Tinkoff's Alberto Contador, BMC's Evans and Tejay Van Garderen, and Garmin-Sharp's Ryder Hesjedal and Christian Vande Velde. All of these men, along with the two Sky riders, will get a boost from the early team time trial.
Besides these half-dozen yellow-jersey contenders, several others will also be planning on strong challenges. These include the more specialist climbers, Joaquim Rodriguez of Katusha Team, Vincenzo Nibali of a much-strengthened Astana squad, the 2010 default winner Andy Schleck of RadioShack-Nissan, and Jurgen Van den Broeck of Lotto-Belisol.
Then there is the world TT champion Tony Martin, who'll be the GC leader of the Omega-Quick Step team now that Levi Leipheimer has been sacked over his involvement in the Postal team doping scandal. Martin is somewhat of an enigma, but should he get his weight down a few kilos while keeping his unquestioned power, there's no reason why he should lose too much time on the summit finishes—remember, he did finish second on the Ventoux stage in 2009. But the German's challenge will be hampered by his Belgian team focusing first on racking up sprint stage wins for the newly arrived Mark Cavendish and team captain Tom Boonen.
This should be a good Tour for North Americans. Besides overall contenders Hesjedal, Vande Velde and Van Garderen, next year should see the Tour debuts of Garmin's Andrew Talansky, a future GC player, and BMC's Taylor Phinney, who should have a vital role for Evans and Van Garderen in the TTT and add his power to defending his team leaders' positions in the flatter stages.
As always, there's a fear of seeing a repeat of the devastating high-speed pileups that marked the opening weeks of the past two Tours and wrecked the chances, among others, of Wiggins, Van den Broeck and Contador in 2011, and Hesjedal and Vande Velde in 2012. But with a muscular opening to the 2013 Tour in Corsica, followed by the TTT, the hierarchy will be established before the race reaches the three flatter stages in opening week, and this will calm down the usual first-week tension when every team vies for stage wins.
Some critics have compared this first post-Armstrong-doping-decision Tour with the so-called Tour of Renewal in 1999, a year after the infamous Festina doping debacle. The big difference this time is that there's no undetectable drug like EPO in existence, while the majority of riders in today's peloton is already competing clean. Given those facts and the increased scrutiny of every rider's blood parameters by the anti-doping authorities, the chances of seeing a worthy winner of a hard-fought and clean Tour are as strong as they've ever been.
Let's hope that's the case, and that everyone, especially the fans, can enjoy Tour No. 100's hopefully spectacular firework display over the Arc de Triomphe next July 21.
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Tuesdays With Wilcockson: Lesson learned on the open road
April 16, 2012 by John Wilcockson
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The recent car-bike collisions that put both Levi Leipheimer and his Omega Pharma-Quick Step teammate Tony Martin in the hospital with broken bones emphasized the dangers every cyclist faces when training alone on the open road. Leipheimer was hit from behind a few kilometers from his team hotel in Spain while riding on the far right of the right shoulder of a busy highway. Martin was only five minutes from his home in Switzerland, riding on a bike path, when he was apparently sideswiped by a motorist.
However much we use the roads, there's always a new lesson to be learned. I learned a few new ones last week. First off, while driving home last weekend from a hike with my wife, I stopped at a three-way intersection, entering it at a sharp angle. When I looked left I didn't see anything on the road, but later realized that the curve of the road had hidden a bike rider from my view. After turning right, I saw the bike in my rear-view mirror, about 100 feet away, approaching me fast on the long downhill. So I immediately gunned the car to keep well clear of the rider, but I still heard a distant voice through the open car window angrily shouting, "Asshole!"
The lessons from that incident was: (a) as a driver, I should have stopped longer at the intersection because of the sharp angle and looked more carefully to the left, and (b) if I'd been on the bike, I should have ridden more defensively and expected that a car entering the road from a tight angle might not be able to see me. That evening I went for a ride up the same canyon. As I was waiting to turn left onto the road, I waited until traffic cleared from the left, and I then waited for a last car from the right to pass by before I headed for the far shoulder. But on seeing me, the driver of that last car stopped for me and waved me across the road. I put up my hand and said, "Thank you." Nothing better than a courteous car driver!
Happily, I can say that only vary rarely in my many decades of riding a road bike have I felt like cursing at motorists for dangerous behavior … and much of my riding has been in cities such as London and New York. Like Leipheimer, I try to ride as far to the edge of the road as possible and always be aware of the location of any cars around me — whether they're ahead, behind or to the side.
Knock on wood, I've had only two actual collisions with vehicles. The first was in my college days when I was riding my bike from London to join some classmates on a geology field trip to the southwest of England. I was on a major road (remember we ride on the left in the UK), descending a long hill that curved to the right. There was no shoulder, so when a big truck (they're called lorries in England) came up from behind me, the driver moved out to his right to pass me before cutting back toward the left.
I was wearing a black wool sweater my mum had knitted for me, and as the lorry cut back in too quickly (the driver obviously misjudged my speed), the back edge of his vehicle caught a loop of my sweater and dragged me off the bike and some distance down the road. Somehow, I was not badly hurt, but the front wheel of my bike was pretzeled. The driver stopped to see if I was all right and kindly gave me a lift to the nearest town (it was Paignton in Devonshire). He dropped me off at a bike shop and paid for the repair. I was able to carry on riding to my destination and wasn't even late for the start of the field trip. A happy ending to what could have been a very nasty accident.
The other incident happened in my hometown a few years later. I was riding one evening to a meeting of my cycling club, heading slightly downhill through a green light. Just as I headed reached the intersection, a car going the other way cut across the street right in front of me. My bike hit the car's headlight and I flew through the air and landed face first on the hood. The only thing that broke (besides my bike's front wheel) was a front tooth. So maybe there is a tooth fairy, after all.
The other good part of that story is the traffic light where I crashed was right outside the apartment where a club-mate lived. I rang on his doorbell. He took my bike up to his place and he gave me a ride to our club meeting in his car. Another happy ending.
There are two more lessons to be learned from these incidents. One, motorists tend not to be looking for cyclists when they make turns, and that was probably the reason why that car turned in front of me at the light and why the motorist in Switzerland sideswiped Tony Martin last week — he was knocked unconscious and didn't remember exactly what happened. Two, motorists almost always underestimate the speed at which we ride our bikes. That was the case with the truck driver in Devon who moved in too soon and dragged me off my bike. As for Levi Leipheimer, the elderly driver that hit him from behind most likely didn't see a cyclist — although he might also have thought the shoulder was a driving lane.
Anyway, whether you're riding or driving on the open road, take extra care today—and every day.
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2012 Season Preview: Up-and-Comers
Indications are Pierre Roland may be the new hope of French cycling.
Last week we discussed the Men of the Hour—a rather easy-to-compile list of the men we all expect to be at forefront of the sport in 2012. But while the sport's Men of the Hour might be easier to identify, a list of Up-and-Comers is certainly more interesting to make as it allows for more prognosticating. After all, it's always fun to go out on a limb—especially if you turn out to be right.
Colombia – Something tells me we're on the verge of a renaissance, as Colombians have been taking some pretty huge scalps at the U23 level over the past few seasons including the Baby Giro (now called the GiroBio), the Tour de l'Avenir, and the World Road Championship. It's therefore no surprise that much of the country's best talent—men such as Rigoberto Uran, Fabio Duarte, Carlos Betancur, and Sergio Henao—is now turning heads as pros. But 2012 should see an even better sign of the South American nation's resurgence as the Colombia Coldeportes team—the first full-time, European-based Colombian squad the sport has seen in years—has already gained entry into some of Europe's biggest races. The team's main goal? A Tour de France invite—and they think they can get it as soon as this year.
Sep Vanmarcke – Belgium's Sep Vanmarcke burst onto the scene with a second-place ride for Topsport Vlaanderen at Ghent-Wevelgem in 2010, beating George Hincapie and Philippe Gilbert in the process and earning himself a contract with Garmin-Cervelo. Fast forward one year and there was Vanmarcke again at the front during the classics, this time burying himself for the sake of teammates Thor Hushovd, Heinrich Haussler, and Tyler Farrar, yet still finding the strength to finish 4th in the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen and 20th in Paris-Roubaix. Thor's departure bumps Sep up a rung in the squad's cobbled hierarchy this year, and considering Farrar's inconsistency on the pavé, Vanmarcke could easily find himself in a position to win a race for himself this spring.
Salvatore Puccio – This is more of long shot, but keep an eye on Team Sky neo-pro Salvatore Puccio, the winner of the 2011 U23 Tour of Flanders. Talented young Italians come a dime-a-dozen, which explains why most find themselves signing their first professional contracts with Italian squads. Not Puccio though, his impressive U23 resume turned some World Tour heads and the Italian was smart to take advantage of an opportunity to join one of the best cobbled teams in the sport. If Puccio's decisions on the road prove to be just as savvy, expect big things.
Omega Pharma-Quick Step – The losers in the Philippe Gilbert sweepstakes made smart choices on this winter's transfer market, bolstering their stage race ranks with the additions of Tony Martin and Levi Leipheimer, while avoiding a potential logjam at the head of their classics squad (I doubt Gilbert and Tom Boonen would have fared well together in the same team). With Martin and Leipheimer, the team now has two men ideally suited to the route of the 2012 Tour de France—and both can counted-on to win their share of stages and overall titles in smaller stage races as well. In fact, the season's already started-off on the right foot at Argentina's Tour de San Luis with Francesco Chicchi winning two stages and Leipheimer currently leading the overall after winning the ITT. Better still, Tom Boonen and Sylvain Chavanel appear healthy, fit, and motivated. Their return to form is certainly a good sign for the spring classics—and for a team looking to be competitive all season long.
Thomas De Gendt – Another member of the Topsport Vlaanderen class of 2010, De Gendt had quite an impressive World Tour debut with Vacansoleil in 2011, winning stages at Paris-Nice and the Tour de Suisse. A man built for the Ardennes, De Gendt should get more chances to ride for himself in all the spring classics this year—especially if Stijn Devolder proves unable to regain his Ronde-winning form from 2008 and 2009. But while the classics remain a goal for any Belgian, I wonder if De Gendt's destined for greater things—like grand tours. The 2011 Tour de France was the 25-year-old's first ever 3-week event. Not only did he finish the race in his first try, he finished 6th on Alpe d'Huez and 4th in the ITT in Grenoble, Stages 19 and 20 respectively. Those are telling results, for at a time when most riders were getting weaker, the Tour rookie was getting stronger.
Rabobank's Young Grand Tour Men – Rabobank's Robert Gesink is still only 25 and despite his poor Tour de France last year remains Holland's best hope for grand tour success. However, with men like Steven Kruijswijk and Bauke Mollema nipping at his heels, he'll need to do something soon (like, now) if he wants to stay relevant. In 2010, Kruijswijk finished 18th in his first Giro d'Italia—at barely 23 years of age. He bettered that result considerably last year, finishing ninth and then following it up with a stage win and third-place overall at the Tour de Suisse a few weeks later—against some very tough pre-Tour competition.
As for Mollema (who along with Gesink just extended his contract with Rabobank through 2014), his 2011 was even more impressive: tenth in Catalunya, ninth in Paris-Nice, fifth in the Tour de Suisse, and fourth at the Vuelta (along with the green points jersey and a day in the red jersey as race leader). Like Gesink, Mollema's also a talented single-day rider who should challenge in hillier classics such as Liege-Bastogne-Liege and il Lombardia (I'm still getting used to the new name too). And Mollema's only 25 as well—that makes 3 super talents for Rabobank—all under the age of 26. With all three riders deservedly expecting grand tour leadership in 2012, Rabobank's management might have a problem on its hands—then again, it's not a bad problem to have. And in case they're reading, here's an easy answer: Kruijswijk gets the Giro, Gesink the Tour, and Mollema the Vuelta.
France – Yes, we're still waiting for the true return of the French to the top steps of the sport's most prestigious podiums—but there's good reason to believe it's going to happen soon. First of all, a very talented group of young French professionals is on the rise, led by men such as Pierre Rolland, Arnold Jeannesson, and Thibaut Pinot. It's been a while since France had a rider who looked as if he could develop into a legitimate grand tour contender and now they have three.
Better yet, France has been identifying and developing young riders (juniors and espoirs) better than any country in the world, as evidenced by Frenchmen winning three of the last four junior world titles and two of the last three U23 world titles. While a rainbow jersey is never a one-way ticket to greatness, the French Federation's run of success certainly bodes well for the future—especially since world champions aren't the only quality riders the program is producing. And last but certainly not least, one has to expect that Thomas Voeckler's heroic 2011 Tour de France (coupled with a terrible showing in the 2010 World Cup by the French national soccer team) has inspired at least a handful of young French boys to choose cycling over soccer that otherwise might not have. It only takes one rider to change a generation's perception of a sport—maybe Voeckler's stunning performance will reap greater rewards 5 to 10 years in the future.
Young Italian Sprinters – If last season is any indication, Italian fans might soon have someone other than Daniele Bennati to hang their field sprint hopes upon. Sacha Modolo, Andrea Guardini, and Elia Viviani won a combined 29 races in 2011—and all but a few came via field sprints. The three still need to prove themselves in World Tour races (only Viviani won a race at the World level—and even that was in Beijing), and Modolo's the only one to have started a grand tour (twice, in fact—but he failed to finish both times). But at ages 24, 22, and 22, respectively, they still have time to develop.
Project 1t4i – Even though it's a Dutch squad, Project 1t4i (formerly Skil-Shimano) will be led by two young Germans this year: 2011-revelation Marcel Kittel and HTC-import John Degenkolb. It goes without saying that Kittel is an up-and-comer—the 23-year-old won 17 races in 2011 (18 if you count the Amstel Race in Curacao) including four stages each at the Four Days of Dunkirk and the Tour of Poland. Kittel's biggest victory—and proof that he's a force to be reckoned with in coming years—came at the Vuelta a Espana in September, the first of what looks to be many grand tour stage victories throughout his career.
No slouch himself, Degenkolb won six races in 2011 including two stages at the Criterium du Dauphiné. That said, it's clear that Degenkolb (also 23 years of age) is a future classics star—he reminds me of Matthew Goss in that he's a talented field sprinter who shows even more potential as a classics hard man. Last year, the rookie was given a start in every spring classic that mattered from the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (he finished 12th) to Paris-Roubaix (he finished 19th). With 1t4i already receiving several wild card invites to just about every cobbled race on the calendar, Degenkolb will be given new chances to impress in 2012.
So that it for my Up-and-Comers for 2012. If all goes as planned, our 2017 Men of the Hour will be a list of mostly Colombian, French, and German riders.
Who's on your list Up-and-Comers for 2012? Come join me on the limb!
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2012 Season Preview
At Pavé, I used to begin each season with a team-by-team rundown of what I considered to be the top-20 teams in the sport, highlighting their goals, expectations, and offering my insights as to their prospects for the new season. But since I'm not sure Padraig has the time or the editorial patience for such an effort, I think I'll take a bit more of a global approach to looking at the teams and riders you can expect to see building the major storylines of the 2012 season.
Let's get started with the 2012 Men of the Hour:
Team BMC – After adding Philippe Gilbert and Thor Hushovd to a roster already boasting Cadel Evans, it's hard not to identify Team BMC as the team to beat in 2012. In the Classics, Gilbert and Hushovd will lead the way supported by "domestiques" such as George Hincapie, Alessandro Ballan, Greg Van Avermaet, Marcus Burghardt, and—in hillier events—Cuddles himself. In July, the team will be reinforced by the addition of Marco Pinotti, a rider whose personality will fit in well with the "American" team following several years with the with HTC-HighRoad. And as if men such as these were not enough, BMC now boasts two of the most talented and sought-after young Americans of the past few seasons in Taylor Phinney and Tejay Van Garderen; both will be looking to make big waves in domestic events such as the Amgen Tour of California and USA Pro Cycling Challenge.
Fabian Cancellara – It says a lot about Radio Shack-Nissan's Fabian Cancellara that 2011 was considered a "down year" for the Swiss star. After all, it's gotta be tough for anyone to follow-up a season in which he won the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, several grand tour stages, and a World Time Trial Championship. But despite only winning six races (the biggest of which was the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen semi-classic), Cancellara was an overwhelming force in just about every race he entered—even if he didn't always win. Look for Cancellara's "mortal" 2011 to be followed by an "immortal" 2012, as less pressure, an improved team, and—perhaps most importantly—better team management will enable the Swiss Champion to dominate once more.
Belgium – Belgian cyclists enjoyed a succesful 2011; look for more of the same in 2012. But while we can expect men like Gilbert, Boonen, Van Avermaet, and Van den Broeck to dominate the headlines, watch for less-heralded (but no less talented) men such Maxime Monfort, Jan Bakelants, Thomas DeGendt, Jens Keukelaire, and Sep Van Maercke to earn their fair share of praise—and victories. Throw-in talented wild cards like 2011 Monument-winners Nick Nuyens and Johan Van Summeren, and there's little reason to believe we won't be hearing more of the Brabançonne (the Belgian National Anthem) at podium ceremonies all over the world.
American Stage Races – With the Amgen Tour of California, the Tour of Utah, and the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, the United States now boasts three world-class stage races, events that look certain to attract the world's best teams and riders for years to come. An even better trend: American athletes are rising to the challenge and not allowing themselves be bullied by their international colleagues. And while 2011 saw two of America's oldest professionals—Chris Horner and Levi Leipheimer—dividing the palmares among themselves, there's good reason to believe that 2012 will see the next generation of American stars—riders like Van Garderen and Garmin-Barracuda's Andrew Talansky—mount their own challenges as well. After all, if the sport is to thrive in the Post-Armstrong era, America needs great events and great riders to make it happen.
Peter Sagan – After a breakout season in 2010, Peter Sagan of Team Liquigas continued his development in 2011, winning more races than the previous year and taking his first grand tour stage (three of them, in fact) to boot. To make matters worse—for the competition, that is—Sagan is still only a few days shy of his 22nd birthday. In 2012, I expect we'll see further signs of the youngster's progression as he proves that he can be competitive in longer classics and Monuments. For example, he went into Worlds last October as one of the favorites to win the Rainbow Jersey. But Sagan faded in the end to finish a rather uninspiring 12th—after more than 260 kilometers of racing, he just didn't seem to be as fresh as his rivals. Look for Sagan to have solved this problem as early as Milan-San Remo—a Monument perfectly suited to his skills. After all, last year's Vuelta a Espana was the first 3-week stage race of his career. While it might have left him fatigued for Worlds, it served as the perfect base for a strong start to 2012. Riders develop form not only over the course of season but over the course of a career. In Sagan's case, it's still very early. Each race makes him stronger—and more prepared—for the next.
Dan & Tony Martin – No, they're not related, but these two men took their careers to the next level in 2011. Dan confirmed the promise he showed in 2009 and 2010 by winning his first grand tour stage and finishing 13th overall at the Vuelta before taking second at the Tour of Lombardy. After such an impressive late season run, look for the 25-year-old Irishman to be a protected rider at Garmin-Barracuda for the Ardennes Classics and to earn a ride in what will be his (long overdue) first Tour de France.
As for Tony, he was arguably one of the best two or three non-Gilbert riders of 2011, winning three stage races (including Paris-Nice and the new Tour of Beijing), stages in the Tour de France and the Vuelta Espana, and perhaps most importantly, a World Time Trial Championship (at the expense of Fabian Cancellara). Only 26-years old, the German now rides for Omega Pharma-Quick Step and is certainly licking his lips at a Tour de France that emphasizes time trialing. While a yellow jersey in Paris might be a bit out of his reach (he has yet to prove himself able to hang with the best of the best in the mountains), a place on the final podium is certainly within his grasp—especially with a relatively flat, 52-kilometer time trial on the penultimate day.
Johan Bruyneel – Other than BMC's incredible shopping spree, the biggest news this past off-season was the merger of Team Radio Shack and Leopard-Trek, a move that marked a distinct consolidation of power at the top of the sport's highest tier.
Team general manager Johan Bruyneel's first task will be developing an early season program that gets Cancellara to peak fitness, while still leaving everyone else guessing as to his form. Last year, Spartacus showed his cards too soon in winning the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen a week before the Tour of Flanders. An expert in the cloak and dagger game of form-building, Bruyneel needs to make sure the same mistake doesn't happen this spring. Next up: the Tour and the daunting task of picking the nine riders to represent the team. Assuming both Schlecks are automatic invites, that leaves about ten qualified men fighting for the remaining seven spots. Bruyneel will need to delicately balance the condition and the egos of his riders, choosing the right mix for the difficult job of delivering Andy Schleck to Paris in the yellow jersey (which is Bruyneel's real task). Reclaiming the cobbled classics for Cancellara is one thing; winning a Tour with Andy Schleck is an entirely different proposition. If Bruyneel proves he's up to it, he'll forever be known as one of the sport's greatest director's.
Team Sky – Were I still putting together a team-by-team ranking of the best squads in the sport, the top-3 would likely be BMC, Radio Shack-Nissan, and Team Sky. After a rather lackluster debut season, Sky started to put it all together last year, winning 32 races, including two stages at the Tour de France, one at the Vuelta Espana, and the overall title at the Criterium du Dauphine. Perhaps more impressively, Sky placed two riders—Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins—on the final podium at the Vuelta an impressive performance given the difficulty of the route. Even better, Sky boasts talented youngsters like Rigoberto Uran, Gerraint Thomas, Ben Swift, and Edvald Boassen Hagen, giving management the makings of the super-team that will be a force in every race it enters for years to come.
But as if last year's deeply talented roster wasn't enough, Sky added Mark Cavendish (along with his former HTC mates Bernhard Eisel and Danny Pate) and Richie Porte to the fold. Look for Cavendish to add to Sky's stage tally at the Tour while preparing himself for a chance at a gold medal in London. As for Porte, his addition will make Team Sky one of the top favorites for the new, trade team-only, World Team Time Trial Championship to be held this coming September.
Alberto Contador – If he races in 2012 (and that's a big "if"), there is little reason to believe Alberto Contador won't dominate the 2012 Tour de France. Yes, Cadel Evans is confident after winning in 2011 and motivated by a 2012 parcours that suits his talents. And yes, "Frandy" Schleck will benefit from the wisdom and tactical nous of Johan Bruyneel. And of course, we can't expect that so many contenders will crash-out during the Tour's first week. But like it or not, Contador is still—without a doubt—the best grand tour rider on the planet. The fact that he still managed to finish in the Tour's top-10 so soon after winning what was quite possibly the toughest grand tour ever speaks to the level of his talent. Only the pending CAS decision stands in his way. Then again, we said that last year, didn't we?
Those are my picks for 2012's "Men of the Hour". Share your own picks and comments below.
Coming Soon: 2012's Up-and-Comers.
Image: John Pierce, Photosport International
2012 Prognostications
Let's get the new year off on the right foot. I think fortune telling to be worth only slightly less than the word of someone working on Wall Street. And predicting the future contains all the science found in an episode of Entertainment Tonight.
So I'm going to jump in with a few predictions for this year. They may constitute wishful thinking more than actual predictions, but going into this new year, I've spent some time thinking about what the new season will bring.
Change will be the watchword for the year. I suspect the various changes in behavior we will see on the part of various riders, teams and companies will require lots of re-thinking. In some cases that thinking will go as deep as identity, but it could require rethinking less who you are than how you do business.
Change in Strategy: If Fabian Cancellara's attacks at Milan-San Remo, Ronde van Vlaanderen, and Paris-Roubaix were bold, expect him to be more guarded this year. Don't be surprised if he waits until later in the race to make his move. That said, for such a strategy to work, his accelerations will have to be more ferocious. A late-race attack needs afterburners to succeed because more of the favorites are willing to burn matches to ensure their own chances. Of course, because Cancellara has one of the biggest engines in the peloton, don't be surprised if he goes even earlier in a bid to catch competitors off guard.
Change in Goals: Of the many teams that will be invited to compete at the 2012 Tour de France, Thor Hushovd signed with the one guaranteed to prevent him from attempting to notch another stage victory at le Grand Boucle. It could be argued that Saxo Bank would similarly clip the Norwegian's wings, but with Alberto Contador's 2012 season a matter of much speculation and at least some doubt, it could be that he could have signed with Bjarne Riis only to arrive with plenty incentive (and direction) to get some result, any result. Hushovd will have a free hand at Roubaix, but can that really be his only goal for the season? And if he doesn't find success there (how often does a rider achieve his sole goal for a season?), what will become his plan B? Complicating matters for him is the fact that he will share the non-Tour spotlight with Philippe Gilbert, a guy who wins more often. There's not a team with more promise or more volatility currently licensed. Years from now we could look back on this team as the one that put La Vie Claire and Astana to shame.
Change in Mission: Omega Pharma-QuickStep is a team that will be forced to reinvent itself. Having signed Levi Leipheimer and Tony Martin, the team management will need to figure out how to support a rider at—at the very least—shorter stage races, if not a grand tour. Given the lousy year Tom Boonen had (and only a rider of his stature can win Gent-Wevelgem and still have a lousy year), it would seem unwise to hang the whole of the team's hopes on him for their big results. To do so would mean wasting the investment on Leipheimer and Martin.
Change in Business: Electronic shifting is going to change the evolution of component groups. The move from 10 to 11 gears and from 11 to 12 will no longer require new control levers. Instead just a software update will be necessary. Riders using Di2 will be able to purchase a Dura-Ace 11-speed cassette and instantly have 11-speed Di2. Neat trick. The upshot here is that one of the traditional drivers/limiters to a new group is a redesigned control lever. If adding another cog is as easy as software code, then you have to ask just what will drive the introduction of a whole new group. The question isn't as easy as it seems. Is weight enough of a driver? Almost certainly not. How much performance increase is enough? That's almost impossible to quantify, but there's a tipping point, most will agree. With this technical hurdle out of the way, we may see Shimano and Campagnolo doing more to update their groups each year and in that there's the risk of turning off the bike-buying public. Caveat venditor.
Change in Scope: Well, Bicycle Retailer let part of the cat out of the bag, but it wasn't all of the cat by any means. You'll see a post regarding the other half of that story soon. A change in scope is what's happening at RKP. I began this blog as a way to publish work that wasn't finding a home at mainstream media outlets. Belgium Knee Warmers proved there was an audience for it and RKP gave me a way to follow my heart on subject matter and make some money, so that I could continue to do that work. My one promise to myself was that RKP would be a home to good writing. That promise has taken on a slightly more epic cast (and while the word "epic" gets overused, in my personal circumstance I get to use it this time).
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End of an era—one sight we're not likely to see again: Armstrong leading Contador.
Well this is one time the FGR won't be settled immediately. We've got nearly two weeks to see how this will shake out, but they are, after all, two weeks we've been waiting for since last August.
Interestingly, in your comments, There's really only consensus on two classifications. With two exceptions each, everyone thinks that Thor Hushovd will take the green jersey, just as he did last year, and Andy Schleck will double up on the white jersey as well.
Alberto Contador was the only rider to come up with more than one vote for the yellow jersey, so it seems we must acknowledge that he remains the favorite. Interestingly, Andy Schleck was the only rider to get votes in three classifications: overall, mountains and best young rider. An inobservant reader might believe that to be an indication of his completeness as a rider, but it really doesn't back us into a larger belief that he has the potential to wear yellow in Paris.
Eight stages in, a new question is worth asking: With Lance Armstrong's GC hopes dashed, Christian Vande Velde out of the race, Bradley Wiggins unable to deliver as he did last year in the blue, white and orange of Garmin, if we assume that Contador, Evans and Schleck are the likely podium, who do you think will round out the top five or six?
Armstrong's demise also spells out a very surprising development: Levi Leipheimer is finally the GC leader for a Johan Bruyneel-led team at the Tour de France. I don't think anyone ever thought those three details would line up. It's as if a one-armed bandit came up Bar-Bar-Bar for Santa Rosa's favorite athlete. Go figure.
And as a corollary to my previous question, do you think Ryder Hesjedal can pull off what Wiggins did last year? Sky doesn't seem to have figured out Wiggo the way Vaughters and White did. Rather an interesting development, given the way he badmouthed Garmin on his way out.
Losing Leipheimer
The withdrawal of Levi Leipheimer from the 2009 Tour de France due to a broken wrist is a sad twist for the race. It's a loss on a number of levels, though it doesn't change the race in the way some may think.
The first, biggest loss is that to Leipheimer himself. He was on stellar form and would possibly have had his second podium finish at the Tour. But this is yet another year where Leipheimer's potential remains a question mark. Just what can he do as a leader?
The second is obviously to Astana. Only one other team in history has been able to use a guy sitting in the top five on GC to help control the race. When you think of legendary watchdogs, it is hard to find one more capable than Leipheimer.
Psychologically, Lance Armstrong has experienced a setback. Armstrong places a premium on riders' whose loyalty is beyond question. That said, still has plenty of support in the form of Andreas Kloden and Yaroslav Popovych for when the race hits the high Alps and Mont Ventoux.
Unless Armstrong completely detonates on Mont Ventoux, the 2009 Tour de France will recalibrate our ideas about what a cyclist can achieve as he ages. Even if Contador wins the race, fewer people will think a guy who has had his 35th birthday is incapable of winning a Grand Tour. The question in Leipheimer's case is will he ever be presented with an opportunity to arrive at the start of a Grand Tour properly trained and supported for unquestioned leadership.
The best thing that could happen for Leipheimer is to take his time healing up and then build back up for a run at the Vuelta a Espana. Of course, should Contador not win the Tour de France—and Armstrong doesn't have to win, Contador just has to lose—he will likely want his own shot at the Vuelta which would resign Leipheimer yet again to the roll of World's Finest Domestique.
But what does Leipheimer's absence really do to the Tour? It means very little to the competition between Armstrong and Contador on a direct basis. Though it is true that Andy Hampsten was forced to chase Bernard Hinault on one occasion in the Alps at the '86 Tour, it is almost impossible to conceive of a situation in which Leipheimer would have been asked (and Bruyneel would have allowed) to chase down his own teammate. In short, Leipheimer's greatest threat to Contador was psychological; knowing Leipheimer was loyal to Amstrong may have made him something of a deterrent to Contador.
Leipheimer's greatest use was always in controlling the attacks of other teams. As a result, his absence will make it harder for Astana to neutralize other teams late in a stage. While that fact may strike many of you as obvious to the point of stupidity, the upshot is truly interesting.
Late-stage attacks from the likes of Carlos Sastre, Andy Schleck or Christian Vande Velde (it seems a little unlikely that Bradley Wiggins or Tony Martin will mount a stunning attack) will give both Armstrong and Contador an opportunity to follow and counterattack. A less neutralized competition should actually increase the fireworks between Astana's two leaders.
And what of Leipheimer's post-recovery future? It simply can't be guessed. Had anyone suggested Leipheimer would return to Bruyneel's fold to both achieve his best-ever form and be reduced to a support role at Grand Tours, most observant cycling fans would have scoffed. It's a new take on irony, huh?
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Little Orphan Annie debuted on August 5, 1924 in but a single newspaper. Over the next 44 years. Annie became a cultural icon — in both her red-headed, blank-eyed appearance, and as the embodiment of American individuality, spunk, and self-reliance. Even those who's never read the comic strip are keenly aware of the plucky orphan, her loveable mutt Sandy, and her adoptive benefactor Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks — through the Broadway play, the hit movie, and the song "Tomorrow" made famous by both.
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Will Tomorrow Ever
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Edited & Designed by Dean Mullaney, Essay by Jeet
It's through the trials and tribulations of these first three years that Annie emerges as the kid with a heart of gold and a quick left hook. In these stories, we meet the poor little orphan, see her rescue Sandy from torture by a gang of bullies, and encounter her once and future "Daddy" — billionaire Oliver Warbucks.
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America's spunkiest kid stands for fair play as she gives the scoundrels and rats their just desserts! Little Orphan Annie-the original female comics hero-takes on chiseling business men and a gang of thieves, armed only with her sharp wit and mean left hook. Then she helps her surrogate parents by nursing "Daddy" Warbucks to health and helping save the Silos' family farm.
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And a Blind Man
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Introduction by Bruce Canwell.
Now with Sundays in color for the first time in more than 75 years. The action never stops as Annie gets shipwrecked with Spike Marlin. Then the Depression and rival businessmen wreck "Daddy" Warbucks's empire, leaving him broke and ruined. Annie gets a job, while "Daddy" finds work as a truck driver. But a near fatal accident leaves him...well, we don't want to give away the plot! Let's just say that with Flop-House Bill at his side, "Daddy" tries to claw his way back to the top!
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A House Divided (or
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Edited & Designed by Dean Mullaney, Essay by Jeet
"Daddy" Warbucks takes a new wife, Annie's in the clutches of the Sisters of Suppression, and the spunkiest kid in America is destined for adventures in Cosmic City. Containing every daily and Sunday strip from January, 1932 through July, 1933, with the dailies printed directly from Harold Gary's original artwork.
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The One-Way Road to
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Edited & Designed by Dean Mullaney, Essay by Jeet
Together with the blind fiddler, "Uncle" Dan, Annie square off against the Chizzler, then embarks on her first novel-length adventure. In a story lasting nearly a full year, Annie's supposed "real" parents-Boris and Libby Bleek, leaders of the criminal Ghost Gang-gain legal custody of her, while "Daddy" Warbucks is hounded into jail by the unscrupulous politician, Phil O. Bluster. "The One-Way "Road to Justice" leaves a penniless Annie and "Daddy" and on the bum amidst the Great Depression. Containing every daily and color Sunday strip from July 1933 through February 1935, with the dailies printed directly from Harold Gary's original artwork.
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Punjab the
by Harold Gray
Edited & Designed by Dean Mullaney, Essay by Jeet
Introducing one of the strip's most beloved
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Little Orphan Annie Vol. 7: 1936-1938
The Omnipotent Mr.
by Harold Gray
Edited & Designed by Dean Mullaney, Essay by Jeet
Introducing two of the strip's most incredible
characters: The Asp—who has sometimes been likened to the
Grim Reaper, and Mr. Am—who has been said might be a
representation of the Almighty. Harold Gray is at the top of his
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The Last Port of
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Edited & Designed by Dean Mullaney, Essay by Jeet
Jack, Ace Chance, and Shanghai Peg each play
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Little Orphan Annie Vol. 9: 1940-1941
Saints and
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Edited & Designed by Dean Mullaney, Essay by Jeet
Axel's back and this time he's not taking any
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Born in Kankakee, Illinois in 1894, Harold Gray began his cartooning career as an assistant to Sidney Smith, creator of the famously successful strip, The Gumps. Gray wrote and illustrated Little Orphan Annie from 1924 until his death in 1968.
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This topic shows you how to set up source control for the first time in Windows Azure Mobile Services to store your server scripts in a Git repository. Scripts and other JavaScript code files can be promoted from your local repository to your production mobile service. It also shows how to define shared code that can be reqiured by multiple scripts and how to upload Node.js modules.
The tutorial guides you through the following steps:
To complete this tutorial, you must have already created a mobile service by completing either the Get started with Mobile Services or the Get started with data tutorial.
Log on to the Windows Azure Management Portal, click Mobile Services, and then click your mobile service.
Click the Dashboard tab, then under Quick glance, click Set up source control, and click Yes to confirm.
Source control is a preview feature. We recommend that you backup your script files regulary, even though they are stored in Mobile Services.
Supply a User name, New password, confirm the password, then click the check button.
The Git repository is created in your mobile service. Make a note of the credentials you just supplied; you will use them to access this repository.
Click the Configure tab and notice the new Source control fields.
The URL of the Git repository is displayed. You will use this URL to clone the repository to your local computer.
Now that you have enabled source control in your mobile service, it's time to use Git to clone the repo to your local computer.
Install Git on your local computer.
The steps required to install Git vary between operating systems. See Installing Git for operating system specific distributions and installation guidance.
On some operating systems, both a command-line and GUI version of Git are available. The instructions provided in this article use the command-line version.
Open a command-line, such as GitBash (Windows) or Bash (Unix Shell). On OS X systems you can access the command-line through the Terminal application.
From the command line, change to the directory where you will store your scripts. For example, cd SourceControl.
cd SourceControl
Use the following command to create a local copy of your new Git repository, replacing <your_git_URL> with the URL of the Git repository for your mobile service:
git clone <your_git_URL>
When prompted, type in the user name and password that you set when you enabled source control in your mobile service. After successful authentication, you will see a series of responses like this:
remote: Counting objects: 8, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. remote: Total 8 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0) Unpacking objects: 100% (8/8), done.
Browse to the directory from which you ran the git clone command, and notice the following directory structure:
git clone
In this case, a new directory is created with the name of the mobile service, which is the local repository for the data service.
Open the .\service\table subfolder and notice that it contains a TodoItem.json file, which is a JSON representation of the operation permissions on the TodoItem table.
When server scripts have been defined on this table, you will also have one or more files named TodoItem.<operation>.js that contain the scripts for the given table operation. Scheduler and custom API scripts are maintained in separate folders with those respective names. For more information, see Source control.
Now that you have created your local repository, you can make changes to server scripts and push the changes back to the mobile service.
Browse to the .\service\table subfolder, and if a file todoitem.insert.js files doesn't already exist, create it now.
Open the new file todoitem.insert.js in a text editor and paste in the following code and save your changes:
function insert(item, user, request) { request.execute(); console.log(item); }
This code simply writes the inserted item to the log. If this file already contains code, simply add some valid JavaScript code to this file, such as a call to console.log(), then save your changes.
In the Git command prompt, type the following command to start tracking the new script file:
$ git add .
Type the following command to commit changes:
$ git commit -m "updated the insert script"
Type the following command to upload the changes to the remote repository:
$ git push origin master
You should see a series of commands that indicates that the commit is deployed to the mobile service.
Back in the Management Portal, click the Data tab, then click the TodoItem table.
Click Script, then select the Insert operation.
Notice that the displayed insert operation script is the same as the JavaScript code that you just uploaded to the repository.
Mobile Services provides access to the full set of core Node.js modules, which you can use in your code by using the require function. Your mobile service can also use Node.js modules that are not part of the core Node.js package, and you can even define your own shared code as Node.js modules. For more information about creating modules, see Modules in the Node.js API reference documentation.
Next, you will add the node-uuid Node.js module to your mobile service by using source control and the Node.js package manager (NPM). This module is then used to generate a new GUID value for the uuid property on inserted items.
If you haven't already done so, install Node.js on your local computer by following the steps at the Node.js web site.
Navigate to the .\service folder of your local Git repository, then from the command prompt run the following command:
npm install node-uuid
NPM creates the node_modules directory in the current location and installs the node-uuid module in the \node-uuid subdirectory.
When node_modules already exists in the directory hierarchy, NPM will create the \node-uuid subdirectory there instead of creating a new node_modules in the repository. In this case, just delete the existing node_modules directory.
Now browse to the .\service\table subfolder, open the todoitem.insert.js file and modify it as follows:
function insert(item, user, request) { var uuid = require('node-uuid'); item.uuid = uuid.v1(); request.execute(); console.log(item); }
This code adds a uuid column to the table, populating it with unique GUID identifiers.
As in the previous section, type the following command in the Git command prompt:
$ git add . $ git commit -m "added node-uuid module" $ git push origin master
This adds the new file, commits your changes, and pushes the new node-uuid module and changes to the todoitem.insert.js script to your mobile service.
Now that you have completed this tutorial you know how to store your scripts in source control. Consider learning more about working with server scripts and with custom APIs:
Work with server scripts in Mobile Services Shows how to work with server scripts, job scheduler, and custom APIs.
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Based on medical studies, federal guidance and an increased public interest in KI-potassium iodide, New York State and Westchester County have developed a program to provide KI-potassium iodide to residents who live, work or travel within the 10-mile Emergency Planning Zone.
Residents should understand that:
The FDA emphasizes that the use of KI should be used as an adjunct to, not an option "in lieu of" evacuation, sheltering, and control of foodstuffs. If you live within the 10-mile radius of Indian Point, you should pick up some free KI that you may need to use in a radiological emergency.
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Though most of us would admit we get a bit jumpy when our internet connection goes on the fritz, it's unlikely that many could call it an emergency. The potential for a massive cyber-emergency is on the mind of at least one Senator, however, who wants to give the President the power to "protect" us against an internet crisis.
The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, sponsored by Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), proposes to create a new White House "Office of Cyberspace Policy", as well as a National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security. The two bodies would have sweeping powers to "protect" the internet from whatever dangers they might dream up.
In addition to coordinating national cybersecurity among the various federal agencies and cabinet departments, the NCCC would have authority over private-sector providers deemed vital to cybersecurity. These companies would be required to comply with "security measures" set out by the Director of the NCCC, and would be subject to federal penalties for noncompliance.
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The Lieberman bill is not the first time such a measure has been proposed, and will likely not be the last, as we predict it has little chance for seeing the light of day. Though the bill has been referred to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs — which Lieberman chairs — it will no doubt find itself before at least one more, where it will face scrutiny sans the benefit of nepotism.
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Those with morbid curiosity, or insomnia, can get the full text of the bill — all 197 pages — from the Senate's website.
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Where do these miserable, scheming, conniving, idiots come from and how in the name of HE** do they get elected? As for FakeDrake's question about how stupid do they think we are... we elected them, again and again, that's how stupid they think we are.
I must admit it is a bit surprising how they try to do these things so shamelessly. I mean how stupid do they think we are?
Few things make me facepalm more than Congress trying to pass unenforceable laws. Lieberman must be greatly in need of an expert from the tech community who can be a wonk and advise the illustrious senator of the futility of his power grab.
Patrick Wagstrom did a fantastic presentation at Ohio Linuxfest this past year entitled How to be a Wonk. It would be great if someone from Lieberman's state took up the reigns and offered their expert knowledge as a Senate Advisor.
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