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Fewer Students Smoking Cigarettes in North Carolina
Latest Youth Tobacco Survey conducted in North Carolina found that fewer middle and high school students in the state are smoking cheapest cigarettes.
The bad news is that more students use other tobacco products and here the talk is about pipes, snuff, hookah and e-cigarettes.
The doctors are worried much about youth interest towards e-cigarettes and significant increase in use of this product. Data shows that in the last two years e-ciagrettes use among teens has more than tripled.
In the course of the survey, the researchers found that 10% of middle school students and 30% of high school students in North Carolina use one or another kind of tobacco product. According to Health Director of Mecklenburg County, e-cigarettes do represent a serious problem when the talk is about youth, because still few studies were made on thir effects on human bodies.
E-cigarettes are sold to young people without any restriction, therefore they start smoking at their early age. Studies demonstrate that 90% of smokers started smoking when they were under 18 and in adult age they already became regular smokers. The earlier people begin smoking, the harder for them is to quit in adult age.
Dr. Marcus Plescia comes with a proposal to prohibit tobacco use on county grounds in order to reduce smoking rates among youth in North Carolina. Mecklenburg County Commission is the body who takes such decisions. At the same time, smokers who want to quit may use QuitLine NC.
Ireland Leads EU on Plain Packaging of Cigarettes
The Irish government approved draft laws which make tobacco companies use plain packs on tobacco products sold in the country. This is a great and important step towards the improvment of public health, which will improve country's reputation as a global leader in tobacco control.
If the law will be adopted, it will prohibit use of logos on cigarettes packs. The packs must contain graphic warnings and insriptions like "low tar" are prohibited. With this law Ireland is going to be first country in the European Union who introduced plain packaging for cigarettes.
It is expected that tobacco industry will oppose strongly to this law and their lobbists will defend the industry's interests. The opponents of the law already told that the plain packaging initiative would cause negative reaction to foreign investors.
Minister for Health says that the goal of Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Bill is to make cigarettes packs look less attractive to users, especially youth. It will help to prevent people from starting smoking and make people aware about the effects of tobacco use.
Experts say that beautiful cigarettes packs make children start smoking at an early age and soon they easy become regular smokers. They become so addicted that later in life have difficulties with quitting. It is known that tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals and 250 of them are harmful. Smoking may cause cancer, cardiovascular diseases and lung disease.
The tobacco industry will dispute the effectiveness of the proposed packaging measures and will talk about intellectual property rights. However, Australia managed to adopt such a law and this is an example to follow.
Tax Increase Will Not Reduce Tobacco Use
British American Tobacco Zimbabwe asked governments in Southern Africa to pay attention to the consequences of high taxes on tobacco products which were increased in order to reduce tobacco use among population.
On May 31 the world celebrated No Tobacco Day and with this regard BAT Zimbabwe released a statement which says that the company does not believe that increasing tobacco taxes will make people refuse from smoking. Instead they will look for cheap cigarettes.
In Southern Africa already are registered high tobacco taxes in comparision with other parts of Africa. In these conditions it would never do to increase taxes again. The economic environment in which the disposable income of smokers remains stretched.
Usually smokers react on cigarettes prices increase with turning to such cheap cigarettes as Doina and Armada which they buy in online cigarettes shops. This helps them to save money. People always look for attractive prices and they are ready to change premium brands for not popular brands.
BAT Zimbabwe asks governments, who want to reduce tobacco usage, to broaden the possibility of their considerations beyond increases in tax. Public health purposes cannot be the single aspect of consideration when using fiscal policy.
In reality, unintended consequences resulted from increases in tax on tobacco products may expose to a risk the achievement of these public health purposes.
The WHO estimated that today there are one billion smokers worldwide and that by 2050 this number could increase to 2.2billion. BAT Zimbabwe says that there is a need for a different approach to tobacco taxation that takes into consideration all the potential unintended consequences.
WHO Calls for Tobacco Taxes Increase
On May 31 the world would celebrate No Tobacco Day. In connection with this the WHO calls the countries in the entire world to increase taxes on tobacco in order to encourage smokers to quit and prevent youth from becoming smokers.
The WHO estimated that increasing tobacco taxes by 50% in all countries worldwide will help to reduce the number of smokers by 49 million within the next 3 years.
These days smoking incurs considerable costs for families, governments and businesses because treating smoking related diseases is quite expensive. Smoking-related disease affect negatively businesses because low productivity leads to income drop.
The WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan considers that increasing taxes on cigarettes is the most effective way to reduce tobacco use among people.
High prices on cigarettes are very effective in discouraging young people from starting smoking and becoming regular smokers. Moreover, they encourage existing young smokers to reduce their tobacco use or quit.
According to Dr Douglas Bettcher, Director of the Department for Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases at WHO, increasing prices on cigarettes helps to reduce tobacco use among young people than among older adults. Adult smokers say that when taxes are increased they buy cheap cigarettes in the Internet.
The WHO estimates that if all countries in the world increased tobacco taxes by 50% per pack, governments would gain US$ 101 billion in global revenue. For example, fhose money could be used in social programmes.
Philippines and France are countries that increased taxes on cigarettes and this measure proved to be effective. Thus in France has reduced the number of people suffering from smoking related diseases, and in Philippines the Government gathered more money than it was expected and wants to spend them on health services.
Earlier FDA launched an anti-smoking campaign aimed at youth
How Has Smoking In the USA Changed Since 1964
Fifty years ago on January 11, the surgeon general released a report which showed a link between smoking and disease, which changed totally the attitude towards tobacco.
Social pressures against smoking resulted in regulation by government, thus smoking now is banned in bars and restaurants in a number od American states.
Since the release of report people changed their attitude towards smoking and today in the USA smoking rate has dropped by half. Experts say that almost 8 million lives were saved.
Surgeon General Boris D. Lushniak said that on January 11 we celebrated 50 years from the first surgeon general's report on smoking effects on human's health. It was Luther Terry who made it. It played a big role in understanding the importance of making a research and today people are familiar enough about the effects of tobacco use on human body.
Since 1964 the label "Surgeon General's Warning" on tobacco products forever connects people with the Surgeon General. It was estimated that 50 years of struggle against smoking resulted in 50% drop in America's smoking rate.
The Journal of the American Medical Association released the next important data about smoking:
– About 23%of adult males and about 18% of adult females smoke.
– About 60% of American kids aged 4 – 11 are exposed to secondhand smoke at home.
– 90% of lung cancer in males is connected to smoking and 80% of lung cancer in females is caused by cigarettes.
– On average, smokers die 13 to 14 years earlier than nonsmokers.
– The greatest number of smokers are between the ages of 25 and 44.
– Since 1965, more than 45% of smokers have quit.
American Heart Association estimated that most smokers began to smoke in their teenage. Regretably, young people don't quite realize the dangers of smoking.
Quit Smoking in 2014
Quitting smoking is a most popular New Year's Resolution. Everyone knows that smoking is harmful to the body so every year more and more smokers promise to and successfully quit the habit.
Secondhand smoke can cause allergic reactions and asthma in some people and stop healthy development of lungs in kids.
Therefore, smokers should not smoke in the presence of kids and people with health problems.
Also scientists talk about thirdhand smoke. What is it? It is what tobacco smoke leaves on surfaces, upholstery and a variety of porous materials. We may feel thirdhand smoke in the car when someone smoked, in someone's house or from someone's clothes.
Like secondhand smoke, thirdhand smoke is connected to allergic reactions, asthmatic symptoms and other physical responses not only in people but also in pets.
Many years the Florida Department of Health has worked to reduce tobacco exposure rates in the state. Now they are concentrated on reduction of tobacco exposure on multi-unit housing, where air containing secondhand and thirdhand smoke can involuntarily be shared by neighbors via ventilation systems, cracks in walls and so on.
Apartments where lived a man who smoked indoors usually have a strong tobacco odor and nicotine discoloration on floors, walls and window which demands great cleaning or replacement before a new man can move in and feel himself comfortable there.
Apartment communities having policies that restrict tobacco use in indoor spaces, are become popular. Such policies do greatly improve air quality and keep maintenance costs down and besides this they reduce the risk of fire.
Tobacco Use Among Teens in West Virginia Declined
Experts say that tobacco use among young people in West Virginia is declining, Recently West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Division of Tobacco Prevention revealed data that demonstrates the percentage of high school students who said they have never used any kind of tobacco productshas raised from 20.6% in 2000 to 46.1% in 2013.
Over the same period of ten years, there was a 107% increase in the number of high school students who never have tried to smoke cigarettes.
Dr. Letitia Tierney, State Health Officer and Commission for the Bureau for Public Health says that this data shows that anti-smoking programs and other initiatives by the Bureau of Public Health which help to inform young people about the effects of nicotine are working.
The data revealed today suggests that improvements that were made over the last 10 years are very effective and this is worth celebrating.
Data shows that 18.6% of high school students in West Virginia are smokes while in 2000 there were 38.5% of smokers.
Tierney says it is a great success and attributes it to teenagers that take part in Raze, West Virginia's tobacco prevention movement. Generally, there are almost 4,000 young people who joined the program with 150 crews in the entire state.
Tierney also says it is a great progress and it is important to keep in mind that nicotine causes addiction. Young people must be informed about the effects of tobacco use before they become addicted.
New Smoking Policy Came into Action in Beaverton
In the city of Beaverton, Oregon, from September 1 a new tobacco-free policy comes into effect. The new policy touches far more than just city's buildings.
Use of tobacco is going to be prohibited not only in city-owned buildings but in leased buildings too. Besides this, in Beaverton smoking will not be permitted on any city-sponsored event or venue.
The authorities say these anti-tobacco measures are taken in order to encourage a healthy lifestyle in their city.
Until Sunday, the use of tobacco had been prohibited in city-owned buildings only. However, Sunday's tobacco ban expansion spreads to city-owned or leased properties, city-sponsored events or venues, the parking areas of Beaverton City Hall, Activities Center and Community Center, the city's Operations Facility, Beaverton City Library,
In a press release, the City of Beaverton reports that smoking is prohibited inside all privately owned means of transport when parked in the zones mentioned above.
In October 2012, the city received a federal grant in an amount of $1.6 million from the Center for Disease Control in order to improve total health of citizens in the community. The new anti-tobacco initiative in Beaverton meets main requirement of the grant to increase the number of tobacco-free places for staff and resident access.
Mayor of the city, Denny Doyl, said in a statement that as a good federal partner, they recognize that the city of Beaverton has a responsibility to protect their employees and visitors from the negative effects of secondhand smoke. The major aim of authorities is to create a healthy environment for the citizens and this step is very important in achieving it.
Cigarette Taxation Helps to Reduce Drinking Rates
In the USA tobacco use and heavy drinking are among major causes of preventable diseases. Cigarette taxation is considered one of most important policy tools to reduce smoking among Americans.
Most of all, drinking and smoking occur together. There was made a research on the field which analyzed the effects of cigarette taxation and it found out that cigarettes price increase is linked with modest to moderate reductions in alcohol usage among vulnerable groups of population.
The results of the research will be published in January 2014 in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
Sherry McKee, the author of the research and associate professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, said that together heavy drinking and smoking occur in terrifyingly high rates.
Tobacco use can intensify the effects of alcohol and even increase the risk for problematic and heavy drinking. Smokers drink more ofren and more heavily than non-smokers, and are more likely than non-smokers to become alcohol dependent.
Сo-occurrence of drinking and smoking has a particular clinical importance because of evidence that health effects increase with combined against singular abuse of alcohol and tobacco.
Christopher W. Kahler, professor and chair of the department of behavioral and social sciences at Brown School of Public Health, said that drinking and smoking are strongly connected for a number of reasons including corresponding pharmacologic effects, shared genetic associations, shared neuronal pathways, learned associations, common environmental factors. It is possible to fight these habits with pharmacotherapy, behavioral treatments and policy.
Cigarette taxes are considered most efficient tool to fight smoking. Increases in cigarette taxes reduces the number of people who want to start smoking and increases the number of people who want to quit. In other woeds, by increasing the price of cigarettes, taxes are thought to help smokers reduce tobacco use or even quit smoking, and prevent non-smokers from starting to smoke cigarettes.
McKee with her colleagues analyzed data received through interviews with 21,473 alcohol users as part the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, a survey made by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
The researchers estimated how increases in cigarette taxes between Waves I (2001-2002) and II (2004-2005) were connected to reductions in frequency and quantity of alcohol use. The results of the study suggest that increases in cigarette taxes were connected to reductions in alcohol usage over time among men.
Tax hike didn't cut smoking
Senators will interrogate the tobacco industry stakeholders about the government plan to reform excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol in spite of the presupposition made by Cesar Purisima, Finance Secretary that the tax rise was not a reason for quitting smoking.
During a previous hearing led by the Senate committee Purisima said that they suppose that essential tax increases and following retail prices increase will not lead to a significant decrease in tobacco use.
According to the recent study, it was demonstrated that cigarette use even increased under the conditions of hikes in tobacco taxes and prices.
Cesar Purisima said that cigarette prices from year 2004 to 2011 were augmented by as much as 61%, but tobacco use did not decreased.
He made reference to tobacco tax hikes, which over the years, had led to corresponding increases in the retail prices by as much as 99%.
Republic Act 9334 requires tax increases on tobacco and alcohol products starting January 1, 2005 and every other year until January 1, 2011.
But Senator Ralph Recto, ways and means committee chairman, pointed out that the main thing in the current tax reform discussions is coming up with the efficient tax rate.
He declared that it was the opinion of majority in the Senate to reach a tax structure that would profit all players equally.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said if the Senate wants to increase the tax, it won't reduce the number of smokers and they will continue to smoke.
Rodelito Atienza, who is the Labor Union president, asked if the proposed aim will not be reached, why is the DOF willing to cause so much injury to many of stakeholders in both alcohol and tobacco industries who are ready to lose their jobs?"
Blake Dy, Associated Anglo-American Tobacco Corp. vice president, said that government was being "heavy-handed" without the need. There are other ways of make money without giving such radical change, he said.
He added that the government should preserve an open mind on this matter. There are various ways to obtain government's goals without destroying the industry, he said.
Health Secretary Enrique Ona told that the country is now number one country in tobacco use in the Southeast Asia with every Filipino smoking an estimated 1,073 sticks yearly.
He stressed that cigarette consumption is a risk factor in 6 of the world's 8 leading causes of preventable diseases.


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on February 28, 2014Papa Francesco has had enough of your royalist bullshit.
Since he was elected nearly a year ago, Francis has made it clear that he wants to improve the quality of bishops and that he will have no patience for ambitious ladder-climbers who are always looking for a bigger diocese or a cardinal's hat. The pope has blasted hierarchical "careerism" as "a form of cancer" and derided bishops who strut about in church finery as "peacocks." He has called on bishops to be pastors who are close to the flock and not "airport bishops" who buzz around the world padding their resumes. In his talk Thursday, Francis also repeated the words from a speech last June about the kind of bishops he wants, reiterating that candidates should not have the "psychology of princes" and they should not commit "adultery" by constantly seeking another diocese. He asked the congregation to prepare a new document about the rules on how much time bishops should spend in their dioceses.
This is something he can do, and he can do it alone, and none of the peacocks can gainsay his right to do it, not and still live under holy obedience, they can't. The last two popes -- especially John Paul II -- chose bishops and cardinals based on the candidate's willingness to maintain the pope's level of doctrinal authoritarianism down through the ages. This pope wants pastors, and he seems to be willing to go out of his way to find him. The episcopate and the cardinalate are every pope's lasting legacy, much as Supreme Court nominees are the lasting legacy of a president. If he is sincere about undermining the cancer of medievalism that's still eating away at the institution, this is the best way to do it. St. James and I continue to watch with interest.
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(Feature) – Su Su Kyi is one of the thousands of relatives of political prisoners who must travel long distances across Burma to see their family members. With five relatives who are political prisoners, it is an emotionally draining and financially costly experience.
She has been doing it for many years. She's been forced to sell her apartment to cover bills, and it's a constant burden to find people who can care for her own children when she's on the road.
It's a painful litany: her daughter, Thet Thet Aung, is serving a 65-year prison term in Myinchan Prison; her son-in-law, Chit Ko Lin, is serving a seven-year prison term in Pakokku Prison; her sister, San San Tin, 63, is serving a five-year prison term in Meiktila Prison; her niece, Noe Noe aka Nwe Hnin Yi, is serving a seven-year prison term in Maubin Prison; her nephew, Kyaw Swar Htay, is serving a 14-year prison term in Bhamo Prison.
"In the future, we will not hope," Su Su Kyi said. "But when they are released, I will not forbid them to participate in political activities because they are doing it for the country and the people. They were imprisoned for their beliefs. As for me, I'll visit the prisons as long as they are there. I'll do it till I die," she said.
Su Su Kyi, 56, has had to brave erratic bus service and poor road conditions. Sometimes her sisters can care for her oldest children, and she takes the youngest with her.
"I need to take about 10 days per visit to a prison. The child has to travel with me and he becomes travel-worn and gets sick," she said.
"In 2007, my daughter and my son-in-law were arrested a few days after the 88-generation students launched the protest in Rangoon," she said, and she began caring for her grandchildren.
"When they arrested my daughter and son-in-law, the youngest grandchild had not been weaned," she said. "He's received blood transfusions since he was an infant. Other relatives couldn't look after him. Many foods are not good for him so I took him with me everywhere."
Su Su Kyi said that sometimes she was not allowed to meet with her relatives, adding more emotional stress.
In one occasion, she said that although other visitors were allowed to meet with their relatives in Meiktila Prison for one hour; she was allowed just 30 minutes. So, she refused to obey the order and talked for one hour as a protest. As a consequence, her sister San San Tin was sent from the "political prisoner" ward to the "criminal" ward, she said. She said her sister lost the sight in her left eye because she did not receive medical treatment in prison.
She said because her relatives are scattered in prisons across the country, it creates a terrible burden. "They are detained in different prisons and that's a torture for us," she said.
Recently, she met with more than 20 family members of political prisoners in her home on in Sanchaung Township in Rangoon to exchange ideas on ways to support families of political prisoners.
Among the parents who attended were the mother of student leader D Nyein Lin (Khamtee Prison); the mother of Si Thu Maung (Buthidaung Prison); the mother of 88-generation student Zaw Htet Ko Ko (Kyaukphyu Prison); the wife of activist Htin Kyaw (Khamtee Prison); the sister of 88-generation student Than Tin (Sittwe Prison); and the father of All Burma Federation of Student Unions member Honey Oo (Lashio Prison). Recently-released political prisoners Zeyar Thaw also attended the meeting, she said.
They established a fund for political prisoners who need medical care.
There are about 2,000 political prisoners in Burma. Despite people's hope for a general amnesty, only 50 political prisoners along with 14,600 other prisoners were released under the one-year commutation ordered by new President Thein Sein earlier this year.
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The most inconvenient truth about the cloud is this. Eventually it all becomes software.
That day is hastened by a move to open source, in which everyone works together to create something that works, and everyone shares in the benefits of that effort.
So Juniper's (NYSE:JNPR) announcement that it is working hard to create an open source network controller will look like a head-scratcher to some.
But it shouldn't be. This is how open source gains traction. A competitor sees someone else grabbing monopoly profits on the low-end of a market, and works to limit those profits by supporting an open source alternative. It has worked for Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) with Android, so why not Juniper?
Part of the company's problem is that there are already a number of start-ups working on just this problem. Specifically, there is the OpenFlow protocol, which Juniper now says it supports (sort of), but only as a low-level protocol. What Juniper wants is an industry-supported stack, something that might be embraced as a project by Apache or Eclipse.
The point being that these are early days in Software Defined Networking, or SDNs. Just as these are pretty early days in software defined storage, which Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is working on through Glusters. But it's easy to see the future from here, and it's standards-based software.
That said, there is increased skepticism in the analyst view of Juniper. Richard Saintvilus of TheStreet recently suggested selling Juniper in favor of such rivals as Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV). It's really the last that is the target of Juniper's latest open source move, not Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), which Saintvilus now likes - a lot.
For investors, the question is one of time horizons. Software defined networking is coming, but it's some years away, and it will take some more years for open source to perfect its version of it.
If you want to make money today, FFIV is the better bet. That company now sports steadily-rising revenues and operating margins of 25%, while JNPR, which has four times its revenues, has stalled out on the top line, and is now facing pressure on the margin side. FFIV is also still small enough, with a market cap of $8.25 billion, to interest an acquirer. Plus its PE ratio is just 30, about one-fourth lower than that of Juniper.
What Juniper is telling you, in the near term of the next year or two, is a head fake. Try FFIV instead.


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Has anyone had experience with this nasty bug? They attack my Geraniums each year and destroy all the new buds. I have at least 50 containers which I grow in and am at a loss as to what to plant. I will not use toxic chemicals as my containers and beds attract many hummingbirds and butterflys. I looked around for BT, but the nurseries near me do not have it. I'm afraid to invest in new Geraniums if I can't get control of this bug.
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Jane, it is now 2008. Have you solved your bud worm problem? I also garden without chemicals so the bud worm is a problem for me too. However, I found that they don't attack ivy geraniums so that is all I plant now. Just today I got baskets at W-M with four ivy geraniums in each basket for $10. I will take those out and repot in my pretty hanging baskets and pots. Don't even bother to grow the "standard" geraniums anymore, or Petunias becasue they eat those too. Tina |
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Poor Nicole Redmond. On Jan. 12, more than 4 million viewers watched this Tall Girl get dissed by her longtime crush, the Player, a.k.a. Dan Barbato, on The WB's ''High School Reunion,'' in which 17 alums from Illinois' Oak Park-River Forest High School shack up in Hawaii for a six-week trip down memory lane. ''It's weird,'' Redmond laments to the camera after Barbato rebuffs her advances. ''This was not how it was supposed to go at all.''
Funny, the same could be said about the actual series. The sunbathed school shown in the first episode isn't Oak Park (The WB won't say what building they shot). And four of the schoolmates bunking in Maui for their televised 10-year reunion -- including Redmond -- didn't even graduate in '92. ''Nicole was a year younger than us,'' reveals class of '92 alum Artie Smith, who bowed out of ''Reunion'' after producers asked him to play something he wasn't in high school: a bespectacled nerd who had a crush on Natasha Desai, a.k.a. the Popular Girl. (His ''role'' went to Ben Reb instead.) ''I was just so struck during the interview process over how simplistic the clichés were they were looking for,'' says Smith, now a Cornell University track coach. ''But I guess that's what sells.''
Sounds like we need a reality check. With nonscripted shows continuing to draw huge ratings (the Jan. 5 bow of ''Reunion'' marked The WB's best-ever Sunday debut), networks seem increasingly fond of blurring the lines on -- how can we put this gently? -- the truth. ''There's a reason that TV's reality seems too good to be true. It is,'' says Matthew Felling of Washington, D.C.'s Center for Media and Public Affairs. ''Reality TV is like actual reality much in the same way that pro wrestlers are wrestlers and exotic dancers are dancers -- not quite the real thing, but they draw a crowd.''
Consider Fox's ''Joe Millionaire,'' whose Jan. 6 debut was the highest-rated premiere among 18- to 49-year-olds of any show this season, reality or nonreality. The network bills ''Joe'''s Evan Marriott as a construction worker making $19,000 a year -- without mentioning that he also earned coin as an actor (he had a bit part on NBC's ''Days of Our Lives'' in 2000) and a model (he donned tight togs for the underwear catalog California Muscle). He even dabbled in professional wrestling. Argues a Fox spokesman, ''He earned a nominal fee for his participation in those projects'' (though he apparently never got paid to grapple with the guys). As for how Marriott afforded rent on a $1.7 million home in Venice, Calif., where public records state he lived as recently as December 2002, the spokesman says only that he no longer lives there.
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One of my (few) pet peeves with televised coverage of bike racing is that it's extremely superficial. I'm very thankful that NBC continues to televise the Tour de France live (a contract it recently extended through 2023).
And while many of us (present company included) almost grew up listening to Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen call races, it's evident that parsing the finer points of strategy is not among the pair's strengths.
They're not alone. The estimable Sean Kelly on Eurosport aside, almost no English-language TV coverage I've seen actually tells you not just what you're seeing, but why. While my French is pretty bad and my other languages non-existent, friends tell me that this is similar to the state of affairs on France 2&3, RAI and other networks (I believe Sporza is an exception).
It's a shame, because while the results of this weekend's stages weren't all that unexpected, the path to them was littered with interesting moments that begged for explanation. (Oh, for a cycling version of "Smart Football.") A brief recap:
Stage 13
The Moment: Evans accelerates on the short, sharp Mont-Clair climb
Why: Although steep, the summit of this brutal ramp was 23km from the finish. Why would Evans spend energy to attack here? The descent was a tricky one, with a feel resembling that of the various capi in Milan-San Remo, where a gap can often be made on the descent as much as the climb.
By jumping, Evans hoped to isolate Wiggins from his teammates. A superior descender, he could then force the advantage on the descent, hoping to pressure Wiggins— who's capable but not great going downhill—into a mistake. As well, with crosswinds likely on the flat, straight causeway to the finish, if a gap formed, Evans and anyone else in it, say fellow downhill specialist Vincenzo Nibali, could continue to press the advantage and force Sky to spend valuable energy chasing on what would otherwise be a relatively easy day.
It worked, partly. Evans got his gap, and Wiggins himself was forced to work to close it. But once they hit the causeway as a group and Wiggins still had three teammates with him, Evans backed off—there was little to be gained by continuing to charge ahead.
Whether they work or not, these kinds of moves can tell you a lot about your opponents' strengths and weaknesses, information that can be crucial when the bigger opportunities arise.
The Moment: Lotto-Belisol hits the front on the causeway
Why: Sprinter Andre Greipel isn't much known for climbing, but by starting the Mont-Clair climb at the front, he managed to stay close over the top and rejoined on the descent. He had four teammates with him. Most of the other sprinters, including World Champion Mark Cavendish, were gone.
With numbers in its favor, Lotto set an echelon on the front to keep the pace up and bring back the lead duo of Alexandre Vinokourov and Michael Albasini, to keep any other dropped sprinters from rejoining, and to try to reduce the group further. Even the team's GC leader, fifth-placed Jurgen van den Broeck, took a pull.
Phil and Paul duly noted the team's presence at the front, but missed a chance to comment on echelons in general. Lotto's position in the road was essential. The lead rider in the echelon placed himself in the middle of the left-hand lane, with the rest staggered out behind and to the left so that the last rider in the Lotto line—Greipel—was in the gutter.
With the crosswinds, that left the rest of the field essentially fighting for themselves to try to match Lotto's pace without the benefit of the draft from the Lotto train. The damage was evident as the pack quickly broke apart under the effort. If you watched carefully, you could also see that Sky protected overall leader Bradley Wiggins by placing a rider—Michael Rogers—directly above and to his right to shield him from the wind.
Lotto's effort almost blew up the field but, just before the catch of Vino and Albasini, the train ran itself out as Adam Hansen and Lars Bak, who'd done much of the work, pulled off and the pace faltered. That let a number of riders get back in contact for the final (but no more sprinters).
While mostly successful (ideally they'd have left a bit for the leadout proper) the effort showed just how devastating a well-drilled echelon can be in crosswinds due to positioning on the road and the danger that strong side winds pose that straight headwinds do not.
It worked quite well, as even though the leadout itself wasn't much, the effort had kept all but Edvald Boassen Hagen and Sagan from regaining contact, and Greipel, perfectly sheltered on the run-in, had more kick than either of those riders to take his third stage win of the race.
The Moment: Wiggins leads out Edvald Boassen Hagen
Why: Aside from last year when Thor Hushovd piloted Tyler Farrar to his first stage win at the Tour, you don't often see a yellow jersey wearer riding leadout. Wiggins had two primary goals in his effort.
First, to stay out of trouble. The final few kilometers of the stage were a bit tricky, in particular the last kilometer with its long, sweeping bend to the finish. Under the 3km rule, Wiggins would have been granted the same finish time as the winner had he been caught in or delayed by a crash.
But why take chances? The front is the safest place to be, especially since Lotto's train had burned itself out in the crosswinds and a train-less sprint with a bunch of non-sprinters in the mix is usually a bit dicey.
But Wiggins was also playing the role of magnanimous team leader. EBH has done a lot of work for Wiggins and, after near-misses on two early stages, hoped for a stage win of his own. It wasn't to be, but as talk swirls around how loyal Sky's riders are to each other, Wiggins sent a powerful message that he appreciates the sacrifices his all-star team is making for him.
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Stage 14
The Moment: Evans flats atop the Mur de Peguere and has to wait for a wheel; Wiggins holds up the pack
Why: While Wiggins and Sky were easily able to match Evans' acceleration lower down on the steepest portion of the Peguere, the yellow jersey group at the summit had still whittled down to 20–30 riders by attrition.
Evans suffered a puncture near the summit and his lone teammate in the group, Tejay van Garderen, didn't hear his call to wait. With the team cars blocked by dropped riders, Evans had to wait for teammates to change his wheel before remounting and chasing.
Ahead, Wiggins had several animated exchanges with other riders, like RadioShack-Nissan's Haimar Zubeldia, where he clearly indicated that the group should not attack Evans's misfortune.
It's the latest in a series of fair-play moments in the sport, including the much-discussed 2010 attack by Alberto Contador when Andy Schleck dropped his chain during his own acceleration, and the moments in 2003 when Lance Armstrong first waited for Jan Ullrich after a tumble in the Alps and then Ullrich returned the favor in the Pyrenees.
This gentlemanly side of bike racing is a fairly recent construct; although some credit goes to Armstrong, I think the cause, more likely, is race radios.
Wiggins was ahead of Evans at the summit. He neither saw nor heard the BMC leader's moment of distress, and later on was seen talking into his microphone as he attempted to corral the front group.
Without radios, Wiggins' knowledge of events is likely limited to simply knowing that Evans was there one moment and gone the next. Crash, mechanical, blow-up or otherwise, the cause is immaterial; ride on.
That's how racing used to be. (In fact, of several former Tour de France winners Bicycling spoke to during the 2010 "Chaingate" discussion, none, including Bernard Hinault and Eddy Merckx, said they would have waited for a rival in those circumstances.)
But with radios, Wiggins could learn that Evans had punctured and, given reports that tacks had been thrown onto the road (which may also have caused Wiggins's own flat later on the descent), decided to wait for one of his adversaries.
As an aside, race radios didn't necessarily seem to improve communication between Evans and van Garderen. Tejay heard something when Evans shouted at him and looked back but either didn't see Evans or didn't put together the problem and continued on in the front group. Evans required another wheel change on the descent and caught back on due to a strong effort from his team, but I wonder if there might have been some sharp words about being attentive exchanged between the two once the Australian was safely back in the bunch.
The Moment: Luis Leon Sanchez's winning attack out of the break
Why: Sanchez had already won three stages at the Tour and was a serious threat. So why did no one in the break chase when he went away?
In all honesty, the only rider who would have chased was Philippe Gilbert and, when he didn't, that sealed the win for Sanchez.
Gorka Izaguirre was simply outmatched by the other riders. FDJ's Sandy Casar may have been caught out but he has a good sprint for being a climber.
But the real dynamic was Gilbert, the top Classics racer of 2011, and Sagan, the breakout story of 2012. Sagan had likely the best sprint in the group. He's won three stages this year himself. And wearing the green jersey, he was destined to pad his lead in that competition whether he was first, second or fifth on the day. He had little incentive to jump.
Sagan is a cool customer too, tactically astute beyond his 23 years of age. He knew as well as anyone that Gilbert—the top transfer of the 2011-2012 off-season—has yet to score a single victory this season. So he simply watched and waited for Gilbert to bridge. If the move came, he'd jump on it; if not, he'd take his chances in the sprint.
Sanchez's attack, then, was brilliant in its timing. He went far enough from the finish to make the others hesitate to chase, but close enough that he wouldn't burn out.
He attacked on a descent into the outskirts of the first passage in Foix, which gave him a chance to get out of sight around corners. The first time check on a break like that doesn't come for a couple of minutes. If the rider up the road isn't visible, the chasers aren't sure if the gap is 10 seconds (manageable) or a minute (much harder).
And, he attacked first. Sanchez knew the dynamic in the quintet was Sagan for the sprint and he and Gilbert for the attacks, and that whomever didn't attack was put in the unenviable position of trying to bridge with the green jersey on his wheel. So he went just before you'd expect him to.
He took advantage of the odds and perfectly calibrated the stalemate that would result behind him. Gilbert is a fantastic rider but, it's worth noting that both he and Sanchez have done five Tours each; Sanchez now has four stage wins. Gilbert? One.


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The glamour of Hollywood meets the legends of the Super Bowl to benefit Goodwill Industries tonight in Milwaukee. It's Goodwill's annual Retro Rendezvous presentation of "From Tinseltown to Titletown," hosted by Green Bay Packers wide receiver, Donald Driver.
The event will be held in the expo center of Potawatomi Bongo Casino and consist of a silent auction, dinner, and fashion show. Among the "models" are Packers tight end Jermichael Finley, and former Packers such as Antonio Freeman, Santana Dotson, William Henderson, Jerry Kramer and Paul Hornung.
With all of these Packers greats in the house, one would think establishing the "star" would be a difficult thing to do. It's not. The one person who consistently brings the house down is Driver's adorable son, Christian.
In the past, this has been an incredible event that I have been privileged to be a part of. I just took a walk through of the space, and it looks incredible! Below is a picture of the event set up.
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For the last two and a half years, The Roche Group's two different email and calendaring platforms have often been an obstacle for effective collaboration. To end these platform interoperability issues, the Roche Corporate Executive Committee made the decision that all 90,000 employees will move to Google Apps as the single common platform for the Roche Group.
Dr Alan Hippe, CFO and CIO of the Roche Group said:
"The way our employees communicate and collaborate is diverse, and our employees are spread across over 140 countries. The integrated and socially-focused way that Google Apps enables collaboration is very compelling, and we expect this to not only bring our company closer together, but give us a strategic advantage. Additionally, being able to deploy Google Apps by simply enabling them via a control panel versus planning for and deploying complex infrastructure in our datacenters will help us focus on our core business -- helping save patients' lives
"Employees will be able to access their email and documents from any web-enabled device, without using remote access systems such as VPN. This will make it easier for employees to work from home or on the go and it will reduce the strain on our IT support teams. Removing barriers to communication and innovation while enhancing mobile access is a key part of our Roche IT strategy.
"Roche's history is one of innovation and progress and we believe that aligns well with the capabilities provided by Google Apps. We're excited to begin moving our employees to Google Apps and we're confident that Google's experience in successfully moving other large organizations to the cloud will make this a smooth transition."
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Each time I have make one of these I always think – this could be better. The first 2 versions which can be found here and here, worked out ok but I have discovered that batteries don't like to be enclosed and that their fail rate goes up dramatically when they are. This is due to the fact the batteries need to breath and once encased in resin suffer a slow death. I can still charge up the original ones but the batteries only last for a couple hours.
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The other really cool thing about this version is the LED light. It comes with a remote and has heaps of features which allows you to change the colour and display of the LED's.
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Awesome project!
I am building this as a project for class but I had to substitute the bulb and resin with the US equivalent. I will post pictures of it when I am finished.
Just an edit, the 600mA restriction on the charging coil is for the output not the input. The resistor is unnecessary. I have tested this out and it worked fine without the resistor.
Cheers mate - looking forward to seeing what you came up with! Let me know how you found the instructable when using it.
The reason why I used the resister was i was finding that pumping 12V and 2A into the charging coil was making it heat-up. Actually I decided to purchase a lower amperage adapter and this seemed to do the trick. Do you know the amperage of your one?
Finally finished it. My base is not as clean as yours is and I didn't put a finish on it yet. Thanks for this awesome project.
Great job man! You really got a nice finish on your cube. Thanks for posting some photos.
That makes sense. I have a 9V 800mA adapter. I didn't notice any extreme heat but I never ran it for more than a minute. I also used the 9V coil because I wasn't sure which one to get. It works fine but the 9V battery is not strong enough to produce the white light setting on the bulb. I have almost everything I need at this point so all I need is to build it. Should be awesome when its done.
I've been following all the versions you've done and keep thinking how I'll do it. I think I decided to put rainbowduino in the box underneath and have a solid resin cube on the top. I have no idea if it will glow as well but am going for a translucent not clear cube. (which is also easier to make based from what I got from your earlier versions)
If I actually end up making an instructable ill sure link to yours for the inspiration.
It might be good to test for the best method of gluing the film to the mold wall. it's possible that glue dots on the edges will do just as well. (The weight of the resin is probably sufficient to keep the film flat even when the resin gets hot).
thanks! one thing I forgot to mention about using transparency film as a mold-liner: Before applying to the mold walls, look at the film...theres a shiny side and a frosted side. The shiny side will make contact with the resin. Also, make sure the entire surface of the film is glued (with spray glue) to each wall of the mold or the catalytic heat (might?) cause it to ripple.
Would the cheap weather resistant 12v LED strips work instead of sacrificing the light bulb?
If you are going to do one i'd definitely do the 3rd version as this has so far worked the best.
Does this happen to this led light bulb?
Here's a tip for getting a perfect surface with no sanding:
Use polyester film (the plastic sheets used for photocopy transparencies) as a mold liner. No mold release is necessary as the film will not stick to the epoxy resin. (I think this is also true for polyester resin--but test first.
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