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Although Vice President # 1 Thihathura Tin Aung Myint Oo had tendered his resignation reportedly since 3 May, the government has yet to make any official statement about it. It is because Naypyitaw is not yet ready to summon a Union Assembly (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw) which had just closed its third session in April, according to Harn Yawnghwe, Director of Euro Burma Office and a voluntary peace broker between Naypyitaw and non Burman ethnic armed movements.
"The 2008 constitution requires the Union Assembly to convene a special session to elect a new Vice President within 3 weeks following notification from the President," he said.
Incidentally, Tin Aung Myint Oo's name still appears in the list of the Union Peacemaking Central Committee (UPCC), announced on 19 May.
Article 73 of the constitution says "when the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw is in session, the President shall promptly intimate the Head of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw to elect a new Vice-President within seven days by the group of Hluttaw representatives concerned that elected the said Vice-President." However, if "the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw is not in session, the Head of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw shall summon the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw within 21 days from the day of receipt of the intimation from the president and proceed with the election of a Vice President by the group of Hluttaw representatives concerned."
Tin Aung Myint Oo, 62, was elected by the military appointed MPs on 3 February 2011.
His resignation is due to health reasons, reported Mizzima News, quoting his family members.
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- Masha said...
Good for you, Connie! I loved this post, and your pictures are so beautiful. Thank you for giving me a rose fix:-)
- February 7, 2011 at 12:07 PM
- house things said...
The photos are beautiful.
I must admit that there are Knock-out roses on the front and sides of my house. They are easy, and seem to take whatever the city's road salting and snow plow crews heap upon them each winter, which has been a lot in the last few years. - February 7, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- ProfessorRoush said...
Yep, who needs Knockout when you've got Darlow's Enigma?
- February 7, 2011 at 4:45 PM
- Karen said...
You know, Connie.. it's too bad we can implement scents when people few our blogs, you know, like the playlists?...
- February 7, 2011 at 4:56 PM
- Pam's English Garden said...
Dear Connie, This is my first visit to your blog (through Blotanical) and I feel I am in heaven! Your roses, your beautiful home, and that incredible barn are incredible! Your photography is stunning. I look forward to visiting often. Pamela
- February 7, 2011 at 5:40 PM
- Amy R. said...
My husband and I love roses. We left five bushes at our previous home. We replanted two at our new house. I look forward to the nice weather. I like to cut the roses and bring them into the house to enjoy.
- February 7, 2011 at 6:25 PM
- gardenwalkgardentalk.com said...
Connie I would love to visit sometime and hear you speak. It is a possibility maybe at some point. I have to see your farm of roses. When you are less busy with the upcoming nuptials it would great to see the roses and greyhounds.
- February 7, 2011 at 9:19 PM
- p3chandan said...
A rose farm? I wish I could see and smell them personally! I have no luck with roses, so no more attempts, with your post, I might give roses another try though our local ones are not as gorgeous as yours.
- February 8, 2011 at 9:26 AM
- Jack Canfield quotes said...
Oh my! Pretty flowers everywhere! Praying for spring to come by soon!
- February 8, 2011 at 10:20 PM
- Roses, Color, and Light said...
Connie, very encouraging post! I am now more excited about the 3 Peggy Martin roses I have coming for spring. And Darlow's Enigma has long intrigued me.
I hope your presentation is great fun, and I look forward to the next post with the whole list.
Sandra - February 9, 2011 at 1:09 PM
- The Redneck Rosarian said...
Wish I were closer and could attend this event. I am sure it will open many people's eyes to the joys of growing roses. Our Caldwell Pinks are a huge hit in our garden. Good luck!
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We just had the gunite blown in the pool. Now that we can enter the pool we noticed what looked like a problem with the depth in the shallow area. after measuring we discovered the water line which was supposed to be 3.5-4ft is actually 2.5-3ft. If we measure to the very top of the gunite the pool only measures 38 inches. It is a huge mistake on the part of our contractor, the engineering plans were not followed. Anybody know if there is anyway to fix this without breaking out the entire structure and starting again? The pool is built into a slope so it is possible to raise the walls rather than dig out the bottom but do not know if this is a legitimate fix or not. Really an upbelievable situation to be in, we checked all his references, went to view his other pools. Now we question everything he tells us. |
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- Posted by zookeeper93 (My Page) on Sun, May 27, 12 at 10:26
Hopefully, after talking to your builder it will come out that it is the correct height. I hope so for your sake. Our builder had our shallow end 3.5-4.5-3.5 (it's 27 feet long with 4.5 in the middle) and the digger told us that was too deep. We are so thankful for his advice. We built it 3.5-4.0-3.5 and LOVE it. Our 6.1 foot eldest son is not out of place playing volley ball, as the water hits him just right. The shorter people are able to stand without just their shoulders sticking out. |
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- Posted by topfiftybuilder (My Page) on Mon, May 28, 12 at 10:05
The right way is to jack the floor out and and re-excavate, steel and shoot. IMO there is no other fix unless you can live with the shallow end the way it is... the decking will add 4" to the top , and the top of the bond beam will still be leveled for tile so you will gain an 1" or so there... did you account for that? |
I think you're right, but our PC is pushing to build up. What do you think are the limitations of building a new bond beam 6-8" above the old one. Does that sound legitimate? If this is even possible, it would also entail raising the sunshelf as well. Unfortunately we can't live with less than 3ft, another inch won't really help that. Where do you measure the water line from. I've been told different things. I thought it was 3-4" above the bottom of the skimmers. Thanks for your help. |
Lights and returns will all wind up being deeper than intended. Skimmers would have to be jacked out and replaced. Your PC/PB is trying to do it cheaper, easier, and IMHO, wrong. The top of the beam is where a monolithic shell needs to be the strongest. You can't just shoot it to get it higher. That leaves the top few inches without steel. I can almost guaranty he wasn't planning on adding steel to the top of the beam. I happen to think that top50 hit the nail on the head when he suggested jacking the bottom, cutting the existing steel, digging down to the proper depth and adding steel in the approved manner of drilling and epoxying. The water line will usually be several inches below the top of the beam. Scott |
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I've been playing Devil May Cry since it came out. If I may pop into my Bristolian accent for a moment, I'd just like to say that I bloody loves at. As such, this review of this slightly less impressive DLC package is probably going to refer to how much I bloody loves the main game, with particular reference to why Vergil's six-mission extension isn't quite as great.
Vergil's Downfall takes place after the climax of DmC, but because I'm going to try and use this review to make you buy the original game, I won't spoil anything. In a nutshell, Vergil is the petulant teenager that some people seemed to think Danté was.
(I've had arguments with people about this: I reckon DmC Danté is a far better character than any of the previous games. Some people seemed to think the "fuck you!" dialogue between Danté and Succubus was juvenile. I thought it was a brilliant failure of smartarse action movie dialogue, that resulted in Danté over-compensating by delivering not one, but three consecutive puns as she got minced by a propellor. Even Arnie never got to deliver three killing jokes to the same enemy.)
Anyway! After Danté's story, Vergil is a broken man. His amulet, and a vital organ are gone. His moves lost, his skills reset, his body cast into a version of limbo where every battle won plunges him deeper into insane, boiling resentment.
It's an economy-minded effort. There are plenty of reused assets - two levels occur in a reprised version of Vergil and Danté's childhood home, and no missions reach the stand-out design of the nightclub scenes in Devil's Dalliance, or the Bob Barbas boss fight. The cutscenes, meanwhile, use a cheaper (but stylistically effective) animation style to tell Vergil's tale.
Ninja Theory does a great job of making the abilities we saw Vergil use in the main game playable. There's just one main problem: the range of moves open to Vergil is paltry, compared to those open to Danté. As a Nephilim, he can channel heaven and hell through his sword - giving him faster, bluer crowd control attacks, and focussed red damage-dealing blows. Guns are replaced with a summoned crystal sword, which triples up as a simple weapon and a two-way teleportation device.
But the raw pleasure of DmC was in having to reconfigure your strategy to deal with new combinations of monsters. Having worked out that the Dreamrunners were knocked off guard by a charged Eryx attack, I felt suddenly proud of myself - until I had to fight three Dreamrunners, at which point I no longer had time to charge an attack, and had to attempt parrying. Turns out, I am not great at parrying.
Vergil has fewer tools in the box - one sword with three modes, and a single gun. And there are fewer tricks of timing you can employ, too. Fewer times a pause will cause your weapon to gleam, showing that a new attack is available. Vergil is a change of pace that would probably have been better woven through the main game, than sold as a new character. Although it's hard to resent Ninja Theory earning a little extra money, when DmC sold so frustratingly badly.
I've read numerous complaints from people who say that it's too easy to spam heavy attacks with Danté's axe and reach the SSS rank. For better or worse, Vergil doesn't have that particular problem. His style bonus builds slowly, and unless I'm missing out on some fairly basic strategies (this is an absolutely feasible explanation), SSS ranks are fiendishly difficult to reach, let alone maintain.
There are no secret keys and doors here. Collectibles are Lost Souls, as before, and fragments of health crosses are scattered across the levels. They're spread more thinly, and tougher to find, and given that DmC gives you an overall score multiplier based on level completion, that might be annoying for particularly stylish fighters who aren't interested in collectible hunting, and don't need the extra health.


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It's no secret that Bluetooth has been a problem child for Android, plagued with poor audio quality and connectivity issues. I've already covered a handful of common problems in a previous post, but another issue has been emerging in the last few months that threatens to virtually kill all Bluetooth operation on a device in the right conditions. The culprit is a nasty little oversight in the Bluetooth Low-Energy code added with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean.
At some point in your childhood, one of your parents may have warned you against making faces - "knock it off," they said, "or your face will freeze like that." That sound advice might not actually be true, but it seems to have a pertinent application for the latest versions of the Hangouts app on Android. Reddit user Recon2012 found an app-killing bug within Hangouts relating to the new emoji functionality in the Android keyboard.
Listen up, Android users. If you're using Google Now, don't go to its Settings -> My Stuff and try to modify sports teams or stocks right now, as doing so completely borks the whole app. As soon as you go back to the main screen or click into Search, you will experience a force close. Repeated attempts to restart it will result in a crash as well:
The only thing that works is clearing out Google Search's data in Settings -> Applications, after which you need to re-enroll into Google Now.
Last week, after Google Maps received a public transit-minded update, it became apparent that the app wasn't playing nice with the HTC Rezound. Befuddled user reports spilled in, relaying tales of inexplicable reboots and crashes. As always, the community found a solution but, unfortunately, the only solution ended up being the "uninstall updates" button.
T-Mobile today acknowledged the Maps update's issues with certain handsets, posting a support document related to the HTC Sensation 4G's problems with the app.
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If you're a BIONIC owner (sadly, I am), you've probably been itching for a major update to the device for quite some time now to fix a number of bugs, glitches, and other technological gremlins the phone has had since release. This latest update promises to excise quite a few of the BIONIC's worst software demons, including the dreaded black screen bug. The update has just hit Verizon's support site, so that means a rollout will likely be taking place in the next couple of weeks.


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My post is an appeal to readers, writers, and scholars who use the New York Public Library's 42nd Street central research library. That is, all people who make use of this amazing, impressive democratic institution. The NYPL's proposed Central Library Plan (CLP) calls for a fundamental transformation of the 42nd Street space whereby the Mid-Manhattan Circulation Library (across the street at 40th Street) and the Science Industry and Business Library (SIBL, at Madison and 34th) would be incorporated into the 42nd Street location. Up to 3 million books from the central library's research collection would be sent to an offsite storage facility in New Jersey and the seven floors of stacks that formerly housed these books would be demolished to make room for the circulation library, SIBL's research collection, a multitude of public-access computers, and an internet café. The CLP will adversely alter the way the public can use the central research library and strike at the very heart of the research library's egalitarian mission. In his recent article, "Stop Cultural Vandalism," Scott McLemee rightly declares, "the CLP needs to be stopped" Together we need to decide how we will accomplish this goal.
Implementation of the CLP will impair the ability of writers, readers and scholars to conduct research at the NYPL's central research library. Patrons organize their library time around heavy, often complicated schedules. We therefore must maximize the time we spend in the library. My requested materials typically arrive together, allowing me to hunker down and get to work. Under the proposed plan, it is impossible to guarantee that all of one's requested items will arrive together—a significant impediment to maximizing time in the library. What if a few books arrive one day and the rest trickle in over the next couple of days, but a patron cannot be back at the library for another week? And what about the patron who has traveled from outside NYC, and thus has a very limited timeframe in which to conduct research? Or the student who is striving to write a research paper under deadline? Architects of the CLP claim that requested materials would be available within 24 hours. In a piece titled "Improving a Treasured Institution," NYPL President and CEO Anthony Marx argues that "24-hour turnaround is made possible by major enhancements already in the works, most notably by bar-coding every item." Upgrading the means by which books are tracked makes sense. Moving the books offsite does not. Current turnaround for most materials is roughly less than an hour and that is because most of the collection is located in the stacks or in storage under Bryant Park. Touting a projected 24-hour turnaround as a benefit underscores a major flaw of the CLP and the myopia of its supporters: researchers should not have to wait 24 hours—and probably more—for their materials. Indeed, due to time constraints and deadlines, they often cannot.
The CLP also fails to take into account the serendipitous aspect of research. While reading a particular text, I have often been guided to additional sources via footnotes and bibliographical entries. I then request those texts and receive them in an hour or so. Threads of thought have the best chance of coming to fruition when they are unbroken, when one can engage with several texts at the same time. Trying to hold on to a thread—before it even becomes an idea—for days before one can consult a needed text is difficult, if not impossible. A keyboard or a pen and paper are often not enough to keep an idea going. A book is vital to the development of an idea and, if the flow of research is impeded by having to wait longer for materials, then the quality of one's research will suffer. Given the logistics of peoples' schedules, many day readers may simply forego by necessity the opportunity to read the books they want to read. Books that people cannot find in circulating collections, books that are out of print, books that are unavailable digitally in their entirety, books that are unaffordable for personal purchase. Circulating and research collections are completely different from one another and one should not be the sacrificial lamb for the other. In response to a query on what will replace the stacks, the NYPL cheerfully declares, "Books!" Does anyone else see the cracks in this veneer?
It is disingenuous to argue that, after the NYPL's largest circulating library has been folded into the nation's second-largest public research library, research activities won't be compromised. They will. Whether one is involved in a years-long research project or has devoted a day to read up on a topic of personal interest, the patron of the research library is there not only because of the collection, but also for the overall environment that the research library provides. The expansive Rose Main Reading Room, whether on a weekday morning or mid-afternoon on a Saturday, provides a conducive place to work. That is because people are there to read and write and this engagement is wonderfully palpable and inspiring. The anticipated spike in traffic from combing three libraries into one is enormous. Lauding this increase, the NYPL boasts, "[t]he number of visitors to the new Schwarzman Building will likely triple, and the percentage of people using the collections will soar." Try conducting focused research under those conditions! Researchers working on long-term projects may apply to use the Allen Room or the Wertheim Study. There often is a waiting list, though, and access is limited. The CLP calls for the allocation of "dedicated spaces for up to 500 NYPL-affiliated writers and scholars," however that will still leave the vast majority of research library patrons to try to function as researchers in overcrowded, mixed-use space.
The price of this overhaul is estimated at $300 million. The cost of this overhaul is well beyond dollars. One does not upgrade a world-class public research library by turning it into a glitzy, overcrowded facility. Nor does one upgrade the city's largest public circulation library by shutting down its current location and reconfiguring it within an existing library. Public access computers can be added without gutting the stacks. Of course money is an issue. It always is. However, if the CLP is the best that the library's executives can do in light of objectives and budgetary concerns, then they have failed in their stewardship of the NYPL. The library has a page on its website titled "Join the Conversation" through which the public can communicate its concerns. Yet, since comments are not shared through the site, a "conversation" never really materializes and how the comments are handled behind closed doors remains unknown. There is also a Facebook campaign dedicated to stopping the CLP. But we need to do more than "like" it. If we want to assure that the people's research library continues to operate as such, then we need to collectively, vocally, and tirelessly speak out against the Central Library Plan until it is stopped.


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This technology employs state-of-the-art three-dimensional cell culturing techniques to produce neural cell cultures that are significantly improved over neural cell cultures currently in use for research. Patent applications are pending in the United States and worldwide on the method of producing cell cultures that express classic morphological and functional patterns of neuronal differentiation.
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Guide to symsched Command-line Switches
Article:TECH105502 | | | Created: 2008-01-29 | | | Updated: 2013-11-08 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH105502 |
You would like to use command-line symsched (Symantec Scheduler for Macintosh) to schedule jobs on your SAV for Macintosh or SEP for Mac client, but you find the information you get when you type 'symsched' at the command prompt to be unclear.
Macintosh OS X
Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) for Macintosh, versions 12.1 RU3 and older.
NOTE: symsched is found only in SEP 12.1 RU3 for Macintosh and older. SEP 12.1 RU4 and newer no longer uses symsched or integration with crontab.
symsched -V | show version info |
symsched -h | print this message |
symsched -l [-U] | list all scheduled tasks (-U => unformatted) |
symsched -d |
delete named tasks or all tasks |
To add a new task:
symsched [-f] module "name" on UI frequency [day] time arguments
Optional argument for add: -f forces overwrite of existing task with same module and name
Required arguments for add/edit:
module | is either VirusScan or LiveUpdate. |
name | is a UTF8 string for the task name (escape shell special chars). If a task already exists with the same module and name, an error will be generated unless the -f option is specified. Enclose name in quotation marks if the name has a space in it. |
on | is 1 if task is enabled, 0 if disabled. |
UI | is 1 if task is to be shown in Symantec Scheduler user interface (UI), 0 if not shown. If running symsched as a sudo command, task will only show in the graphic UI if logged in as root user. (This parameter introduced with symsched 4.0.1f1. If getting errors, check version (symsched -V). Leave this parameter out if version is earlier than 4.0.1f1.) |
frequency | is one of the localized or non-localized frequencies shown below: non-localized: -monthly -weekly -daily -annually -hourly localized: Monthly Weekly Daily Annually Hourly Only enough characters are needed to guarantee uniqueness. |
day | is according to frequency: for Monthly: day is day of month (1-28) for Weekly: day is day of week (0=Sun 1=Mon...6=Sat 7=Sun) for Daily: day not used (leave out) for Annually: day is MM/DD date for Hourly: day not used (leave out) |
time | is HH:MM in 24 hour format for hourly the hour indicates the frequency (every HH hours), MM indicates what minute of the hour |
arguments | are according to the module: for VirusScan: [-niceness [-20..20]] pathname [[pathname]...]
for LiveUpdate: "All Products" | "LiveUpdate" | "Symantec AntiVirus" | "Virus Definitions" [-quiet] |
1. To schedule LiveUpdate to check daily at 1pm for updates for everything, and to have it show in the Symantec Scheduler UI when the user who created the task is logged in, but to launch in the background quietly when it runs:
symsched LiveUpdate "Update All Daily" 1 1 -daily 13:00 "All Products" -quiet
2. To overwrite a scheduled virus scan called "Weekly Application Folder Scan" and set it to be weekly on Friday at 7am to scan only the contents of the Applications/Symantec Solutions folder with a lower than normal priority, and not have it show in the Symantec Scheduler UI:
symsched -f VirusScan "Weekly Application Folder Scan" 1 0 -w 5 07:00 -niceness -10 "/Applications/Symantec Solutions"
Technical Note
The digits at the end of the listed "symsched –l" entries for scheduled virus scans do not relate to randomization or retry. Those indicate what combinations of the folders (home - 1, applications - 2, library -4) are selected for that scan. The number or combination tells SEP for Mac where to scan.
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As a part of our "All Beard Wednesday" programme, we would like to call your attention to a Reuters piece so bold as to compare the Fed Chairman to Clark Kent and Superman.
True, the piece badly mixes metaphors, implying Superman was some kind of "swashbuckler," and lamenting that Bernanke might lose some of "his swashbuckling spirit."
The Fed has every reason to be politically intimidated. Relations between lawmakers and the Fed are close to an all-time low.
Much congressional ire has been focused on the Fed's role in bank bailouts. There has been nervousness over its expanded balance sheet, which more than doubled during the crisis to around 14 percent of GDP.
For some Republican Senators such as Jim DeMint, the Fed's purchase of U.S. Treasuries has been aiding and abetting "reckless" spending by Obama. DeMint is not alone in believing that credit easing is a covert means of devaluing the dollar. In the House an increasing number seem willing to listen to obsessively anti-Fed Congressman Ron Paul.
It is not surprising that correspondents for foreign outlets might be desirous of a more activist and powerful Fed. They, after all, seem less blinded by the trappings of power and can therefore, see what a pack of knee-biting wild dogs Congress is, and how completely they will destroy the United States if permitted to tinker with the structure of the Fed- much less continue to meddle with the economy.
Bernanke: Back to Clark Kent [Reuters]
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@1 I heard you guys were over at Clusterstock.
Ron Paul will keep kicking the Beard in the nuts until he goes back to Princeton.
A more active and powerful Fed will get us what we already have more actively and powerfully.
Financial market manipulation by the Fed has created these economic bubbles and even more insidiously, has moved this country ever closer to a super-regulated state.
This country has been spoon fed a diet of Fed PR for years. While hailing themselves as the beacon of financial stability, they have undermined the value of the dollar, hidden actual inflation figures, and increased their position and control of the US economy as we know it. This country did fine before there was a Fed. The dollar lost almost no value i.e. inflation prior to the Federal Reserve Act. Since the Fed? continuous devaluation and increased debt.
Many people bought in to the PR line and had a hard time thinking for themselves. I guess the author of this article is their chief. -
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The constant care did little to alleviate Steven's problems, however. When Steven was five years old, Bob testified, "he had a vocabulary of about ten words. And he had trouble with people understanding him until he was probably in eighth grade."
Sharon also noticed that Steven seemed to have difficulty concentrating. He couldn't stay on task. His muscle coordination was poor, he was impulsive and he had odd sleep patterns. Sharon expressed her concerns to the doctors at Children's; while still in kindergarten, Steven was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and placed on the medication Ritalin.
Bob was never able to come to grips with the fact that his son was not perfect, and he took to belittling the boy. At Bob's trial, Suzanne testified that her parents had numerous arguments about Steven in front of the boy. Her father, she said, would complain that "this stupid little retard should go to an institution."
Suzanne seemed Steven's opposite. The carrot-topped child was bright--almost aggressively so --and physically agile. By the time she was two or three, she'd surpassed Steven emotionally and physically. She began playing the piano when she was in kindergarten. She took gymnastics lessons. When she was in third grade, she won a fiction-writing contest sponsored by the Tattered Cover Bookstore. In everything, Suzanne was intensely competitive.
"Suzanne always had to be Number One," says Carole McNeilly, a former neighbor who's known the Wahrles since Suzanne was just eighteen months old. "If someone did something, she was going to bust her butt to make sure she did it better." And Suzanne, she notes, was particularly competitive with Steven.
Sharon believes the sibling rivalry was rooted in the amount of attention devoted to Steven. Suzanne was often forced to accompany her brother to his therapy sessions, cooling her heels in a continuous stream of doctors' waiting rooms. And back at home, Sharon spent much of her time tutoring Steven, since she was determined that he attend public school. "I knew he had abilities, and I wasn't about to put him in a special program where I thought he didn't belong," she says.
Suzanne herself could sometimes be difficult to handle. "Suzanne constantly tattletaled," McNeilly says. "We had so many time-outs I can't count them, because she'd tattle and tattle and tattle on anything and anybody. And sometimes I would have been standing right there, and I knew it didn't happen."
Suzanne and Steven were only four and five when their competition developed into biting, scratching fights. "Suzanne always won," McNeilly says. "He was afraid of her. You could see it from the time they were little."
Steven started the fights about half the time, Sharon says, and Suzanne instigated the rest. But no matter who started it, Suzanne always had to have the last word. She would slug her brother, hightail it to her room and slam the door, Sharon remembers. Sometimes, Steven would follow and pound and kick the door in frustration. Between the two of them, Bob had to replace a number of bedroom doors.
Bob wasn't much of a disciplinarian, Sharon says. He traveled a great deal, and when he was in town, he'd sometimes put in sixteen-hour days at work. "I was the one who stayed home and held the family together," she says. "He saw his position in the family as being the provider, and that was it. He was not the type of father who played a lot with his kids."
When Bob got home from work at night, Sharon continues, "it was like his bag was full, and his frustrations would come out in verbal and emotional abuse. He was emotionally and verbally abusive toward Steven and I. He probably was emotionally detached from all of us."
The kids felt the sting of their father's rejection so much that Suzanne later testified in court that the two of them hatched a number of plots to kill their dad. Some plans never came to fruition, she said, "because we'd fall asleep or something." But once, she added, Steven put some sort of "poison stuff" in their father's drink and it made him ill. (Sharon says her son put food coloring in Bob's soda.)
When Suzanne was older, she spent a great deal of time trying to convince her mother to leave Bob. And if the family split up, Sharon says, Suzanne wanted Steven to go with Bob.
Both Wahrle kids grew up interested in science, a result of their mother's own interests and her teaching abilities. When they were still quite small, Sharon would entertain her children by showing how certain household chemicals reacted with one another.
After Steven's fourth-grade class experimented on meal worms, Steven began dissecting maggots and bugs at home. Sometimes, he says, he and his sister would go down to a nearby pond and catch crayfish. Then the two of them would incinerate the creatures in a little mud "crematorium" they'd built underneath the back porch.
As he grew older, Steven began experimenting with fungus and algae, building a crude "lab" complete with aquariums in the basement of the Wahrle home. He was, he says, "trying to develop a kind of fungus that would break down things a lot faster--like for compost."


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Match Play Proves Successful For Golfers Across The Globe
The golf scene was buzzing with action across different continents this past weekend and golfers sporting Oakley eyewear were there to capitalize. The Sybase Match Play Championship took place at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, NJ and saw Spaniard Azahara Munoz claim the title over Taiwan's Candie Kung. Across the pond, on the European Tour, Nicolas Colsaerts topped Graeme McDowell to win the World Match Play Championship in Casares, Spain.
Munoz who holds a Rolex Rankings Number 27 held off Kung to win 2 and 1 in the final round of the tournament for her first win on the LPGA tour. Munoz had a tough week after the passing of her grandmother and seemed to be playing with inspiration as she won six matches to take the overall title and $375,000 first place prize.
"It feels amazing," said Munoz of her victory. "You know, I've been close a few times, but I just never knew if I was good enough to win. Finally having got it, it feels really good."
On the men's side, Colsaerts captured his second European tour title and a top prize check in the amount of $900,000. His victory was no walk in the park. Colsaerts had to overcome 2010 U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell for the victory. He nearly gave away a two-hole lead when he three-putted the 17th hole. However his par on the final hole confirmed his victory at one of the most prestigious tournaments on the European Tour.
"I can't feel anything at the moment," Colsaerts said. "To have my name next to so many major winners is a dream come true."
His win brought him to tenth place in the Ryder Cup points standings. If the Ryder cup began today, he would be the last automatic member of the European team based on the current standings. Should he drop out of the top ten for some reason, many believe his performance at the World Match Play Championships should prove to team captain Jose Maria Olazabal that he is a legitimate contender for a captain's pick on the team.
Congratulations to both Munoz and Colsaerts on their outstanding match play performances over the weekend and best of luck the rest of the season.


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Believe it or not, the abuses endured by conventionally grown chicken layers surpass even those of chickens raised for meat. A chicken's natural life span can easily exceed a decade, yet factory farms have great difficulty keeping their hens alive more than a year and a half! Naturally the eggs they produce are as unhealthy and bland as the lives they have led.
Our egg layers spend nearly all but their sleeping hours outdoors. The hens only use their movable coop to lay eggs, roost at night, or provide shelter from severe elements. Around the coop we set up movable electric netting, which not only keeps predators out, but also allows us to control the impact the chickens have on the pasture. This whole set-up is moved regularly ensuring fresh pasture and breaking any parasite cycles that could otherwise take hold, thus eliminating the need for any medications. Even in the winter when snow covers the grass, our hens run around in a hoop house (similar to a green house) that keeps out the rain and predators, but not the sun and fresh air.
Look at, taste, or cook an egg from the pasture and you'll find it difficult to return to conventionally raised eggs. Sunshine, exercise, and chlorophyll from the grass not only provide numerous nutritional benefits (particularly Omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin E), but also change the way the eggs look and feel and taste. The shells are much stronger while the yolks are orange and not flat like what most people have become accustomed to from conventionally raised eggs. Whipping the whites of a Weathertop egg will give you a consistency unattainable from conventional eggs and a rich flavor that is truly golden.
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16 There shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Ashshur; like as there was for Yisra'el in the day that he came up out of the land of Mitzrayim. | 16 There will be a highway for the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from Egypt. |
The Hebrew Names Version is in the public domain. (Hebrew Names Version - The Holy Bible Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Located in the basement of the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, this Michelin-rated restaurant is a downtown favorite for pre-theater dining and special occasions. Patrons can sit at white-clothed tables in the main dining room, surrounded by a rippling "curtain" of wood, or dine al fresco on Patina's quiet garden patio. The menu features French cuisine from Loire Valley-born chef Tony Esnault and includes such highlights as the butter-poached lobster and veal rack for two. In addition to the entrées, diners give high marks to the award-winning wine list, impressive tea cart, and mignardises (complimentary bite-sized desserts).
Insider Tip:
Make sure to try selections from the extensive cheese cart, which offers an average of 30 artisan cheeses served by a maître fromager.
Open / Closes- Accessible by Public Transportation
- Close to Theater District
- Chef's Table
- Destination Dining
- Dinner
- Dress Code
- Full Bar
- Handicapped Accessible
- Late-Night Dining
- Notable Chef
- Patio/Outdoor Seating
- Private Dining/Party Space
- Private Room Available
- Prix Fixe
- Tasting Menu
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Principally set on the wild Channel Islands off the coast of California, T.C. Boyle's new novel is a gripping adventure with a timely theme. Alma Boyd Takesue is a National Park Service biologist spearheading the efforts to save the islands' native creatures from invasive species. Her antagonist, Dave LaJoy, is a local businessman who… (more)


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[1329] Analysis of HPV Integration Sites in Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinomas
Ernst-Jan M Speel, Christian U Huebbers, Nadine C Olthof, Jutta Kolligs, Simon F Preuss, Uta Drebber, Bernd Kremer, Jens P Klussmann. Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands; University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; University Hospital Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is an independent risk factor for the development of up to 50% of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC). They are mainly associated with HPV16. HPV-positive tumors show typical histopathological and molecular features, and patients show less alcohol and tobacco intake and a more favorable survival than the HPV-negative entity of tumors. Controversy exists on the physical status of the virus in OSCC and on HPV integration being an essential factor for tumor development. Whereas in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia lesions oncogenic HPV integrates into the cellular genome upon transition to carcinoma, for HPV-related OSCC this is unclear.
Design: Our research group has collected a series of 66 HPV-positive OSCC and 6 cell lines. The physical status of these samples was analysed with a set of independent techniques to detect viral integration, including APOT- and DIPS-PCR to detect virus-human fusion sites, the new MLPA-PCR technology to quantify viral load and ratios between HPV oncogenes E6/E7 and E2, and FISH.
Results: HPV16 integration in the cellular genome was identified in 42% of OSCC. HPV integration sites were distributed all over the genome and were preferably found in gene loci, often with reported involvement in tumorigenesis, including BCL2, FANCC, TRAF3 and TP63. In these cases both integration in exon and intron sequences was detected. In addition, half of the integration sites are in close proximity to fragile sites.
Conclusions: In conclusion, this is the first study providing evidence for and a detailed analysis of HPV 16 integration sites in approximately half of HPV-positive OSCC. We were unable to identify viral integration in the remaining tumours by means of APOT and DIPS PCR, indicating that these tumours harbor episomal HPV copies and/or integration of complete episomes. Studies are ongoing to further examine HPV-driven tumorigenesis in both subgroups.
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MISSOULA — Four months ago, a coalition of passionate Montana football fans presented a proposal to university President Royce Engstrom, urging him to appeal what they deemed excessively harsh sanctions by the NCAA.
Engstrom addressed the issue on Monday, indicating he's exploring all his options.
"I am in the process of talking to a variety of people about the matter that these folks have brought forward," he said. "I've made some phone calls to people that are helping me think it through.
"I'm not ready to say what I'm doing at this point but I am working on it."
The proposal, which included more than 500 signatures, outlined why Montana should pursue an adjustment in the self-imposed reduction of football scholarships. The group contends the Griz received "unprecedented penalties amid an atmosphere that was anything but fair and objective."
Supporters of an appeal further cite that with recent news the NCAA is considering changing some of the same rules that UM reportedly broke, "the time has come for action." The coalition is frustrated by what it views as a lack of progress by UM officials and late last week re-stated its case in an email to media outlets.
"I appreciate their enthusiasm and I appreciate that they have brought forward what they believe to be a legitimate issue," Engstrom said. "It demands serious attention so I'm giving it that."
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Back in July the announcement came that the Griz football program would serve three years on probation and vacate five wins, including one against Montana State University and two playoff victories, as punishment for violating several NCAA rules governing student-athletes.
UM also had its football scholarships reduced from 63 to 59 for three years.
The NCAA found that former head coach Robin Pflugrad failed to monitor the football program, allowing boosters to provide extra benefits, including bail money and legal representation, to players. The investigation also found the football team had exceeded its coaching limits and that two former players, cornerback Trumaine Johnson and backup quarterback Gerald Kemp, competed while ineligible.
At the time Engstrom said the findings ended what had been a tumultuous chapter in the university's history, one that also included an investigation by the federal departments of Justice and Education into how the school handled reports of sexual assault and harassment — some also involving football players.
Many of the incidents go back before Engstrom's tenure began as president, and all of the administrators involved in the past incidents have been replaced, including Pflugrad and former athletic director Jim O'Day — both fired in 2012.
"We have pledged to build a superior and effective athletic program with students who are known for their contributions to their sport, to the classroom, and to the community," Engstrom said back in July.
Engstrom appointed Kent Haslam as the school's athletic director in 2012, and Mick Delaney was hired as the head coach. Engstrom said the university began instituting changes to its athletics program before the NCAA released its report.
Among the changes, the school has worked to improve its communications with coaches, student-athletes, staff and boosters — the latter of which also violated NCAA rules — resulting in stiff sanctions handed down against the university.
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According to Griz supporters seeking a review of the sanctions, the severity of the punishment was in response to the climate on campus at the time of the NCAA's 18-month investigation — an ongoing Federal Department of Education probe, sexual assault allegations, the firings of coach Pflugrad and O'Day and media attention that followed.
"This unprecedented negative environment tainted any notion of objectivity and equally casts doubt on the penalties agreed to at the time by the university," the proposal stated.
Montana lost 12 scholarships mostly because of improper benefits to players, including bail funds, legal counsel and other perks like meals and clothes, as well as allowing ineligible players to compete.


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I just happened to see these two different stories but they could be related in some ways.The fight looks far from being over. Brady http://news.yahoo.com/environmentalists-sue-list-bumble-bee-endangered-221534505.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/scientists-may-finally-pinpointed-whats-221000439.html |
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So in France the 5 year ban of the pesticides thought responsible for CCD has resulted in no change. Says it all. Bumble bees used to pollinate tomatoes? Why would anybody pay for that? Insects are not at all needed for tomatoes. They if anything are a problem, cross pollinating my heirloom seeds messing them up for me to save! |
- Posted by harvestman 6 (My Page) on Wed, May 14, 14 at 6:06
I won't bother googling it, but I assume tomatoes don't need cross pollination but still require pollination- same as peaches. Don't be under estimating your buzzem buddies or blaming them if they stray. My natives are more than up to the task as well. European honey bees are only essential, I think, in commercial production, where there is no forage for much of the season for natives. Monoculture is efficient but there are many prices to pay. The latest concern is chlorthalinal and Indar, that may be poisoning bee babies. Makes me feel bad because I spray quite a bit of Indar. |
I do need them for my musk strawberries, or some bee as one needs male and female plants. Tomatoes can be shaken or the wind, and they will self pollinate. I'm growing Amana Orange Amish Paste Cherokee Purple Costoluto Genovese Mrs. Maxwell's Big Italian Paul Robeson Rosso Sicilian Sungold and Sun Sugar At least about 30 more I would like to grow. I culled out 9 plants that looked like they had problems, a bummer! I already found lot's of highly recommended varieties I would like to grow next year. Amazing stuff going on in the tomato world. I'm growing ground cherries this year too, what cool plants! |
- Posted by harvestman 6 (My Page) on Wed, May 14, 14 at 19:01
OK Drew, you've raised my curiosity and so I looked around and found this interesting article. The writer makes it sound as though wind alone is a bit inadequate for a full crop of tomatoes, but my 10 minutes were up as far as searching further. It did confirm that they can be pollinated by wind alone. You da man. |
Here is a link that might be useful: pollinating tomatoes
All sellers of tomato heirloom seed bag blossoms to keep bees off, and to make sure open pollinated tomatoes remain true. It is suggested you should bag the flowers if you save and especially so if you trade seeds. Most do not, but all who sell bag the flowers. You can buy an electric device that really is a modified electric toothbrush to collect tomato pollen. I myself have never had trouble getting tomatoes to self pollinate. Currently bees are scarce and I'm a little worried I may not get many Musk strawberries. I already have tomatoes forming, so no worries there. BTW pepper plants same thing! Bag flowers to keep true to heirloom. |
- Posted by harvestman 6 (My Page) on Wed, May 14, 14 at 20:24
I just plant my heirlooms a little distance from each other and they tend to stay pretty true. An occasional surprise can be a good thing. |
I usually rattle the tomatoes cage's when walking by. I haven't seen one honeybee this year and maybe not last year either.There are lots of Bumbles and Masons though. Drew, Has your male Musk put out any flowers yet?I'm still waiting to see some. Brady |
- Posted by harvestman 6 (My Page) on Thu, May 15, 14 at 5:50
I should have mentioned that peppers can be adequately true to seed without too much trouble either, if you are not a perfectionist or selling the seed. Also, that seeds from a plant from a patented hybrid seed can produce plants very close to the patented variety. One year I bought 8 types of hot peppers and saved the seed from each. Even though they were growing side by side the seed I used the following year all came true. In subsequent years I did start getting some variations, one was a huge Jalapeno type I named Big Hal that I thought was good enough to be of interest to other growers. Before I got on with any plan of giving away seed I found out the variety was unreliable and the next generation was mostly sweet- and I wasn't growing it next to sweets the year before. Still, I do like surprises for the most part. I do a lot of seed saving without going to great length (and sometimes no length at all) to isolate the plants. I'd say at least 90% of seeds I harvest come true, probably more that come from isolated plants. |
"Has your male Musk put out any flowers yet?I'm still waiting to see some. Brady" I bought 3 males, and put them in 2 beds where I have musks, but now i don't remember which is which? So not sure? |
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Movie News By Nathan Adams on November 11, 2013 | Comments (18)Ever since it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes earlier this year, director Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Color has been creating a ton of buzz in the film world, which should be pretty understandable—it did win the biggest award that Cannes gives out, after all. But the reason the film's buzz has been a little bit annoying is that it's not generally stemming from the quality of its performances or the raw emotion put on display by the young love it takes on as its focus, it's stemming from the lengthy and explicit lesbian sex scenes that get peppered throughout its run time. It turns out lesbian sex is still the sort of thing that gets people's attention. Not only has there been debate as to whether or not Kechiche exploited his two lead actresses and forced them into performing acts that they weren't comfortable with, but there also seems to be a debate raging as to whether or not the love scenes shared by the two girls should be viewed as pornographic and labeled appropriately so more uptight consumers know for sure what to boycott. Those heady sorts of debates are the complex yet still subjective ones that could rage on for an eternity though, so probably we don't need to add any verbal fuel to their fire here. Instead, let's focus on a new debate that has sprung up around these controversial sex scenes—the one that questions whether they're even realistic enough to be worthy of […]
Over/Under: 'Brokeback Mountain' vs. 'Weekend'
Features By Nathan Adams on February 7, 2012 | Comments (2)Brokeback Mountain had the highest opening weekend per screen average in 2005, and it went from opening in only five theaters to playing wide all over the world by the end of its run. Then, when award season rolled around, it garnered all sorts of acclaim, getting awards for best picture from multiple outlets, Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director, and it even got recognition from GLAAD for being the year's most outstanding film. Pretty much it was embraced by everyone as being groundbreaking and important, and it saved Ang Lee's butt after he pissed everyone off by making The Hulk. Weekend came out just this last September, but you might not remember it because not many people ended up checking it out. By the time it left theaters it had only made a domestic gross of $484,592. Ouch. And while this movie also got some love from GLAAD, it was ignored by all of the mainstream awards shows like the Oscars and the Golden Globes. A cultural phenomenon it wasn't.
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A movie review of "Safe House," a spy thriller packed with characters, scenes and situations that seem cloned from the blockbuster "Bourne" movies. What it has that the "Bournes" don't is fun-to-watch Denzel Washington.
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'Safe House,' with Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga, Sam Shepard. Directed by Daniel Espinosa, from a screenplay by David Guggenheim. 115 minutes. Rated R for violence, language. Several theaters.
The needle of the déjà vu meter is pegged deep into the red zone in "Safe House." Just think of it as "Bourne to Run."
See if any of this sounds familiar: In a high-tech, video-screen-clogged control room, the CIA is tracking a runaway rogue superagent whose spy skills are off the charts. Orchestrating the hunt is a tough-as-nails female espionage exec played by ... wait a minute. That's not Joan Allen. That's Vera Farmiga. Her boss is a rangy agency higher-up. Scott Glenn? Nope, Sam Shepard. (Brothers in leathery looks, those two.)
Remember Matt Damon's incredible unarmed combat scenes in the "Bourne" movies, where he flattens adversaries right and left? Ryan Reynolds' character, Matt Weston, serves up a knockout variation on that theme, with hands cuffed behind his back no less.
Armies of heavily armed killers are tracking the quarry, shooting up the landscape with wild abandon. There is, naturally, a terrific car chase, full of flying bullets, screeching tires and crumpling fenders.
Familiar, all of it. Overly so. And what's weird about all this is that Universal, the studio distributing "Safe House," has an official "Bourne" sequel, "The Bourne Legacy," starring Jeremy Renner, coming out later this year. Seems like they're stepping all over their prized franchise with the so-similar "Safe House."
What "Safe House" has and the "Bournes" don't is Denzel Washington, and that's a significant difference indeed. He's silky smooth as the superspy, Tobin Frost.
With those armies of killers hot on his heels, Frost coolly tries to come in out of the cold in Cape Town, South Africa, turning himself in to the CIA there, which squirrels him away in a safe house run by Weston, an untested operative. Quicker than you can say, "unsafe house!" the bad guys bust in and send the pair fleeing for their lives.
On the run together, Frost deftly plants doubts in greenhorn Weston's mind about whether the CIA is worthy of the younger man's loyalty. With a calm demeanor and an enigmatic Mona Lisa smile, he undermines his minder.
He's always thinking three steps ahead of the kid. In the midst of "Safe House's" predictable mayhem and unoriginal plotting, Washington is fun to watch as he outsmarts everyone again and again.
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Asakusa: Catch a glimpse of old-time Tokyo at Asakusa's seventh-century Senso-ji Temple and family-run artisans' shops.
Ebisu/Daikanyama: The low-key cafés of these adjacent enclaves are an antidote to glitzy Roppongi.
Ginza: Top-end restaurants and depachikas (department store food halls) define the city's entertainment area.
Marunouchi: The business district is home to Tokyo Station, the Imperial Palace, and several hotel chains.
Roppongi: This once-gritty nightlife hub has gone upscale, with urban developments such as Tokyo Midtown.
Shibuya: Tokyo's shopping mecca swarms with tourists and trendsetters.
Shinjuku: In this central ward you'll find the world's busiest rail station and a warren of lively bars.
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WASHINGTON — Lance Armstrong described his most humbling moment, recalled his most difficult confession and challenged his lifetime ban from competitive sports in the second part of his interview with Oprah Winfrey, aired Friday.
"I deserve to be punished. I'm not sure I deserve a death penalty," he said, comparing his lifetime ban from competitive sports to the six-month bans for riders who doped with him and then testified against him.
Armstrong, 41, said "hell yes" when asked if he would like to compete again, "but that isn't why I'm doing this." He also said he does not expect the lifetime ban to be overturned.
In the first part of the interview, aired Thursday, he confessed that he had used banned substances en route to seven Tour de France titles.
That appearance met mixed reactions, and he was criticized for failing to provide details of his doping regimen, as well as for appearing aloof and arrogant.
In Friday's broadcast, Armstrong appeared close to tears when describing how he had to tell his 13-year-old son that he had taken banned substances.
"I told Luke, 'Don't defend me anymore ... if anyone says anything to you, do not defend, just say, 'Hey, my dad said he was sorry.' "
He also spoke emotionally about the day he was asked to step down from the Livestrong cancer charity he founded.
"That was the most humbling moment," he said. "(I was asked) to step down as chairman. A couple of weeks later the next call came — I was asked to step aside. That was the lowest."
Armstrong estimated that the fallout from the doping scandal had cost him about $75 million in lost commercial opportunities and sponsorships.
Earlier Friday, the international cycling organization UCI welcomed his admission, while the International Olympic Committee spoke of "a very sad day for sport" amid criticism that he failed to reveal how the doping program worked and name others who were part of the scheme.
Armstrong apologized for his deception but maintained that he never made any of his teammates take illegal substances, while acknowledging he may have exerted pressure on them."I never forced anyone," he said in the first part of the interview. "I was the leader of the team, and the leader of the team leads by example."
USADA chief Travis Tygart said Armstrong's confession was only "a small step in the right direction.
"If he is sincere in his desire to correct his past mistakes," Tygart said, "he will testify under oath about the full extent of his doping activities."
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