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Running from Saturday July 5th to Sunday July 27th 2014, the 101th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,664 kilometres. 9 flat stages,5 hill stages, 6 mountain stages with 5 altitude finishes and 1 individual time trial stage.
After taking off from the United Kingdom for a 20th Grand D�part abroad, the Tour de France will go through northern france, the infamous cobbles of Paris-Roubaix, head east toward Alsace in the Vosges mountain in the begining of second week and catch the Alps for two stages a few days later. The third and last week will be in the Pyr�n�es for another two mountain stages and a 54km time trial.
Rosbeef is the slang term the french use for english men
Stage 1 Saturday, July 5th, Leeds / Harrogate, 190.5km
Major Tom Simpson.
Thierry Gouvenou is the new race director of TDF, he designed the 2014 route.
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
A British rider's dream
The bookies slightly disagree with Gouvenou as Kittel is the main favourite (2.60) with Cavendish second (3.30), Sagan third (7.0) and Greipel fourth (8.0) for this stage.
It will be a nervous finish, no prologue to create gap between riders, every teams will want to be near the front of the peloton, it's one of those rare chances for a sprinter to be in yellow.
The towns 2014 : visit Yorkshire
Stage 2 : Sunday, July 6th, York / Sheffield, 201km
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
Avoid being caught napping
Considering this stage seem slightly easier than Li�ge-Bastogne-Li�ge and how the classic was almost a bunch sprint this year anyway, a sprint with a reduced peloton is more than likely, some big and fast men will be dropped though.
Stage 3 : Monday, July 7th, Cambridge / Londres, 155km
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
Rolling into the capital
As a tradition in the tour, the first week is mostly dedicated to sprinters, this stage is no exception.
The towns 2014 : visit London
Stage 4 : Tuesday, July 8th, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage / Lille M�tropole, 163.5km
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
A place for each car and each car in its place
Some sharp climbs to help a breakaway and long range attack however it's early in the tour and the chance to succeed are low.
The towns 2014 : visit Le Touquet-Paris-Plage
Stage 5 Wednesday, July 9th , Ypres / Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, 155.5km
How the Ch'ti (the local) see themselves versus how rest of France see them.
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
A stage riddled with dangers
The pav�s of the north have made many GC contenders anxious, being light weight isn't that great on cobblestones. It's likely to create some gap between the main favourite, maybe some decisive gap already if they have a mechanical at the wrong time. A new yellow jersey should appear, Cancellara or Vanmarcke the cobbles specialists should win and take the GC lead. This is the stage you don't want to miss in the first week.
Ypr�s - World War I
Stage 6 Thursday, July 10th, Arras / Reims, 194km
La cath�drale de reims, a very important place in France history
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
One for the brave
A breakaway win is a possibility now that there is some significant gap, on the other hand there are 5 or more teams dedicated almost exclusively to sprinters, some of them won't have a win at this point and not that many opportunities left.
The towns 2014: visit Arras
stage 7 : Friday, July 11th, �pernay / Nancy, 234.5km
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
Two big climbs
It's an interesting finish considering the distance, could be for the like of Nibali, Voeckler, Rodriguez or sprinters like Sagan and maybe Greipel if the pace in the hill isn't too high.
The towns 2014: visit Epernay
Stage 8 : Saturday, July 12th, Tomblaine / G�rardmer La Mauselaine, 161km
In the country of smelly cheeses, Munster is the king of the most smelly.
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
Adapting strategies
The first real mountain stage of the tour 2014, nothing too crazy, it's medium mountain with no altitude over 1000m, it's short but steep climbs. The favourites are expected to make a first move there. It's also Voeckler native region...
The towns 2014: visit Tomblaine
Stage 9 : Sunday, July 13th, G�rardmer / Mulhouse, 170km
France is world famous for the vineyards and the ghetto, in Alsace you get Vineyards in the ghetto or ghettos in the vineyards.
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
An interesting insight
It's not the kind of stage where you can win the tour but it's the kind where you can lost it.
The towns 2014: visit G�rardmer
Stage 10 : Monday, July 14th - Mulhouse / La Planche des Belles Filles 161.5km
Plank of the pretty girl is the literal translation of La planche des Belles Filles. You can read the legend on wiki.
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
Spectacular fireworks
Now that the football/soccer world cup is ove, the tour is THE sporting event on the planet.
Quite a different profile than the last finish in Planche des belles filles in 2012, this one will be harder if not impossible to control, it Could be extremly important for GC. It's the French national day, a breakaway win, a Pierre Rolland long range attack like he often did in the giro, are very likely.
Tour de Francia 2012 Etapa 7 Tomblaine La Planche des Belles Filles
The towns 2014: visit La Planche des Belles Filles
Rest day : Tuesday, July 15th
Stage 11 : Wednesday, July 16th, Besan�on / Oyonnax, 187.5km
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
A very tight race
The likes of Peter Sagan but also Nibali, it's a great stage for downhiller, Vincenzo need take risk if he want to have a chance to win the GC.
The towns 2014: visit Besan�on
Stage 12 : Thursday, July 17th, Bourg-en-Bresse / Saint-�tienne, 185.5km
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
The old capital of cycling
It will be hard for some of the fast guys like Kittel and Cavendish to find the right pace to catch the morning breakaway without spending too much energy on the final climb. An attack 30-40km from the finish should have a good chance to succeed (if the rider(s) aren't a thread at GC).
Stage 13 : Friday, July 18th, Saint-�tienne / Chamrousse, 197.5km
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
The final hour
It's one of my favourite stage of this tour, an hard hill at the start to promote a large breakaway, a cat.1 with some double digits gradient for the long range attack or reducing the peloton to a minimum and a long 20km climb to finish. Unfortunatly the next day stage is even harder and many riders are likely to save some energy.
2001 Tour de France Stage 11 Mountain Time Trial Chamrousse
The towns 2014: visit Saint-�tienne
Stage 14 : Saturday, July 19th, Grenoble / Risoul, 177km
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
A coalition of attackers
The hardest stage of this tour and the highest point of the race (2360m), needless to say it's another key stage.
Ciclismo Le Grandi Salite del Ciclismo #32 Izoard & Vars
Mont�e du Col de l'Izoard - �tape du Tour 2006 V�lo Magazine
Tour de France 2006 �tape 15 Gap -- L'Alpe d'Huez
Stage 15 : Sunday, July 20th, Tallard / N�mes, 222km
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
What if a mischievous wind...
With a rest day coming and two hard stages the previous days, some teams will want to take it easy, other will want to give it all. Even without a strong wind to create echelons, it won't be a parade.
Rest day 2, Monday, July 21st
Stage 16 : Tuesday, Carcassonne / Bagn�res-de-Luchon, 237.5km
Cows and sheeps have priority on the climb.
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
Six hours on the saddle
On the paper it's the perfect stage for Nibali and a dangerous one for Contador and Froome.
Tour De France (2010) Stage 15 Highlights And Final Kilometres The chaingate.
The towns 2014 : visit Carcassonne
Stage 17 : Wednesday, July 23rd,Saint-Gaudens / Saint-Lary Pla d'Adet, 124.5km
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
A hectic stage
Short mountain stage like this are always intense, it's guaranteed to create some actions. Extra motivation for the Spanish riders as the race will pass in their country.
Tour de France 1993 Stage 16 St Lary Soulan Pla d'Adet
2001 Tour de France Stage 13 Pla d'Adet
The towns 2014: visit Saint-Lary Pla d'Adet
Stage 18 : Thursday, July 24th Pau / Hautacam, 145.5km
Came is a slang for drug in french, haut mean high
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
A launch pad
The queen stage of this tour, it's the last mountain stage and therefore the final chance for the natural climbers like Contador to take back some time or increase their lead before the final TT.
Tour de France 1994 Stage 11 Pantani Hautacam
Tour de France 1996 Stage 16 EPO Hautacam
Tour de France 2000 Stage 10 Hautacam
Tour De France 2008 Stage 10 Hautacam part1, part2
The towns 2014: visit Pau
Stage 19 : Friday, July 25th, Maubourguet Pays du Val d'Adour / Bergerac, 208.5km
It's a rock! A peak! A cape! � A cape? Forsooth! It's a peninsula! Cyrano de Bergerac.
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
Hitting the bullseye
The last chance before Paris for the sprinters. The peloton will pass through the Monbazillac vineyards, a very good sweet white wine made with noble rot.
The towns 2014: visit Bergerac
Stage 20 : Saturday, July 26th, Bergerac / P�rigueux, 54km
Some riders use sandpaper on their saddle to retain a better position during TT.
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
It all boils down to this
For stage win, it's not that hilly, Spartacus and Tony Martin have a good chance to win over the GC riders, depending and how much work they have done as a domestique, probably not much for Cancellara as he is the leader but Martin will have to work hard at OPQS.
For GC if they are all at 100%, Froome should gain around 30 sec to 1min over Contador, 45 sec to 1min15 on Talansky, Van Garderen,Valverde and 1min to 2 min to Nibali, Van Den Broeck,...
The towns 2014: visit P�rigueux
Stage 21 : Sunday, July 27th, �vry / Paris Champs-�lys�es, 137.5km
From the banlieue of Paris to the Champs-�lys�es
Thierry Gouvenou posted:
Remembering the apotheosis
The parade to Paris and the Sprint on les Champs-�lys�es.
If you don't have the time to follow it all : The important stages by Inring (Stage 1,2,5,8,9,10,13,14,16,17,18,20.)
If you need to narrow it to 5 stages : Stage 5,14,17,18,20 to 3 stages : 14,17,18.
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The Contenders
Le maillot Jaune : The yellow jersey.
Christopher Froome
Team : SKY
Nickname : Froomey
1.86 m (6'1) 67 kg (148 lb), age 29.
Winner tdf 2013, 2nd 2012
Froome was the best climber and the best TTer last year (and in 2012). He hasn't been that great this season, winning tour de Romandie in may but lost yellow and finished outside top 10 in the recent criterium du dauphin�.
Sky used to be the best team for GT, "British Postal" but this year they have been coping with injury and illness, it's a big question mark if they will be able to control the race.
Chris isn't well liked oustide of G-B as he had an
Alberto Contador
Team : Tinkoff-Saxo
Nickname : El Pistolero
1.76 m (5'9), 62kg (137 lb), age 31
Winner of tdf 2007,2009
Contador had trouble getting back to his old level after his 1 year ban
He used to be hated by goons for the chaingate in 2010 but now many cheers for him because he is entertaining to watch + anyone but Froome.
Vincenzo Nibali
Team : Astana
Nickname : The
1.81 m (5 ft 11) 65 kg (143 lb), age 29
3rd in TDF 2012
Vincenzo is one of the best downhiller but he isn't that good at TT and he has trouble with changing pace when climbing. Still one of his best chance to win the tour, only one TT and it's a bit hilly.
Alejandro Valverde
Team Movistar
Nickname : El Bala (The Bullet)
1.77 m (5'10) 61 kg (134 lb), age 34
5th in tdf 2006, 8th in 2013
Can climb with the best and got the best sprint of the main GC favourites, he always seem to have an off day or two and his TT are irregular, he did win the Spanish championship a few days ago.
Andrew Talansky
Team : Garmin
Nickname : Pit Bull
1.75 m (5 ft 9) 63 kg (139 lb), age 25
10th in the tour 2013
Recent winner of the dauphin� against Froome and Contador. This tour should be the confirmation that he has the potential to be a futur tour winner. He will have to cope with the extra pressure and show maturity. Garmin are known for stupid crash so this will be a real challenge.
Rui Costa
Team : Lampre Merida
1.83 metres (6 ft 0) 69 kg (152 lb), age 27
Reigning world champion, this mean he is cursed, he won the last World Tour race, the Tour de Suisse.
Jurgen Van Den Broeck
Team : Lotto-Belisol
Nickname : JVDB
1.83 m (6 ft 0) 68 kg (150 lb), age 31
Finished 4th in 2010 and 2012 but crashed badly last year.
He was in form in the dauphin� with a podium finish. Jurgen is a good diesel climber, he is relatively weak at TT.
Tejay Van Garderen
Team : BMC
Nickname : The American with the Dutch-sounding name!
1.86 m (6 ft 1) 72 kg (159 lb), age 25
Won the young rider classification in the tour 2012.
Like his compatriot Talansky, this should be the confirmation year for Tejay. He is a good TTer and a good climber but he may lack the regularity for a podium finish.
Richie Porte
Nickname : Tasmanian Devil
1.72 m (5 ft 8) 62 kg (137 lb) age 29
The other sky rider in a super domestique role unless something happen to Froome.
1.83 m (6 ft 0) 65 kg (143 lb) age 28
The other saxo rider, super domestique role for Contador...
Kreuziger denies blood passport abnormalities, pulled from Tour de France squad
Joaquim Rodriguez
Team : Katusha
Nickname : Purito
1.69 m (5 ft 7) 57 kg (126 lb) age 35
Rode one week in the giro before crashing, he says he will target stages win in this tour rather than GC.
Le Maillot vert : The green jersey.
Peter Sagan
Team : Cannondale
Nickname :
1.84 m (6 ft 0) 73 kg (161 lb), age 24.
Sagan has won the last 2 green jersey, he isn't the fatest and doesn't have the strongest team and train (although 100% dedicated to him) but his climbing skills allow him to take points where other sprinters will be in the Grupetto. He is the n�1 favourite for the points classification.
Mark Cavendish
Team : Omega-Pharma Quickstep
Nickname : Manx Missile
1.75 m (5 ft 9) 70 kg (150 lb), age 29.
Mark is the smallest of the main sprinters, he develop less watt than his oppenents yet he is one of the fastest (and the fatest in off season), thanks to his aerodynamical position on the bike, he is quite bad at hill.
OPQS is one of the best sprint train in the peloton, only Giant may be better.
Cavendish is the current record holder for most stage win in tdf for an active rider (25).
Marcel Kittel
Team : Giant-Shimano
1.88 m (6 ft 2) 82 kg (181 lb), age 26.
Marcel is the new king of sprint and the fastest on flat but he can't pass a bridge. Best team lead out and train as they are more consistant than opqs.
Andr� Greipel
Team : Lotto-Belisol
Nickname : The Gorilla
1.84 m (6 ft 0) 75 kg (165 lb), age 31
Andr� can push some of the biggest watt in the peloton but he lack the speed of Kittel and Cavendish. He is surprinsgly good at coping with hill finish but not the same league as sagan.
Lotto isn't so good for sprint lead out and will aim for GC with Van den Broeck, Greipel will have less domestiques dedicated to him than the other sprinters.
Alexander Kristoff
Team : Katusha
1.81 m (5 ft 11) 78 kg (172 lb) age 26
Winner of milan san remo 2014, he may be the surprise sprinter of this tour.
Arnaud D�mare
Team FDJ
1.81 m (5 ft 11) 78 kg (172 lb), age 22
Inring : Tour de France: Who will win the Green Jersey?
Other riders to watch for Top 15, stage win or just because they are great/funny :
Rolland : He was great to watch in the Giro with very long range attack. Hopefully he still have some energy left for this tour, should aim for stage win or Mountain jersey.
Mollema : The best dutch chance in this tour for GC, the sponsor of the team, belkin will stop at the end of the season, the team and Mollema need to do show themselve in this tour to attrack a sponsor or a transfert to a new team.
Cancellara : Will be leader for Trek, his goal is to take the yellow on the cobbled stage and keep it until the first mountain stage.
Voeckler : The tour will cross his native region, Alsace. He should be even more offensive than usual.
Frank Schleck : Will attack for 50m then stop cause his bro isn't there.
Andy Schleck : See Frank + he will whine about dangerous descent.
Chris Horner : The oldest rider in the peloton, last winner of the vuelta. He is recovering from a bad crash, he isn't expected to do much but then nobody expected him to do much in the vuelta.
Jens voigt : A fan favourite, he is always on the offensive, it will be his and last 17th tdf.
Johnny Hoogerland : A true warrior, crashed into barbwires at 40+km/h and still managed to finish the stage and make it to Paris.
Jack bauer : Keeping the peloton safe from terrorists 24/7
They Will be missed in this tour :
Sir Bradley Wiggins, Philippe Gilbert, Vino, Dan Martin and many more.
Anquetil,Merck,Tom Simpson,Rudi Altig
The records
GC win : 5
Jacques Anquetil : Monsieur Jacques (1957,61,62,63,64)
Eddy Merckx : The cannibal (1969,70,71,72,74)
Bernard Hinault : The badger (1978,79,81,82,85)
Miguel Indurain : Big Mig (1991,92,93,94,95)
Stage win : 36 Merckx (Cavendish 25)
Points classification : 6 Erik Zabel
Mountain classification : 7 Richard Virenque
Le tour 2013 in 5 pic
Les supporters, the Fans
Running naked was the all hype in 2013
Chris Froome, punching people while looking at stems.
La Caravanne du tour
Good job opportunity for students, you can get pay to throw stuff at people or dance.
Tour de France : The video game
Tour de France : Pro Cycling Manager 2014
What's important in France ?
The french are very proud of their cock, they are everywhere, even on the maillot jaune.
La gastronomie
La gastronomie fran�aise is one of the most varied and rich cuisine in the world, sometimes it can be a bit disgusting though. Croissant, oysters, snail, choucoutre, camenbert, Buche carapoire, horse meat.
Les vins (Wines)
One (old) bottle of Mouton Rothschild may worth more than a racing bike
La mode, les parfums, les cosm�tiques, le glamour.
Some pics may be nsfw for an international audience, in France, it's in plain view on the street. Aubade le�on n�5,le�on n�59,le�on n�99
History, landscape
The Amaury familly from inquisition to grand tour organiser, same business actually, they are making men suffer.
Comedy is a very serious bussiness in France, all the french blockbusters and famous movies are Com�dies.
When it come to pro cycling, the guignol the l'info were the major provider, their peak popularity coincided with the dark days of the doping era. They focus more on spanish doping nowdays.
Virenque Not dopped at all The most graphic, not a single word is needed.
The Virenque show Like the Truman show but with Richard.
La caravane du Tour de France par Virenque
Virenque has to learn to ride clean with his new italian team
Guignols vs Contador
EPO Ti Quiero Love song about EPO.
Les inconnus , Stade 2 avec G�rard Fanion Remenber when a France TV car crashed into Johnny hoogerland ? Humorists kind of called it 20 years earlier.
P�dale also mean human being in french, it's a real magazine not a photoshop.
Outside of Cycling, Kaamelott is quite funny.
Do it like the pro and get ready for this tour
Show off that body you got
U mirin brah ?
Sky concerned froome looking too rasmussen.
Get your best tan
Know your classic
�EPO all in my veins/Lately thing just don�t seem the same/Acting funny, but I don�t know why/Excuse me, while I pass this guy.�
Enjoy yourself, be happy
Get your E.P.O.
Be a gentleman
Get your own pussy wagon
Do whatever it take to make it through the long flat stage.
Call Philippe the motorman to get fresh bloodbag(s) delivered faster than a pizza
In summary :
Mr.Nice fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Jul 8, 2014
|# ? Jun 28, 2014 14:16
Nice OP.
I live only 5 miles from where stages 1 & 2 will be so will get a chance to see it on both days. Stage 1 as you say is largely a scenic 'flat' stage, some small roads but that's about it. Stage 2 is where it gets very interesting.
The first 60km's of Stage 2 are largely dull - flat, easy large roads, only notable point of which they will be passing by Menwith Hill, the main NSA base outside the US. Its once they go through Addingham for the second time it gets interesting; they go through Addingham on Stage 1 as well, Addinghams a small Village and is very very lucky. Its about here where it starts to get fun. Really small roads that you wouldn't want to take a lorry down, and this is just a taster, and the roads from then on are all up and down hill all the way to the finish line.
There is one spot on stage 2 where I will imagine most riders will just say sod it and run with their bikes - Haworth main street, its a tiny cobbled street on a hill with only enough room for 1 car. If they don't run on that stretch there will be crashes as the road is far to small to cope with the riders given the cobbles. Its the main danger with stage 2, climbs and assents on very narrow walled roads, there will be crashes. Should be a great stage, I know the whole of Yorkshire is really getting behind it, and flags and yellow bikes have been out for weeks now in all the places the route goes through.
edit: Here is a picture of Team Sky on a test ride on Haworth street, it really shows you how small it is.
ukle fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Jun 28, 2014
|# ? Jun 28, 2014 14:42
Great op as usual! Thanks.
|# ? Jun 28, 2014 14:49
Blown away by the thread again! Where do you find the time to ride your bike between detailed OPs?
|# ? Jun 28, 2014 16:30
ukle posted:
Nice OP.
I think that streets wide enough to cope with a strung out peloton tbh.
|# ? Jun 28, 2014 16:35
Great OP, you've really outdone yourself (again) Mr.Nice. When Le Tour rolls around each year, somewhat against my better judgement, I can't help but get excited and - dare I say it - perhaps even cautiously optimistic.
|# ? Jun 28, 2014 17:56
Mr Nice you are the harking herald to our July. Beautiful as usual.
|# ? Jun 28, 2014 20:00
Are there any new cool drugs or is it the same boring stuff as before?
|# ? Jun 28, 2014 22:11
Judging by the Dauphin� it looks like only Froome is on the magical Sky dope, so it might get interesting. Nieve looks good but Porte seems to be all over the place.
|# ? Jun 28, 2014 22:22
Truly awesome OP!
So I'm all set to see my first ever Tour stages...I want to see some action up close but my GF isn't into bike racing and we don't want to be stuck in traffic trying to get out of town. So I'm thinking spend the day in Harrogate and try to see the finish on stage 1 (literally about 30 seconds of action?), then maybe the stage 2 climb in Haworth as ukle says (the side roads that lead out of town should be OK???) or try to see the steepest climb that day just outside of Holme. That should at least provide a little extra time to see the riders go past.
Are these terrible ideas? Harrogate has a 'fan area', whatever that is, I'm assuming the buses will be there, a screen of some sort, plus of course the finish somewhere in the town. The climb outside of Holme has a tight turn at the steepest tallest area of Stage 2, plus a road to drive away on afterwards.
krushgroove fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Jun 28, 2014
|# ? Jun 28, 2014 22:39
Yeah I'm hoping I can still get a B&B near Holmefirth so I can watch the race go up Holme Moss. Don't drive though, so will have to come up on the train with my bike - but knowing our trains there won't be any free spaces for bikes.
|# ? Jun 28, 2014 23:17
Stunning OP. Top notch.
Dan Lloyd and some other guy rode stage 2 (and probably others but this is the only one I watched) and it looks beautiful. Might be a good stage. Hopefully it is sunny.
|# ? Jun 29, 2014 01:20
WEREWAIF posted:
Are there any new cool drugs or is it the same boring stuff as before?
They have a test for AICAR now and will be testing old samples soon so I can imagine some nervous riders around
|# ? Jun 29, 2014 01:22
Great OP! Everything's coming up Mulhouse.
I don't know who I'm going to be barracking for this time around so I'll probably be all Anyone But Froome. Nibali, maybe.
Also worth watching for: OGE's gimmick (aside from wedging buses and winning the first week's plaudits before buggering off.)
It appears I've got the day off after the queen stage so I'm happy about that.
|# ? Jun 29, 2014 01:28
How long until this lovely race is over and more entertaining events can happen�
|# ? Jun 29, 2014 01:58
Carpet posted:
Yeah I'm hoping I can still get a B&B near Holmefirth so I can watch the race go up Holme Moss. Don't drive though, so will have to come up on the train with my bike - but knowing our trains there won't be any free spaces for bikes.
All the B&B's round our way anywhere near the route have been booked out for months, there are tons of camping sites set up though and some of those adhoc sites will have spaces.
As for Bikes on trains they are supposedly laying on extra bike carrying capacity, along with tons of extra trains but I would imagine that is also already booked out / going to be a lot of competition for. I would pick another spot than Holme Moss as well, as there could well be 50,000+ people there so viewing will be a bit of a mess. There are tons of spots all around the route suitable and some are in places that are not far from a train station (e.g. Keighley has a 6/7 or so degree climb for about 1km on its way out of the town up to Howarth).
ukle fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Jun 29, 2014
|# ? Jun 29, 2014 07:50
vaginal culture posted:
Stunning OP. Top notch.
I've ridden Holme Moss and its a nasty climb. Will catch anyone that hasn't done a proper recce out. The last climb up Jenkins road will give us a winner too.
|# ? Jun 29, 2014 09:54
Merci beaucoup everybody.
Kreuziger won't ride the tour, abnormalities detected in his biological passport in 2011 and 2012, they are only taking action now because : �The U.C.I. and CAFD checked these conclusions and in a notification of 30.05.2014, namely almost eight months after they had been sent and gave me a term only until 09.06.2014 to decide how to proceed.� (then extended to 30.06.2014)
Tinkoff-Saxo sidelines Roman Kreuziger pending doping inquiry
Kreuziger denies blood passport abnormalities, pulled from Tour de France squad
Sky announced their official TDF squad but no surprise (No wiggins) and Nibali won the Italian road national championship yesterday.
About doping in the peloton, as previously mentioned Aicar and GW1516 or GW501516 (invented by Evans while researching weight loss), are some of the most recent we know about. These drugs are suspected to allow an increase in performance while remaining at very low bodyfat. Some pro cyclists are around 3% bodyfat when fully hydrated which is insane (record is 2.7% clinicaly tested I think).
Nuclear Receptors in Physiology and Disease by Ronald Evans (increase running endurance by 80 percent in adult mice)
However it seem the most recent trend is to use a wide range of PED at low dose, sometimes getting them legally with TUE but that's true for many sports, lots of pro athletes got medication for asthma, corticosteroid injections is common in many sports and openly talked about while injections aren't allowed by the UCI and you need a TUE for oral/spray use.
|# ? Jun 29, 2014 10:07
Appanretly Kreuziger was contacted by UCI about this, then he had two of his own experts explain the abnormalities and then the UCI came back and said, "not good enough"; so that is why this is all taking so long. Timing is a bit ominous.
Superb OP Mr Nice.
|# ? Jun 29, 2014 11:45
Hello I don't know very much about cycling but that's a lovely and informative OP thank you.
|# ? Jun 29, 2014 12:23
I just took a week off from work to read that OP, but it was worth it.
|# ? Jun 29, 2014 14:06
Wooop wooop, good start!
No Kreuziger for Contador now. Majka instead, who says he's still tired from the Giro.
|# ? Jun 29, 2014 17:54
That's the Tour done then. I don't like it one bit.
|# ? Jun 29, 2014 17:58
UCI is basically controlled by Sky/British Cycling now. Worse than the Lance days.
|# ? Jun 29, 2014 19:16
Jesus Christ that sandpaper picture what the gently caress.
|# ? Jun 30, 2014 03:44
Good OP.
Alex Dowsett has been ruled out of TdF with chest infection so the tour might start in Yorkshire with no riders from England proper. Cav is from the isle of man which i guess counts.
also on the subject of GW1516 it rapidly causes cancer's all over the body, nastiest PED ever invented.
*insert picture of froomes mother in law*
|# ? Jun 30, 2014 13:14
David Millar is out of the Garmin squad, this tour is going to end up with hardly any British riders in it at all.
|# ? Jun 30, 2014 17:52
Jamsque posted:
David Millar is out of the Garmin squad, this tour is going to end up with hardly any British riders in it at all.
Cant believe they've dropped him. This was his farewell race and the team have been getting ready to give him a send off and he was playing the road captain role. They've dropped him on 'health concerns' after he pulled over at the British Nationals, where he was the only Garmin sharp rider.
|# ? Jun 30, 2014 17:57
serious gaylord posted:
Cant believe they've dropped him. This was his farewell race and the team have been getting ready to give him a send off and he was playing the road captain role. They've dropped him on 'health concerns' after he pulled over at the British Nationals, where he was the only Garmin sharp rider.
he was panicking last night on twitter about it. I think what's sealed it is talanksys dauphine performance. They're having to be ruthless because for the first time in a while they have a real GC threat in the tour, gutted for him though.
|# ? Jun 30, 2014 17:59
Loving Africa Chaps posted:
he was panicking last night on twitter about it. I think what's sealed it is talanksys dauphine performance. They're having to be ruthless because for the first time in a while they have a real GC threat in the tour, gutted for him though.
I can understand about Talansky, but are you telling me Garmin dont have one domestique they could drop in favour of him. With respect, its a very low chance that Garmin will be controlling that peloton.
|# ? Jun 30, 2014 18:16
I've checked the numbers and the chance is at exactly 0 percent.
|# ? Jun 30, 2014 18:45
At this point, I'm just gonna be tuning in every morning in the hope that Sky has some sort of meltdown and real racing might happen
|# ? Jun 30, 2014 19:46
Oz Fox posted:
At this point, I'm just gonna be tuning in every morning in the hope that Sky has some sort of meltdown and real racing might happen
If Froome has any sort of racing brain (lol) he'll let someone else grab yellow and just stay close enough to win at the TT stage. No way can Sky dominate the peloton like the last 2 years.
|# ? Jun 30, 2014 19:47
serious gaylord posted:
If Froome has any sort of racing brain (lol) he'll let someone else grab yellow and just stay close enough to win at the TT stage. No way can Sky dominate the peloton like the last 2 years.
Yup, Sky look like a bundle of poo poo compared to the last two years, especially. Losing Kreuziger is a huge blow to Bertie, though - who else has he got to support him in the high mountains now?
|# ? Jun 30, 2014 21:14
I'd rather have Majka than Kreuziger in the TS train anyway. He had a bit of a spat on social media about how tired he is from the Giro and that at his age he shouldn't be doing two tours in a row (especially coming in 6th in Giro).
|# ? Jun 30, 2014 21:39
Crystael posted:
Yup, Sky look like a bundle of poo poo compared to the last two years, especially. Losing Kreuziger is a huge blow to Bertie, though - who else has he got to support him in the high mountains now?
Froome. Because hes thick enough to pull him up the mountains.
|# ? Jun 30, 2014 22:14
Given the way the Dauphine played out, I wonder how that will impact Froome and Contador's game of chicken. Suspect Froome will be much less willing to take chances and more willing to drag Bertie around. Betting on his TT performance.
And sorry, but gently caress giving Millar a free pass. He's sick and he hasn't had a result in almost two years. Apparently should have retired last year.
|# ? Jul 1, 2014 03:57
As someone who only casually follows the grand tours and the big names, that pair of OP's are truly wonderful.
Mr Nice you should be proud of your supreme efforts.
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|# ? Nov 24, 2020 15:26
I dont think Contador is stupid enough to be anywhere near Froome with a decently long TT stage to finish the tour. The tour will be won by whoever gets more than 4 minutes on Froome in the mountains.
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"And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made." Genesis 2:2
2017 is the seventh and final Day of Archaeology but I'm pretty sure no one taking part will be resting! I do though, think that the team behind #dayofarch deserve a
little bit lot of praise for the god/superhuman like effort they have put in over the years organising this) Since the first posts in 2011, ScARF has taken part in every 'Day' except from 2013 and 2014 when ScARF (www.scottishheritagehub.com) had no staff – a pretty good record (you can see the old posts in the links below).
In many ways, the work I am doing today is not that different from the posts I've written in the past.
The graphic design I was trying out in the first of the 2012 posts is still a part of my job – today I am creating posters to show research topics in need of love. I'll probably spend about half an hour in the morning on that as a brain warm up before the 'real' work. Here you can see some of the word clouds I'll use as a basis for the designs.
After coffee, it will be some close reading. The copyediting I wrote a post on in 2012 is more part of my job than ever and there are a few hours of my time today blocked out for working on editing the Regional Archaeological Research Framework for Argyll (RARFA) (http://www.scottishheritagehub.com/regionalresearch) . We are on the second draft of the manuscript – at the moment the formatting is all in place, punctuation, terminology, spelling and grammar have all been checked and sent back to the authors for review. I am just waiting for some final adjustments to images and changes to bibliographies to be sent in and then the 'final' version 2 can be checked.
At the same time, I am still (as in 2012) marking up the HTML for the text but for the first time I have some help in the form of a glamourous assistant in Anna, our Museums Officer!
Today I also have a meeting about sponsoring student places at an upcoming conference (stay tuned to the ScARF website to find out more! http://www.scottishheritagehub.com/content/student-network ) and I hope that this will result in students and early career folk who might otherwise struggle to afford to go to be able to attend the event. This kind of work on our 'student network' isn't something that was part of the original ScARF plan but I spend an increasing amount of time on as I think it is important to get as many fresh brains (if that isn't too zombie a thing to say) involved as possible in current research, Scotland needs more, younger, experts for the days of archaeology ahead!
After my meeting, it will be the glamourous administration job of booking accommodation and travel, including for an upcoming conference that I am presenting at (come along to the Highland Archaeology Festival http://www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org/index.asp?pageid=651964 !) and doing some financial planning for the next month of the project.
After that, back to marking up HTML for RARFA. I do a lot of other things in my job, even if these posts make it seem like I do a lot of the same thing, the days of archaeology have been Fridays, and Fridays are usually my head-down-coffee-on-tap-techy-days! This week for example, I think about 60% of my time has been spent on various regional archaeological research frameworks – costing them, planning them, research into topics, looking for willing
victims volunteers to write pieces for them, trying to get support for them and setting up meeting for the future. I've also been working on sorting out and simplifying the 2012 research recommendations so that they be answered by a wider range of people than they were perhaps intended for.
Since I started working on ScARF in 2011, my day to day work has been augmented with more and more administration due to having a managerial role that I didn't have at the start. I've also taken breaks from Archaeology and had jobs in other fields (not the muddy kind, other 'disciplines') . One thing that has been constant since the first #dayofarch post though, is the fun I have reading about other peoples work in archaeology. Yes, when you read something exciting, you can feel jealous and sad that you are at that moment doing yet another round of monthly paperwork rather than being the one with the excitement. On the other hand, reading about the exciting research people are doing can really make you (or should that be, 'should make you'?) see where the work you are doing yourself can fit in. I don't get to do
much any original research with my day job, or research what I'm really passionate about in archaeology, but one thing I can do through my day job is to increase the access that others have to current research. Well, that's what I hope ScARF does and even if the #dayofarch is ending, I hope that people reading this post continue to use ScARF in the future.
Anna MacQuarrie is also writing a post for today, from a ScARF Museums point of view, so do please look out for that!
Past ScARF posts for Day of Archaeology
- http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/friday-fun-in-the-scarf-office-part-1/
- http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/friday-fun-in-the-scarf-part-2/
- http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/scarf-is-3-years-old/
- http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/dispatches-from-edinburgh-scarf-project-museums-part-1/
- http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/dispatches-from-edinburgh-scarf-project-museums-part-2/
- http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/working-on-the-scottish-archaeological-research-framework-scarf-pt-1/
- http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/working-on-the-scottish-archaeological-research-framework-scarf-pt-2/
- http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/working-on-the-scottish-archaeological-research-framework-scarf-pt-3/
ScARF is a research project at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and we are thankful to Historic Environment Scotland and Museums Galleries Scotland for our current funding.

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I was reading an article recently that was written by a woman that grew up in this small town, moved away for school and then moved back. She was waxing poetic about the people in the community and how they were the reasons to come "home". There was this strong connection and love for your family and childhood friends that lived there that was so important. Being a part of the small community was the best because they were united and always had your back…
*record scratch*
… um, didn't I just listen to you trash your best friend and her family over lunch? And weren't you the one also telling me those nasty stories about your boss and how much the town disliked her and her family?
Where exactly is the love and connection and support there?
I'm not feeling it.
You see, that's what no one ever talks about. There are many small town folks that thrive on malicious gossip about each other. It's just what they do and they see nothing wrong with the harmful and untrue lies they spread about their friends and neighbors. It's a way of living they grew up with, like Snuffy Smith's wife, Louisa, over the backyard fence chewing the fat with their neighbor. It's how the "news" was shared long before there were newspapers, televisions and community forums, except this would be the news whispered behind your back.
Even though they all talk about each other, it never seems to affect the way they interact. I don't know if it's just ignorance that tawdry rumors are being shared, or maybe they don't know what's being said, though I can't imagine they wouldn't know. It didn't take me that long to hear the rumors being spread around about me, mainly because the person I was hanging around with at the time truly relished and lived her entire waking life gossiping about people. She gossiped at work and she gossiped at home. She loved it!
So how does everyone continue to walk around like everything is fine, when it seems like the whole town has turned against you?
I keep thinking of the Eleanor Roosevelt saying:
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
She also said this:
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
No one ever talks about this affliction with small towns. Everyone wants to believe the hype that it's so idyllic when the reality is that if you don't know the right people or wear the same clothes or do the same things as almost everyone else, you're going to be the subject of their most salacious conversations where they rip you to total shreds simply because you're different, you're not a native or you scare them.
I honestly don't think the location or the town has anything to do with the horrific whispers anymore. I think it's some of the people and how they choose to make themselves feel better about who they are, their own insecurities and lack of mature and well rounded growth. I have never met snottier people than I have here. People that have less education, are in debt up to their eyeballs and have never traveled farther than the Virginia border, but they will look down their nose at others and act like those people belong in a leper colony and not here on their tiny slice of paradise. I usually walk away blinking my eyes several times in order to clear away the fog they produce from their cold shoulder shunning and prejudices.
That's not to say that everyone I meet has been akin to a monster, because I actually know some great folks that live here. I often wonder how they maintain this tenacious grip, upholding decency and decorum above all else, when gossip and intrigue are the preferred poison of many of their friends here. How do they remain completely unscathed and beautiful while others are beaten down because they can't resist hearing the latest scuttlebutt and then get bruised and bloodied because they simply don't have the spine to pick a side? Hey! That's what you get for being two-faced!
I do not have a small town attitude. I'm not interested in speaking badly about my neighbor. I'm more interested in lifting her up. My neighbor happens to be mighty awesome all on her own, just so you know.
My arms have always been opened wide and receiving with love and understanding, but that's all changing for me now. It's kind of sad for me to feel this way, but in order to protect myself from being just as damaged as some of the folks I run into, I'm going to have to toughen up a bit. I guess that's where making personal boundaries and sticking to them will be a blessing in disguise.
I am going to open this can of worms today. I'll be that person that talks about the thing that no one ever wants to talk about and hopefully the people that need to hear it most, will be listening and by that I mean, people suffering at the hands of the town gossip.
Don't think for a minute that the circle surrounding the gossiper is safe from being maligned, because they're not. In fact, they are more susceptible to being the target than an outsider would be, simply because of their close proximity. I tell people all the time not to feel so special because the minute they walk out the door, they become the person that's being talked about. So getting on their "good side" is an urban myth and I'm here to finally tell you that a person like this does not have a "good side" to get on.
I've lived here for eight years and I can still recall the joy and elation I felt crossing that bridge to come back here after living so far away in Texas for so many years. I had been riding in a cellular dead zone for the last hour and right in the middle of that mile long bridge, that was the first of many bridges to cross on my way to those outer lying islands, I received a text message from my husband who was here waiting for me to arrive, "Welcome Home!" it read and I remember shedding a few tears of happiness because I felt like I really was coming home.
That feeling quickly came to a halt when I started hearing the gossip about me that was being shared, some of it by my own "family", most of it was just mean and hateful and all of it was untrue. So how would you continue to make a home for yourself in a small town that gets off on trying to make you feel miserable?
- Learn how to change the subject. If someone is sharing a story about being hurt by others, I'm going to listen, but if someone is just sharing gossip that's meant to be hurtful, I'm going to change the subject to talk about something else, not someone else.
- Stop judging yourself based on what others are gossiping about. You know who you are and that should give you the strength to rise above their petty bullshit. If you are doubting yourself or feeling anxiety about what's happening, find a good counselor and settle in for some healthy and revealing chats about yourself.
- Confronting the gossiper is sometimes a good idea, but make no mistakes here. A gossiper is a bully and bullies are fearful people that do not do well when confronted. They tend to wait until you walk away again and then they strike out with even more vengeance. Pick your battles wisely and know who you're approaching by watching how others have handled them. If for some reason you make this mistake, prepare yourself for the smear campaign they will surely wage.
- Never be afraid to be in the presence of the Town Crier. You'll quickly realize they are more afraid of you than you are of them. Gossipers operate from a place of fear.
- When you realize the person you're friendly with is nothing more than a malicious gossip, walk away quietly. You will avoid years of drama if you just keep your distance from this person. No matter how much fun you think they are now, they will soon be your worst nightmare.
- Don't make assumptions about anyone based on someone else's gossip you might have listened to. A gossiper's intentions are never good.
- Don't gossip.
- Do show respect for the folks that have lived here their whole lives, even if they don't show any respect for you or anyone else. Respect can also be shown by keeping your distance and being cordial when it's required.
- Don't keep secrets. You can maintain your privacy, but secrets are never a good thing to nurture. You are only as sick as the secrets you keep so if someone asks you to keep their secrets, suggest they tell a counselor or their clergy instead of you. That keeps you completely out of harm's way.
- Don't go looking for acceptance. I have always been a very generous person with my time, my spirit and love of life and also with whatever I might own that someone else could benefit from having. I do not give out anything that has strings attached or expectations and I certainly am not looking for acceptance. I give because it makes me feel good. If you are giving in hopes that your friends will like you better, then do yourself a huge favor and find better friends than this. Friends don't care if you can give them anything, they love and accept you because you're you.
- Don't listen to gossip. Someone was telling me gossip about me once and when I changed the subject because I didn't want to hear it she said, "Well, I'm sure people come up to you and say nasty stuff about me all the time." I told her that they did not and if they did I would tell them I didn't want to hear it. She was a bit shocked. I'm not friends with her anymore.
The best way to survive life in a small town is perhaps to not live in one, but if you find yourself here on purpose, then enjoy the trappings that come with life on a sandbar. Learn to enjoy your surroundings and take part in activities and events that serve your soul and your heart, rather than those that serve to annoy. The good folks will eventually come out of the woodwork when they realize your vibration is a good one. Just keep living your life in those good and lovely ways that have always served you well and life in a small town can be easy street if you let it be.
This is Madeline Laughs and I think I'm going for a nice walk on the beach to soak up some sun and search for a few nice shells. I'll see you for another beautiful sunset later this afternoon.


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Graphic video helps send stark safe-driving message
Troopers to show video at schools, businesses
The Missouri Highway Patrol has released a graphic new video it hopes will send teenagers a message about the violent realities of the road.
"This video does a very good job of showing what can happen," said Sgt. Bill Lowe of the Missouri Highway Patrol.
The video, which shows shocking images of crashes, aims to discourage teenagers from dangerous behavior behind the wheel.
"They're not meant to shock you. They're not meant to scare you in any way," Lowe said.
The video covers topics from drunken driving to speeding to not wearing a seat belt. It also focuses on the growing problem of texting and driving.
Missouri NASCAR driver Carl Edwards appears in the video showing his own struggles trying to use a phone behind the wheel.
"Even I cannot text and drive successfully," he said in the video.
Lowe said troopers plan to show the video at schools or any business willing to help spread the message.
"We'll speak to any group that is willing to put us out there so we can get the message across," Lowe said.
At time, the message is graphic. In addition to pictures of mangled cars, the video also has dozens of pictures of dead bodies.
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The video also features members of a Platte City family who lost a daughter to a man driving his Chevrolet Camaro at 152 mph.


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What I find surprising in the critical and personal responses I've heard to Django Unchained is the unwillingness to discuss what notions of race the film traffics in. What is Tarantino's vision of blackness and whiteness and how does his aesthetic mode of borrowing from every movie he's ever seen contribute to his notion of race, cultural difference, and racism?
The feud between Quentin Tarantino and Spike Lee is one point of entry for discussing Django Unchained. Lee refuses to see the film arguing that "American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them."
At the heart of Lee's critique, and much of the debate over Django Unchained are the questions of historical appropriation — who has the right to tell particular stories — and the question of realism. The latter question really asks, how can we tell particular stories? Is it disrespectful, irresponsible, or racist to depict slavery as a spaghetti western or in an unreal fashion?
I find it interesting that the question of race and the representation of racial difference always seems to gravitate around notions of realism. First of all, these forms of representation are haunted by the question of whether race, itself, is real. If we agree that race is not, of course, a scientific reality, then what is it? Secondly, what forms of cultural representation can do justice to the very real historical and contemporary practices of racism without affirming race itself as somehow real?
This is a particularly prescient problem given what appears to be a new mutability of both notions of race and racism.
I suggest that Django Unchained is haunted by this paradox of racial realism: it wants to assert the reality of racism but slides into the trap of representing race itself as real and not a series of cultural and discursive practices that emerge in response to racist practice. I find it interesting that this paradox of racism seems to haunt avant garde and postmodern cultural production — this is perhaps spurred on by postmodernism's own anxieties about an already-ephemeral realism. Steve Reich's "Come Out" seems to grapple with the same problems…
Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin contains many of the same contradictions and tensions as Django Unchained and offers an early instance of a white writer & director struggling with representing the contradictions of race within a postmodern mode of representation. Coonskin attracted much of the same criticism as Django, particularly as a white director represented / parodied / satirized the reality of blackness in America:
Harlem … Harlem … Harlem
Al Sharpton and other members of CORE protested the film's release, arguing that it was a racist depiction of blackness that trotted out all the old stereotypes of black people under the guise of irony and pastiche. Elaine Parker explained that Coonskin "depicts us as slaves, hustlers and whores."
In a strange twist of racial ventriloquism, Bakshi wrote the opening song for Coonskin and the film begins with Scatman Crothers performing the song. The song is a toothless attempt to parody the very stereotypes that it ends up enforcing:
I'm a minstrel man
The cleaning man
The poor man
The shoeshine man
I'm a nigger man
Watch me dance
How do we begin to extricate irony, authenticity, racism, parody, pastiche from a film like Coonskin? The form of the film suggests that authenticity is impossible, that we all speaks in multiple fragmented, contradictory voices. Yet the content of the text suggests the exact opposite: that blackness is there to be spoken about, assessed, measured, worried-about, policed, and regulated by white observers and commentators. Furthermore, is Bakshi's atttempt to represent blackness, both in this song and in the film, mere ventriloquism, a middle-aged white guy attempting to speak in the subaltern voice of cool young black men? Or is there something else at work here, an affirmation of a particular concept of race that, despite its ironic stance, still affirms old stereotypes of blackness.
In what ways, then, is Django Unchained, participating in the same affirmation of singular, authentic blackness that I suggest Coonskin traffics in? Certainly there is Tarantino's addiction to the N-Word, a word he seems to enjoy using for its badass effect. i.e.: you say it = you are a badass.
For Tarantino the use of the word is not merely a means for him to gain access to a regulated world of badasses and men, but it also seems to signify authentic blackness. Is Tarantino, in this scene, attempting to signify that despite his whiteness and his undeniable geekiness, that he is 'down'? That his use of the N-Word, his friendship with The Rza and his aspiration to be the world's first 50-year-old white male Wu Wear model, signifies some kind of Tarantino-brand of authentic blackness?
Is Tarantino struggling with this paradox of racial realism — using anti-realist cultural forms (that throw the very distinction between representation and reality into question) to present narratives that insist upon the realism of particular notions of race?? If so, what is the position of the black subject rendered 'real' in his films and of the white subject who writes / enjoys these films?
Tarantino on writing his characters: "I'm now those people. I've learned more about them. I am them. They are going their own way. And I might have some places I want them to go. Usually they take their time about getting there. But sometimes they get there."
At once a statement about his method for writing his characters while also suggesting the overlap between Tarantino and his characters… I'm now those people … I am them…
In Tarantino's recent films, particularly Django Unchained and Inglorious Basterds he plays within this paradox of racial realism. He attempts to navigate the paradox through his attention to acts of performance and by insisting on the film as a space of performance itself. In Inglorious Basterds he breaks the fourth wall of film representation, implicating the audience in the pleasure they take from watching Nazis being gunned down all while showing them the face of Jewish vengeance. These meta-narrative moments in Inglorious Basterds force the audience to reflect on their own activity of happily consuming images of violence without necessarily suggesting any alternative to these images.
Similarly, in Django Unchained performance is a central element in Django's quest. He plays a valet and a black slaver and it is Django's ability to perform these roles that enables him to rescue his wife from slavery and enact revenge upon the plantation slavery system. Thus Tarantino seems aware, in the structure of his narrative, that identity is about performance. Django outsmarts Monsieur Candy and others because of his ability to transform his identity and project different images of blackness to a believing white audience. Is this incorporation of acts of performance into the narrative a means out of this paradox of racial realism that was unavailable to Bakshi?
In another sense though, I argue that despite the importance of performance within Tarantino's narratives, blackness remains a privileged sign of alterity, difference, and badass-ness. Django is able to perform different identities within a range of possibilities but this range remains circumscribed by a conception of 'real blackness' that Tarantino has obviously drawn from the Blaxploitation movies he loves. Django is not free to transform his identity at will but is able to perform particular identities that align with a white audience's conception of blackness — both in terms of the white audiences he encounters in the film and the audiences that will watch Django Unchained. Tarantino traffics in particular depictions of black people that he alleges are at once realistic, in that they are not racist stereotypes, but that are in fact shaped by his conception of what constitutes real blackness.
The fundamental trouble with Django Unchained is not merely that it decontextualizes slavery, transforming hundreds of years of bondage into a videogame-like shoot-em-up narrative, nor that it is historically inaccurate, nor that it depicts every slave as silent, submissive, and subservient, nor that it neatly and inaccurately represents the transformation of the black subject from slave to capitalism entrepreneur, nor that the images of brutal violence against black bodies do not merely admonish slavery but become a component of pleasure in a broad spectrum of stylized, fetishized and generally cool violence in the film. Of course these are problems.
The fundamental problem with the film, however, is that it cannot escape this paradox of racial realism that attempts to represent some 'core' or 'reality' of what it means to be black that ends up reproducing the very racist stereotypes that the film claims to counter. Despite Tarantino's aesthetic achievements, he is unable to disrupt the fundamentally racist claim that there is such a thing as real blackness and that it is fundamentally different than whiteness.
Paul Gilroy has discussed the transformation in racism from the "crude biologism" of phrenology to a "new culturalism" that treats race as a form of cultural difference while smuggling old conceptions of racial difference and racial hierarchy in through the back door. I suggest that this is new culturalism is at work in Django Unchained. As with Spielberg's Lincoln black people in Django Unchained do not speak in their own voices but rather reflect back a performed version of blackness that does little to disrupt concepts of racial difference. Indeed in both films black people are primarily talked about, discussed, worried over and instructed by white actors. Tarantino's film suggests a number of possibilities for employing narrative to disrupt the paradox of racial realism but he never really achieves this within the film.


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I have the following discrete time dynamical system $$ y(t+1) = y(t) + \frac{1}{1+\exp(z+ u f y(t))} ,\quad y(0)=0,$$ where $z$ is a real number $f$ and $u$ are non-negative reals. I know I have little hope of obtaining a closed form solution for this process. But, actually, for my application, a "better" solution involves finding (making the dependence of $y$ on $f$ explicit by writing $y(t)$ as $y(t,f)$): $$\lim_{n \to \infty} \frac{1}{n}\cdot y\left(nt,\frac{f}{n}\right).$$ Update: Initial simulations suggested that this converged to $$y(t) = \frac{t}{1+\exp(z)}.$$ But that was wrong. In conclusion, the differential equation is indeed a good approximation to the above limit. Sorry about the confusion.
How can I rigorously show this? Also appreciated are references to texts that discuss similar problems.


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Sailor who died in Norfolk attack 'laid his life down; nobody took it'
HAGERSTOWN, Md. – A sailor fatally shot last week in Norfolk, Va., was honored as a hometown hero Thursday at a chilly, candlelight service in Hagerstown's City Park.
About 70 people, mostly in their 20s, filled metal benches to offer support and condolences to Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark Mayo's parents and three siblings, seated in the park's bandshell. Two poster-sized photos of Mayo in uniform flanked the speaker's podium near a bunch of blue-and-white balloons — the colors of Williamsport High School, where Mayo was a wrestling star, and the Dallas Cowboys, represented by a team blanket draped over an empty chair.
Mayo's boyhood pastor, the Rev. Paul Berry, told the crowd that Mayo, like Jesus, deliberately sacrificed himself March 24 when he saved another sailor by jumping between her and a civilian gunman who was trying to board the destroyer USS Mahan at Naval Station Norfolk.
"Mark knew exactly what he was doing. He laid his life down; nobody took it," Berry said.
The gunman, truck driver Jeffrey Savage, was killed by Navy security forces responding to the scene.
Mayo's brother Terrail Blair, 27, said he was proud of his 24-year-old brother's heroism but sorry he wasn't able to protect him, as he had when they were boys.
"I always felt as though he was a baby to me," Blair said. "I didn't let nobody come close to Mark."
Before the service, Blair said his brother's death has made him feel connected to the families of the soldiers killed Wednesday in a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.
"That touched me," Blair said. "I look at it, like, man, somebody else is going to have that to deal with. It's hard. I send my strength to them."
U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., sent condolences to Mayo's parents, Sharon Blair and Decondi Mayo, in a letter read aloud by the senator's aide Juliana Albowicz.
"The people of the United States are grateful for the sacrifice your family has made on our behalf," she read. "We will remember his life as God's blessing on all of us."
The Navy plans a memorial service for Mayo in Norfolk on Monday. A funeral is scheduled April 11 in Washington, D.C., where the family lived before moving to Hagerstown in 1998.


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Dark Side of the Moon
Okay, so, I had a thing to do with Number Two tonight, which got me home late, which meant starting tonight's episode about 45 minutes late. Number One turned on the TV, hit the playlist, and the DVR froze. It acted funky for a minute, then reset.
When it came back on, luckily, we found that despite the ominous black screen when we tried to play the recording the first time, Supernatural did, indeed, record. Except for about six minutes. Let's hope they weren't the most important six minutes of the entire season or something!
Lots of good stuff here, about the boys dying (again and again and again and again and again and then one more time), about God and the amulet. Meaty, yummy foreshadowing. Yay! Good music, too.
Lots of booze in this hotel room, bottles and cans everywhere. Dean sleeping, gun on him, guy has Dean's pistol, now how the hell did he get that out from under Dean's head without waking him? Ah. Bottles and cans. I get it.
Dean recognizes the two guys holding guns on him and his brother, but they don't care. Righteous bastards. They kill Sam, then Dean, but not before Dean makes the scariest eye threats ever. Boom, right to the title card that gives me a thrill every single week. Nice transition!
Knock Knock Knocking on Heaven's Door
Dean's dozing in the Impala in the middle of the road. Then young Sam (yay, Colin Ford!) draws Dean into a truly happy memory. I swear, I've never seen Dean look like this. This music might be nearly as perfect as Renegade was. But the fireworks' sharp reports remind Dean of the shotguns and their deaths...
PAMELA! ASH! MARY! Woo hoo! (Yes, I let the guest star list distract me from the scene. Sorry.)
Cas comes on the radio and tells Dean he's in heaven. He tells him to follow the road, which is apparently symbolic up in heaven there. Dean drives on and finds Sam getting hit on by an 11-year-old girl while her family is nice to him on Thanksgiving. Dean pulls Sam out of the memory (that Sam thinks is a dream) and the memory goes on without them. Nice to know they end up in heaven, though they're both pretty surprised.
They're trying to understand how it works. Dean's not too pleased that one of Sam's "greatest hits" is Thanksgiving at someone else's house. Then there's a very archangel-ish roar-and-shake-and-bright-light. They hide, it moves on, and Dean tries to reach Cas through the radio. This time we get him on a crappy old TV (was Sam 11 in the 1950s?).
"Don't go into the light!"
Cas is excited that the boys are in heaven, though he's also obviously resentful because he can't go back. He wants them to find Joshua, an angel who is rumored to have God's ear. They want to know what God has to say. Cas tell them the road winds through heaven, and they need to follow it to the garden.
Dean's gung ho, Sam's surprised, but Dean says God is the only one who can help. "The last hope of a desperate man."
Apparently, the road is symbolic in many ways. "Finding a road in a closet would be pretty much the most normal thing to happen to us today." And guess what? He finds a road in the closet! A toy racetrack!
It brings them home, where Dean is wearing an "I wuv hugs" shirt that Sam immediately busts him for. Mom, looking young and gorgeous in a sundress, offers Dean lunch.
Pure Torture
Dean revels in his memory, being waited on by Mom, and showered with affection and loving looks. But poor Sam, whom Mary doesn't see because it's not his memory, has to just sit and watch. He wants to move on, but Dean isn't aware of how much it must hurt his brother.
Mary takes a call from John, and Dean remembers that they fought and Dad moved out for two days. Sam says Dad always said it was a perfect marriage. Dean says it wasn't perfect until after she died. He comforts her, says Dad still loves her, and he loves her too, and hey, here's why Dean loves pie!
I had a...um...debate with a friend in January about Dean's love of pie. She pointed out that it was cakehole in the pilot, then piehole after, and did Dean's love of pie really mean anything? I hypothesized that while I doubted they knew at the beginning of season 1 that Dean loved pie and why, its usage wasn't random. That they deliberately sprinkled it into episodes as the seasons went on. She expressed the lack of belief that that was true--not that she thought it was untrue, but that she didn't know. I was absolutely convinced I was right. I have no idea if the writers knew this scene was coming, and deliberately prepped us for it with "I like pie!" and "Bring me some pie!" and Dean being turned off by pie in "Yellow Fever." But I do believe there was at least a subconsciously deliberate plan. I've had it happen to me enough times, where I was writing something, a revelation hits me, and I go back to plant seeds, only to find them already there, perfectly lined up right where they should be. That's got to be harder to do for a TV show, but Kripke did know approximately where he was going, so who knows?
Okay, big tangent! Pie! Geez! But here's some more poignancy, Dean's love of pie keeping him connected to his mommy. *sniff*
Sam comments on how long Dean has been cleaning up Dad's messes, which is enough to galvanize Dean into searching for the next piece of "road." It's a postcard for Route 66, which takes them to another efficiency apartment and Sam's dog, Bones. Dean asks if it's Flagstaff, and while Sam's joyous over the memory of living on his own for two weeks, Dean's angry because of the torment and probably abuse it caused him.
Uh oh.
Jared's real-life love of dogs is apparent in the way he pets and looks at poor Bonesy. He follows Dean out the door, but this isn't good. The new memory is again Sam's. He tries to pretend he doesn't recognize it, but Dean gets it. The night Sam ditched them for Stanford. And Dean doesn't need more to understand the pattern.
Sam's version of heaven is leaving his brother, and I don't know how it works up there, because it's Dean's version of hell—"The worst night of my life."
Zachariah has found them, though. They run, but Zach turns on the sun, and threatens some pretty ugly torture. He's going to make them beg to say yes before he sends them back to Earth. The boys run, and he's there every time, until a guy in a wrestling mask and cape rescues them.
The Roadhouse
It's ASH! "Welcome to my Blue Heaven," he says, and gestures with a flourish at Harvelle's.
"It even smells the same."
"Bud, blood, and beer nuts. Best smell in the world."
Ash explains the Supernatural concept of Heaven to the boys, and IMO, it's pretty cool. Well, that's because it's pretty much how I decided the afterlife must be back when I was in high school. Everyone who goes to heaven gets their own special paradise. Dean doesn't seem too keen on the idea of everyone being alone, trapped. Ash says there are special cases of sharing. You know. Soulmates.
Gah! Why, Andrew and Daniel, why must you feed the Wincesters so?!
Anyway, Ash is, of course, special. He's not like everyone else. He can go anywhere in heaven. He has a "holy roller police scanner" where he can tap into the angels speaking Enochian, and—also of course—he's fluent. He reveals that he's found Dean and Sam up here before, but the angels wiped their memories. Sam asks if he found Ellen and Jo, and Ash is pretty torn up to learn they died.
He hasn't found Mary and John, though he's been looking. Huh. Ash knew the boys for, like, three weeks, lived a whole life before that, but his heaven is tracking down the Winchester parents and (repeatedly) saving Sam and Dean? Iiiiinteresting.
So he hasn't found John and Mary, but he has found Pamela! Kind of odd, since he presumably didn't know her in life. But I could be wrong, maybe he did.
Pamela slaps Dean for getting her killed, Dean says if it makes her feel any better, they got Ash killed, too. "I'm cool with it!" Ash yells. Gosh, I love that guy.
While Ash and Sam work on the laptop, Pamela tells Dean she's happy, at peace, and maybe Dean shouldn't fight so hard against Michael. Sure, people will die, but then they come here. Dean's definitely not convinced.
Ash has found a shortcut to the garden and draws some symbols on the walls, cautioning that Zach will be watching all roads to the garden. Pamela hugs Sam, and gives Dean a big ol' kiss that's "just how she imagined." For a guy who gets laid a lot (or used to), Dean is regularly bemused by a simple kiss.
Heaven is Hell
They exit, but are suddenly back home again. This isn't right. Here's Mary again, looking like she did the night she died. She asks if Dean had a nightmare. He's no longer interested in wallowing, so he tries to leave, but Mary offers to tell her nightmare. The night she burned. Oooh, this is a new side to Samantha Smith. She tells Dean she didn't love him, he was her burden, she was shackled to him. Her eyes go yellow, and we go to commercial...
And FRAK, my recording glitches, and mid-commercial it cuts back to the show, with a stranger telling the boys he just trims the hedges. He says they're going home, but it's different this time. This time, God wants them to remember.
They wake up violently in the motel room, clothes bloody but bodies whole. But not, quite obviously, their spirits. Dean makes a call, then they're packing and Cas is there. He hopes Joshua is lying—clearly, they told him about the six minutes I missed. Cas curses God and gives Dean back his worthless amulet. Sam is determined to find another way, to stop everything, tells Dean "We'll find it. You and me. We'll find it."
But in the worst Supernatural moment EVER, Dean drops his amulet in the trash.
I don't even know why he did it. I mean, we saw it coming, with Sam's heaven being away from Dean, but it had to get worse in those moments I missed. But even without seeing them, they've shattered me.
Sam, if you don't save that amulet, I will kill you.


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Sound Off, Feb. 26, 2013
Corrupt as usual: Is there any other organization as corrupt as the Democrat Party? Wow the son of a very famous civil rights leader has been charged with scheming to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses. What a surprise that they both belong to the same political party! Yes, Jesse Jackson, Jr. and his wife are both being charged. She, with filing false income tax forms. Both have pleaded guilty. Speaking of income tax, has the Rev. Al Sharpton paid his one million dollars owed? To say nothing of about half of Obama's original cabinet who also owed back taxes.
Now, on to Sen. Bob Menendez who's VERY friendly with Dr. Salomon Melgen. Bob has been jet-setting with the Dr. who is under investigation for overbilling Medicare $8.9 million dollars for his clinic. It seems that Mendendez was getting free rides to the Dominican Republic which, after being caught, has just paid. Yup, Bob, it is alleged, went there for his sexual romps!
Lastly, all in Michelle Malkin's Opinion column," departed Obama health care czar Nancy Ann DeParle raked in millions from her position on a handful of corporate boards under fire for various regulatory violations, whistleblower complaints and Medicare fraud".
And on and on it goes. Who's next? I highly recommend Michelle Malkin's book "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats."
Now the JERKS in Washington D.C. are warning businesses to do less background checks on convicted felons and hire them or possibly face discrimination charges. All this while these same jerks are running all over the country screaming for more and tighter gun control background checks on law abiding citizens. Time for the jerks we elected to Washington and Hartford to get off gun control, driving tests for senior citizens, annual safety checks on cars, etc., and start working on issues we elected them to address, such as the deficit, State and Federal overspending and National Security. If they can't do this, we should vote all incumbents out of office, impose term limits and start fresh.
Common sense home defense for women shotgun owners. Today I saw a quick video on website "Castle Tutledge." What did I learn? That 89 percent of those who break into homes in the evening hours are on drugs and are looking for drugs or something to sell for drugs. That their "moral centers" are compromised and the sound of the shotgun being racked, i.e. chambering a bullet, probably would not stop them. the homeowner should chamber the weapon, yelling loudly that the police have been called and they are on their way. The homeowner needs to be aware that the response time for a police officer can be 25 minutes, depending on where they live while the "367' response time is 1400 feet.
I believe this is better advice than that given by our Vice President, Biden. In a panic situation you do not want to go unlock the gun cabinet, load the gun - - I guarantee your hands will be shaking, you will probably drop the key or forget where it is well hidden. The shotgun needs to be where you can access it at a moments notice and load it. If you have children in the house the ammo needs to be out of their reach at all times.
Over and over again in the blog, we keep seeing articles about Obama not telling the truth.
Give some examples instead of making some broad statements like "he lies every time he opens his mouth."
The truth is at this point it does not matter if you think he is telling the truth or not. He is your president and you just should get over it. Your people lost fair and square, The people spoke and guess what? You lost! Grow up! Nobody cares at this point. Where are all those Republican jobs?
Ummm ... let me see -- King George did not lie to the American people to gin up a war in Iraq?
King George did not lie two weeks before the economy tanked when he told us everything was A-ok! Exactly what planet are you living on?


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Esther Summers Niagara militia collection, (2011-12-23)Collection of militia lists, company rolls, lists of officers, pay lists, orders, account/letter book, etc., of militia in the Niagara Region ca. 1790-1859. Bulk of materials are from 1837-1838. Includes a list of customers, ...