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The lineup of Gabriel, Banks, Rutherford, Hackett and Collins remained intact for the first half of the Seventies. Genesis didn't hit the charts in America until 1973, when their sixth album, Selling England by the Pound, rose to Number 70.
In concert, Gabriel brought Genesis' songs to life with a series of theatrical guises donned for every song. His stagecraft became the visual focus of Genesis' live shows. In 1974, Genesis unveiled The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, a conceptual double album. A six-month tour followed, and in its wake, an exhausted Gabriel announced he was leaving the band.
Though they fretted about continuing without Gabriel – and auditioned 400 replacements before deciding Collins was up to the task – Genesis' most successful days lay ahead of them. The four studio albums they released in the Eighties – Duke (1980), Abacab (1981), Genesis (1983) and Invisible Touch (1986) – generated 10 Top 40 hits. Invisible Touch became one of the biggest albums of the Eighties, launching five major hits: "Invisible Touch" (Genesis' first and only Number One single), "Throwing It All Away" (Number Four), "Land of Confusion" (Number Four), "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" (Number Three) and "In Too Deep" (Number Three).
Away from Genesis, Collins launched a highly successful solo career that culminated with the phenomenal success of his third album, No Jacket Required (1985), which sold more than 12 million copies and stayed atop the album charts for seven weeks. Banks and Rutherford released solo projects, including Rutherford's band Mike + the Mechanics, but none of them matched Collins' commercial heights.
Genesis reconvened in the Nineties for one more album (We Can't Dance, 1991) and world tour before Collins decided to leave for good. Now they were down to two, but Genesis didn't break up. Recruiting a new vocalist, Ray Wilson, they recorded the 1997 album Calling All Stations. And then Genesis did go silent – until 2007, that is, when Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford reunited for the first time in 15 years for a highly successful world tour. Genesis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Publishing criticism of the government on online forums is not only an expected example of free speech in the United States, it's encouraged—celebrated, even. But for Chiranuch Premchaiporn, webmaster and director of Prachatai, an online newspaper in Thailand, it could get her 20 years in prison.
Premchaiporn, 44, who goes by the nickname Jiew, currently is on trial for failing to immediately take down negative remarks about the Thai monarchy posted on her site —a criminal offense in her country.
Premchaiporn is one of four brave women journalists who will be honored by the International Women's Media Foundation at the 2011 Courage in Journalism Awards for risking their lives to cover the news. Two events are slated, on October 24 in Los Angeles and October 27 in New York.
Joining Premchaiporn are Reuters' Iran bureau chief, Parisa Hafezi; editor Adela Navarro Bello of Mexico's Zeta newsmagazine; and reporter Kate Adie, the BBC's first chief news correspondent, who will be awarded the IWMF's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Free on bail, Premchaiporn is now using server/Web hosting services outside Thailand, but even if found innocent at her trial, she faces a second trial after being arrested again for allowing "unlawful" comments on her site.
We recently spoke with the journalist about the arrests, how her job affects her relationships with her family and why it's worth the risk to fight for Internet freedom. An edited version of the interview follows.
More: Police raided your office, questioning you for five hours. How scared were you?
Chiranuch Premchaiporn: At first they didn't show up with an arrest warrant, they just showed a search warrant asking to search the entire office. I agreed to let them search in the office. [Later] they said they wanted me to go to the police office too, and they showed me the arrest warrant. I was shocked. I didn't think I would have an arrest warrant in my life, but I have two now. So I went to the police office and I denied all accusations and set an appointment to be bailed out. …There were many people giving me support at the police office. There were many people from the press.
More: And later, traveling back to Bangkok from a conference, you were arrested a second time, by Thai immigration. Again you were charged with allowing anti-monarchy comments on your site, with the possibility of 50 more years in prison.
CP: The second [arrest], for me—you can call it a nightmare. [Before,] every time I go home, I would feel like, OK, I'm home. But after [the arrest] at the airport, the feeling is much different. You will feel like you are a criminal at the airport, and [now] my feeling is that every time I return to Bangkok I have to be worried about what's waiting for me next. I will always be nervous and worried when I have to pass through immigration or passport control. It's a side effect of that experience.
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In a new study with broad implications for the U.S., UK researchers claim that their government's 26-year-old figures on occupational cancer grossly underestimate both the numbers of workers exposed to cancer risks and the number who develop work-related cancers, the BBC reports. The existing figure, which estimates 6,000 work-related cancer deaths annually in the UK, are based on an influential 1981 study by Richard Doll and Richard Peto, commissioned by the now defunct U.S. Office of Technology Assessment. That study, later published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, has been cited in over 441 scientific articles to debunk claims that environmental causes are significant contributors to cancer. Critiques of the Doll and Peto study point to the authors' sole reliance on epidemiologic studies of workers in large industries and their failure to consider exposures in smaller workplaces, as well as the limitation of their analysis to deaths in those under age 65. Last year a group of European researchers revealed that Doll had financial relationships with a number of industries that manufacture cancer-causing chemicals, including Monsanto, the Chemical Manufacturer's Association, and Dow Chemical. The new study, led by Andrew Watterson of Stirling University in Scotland, estimates that UK work-related cancer deaths are between 12,000 and 24,000 every year. Watterson and one co-author have consulted with law firms representing workers involved in occupational cancer lawsuits.
Mining Magnate Backed Lawsuit Against Gore Film
The same papers announcing former Vice President Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming brought word that an English judge ordered schools showing the film to distribute student guides providing "balance." The Guardian (UK) reported over the weekend that the suit was financed by an obscure political party almost entirely funded by a mine owner, Robert Durward of Cloburn Quarry Ltd. Since 2004, Durward has donated nearly one million pounds to a non-profit called the Scientific Alliance, which challenges claims about global warming. In 2004, the group co-authored a report debunking climate science with the ExxonMobil-funded George C. Marshall Institute.
Fired Whistleblower Testifies on Farm Chemical
Paul Wotzka, a hydrologist who lost his job with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) earlier this year after attempting to speak out about rising levels of atrazine in stormwater runoff and streams, finally received his chance to testify last week at a state senate committee investigating scientific integrity. Wotzka was invited in March to testify before a legislative committee about atrazine levels in Minnesota waters by State Rep. Ken Tschumper, who planned to introduce a bill that would move pesticide regulation from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture to the state's Department of Health. A week after requesting permission to testify from his supervisor, Wotzka was put on leave. Six weeks later he was fired.
Atrazine, an herbicide used widely on cornfields, has been linked to breast and other cancers in humans and with developmental and reproductive abnormalities in amphibians. It has been banned for agricultural use in the European Union. Although several studies have shown no association between exposure to atrazine and cancer, these studies have received funding from the chemical's manufacturer, Syngenta. The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its 2003 decision not to restrict the use of atrazine in the U.S. A March 2006 settlement agreement requires the agency to determine the herbicide's impact on 21 threatened and endangered species that use waterways contaminated with the compound.
Judge Orders Rabbit Review
Federal District Judge Edward Lodge of Idaho has ruled that the Fish and Wildlife Service must review the endangered species status of the pygmy rabbit, a teacup-sized species native to the Great Basin states of the Western U.S. The ruling was in response to a lawsuit by Western Watersheds Project, which had filed a petition documenting the decline of the species' habitat and seeking endangered species status. The lawsuit charged that in refusing to review the petition, the agency had illegally ignored scientific information and failed to base its decision solely on science. The judge agreed and found that the agency "unlawfully solicited information from third-parties," including state wildlife agencies that oppose endangered species protections. "The Fish and Wildlife Service is in a deeply disorganized and incoherent state of operation," said Jon Marvel, Executive Director of Western Watersheds Project: "The intention of the Bush Administration is to render them impotent . . . and to overcome their basic interest in supporting science."
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New York State has suspended the medical license of the former head of a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital for having "inappropriate sexual contact" with a patient, the Boston Globe reports. Jack M. Gorman, a leader in the field of psychiatry, has received numerous grants to study antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs from drug companies and the National Institutes of Health. He cannot practice medicine for at least six months, according to a consent decree signed in late September. Citing "personal and medical reasons," Gorman resigned from his post at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA in May 2006 after just four months on the job. He subsequently reported his misconduct to medical regulators and attempted suicide, according to the report. He was previously affiliated with Mt. Sinai Medical School and Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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More members of the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition are distancing themselves from the group's recommendations that pregnant women eat at least 12 ounces of fish weekly, USA Today reports; the March of Dimes and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have joined government agencies in backing guidelines that pregnant and nursing women's consumption of fish not exceed 12 ounces weekly, and that they stick to species low in mercury . . . In the wake of revelations that the Bush Administration censored the Surgeon General's office, an editorial in Science (registration required) by George Washington University health policy professor Fitzhugh Mullan calls on Congress to provide an independent budget for the position; require an annual report on the state of the nation's health; and, "essential to all else, insulate the Surgeon General from political interference" . . .
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The way Blistex and a handful of other companies define medicated, it means using camphor, menthol, or phenol in their formulations, yet none of these are in any way, shape, or form "medicines" or "treatments" for dry lips. Quite the contrary, they make dry skin worse and can cause irritation. Products like Blistex can include 0.5% phenol, a potent disinfectant, that is strong enough to actually trigger some serious problems, the least of which are dryness and irritation. It is not something I would recommend for anything but extremely limited use because repeated application can keep your lips chapped forever.
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Are you having a Yuletide party? Can I come? I love holiday parties—Hanukkahlatke-making parties, boozy Christmas cocktail parties, New Year's Eve parties even though they start past my bedtime. I love most parties, even nursery school gradu-ations, even brises. Well, not the bris itself, but the brunch after the bris. I like seeing people, and usually there's cake, and I love cake. Even that sheet cake with the white icing that has no flavor except sugar. May I have a corner piece? Thank you!
But there are some events I just cannot attend, and I thought I'd list them here, prophylactically, so you can invite someone else.
Thank you for not asking me to a professional basketball game, even if you have the really good seats where the movie stars sit. In fact, please don't invite me to any sports event. I wish I could see what other people see—the balletic teamwork, the competitive thrill. But after five minutes, my mind starts to wander: Where's the hot dog guy? Huh—there's a cloud in the shape of George Washington's head. I went to Mount Vernon once. No, that was Monticello.
Please don't invite me to a wine-and-cheese get-together where a banker tells us how to invest our money. I don't have any money.
Please don't invite me to go rock climbing, even the fake kind in an athletic facility. Please don't invite me to an art opening where there is no food whatsoever except for a wee bowl of peanuts. Please don't invite me to dinner at a macrobiotic restaurant. I wish I liked this sort of food, but it makes me feel as if I'm being punished for something I didn't do.
Please don't invite me to a movie that I think will include a car chase but is actually just one long car chase. I love some chasing in a movie, but it has to come between the parts where the characters talk to one another, so I care about why they are being chased or are chasing.
And forgive me for sounding coldhearted, but please don't invite me to a two-hour memorial service. Two hours is 75 minutes too long, no matter how accomplished and fabulous the dead person was.
Please don't invite me to any gathering that includes a fortune teller, an astrologer or a tea-leaf reader. Too many things have happened to me already. Unless my fortune is "Congratulations, the rest of your life will be uneventful," I would rather be in the dark.
I do like magic shows, though, and baby showers, and bingo nights, and bowling parties, so please count me in. I would particularly love to be invited to do that kind of bowling you do in the dark, with Day-Glo bowling balls. It sounds as if everyone could be equally bad at it, which would be right up my alley (alley! ha!), and would involve a lot of potato chips and other tasty, salty snack foods. And nothing says fun like those crazy bowling shoes.
I also hardly ever, that is to say never, get asked to caroling parties or tree-trimming parties, and I would enjoy them, even if I'd be coming mostly for the eggnog. So invite me. I am so there.
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Catching up with Lance Panigutti of WithoutLimits.co about the plans he has for 2013 racing season. One thing is for sure after talking with Lance is 2013 will NOT be the same 2012 and the new Confederation Cup is just the start!
What's on tap for road season? We're coming back with the full staple of events like Louisville Criterium, Koppenberg, Mike Horgan Hill Climb, and Superior Morgul, with the addition of a new criterium in Firestone. The Firestone 88 race is a simple, affordable, and fast course that's easy to get to for the Denver, Ft. Collins, and Boulder populations. The big changes we have are with Koppenberg and Superior Morgul when it comes to timing. For those who raced our cyclocross series this past season you know what's in store. Koppenberg will feature chip timing (through our partner Race Rite), that will provide lap splits, instant TV display results, and live results online. Superior will take it to a new level as the same system is used for the Time-Trial and Morgul Bismark. For 2013 athletes will not only get their lap splits for the Morgul, but their WALL splits as well. We all know about the horrific timing situation of 2012, a situation we took full responsibility for as we split from the ACA timing system post Morgul. When it comes to Superior Morgul we hope to regain the athletes trust once again. Omnium results will also be greatly improved. At our cyclocross series championship we produced race day results and series omnium within 10min of every category finish, Superior Morgul athletes can expect the same.
The Confederation Cup is new. What are the history and goals behind it? History: Some might remember that in 2012 Doug Williams put together the Spring Classics Cup that was a combination of our spring events, Mead Roubaix, Deer Trail, and Hugo. It came together at the last minute, but Doug did a great job rounding up prizes and printing custom winner's jerseys from Curve. When he approached me in 2013 we had the idea to rebrand, and keep it in house. In the past we've had joint series between different race directors and it never truly worked out. Goals: I've always had very strong opinions that a true series shouldn't be less than 3 races and no more than 8 or you start losing interest. When it came to the Confederation Cup we want to reward the best overall cyclist, not just the fastest sprinter or best climber. The four events take place over 2.5 months and encompass six days of racing, a perfect breakdown of a hill climb, road race, dirt road race, time-trial, and two criteriums. With each race weighted equally and points awarded 10 deep (best four scores count) it gets a lot of people in on the action, and brings excitement to the Spring season. The overall design was to keep things simple, yet truly reward the best all around cyclist.
Some would view the Confederation Cup as an assault to the Rocky Mountain Road Cup, what's your take? The Confederation Cup operates within the larger scope of the Rocky Mountain Cup. In our opinion you lose attention and interest when a series is spread out over 5 months. Take baseball vs. the NFL; long season vs. short condensed action, niche following vs. appealing to the masses. The Rocky Mountain Road Cup has its place for the purists and teams. What we're trying to do is look at the spring season, which I feel has the most exciting races, in a new light.
If it's not an assault is it a step towards independence: It's a step to build a strong brand and connection among our races. We control the level of production for each Confederation Cup event and that's the top priority for any series we choose to participate in. Does that make it a step towards independence? No, but we're also not afraid to pursue independence if a governing body or local association over steps it bounds, and damages what we feel is the rider experience, or our ability to produce a high caliber event. It's a step we've taken with some of our triathlons with great success in 2012.
You've seen the posts about a lack of road races on 303 Cycling, do you agree?; I agree that the season is not as robust as any cyclist would like to see when it comes to road races. However, we need to look at the overall picture. I grew up in New England and our marquee road races where held in June, July, and Aug. In Colorado the majority happen to be held in the Spring; Boulder Roubaix (2012/14'), Koppenberg, Morgul Bismark, Deer Trail. I see both sides (racer and promoter) as most events are club productions where the goal is to function as a fundraiser. If fundraising is the objective the system is set up to reward criterium style events. That's not anyone's fault, just a function of the environment and rules.
Based on your comments what would you suggest as a possible solution: My solutions won't be popular with a lot of people, but in my opinion they'd be a step in the right direction. We're in the unique position of working with 3x different governing bodies (USA Triathlon, USA Cycling, USA Track & Field). Each system of governance has its pro's and con's and while USAT has is host of inefficiencies they do operate as a more free market system when it comes to the operations of race directors. There's no date selection, or extraneous per/rider surcharge. What it comes down to is the races doing things right get better and the weaker ones die off, leaving the system stronger as a whole year to year. Yes, the BRAC board and staff do a wonderful and hard working job organizing and managing the local scene. However, when it comes to road races it's a financial game. As I said before it's in a club or promoter's best interest to produce a criterium as a fundraiser or business Endeavour. Our solution would be to ELIMINATE the per/rider BRAC fee for road races, DROP the fee to $1 for circuits over 5 miles, and RAISE the fee to $3.50 for criteriums. What happens? promoters are incentivized on the bottom line to take a risk on a road race that naturally have higher costs, while some of the lower tier criteriums would die away due to natural attrition. The net effect might results in lower gross revenue to BRAC. However, BRAC is still operating as the governing body of 2011 and has to fully transition to the smaller role of local association. Change is never popular, but needed at a time when cyclists are looking for other activities come June; whether that's mountain biking, camping, triathlon, or a mud run.
Rumor is you have something big in the works for cyclocross season: Rumor would be true! In the past, triathlon season has always kicked our ass, our staff's ass, and been pushed to the back burner. There's been so many thing we've wanted to do that simply had to wait a few seasons. Last year the big upgrade was the live chip timing system with splits and TV displays. For 2013 in short, yes we have some exciting things to announce over the next few months.
Just saw the Pre Season Cyclocross Race on your website. What are these all about and what's going on with the NON-USAC/BRAC sanctioning?; We couldn't be more excited about the format. It's something that's been in the works for 2 years now, we've just been holding off for the right time. In terms of the independent sanctioning, that might be best left for another interview at another time. In short we're charging $17, a fee that wouldn't be possible under the current USAC/BRAC system.
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Man I'm glad someone finally
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Man I'm glad someone finally said it.
I get that people LOVE it but it's become like an ecstatic religion around here.
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Mmmmm, Cyclocross.
Submitted by Brian M (not verified) on
You asked for that.
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Ah cross, the new version of
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Ah cross, the new version of triathlon, that makes road racing look relaxed. You need 3 bikes, 12 sets of wheels, you have have to have a blog, getting your lap times is important, you complain about call ups for cat 4 races, and you are a massive beer snob. Glad I raced cross when I was younger and I am not part of this clown show now. Oh yeah and it is all USAC, BRAC or the timing chips fault.
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As a CX racer/addict/clown
Submitted by BikeRaver (not verified) on
As a CX racer/addict/clown you nailed me, I approve of this comment. :)
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Cross was cooler before it was cool
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
It's great that participation has gone up, but man, I agree, too many people take cross way too seriously.
Oddly enough, some of the guys at the front of the race don't always fall in to this category.
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"Cross was cooler before it was cool"
Submitted by Brian M (not verified) on
That's true of just about everything. But imho, 'cross is a lot more fun now with deeper fields and much better courses. I'm having to stretch my memory here, but I would say every course I rode this last season was better than every course I rode the season I raced 15 or so years ago.
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So true. I can say the
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
So true. I can say the exact same thing. 20 years ago I was #5 at states. There was about a dozen cx racers then.
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2014 Cyclocross Nationals
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
BRACC has been doing such a good job that Colorado is the host of the 2014 Cyclocross Nationals.
There are a lot of factors to get the Top National Cross Race to come to CO/Boulder.
One of those is a strong Local Association respected by the national governing body. Amazing to have such a good reputation after rejoining USAC just over a year ago.
Get ready, just 12 month to go till 2014 Cyclocross Nationals!!
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Thanks for the post about
Submitted by Racer Z (not verified) on
Thanks for the post about 2014 Nationals. I am sure that PW and his sidekick/shop owner at BCS are very happy about that. As a fellow racer, I am glad that my BRAC license and race entry fee surcharges (above and beyond USAC charges)went to good use.
All kidding aside, I guess we will have to see how this new series of unsanctioned races shakes out. At first blush, looks like there will be more choices, lower costs, and less bureaucracy involved. That can't be all that bad.
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The Confederation Cup races
Submitted by Mr. T (not verified) on
The Confederation Cup races are sanctioned by USAC.
You can see it right on USA Cycling.
The C Cup might be a special thing from WLP. What are the Big prize will be.
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Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired Magazine, has decided to leave in order to focus on the drone company that he has been developing. This is just another really sad sign of the times and a reflection of what I call the "ghetto economy" that dominates the U.S. landscape today. Such an economy centers around financial ponzi schemes created by banksters, political corruption, war-profiteering, private prisons and the surveillance state.
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Mr. Anderson, who joined Wired in 2001, said on Friday that he would leave by the end of the year to work full time on running his start-up, 3D Robotics, which is based in San Diego. According to the company's Web site, it designs personal drones for private customers.
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Monte Dale Clark
Position: T-DT-DE
Height: 6-6 Weight: 265 lbs.
Born: January 24, 1937 in Fillmore, CA
Died: September 16, 2009 in Detroit, MI
High School: Kingsburg
College: USC (school history)
Drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 4th round (41st overall) of the 1959 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 50 (1463rd overall since 1950)
Relatives: Father of Bryan Clark