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It's official -- roster consistency is the name of the game for the New Orleans Pelicans.One of the last remaining Pelicans free agents has officially re-signed with the team, as New Orleans announced on Monday night the re-signing of free agent forward Luke Babbitt.If you know Babbitt, you know that he's a 3-point shooter of the highest regard. Teams simply don't leave him alone...
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METAIRIE, La. (AP) The New Orleans Pelicans have re-signed free agent forward Luke Babbitt, who has become one of the club's most accurate long-range shooters. The 6-foot-9 Babbitt played in 63 games with 19 starts last season, averaging 4.1 points in 13.2 minutes per game. He shot 51.3 percent from 3-point range. Babbitt, who spent his college career at Nevada, was selected 16th...
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When it comes to his offense, New Orleans Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry loves tall guys who can space the floor and shoot from deep. So it should come as no surprise that the Pelicans have reportedly re-signed Luke Babbitt to a two-year deal, according to ESPN.com's Marc Stein:Babbitt is a career 40.3 percent shooter on 3-pointers, and he shot a career-best 51.3 percent on 115 3-point...
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Luke Babbitt has agreed to re-sign with the New Orleans Pelicans on a $2.5 million deal. Babbitt had an 11.1 PER in 13.2 minutes per game last season with the Pelicans. Babbitt joined New Orleans in 2013.
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Desperate times call for desperate measures. The Pelicans currently sit in an 0-2 hole, down to the regular season's very best team. According to The Times-Picayune's Jimmy Smith, one potential way to crawl themselves out may be inserting small forward Luke Babbitt into the rotation:"With reserve power forward Ryan Anderson shooting just 18 percent from the field in the first two...
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It's no secret that Wizards guard John Wall is fast. If Luke Babbitt had any doubts he learned real fast, as Wall spun past him in a heap for layup with 8.3 seconds remaining in the third quarter. Luke Babbitt just tried guarding John Wall. Guess what happened. — Jorge Castillo (@jorgeccastillo) November 30, 2014 The move got the attention of patrons in Washington's Verizon...
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Luke Babbitt has signed with the New Orleans Pelicans. Babbit spent part of this season with Nizhny Novgorod of Russia, averaging 13.3 points and 3.7 rebounds in 18 games. Babbitt has appeared in 126 games for the Portland Trail Blazers and holds career averages of 3.8 points and 2.1 rebounds. The Pelicans' roster now stands at 15.
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Swiss precision isn't just about watches anymore. Founded in Geneva in 1924, Caran d'Ache has earned a reputation for pencils, fine art products, and writing instruments of exceptional beauty and quality. Pablo Colored Pencils are no exception.
These precision-crafted artists' colored pencils will delight anyone who appreciates the very best. Use them on paper, photographs — even wood! Their creamy, soft, water-resistant 3.7 mm leads offer exceptional covering power and superb lightfastness.
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Caran D'Ache has created this exquisite wood box set for the true art enthusiast. It holds 80 water-resistant Pablo colored pencils and 80 watersoluble Supracolor aquarelle pencils, which blend beautifully with one another. The pencils are pre-sharpened, with thick 3.7 mm cores and a hexagonal shape.
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Love these pencils
By Liza
from Fairfax, VA
Comments about Caran d'Ache Pablo Colored Pencils:
I am not a professional artist, however I am artistic. I love the feel of these pencils. They go on smoothly and blend beautifully.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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By Watercolorist
from Yucaipa, CA
For my coloring needs I place the Pablo water resistance on my third choice of pencils. They are good quality but no my first choice.
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By LesP1254
from Sun City West, AZ
I love these colored pencils...to me, they are the BEST...I've tried others, but none compare to these pencils...I've started using them in Adult Coloring Books & I'm hooked on the books & the pictures I can create with the BEAUTIFUL colors in this set...I've bought 2 sets so far...1st time 40 pencils, then up to 80 pencils...I would recommend these to anyone...
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By mbaker40
from St Louis, Mo
i actually like these pencils better than the more expensive luminance pencils....they aren't so soft but still blend wonderfully....the luminance seem to be chalky...you won't be disappointed with these pencils!
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By Tinkers
from Wisconsin
Perfect colors, easy to blend.
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By Weaver19
from Hartland,WI
I draw cartoons for weaving tapestries. The color choices are outstanding, and I always can get replacements of single pencils from Blick
By Jia
from Chicago, IL
These are the best colored pencils I have ever used. They are smooth and chalky, with a much drier feel than Prismas. They don't easily produce a wax bloom so I am able to do many layers. I use the Pablos in my colored pencil illustrations and in my mixed media drawings. They work especially well with watercolors. My only regret is not purchasing the largest set! I can really feel how limited the set of 80 is when I am working on a piece. My biggest pet peeve with this set is that the black is very dull; dull black is good for nature peices but not so much for graphic pieces. I am still using prismacolor black. The feel of these pencils is comparable to derwent studio pencils, so if you can't afford these, go for the derwent's.
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THese pencils are comparable to faber castell polychromos in softness and ease of transfering color onto the paper. They have an intense color that is slightly "duller" than the Faber Castell colors. The colors are comparable between both brands but the muted tones of some of the blues and greens gives them more appeal for larger drawings and pictures.
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By Shires
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I am in the process of adding to my colored pencil collection for my art work and drawing, so I ordered a few pencils from each company that interested me. I have to say I like the Pablo very much, it has a nice shape, beautiful color lay down, and it was good for layering too. I prefer oil based pencils and this fit the bill. If I could afford them, I would likely buy them all. However they are a tad expensive for my budget - I will though buy as many as I can. I do not think you can go far wrong with this brand and type, it is a joy to work with.
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Firm, Yet Creamy Color
By Emily May
from Lincoln, CA
I use colored pencil and colored pencil over watercolor in most of my artwork. I use these in combination with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. They are both oil based which is great for blending with mineral spirits and the color selection is complimentary. I love that the Pablos have a bigger selection of pale blues and greens among a few other pastel tones which are great for highlights. What's great and not so great... they are firmer than Polychromos. This is great for holding a point for detailed work for a good long time. Which I loooove. However, if using soft toothed paper, sometimes it does mean pressing harder to get color to go down and compressing the tooth of the paper more quickly. I have begun to choose a color in a shade darker than I want and use a lighter touch combined with blending/thinning with spirits in order to avoid paper compression for these pencils. Overall, the colors are fantastic, they are still a creamy pencil even though firm. It's hard to explain that as it's more of a felt experience. I still prefer the Polychromos as far as creaminess goes but these certainly have application where a softer pencil will dull quickly. Pablos are a little more opaque than Polychromos and have great coverage. If I could afford Luminance I would have purchased those, however, these make a great substitute with a fantastic color range. Nice quality, easy to keep sharp, great color selection. I use them frequently.
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Soft and water-resistant, Pablo pencils offer superb lightfastness and bright, clean colors. These professional quality colored pencils have soft and highly pigmented cores, so they will cover surfaces completely. In addition to paper, they are also great on wood and for colorizing photographs. See Pablo pencils in action.
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With concern for future generations and their power needs, I oppose putting a moratorium on wind power in Vermont, an issue discussed on the Senate floor in the Statehouse. As we have become slaves to imported oil, we must look forward to the use of renewable energy, which is readily available to us in Vermont, namely wind, solar and small hydro. The development and use of local clean energy will keep our money here in Vermont and positively affect our economy.
Using just 4 percent of Vermonts ridgelines, 25 percent of the states electrical needs could be met, which would offset 1.27 billion pounds of carbon dioxide annually. That is the equivalent of removing 111,000 automobiles from the highways. Vermont needs to move forward with the production of wind power to help our economy and reduce greenhouse gases for a win-win situation.
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Cellular Proteins and Their Fatty Acids in Health and Disease
Copyright © 2003 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
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In light of the increasing importance of these proteins and their ligands for our understanding of cellular growth, differentiation, and development, as well as of diseases such as obesity, insulin resistance, atherosclerosis, cancer, and inflammation, a team of internationally renowned editors and authors have compiled here the very first comprehensive book on these topics. They describe fatty acid-activated transcription factors as well as membrane and soluble fatty acid transporters, covering such aspects as structure and function, lipid-protein interaction, delivery of ligands, and the roles of these proteins in gene expression pertaining to the homeostatic and diseased states of cells and organs.
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Art Start works to provide art education for children and teenagers living in homeless shelters allowing them a way to express themselves. For more information visit www.art-start.org or call (212) 966-7807
Materials For The Arts located in Long Island City, provides over 2,800 arts programs art materials, props, fabrics, furniture etc., to allow them to prosper and endure. To find out more, visit www.mfta.org or call (718) 729-3001.
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Baby Buggy distributes donations of new or gently used baby clothes, gear or products to nonprofit community partners serving low-income and homeless families and distributing these goods to their babies and infants. Visit www.babybuggy.org or call (212) 736-1777.
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Brooklyn Center for Urban Environment is now a member of the Funding Factory Cartridge Recycling Program, the largest free recycling fundraising program in the United States and Canada, offering FREE technology, sports & recreation equipment, playground systems, and even cash to schools and nonprofit organizations in exchange for empty inkjet & laser cartridges and used cell phones. Visit www.bcue.org or call Nisha Bryan at (718) 788-8500, ext. 256.
Charitable Recycling Program redistributes working phones to generate funds which are then donated to the charity of your choice, regardless of the age or condition of the phone and the phones are appropriately recycled. For more information visit www.charitablerecycling.com or call (800) 527-4700.
Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence (OCDV) announced a citywide wireless phone recycling drive, in partnership with Verizon Wireless to benefit victims of domestic violence and help dispose of old wireless phones in an environmentally-safe way. For store locations and additional information, visit www.verizonwireless.com/hopeline.
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AIDS Service Center NYC (ASCNYC) is a multiservice community-based organization that helps HIV-positive New Yorkers, and those at risk, get a second chance to reclaim their lives, their strength, and their hope through building community, connection and stability. ASCNYC's comprehensive programs and services help our city's most vulnerable individuals and families survive and thrive in the face of HIV/AIDS. ASCNYC collects various types of donations including clothing (all sizes), canned food, and toiletries. To contact ASCNYC please visit www.ascnyc.org, email email@example.com or call (212) 645-0875 ext. 394.
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Actress-writer Vanessa Brown, who escaped Nazi Europe to become the toast of Broadway in "The Seven Year Itch" and the respected author of a book on labor policy, died Friday of cancer in the Motion Picture and Television Country Home at Woodland Hills. She was 71.Brown was born Smylla Brind in Vienna, the daughter of a language teacher and psychologist. She fled to the United States from Austria in 1937 at the age of 9 and began her stage career shortly after when she heard producers were looking for a girl with a German accent to play in Lillian Hellman's anti-Nazi drama "Watch on the Rhine." By 14, Brown, who spoke four languages, was a member of the hit radio show "The Quiz Kids." She starred in several films during the 1940s and 1950s including "Tarzan and the Slave Girl" (1950) and appeared in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1947), "The Foxes of Harrow" (1947), "The Late George Apley" (1947) and "The Heiress" (1949). In 1952, at the age of 24, Brown co-starred on Broadway with Tom Ewell in the comedy "The Seven Year Itch," a role played on film by Marilyn Monroe. Brown left film in the 1950s to marry television director Mark Sandrich Jr. but returned in the 1970s, when she appeared in several television dramas. She also built a career as a painter and author, writing several books including "The Manpower Policies of Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz" and a novel, "Europa and the Bull." She is survived by two children. Memorial services are scheduled for today at 3 p.m. at Stephen S. Wise Temple. Memorial contributions can be made to the Motion Picture and Television Fund, 23388 Mulholland Drive, Woodland Hills, CA 91364.
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Bill Rauch has been artistic director of Ashland's Oregon Shakespeare Festival since 2007. In that time, he's directed several world premiere productions, and initiated original productions and initiatives at OSF. He's also ruffled feathers by featuring fewer Shakespeare plays than in the past. Under Bill's leadership, OSF has expanded its costume and set shops, and increased community involvement. Recently, an OSF-commissioned play, All the Way, moved to Broadway and won a Tony Award. We'll see what he's planning next. Plus, Nell Geisslinger, Ashland Art Center, Dan Elster, and "On View Now: SOU Gallery."


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Is it possible to manually change a video's thumbnail from the one automatically generated by Vista?
As I understand it, Vista generates thumbnails of videos (from seemingly random early frames), and stores them in small caches in the system folder.
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I remember reading somewhere that .jpg files sharing the file name of the target video (but without the extension), were used as the thumbnail by the operating system. However, this could have been for XP, as I've not heard it mentioned in the context of Vista.
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Well I just picked up a Fuji Nevada, the seller said 2007, for $100 here in town. Not a bad price, not a steal either. Looks clean, no obvious issues, have yet to tear it down ... actually have yet to bring it in the house - my wife doesn't know yet....
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GOG.com opens GOG Galaxy public beta, vows support for more triple-A titles
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Froome admits to "volcano doping," WADA launches investigation
July 17, 2013 § 24 Comments
Lost in the press reports of rest day haircuts and predictions for the remaining stages, it took almost twenty-four hours in the news cycle for the World Anti Doping Agency to act on Tour de France leader Chris Froome's shocking admission during a media interview.
When asked about the credibility of his ride up Mt. Ventoux, Froome said "My team-mates and I, we've slept on volcanoes to get ready for this."
WADA officers immediately charged Froome with a "non-analytical" positive, a scenario in which a rider can be accused of doping based on circumstantial evidence, written or spoken admissions, or convincing evidence other than standard urine or blood analyses.
Jean-Paul Smails, Chief Inquistor for WADA, laid out the charges. "He's admitted to volcano doping, which is a violation of Rule 2.281(a), Subsection 12, which states that 'No athlete may sleep on or otherwise utilize volcanoes to enhance performance.'"
Team Sky boss David Brailsford reacted angrily. "You're kidding me, right? There's no way he volcano doped. He misspoke. They slept on a mountain, perhaps, but no one knew it was a volcano. We thought it was a large mountain. We checked it out with the Mallorcan authorities and they assured us it was a mountain, not a volcano."
Froome also rejected the charge. "I'll wait for the B sample to come back. There's no way that was a real volcano, and if it was, it's because someone slipped it into my meat. It was tainted Mallorcan meat."
When pressed as to why he'd referred to it as a volcano if it really wasn't one, Froome shot back. "'Volcano' is slang for 'boner' in the UK, maybe you Yanks don't know that, eh? I was sleeping on my mate's boner, which is like a mini-volcano, get it? Stupid Yank reporters, go learn y'self some English."
The Mallorcan Meat Cooperative, a national meat marketing collective, angrily rejected Froome's claims that its meat was tainted. "We handle our meat carefully, regularly, religiously almost. When our meat leaves our hands it's guaranteed to be fresh, firm, and free from additives such as clenbuterol or volcano. Our legal counsel is looking into filing defamation charges against Mr. Froome for claiming that we mishandle our meat."
WADA investigation gathers steam
Officials for the French AFLD and WADA insisted that they would pursue the investigation, but the UCI remained skeptical. "We don't believe he volcano doped," said UCI chief Paddy McQuaid. "Although his team did buy us a new volcano testing machine to catch other lava cheats, that has had no influence on our posture in the matter. We don't treat the stars any differently from the routiniers."
Francois Vichy de Foiegras of the AFLD disagreed. "Ee eez vocano doping, n'cest pas? Why else he sleeping on ze volcano? Le Mt. Venoux est un volcano aussi, et we believe zat he gets un avantage avec zees volcano doping." Later that evening the Team Sky bus was searched by the forensic unit of the French National Anti Doping SWAT Team, but no magma was found, although investigators were seen carrying large plastic bags of rocks off the "Froome Wagon" along with what appeared to be most of the team's Hello Kitty collection.
Links to Italy?
Froome has worked with notorious volcano doping physician Michele Ferrari, although both deny that the connection involves volcanoes. "I use him for his training plans," said Froome. "He is a good man. He's taught me so much about how not to blow, but nothing that involved a volcano, I can assure you."
Ferrari also denied helping athletes such as Froome volcano dope. "I don't do such a thing, but if I did, so what? A bit of volcano is no more dangerous than a liter of orange juice. Except for when Pompeii was obliterated by Vesuvius or Krakatoa. But that is completely different."
At press time, Froome's team physician, Bugsy Malone, provided Tour de France officials with a prescription for volcano enemas, although it had apparently been backdated to precede Froome's mountaintop trip to Mallorca. "Chris had terrible saddle sores and a bloody anus. I prescribed the volcano cleanse for him in order to stop the drip and reduce the swelling."
Team Sky has scheduled a press conference for 6:00 AM tomorrow to explain its official position regarding these allegations.
Froome "saddened" by doping allegations, may leave Tour
July 15, 2013 § 40 Comments
Tour de France leader Chris Froome of Team Sky has admitted his frustration at constant questions about doping, according to the BBC. Froome extended his advantage with a stunning ride on Sunday but faced more doping questions on Monday's rest day.
Continued Froome: "This whole thing makes me sad. Really, incredibly, terribly, horribly, agonizingly sad. The sadness of being called a doper and a cheat and a liar and a fraud is so saddening, you have no idea. I'm just so sad. Sad. I've half a mind to leave the Tour, I'm so sad."
Team boss David Brailsford hustled a visibly shaken and sobbing Froome off to the "Froome Wagon" before addressing reporters. "These doping questions make me sad, too, maybe even sadder than Chris. At least he got to win the stage. I have to stay back in the team bus washing dirty chamois and cleaning the insides of water bottles with those long spiky brushes that get the crud off the edges on the bottom but leave little bits on the very flat part. When is someone going to invent a bottle brush just for cycling water bottles? But it's really sad, anyway. I'm so sad I don't know what else to say."
Richie Porte, the faithful domestique who blew up the field in a hard-charging effort reminiscent of the days when 200-lb. George Hincapie won stages normally reserved for 125-lb. veggie mites, was also sad. "Chris is sad? Dave is sad? What about me? I'm sad, too! A little bit pissed, but sad at the same time, kind of like when I used to get beaten up by my big brother. This whole thing is sad."
Tubs McGillicuddy, the bus driver, although not visibly sad, spoke to the press about the sadness of others who weren't necessarily there but who were likely sad as well. "Y'wanna talk about sad, d'ye? How's about ol' Wiggster? He's the saddest of 'em all. He's sadder 'n a sad sack. Sadder than a sack 'o shit tossed out th' window of a fast-movin' train, I say. Aye, he's one sad puppy an' I 'low we oughta take a minute of quiet time to be sad on 'is behalf. 'Tis a sad day, to be sure."
Froome stuck his head out of the bus window and added, "My team-mates and I have been away from home for months training together and working hard to get here, we've slept on volcanoes to get ready for this, and here I am accused of being a cheat and a liar. That's not cool. It makes us all sad. This is a sad day. We should be cheerful and happy but we're not. We're sad. So if you want us to be happy, please stop asking us questions designed to make us sad."
The age of disbelief
July 15, 2013 § 19 Comments
It doesn't matter whether you think any individual rider in the Turdy Farce is doping. Nor does it matter whether the riders are doping. Nothing will ever resuscitate this so-called sporting event.
A friend invited me to a Turdy-watching party today. Ostensibly we gathered to see who would prevail on Mt. Ventoux. Ostensibly we gathered to watch a bike race. Ostensibly we gathered to enjoy a performance of extraordinary physical strength and endurance under incomprehensible stress and strain.
All I can say is this: Thank Dog my friend is a wizard on the grill, his fiancee is a magician in the kitchen, the beer tub was well stocked, and the company was comprised of friends and riding mates, because the bike race never materialized.
How the Turdy was watched
What amazed me was the cynicism. I thought that it was only me who considered the whole thing an elaborate staging of athletic porn, but it wasn't. The moment the Froomster began his wild 120 rpm acceleration the catcalls started. Nothing about his ride was exempt from criticism. His dorky pedaling style, reminiscent of a novice who's still learning how to ride smoothly, his Cat 5 tendency to keep dropping his head, his constant reference to the radio commands in his earpiece, and his obliteration of the field were all equally derided.
The Tour was simply a backdrop for a get-together of friends who happen to cycle. Nothing about the race was respected, admired, or given any credibility at all. The bankrupt team of Phil and Paul, the sad sack attempts of Bob Roll to fire us up, and the racing itself were dismissed by virtually everyone there.
Good luck with that
How does an event that cannot capture the belief of the sport's most ardent practitioners hope to survive? The answer, of course, is France. Despite the conviction that the best rider is a drug cheat, most of our crowd said they'd choose to go visit France and watch the Tour over any other bike race.
It makes sense. The riders can do whatever they want because it won't diminish the fun of riding the cols, celebrating on the roadsides, and touring in France. In the same way, the Froomster's fraud had zero effect on our ability to enjoy the food, drink, and camaraderie, and zero effect on the rides we'd done this weekend or the rides we'll do the next.
This is the post-Armstrong age of sports spectating. We understand it's all fake but gladly seize the chance to enjoy ourselves anyway. The giants of the road have been reduced to dwarves of the microphone and the lab.
You may find it all a bit sad and disappointing, but while you're reflecting pass the sausage and open another beer for me, please.
Vroom, vroom, Froome!
July 12, 2013 § 44 Comments
Newsflash! Chris Froome is on drugs!
Newsflash! Yawn!
Newsflash! So am I! (Beer's a drug, right?)
Several different methodologies have pointed out the obvious: When the Froomster's time on Ax3 beats Lance and others in their doping heyday … it's pretty plain he's doping! This story in Outside confirms what everyone knows and no one cares about. The Tour de France is athletic bike porn.
It's not real. The performances are not real. Everything is staged. It is as comparable to the sex you have with your wife as the stuff they show on http://www.superpornstaraction.com.
The problem with the Outside.com analysis is that it involves numbers. I hate numbers. I still don't know who got to the town faster, the man driving x miles per hour at y velocity, or the train that left the station at time z going speed f divided by the number of apples in a bushel.
What I do know is that the dude who took the most drugs clandestinely is winning the Tour. How do I know? I know because of Wiggins.
The Wiggo factor
Was I the only one who noticed that the defending Tour champ abdicated shortly after winning? And that's like, the only time that's ever happened? And, it's, like, incomprehensible? And what's more bizarre, he didn't even retire, he just said that next year it would be the Froomster?
What the fucking fuck?
Then I thought about it, and now I can explain it, especially since Wiggo has vanished from the scene. Here's what happened.
Wiggins was put on Brailsford's plan of "marginal gains." This means microdosing and evading detection by training in Mallorca, where the testers can't surprise you. Wiggins, who is an alcoholic nutcase, was driven to the brink of insanity because he had to go from a track rider/stage race flailer to Tour contender. The insanity was caused by his fear of getting busted; Wiggins has shown in his autobiography and elsewhere that he is a very fragile mental case.
Froome, who was an absolute nobody before Brailsford got him on the drug program, could have won the Tour in 2012. This would have been uncool, because Wiggins was winning sprint finishes, destroying all preparatory stage races, and on track to win the Tour in Britain's Olympic year.
Brailsford therefore cut a deal with Froome. Wiggins would win in 2012 and the Froomster would win in 2013. The parties essentially agreed to this in public when Wiggins said that he wouldn't defend his Tour title but would focus on the Giro. This is like someone saying they weren't going to defend their NCAA baskeball title but would instead focus on the NIT.
Man of his word
Wiggins went from being unbeatable in 2012 to Mr. Nobody in 2013. He flailed and bailed in the Giro, and distinguished himself in the build-up races by being completely indistinct. He faded from the scene, and, trust me, you will never hear from him again. He is a fragile crazypants who cannot cope with the cheating and lying required by the Brailsford doping program. His pro career is over, and we should thank him for contributing "bone idle wankers" to our lexicon.
Froome, on the other hand, has all the qualities of a top-tier level doper. He boldly proclaims his cleanness. He destroys his rivals by massive margins. He throws out wattage — 6.3 w/kg and more — that are impossible in an undoped state. Best of all, he is backed by the drug enabling quotes of Brailsford, who tosses off bizzaricisms like "At some point in time, clean performances will surpass the doped performances in the past."
That's like saying, "At some point, Formula 1 cars with no aerodynamic fairings and design will go as fast as those that are wholly aerodynamic."
It makes no fucking sense at all, based as it is on neither data nor science, but merely on the assertions of someone trying to defend an obviously doped stable of athletes.
Thankfully, VeloNews and other lickspittle cycling magazines have accepted this at face value because their advertising depends on the deluded and jaded readers who either don't know or don't care that everything produced by Team Sky flies in the face of reality and fairness. The pedestrian, non-superhuman times turned in by those who are racing against the Froomster show that although the peloton is cleaner, top honors still go to the cheater who goes biggest and who dares anyone to bust him.
At least with Lance, the winner had a cool name, attractive wristbands, and a series of good looking women permanently attached to his arm.
Lance 3.0: Lay down your cudgels, please
May 26, 2013 § 57 Comments
Newsflash: Lance Armstrong has been stripped of…pretty much everything.
Tour titles? Gone.
Reputation? Gone.
Income stream from his cancer foundation? Gone.
Ability to compete in sanctioned athletic events and the attendant income? Gone.
Mansion in Austin? Gone.
Self-respect after not getting hugged by Oprah? Totally gone.
Bonus newsflash: It's not over yet. The Justice Department has joined Floyd's whistleblower suit…former sponsors are suing to get their money back…he will be paying for his transgressions for a long, long time.
I don't know about you…
But I believe in redemption. Not the Shawshank kind — I believe in the kind of redemption that says once you've been punished for your transgressions according to rule and/or law, you're redeemed.
This type of redemption may not mean that you're a sterling moral character, or even that you admit guilt or feel sorry for what you've done. It just means that you broke the rule, got punished, and are now free to move on just like new. Something worthless has been exchanged for something useful and new. Just like a coupon.
When you murder someone, rape someone, abuse a child, defraud the elderly, skim from the company till, or run a red light, your redemption begins when you've served your time or paid your fine. Redemption means trading in the old for the new. It means a fresh start.
And in case you were wondering, along with the punishment fitting the crime, redemption is the premise upon which our entire legal system is built.
Redemption gives convicted felons the right to vote, the right to work, the right to have a passport, and the right to fully participate as citizens once they've served their time. Redemption doesn't mean you have to like the sinner or the ex-con. It just means you can't legally continue punishing and persecuting him.
Lance is no convicted felon. If you don't think he's been punished, see above. If you're still harboring resentment and anger, that's understandable. But he's not going anywhere, and I'd suggest that there's a better way to deal with him than continually bludgeoning him for his transgressions.
It's an old concept, actually. It's called forgiveness.
Cranking up the PR machine
Lance has recently begun doing what he does best: Going on the offensive. Whether it's calling Patrick Brady and chatting with him for an hour or unblocking Lesli Cohen and a bunch of other diehard Lance opponents, it's clear that he has a plan in place and has begun to execute it.
What's the plan?
The plan is to get back in front of the sports media and build Lance 3.0. This newest iteration is simple. Lance 3.0 is a…
- Survivor.
- Family man.
- World class athlete.
- Friend.
What will Lance 3.0 do? He will sell something. What will he sell? I don't know. But I do know this: He won't be setting up a pyramid scheme to defraud Medicare, or a criminal syndicate to assassinate journalists. Most likely, he's got a plan that will let him earn a living as a speaker/athlete/patient advocate.
Is that so bad? How many other people get out of prison and see their mission in life as one dedicated to helping others? Mind you, I don't know that that's his plan, but what does he have left? And why is it contemptible for him to try and rebuild a career that's been destroyed through his own mistakes?
Ultimately, though, does it really matter what his end game is? No.
What matters is you
A group of local riders were climbing Latigo Canyon Road yesterday, and guess who they met at the top? Barry Bonds.
Remember him?
He's the guy who was held up as one of the most evil and crooked baseball players of all time, a guy who stole Hank Aaron's record on the strength of drugs and lies. Today he's a slim and fit bicycle rider.
When the gang ran into him on Latigo, no one cringed, or cursed him, or called him a scumbag doper. Instead, they mugged for the camera and posted photos on Facebook.
First, of course, is star power…and we are here in LA. Second, though, is the fact that Barry has paid for what he did, and he didn't even go on Oprah and confess. We know that he was caught, that he's been punished, and that now he's just a dude on a bike who used to hit a lot of home runs. Our lives are too short to keep hating on a guy who's been punished to the full extent that the system demanded, particularly since all he seems to do now is pedal around, show up at the occasional crit, and generally act like a normal dude.
We're done with his crime, and so is he. Now we just want to say hello and ride our bikes.
What about Lance?
Lance is different from Barry because the latter earned hundreds of millions of dollars and wisely invested them over the course of a long career. Barry doesn't have to work.
Lance has five kids, huge ongoing legal bills, and a lot of years left to live. It's impossible that he's got anywhere near the pile that Barry is sitting on, or even anything close to it. Unlike Barry, Lance has gotta work. Rather than pulling up the drawbridge and living inside the fort, Lance has got to get out and mingle in order to rebuild.
For people getting out of prison and living in halfway houses, it's called "You have to get a job."
Lance showed us that pro cycling is a corrupt freak show. Danilo di Luca confirmed yesterday that it still is. Nibali, Wiggins, Dave Brailsford, Chris Froome, Pat McQuaid, Hein Verbruggen, and USA Cycling reaffirm that anyone who thinks the sport is clean isn't thinking very hard.
If you hate Lance because he "ruined the sport," maybe it's time YOU moved on. The pro sport is rotten. If you follow it and still bury your head in the jocks of its stars, there's a problem all right, and the problem is with you. If you can watch Nibali repeatedly hit the gas in the snow at the end of the most grueling stage of the most grueling stage race while his competition is rolling over and dying on the slopes, you're the one who needs to analyze my modification of this old saw: "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me over and over and over, and I'm a fucking moron who enjoys being fooled."
As Billy Stone might put it, "And the dopers ruined your life as a Cat 4 masters athlete exactly how?"
Where's it all going?
Now that Lance 1.0 and 2.0 have been airbrushed out of the history books, what's wrong with giving 3.0 the same degree of redemption that should be afforded to axe murderers, tax cheats, misdemeanor DUI's, and kids on grade probation in college? How is our agenda advanced by refusing to lay down arms, and instead insisting that he still be treated like the unrepentant, unpunished cheat that he was a year ago, when he's repented and been punished?
Does it ennoble us to keep shrieking "Off with his head!" after his head has been offed, stuck on a pike, and paraded around his kids' schoolyards? I think it does the opposite. It shows us up to be petty, vengeful dorks who actually think that pro cycling is so important it transcends common notions of justice and fair play.
Five years hence, ten years hence, Lance 3.0 will have been fully rebuilt. He's that smart and a whole lot smarter, he's that hard working, and he's that motivated. He's also got close to four million people on Twitter who want to know what he says and thinks, as well as five kids to feed, clothe, and put through college.
Most importantly, he's not going anywhere. Do you want to be the wild-eyed crazy standing in the corner screaming, "But he doped! He cheated! He lied! He ruined my Cat 4 masters racing career!" long after he's been punished and the rest of the world has moved on?
I don't.
If the UCI and USA Cycling and WADA are done with his case, then I am, too. Keep clubbing at him if you want, but don't expect me to join in. I'd rather go club some of the baby seals on next Tuesday's NPR.
Armstrong wins ATX flat stage; overall still in doubt
October 19, 2012 § 17 Comments
7-time Tour strippee Lance Armstrong stormed across the finish line in Austin, Texas tonight, showing flashes of the combativeness that made him the most feared competitor of his era, but doing little to dent the commanding lead taken in the previous mountain stage by USADA.
"The team was there for me when it mattered," said an obviously knackered Armstrong. "And now…let's have a helluva good time tonight!"
Surrounded by his teammates, most of whom have been at his side for each of his previously stripped Tour non-victories, the mood was defiant, even though the win in Austin took back only fifteen seconds from USADA's overall advantage of more than ten minutes.
Teammate Gerry Goldstein, a criminal defense lawyer who has had his hands full of late, gave a blunt response to reporters after the stage who questioned how Goldstein could support someone whose charity was built on the back of history's greatest sporting fraud. "I'm a big fan of what he has done. Overcoming cancer and doing what he did, who gives a fuck about anything else? That's so much more important as a role model and a human being. Quit whining about it. This is the 21st Century. The ends justify the means."
Kansas City Royals pitcher Jeremy Guthrie, who donated a pair of cleats to the silent auction, said he wants to continue supporting Livestrong. "Obviously, some things have a left a little scar, but people think it's still important to come out and support Livestrong," Guthrie said. "Charles Manson left scars too, but you know what? He's helped a lot of people through his Minister for Life Prison Ministry."
Experts question whether there are enough stages left for an Armstrong comeback
"They've only got two big mountain stages left," said veteran race strategist Betsy Andreu. "The UCI stage into Aigle, and the Livestrong stage. He's got strong teammates for the Aigle stage in McQuaid and Vergruggen, but USADA's beefed up its mountain team this year with that 1,000-page dossier, eyewitness testimony, and the three new riders from Lausanne, Padua, and Montreal." [Ed. note: Andreu was referring to the three new team USADA signings of Jean-Paul Cas, Benedetto Roberti, and Emilio Wada.]
USADA refused to say the race was over, pointing to Armstrong's history as a 7-time strippee. "He's the favorite. We've done our best. The hay's in the barn, as G$ would say. All we can do from here is race smart and hope our team does what it's been hired to do."
Armstrong saw it differently. "It's been an interesting couple of weeks. It's been a difficult couple of weeks for me and my family, my friends and this foundation."
When asked if this is the toughest race he's ever ridden, Armstrong smiled wryly. "I've been better, but I've also been worse. 'Unaffected' was probably not the best choice of words," he added, referring to a tweet immediately after USADA attacked on the lower slopes of the Col d'Lifetimeban, which put the cycling star into difficulty without obvious recourse to his stalwart suitcase, which former teammates now claim contained something stronger than courage.
Livestrong stage could be pivotal
If Armstrong manages to regain time in Monday's stage into Aigle, commentators believe that the race will boil down to the final mountaintop finish on Plateau d'ViveForte. "Even if he takes back five, six minutes, it will still be extremely difficult on the final stage," says crisis management expert Bud Packington.
Adds Packington: "His key climbing allies have either crashed out or have gone home in the broom wagon for finishing outside the time limit. Nike, Trek, SRAM, Anheuser-Busch, all gone, and Oakley getting shelled with every acceleration. Who's he got left? Robin Williams?"
Smedley Turkins, brand manager for Michael Vick, Tiger Woods, and Charlie Hustle, concurred. "Read his statement when he stepped down as chairman of Livestrong: 'To spare the foundation any negative effects as a result of controversy surrounding my cycling career, I will conclude my chairmanship.'
"What the fuck does that mean? It's an admission that the controversy has affected Livestrong. Fine. What negative effects, and spare the foundation from what? The impact hasn't been financial; donations have actually increased since he walked away from arbitration. It hasn't been legal; no one's suing Livestrong for fraud. Yet. What's left? It's the negative effect on the board from all the people who support and fund the organization who are saying, 'Hey, wait a minute. We will not have the organization we cherish headed by a cheat.' For now it's a shrill voice, it's a minority, and it's only within the organization. But if he gets creamed at the stage going into Aigle, if McQuaid and Verbruggen crumple and fold, then that internal dissension will increase. He'll risk going from chairman to board member to out the door. This was a prophylactic feint, and it's a hint of things to come."
It ain't over 'til it's over
"Don't you believe it," laughed George Hincapie when asked about Armstrong's prospects for the remainder of the Tour. "He's toughest when cornered. He's got options galore."
When pressed, Hincapie said this: "He's going to confess. It won't be a full confession, and it will be carefully worded by the leadout train. Herman will string it out in the last 3k, Fabiani will get him to the last kilometer, and Garvey or Ullman will deliver him to the final 200 meters. It will be a polished, nuanced admission that doesn't even admit to much. You'll see."
Others were less sanguine. Joe Papp, CEO of Felons for Clean Sport, was tersely dismissive. "Never happen."
Tardstick Ludington, loathesome Internet troll, was even more direct. "Wankmeister is a sociopath bully who lives in his parents' basement," he said in between electroshock treatments.
Before getting on the team bus, which was being pelted by angry Canadians who'd paid $35,000 apiece to be dropped and insulted by Armstrong on his annual "Jocksniffer Special" to Lake Louise, he evaluated his prospects thus: "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
Then he climbed aboard the bus, with not so much as a smidgeon of egg on his face.
Can I be your fucking wanker cunt?
July 10, 2012 § 18 Comments
It's hard to come back from a pleasant vacation in Palm Springs after enjoying the 116-degree daytime temperatures only to find that I've been out-vulgared, and by a tweezly Brit bicycle rider, at that. As a kindergartner at Galveston's Booker T. Washington Elementary School (since razed), I learned early the proper pronunciation and application of profanity. If you could have seen how proud I was when I finally mastered the high-speed phrase "cocksuckinmotherfuckinblueballedbitch," you would have thought I was the cutest little six year-old you'd ever seen.
Don't get me wrong. I haven't rested on my laurels. I've worked hard and diligently these past decades to never slack off on nastyisms, crudification, and profanizing in every possible way. Need someone to say something foul and detestable in the presence of ladies? I'm your guy! Looking for an uncouth spewer of obscenity in a formal setting? Call me! Casting about for a dude who can overtrash the gutteriest filthmouth? That's me. It's always been me.
Until I happened to go off to Palm Springs for a vacation I didn't even need only to find that the leader of the Turdy had given an interview laced with uglyisms and profanity of the worst sort.
The word "wanker"? I thought I fucking OWNED it.
The whole idea behind Brad Wiggins in this year's Turdy France was that he would re-establish order in the peloton and earn back the loyal flock that had wandered a bit since Drugstrong's heyday. He'd do drugs, but not enough to detect. He'd beat the snot out of everyone, but wouldn't Simeoni-ize them. He'd get a stacked train of doped up stars to control the peloton, but wouldn't let the 300-lb. sprunter dude win an Alpine stage.
We'd ignore that he'd never, ever shown himself to be a Turdy contender. We'd ignore that he trained in secret, in a place where the testers couldn't arrive unannounced. We'd ignore that he was chalking it all up to hard work ("I'm on my bike. What are YOU on?", etc.) Most of all, we'd let the bigtime fanboys like Bill Strickland, Joe Lindsey, and the other pitchers of softpoop get their pabulum machines cranked up so the "industry" could get back to what it does best: selling shit to fat people that they'll mostly never use.
The whole idea, however, was NOT that Wiggo, or Wig Out, or Earwig, or Wiggster, would appropriate MY favorite pejorative and then make it even more awesome.
In case you hadn't noticed, the word "wanker" was mine. It wasn't yours. It wasn't hers. It wasn't theirs. And it sure as hell wasn't Bradley Wiggins's. Do a Google search for "wankmeister" and your hard drive will go limp with hits, so to speak.
Doesn't matter now, though. No matter how hard I blog, and tweet, and holler in the future, Wiggy will forever own "fucking wanker" because he paired it with "cunt." Put 'em together and you get "fucking wanker cunt," which is just about the most awesome vulgarism ever, bigger than spermface, even, or clithead. It's that big.
Going big, then going home
The power in a true obscenity is only released when it boggles the mind. As a child, I still remember the first time I heard "cocksuckingmotherfuckingblueballedbitch." I was six. It was my first day in kindergarten at Booker T. Some kids were talking trash. My brain ground to a halt. "Cocksucking," I thought. "Is that what I think it is?" Then I listened in amazement as they repeated it. "Motherfucking? Is that what it sounds like?"
A stunning concatenation of images that weren't even images filled my head as everything went blank. Then, dimly, "Blueballed" rambled in through the haze. "Blue balls? What are those? Mine are white." I realized that it might mean someone had whacked you so hard in the nuts that they turned blue, like getting a charley-horse. "Wow, that's gotta hurt." And then, finally, like a gentle ending at the coda of a great violin concerto, "bitch." Such an ordinary word…except that everyone knows bitches are girls, and girls don't have balls, so this is a bitch with blue balls!
That moment when your mind smashes against a powerful obscenity, something truly fitted to make your brain twist and writhe and grapple, that's the moment you know you've hit pay dirt, and that's what happened the second Wiggsy unleashed "fucking wanker cunt."
Imagine! "Wanker," an ordinary enough piece of slang that makes you think of some chubby dude with a hairy navel locking himself into a public restroom stall, combined with "cunt," a somewhat rough word that, however, can be made slightly less so by adding a "-y" on the end, as in, "Can I have a scoop of chocolate, a scoop of cunty, and some sprinkles mixed in?" tied together with the ordinary enough "fucking" so that it all seems to hang together until…wait!!! Wanker is a man! Cunt is a woman! A woman wanking! A man cunting! Tied together with fucking!
And there I'd still be, stalled in permanent brainlock with Mr. Sulu, Lieutenant Uhura, Mr. Spock, and Captain Kirk on the profanity bridge, if my phone hadn't rung and knocked me out of the infinite obscenity loop.
What this means for the Tour
In addition to p*wning the snot out of Cuddle Evans in the time trail, Wiggsy took the time to explain that he "can't be doing with" us fucking wanker cunts because it "justifies their own bone idleness." Now hold on just one danged minute! Did he really say that he can't "do" us fucking wanker cunts because of our bone idleness?
If I thought Wiggly taking ownership of "fucking wanker cunt" was astounding, the minute he accused us Twitterers of bone idleness, well, that just ended the discussion. Me? Having an idle bone? If he'd send me his mobile number I'd show him "idle." Idle like a warren of rabbits, pal.
This dude just went from bottom of the poopstack to the top of the heap in my book. He wants to be big dog of nasty language? Take it away, Bradley. This is a chapter in Turdy France history that you will truly get to write on your own. The rest of us will be trailing, helplessly but awed, in your wake. The Tour de Curse is yours by a mile.
And it couldn't happen to a bigger wanker.


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This cash key box is ideal for storing coin and cash and can be used for both home and businesses. Removable six section coins tray has values for pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, halves and dollars for a precise at-a-glance coin counting. Change tray automatically lifts with lid and is angled for easy access to coins. Removable three section lower tray for currency, receipts, documents etc. Useful fold down recessed carrying handle for portability and storage.
Model # CB11790
Body Material Steel
Weight 4.2 lb
Included Accessories 6 section removable coin tray, 3 compartment removable lower tray and keys
Warranty 1 Year Limited Warranty
Outer Size 12" x 9.45" x 3.54"
Inner Size 11.25" x 8.5" x 2.25"
Secondary Access No
Locking System Key
Fireproof No
Body Thickness .8mm
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by what? , 03/25/2009
yall don't have any pictures on this website or how they work or anything.... i am 11 years old from huntsville and i lost my left index finger in a fourwheeler crash i have half of it today and i want a prostitic ui've gotten skin graphs and stitches and just recintally straatined it so that i could get a prostitic, but yall don't even have any pictures for kids like me to look at, we read uin school all day already can't u just give us some information about it what can u do with it, can u paint it how it works can u take them off what?


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