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I'll Take Naive
April 22, 2013 § 10 Comments
On Friday, I drove 8 hours in a southwesterly direction, on my way to a talk in PA. Of course, this was the day of out-sized drama in Boston, and while I would like to claim that I was not captivated by the unfolding narrative, that would be a lie. So I plowed down I95 in our old Subaru, alternating between NPR's ceaseless coverage of the lockdown and whatever classic rock station offered the best reception and the fewest Peter Frampton ballads. Not that there's anything wrong with Frampton, of course. But a guy can take only so much.
I don't leave northern Vermont terribly often, and every time I do, I'm struck by just how far I've drifted from the mainstream American experience. Or, at least, the mainstream American experience as exemplified by Interstate travel through ceaseless sprawling miles of industry and commerce. A few random observations: How the hell do folks afford the vehicles they drive? Everywhere I went, the cars shiny and new, 30 and 40 thousand-dollar contraptions coming up fast to fill my rear view mirror with the menacing grilles and muscular sheet metal that have become the status quo over the past decade. Not every single one, of course, but the sheer volume of large and loutish automobiles seemed to increase in disproportion to the sort of conditions in which one might actually use one of these vehicles to its advertised potential.
Along the Jersey Turnpike, at one of those dispiriting Interstate Service Centers (Gas! Diesel! Cinnibon!) I stopped for a coffee and a pee break, tucking our mud-splattered Subie between the gleaming flanks of twin SUVs. Yukons, I think they were, or perhaps Envoys. For a moment, I fretted over the fact that our door locking mechanism has long since given up the ghost, and then cast my glance around the car: What, really, could I not do without? The rusty pair of vice grips on the passenger floor? The half-quart of motor oil? Anyone who might brave the mud and manure-stained innards of our rig to lift these items would surely need them at least as much – if not more – than I. Feeling thus liberated, I was even so bold as to leave the keys hanging from the ignition before slipping into the surreal, narcoticizing world of Turnpike commerce.
There was something about the confluence of factors during my drive that made me realize just how naive I am. Along the Turnpike, I flew past the Linden Cogeneration Plant, dozens of acres or more of belching smokestack and outlandishly complicated and tubular infrastructure, a sci-fi novel come to life. Across the interstate (how many lanes in total? Six? Eight?) from the plant, a shipping port, with row upon row of cranes and stackable steel cargo trailers, a display of ingenuity, industry, and the rigid lines of manufactured exactitude to rival anything I've seen in a good long time. And the whole while, one terrorism expert after another droning through the radio, as the good people of Boston and the surrounding communities sheltered in place. Shelter in place. It has an almost cozy ring to it.
I often wonder how my world view might shift if only for a single factor. For instance, what if that were my daily commute? Not the endless soundtrack to the tragic goings on in Boston, of course, but everything else: The fancy, flashing, angry cars, the over lit, hollow prosperity of interstate service centers, the gleaming, fantastical infrastructure of power generation and intercontinental commerce. These things are novelties to me, so strange as to appear almost otherworldly, but of course to millions of my fellow countrymen and women, they offer the quotidian sights, sounds, and smells of daily life. Of course, I cannot say with certainty how such experiences might influence my emotional state, but it's hard to imagine that my emotions and perceptions would not begin to embody the cold, human-over-nature ambience of the surrounding landscape.
So, yes, I see now that perhaps I am naive to think that we, as a species, might overcome the tragic force of our own ingenuity and ambition, when so many of us are immersed in lives offer little else but evidence of these things. I see that, and I think to myself, ah, but what is the alternative to my naiveté? Hopelessness? Acquiescence? Cynicism?
And then I think, you know what? I'll take naive.
§ 10 Responses to I'll Take Naive
Its scary out here, Ben for sure. And even if you don't tune into the whole media end of things, when you see with your own eyes, the "progress" that's been made in the country, its demoralizing. For those of us who still believe that things can change, it's ever more daunting to see just how much would NEED to change. It definitely has weighed on me more heavily, as my boys age and I mature, the reality of the world in which I naively brought them and will some day leave them. Being realitively close to Boston (if you're interested, you can read my most recent post on my blog for my personal experience of it http://thepeaceablekingdom.blogspot.com/ ) it's more forefront to my mind then ever for many reasons. I'll take naive too, friend.
Beautifully said. I agree with your feeling that those of us who experience the daily grind of modern industrial life are somehow coarsened by it; and so I come here, to your blog, to scrub some of the cinder and ash away.
I'll take naive, too.
But just to be the devil's advocate for a moment, the modern world of commerce, technology, communication, medicine, etc. has provided some benefits to huge numbers of people, even if there's often a downside associated with those benefits. One example, while Bill Gates's business practices may have been a tad on the monopolistic side, his foundation will likely rid the world of polio and perhaps other diseases. Not to mention the fact that anyone with Internet access has a world of information and knowledge at their fingertips, virtually for free. Appropriate integration of on-line learning will surely revolutionize our education system, including the cost. And of course video surveillance technology came in handy last week.
But your posts are an eloquent and delightful apology for your life choices.
I have been thinking, and processing a lot over the past week. Working just a short walk from the bomb sites in Boston, and living around a mile from where the man hunt/shootout went down on Friday has left me feeling out of sorts. Given my druthers, I could use a little naiveté for my family and I.
Thank you for your thoughts. I am glad I was not the only one to think 'shelter in place' seemed cozy sounding, if not a tad nostalgic. Oh, to need an excuse to shelter in place for a day.
Naive is even cosier sounding than "shelter in place", I think. When I was younger, I thought I would always want to have a finger on the pulse of popular culture just so I wouldn't feel "out of it." Now, I couldn't care less what is desired by mainstream America (or, at least, the America the advertisers pander to.) I have been accused of being naive and uninformed, too. This has become even more intensified since having children. I have told your story of your boys not knowing what a Big Mac is so many times describing it as my idea of perfect parenting. I hope my boys will be equally naive to the things some people seem to think are so normal and even necessary. Thanks for another wonderful post!
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Franklin, Tn - Make it three in a row!!!
First, it was Lindy's College Basketball Magazine that picked the Cal State Northridge men's basketball team to win the Big West League title in 2008-09, followed by Athlon Sports College Basketball Annual as CSUN's choice to capture top league honors.
Now, a third pre-season national publication, Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, that is selecting the Matadors to win the Big West title.
According to Andy Friedlander, who wrote the story on CSUN for Blue Ribbon Magazine, "The territory the Matadors currently occupy is located at or near the top of the conference, and now everybody knows their address. After last season (20-10, 12-4 Big West), when seniors Calvin Chitwood and Jonathan Heard led Northridge to ten wins and a share of the league's regular season championship, there is no hiding anyone. So even though Chitwood and Heard have moved on (graduated), the Matadors still reside in the Big West's most prestigious neighborhood, thanks to the return of three all-conference-caliber players (Tremaine Townsend, Deon Tresvant, Josh Jenkins) and a couple of high-level transfers."
Head coach Bobby Braswell, who will be entering his 13th season at the helm of Matador basketball, told Friedlander, "We feel really good about our chances if we can stay healthy. Now it falls on us as coaches to make sure our guys are focused on the task at hand and take one game at a time as we go through this process. ... If we can improve every day in practice, get better every game, we're going to have a chance."
According to Friedlander, the Matadors have a better chance than any other Big West team because they are more than solid at three key positions - point-guard, center and shooting guard - and they back it up with perhaps the best depth in the league. "Braswell, whose teams are known for their frenetic, pressing style that forces turnovers and drives up a game's tempo, generally uses a lot of players, but said this season he feels even better about his bench than ever."
Braswell told Friedlander, "We will go at least ten deep. I really feel comfortable about that, and we'll probably be abe to go as deep as 12."
Blue Ribbon Analysis (Cal State Northridge)
Backcourt: A-
Benh/Depth: B
Frontcourt: B-
Intangibles: A
"How deep are the Matadors? Last season, their leading scorer, (Deon) Tresvant, did not start a game, and top rebounder (Tremaine) Townsend, started only eight. Despite losing some significant talent, Northridge looks just as loaded for a run at the Big West title this time. In fact, it might be in better position because more of its core players have been in the system for a year. Last season, inexperience at some key spots prompted (head coach Bobby) Braswell to back off from his customary 94-foot high-pressure defense, though the Matadors still led the conference in steals (9.1) and turnovers forced per game (18.6). Now he plans to extend his defense baseline-to-baseline. While much of Northridge's offensive is generated by the defense, it helps to have a reliable scorer in the half-court game. The Matadors don't have just one, they have three, and perhaps more incoming players ... live up to their billing." - Andy Friedlander, Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook
"That's kind of how our system is built. We definitely have some guys, who, if we need to get something done - whether it's Josh (Jenkins) handling the ball and breaking somebody down, or running a set for Deon to get him a shot or pounding the ball inside to (Tremaine) Townsend - we have a lot of people we can go to. Kind of what we do in our system is, we want to make it hard for people to take away one guy and limit us." - Bobby Braswell, head coach, Cal State Northridge Men's Basketball
Blue Ribbon College Basketball Forecast
1. Cal State Northridge
2. UC Santa Barbara
3. Cal State Fullerton
4. Pacific
5. UC Davis
6. Long Beach State
7. UC Riverside
8. UC Irvine
9. Cal Poly
Top Backcourts
1. Cal State Northridge
2. UC Davis
3. Cal State Fullerton
Top Frontcourts
1. Cal State Northridge
2. UC Santa Barbara
3. Pacific
All-Conference Team
Josh Jenkins - Cal State Northridge
Josh Akognon - Cal State Fullerton
Donovan Morris - Long Beach State
Mark Payne - UC Davis
Chris Devine - UC Santa Barbara
Player of the Year
Josh Akognon - Cal State Fullerton
Newcomer of the Year
Stephan Gilling - Long Beach State
Athlon Sports College Basketball Annual
1. Cal State Northridge
2. Cal State Fullerton
3. UC Santa Barbara
4. Long Beach State
5. Pacific
6. UC Irvine
7. Cal Poly
8. UC Riverside
9. UC Davis
Lindy's College Basketball Pre-Season Magazine Projections
1. Cal State Northridge
2. UC Santa Barbara
3. Long Beach State
4. Cal State Fullerton
5. Pacific
6. UC Riverside
7. UC Irvine
8. Cal Poly
9. UC Davis
The 2008-09 Cal State Northridge Men's Basketball Pre-Season Outlook
School: Cal State Northridge
Location: Northridge, Calif. 91330
Nickname: Matadors
Colors: Red, White and Black
Enrollment: 33,000
Founded: 1958
NCAA Affiliation: Division I
Conference: Big West
Home Court: The Matadome (1,600)
President: Dr. Jolene Koester
Athletic Director: Rick Mazzuto
Assistant Athletic Director, Media Relations: Bob Vazquez
Website: www.gomatadors.com
Cal State Northridge Coaching Staff
Head Coach: Bobby Braswell (Cal State Northridge, 1985)
Career Record: 188-167 (12 years)
School Record: 188-167 (12 years)
Assistant Coaches: Louis Wilson, Danny Sprinkle, James Blake
Director of Basketball Operations: Ryan Dodd
2007-08 Record: 20-10
Big West Record: 12-4, 1stT
Starters Returning: Three
Lettermen Returning: Nine
All-American Candidates
Deon Tresvant, G, 6-1, 170, Senior, Long Beach, Calif. (13.9 ppg, 1.7 rpg)
Tremaine Townsend, F, 6-9, 215, Senior, Phoenix, Az (10.1 ppg, 9.8 rpg, 1.3 bpg)
All-Conference Candidates
Josh Jenkins, G, 5-10, 185, Senior, Albuquerque, NM (10.5 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 6.4 apg)
Deon Tresvant, G, 6-1, 170, Senior, Long Beach, Calif. (13.9 ppg, 1.7 rpg)
Tremaine Townsend, F, 6-9, 215, Senior, Phoenix, Az (10.1 ppg, 9.8 rpg, 1.3 bpg)
Returning Lettermen (*Returning Starter)
*Rob Haynes, G, 6-4, 185, Senior, Cerritos, Ca., 6.8 ppg, 2.0 rpg)
*Josh Jenkins, G, 5-10, 185, Senior, Albuquerque, NM (10.5 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 6.4 apg)
Michael Lizarraga, F, 6-7, 240, Sophomore, Dixon, Ca. (0.9 ppg, 0.9 rpg)
Rodrigue Mels, G, 6-3, 180, Senior, Les Abymes, Guadeloupe (5.3 ppg, 2.1 rpg)
Tony Osunsanmi, F/G, 6-4, 190, RS Junior, Ontario, Ca (0.5 ppg, 2.1 rpg)
Evan Scott, F, 6-6, 210, RS Sophomore, Long Beach, Ca (0.3 ppg, 0.3 rpg)
Therin Taylor, G/F, 6-5, 180, Junior, Richmond, Ca (1.3 ppg, 0.7 rpg)
*Tremaine Townsend, F, 6-9, 215, Senior, Phoenix, Az (10.1 ppg, 9.8 rpg, 1.3 bpg)
Deon Tresvant, G, 6-1, 170, Senior, Long Beach, Calif. (13.9 ppg, 1.7 rpg)
Vincent Cordell, F, 6-6, 210, Junior, Huntsville, Al (Transfer from Northwest Shoals Community College in Muscle Shoals, Al)
Xavier Crawford, C, 7-0, 220, Junior, Richfield, Mn (Transfer form Yuba College in Marysville, Ca)
Kenny Daniels, G, 6-4, 210. Junior, St. Louis, Mo (Transfer from Sheridan College in Sheridan, Wyoming)
Willie Galick, F, 6-8, 225, RS Junior, Nanaimo, British Columbia (Transfer from Pepperdine University) - Redshirted in 2007-08
Mark Hill, G, 5-10, 175, Junior, Los Angeles, Ca (Transfer from Tulsa University) - Will be eligible in December, 2008
Dallas Rutherford, G, 6-1, 165, Freshman, Northridge, Ca (Campbell Hall HS)
Jermaine Smith, F, 6-9, 220, RS Junior, Irvington, NJ (Ohlone College, Fremont, Ca) - Redshirted in 2007-08)
Matthew Wallace, G, 6-2, 160, RS Freshman, Inglewood, Ca (Inglewood HS) - Reshirted in 2007-08)
Vinnie McGhee, G, 6-0, 165, Oakland, Ca (transfer from Sacramento State)
* This could quite possibly be the best team during Bobby Braswell's head coaching tenure at Cal State Northridge.
* The Matadors are two-deep at every position, and return nine lettermen from a 2007-08 squad that chalked up a 20-10 record, and earned a share of the Big West title at 12-4.
* This team, on paper, has the capabilities of making the NCAA Tournament.
* Player of the Year candidates, and possible All-American candidates are Tremaine Townsend (F, 6-9, 215, Senior) and Deon Tresvant (G, 6-1, 170, Senior)
* Tremaine Townsend led the Big West in rebounding (9.8 rpg), blocked shots (1.2 bpg) and second in field goal percentage (.525) ... In his last ten games, Townsend averaged 12.5 rpg ... Averaged 10.1 ppg ... Led the team and the league in double-doubles (10) ... Grabbed ten or rebounds in 20 of the 30 games ... Averaged 10.1 ppg ... Blocked a school record 37 shots ... Can shoot the ball from the perimeter, in addition to rebounding and blocking shots.
* Deon Tresvant became the first player in Matador school history to lead the team in scoring (13.9 ppg) although he did not start one game last year ... A dynamic three-point shooter ... Had 83 three-pointers last year, second best in the Big West and second all-time for a single season at CSUN ... Shot .413 from behind the arc, and .479 overall ... Made at least one three-pointer in 29 of 30 games, and scored in double figures in 20 games, all in a reserve role.
* Josh Jenkins led the Big West in assists per game (6.4 apg, 191 assists) ... His assist total was third-best for a single season at CSUN, and #9 in the nation last year) ... Also scored 10.5 ppg ... Also collected a team-leading 49 steals (1.6 spg), third-best in the league ... Second in the league in assist/turnover ratio (1.62).
* There is plenty of veteran experience with three-year starter Rob Haynes at the off-guard and small forward position, along with three-point specialist Rodrigue Mels, and forwards Tony Osunsanmi, Therin Taylor, Evan Scott and Michael Lizarraga.
* A quartet of redshirt players will be eligible this year ... Willie Galick, who started 36 games in two seasons at Pepperdine, is penciled in as a starter at power forward, along with Jermaine Smtih, a 6-9, 220-pound forward who sat out last year with a knee injury ... Smith is healthy this year ... Mark Hill, a transfer from Tulsa, will be eligible in December ... Hill played two seasons at Tulsa ... Hill and redshirt freshman Matthew Wallace will provide depth at the point-guard position.
* Cal State Northridge also recruited size and speed along the front line with the addtion of 7-foot center Xavier Crawford and 6-foot-6 forward Vincent Cordell.
* Kenny Daniels is another incoming recruit who gives Cal State Northridge another outside shooting threat besides Deon Tresvant, Rob Haynes and Rodrigue Mels. Dallas Rutherford is a freshman point-guard with great potential.
* The Matadors have also beefed up their schedule with games at Stanford (Nov. 18), at New Mexico (Nov. 24) and at UCLA (Dec. 7).
* CSUN has been among the national leaders in steals in recent years and this year should be no exception. Last year, the Matadors led the conference in steals (9.2 spg).


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To start you will need to get to Researcher Lev vi in Levvi's Camp in the Scoured Fields. She will give you the Sample Collector which is necessary to completing the achievement and you will need to scan ten samples (out of eleven) to get the Fervid Censer backpack.
Southsun Camp Sample
Right behind Levvi's tent will be your first Sample.
Southsun Pool Sample
Head north from the Camp Karka Waypoint, keeping an eye toward the tiered water pools and you should spot it just beyond the bridge.
Southsun Lava Sample
Head towards the Karka Hive (north of Levvi's Camp) and head down the ramp leading down to the lava pool and just at the edge of the lava is your prize.
Southsun River Sample
To the Northwest of Levvi's Camp, at the head of the river you ran across to get to Levvi, will be the next Sample.
Southsun Cave Sample
Go to the Crab Toss arena and head north on the shore. You should find a group of caverns you can head into, and shortly after heading in will be the next Sample.
Southsun Sandpit Sample
Head Northwest from the Eastern Encampment Waypoint, across the Dappled Shores, to the Sandpit where the Wurms lurk. Just west of the POI will be your prize.
Southsun Geyser Sample
Head north across the Driftglass Springs and head towards the ledge of the cliff. At the edge, look to your left and you will see a path of tiered rocks leading up to the top of a spring. Jump up and you will find this sample at the heart of a Geyser.
Southsun Islet Sample
This particular sample requires you to do the Jumping Puzzle next to Lion Point. At the end of it, behind the Champion guarding a chest atop of the Strait, will be your Sample.
Southsun Shipwreck Sample
Just south of the Pride Point Waypoint, atop a jutting rock with buildings all around it. Go up behind the armorer's building and you will find this Sample tucked under some foliage and debris.
Southsun Elevation Sample
This one requires you to go atop the Karka Hive to the Champion Karka. Just at the mouth of the platform, where the Champion Karka lurks, will be this Sample. You can get it without provoking the Karka.
Southsun Vent Sample
At the area of the Jumping Puzzle, west of Lion Point Waypoint, will be a wide open area filled with Skelk, water and red mist. In one of these clouds of Mist will be your hiding Sample.
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Are they a mass of confusion or a world of opportunity? We will survey and compare the major world religions, with attention paid to both similarities and differences. Traditions covered include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese religion.
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DES MOINES, Iowa – Apparently, U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst, a Republican from Red Oak, isn't the only Iowa elected official with hands-on experiences on the farm with barnyard animals. Last April, Ernst broke away from a five-person primary field following her campaign ad where she talked about her experiences castrating hogs on the family farm.
Monday, Governor Terry Branstad said he,too, took part in castrations while growing up, although more as an assistant. The governor said, "I held the hogs while the veterinarian, Jerry Jorgenson, castrated them."
Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds, a close friend of Ernst, also spent time on the family farm. "I have not," she said when asked if she had castrated hogs. But she added, "After seeing the recognition and the name i.d. that you can get (from Ernst's campaign ad), I said I might have to think about it in the next four years."
That might be the first time Reynolds has spoken publicly about running for governor in 2018.
Reynolds also added, "I didn't castrate hogs. But I do know how to skin a chicken and I can do that pretty well."


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This paper examines employment and child-care choices of single-parent families with young children in the United States and Canada, using a pooled data set based on recent national surveys in each country. We find that the employment and child-care choices of Canadian families are similar to those of U.S. families. Estimates of a model of employment and child-care choices indicate significant effects of child-care subsidies, child-care prices, and wage rates on employment and child-care choices.
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A shielded electrical cable is described having improved interference immunity and radio frequency screening by virtue of the mode of application of the shield. The shield is insulated from the inner conductor or conductors and comprises a pair of coaxial wire braid layers separated by a continuous metal tube which is flexible and does not bind upon the underlying braid. The tube is peferably formed from mu-metal or other metal tape wound onto the braid in partially overlapping helical turns, the winding tension is insufficient for the overlapping margin to compress the underlying margin of the previous turn, this latter operation being performed in a rotary tubular die whose bore allows for a small annular clearance to be preserved between the wound tape tube and the underlying wire braid.
1. A shielded electrically conducting cable comprising at least one inner electrical conductor electrically insulated from a surrounding wire braid, and a lengthwise flexible metal tube surrounding the wire braid with an annular clearance between the tube and the braid.
2. A shielded electrically conducting cable as claimed in claim 1 in which the lengthwise flexible tube is formed from helical, partially overlapping, turns of a continuous metal tape.
3. A shielded electrically conducting cable as claimed in claim 1 characterised by the addition of a further wire braid covering the lengthwise flexible tube.
4. A shielded electrically conducting cable as claimed in claim 2 in which the metal tape is made from high permeability magnetic material.
5. A shielded electrically conducting cable as claimed in claim 2 characterised in that the turns of the tape overlap one another by about 25% of the tape width.
6. A shielded electrically conducting cable as claimed in claim 4 in which the surface transfer impedance at 100Khz is less than about 100 μ Ω/m.
7. A shielded electrically conducting cable as claimed in claim 4 in which there is a single inner wire conductor and a shield comprising two layers of wire braid and a magnetic metal tape layer between the braid layers sensibly co-axial with the inner conductor.
8. A shielded electrically conducting co-axial cable as claimed in claim 2 in which the partially overlapping helical turns of tape are in the form of a single start helix.
9. A shielded electrically conducting coaxial cable as claimed in claim 2 in which the shield includes at least one magnetic metal screen composed of a single metal tape wound over the wire braid as a series of partially overlapping helical turns with the underlying marginal portions radially displaced towards the wire braid.
10. A shielded co-axial cable as claimed in claim 9 characterised in that said helical turns having been applied by leading a centre electrical conductor bearing a layer of insulation through a rotary tubular die, the die having a segmental slot into which the tape is fed from a spool rotating with the die to wrap around the inside face of the tubular die in a series of partially overlapping helical turns, the die diameter being such that the tape exerts substantially no binding pressure on the underlying wire braid.
This invention relates to shielded co-axial and other electrical cables and to methods of making these cables by which interference immunity may be increased. As is well known, a co-axial cable with two or more braided wire screens as the outer conductor over the dielectric has better performance in this respect than a cable having only one braided wire screen. Moreover, it has been shown in the Paper No B11-3 entitled "On the interference immunity of co-axial cables" and read at the EUROCON 71 Conference IEEE Region 8, that the interposition of a layer of magnetic material between these braids makes a very marked improvement in the interference immunity by improved radio frequency shielding. The magnitude of the improvement in interference immunity is a function of the permeability and thickness of the magnetic material used and of the thickness of the effective air gap in the magnetic path presented by the magnetic material.
It is of course important that the addition of magnetic material does not seriously impair the flexibility of the cable inherent in its construction and hence it has been the practice to employ magnetic material in the form of a layer of tape of high permeability such as "mu-metal." It has been found that the way the tape layer is applied can have a large influence on the mechanical and electrical properties of the finished cable.
For example, if the magnetic tape is wound on with the edges of the tape butting between the turns (so as to minimise the air gap) any bending of the cable tends to induce a buckle in the tape with a consequential degradation of both its mechanical and magnetic properties. This drawback may be avoided if the tape is wound on with a gap between successive turns and although this method introduces a larger air gap than with a butted winding, a second layer of tape may be applied in staggered relation to the first. A further alternative, and one with which the invention is directly concerned, is to wind on the tape with a significant overlap, so minimising the air gap. Under these conditions the trailing edge of the tape must stretch an amount proportional to the tape thickness to allow a continuous winding operation without any buildup of diameter. Difficulties arise in applying a tape in this way for if an annealed tape is wound on with a high tension so that it is stretched beyond its elastic limit both edges of the tape will stretch unless very careful control of tension is exercised. The trailing edge of the tape being applied to the cable must wind on to a cable whose radius is increased by the thickness of the immediately preceding lap of tape, hence the trailing edge will stretch a little more than the leading edge. Unfortunately this stretching degrades the magnetic properties and the resulting tight binding effect results in a somewhat stiff cable.
According to the present invention a shielded cable has a shield which includes a wire braid and a continuous, lengthwise flexible, metal tube enclosing the braid without exerting any radial pressure on the underlying wire braid. The absence of radial pressure is preferable manifest by the presence of a small annular clearance between the metal tube and the underlying braid. Preferably the metal tube is formed by winding a metal tape in a series of overlapping helical turns onto the inside of a rotary tubular die.
The die may contain, at the time of winding the cable internals, eg at least one conductor covered with insulent and one or more wire braids. Alternatively there may be no conducting part of the screen within the die during this winding process. If desired, the tube, formed from overlapping helical tape turns, may be formed in the die and the cable internals inserted afterwards. In any event, the tape "tube" will build up in diameter at the overlap until it meets the inside face of the tubular die and can then get no bigger. The die along with the tape supply is rotated and effects a swaging action which results in the trailing edge of the tape compressing inwards the leading edge of the previous turn of tape. This is achieved without significant stretch of the trailing edge of the tape being applied. Thus there is provided a shielded cable comprising at least one inner conductor electrically insulated from a surrounding wire braid and a metal tape layer wound into a tube overlying the wire braid in such a way that each turn of the tape layer overlaps the immediately previous turn by a substantial amount but without exerting any binding pressure on the wire braid whereby the magnetic properties of the tape are not degraded.
The completed cable comprises an inner conductor or conductors, electrically insulated from the outer shield and generally covered with a protective jacket; the outer shield being preferably made up of a first conducting braided wire screen, a magnetic layer made up of a single helix of a magnetic tape, or the like, and a second conducting braided wire screen portion, the single helix of tape exerting no binding pressure on the underlying first braided wire screen portion. Additional magnetic layers and braided wire screens may also be incorporated. The magnetic tape layer in each case is preferably applied with a continuous overlap and with an inside diameter larger than the immediately underlying braided wire screen. It is not in fact air-insulated from the first braided wire screen and will be found to make contact with this screen at frequent intervals along its length notwithstanding the clearance allowed for during fabrication.
Additional to the avoidance of stretching of the tape during winding is the need to take care that the tape layer is not unduly stressed by the mode of application of any superimposed layers of braid or protective covering which could negate the effect of careful tape application. Flexibility is also of some importance with the facility for bending the shielded cable over a small radius without degrading the magnetic properties of the screen. It is desirable to maintain, in the case of tape-wound screens to maintain a feed angle of tape between 50° and 85° and preferably between 60° and 80°.
The mode of applying a helically wound tape layer described herein is such that the underlapping margin of the tape turn is radially depressed by the inside of the die rather than the tape tension exerting a binding pressure against the underlying wire braid and the clearance under the tape layer allows good flexure without stressing the layer.
The invention extends to include the method of manufacturing a shielded cable of both increased interference immunity and of reduced electromagnetic radiation properties. The method resides in applying at least one magnetic tape layer between two conducting wire braide covering the inner conductor, the method residing in applying a first magnetic tape layer over a first conducting wire braid by leading a magnetic metal tape through an axial slot of finite length in a rotating tubular die through the bore of which die the cable is advanced axially, allowing the tape to wind over the cable as a plurality of partially overlapping helical turns with the overlapping edge of the tape only lightly stretched and maintaining the wound tape at a substantially uniform diameter by its passage through a die portion leading from the axial slot.
In order to effect the winding of the tape into a layer as aforesaid a special winding head/die combination is preferred. In the main this combination comprises a tubular body, having an end portion for engaging a rotary head and a free end portion. Between these two portions a tape supply and tape guide means are mounted to feed tape into a slot of finite axial length in the free end portion. The slot is segmental and cut with one face tangential to the tube bore, the other face is radial and lies in a plane which intercepts the tangential face at the tubular die bore. This allows the tape to enter the slot along the tangential face and wrap round the die bore. The bore size of the tubular die is determined by measuring the outside diameter of the uncompleted cable which the tape is intended to screen and adding to this dimension four times the tape thickness plus a few tenths of a millimeter as clearance (between the tape and the underlying braid). This clearance may be in the range 0.1 mm and 0.4 mm; typically 0.2 mm may be chosen.
The invention includes a die for the application of a screen to a co-axial cable comprising a tubular body whose bore is substantially the diameter of the screened cable, an elongated segmental slot in the tubular body, the slot having a leading face substantially tangential to the bore of the die and a trailing face substantially radial to the bore of the die, the tangential face and the radial face being leading and trailing faces with respect to the direction of rotation of the die and including carrier means, rotatable with the die, for carrying a supply of screening tape and for guiding it into the bore of the die along a plane substantially parallel to the tangential face, or making a small angle with the tangential face.
In order that the invention may be better understood the following drawings will be referred to in the description of the preferred constructions and methods
FIG. 1 is an axial cross-section through a length of cable embodying the invention, the cable in this example being a co-axial cable;
FIG. 2 illustrates a prior art method of applying a wound tape screen
FIG. 3 illustrates an invented mode comparable to FIG. 2 of applying a wound tape screen
FIGS. 4 and 5 are side and end views respectively of winding apparatus for application of a wound tape screen to the cable
FIG. 5a is an enlarged diagram die view of a part of FIG. 4 as viewed in the direction of the arrow A and
FIG. 6 is a graph showing the change in transfer impedance when comparative cables are subjected to repeated flexure.
Reference to FIG. 1 shows that in this form the invented cable comprises an inner conductor 1 covered with a layer of insulation 2 of plastics material and having a shield which includes a co-axial layer of wire braid 3 and a layer 4 composed of overlapping helical turns of electrically conducting metal tape with an underlying clearance 7.
The wound tape layer 4 forms in effect a length wise flexible metal tube and when wound around the uncompleted cable is wound without exerting any significant binding pressure on the underlying wire braid.
The effect of this new mode of application in producing a novel cable may be quickly appreciated from an inspection of FIGS. 2 and 3. FIG. 2 illustrates how in the prior methods of application a tape layer 4a undergoes stretching to a marked degree along its leading edge as each turn exerts a strong binding pressure on the underlying braid 3a and very close contact between the tape layer 4a and the braid results. In contrast, FIG. 3 shows that the invented cable the tape layer 4 is applied without significant stretching, without exerting a binding pressure on the underlying braid 3 leaving a clearance 7 between the tape layer 4 and braid 3. Clearance 7 is exaggerated in the drawing and results from the absence of binding pressure. This leads to an alternative constructional sequence of the invention wherein the layer 4 is formed as a length-wise flexible tube without any conducting part of the screen inside it.
Means other than tape winding may then be employed to form such a tube. In this description the mode of FIG. 3 will be dealt with in detail by way of non-limitive example; the layer 4 thus constitutes one form of a longitudinally flexible electrically conducting metal tube. The shield further includes a second screen 5 which is also of wire braid applied to the tape layer 4. The screen 5 is encased with an outer non-conductive cover 6. In this cable, designed for high frequencies, the inner conductor forms a first conductor and the braids and tape wound layer 4 a second conductor. The layer 4 is applied to the cable after the insulation 2 and the inner wire braid 3 have been applied to the inner conductor 1.
As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 the cable is fed axially through the bore of a tubular rotary die 10. The die 10 has a rearwardly extending shank 11 adapted to enter a chuck by rotation of which the whole die may be rotated relative to the cable. The forward extending portion 12 of the die has a bore 12a diameter equal to the desired diameter of the applied screen with clearance 7. The portion 12 has one quadrant cut away to form a segmental slot 13 of finite axial length. The slot has a leading face 13a lying in a plane tangential to the bore 12a and a trailing face 13b lying in radial plane which intersects the tangential plane as foresaid. The terms "leading and trailing edges" are related to the rotational direction of the die, and the terms "radial and tangential" with respect to the die bore. A spool 14 carrying metal tape for the layer 4 is mounted between flanges 14a on the die 1 and rotates as one with it. The metal tape is an alloy, mu-metal, of high magnetic permeability whose width is suited to the diameter of the cable to which it is applied. The tape, which has already been annealed in a conventional manner, is in fact capable of stretching without fracture for general handling purposes but this property is hardly availed of. A bight 8 of the tape is led off the drum and guided by guide bar 15 into a plane substantially parallel, or coincident with, the plane containing the tangential face 13a of the slot 13. The tape is lead into the slot 13 and threaded around the uncompleted cable which lies in the bore of the die. Some degree of tension must of course be applied to the tape but this is no more than is necessary to ensure a continuous, smooth, feed of tape and it is insufficient to depress the leading edge 1 of the previous turn. This tension is adjustable by a tensioning device comprising a spring 16 located between one flange 14a and a nut 17 whose axial position relative to the flange 14a is adjustable by being in screwed engagement with a screw threaded part of the die body.
The guide bar 15 is carried by an arm 18 extending radially from the spool. The angular position of the guide bar 15 relative to the die axis is rotatably adjustable by a thumb screw connection 19.
In operation the die is fixed in a chuck of a suitable rotary head and the cable to be screened is fed through the bore of the die from behind the chuck to emerge through the open ended forward portion 12. The tape for the layer 4 is led off the spool 14 over the guide bar 15 and into the slot 13 in the die. The tape enters the slot close to its leading, tangential, face 13a as shown in FIG. 5. The tape is given a first turn around the cable frictionally engaging the wire braid 3, and as the rotation of the die is commenced so the cable is drawn without rotation, through the die, at a constant rate. As the tape 4 leaves the leading face (or close adjacency to the leading face) of the slot 13 and enters the bore of the die proper, it is in contact with the other edge 20 of the slot, defined where the die bore wall intersects the trailing face 13b of the slot. The edge 20 thus applies a radially inwards pressure on the tape with the result that the marginal overlapping portion of the tape depresses the margin of the underlying lap of tape radially inwards towards the braided wire screen but leaving a small annular clearance. Partially overlapping helical turns are thus to be produced as shown in FIG. 3 without undue cold working of the tape material so preserving its magnetic properties. The pitch of the helical layer of the tape is adjusted by adjusting the rate at which the cable is pulled through the die such that the overlap of about 25% is preferably aimed at.
Because of the die shape and because the die and tape supply rotate as one, the only pressure applied to each turn of tape is a radially inwards pressure applied by the die via the overlapping portion of the next successive turn with the result that the upper lap 21 of each turn compresses the underlap 22 (see FIG. 3) as it is applied. At the same time the diameter of the emerging cable is no smaller than the bore diameter of the die portion 12, so that a correctly sized cable emerges. Moreover, the cable has a layer of tape applied with a minimum of air gaps. The tape enters the slot at an angle α of about 70° to the die axis.
Otherwise expressed, the method reduces deformation of the tape which degrades its magnetic properties.
As the upper lap of tape engages the lower, deformation necessary to produce a uniform diameter is shared between upper and lower layers but not equally. The lower layer being compressed radially inwards to a greater extent than the upper lap is stretched.
Construction of the cable is completed by the addition of a further braided wire screen on which the outer jacket is applied.
Both of the braided wire screens with interposed tape comprise the outer conductor. For improved screening a further magnetic tape and a braided wire screen may be applied in a similar way and in this case all three braided wire screens and both interposed magnetic tapes comprise the outer conductor.
In order to test the efficiency of the invention, a comparative test was devised to compare the transfer impedance of a cable A screened by a tape wound in accordance with the invention and a cable B screened by a tape wound by conventional contemporary equipment.
Both cables A and B were subjected to the same test designed to effect a maximum degradation of the shielding in terms of transfer impedance. Thransfer impedance is a characteristic of all shielding circuits and is defined, generally, as the voltage appearing in the shielded circuit divided by the current flowing in the shield itself. As is known to achieve adequate interference immunity a cable shield should have initially, and preserve, a low transfer impedance.
The test selected was to subject the shielded cables to cold working and progressively monitor any changes in their transfer impedances. The working resided in winding each cable onto a 50 mm diameter mandrel and off again repeatedly. Each time the direction of bending the cable was reversed.
In the accompanying FIG. 5 the number of times the cables were wound on the mandrel and off again are sealed along the abscissa, whilst the transfer impedance (ZT m Ω/m) at 100 kHz are scaled along the ordinate. Both are log scales. The transfer impedance was measured. On each occasion the cable was removed and straightened for the measurement to be made. After measurement the cable was rewound but with opposite hand. The graphs show that not only did the inverted cable A have a lower transfer impedance at the outset than cable B but that the magnetic properties of the metal screen of cable B deteriorated much more rapidly than that of cable A. In fact, as a result of repeated reverse flexing the transfer impedance of cable A changed very little. As is known, low transfer impedance is a characteristic of good interference immunity.
Although the above described example relates to a co-axial cable the invention is equally applicable to triaxial or to twin cable or to cables having a multiple of conductors in the same outer protective covering. Again, although the method of forming the flexible tube selected for the example involves wrapping onto the inside surface of a tubular die through which the cable is drawn, the tube may be made separately from the internal cable components which would be inserted into the flexible tube. Thus the tape layer would be wound onto a removable mandrel which is subsequently removed and the internal cable components inserted in its stead. Alternatively again, the lengthwise flexible tube may be made by means other than tape wrapping care being taken to preserve the magnetic properties. For example, a lengthwise flexible tube may be formed by a plurality of articulated annular sections in a manner known per se, and applied over the cable inner conductor suitably insulated and shielded by a wire braid as above.
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In these four short videos, southern Appalachian poet Ron Rash reads three poems and an excerpt from his novel, Saints at the River. Drawing upon local knowledge and lore, memory, current events, and personal experience, Rash's writing explores his region's cultural and natural environment while raising questions about the everyday mysteries of existence. These readings were filmed at sites around Cullowhee, North Carolina.
"Saints at the River and Selected Poems" is part of the Poets in Place series, a Research Collaboration in the Humanities initiative funded through Emory University's Presidential Woodruff Fund, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost. Series producers are Natasha Trethewey and Allen Tullos.
|Ron Rash reads his poem "Fall Creek." Poem text.
|Ron Rash reads his poem "August, 1959: Morning Service." Poem text.
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About Ron Rash
Ron Rash grew up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, and graduated from Gardner-Webb College and Clemson University. Rash's family has lived in the southern Appalachian Mountains since the eighteenth century, and this region has been the primary focus of his writing career. He cites a diverse array of writers, including James Joyce, Philip Roth, and Eudora Welty, as important influences on his creative approach to place.
Rash's poetry and fiction have appeared in many magazines, such as Sewanee Review, Yale Review, Georgia Review, New England Review, Poetry, and The Oxford American. He is the author of three short story collections, The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth (1994), Casualties (2000), and Chemistry and Other Stories, Eureka Mill (2001), Among the Believers (2000), and Raising the Dead (2002); three novels, One Foot in Eden (2004), Saints at the River (2004), and The World Made Straight (2007); and a children's book, The Shark's Tooth (2001). His list of awards includes The Academy of American Poets Prize, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Fellowship of Southern Writers' James Still Award for Writing of the Appalachian South, the O. Henry Prize, and the Southern Book Critic Circle Award. He has taught at the University of South Carolina and is currently the Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University.
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Rash, Ron.Among the Believers. Oak Ridge, TN: Iris Press, 2000. (Poetry)
———. Casualties. Beaufort, SC: Bench Press, 2000. (Short fiction)
———. Chemistry and Other Stories. New York, NY: Picador, 2007. (Short fiction)
———. Eureka Mill. Spartanburg, SC: Hub City Writers Project, 2001. (Poetry)
———. The Night The New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina.
Columbia, SC: Bench Press, 1994. (Short fiction)
———. One Foot in Eden. New York: Picador, 2004. (Novel)
———. Raising the Dead. Oak Ridge, TN: Iris Press, 2002. (Poetry)
———. Saints at the River. New York: Picador, 2004. (Novel)
———. The Shark's Tooth. Clemson, SC: Find The Shark's Tooth Company (2001). (Children's Book)
———. The World Made Straight. New York: Henry Holt, 2006. (Novel)
Interview with Ron Rash by Robert Birnbaum in The Morning News
Language Can Be Magical: An Interview with Ron Rash by Pam Kingsbury
New York Times Review of Ron Rash's Serena
The O. Henry Prize Story's Author Spotlight
Ron Rash, "The Importance of Place"
Ron Rash speaks with Karen Spears Zacharias
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Upstream Theater's Ancient Mariner Is a Triumph
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Keith has shown regularly in St. Louis since relocating here, so her works will be familiar to local gallery-goers. Nonetheless, this show is a must-see -- Keith is moving to New York in June, and this may be one of her last exhibits here for a while. William Shearburn has organized a miniretrospective of Keith's works that includes a sample of almost everything the artist has done, from the early rusty metallic books to the more recent works on paper to the larger paintings done on steel office-desk components. The show is mounted simply but beautifully, a fitting tribute to Keith's career and unbounded imagination.
Of the newer works, Keith's portrait series stand out. Wallflowers features faces of women -- those women of the 1940s, with their high foreheads and iron-clad hairstyles -- layered over sad wallpaper samples. In another series of portraits, women's faces are painted on sheets of paper from the Pulitzer Publishing Co. ledger and juxtaposed with little pictures from magazines and old cookbooks (the kind that were published back when grease was a food group). "Gertrude" is paired with a picture of roses in a vase; the "Baked Bean Luncheon" lady looks like a waitress waiting to be discovered by a Hollywood scout.
A whole selection of Keith's fabulous nude-pinup images are among the works here, including the nudies painted over prints of cute kittens. Keith's works featuring men are equally interesting -- they are hunched over, wearing trench coats and hats, work-worn and weary. They have a Julius Knipl feel to them, as if they are being phased out of usefulness and disappearing from history.
This is where Keith is at her best: bringing to life fictional fragments of a lost cultural history. There were people who lived these stories, or versions of them; Keith revives lives and experiences and cultural codes that have all but disappeared. Her paintings of women on steel desk surfaces are especially evocative, with echoes of Raphael Soyer's or Edward Hopper's office girls at work in the Depression-era big city. Keith's stories may be fiction, but they reveal realities of a lost time. And knowing that Keith is leaving St. Louis just adds another layer of meaning and melancholy to these works.
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COLUMBIA — College football is generating plenty of dollars but doesn't make as much sense.
When Steve Spurrier moved here before the 2005 season, the basic understanding was that he might not be able to replicate his Florida success (after all the Gators should always be loaded with Sunshine State talent) but that he would probably make up ground against the SEC and Clemson because he defied all odds and won at lowly Duke.
So on Saturday the Gamecocks, barreling toward a third straight double-digit win season, are favored by almost two touchdowns over Florida.
Florida head coach Will Muschamp this week got the dreaded vote of confidence.
"I want the Gator Nation to know that I have full confidence in Coach Muschamp and his leadership of the football program," school president Bernie Machen said.
Sure. As long as Florida doesn't have to face Duke.
The mighty Blue Devils have more control of their league championship than South Carolina or Florida. A victory over Miami on Saturday in Durham puts 7-2 Duke solidly atop the ACC's Coastal Division.
Head coach David Cutcliffe said this week he expects "a huge Duke crowd" to honor seniors who enrolled with "a lot of buy into the program."
Parity has come to Pigskin Picks, too; I have pulled into a tie with Warren Peper, though only one of us truly believes in Duke.
Week 12:
Florida at USC
The Gamecocks are ready and able to make up for a 44-11 loss in Gainesville.
Gene Sapakoff pick: South Carolina, 38-12
Warren Peper pick: South Carolina, 27-19
VMI at The Citadel
Former South Carolina head coach Sparky Woods is in town to lead VMI, but the Bulldogs will win the coveted Silver Shako.
Sapakoff pick: The Citadel, 24-14
Peper pick: The Citadel, 27-14
CSU at Gardner-Webb
Gardner-Webb is 0-3 in the Big South but beat Wofford. Charleston Southern, 10-1, is two wins away from no doubting its first FCS playoff appearance.
Sapakoff pick: CSU, 27-13
Peper pick: CSU, 28-21
Georgia at Auburn
Georgia all but eliminates South Carolina from the SEC East title chase with a win. Auburn might dash the Gamecocks' Sugar Bowl hopes with a win.
Sapakoff pick: Auburn, 31-30
Peper pick: Auburn, 34-27
Miami at Duke
Miami's main problem at Duke: Duke Johnson, the Canes' star running back, is out for the season.
Sapakoff pick: Miami, 31-27
Peper pick: Duke, 27-24
Maryland at Virginia Tech
Hokies quarterback Logan Thomas was the difference in last week's 42-24 win at Miami.
Sapakoff pick: Virginia Tech, 35-20
Peper pick: Virginia Tech, 30-14
UNC at Pittsburgh
A juicy matchup for the lower half of the ACC's Coastal Division standings. Pitt beat Notre Dame last week; North Carolina has won three in a row.
Sapakoff pick: Pittsburgh, 27-24
Peper pick: North Carolina, 27-24
Oklahoma State at Texas
Though 6-0 in the Big 12, Mack Brown is still playing for his Texas job.
Sapakoff pick: Oklahoma State, 34-30
Peper pick: Oklahoma State, 30-27
Texas Tech at Baylor
Tough stretch for Baylor, which finishes with Oklahoma State, TCU and Texas.
Sapakoff pick: Baylor, 42-27
Peper pick: Baylor, 35-20
Stanford at Southern Cal
"GameDay" at the L.A. Coliseum. Again, how did Stanford lose to Utah?
Sapakoff pick: Stanford, 23-20
Peper pick: Stanford, 27-19
Last week: Gene Sapakoff 7-3, Warren Peper 6-4
Season: Peper 80-30, Sapakoff 80-30
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There are different answers for different sports. I think some sports are pure entertainment. But cycling is not a pure entertainment sport.
Really? Even though the Tour was started as a publicity stunt to sell newspapers?
Yeah, maybe in some of the older cycling countries that's the case. But in America right now or some of the other countries that cycling is pushing into, people view it as part of a health and fitness movement. It's 'Say no to obesity and smoking' and so on and so forth—a healthy lifestyle. So they want to know that their racers are ascribing to the same healthy approach they do. Certain sports like the NFL, that's an entertainment sport. No one goes out and plays football in full pads because they want to stay heart healthy. So when people watch that, it's gladiators, it's entertainment. And if one of them gets busted for steroids are people that shocked? No. Telling someone that a football player who weighs 400 pounds at two percent body fat, that that person might be on steroids, that's like telling someone smoking can cause cancer. But cycling is like their little nice organic salad in Boulder, and if someone comes up and says, 'Your little nice organic salad is going to cause cancer,' you are going to freak out. Because that's not the expectation we have.
You mentioned athletes who walk away for moral reasons, and you mentioned that in your op-ed. What is that loss? Who were they, people who never made it?
The best example is Christophe Bassons. It's funny, some of the reaction I got on Twitter is a little off. You read about this guy who doped for the fondo, that's a little disturbing. I don't want to seem callous, but I saw very few pro riders who made it into the pro ranks because they doped. People made it because they were good and the most talented. There are exceptions but they were just that. People say, 'Well my buddy was really good in X race,' and so they'd have been a pro if not for doping. But from my experience at a top European team, the neo-pros were always clean. People told me in the early to mid-2000s that that changed and there was more prolific doping among amateurs. But my experience, and my generation, the guys who got into pro ranks got there on talent and hard work. What they did from there was another story. That's my experience; I can only speak to that. Did I win Tour of Gila clean at 21? Absolutely. Of course.
Just like, say, Tyler almost certainly won Fitchburg clean.
Just like Tyler won Fitchburg clean. Killington, same thing. And then all of a sudden that comes into question—like 'Maybe they were doping then. Oh my God, I was in college and I could have beaten him!' Tyler along with myself, I think most of these people held out as long as they could and finally collapsed into the decision because they wanted to race at the highest level. It had nothing to do with, 'I want to win Fitchburg.' That's just ludicrous. So you have a guy like Bassons, who is by far the best example of someone hurt by doping. He was a talented, talented rider. He was intelligent and outspoken. He came from less of a rough background than a lot of people, and he decided after the Festina scandal to become outspoken. He'd never doped, but he felt the environment was right [to talk]. So he could have just, he was talented enough to have still had a solid mediocre career as a pro kicking around doing OK in some races. He won a stage of the Dauphine. Who knows how good he would've been in a totally clean environment, but even as it was, he was the rare exception of the guy who could say, 'I can be mediocre (clean) because I'm a damn talented rider. I can dope and become really damn good. Or I can walk away.' And he walked away.
Did he really choose to walk away? He was treated pretty poorly.
He was made fun of and pushed away because he was outspoken about it. I'll tell you, I don't know if he remembers or not but I would come up to him, and I didn't speak much French at the time but I would pat him on the back and say, 'Hey, how are you doing?' I'd try to talk to him and encourage him because I felt like what he was doing was right. But I didn't want anyone to see me. I felt like what he was doing was correct and quite frankly, it was not very courageous of me. I would try to talk to him quietly when no one was looking and say, 'Hang in there,' but did I ever do that publicly or loudly? No.
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ROF 31 is happening this Saturday at the Broomfield Events Center in Colorado. Is anyone planning on going? Eliot Marshall, a black belt at my BJJ school (pro namedrop), will be defending his Light Heavyweight title against Rob MacDonald, who you may remember from TUF 2. There are two other title fights, and the current card is listed here:
Feature Bouts:
Eliot Marshall vs Rob MacDonald (Light Heavy Title)
Shane Carwin vs Sherman Pendergrast (Heavyweight Title)
Christian Allen vs Lah Thao (Featherweight Title)
Michelle Waterson vs Lynn Alvarez
There's also a bunch of undercards. Sometimes ROF does kickboxing fights but it's going to be all MMA this Saturday. If you're in the area this weekend I hope to see you there.


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