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EDUCATION watchdog Ofsted has 'serious concerns' for Cumbria's secondary schools.
This morning it released its findings from a blitz of 17 of the county's schools in November and December.
It followed concerns about the poor performance of a number of secondary schools in the county.
Inspectors found GCSE results for children at the age of 16 have been significantly below the national average in the last two years - with the gap widening.
Of particular concern was school performance in coastal and urban areas, and the low achievement of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
While inspectors found pockets of good teaching in almost all the schools, and signs of improving leadership and better governance in a small number, there were common weaknesses across many of the schools.
This included poor achievement in maths and English for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, particularly boys; too little challenge in lessons for more-able students; and weak leadership of teaching and performance management of teachers.
Michael Cladingbowl HMI, Ofsted's Regional Director for the North West said:
"These inspection findings raise serious concerns about the quality of secondary education in Cumbria where too few secondary schools are good. And the picture is not improving.
"There is too little evidence to suggest that the council is providing an effective and shared strategy to improve the quality of education across the county. This needs to be urgently addressed. The local authority needs to provide greater challenge and support and extend partnership working.
"Ofsted will closely monitor the education provision in Cumbria and we will continue to work with schools and the local authority to ensure a higher proportion of young people are provided with a good standard of education."
Of the 14 secondary schools inspected under section 5:
- None was judged outstanding
- Three were judged good (one of these was already at this standard and two declined from being outstanding)
- Five schools were judged requires improvement. In two of these schools, the quality of leadership was good but in the others it requires improvement
- One school has serious weaknesses and had declined from being good
- Five schools were placed into special measures.
- One sixth form college, inspected under section 5, was judged requires improvement, having declined from previously being a good standard.
Of the three schools and academies inspected under section 8, two were making adequate progress. In the other school, progress was insufficient.
Coun Anne Burns, Cabinet Member for Children's Services, said: "It's not acceptable that we have schools that are judged to be inadequate and in each of those cases we are working with the schools to develop robust improvement plans which will rapidly deliver the change that is needed.
"I have no doubt about the urgency of this work, Cumbrian pupils deserve the best and we'll be doing all we can to make that happen.
"We accept Ofsted's analysis of the current situation and know there is much more to do to ensure all Cumbrian secondary schools are providing the quality of education that parents and pupils have a right to expect.
"But it's also right to point out that 65% of Cumbria secondary school pupils attend a school that is 'good' or 'outstanding' – we want that to be 100%, but we should not lose sight of the fact Cumbria does have many great schools.
"The council's role is to monitor, challenge, support and, in exceptional circumstances, intervene in schools to ensure standards are being met. But headteachers and school governors have first responsibility for their school's performance; the days when the county council could routinely intervene are long gone.
"Indeed with creation of Academies the council has no direct role in the management of nearly half of the county's secondary schools. That said, the work that we are now doing with headteachers across all schools is about harnessing the skills, expertise and experience that we do have in the have county to benefit all pupils.
"The recent appointment of Lorrayne Hughes to the position of interim Executive Headteacher at Southfield and Stainburn schools is an example of that approach in practice.
Ian Smith, executive headteacher at Millom and St Benedict's secondary schools and Chair of Cumbria Association of Secondary Headteachers, said:
"The individual school reports and their findings require a response. Ofsted has raised the bar. We applaud this. This set of outcomes, is far from unique.
"An examination of Ofsted's website shows similar outcomes and letters for schools and authorities across the country: Blackpool, Nottingham, Wakefield, Northumberland, Suffolk and Nottingham to name but a few.
"A very small percentage of inspections across the country (since the inception of the present inspection framework) have resulted in outstanding or good judgements, the majority of inspections have resulted in 'requires improvement' judgements. We accept that in general secondary education in Cumbria requires improvement.
"The rapid succession of inspections in Cumbria did reveal that standards are not, generally speaking, sufficiently high, yet they did reveal a good deal of good teaching; the inspections also revealed inconsistencies between inspection teams, which can be unhelpful.
"Further inspections of Cumbrian schools have taken place this term and have resulted in significantly better inspection judgements. Ofsted were inspecting individual schools and given what has taken place, we all know and understand things need to change, but they are, and rapidly.
"It is worth noting that Ofsted has recognised the potential of system leadership in Cumbria, notably the Cumbria Alliance of System leaders (CASL) and that this has been significantly funded by the County Council. I can only praise the council's leaders for backing and funding this exciting new strategy for school improvement in Cumbria.
"CASL can provide local, tailor-made solutions; there is no need to hand over school improvement to agencies or academy chains from outside Cumbria. What CASL now has to do is act quickly, impact on results for children and see this being reflected in Ofsted judgements and reports.
"We need impact. I am encouraged that Ofsted has not found it necessary to inspect the county council's school improvement function at this time; clearly this is predicated in the belief that CASL has begun to work in an effective manner. An example of this is the appointment of Lorrayne Hughes as Executive Headteacher of two schools in the Workington area. Lorrayne Hughes is co-chair of CASL and is leading school to school support in a new and dynamic manner.
"Whilst it is for Mrs Hughes to comment on the work of CASL, I do want to stress the innovative and supportive stance her majesty's inspectors have demonstrated in beginning to work with system leaders in Cumbria to provide ground-breaking professional development for school leaders and school improvement more generally.
"A good example of this is the recent, Through the Lens of Inspection Day, held at the Queen Katherine School in Kendal. In Cumbria we are experiencing Ofsted not just inspecting schools but beginning to discharge its relatively new policy direction as agents of school improvement.
"The letter provided to the county council also draws our attention to the particular concern of school performance in coastal areas, not just in Cumbria but elsewhere in the country too. This is a fact but it also a fact that it is immensely difficult to attract the right calibre of teachers into some of the country's most remote, sparsely populated and deprived areas.
"The report does recognise examples of good teaching and signs of improving leadership and better governance. It is the role of CASL to join up the best bits of Cumbria and to work with its partner agencies to improve still further the leadership and governance of our secondary schools., so that good practice becomes the norm.
"The work of system leader headteachers, National Leaders of Education and National Leaders of Governance is already underway and is becoming effective. I applaud the county council for backing CASL so strongly, particularly at a time of reducing budgets. I am convinced that within the County the necessary expertise exists to make secondary education in Cumbria good and on the way to being excellent. Outside intervention is not required. CASL is already unlocking Cumbria's own expertise to meet the challenge. It deserves the full support of all those with the interests of Cumbrian young people at heart."


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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The video of a Hillsborough County school bus driver who pushed a girl off the bus has been released.
The State Attorney's Office released the video Wednesday and shows 41-year-old Stephanie Wilkerson using her foot to push an 8-year-old girl off the bus last September.
Wilkerson was charged with aggravated child abuse. A phone number listed for her has been disconnected. Police said Wilkerson was driving special-needs children to school in Tampa on Sept. 28 when the girl wanted to get off the bus.
She was told to wait her turn, but police say the girl slapped and pushed the driver. As the girl walked off the bus, she stopped on the steps and that's when police say Wilkerson pushed her with her foot.
The student fractured her ankle.
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Having risen from a self-described "homeless welfare mother" in New York's Lower East Side, journalist, author and community organizer Soledad Santiago seems to embody the American, pull-your-own-bootstraps ideal. Yet her experiences taught her hardships are better overcome with the help of others. Santiago, 62, brings that outlook to her new job as on-site director of the Triangle District Resource Center (505-982-8822) on Hopewell Street, which has served the Hopewell-Mann housing project and the surrounding neighborhood since October.
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Giving people what they say they need, instead of telling them what to do—that's different than the typical social services model.
Yeah, and the term 'social services' is kind of anathema. It's about bearing witness. We don't use the word poverty in our culture anymore. Hopefully that will change with the new administration.
How did poverty get erased from the language?
We had Reagan and the idea that all you need to do is let wealth grow and it'll trickle down, and anybody that doesn't have their mouth open in the right place when the trickle is coming is lazy.
What I saw happening in the '60s and '70s, the next generation was indoctrinated into believing that it was never real, that all we were was druggies, and the real thing was the free market.
For the record, you're not all druggies?
For the record. [Laughs.]
Does that 'me first' attitude explain why Santa Fe has a liberal rep but great disparities in wealth?
I think the progressive community in Santa Fe is really on the right wavelength. Of course you have another population, and I imagine many of them are here as a second home, and—how do I say this delicately?
Go ahead—you've already offended Reaganites.
Anything can isolate you. So where poverty and language issues can isolate you, I guess that wealth can isolate you. I've never been wealthy, so I can't say for sure. I do know that at the height of my career in New York City, I didn't have time for other people.
What else have you done here as an organizer?
One was…community theater. Theater combines everything that you need for community uplift. There's an opportunity when you write together to turn into art some of the most painful things and thereby rise above. I've seen it happen.
You've seen it at Hopewell?
The fact that someone who doesn't know English yet can say, 'I want to teach this craft,' or that a grandmother can say, 'I don't have enough space to do the quinceañera, but you do'—that's already saying a lot. We're going to have a permaculture garden here, and I think about 12 people showed up when the permaculture expert came to explain how we're going to do it. It was a group of some English speakers, some non-English speakers, and the children were translating. That was a breakthrough moment.


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Steinberg MH (2012). Sickle cell disease and other hemoglobinopathies. In L Goldman, A Shafer, eds., Goldman's Cecil Medicine, 24th ed., pp. 1066–1075. Philadelphia: Saunders.
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The first step in the process of finding the right candidate begins with communication. The hiring manager must make sure that everyone affected by the hire is on board with the job description, specific responsibilities and the skills required. Hiring managers should ask these key questions: Does everyone in the group understand how the new hire impacts their work? Are my superiors on board with the requirements for the open position? Is the Human Resources liaison aware of what the hiring manger is looking for? Finally, if the open position is a management role, do the employees that will work under this person know what they are looking for in a manager? Once the hiring manager has spoken with and gathered information from all of these parties, it will be easier to write a thorough and effective job description.
A job description should include the important requirements and experience that a candidate must possess in order to be considered for the opening as well as a summary of key responsibilities. It is important to write a fresh job description for every opening and keep it clear and concise. If there are too many requirements, it may discourage the right candidate from applying. A great job description identifies not only the critical experience necessary, but also the skills that would be considered "nice to have."
Once the job description has been written and approved, it is time to post the opening on the proper websites and search engines. Of course, the first posting is going to be on the company website. Many candidates "follow companies" and regularly check industry specific news as well as the websites of companies that interest them. If these potential candidates see an opening that is appropriate for their background, they may apply directly. This is a great situation because the candidate is not only interested in the specific position posted, but also in the company itself. Company website job postings are also easy to maintain and keep track of because they are filtered into the corporate database.
A company may also want to post the opening on appropriate and popular job boards. Search engines can be a good resource in generating large volumes of candidates. If the opening is entry-level, these job sites can be quite helpful by often giving a hiring manager an enormous amount of interested, and often relevant, candidates. But when looking for senior level candidates, these sites can often be frustrating and time consuming. Because there are going to be a huge number of applicants who are not appropriate for the job, rifling through masses of resumes often requires more of a time commitment than many hiring managers in the pharmaceutical industry have the ability to give. Since senior level job descriptions are extremely specific in terms of years of experience, and contain multiple experience requirements, searching or counting on job boards to produce the perfect candidate is almost like "finding a needle in a haystack."
While posting an opening on major job boards can be positive and helpful dependant on the level, it does not address the problem of how to attract potential candidates that are not actively looking for new opportunities. These types of candidates are many times the most valuable, as they are usually happy where they are, and are only willing to leave for the perfect opportunity. There are two approaches to finding candidates that are not applying on-line.
The first approach may seem very obvious, but is sometimes taken for granted. Before sourcing in any other way, smart hiring managers always do internal sourcing first. Hiring from within the company is always a great option that should never be overlooked. There are two reasons that hiring within is beneficial: First, hiring from within the company reduces the learning curve significantly. Many times a candidate's ability to fit in to a company's corporate culture becomes a big part of the reason for hiring them. When a candidate comes from within, it is apparent that he or she will have the right personality to work within the organization. Second, hiring internally is also a great tool in retaining current employees. Before posting a job externally, hiring managers should consider all of the employees within the group and envision them in the role trying to be filled. When managers pass over current employees and choose to hire from outside rather than promote from within, the employees passed over may become frustrated and therefore look for opportunities for advancement elsewhere. If there are no appropriate candidates in the group, be sure to consider other parts of the company where qualified candidates might exist. Bottom line, hiring managers should work with the appropriate Human Resources partner to make sure that the opening is properly marketed internally.
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If internal sourcing and networking does not work, using a recruiter is another viable option, especially if the opening is a senior role. There are several reasons why recruiters are beneficial to companies. The recruiter does all of the filtering before submitting resumes. When a hiring manager receives a resume, the candidate has already been qualified in terms of having the appropriate background and interest in the position. This saves time and allows human resources to focus on other important tasks. Recruiters are also able to identify and attract candidates that are not even looking for a job. These are candidates that would never have known about the opening because they are not going to company websites nor are they looking at job postings on the Internet. PharmaLogics Recruiting estimates that roughly 9 out of 10 people that accept new jobs in the pharmaceutical industry are not actively looking for new opportunities. Recruiters are also able to provide the company with information about the candidate that a company would not be able to find out on their own, with regard to relocation concerns, salary expectations, etc. Good recruiters have wonderful relationships with their candidates, spending hours of time getting to know them. The information recruiters have about candidates is often information that ultimately determines if the candidate will not only receive an offer from a company, but ultimately accept an offer from them.
Hiring managers should keep in mind that finding the right recruiter is important. They should look for a recruiter that specializes in the same area for which he or she has an opening. Many recruiters are generalists and try to be a, "one stop shop" for every kind of opening, and this defeats the purpose of using a recruiter at all. These types of recruiters cannot effectively screen candidates for the opening because it is likely that they do not fully understand the requirements themselves. For instance, if the opening is in chemistry, then find a recruiter that only specializes in chemistry placements. It not only ensures a smooth hiring process, but a successful placement in a much shorter amount of time.
Once the "specialized" recruiter is identified, be very specific with what skills are important for the position.
For example:
Do not say: "I am looking for someone with good technical skills."
Do say: " I am looking for someone who understands Hits to Lead."
Specific details will help the recruiter narrow down the search to only the most qualified and relevant candidates. The hiring manager should also arm the recruiter with relevant selling points for both the position and the company. Remember, the best recruiters are going to proactively approach candidates who are not advertising their desire for a new position. Equipping the recruiter with strong, "selling points" as to why the organization is a great company to work for is a great resource. Also a detailed job description, facts about the group, and tidbits on the opportunity itself (i.e. size of the group, advancement opportunities, management responsibility, etc), help the recruiter paint a vivid picture to potential candidates. Once this is accomplished, the hiring manager can sit back and relax and only worry about choosing among all of the highly qualified resumes that are sent directly to his or her attention.
Now that the methods for gathering appropriate resumes have been established, it is imperative to consider the issue of timing in the process. Timing is everything when it comes to recruiting. It is not possible for a company to move too quickly through the interview process. The bottom line is that great candidates are not on the market very long and if, "you snooze you lose." When going through the interview process, it is important to be mindful of how long each step takes. Here are some examples of common mistakes regarding timing that need to be avoided:
1) Conducting phone interviews with all of the candidates before inviting anyone in for a formal interview. Once a successful phone interview has occurred, it is good practice to extend an invitation for an onsite interview immediately. Do not wait until all of the phone interviews have been completed to express continued interest in any one candidate. Inviting someone in for an interview establishes that the candidate is qualified and goes a long way towards keeping the candidate's interest level high. If a company waits too long after the phone interview to invite a candidate in, it can send a message to him or her that perhaps they did not meet the company's expectations. It can also reflect poorly on the organization's ability to make decisions. Remember that the candidate is evaluating their desire to work for the company throughout this process as well.
2) Waiting too long after a successful interview to move to the offer stage. If a candidate comes in for a formal interview, and a week goes by with no word of interest after the interview, the likelihood of getting the candidate on board dwindles significantly. Prepare all of the members of the interview team to give their feedback immediately after the candidate leaves. It often makes sense to schedule a debrief meeting to go over the positives and potential question marks of each candidate while the interview is fresh in everyone's mind. Remember that the hiring manager is responsible for driving the interview process to completion. If it does take longer than a week for an offer to be presented, be sure someone is communicating with the candidate in the interim to keep them informed of the process as well as to keep their interest level high. This communication should come from the hiring manager, the Human Resource representative or the recruiter.
3) Many companies establish a minimum number of candidates that need to be interviewed before proceeding to the offer stage. While it is helpful to make comparisons amongst multiple candidates, be mindful that the first candidate may be the best. Again, timing is key. Do not risk losing the ideal candidate simply for the sake of meeting a pre-determined number of applicants.
Now that some timing mistakes have been identified, the actual interview process is the next crucial step. The first step is to conduct a phone interview with out of town candidates or have a casual lunch with those that are local. Once the phone screen or lunch is complete, a formal face-to-face interview is the next step. If the candidate is coming in from out of town, it is a good idea to have them in the night before and meet them at their hotel for dinner. This gives the candidate a sign that the company is thankful that they have taken time off to interview, and this is a great way to welcome them to the area. It also gives the hiring manager a chance to meet the candidate in a relaxed environment which leads to a better understanding of their personality and how they can fit into the group.
The actual face-to-face interview should be an efficient process as well. Whenever possible, aim to complete the process in one full day, as opposed to conducting a second round interview. Even if the candidate is local, they have likely taken at least one day off of work for the meeting. Completing the process in one day as opposed to breaking it up into multiple interviews is more efficient and cost effective for everyone involved. If given the choice, most candidates prefer interviewing on a Friday or a Monday, because it is easier to justify taking time off from work. This also helps with out of town candidates as it allows them the opportunity to come a day earlier or stay a day later to look around, see the city and get a sense of the housing that is available. Companies should support candidates spending additional time in the area, as it becomes important if they will be interviewing on site only once. Furthermore, it is cheaper to book an additional night in the hotel, as opposed to flying them in a second time.
When the interview day arrives, the hiring manager must make sure that all of the members of the interview team are prepared. He or she is responsible for making sure everyone has reviewed the CV, thought of appropriate questions, and understands the job description and the challenges of the open position. The hiring manager needs to assign someone to give the candidate a tour of the facility. Someone should also be tasked with discussing the benefits of working with the company, potential growth opportunities, health coverage, and how and when bonuses are paid. When an interview runs smoothly, it reflects positively on the hiring manager and more importantly, the entire company. Conversely, there is nothing more frustrating for a candidate than showing up in someone's office for an interview and realizing that the person is reading their CV for the first time. It is also unprofessional to make candidates wait longer than a few minutes for someone on the interview schedule to arrive. The interviewing team should be aware of the schedule and agree to stick with it as closely as possible.
Once feedback has been gathered and the interest level has been established, it is time to move on to references. This should only be done after the completion of an interview, and when it has been determined that an offer is likely to be made to the candidate. The practice of backdoor reference checking is not professional and should be avoided. Any candidate that comes in for an interview is making a confidential inquiry into a position. This is a vulnerable time for the candidate, as he or she does not want people to know that they are looking at other opportunities. Conducting a backdoor reference check jeopardizes that confidentiality because references are usually colleagues, former bosses, and professors. It is well known that people talk and the pharmaceutical world is a very small! If there are any questions about what is or is not appropriate regarding reference checks, hiring managers should consult their Human Resources department.
Once the hiring manager and the rest of the team have identified the candidate of choice and references have been checked, the important offer stage follows. This crucial stage can be exciting as well as stressful. If the company has communicated with the candidate effectively, executed the interview in a timely manner, and been honest with the candidate throughout the entire process, there should be no question that the offer and acceptance will come hand in hand. An offer is comprised of several different components. Of course, the base salary is the most important ingredient. On average, an offer includes a 5-15% increase over the candidate's current salary (this does not include cost of living adjustments for relocated candidates). Remember to account for any annual bonus as well. A good rule of thumb is to offer the candidate an increase in both base salary and total compensation. Additionally, a sign-on bonus is a great tool to use when the base salary cannot meet the candidate's expectations.
Relocation is another factor that demands careful consideration. There are many different components that can go into a relocation package. These components need to be established before the offer stage. Some important costs to consider are: the cost of the actual move, closing costs on both ends, temporary housing, etc. If the company offers a lump sum to cover all of the moving costs, it is important to make sure the total amount is grossed up in consideration of the tax ramifications of the lump sum.
If a company can understand a candidates expectations and a candidate can understand the company's limitations, a negotiation should be successful. Once the offer letter is sent out, a hiring manager should always follow up to answer any questions.
The job as a hiring manager is not over once the candidate has been hired. It is time to ensure that the company lives up to the candidate's expectations and the candidate successfully meets the needs of the job. The first step in ensuring that both will happen is setting goals and expectations for the new employee. Making a list of goals for the first six months as well as for the first year is an excellent start. The hiring manager should then discuss each goal with the new employee so he or she fully understands each expectation. Employees should know that an evaluation will be based on the success of accomplishing the goals that are outlined. It is also good practice to allow the new employee to write out a list of their expectations and personal goals. This will ensure that the new employee will be focused with firm goals in mind, as well as inform their hiring manger of what is important to them. For instance, if a hiring manager is aware that gaining experience in HPLC is something the employee would strive for, an opportunity may arise that could invoke their participation.
Rewarding employees is an essential and excellent tool for retention. Many people think of rewards as monetary or tangible in some way, but non-tangible rewards are equally, if not more important. There are two main reasons why employees either stay with their company or conversely choose to leave. The first is whether they have positive or negative feelings about their manager. The second is whether or not the employee feels there is growth potential within the company. It is interesting to note that neither of these reasons is related to money. Employees like to be recognized in front of their peers. A simple word of thanks or congratulations for their particular effort goes a long way.
Here are two examples of how to incorporate non-tangible rewards:
Year-End Congratulations -- What if at the end of the year, each employee received a list of all of things their hiring manager felt they accomplished and were doing exceptionally well on? What if this were posted publicly so everyone else would know how valuable each individual is to the company? How would this make employees feel? This goes beyond the yearly review because this is a simple recognition of only the positive contributions that person has made to the group.
Creation of Personal Path Forward -- People want to feel like they have a place to go within an organization. They want to know that there is a 2 or 5-year plan in mind for them, but they also want to feel that this plan is flexible to include what they hope to do, and not what will be dictated for them to do. This applies to both the Research Associate and the Director of the department. At every years-end, each employed should be asked what they hope to achieve over the course of the next upcoming year. The hiring manger should ask them what they are looking for in a 2-year plan. Although, not all of the employees' expectations are going to be, giving them a path forward that accommodates some of what they are expecting is a great start. This will go a long way in giving the employee a feeling that the company supports their professional growth. A hiring manager might even learn a thing or two about new ways an employee can contribute to the organization.
In conclusion, successfully selecting, hiring, and retaining the right candidate is a multi-step process that every company should master and take seriously. Companies that practice good hiring techniques and maintain a healthy and positive workplace, will retain employees and make a "positive" connection with each individual they hire. It is the pharmaceutical companies following these practices that engage more qualified candidates and ultimately are able to hire the best chemists in the world. Because this industry is reliant on the capability and success of the scientists themselves, having a strategy to successfully attract, select and retain those scientists in essential and it all begins with making a successful connection.


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@Eyebeam I meander, would love an honorary residency, continuation of what I work on here, inner flesh, self-doubt, criticality, apotheosis of a Theory of Everythings: title of the book manuscript I'm working on. But I fit in awkwardly, unclear, problematic, messy; my connections are more to universities than digital media conferences or urban institutions. I do know I'm working more slowly than I'd like; the performances are occurring late in the residency, due most likely to family issues I couldn't control. My work deals more with internal psychic structures than anything else, theory without Lacan or Freud or Ettinger for example, so a kind of wandering that's at the heart of everything. My music/soundwork is the same - it's music without "music," I can't take a song or anything else for granted; every time I play it's an extension that could go horribly wrong and a lot of the resulting music is a suturing of that fragility - it's a kind of cover-up music. So it's putting something out in the world that's connected to the flesh and mind in a deep and problematic way, and that's interesting. But you need a space and time for thinking that through, a space of non-building, and Eyebeam is about building, organizing, collaborating, constructing. My collaborations on the other hand are uneasy, as if they come from a distance; nothing's taken for granted. From my viewpoint this is good for Eyebeam, but from Eyebeam's viewpoint I think it's a potential issue; if we overthink everything, nothing would happen. So I proceed on the assumption that I'm lucky to be here for the next three months, and will take what I can from it, give what I can to it. ... This also relates to the Window Gallery show I put up - it's held together by gravity and scotch tape; I left the pedestals unpainted, etc., since the show represents a process and a thinking, and not a production or product. ... This Sunday, tomorrow, we're playing informally at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, Chris and Amanda and Wadih and myself, and we haven't played together before. So that should be interesting alone the same lines, but then who would want to support such tentative accumulation?
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INDIANAPOLIS - JULY 20: Shane Mosley exchanges jabs with Vernon Forrest during their WBC welterweight championship fight on July 20, 2002 at the Conseco Fieldhouse arena in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Brian Bahr/Getty Images)
Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and "Sugar" Shane Mosley are busy preparing for their big fight on the May 5th undercard of the Floyd Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto PPV clash. Right here, you can find a huge collection of quotes & photos from Canelo Alvarez and Shane Mosley from their training camps, as well as from a recent conference call they took part in. Take a look right here. Canelo Alvarez, WBC Super Welterweight World Champion "I have something Shane wants and I want something he has. He wants my belt, but I want his experience. "No, I have not seen Shane [in Big Bear] and I don't care to either. "I know Shane's style is different [from any I've faced], but I will be ready. "Being in Big Bear is very calming. I can focus physically and mentally 100 percent [on training]." Sugar Shane Mosley, Six-Time Three and Division World Champion "The haters are what keep me motivated. Domination is on my mind. I want to be the best ...
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An articulated lorry has driven into the railway bridge near Carshalton station causing both rail and road delays.
The Pallex Lorry collided with the bridge in North Street at 5.44pm, causing the top of the lorry to be pulled back.
The driver is believed to be unhurt although the lorry is severely damaged.
The incident is believed to be causing disruption to services going through the station and traffic is being held up while the lorry is stranded.


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I am making thick pork spare ribs for a tailgate on July 31.
In the past, I have just marinated them over night and then thrown them directly on the grill... my question is, many people have thrown around the process of boiling them prior to marinating to expedite the cooking process... How long do I boil them for ? Is it actually advisable to do it that way ?
For those interested, I am using "Ah-So" Rib sauce (which is the actual red sauce they use in Chinese restaurants) - I've used it before and the ribs come out tremendously !!!


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JASPER, Fla. - The FBI says a 45-year-old Jasper woman is responsible for sending letters containing white powder to the Jacksonville offices of both U.S. Senators in June 2011, sparking fear among not only the staff of those offices, but the residents of the suspect's hometown.
Within hours, authorities identified the powder as harmless corn starch. By the next day, federal agents suspected Kathryn Allen of putting the powder in letters to Sens. Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio. And they'd soon find evidence that dozens of similar threatening letters were mailed to government agencies and people across Northeast Florida. She was arrested and charged with nine counts of mailing anthrax hoax letters.
Channel 4's Hailey Winslow spent time in Jasper -- about 90 miles west of Jacksonville -- to dig for a motive behind Allen's alleged actions.
Allen is out on bond, but wouldn't come out of her home to answer questions or show her face. She did send her Rottweiler out to greet the TV crew.
Within 24 hours of the white-powder threats to the senators' offices, six FBI agents descended on the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.
"I've been sheriff 24 years now and one or two is the most we've had here in this office before," Sheriff Harrell Reid said.
Reid said he'd been investigating the mailing of suspicious packages in and around Jasper for months by the time the FBI came to his door.
"Some of the things that was really strange about it was there seemed to be no rhyme or reason as to who received these letters," Reid said. "Some of them were other elected officials; some of them were employees at a school."
One package was sent to the Hamilton County Health Department; another to the Tax Collector's Office -- all containing a white powdery substance and a threatening letter.
One of the packages was sent to the Hamilton County Correctional Institution that contained a knife. But it was the package that was sent to the Department of Children and Families that connected the FBI to Kathryn Allen.
"A doll was mailed to the Department of Children and Families, and that was the item that we recovered the DNA off of," Reid said.
The FBI matched that DNA with Allen.
"They just must've been really involved in wanting or seeking revenge, either for themselves or someone else," Reid said. "That's the only thing I can figure."
Thelecia Hawkins, whose family received a suspicious package, says Allen was either jealous of or wanted revenge against Hawkins' cousin, Cornelius Bennett -- a youth pastor at a Jasper church.
"I don't know why she targeted him, or maybe it was so much as the girl he was seeing, but it affected our family in a major way," Hawkins said.
Hawkins said the threats started more than a year earlier with text messages.
"We're all so close, and everybody got a threat or something saying such and such would happen if they didn't stop seeing each other," Hawkins said.
While no one was hurt as a result of the threats, the cities of Jasper and Jacksonville, Hamilton County, state of Florida and federal resources spent considerable resources responding to a series of scares that turned out to be a big hoax.
"It was a lot of wasted resources over something that seems very insignificant to me," Sheriff Reid said.
Allen is scheduled for a status hearing in federal court on November 19 and is scheduled to stand trial on December 3. If convicted on all counts, Allen faces up to 45 years in federal prison.
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After trading weakly Sunday night, the grain markets turned upward Monday. Nearby corn futures were almost surely boosted by talk of slow farmer selling, tightening spot markets and the weekly Export Inspections report. The latter stated the latest total at 14.144 million pounds, whereas traders were reportedly expecting something in the 6.0-8.0 million pound range. The nearby strength seemed to pull new crop prices higher despite improved weather forecasts. July futures surged 13.5 cents to $6.685/bushel at its Monday close, while December rose 7.0 cents to $5.40.
Soybean traders seemingly sold futures in response to the weekly Export Inspections report, since the result fell modestly below the low forecasts posted beforehand. Expectations for a quick finish to spring 2013 plantings probably weighed upon the complex as well. Firm soyoil prices mitigated the downward action, because palm oil strength in the Asian markets spilled over into other vegetable oil quotes. July soybean futures fell 4.0 cents to $15.125/bushel as Monday trading ended, while July soyoil climbed 0.36 cents to 48.84 cents/pound, but July soybean meal slipped $1.6 to $449.1/ton.
The weekly Export Inspections report seemingly offered little support for wheat futures, since the result, at 21.592 million bushels essentially matched the midpoint of the forecast range (between 18.0 and 25.0 million pounds). And while the latest news and weather have tended to weigh upon golden grain values, corn strength apparently offered spillover strength. July CBOT wheat closed 0.25 cent lower at $6.805/bushel Monday, while July KCBT wheat rose 2.25 cents to $7.1375, and July MGE futures dipped 3.75 cents to $8.0025.
Seasonal pressure continued weighing upon the cattle and beef complex last week, with many in the industry expecting much more of the same during the days and weeks just ahead. However, news of strong export sales last week and strong wholesale gains apparently prompted a sizeable rebound late Monday morning. August cattle surged 0.58 cents to 119.25 cents/pound to start the week, while December lifted 0.72 cents to 125.30. August feeder cattle futures rallied 1.12 cents to 144.52 cents/pound, and November moved up 0.75 cents to 150.55.
The June hog contract expired on a very strong note last Friday as traders anticipated a seasonal peak later this month. In contrast, the summer and fall contracts slipped as traders started thinking about the downside of the mid-June price top. However, the discounts now built into those contracts give them room to rise if/when cash prices continue climbing or remain firm. The July hog future settled 0.07 cents lower at 97.95 cents/pound Monday afternoon, whereas December advanced 0.32 cents to 81.97.


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>Technical Support>Importing RunningAhead data from my old account
I have two accounts as I could not remember my old account info this spring. I have since managed to log in to the old account and export the data.
How do I import my old RunningAhead data into my new RunningAhead account?
I can try to move your account data if you tell me your old and new account names.
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I was trying to do the same. Would seem this feature would already exist with all the other formats available to import.


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MUSCLE men went head-to-head in to be named the toughest.
Bosses at Mill Gym in Lower Darwen, launched the contest to raise cash for the East Lancashire Hospice.
Competitors battled it out over five events lifting logs, pulling yokes and flipping tyres.
The event in Darwen's Market Square, saw Jake Simpkin, from Blackpool, named the Under 85kg winner, James Clay from Wigan the Open Category winner and gym members Michael Collins and Glen Bailey win the Novice and Intermediate categories.
The gym's Hana Wallbank, said: "It was a fabulous day even though it was a lot of hard work and left us all with very sore muscles.
"We are hoping the day raised a lot of money for the hospice once we get all the sponsorship back in. It couldn't have gone better with all our family and friends cheering us on.
"One of our member's daughters showed up with a 'My daddy is a strongman banner' to show her support!"


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1. Holding down ALT does not cast it on myself. I'm not sure why. In my options, I've checked that ALT is set to self-cast and the "enable auto self cast" option below that is checked. But its still not casting on myself. This is the most pressing problem.
2. It doesn't seem to prioritize a mouseover > selected target. For example, I'm chopping down an enemy. I hover my mouse over my buddy, and hit the macro, but it casts it on my enemy instead.
Could I get a diagnosis on whats wrong? Thanks ))


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Traffic LightProbability puzzles require you to weigh all the possibilities and pick the most likely outcome.
There is a traffic light at the top of a hill. Cars can't see the light until they are 200 feet from the light.
The cycle of the traffic light is 30 seconds green, 5 seconds yellow and 20 seconds red.
A car is traveling 45 miles per hour up the hill.
What is the probability that the light will be yellow when the driver first crests the hill and that if the driver continues through the intersection at her present speed that she will run a red light?
AnswerThe probability of the driver encountering a yellow light and the light turning red before the car enters the intersection is about 5.5%.
At 45 mph the car is traveling at 66 feet/second and will take just over 3 seconds (3.03) to travel the 200 feet to the intersection. Any yellow light that is in the last 3.03 seconds of the light will cause the driver to run a red light.
The entire cycle of the light is 55 seconds. 3.03/55 = 5.5%.
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text: James Dennin, Kapitall: Looking to invest in emerging markets? Mexico and South Korea may outperform as the Fed begins tapering. Throughout the past decade or so, investors have been bullish on so-called 'emerging markets.' These investment opportunities even got their own nickname - the 'BRIC' countries. A Goldman Sach's (GS) banker coined the term for the emerging market "sleeping giants" of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. [Read more on Emerging Economies from Kapitall: Chinese Tech Stocks Outperforming BRIC Markets] When financial crises in America and the Eurozone made other, growing economies more attractive, investors flocked to mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) that focused on Asia and Latin America. Returns were high, but they were buoyed by China's ascent and high commodity prices. With Chinese development starting to slow down, analysts argue that while emerging economies still have the most room to grow, it's time to be more discriminating when making investing decisions. As demand for goods in China declines, and the easy money policies of America's Federal Reserve start tapering off, certain economies may be better situated for growth than others. The trend is particularly important, because until recently emerging economies were generally lumped together as 'buys' or 'sells' without much regard for specifics. As investors pay closer attention to the data coming out of individual countries, a better market for selling bonds and currencies from these companies is likely to develop. And some emerging economies will stand out as better equipped for the years to come. This has to do with how much a country is relying on foreign assets for investment – and what they've done with the extra liquidity stemming from American quantitative easing. According to an analysis from Goldman's economists, two of the healthiest economies looking ahead are South Korea and Mexico. Different reactions among currencies to the news that tapering could begin soon tells a story in and of itself. India and Indonesia's currencies fell 12% and 11% respectively. The Mexican peso declined less than half as much, and rumors that Mexico's new President Enrique Peña Nieto might relax oil nationalization have driven up optimism even further. South Korea's currency actually climbed, 3.8%. Investing ideas Stock prices usually rise alongside the currency of the country that company is in. This means battered currencies will create a favorable environment for finding undervalued stocks. However, foreign investment is not likely to recover to the same levels as back when nearly everything in the four BRIC countries was deemed a good investment.


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Polish producer builds on double Berlin selection
Agnieszka Kurzydło is now working on forthcoming projects including Marcin Koszalka's Red Spider and Grzegorz Jaroszuk's Kebab & Horoscope.
Agnieszka Kurzydło, the Polish producer who has In The Name Of and Baby Blues in Berlinale selection, is now working on forthcoming projects including Marcin Koszalka's Red Spider and Grzegorz Jaroszuk's Kebab & Horoscope.
Both will shoot this year for delivery in 2014. Red Spider is about a true teenage serial killer in communist Poland. "[Koszalka] is one of the best Polish documentary directors and DOPs. I admire his work, he is extremely talented and quite famous in Poland, and I felt that he would be the right person to shoot this story: so I invited him to make a feature film and he agreed.
Jaroszuk, a former EFA nominee for his short Frozen Stories, is working on his feature debut, Kebab & Horoscope (working title). The story is about solitude but the producer notes that it is "a hilarious comedy. I love Grzesiek's sense of humor and already the script got very good reviews. This is a very important project to me, since it would be my firstcomedy as producer," she tells Screen.
Both features are supported by the Polish Film Institute and are mostly financed although Kurzydlo is also looking for partners.
She worked at Zentropa International Poland before setting up her own company Mental Disorder 4 (MD4) in 2011.
She has been collaborating with In The Name Of director Malgosia Szumowska for 16 years, and says they also have a new project in the early stages of development. She also has another early-stage project with Kasia Roslaniec, who directed Baby Blues.
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So we finally had to succumb to the first cold of the season. Catching a cold seems to be quite inevitable when people everywhere around you are coughing and sneezing, and we spend more time indoors than during the warmer months of the year. All you can do is hope that in some miraculous way you won't get what everyone else is having. Unfortunately we weren't saved from it this time and so we've spent a good few days getting better. Coughing and sneezing, just like everyone else.
If there is any benefit of having a cold during this time of the year, however, it is that you certainly have the abundance of winter citrus fruit to give you that extra kick of vitamin C when you most need it. With a woollen blanket wrapped around me, I've been cradling a cup of hot lemon drink with a healthy dollop of raw honey and some grated fresh ginger and it has been as good as gold. This simple citrus salad is the second best thing to have when winter citrus fruit is at its best. It is beautifully sour, just the way I like it, and had I had some fresh yuzu, I would have thrown that in too.
Winter Citrus Salad
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1 poorman's orange or grapefruit
1 Navel orange
1 Meyer lemon
1 lime
2 mandarins
1 tablespoon good extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon raw honey
small knob fresh ginger
1. Finely grate the zest of the lime and the orange and set aside.
2. With a sharp knife, peel the rind and the white pit of the poorman's orange, orange, lemon and the mandarins. Discard the pips and cut the fruit into thin slices. Arrange the slices on a platter.
3. For the dressing, whisk the lime and orange zest, along with the juice of the lime, one tablespoon of extra-virgin olive oil, honey and grated ginger in small bowl. Drizzle the dressing on the fruit and serve.
Last, but not least, here's a link to a special little interview I did recently with the Australian SBS Food. I am always happy to bring Finnish food on the culinary map and I it is such an honour to be featured on the SBS Food!


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A 54-YEAR-OLD woman who repeatedly makes false reports to the emergency services was told she was being given a 'very last chance' to stop offending and avoid prison.
Blackburn magistrates heard Pauline Louise Green had been banned, under the terms of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order, from making 999 calls unless there was danger to life, or risk of serious injury.
But she twice called the emergency number, falsely claiming there had been an assault on her by her partner.
Green, of Meadow Street, Accrington, pleaded guilty to two charges of breaching the ASBO.
She was made subject to community supervision for 12 months, and ordered to pay a £60 victim surcharge.
Catherine Allan, prosec-uting, said the ASBO had been made in November 2012, and there had already been several breaches.
"When she makes these bogus calls, she diverts the services away from genuine emergencies," said Miss Allan.
"It costs a considerable amount of money to respond to a 999 call and, in her case, they are always for non-existent problems."
Paul Duxbury, defending, said the phone calls had all been made after she had been drinking.
He said Green and her partner were both aware of their problems, and were trying to help each other.
"She knows that when the police attend they could be dealing with other things," said Mr Duxbury.
"She is aware of what she has done and bitterly reg-rets it."


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The Brothers Grimm. I love this movie. It's a terrific flick. It's also a great movie to watch at Halloween time. How do I love thee, Brothers Grimm? Let me count the ways.
1. The Setting. The Brothers Grimm is based in Germany, me thinks, during a stint of French occupation, also, me thinks. I'm a sucker for anything French and 18th century, which includes anything of historical anything, and 18th century French costuming. One day I'll tell you about my love for French Historical Fiction. One day.
2. The Characters. While the happenings of this Brothers Grimm tale are fictional, the storyline was inspired by true characters Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Those two are ridiculously fascinating. Jacob and Wilhelm, lawyers both, had an intense interest in language. Specifically they studied philogy – which, according to wiki, is the the study of how "sounds in words shift over time" and combines linguistics with literature and history. See? Ridiculously fascinating.
If that doesn't blow the top of your house made of straw, then get this: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm began the first German dictionary. They had completed letters "A," "B," "C," and "E" when Wilhelm passed (1859) and Jacob, set to finish as much as possible, was smack-dab in the middle of F when he passed (1863.) Apparently Jacob had just documented the definition for fruit. Or frucht as the Germs say. (I'm still confused as to why they skipped "D" and moved on to "E." German words don't begin with "D," maybe? Anyone out there speak German?)
The Grimm Brothers, perhaps, are best known for their collection of folklore. The two made a life-long quest to interview various peasants, middle-classers, 'n aristocrats, so as to document the stories passed from generation to generation. Many of the fairy tales we know are based on the documentation of folklore collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
3. The Lighting. This movie has the warmest glow of any dark flick I've ever witnessed. The lighting is beautiful. Many of the stories collected by the Grimm brothers are dark and violent. The movie – or lighting guy, whatever – was/were able to capture the dark and violent essence of the fables while maintaining a cartoony-artsy glow. I watch this movie for the lighting alone. If you're not sure what I mean, I suggest you check it out and look only at the lighting. Prepare. To. Be. Amazed. Or something. (Perhaps I'll come across some time to find an image that demonstrates this.)
4. Heath Ledger. Sadness.
5. It's Scary! And Suspenseful! But not over-the-top-pee-yer-pants-can't-sleep-for-weeks scary and suspenseful. The Yahoos refuse to watch it again, however. That part where the gingerbread man steels Sasha's eyes and mouth sent the Yahoos away for good. They will have none of this Brothers Grimm action. Once upon a time, around 15 years ago, I was into horror flicks. I mean, into. Loved them. Loved the rush. Loved the special effects. Loved the gore. Loved to scream. That little love affair was tempered by a three-year stint of living alone. Nothing sours a lover of horror flicks like living alone.
6. The clever collage of fairy tales. Somehow, the writers of The Brothers Grimm were able to take some treasured stories – Jack and the Beanstock, The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, The Gingerbread Man, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty – then massage each into a well-collected capsule of a story. It's very clever. I like clever.
I love this movie. That's why today's Tuesday Tunes are about The Brothers Grimm, and specifically, about the folklore presented in The Brothers Grimm. (Without links again... if I have some time – har har – I'll add them later. Maybe I'll watch the movie AGAIN! while doing some copy 'n paste with links.)
Jack and the Beanstock
Sunbeams and Some Beans - Kimya Dawson
Happy Jack - The Who
Trigger Happy Jack (Drive By a Go-Go) - Poe
Stealing The Stock (Into] Le Renard De Nuit - David Holmes
The Frog Prince
Return of the Frog Queen - Jeremy Enigk
Kiss that Frog - Peter Gabriel
A Sorta Fairytale - Tori Amos
Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
Kissed It (feat. Velvet Revolver) - Macy Gray
Rapunzel - Dave Matthews Band
Sister Golden Hair - America
Hair - Lady Gaga
Don't Cut Your Hair - The Pretenders
Hair of the Dog - Nazareth
Little Red Riding Hood
Grandma's Theme - John Mellencamp
The Little Red Rooster - Willie Dixon & Howlin' Wolf
Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
Crooked Teeth - Death Cab for Cutie
Your Red Dress (Wedding Song at Cemetery) - Alaska In Winter
Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Mothers of the Disapearred - U2
Code Red - Tori Amos
Snow White
White Snow - Ben Weaver
Mirror Mirror - Diane Birch
I Wish - Stevie Wonder
Hunter - Dido
Stand and Deliver - Sugar Ray
Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour) - Dollar
Mirror in the Bathroom - The English Beat
One Bad Apple - The Osmonds
One Magic Kiss - Brandi Carlile
Gingerbread Man
Martha's Foolish Ginger - Tori Amos
Hot Cookin' - G. Love & Special Sauce
Run On - Moby
Catch Me if You Can - Outasight
Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel - Humperdink
You Want the Candy - The Raveonettes
Candyman - Spacehog
Candylane (Bibio Remix) - Gonjusufi
Woods - The Rosebuds
The Cutter - Echo & The Bunnymen
Crumbs From Your Table - U2
Burn the Witch - Queens of the Stone Age
Cinderella Man - Eminem
Cinderella - Langhorne Slim
Sisters Are Doin' it for Themselves - Eurythmics
Hit the Floor - Linkin Park
Marlene and her Sisters - Joe Firstman
Velvet Slipper - The Lem Arcon Sound
Working (wo) Man - Rush
Ball of Confusion - Love and Rockets
One Night, One Kiss - The Russian Futurists
Sleeping Beauty
She's A Beauty - The Tubes
I'm Only Sleeping - The Vines
Sleep - The Dandy Warhols
Kiss Them For Me - Siouxie & The Banshees
Had a Dream (Sleeping With the Enemy) - Roger Hodgson
Kiss - Tom Jones


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Lance Armstrong to Be Banned for Life, Stripped of Titles for Doping
Cyclist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong has stopped his fight against allegations that he doped, resulting in his being banned for life and stripped of his titles.
-Lucia Peters
The story was seemingly miraculous: After being diagnosed with testicular cancer in October of 1996 with a tumor that had metastasized to his brain and lungs, cyclist Lance Armstrong was not expected to survive. But somehow, after numerous treatments including brain surgery, testicular surgery, and chemotherapy, he beat it: Lance's cancer went into complete remission, and he went on to win the Tour de France each year from 1999 to 2005. He is the only person to have won the Tour de France seven times; the record had previously been held jointly by Miguel Indurain, Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merckx, and Jacques Anquetil, who each won five times.
But throughout his career, Lance has been dogged by allegations of doping, and in June of 2012, he was formally charged by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. The USADA claimed that not only did the cyclist use performance-enhancing drugs, but perhaps even more damningly, that he was one of the ringleaders of systematic doping on his Tour-winning teams—and after two months of fighting the allegations, Lance has decided to surrender.
At the beginning of the ordeal, the USADA released a statement saying, "All respondents will have the opportunity to exercise their right to a full public arbitration hearing, should they so choose, where all the evidence would be presented, witness testimony would be given under oath, and an independent group of arbitrators would ultimately decide the outcome of the case." Lance, on the other hand, called the case against him "an unconstitutional witch hunt," and that the process that dealt with it "one-sided and unfair."
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According to the New York Times, Lance, who turns 41 next month, said that he would not contest the charges because it had taken too much of a toll on both his family (he has three children with his ex-wife, Kristen Richard, and two with his girlfriend, Anna Hansen) and his work for his cancer foundation. He went on to say, "There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, 'Enough is enough.' For me, that time is now," and that he was "finished with this nonsense."
As a result, Lance will be stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, his bronze medal from the 2000 Olympics, and all other titles, awards, and money he won from August 1998 onward. He will also be barred for life from competing, coaching, or having any official role with any sport, Olympic or otherwise, that follows the World Anti-Doping Code. Said Travis Tygart, chief executive of the USADA, "It's a sad day for all of us who love sport and our athletic heroes. It's yet another heartbreaking example of how the win-at-all-costs culture, if left unchecked, will overtake fair, safe, and honest competition."
Tell us: What do you think? Is Lance guilty as charged, or was the case bogus?
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A HEROIN and cocaine courier has been jailed for four years after police caught him four times with drugs.
Officers confiscated heroin and cocaine from Adam Luke Reynard worth between £1,270 and £1,320 on the streets, small amounts of cannabis, and cash totalling £1,211, said Nick Adlington, prosecuting at York Crown Court. They also found a stolen bicycle worth £2,000.
Police raided Reynard's home on August 18, September 27, and December 4 last year.
They also stopped him in Arran Place, off Malton Road, on October 10, as he was delivering drugs to street dealers.
For most of the offences he was on police bail and for the December offences, he was also on court bail.
Judge Tom Bayliss QC told York Crown Court Reynard performed a "significant" role in the supply of drugs to street dealers.
Reynard, 22, who used to live in Cornetto Court, Regent Street, off Hull Road, pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing heroin with intent to supply, two charges of possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply, three charges of possessing cannabis for his own use and one of handling stolen goods. He has been in custody since his final arrest last December.
His barrister Laura Addy said he was a drug user who had got into debt and because of that into difficulties with his supplier who had co-erced him into doing jobs for him. Reynard was "simply an operational cog" in the drug supply chain, who just did as he was told and didn't ask questions.
Since being remanded into custody, he had come off drugs and worked on a bricklayer's course so that he could work legally after his release.
The judge said that after police took the 31 wraps of heroin and 11 wraps of cocaine worth together £410 that Reynard had on him in Arran Place, he was pressurised into acting as custodian to the 26.8g of heroin and 2.6g of cocaine police found at his home in December.
Mr Adlington said the December finds were worth between £860 and £910 on the streets. The cannabis was found in the August, September and December house raids.


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The airplane flew into an area of severe thunderstorms identified as a mesoscale convective system (or "MCS") with intense to extreme intensities during cruise flight at 11,000 feet then descended rapidly and impacted the terrain. The on-scene investigation revealed no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have prevented the normal operation of the airplane or its systems.
The airplane entered the severe convective weather; the pilot then requested and received clearance from the air traffic controller to initiate a turn to escape the weather. The airplane was lost from radar about 30 seconds after the pilot initiated the turn. Before the airplane entered the weather, the controller's radar scope depicted a band of moderate to extreme weather along the accident airplane's projected flightpath that was consistent with an embedded, heavy-precipitation, supercell-type thunderstorm; however, the controller did not provide the pilot with any severe weather advisories and did not advise the pilot of the weather depicted on his radar scope.
Although Federal Aviation Administration directives state that controllers should give first priority to separating aircraft and issuing safety alerts, the directives further state that controllers should use good judgment and first perform the action that is most critical from a safety standpoint. Review of air traffic communications and radar data identified no air traffic control (ATC) radar limitations, no excessive traffic, no radio frequency congestion, and no controller workload issues that would have prevented the controller from issuing pertinent weather information to the accident pilot. On the basis of the controller's workload and available resources, he should have recognized that the adverse weather represented an immediate safety hazard to the accident flight and should have provided appropriate advisories to the pilot.
The pilot obtained several weather briefings before departure. At that time, the current weather along the route of flight showed significant convective activity and a moving squall line, and the forecast predicted significant thunderstorm activity along the planned route of flight. The pilot also discussed the weather with an acquaintance, mentioning that he might need to work his way around some weather. On the basis of the weather information obtained by the pilot and his comments regarding the weather, the pilot was aware before departure that he would likely encounter adverse weather along the planned route of flight; however, by the time the airplane encountered the weather, the pilot had been airborne for over an hour and had not requested any updated weather information from air traffic controllers. The airplane was equipped with a BF Goodrich WX-950 Stormscope, which has some ability to depict the location and frequency of lightning strikes in the vicinity of the airplane; however, the investigation could not determine if and how this equipment may have been used during the flight. The airplane was not configured to display satellite weather information on its global positioning systems.
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Ok, so I've had this problem where the homepage and the forums load up fine and dandy but when I click on an article from the homepage it loads the page but doesn't load the actually content. I've had the problem for a few days now and figured something silly had gone wrong and I'd be able to catch up later on in the week, but I've tried on different browsers, at different times of the day, and so on and so on.
Here are a couple of screen shots from Google Chrome, although I've also tried in IE9.
What's going on?
Its a minor code issue with the 1&1 advert script. The devs (Fred) are on it
If you are on Chrome, download Ad Blocker Pro and it sorts it out.
Thanks for the amazingly quick reply Mike. I guess I'll have a look at Ad Blocker Pro in the meantime, thanks for the suggestion.
I hope it gets sorted out soon. I'm interested in the content, not the ads. That is why I come here after all, for the content.
I know that we need the ads for revenue but ABP does a rather good job of removing them
It's sorted - sorry about that. It was UK only so we had trouble replicating it.
Sorry, but no it isn't ... or at least, not yet ... I can read articles, and the quick reply box is sometimes here (it is now), but sometimes it isn't, and the Reference pages are still just a Sitepoint logo and lots of white.
Sorry - I'll be more specific. We have a temporary fix in so that the articles are being served over the weekend. A proper fix will be put in place today.I only just found out about the reference site and have flagged that to the devs as well.
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Miley, offense lead D-backs to series victory
Lefty tosses 6 2/3 scoreless; Gibson ties Melvin for most club wins
CINCINNATI -- Things got a little dicey for the D-backs in the ninth inning Wednesday afternoon, but they were all smiles following a 5-4 win over the Reds at Great American Ball Park.
With the win, the D-backs won two of three games in the series and head home to open a 10-game homestand Thursday against the Pirates. The victory moved manager Kirk Gibson into a tie with Bob Melvin for the most wins in club history with 337.
Arizona led, 5-1, heading into the ninth when Gibson elected to go with left-hander Eury De la Rosa to start the inning. De la Rosa gave up a single and a walk while retiring just one batter before Gibson turned to closer Addison Reed.
After Reed got Todd Frazier to fly out, Devin Mesoraco made things interesting with a three-run homer to left to pull the Reds to within a run.
Reed, though, settled down and struck out Ryan Ludwick to end the game and record his 26th save.
"It's not really the way we drew it up, but nevertheless we had enough runs," Gibson said. "He had a lead and you're going to throw strikes. You weren't going to walk that guy. You're going to go after him. Mesoraco had a pretty good series against us. He wasn't the tying run. [Reed] got the tying run out."
That they did thanks to a two-run homer by Paul Goldschmidt in the sixth, a sac fly by Mark Trumbo in the eighth and a two-run blast by Didi Gregorius in the ninth.
"They were able to create that separation," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "We talk about separation all the time, and what they did is they created the separation and got the two-run homer and then the add-on run in the eighth and the two runs in the ninth. And that's just not a good place to start turning your offense on when you're down four in the ninth."
The D-backs' offense struggled to put anything together against Reds starter Alfredo Simon, who held Arizona to just two hits through the first five innings.
Finally Goldschmidt was able to break through with the two-run homer in the sixth.
"It was a fastball," Goldschmidt said. "He'd been doing a good job keeping it down and fortunately that one stayed up and I was able to hit it hard and get it out of there."
That Goldschmidt's homer gave the D-backs a lead was in part because of the way starter Wade Miley was pitching.
Miley (7-7) tossed 6 2/3 solid innings to win for the fourth time in his last five starts. He had been looking to bounce back after allowing six runs over five innings in his last start against the Phillies.
It wasn't exactly a thing of beauty, though, as Miley walked four and allowed seven hits.
"It was a battle," Miley said. "I was able to get through it. It got better as the game went on, but early on I was just kind of fighting, just didn't feel very good. They were hitting it at some people so we were able to get some outs and get out of there."
Miley was supported by outstanding defense from Gregorius at short and Gerardo Parra in right field. Trumbo also came up big in left field, throwing out Chris Heisey trying to stretch a single into a double.
Gregorius, who was traded by the Reds to Arizona in a three-team deal before last season, was 6-for-14 in the series, but said there was no added motivation in playing against the team that dealt him.
"For me, I just go out there and play the game," Gregorius said. "You're still competing. The main thing for me is trying to compete and have fun before or after the game. We're out here to play baseball. It doesn't matter who we play against. We always give 100 percent."
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Wrestling lost the spectacle factor.
"What was dat honey? Oh dat was da dragon screw leg whip!" -Dusty Rhodes on commentary during Rey Mysterio jr. vs. Eddie Guerrero at Halloween Havoc '96
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THORNBURY all-rounder Tom Shrewsbury has been named in the England under-19s squad to tour South Africa next month.
Wycliffe College pupil Shrewsbury will be joined by Gloucestershire Academy team-mate Miles Hammond for the four Test match series, which is followed by five one-day internationals.
Both players will be looking to stake their claim for a place in the U19 World Cup squad in February.