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NEW YORK (Jun. 14)
The Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry today mailed 30 packages to the Soviet Union for families of Jewish "Prisoners of Conscience." The act came as a group of Congressmen and other public officials held a press conference on the steps of New York City's Main Post Office to protest new Soviet restrictions going into effect in the Soviet Union tomorrow on the size and value of parcels being sent into the USSR.
Eugene Gold, chairman of the GNYCSJ, said the new restrictions are designed to further harass Soviet Jews and others who have been denied work after applying for exit visas. Rep. James Scheuer (D.NY) said that the action was a violation of the Helsinki agreement. He and the other Congressmen said they would seek legislative action. Richard Rosenbaum, Republican State Chairman, said the New York Republican Committee has asked Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Treasury Secretary William Simon to intervene.
The new regulation will increase the duties on some packages by up to 200 percent, according to Malcolm Hoenlein, GNYCSJ executive director. Other participants in the press conference were Reps. Benjamin Gilman (R.NY) and Herman Badillio and Mario Biaggi, New York Democrats; City Comptroller Harrison Goldin and aides of Sen. Jacob Javits (R.NY) and Reps. Bella Abzug. John Murphy and Benjamin Rosenthal, all New York Democrats.
A similar protest against the new Soviet tax on parcels was held in San Francisco last week by the Ad Hoc Humanitarian Committee, which maintained a one-hour vigil outside of the Soviet Consulate.


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If Jackson Pollock hadn't fathered abstract expressionism, what would today's art world look like? That's a question Perrin McEwen has spent some time contemplating ®C not that he wants a definitive answer. "I don't think our world would be possible," McEwen says. "He forced us to look at art in a different way."
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June 2 2012
Fowler in 'good spot' for Sunday
Interview: Rickie Fowler
Following his third-round 69, Rickie Fowler reflects on his play with Bob Stevens from SiriusXM PGATOUR Radio.
By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM
DUBLIN, Ohio -- Rickie Fowler was one of the few players able to climb the leaderboard on a windy Saturday at the Memorial Tournament.
The red-hot 23-year-old, who has finished in the top 10 of his last four tournaments, birdied two of his final four holes to move into sole possession of third entering the final round at Muirfield Village. Fowler is three strokes behind Spencer Levin and will play in the penultimate group with Tiger Woods on Sunday.
Fowler posted a round of 69 in the blustery conditions on Saturday that tied Vijay Singh and the leader, Spencer Levin, for the low round of the day. He hit 10 of 14 fairways, 12 of 18 greens in regulation and used just 26 putts -- including a 6-footer for birdie at the par-5 15th and a 17-footer for another at the 17th hole.
"Felt nice coming in," said Fowler. "Nice to get a few birdies coming in."
Fowler, who picked up his breakthrough win at the Wells Fargo Championship last month, is playing in his third Memorial Tournament. He has a pretty good track record, too, finishing second to Justin Rose in his debut and tying for 22nd last year. Six of his 11 rounds at Muirfield Village have been in the 60s, too.
"I've hit a lot of good shots around here, so I've probably at least birdied every hole or had good shots on all holes out here," Fowler said. "So definitely able to go into every hole out here comfortable and knowing that we've played it well and hit some good shots there. Looking forward to tomorrow ... Anywhere being around the lead on Sunday is good around here."
Fowler said the wind dried to course out as the day progressed and he expects conditions on Sunday that were similar to the first round when he shot 71. Conditions should still be breezy, with the wind gusting toward 30 mph, but Fowler enjoys that challenge.
"I love playing in the wind," he said. "I wouldn't mind it being like this tomorrow. No, I enjoy it. You've got to hit good golf shots and got to hit the ball solidly. I played well today, hit a few squirrelly shots, but other than that we kept it in play and made a few good swings coming in, made a couple birdies, so put ourselves in a good spot for tomorrow."
Fowler beat Rory McIlroy and D.A. Points in a playoff at Quail Hollow four weeks ago, and he has finished fifth or better in his two starts since that victory. He's pleased with the way he's been hitting the ball right now and expects more of the same on Sunday.
"If you went out and played really well, there's still a low number out there," Fowler said. "It's not easy to go low. Someone that's in the lead is going to have a tough time pulling away. I wouldn't say five or six is too far back, but obviously three or four is kind of a good place to be.
"... I've been swinging really well, so that's obviously helped me stay very calm and collected out there. Very confident with my game and where I'm at mentally, so get ourselves in a good position for tomorrow being a few back, go out and have some fun and see what we can do."


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BOOKS . . . ARKANSAS: "I was in trouble," writes a fictional narrator named David Leavitt at the beginning of The Term Paper Artist, th e first of three novellas contained in the real David Leavitt's new book, Arkansas (Houghton Mifflin; 198 pages; $23). Sure enough, in a vertiginous display of life imitating art imitating life, those words, plus some sexually explicit terms that follow, got the real Leavitt in trouble all over again. Edward Kosner, editor in chief of Esquire, abruptly canceled the scheduled appearance of The Term Paper Artist in the April issue, causing the magazine's fiction editor to resig n in high dudgeon and fueling literary gossip for weeks. Why did Esquire kill Leavitt's story? Kosner has insisted that the decision was simply a matter of editorial judgment (or rejudgment, since the magazine purchased rights to print The Term Pa per Artist last fall). Other sources, including Will Blythe, the fiction editor who quit, charge that the story was yanked because publisher Valerie Salembier feared its explicit homosexual content, including a proposed man-to-man tryst in the b ack of a Jeep, would offend advertisers, particularly of automobiles. Through her representatives at the magazine, Salembier has denied saying any such thing. This controversy provides the impetus for the surreal plot of The Term Paper Artist. In th e novella, the character named David Leavitt, distraught over the suppression of his novel and suffering from writer's block as a result, hides out at his father's house in Los Angeles and does halfhearted research at the ucla library for a nove l he's pretty sure he will never write. By chance he meets Eric, an attractive undergraduate, who invites him to his apartment to share some marijuana. Hoping for sex, Leavitt learns that the seductive Eric has a more complex transaction in mind%3 A sex there will be, once the author has ghostwritten Eric's English term paper, and once that term paper has earned Eric an A. "I've got something you want," Eric says. "You've got something I need." "The Term Paper Artist is specta cularly effective fiction, an oblique and very funny commentary on Leavitt's real-life travails, notes TIME's Paul Gray. "Having been accused of plagiarism, he spins out a story in which he happily abets plagiarists."
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BOOKS . . . PAYBACK: Billy Adare, Payback's in-over-his-head hero, is an honest law student who p ays his tuition by working summers at the family trade of sandhogging, in a big water tunnel being dug beneath Manhattan. The work is dangerous enough at the best of times, but jostling has broken out between Irish construction thugs from Hell's Kit chen, who by tradition control labor in the tunnel, and Italian heavies hired by management to break the union. At first Billy tries to ride out the skirmishing. Then his elder brother Paddy, a former prizefighter who is an enforcer for the Irish mo b, hands him a pistol and tells him to make himself scarce. "These guys are psychos. I just don't know how it's gonna play out," says Paddy. Violently, of course, is how it plays out. "As matters rumble toward a good, tough-guy ending% 2C what sounds real is not so much the corrupt politics of the construction business as the shot-and-a-beer talk of the guys who wear hard hats," says TIME's John Skow. "Kelly knows how the palaver goes in the kind of bar that doesn't have ferns , the boozy, unchanging gab about sports, women and the System that defines the deep, edgy pessimism of blue- collar men. "Einstein" is what they call Billy, out of class respect and class resentment. But as shots are heard at the end, it is unclear whether he will make it back to law school."


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Dave Grohl's new project is starting to seem just as exciting as his album material. The Foo Fighters frontman just dropped the third trailer for his forthcoming documentary about legendary L.A. recording studio Sound City, and while it still doesn't offer a release date for the movie, it's packed with cameos from Tom Petty, Trent Reznor, Mick Fleetwood, Butch Vig and more.
"Sound City, mannn," Tom Petty coos about the legendary studio, which turns 40 this year and has been the birthplace of Fleetwood Mac's Rumors and Nirvana's Nevermind, as well as the final three Kyuss albums and countless others. The space, owned by Rainy Day Records CEO Tom Skeeter and his family since the '70s, went fully private in May 2011.
"When Sound City closed last year it was a very sad day," Dave recently explained. "That place was like a church. The list of people that recorded there is like a virtual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We recorded Nevermind there back in 1991. That funky old place had the best drum room in the world. The drum sound at the beginning of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit?' That's Sound City. I decided to make a film about that feeling when you put five guys in a room, hit 'record' and the hair on the back of your neck stands up. Expect some epic jam sessions."
Despite the one-minute run time, the new clip goes a long way towards attesting to some of the magic the room has been capable of. That has mostly to do with the studio's massive and legendary Neve 8028 analog sound boards, which Grohl himself liked so much he actually bought it and installed it in his own garage studio.
We'll keep you posted on more news about the film as it develops. In the meantime keep up with Trent Reznor's other project – working on the score for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 – and his latest developments with Nine Inch Nails.


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Saturdays with the Saints Fall 2013: 20th Century Martyrs
In this Year of Faith, Saturdays with the Saints features men and women who have borne witness to their faith with their lives, and in particular, martyrs of the 20th Century.
Did you know that more Christians have been martyred in the past century than in all previous centuries? Learn about their lives, and how their sacrifices have impacted and continue to have an impact on the people of God they chose to serve.
On August 31, Notre Dame Professor of Systematic Theology Robert Krieg will present, "Blessed Franz Jägerstätter (1907-1943): Farmer, Conscientious Objector, and Martyr."
Refusing induction into Hitler's army on March 3, 1943, Franz Jägerstätter was immediately imprisoned and, after military hearings, was beheaded on August 9, 1943. In 2007, he was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in Linz, Austria. Franziska Jägerstätter with her daughters participated in her husband's beatification.
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Nike says evidence overwhelming against him.
The fall from grace continues.
Nike says evidence overwhelming against him.
The fall from grace continues.
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Times link.
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He'd be the perfect candidate for elected office as a liar and a cheat. Give it some thought, Lance.
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I wonder how many barrels of oil are being dropped into the dumps with all of the "Lance Armstrong" bracelets being thrown away.
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Depends on the spin, I suppose.
The Daily Beast Is Hitting It Hard:
"The days of ubiquitous yellow bracelets feels like a distant memory. In a statement to the press, Lance Armstrong said he is stepping down as chairman his cancer-fighting charity, Livestrong, so the group can focus on its mission.
The announcement comes on the heels of the USADA's 1,000-page dossier in which more than twenty-six people—including fifteen cyclists—implicated themselves in a doping ring in order to prove Armstrong was the ring leader. Lance will remain on the charity's 15-person board.
Also on Wednesday, Nike Inc. announced it would be terminating its contract with Armstrong, saying in a statement that there is "seemingly insurmountable evidence" that he "participated in doping and misled Nike for more than a decade."
I think that means they are calling him a liar, a cheat & they fired him.
Led The War Against Lance On Outside Mag.
As Always ; M
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Bet his ex-wife is chuckling
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and Sheryl Crow too, r5.
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His "foundation" took in 150K the day he was banned from cycling. Americans are such silly sheeple.
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It's not the first time Lance will have to eat some crow.
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I always found him to be unlikable and shifty-eyed.
Glad he's FINALLY been exposed.
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Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Shitt's next.
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Setting aside the doping is wrong thing, why do people ate him so much. I don't recall ever hearing that he's a jackass. He runs a nonprofit, and seemingly uses his celebrity to some positive purpose, maybe not as much as others, bu certainly more than most celebs.
In the scheme of offenses doping is less serious in m mind than many other things for which people have been easily forgiven.
Just wondering.
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This should provide some answers, R17. They remind me of the Komen Foundation which promotes "awareness" and actually donates very little to research.
[quote]If Lance Armstrong went to jail and Livestrong went away, that would be a huge setback in our war against cancer, right? Not exactly, because the famous nonprofit donates almost nothing to scientific research. BILL GIFFORD looks at where the money goes and finds a mix of fine ideas, millions of dollars aimed at "awareness," and a few very blurry lines.
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[quote]In the scheme of offenses doping is less serious in m[y] mind than many other things for which people have been easily forgiven.
I don't understand that aspect, either. Why is it that professional athletes taking performance-enhancing drugs are pursued with such relentless fervor? Years of hearings and investigations and testimony before Congress -- they take it more seriously, even, than a president getting a blow job or one-time billionaire Martha Stewart making $48,000 on a stock tip. And for what? Because someone's bedrock notion of "sporting behavior" was upset?
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Greg LeMond is having the last laugh here. Armstrong tried to go after him early on after LeMond expressed concern about his relationship with Ferrari, the Italian doping physician. He tried to sabotage LeMond's contract with some bicycle company as retribution or to get him to shut up.
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I knew nothing.
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I was big time high school athlete and a small time college athlete. I hate dopers. It's so frustrating to work your ass off, then see someone not as good as you suddenly become a hall of famer because of PEDs. I am very glad that the topic has hit critical mass.
That said, it is SOOOO overblown. There are so many more things to spend our resources on then stupid athletes choosing to put poison in their bodies.
Lance is a douche, but he has done good things with his ill-gotten fame. I guess my response to this is my response to most things these days: Whatever.
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Lance is a spiteful prick and tries to ruin people who tell the truth about him.
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[quote]Lance is a douche, but he has done good things with his ill-gotten fame. I guess my response to this is my response to most things these days: Whatever.
R16. That may be your response because we are all bombarded with so much news and noise trying to gain our attention nowadays--and you're feeling overwhelmed. However, "whatever" is not an appropriate response for everything. Some things are serious; others aren't.
Some people are paid enormously for their accomplishments, and when we find out that they cheated, lied, deceived, etc., it's not always a "whatever" moment.
Of course, none of us know Lance Armstoring personally so we don't feel the immediate affect. But for the rewards that some people are given, I think we'd like to feel that they achieved their goal fair and square. When we find out that they didn't, sometimes it's a disappointment, sometimes it's scandalous, and sometimes it's illegal.
But this bombardment of news nowadays causes us to treat many things as "whatever" even when that's not really an appropriate response.
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R18, I see what your saying. But so many athletes doped when Lance was blazing through the Alps. We all know he doped. Hell, every cyclist did/does. So what's the point? Again, I'm glad he was caught, but I would much rather have all the effort and resources it took the feds to sniff out Lance's wrongdoing and transfer them to political or corporate malfeasance.
I would rather have our tax dollars going after people that can do actual harm.
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The reason I don't like Lance is because he was a Goliath who tried to demonize anyone who implied he was being less than honest.
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His photo is still on the Livestrong website.
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[quote]Bet his ex-wife is chuckling
She knew about the doping. In their house, the code name for PED was "butter," because they kept it in the fridge.
[quote]I don't recall ever hearing that he's a jackass.
I guess you never read anything about the guy. He is infamous for threatening people, his cycling buddies, when he suspected them of treason.
Read this article about his former masseuse, and how he did his best to ruin her life after she had spoken about his doping for a book:
[italic]Ms. OâReilly first went public in 2003, when she was paid to cooperate on a book, âL.A. Confidentiel: Les Secrets de Lance Armstrong,â that sought to expose Mr. Armstrong as a drug cheat. Mr. Armstrong sued her for libel.
Ms. OâReilly said Mr. Armstrong demonized her as a prostitute with a drinking problem, and had her hauled into court in England. Ultimately, a legal settlement was reached, and Ms. OâReilly tried to pick up her life, sometimes talking about Mr. Armstrong and drugs, but to little notice.
Mr. Armstrong sued Ms. OâReilly and The Sunday Times of London, which had excerpted the book. The legal battle lasted three years.
âHe was suing me for more than I was worth,â Ms. OâReilly said. âI was worried he would bankrupt me.â
In the end, as part of a settlement, The Sunday Times wrote an apology. Ms. OâReilly paid no money, she said.
âEmma suffered from the lawsuit the most,â Mr. Walsh said in an interview this week. âThis woman was an opponent of Lance Armstrong and was completely vilified. Now, everyone wants to know. But where were they in 2004?â[/italic]
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He did the same to a fellow cyclist and his wife who were under [italic]subpoena[/italic] to testify in another court case in which Armstrong was the defendant. He wanted to sully their reputations either as retribution or to make them look as unbelievable witnesses. Probably a bit of both. Armstrong's personal assistant describes this in an Outside Sport online article. If you check out the article linked about there will be links to a series or articles about this.
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Why does the NYT write "Usada" instead of "USADA"?
It reads like they are referring to a Japanese scientist or something.
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The only people still rallying to his defense are white Republican gun owners.
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There was a company that dropped him when the drug charges began so he took them to court and won millions with the claim that he had been drug-free. Now, it's time to return that money.
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It's not just that Armstrong was vindictive and actively tried to ruin people who spoke out against him (and cycling is, still, a pretty small sport). It was that he wanted a strong team around him and essentially coerced his teammates into doping. Now, you can say that this shows a lack of character on their behalf, or that they might have been doping anyway - but not all of them were, not all of them wanted to, and they testified that they felt pressured to do so. It's one thing to dope, but it's a lot more serious to expect your teammates to dope as well - and to supply them with the product/s.
It was reported that Dave Zabriskie went back to his hotel room and cried after being given the decision to make, given that he came from a background that was affected by his dad's drug taking. Zabriskie still took the drugs and can be judged for that, but if it's true it's one small insight into what it felt like to be a professional athlete who's been coerced by his team captain into doing something illegal.
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I hope the money and fame was worth it, because that kind of public humiliation (= payback) would make suicide a valid option for me.
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I remember how we spat on the French when they started talking about Armstrong's drug problem years ago.
|by Anonymous
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He also paid off cycling officials to cover up when he failed tests results and subsequently had them alert him whenever testing people were coming to test him. Anyone he perceived as a threat or a rival he had them nailed by drug testers. He was basically a mafia don, and he ran the cycling world like a mob boss through intimidation, corruption and harrassment.
|by Anonymous
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And by the way his foundation raises 0$ for research and treatment - they say they raise money for "awareness".
What that means in fact is paying for private jets to fly Lance around the world and elevate his status.
|by Anonymous
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This should be awkward:
[quote]It has raised nearly $500 million since 1997 and plans to celebrate its 15th anniversary in Austin, Tex., this weekend, with nearly 2,000 people expected to attend, including stars like Sean Penn, Maria Shriver and Ben Stiller.
|by Anonymous
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And he still hasn't admitted it or apologized for it--in spite of all the overwhelming evidence. He has damaged the reps of many many "smaller" folks who tried to tell the public the truth, and yet he sits there on his millions without apologizing to anyone! What a guy!
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I find it hilarious that TREK dropped him like a rock given that it has been argued that TREK (like so many others *cough* UCI International Cycling Union *cough*) are heavily implicated in assisting Armstrong to retaliate against people no longer under his control and avoid accountability all this time. Read LA Confidential - is all there and has been for years. I'd name Armstrong as sociopathic but I'm not sure sociopaths go to quite so much trouble to control people? Honest question.
Nothing that happens to Armstrong is a surprise now - has been a LONG time coming. What will be interesting is what UCI does about the USADA report. Clock is ticking - I believe they have a month so time is up in Nov. They've been bought by Armstrong and very stupidly did not see the writing on the wall when they stated that USADA is illegitimate. If they continue to claim this then they draw attention to their own complicity. My bet is that they'll accept the USADA report and cut Armstrong loose for good - out of pure self-preservation.
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If the emphasis is on WINNING (and, of course, it is), then why not just make doping LEGAL? Every sport nowadays has its technological advancements in equipment -- titanium bats & tennis rackets, super-slippery swimsuits, etc., etc. The athletes, I'm sure, take vitamins and supplements in hopes of increasing the odds of achieving their ultimate goal -- WINNING. Why not just make doping legal? They could even have separate competition categories for dopers and non-dopers, so that those who don't want to fuck up their bodies with drugs don't have to.
|by Anonymous
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They say that Lance was not a nice person, so I guess what goes around, comes around.
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Try To Keep Up Fellow Dataloungers: Every day brings more news, well Lance loves publicity: so he must be thrilled post retirement with so much media attention. Nike has now been joined by Anheuser-Busch/Michelob Ultra, FRS energy drinks, Trek Bicycles, Giro Helmets, RadioShack, HoneyStinger energy foods as "Official Terminators of Lance Related Promotion".
Free at last, well that took like forever, plus in item noted below: Rupert Murdoch wants his million back. Legal note: I believe that more than a million is involved here, as in Europe you are allowed to collect damages for the related legal fees incurred. Now funds are cut-off, promotions end, lawsuits by someone with a Major Grudge, owner of a huge media empire & all the money necessary to get even bigtime. Gee, are there any races left that LA controls that he could have de-sanctioned so he can still be "a winner"? As Always ; M
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Is Livestrong over?
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"I remember how we spat on the French when they started talking about Armstrong's drug problem years ago."
Did we? I thought there has been gossip on Armstrong's doping for YEARS, but they could never nail him.
|by Anonymous
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This man is totally evil - he should go to prison for the rest of his life and have his fortune stripped and turned over to his victims. He is a typical narcissist asshole.
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Having led The Internet War Against Lance, I hope everyone finally realizes he was a nasty vindictive bitch to everyone.
LiveWrong/CheatStrong just went on attack mode in his entitled rockstar life until he came to believe that no one would ever succeed in stripping him of all his undeserved fame.
He wasn't the greatest cyclist in history, LA was the greatest Cheater in Cycling History. And LiveStrong was about LanceAwareness, not helping cancer victims, it was a cross promotion of marketing "cancer profiteering".
Outside Mag covered him extensively in 4 articles, one is linked below. the comment board was ruled at first by LA's PR team & trolls until I took it over.
I am NotaFanOfLieStrong, it was me, read the comments, I did it. I wasn't trolling, I was fighting for the truth, for justice for all the people LA destroyed on his ramapage to be The Queen Of All Cheaters in Cycling.
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I will comfort him.
Endlessly. Deeply. Repeatedly.
|by Anonymous
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I'm one of the people who didn't believe that Lance doped!
But it now all seems to be coming apart, including with two Australian former pro-cyclists admitting that they doped.
|by Anonymous
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The worst part of all of my hard work in The Internet War Against Lance is the payoff is having to side with Rupert Murdoch in his bid to get back that libel money back which LiveWrong/CheatStrong extorted from him.
What kind of sick world is this anyway?
I never thought it could be possible that I could process that thought: Rupert Murdoch has been wronged.
The WSJ reported that LA still got between 15 to 18 million buckaroos from all the sponsors who are now shocked, totally shocked! To discover he is a liar, a cheat, a prick, & now they will take action.
Lot of money in lying & cheating there LA. Pack it all up in your remaining ball & store for all the lawsuits yet to come.
|by Anonymous
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Maybe it's me but i've always thought any so-called good athlete cheated. All those at the top cheat to get there. I never have admired any of them because the great athletes have never existed. They were long overrun by the cheaters. Only an idiot would admire a facade.
|by Anonymous
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How awful, no instead of having 25 million he'll only have 23 million. How will he pay his bills?
|by Anonymous
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Here is Brother Armstrong's 5-minute speech at the Livestrong anniversary celebration tonight. He is greeted by a (mostly) standing ovation from a friendly crowd.
Sounds like he still intends to work with the organization even though he has stepped down from the chairmanship role.
I really wonder though if in the long run it is in their best interest to still have him as the face of their foundation.
|by Anonymous
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He committed perjury, too. Someone posted a link to this Australian TV doc on Armstrong in which they show him lie under oath. Can he be prosecuted for that.
It's interesting how cool he appears lying through his teeth. I wonder what his psychological damage is.
|by Anonymous
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I wish he hadn't shattered my childhood dreams.
|by Anonymous
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the fucker should have to pay everyone back along with all his winnings .......put the fucker in jail CHEAT
|by Anonymous
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Livestrong is an online link bait machine - exactly what you would expect from a cheating liar like Armstrong. That they troll for donations is grotesque.
|by Anonymous
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I just read "The Secret Race" by Tylor Hamilton and Daniel Coyle, an absolutely brilliant book.
It outlines the whole "industry" of doping in cycling and how Armstrong didn't just dope (like everyone else) but he was the ringleader of the doping. He basically "obliged" the rest of his team to dope. His famous seven wins and, as r31 says, Livestrong "charity" were all about increasing his status and his power. He was also vindictive, aggressive and threatening to anyone he couldn't 100% manipulate. Armstrong has his fingers in a lot of pies and is involved in all sorts of strange, hidden dealings, interrelations, investments, with so many people in his pocket.
The UCI is also fully implicated in all this and was happy to allow Armstrong to dope and cover it up for him, as he fuelled their status and the "power" of the UCI's members too. They know pretty much everything and don't care because doping makes for more "astonishing" results. One of the few times in the past decade they have bothered to "out" a doper was Tylor Hamilton, because Lance Armstrong put them on to it.
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The documentary at r48 is also very revealing. It reminds us that not just the doping "rumours" but also sworn evidence about Armstrong and doping has been available for years, yet everyone in an institutional position of authority turned a blind eye to it. It shows how Armstrong's financial rewards were more than just sponsorship but insurance payouts - each successive year he won an insurance company would pay out double the initial fee: for the first year he was given 2.5 million dollars, the next year 5 million, etc. (I might have the actual figures wrong, but it's something like that).
The man whose face you see in the still is cycling commentator Phil Liggot, a big Armstrong acolyte. He apparently claimed that federal investigators paid people to lie and falsely accuse Armstrong. Liggot used to co-commentate with former cycling pro Phil Sherwin, who now runs a goldmine in Uganda which both Armstrong and Liggot have invested in.
So, Armstrong's doping and connections, the extent and nature of his relations with people in the "cycling industry" and the entire setup of professional cycling was not just arranged to get him to win and today to protect him, but so all these individuals could do "deals", make connections, increase their power, get "charities" such as Livestrong to pay to fly them around the world and stay in charming hotels. It's way more than just doping and cheating.
R46, we're not just talking the level of 23 or 25 million dollars here, but at least 100 million dollars. The money trail is a labyrinth.
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He's a modern day hero. Getting rich and living off the support of his worshippers who fell for his PR lies.
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He's my hero.
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The sports industry is full of cheats and major amounts of drugs...every race horse that runs is loaded
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people ruin everything
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Doping is an easy way to not only win, but get what's connected with the win (the endorsement deals, the PR, the interviews, etc.).
Who needs integrity when you are a winner thanks to doping and still keep all the fame and money that came with the winning?
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But what's worse, R58, is that the other competitors are compelled to dope or look like they're standing still. It's a no-win situation. They're not doping to win per se, but to just be 'competitive' in a totally unrealistic field.
R53, fascinating stuff. If only the pair could make their cycling commentary even a tenth as interesting.
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I, for one, am thrilled. I've always hated this asshole since the time I heard him make a homophobic joke at an awards ceremony.
|by Anonymous
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R53, I always knew cycling was a dirty sport, but to know the Liggot is part of the conspiracy is just mind boggling. I've been watching cycling since Lemond won his 1st Tour de France. What a shitty sport!
|by Anonymous
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Whatever. I'm still better than all of you.
|by Anonymous
|reply 62
Wow. That Australian documentary was riveting! Too bad 60 Minutes didn't get the jump on them...
|by Anonymous
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Seems like a technicality now, but International Cycling Union agreed with USADA today and officially stripped Lance of his titles and banned him from the sport for life.
|by Anonymous
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Well Free At Last, Stripped of All Of His Titles By The UCI, too!
"Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life on Monday after the International Cycling Union (UCI) ratified the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (USADA) sanctions against the American.
"Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling," UCI President Pat McQuaid told a news conference.
"Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling."
formercriminalprosecutor leading The Internet Battle Against LiveWrong/Cheat Strong
|by Anonymous
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[quote]Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling.
So someone else can take over and be the doping kingpin of the cycling sport on the downlow.
|by Anonymous
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Lance Armstrong should be hung by the one ball he has left.
|by Anonymous
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Poor Lance. I think I'll send him a wreath.
|by Anonymous
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People should send all the ribbons back to him and his manager.
|by Anonymous
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L'Affaire de Lance c'est finis. Tant pis, C'est dommage. Bienvenu.. Je suis enchanté de faire votre connaissance! Merci beaucoup pour la lecture. Je suis très reconnaissant que vous êtes intéressé: Comme toujours ; M
Did you know LieStrong is part owner of HoneyStingers? The de-Lancing must have been so very awkward...
|by Anonymous
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The financial fallout begins:
Dallas-based sports insurer that paid Lance Armstrong $7.5 million for â04 Tour de France win wants money back
Now that Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France victories by the International Cycling Union, this latest bit of news should come as no surprise. But SCA Promotions, the LBJ Freeway-based sports-insurance company forced to pay Armstrong a $7.5-million bonus following his 2004 win, wants its money back. And if itâs not returned sooner than later, SCA will file suit against Armstrong.
âIf the moneyâs not returned,â says SCAâs external counsel, attorney Jeffrey Tillotson, âthe company will pursue all legal avenues to get it repaid.â
Earlier today BBC Sports reported that Armstrong had till October 29 to pay it back. Tillotson says, no, thatâs not the case: âWe just now got the UCI action, so we have not yet made a formal demand on him. We will. And if he doesnât comply, the company will pursue all legal avenues.â
For those who donât recall, SCA tried years ago to keep from paying Armstrong the bonus, claiming at the time the evidence was mighty strong that Armstrong wasnât clean. As our Michael Grabell and Cathy Harasta reported at the time, what began as a contract dispute in 2004 âmorphed into the closest thing to a trial of Lance Armstrong in the U.S., with Armstrong victorious.â In â06 they reached a settlement, and SCA had to pay that bonus on behalf of Tailwind Sports, which owned the U.S. Postal Service team.
âWe had a contract that said so long as he was the official winner, we were required to pay him the bonus,â says Tillotson. âWe raised concerns about whether he was cheating, Mr. Armstrongâs legal team said, âWho cares, heâs the official winner,â so we paid the bonus. They have now judged heâs no longer the winner, so we want to recoup our payment.â
Tillotson calls the decision to ask for the $7.5 million âa very bittersweet moment,â given the contentious battle over the money six years ago. But it had to happen, he says. Because âheâs no longer the official winner of anything.â SCA, he says, may issue a longer statement in coming days.
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WHy are they only asking for the bonus back? Every cent paid to Armstrong and his team should be returned as it was obtained by means of fraud. And, given he was sponsored by the US taxpayer via US post, I assume the government is lining up for its refund as well?
|by Anonymous
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It's the first organization asking for its money back. The floodgates will open.
|by Anonymous
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I'd like to know exactly what he has taken.
That information seems to be a bit scarce.
|by Anonymous
|reply 74
Thanks for the help, fellow dataloungers.
All questions will answered as to the lawsuits.
NotaFanofLieStrong is Me.
4 more sites to read.
I was very busy Leading The Internet War Against LiveWrong/CheatStrong.
Victory, Free At Last.
Yellow is back to The Color of Cowards, Liestrong lacks the ball to beat the rap. Insurance fraud is a crime, too. As well as income tax evasion.
Enjoy. More to come.
|by Anonymous
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I even emailed his best friend & biggest supporter Dan of Slowtwitch to make sure Lance knew it was me who did it.
Flame that idiot.
I will give you his email address.
He is like The Official Lance Apologist Still Blaming Everyone Else For LieStrong's Unfair Treatment.
Almost as fun as getting the Saintly Father Brian Cox, pedophile priest arrested, sentenced, jailed & finally defrocked.
Except that involved 9 year old boys who were trying to kill themselves, becoming rentboys to buy the drugs to kill the pain. So it wasn't all that comic, unless you like the part when the Archdiocese was threatening to have me disbarred every day. Got The Judges who were members of St. John's to tell me to lay off The Saintly Father Brian, too.
Felt it was stupid to care about what happened to "mentally ill faggots". Their lives were worthless compared to The Saintly Father Brian. A hate campaign against those ruined kids conducted in the Letters To The Editor section of The Carroll County Times.
That's what they were saying on the talkshow, too all day long.
Only positive review I got after the fact was from Touchstone Magazine.
As Always ; M
|by Anonymous
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Here is another one, NotaFanofLieStrong is me. Avatar is photo of me.
Just read the comments.
|by Anonymous
|reply 77
Everyone dopes/doped. All cyclists should give back all of their earnings, starting with all the tour winners.
If you go after one, you have to go after all.
|by Anonymous
|reply 78
More details about the De-Lancing.
Must I do everything around here?
Read the comments.
|by Anonymous
|reply 79
Read the comments.
I hate injustice.
He just wouldn't quit attacking some bike mechanic until the guy had a nervous breakdown & fled the country.
|by Anonymous
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No Greg LeMond was clean, Trek dropped him when he outed LiveWrong/CheatStrong.
I am fixing that, too.
Read the comments.
|by Anonymous
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I hate this prick so much.
|by Anonymous
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Greg Lemond was clean. Trek dropped dropped him for outing LieStrong.
I am settling that score, too.
Read the comments, all the answers are there.
Must I do eveything?
|by Anonymous
|reply 83
More ways I Led The Internet War Against LiveWrong/CheatStrong.
Read the comments.
NotaFanofLieStrong is me.
Avatar in black lace is photo of me.
Meryl is a great actress & all.
But I destroyed LieStrong.
I controlled every board, Gawker, Daily Beast, France, SlowTwitch, I did this for weeks.
It was me, your M
Read the comments.
|by Anonymous
|reply 84
On Deadspin I was FanofGood Featured commentator.
Click on thre link, my last comment is still up first, as it contains all the info you seek.
That HoneyStinger Energy Food thing is part owned by Liestrong. So that must have been the last rat off the sinking ship.
Board meeting, awkward much?
|by Anonymous
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On Deadspin I was FanofGood
Featured commentator
|by Anonymous
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Flame this asshole, Dan Empfield. Lance's boyhood friend. Official Lance Apologist.
Let him know I sent you there.
Want his private email address?
Cause this isn't over until every person LiveWrong/CheatStrong destroyed, extorted, lied to, all of is settled.
I am not a quitter.
LieStrong ran home with only 1 ball.
|by Anonymous
|reply 87
You should look into a Tig Notaro and the money she says she is donating to cancer. She says she was cured of stage 2 aggressive cancer in one month. No followup treatment. She's a strange case of con artistry. Great work with outing Lane Armstrong.
|by Anonymous
|reply 88
Thank you for the shout out,
Very kind of you. I was proud of myself for ruling countless comment boards dominated by his paid trolls, as well as Loonied4Lance.
Never quit never back done from the fight. LieStrong hates gays, just another reason why I despise him.
If anyone wants to support Dallas Drake's Center Fof Homicide Research, which trains Police Departments in how to work with LGBT youth, I have provided a link for donations to this good cause. That is also where I asked readers in The Internet War Against LieStrong to donate instead of to TheLanceAwarenessFoundation.
He also has a facebook page, you can donate to him there, too. He knows me, I sent him more money then he asked for when his funding had been drastically cut by the financial crisis.
Will put up that link as well.
Yes, LGBT youth are one of my endless causes. Hopeless do-gooder.
|by Anonymous
|reply 89
Facebook page of Center for Homicide Research.
When I was Leading The Internet War against LieStrong,I would ask people to support a better cause: Dallas Drake's Center For Homicide Research.
He knows me as I sent him more than he needed to keep going after the financial crisis came & his funding was dropping.
He does outreach to LGBT youth, as well as training Police Departments on how to handle cases involving LGBT youth with greater sensitivity.
Your endless do-gooder never quits.
|by Anonymous
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Reissue the Tour de France Awards
Posted by Ted Rall on Monday, October 22, 2012 at 6:11 am
I don't typically weigh in on sports, but the French agency that conducts the Tour de France has stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles, and has decided to leave no winner listed for those years.
That is wrong.
The prize obviously should go to the runners up.
As a cartoonist and columnist, II am aware of the fact that several previous Pulitzer Prize winners are plagiarists and/or hacks whose malfeasance is so over-the-top that they should be stripped of their Pulitzers.
It was bad enough for the legitimate cartoonists who deserved to win to be passed up at the time. But clearly, when a prize is stripped from someone for cheating, that prize should be properly and reawarded to the honest professional who was passed up at the time. Not to do so is to pretend that the agency that issued the award had not made a mistake at the time, when in fact they did.
|by Anonymous
|reply 91
From TMZ
Lance Armstrong was spotted today, crying into a bag of money, while screaming, "Now I only have 24 million dollars," while thousands of beautiful women offered to sleep with him.
|by Anonymous
|reply 92
I don't have time to read TMZ, sorry.
Was solving a child murder, dismemberment thing.
I'll try to keep up on LieStrong.
I did post on Outside Mag some more as my comments are very popular there.
I put up yummy photos for Dataloungers in my River Phoenix post, in response to questions as to Leo C's sexual orientation.
Here is what I was doing today, do check out photos in River Phoenix Post.
|by Anonymous
|reply 93
Here was my source if you just want to see the photos that are Leo C posed for when he was trying to get your attention.
As opposed to professional beards, aspiring models, starlets, etc.
|by Anonymous
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1984 Olympic wrestler Jeff Blatnick just died, but Lance lives...
|by Anonymous
|reply 95
I get all my celebrity gossip from Michael K of DListed.
Not TMZ or Radar, children please.
CheatWrong/LiveStrong is wearing Asics now. Who cares?
Also P. Diddy was in car accident. Yawn.
Bert Fields, celebrity attorney is suing on behalf of CoS Father of The Year, Tom Cruise, noting that Tom doesn't file lawsuits, that is why he pays Bert Fields.
You made me look, that was awful.
|by Anonymous
|reply 96
What the fuck is going on in this thread?!
|by Anonymous
|reply 97
@ Ted Rall, I don't follow you at all here. I have stated that Greg Lemond is the winner for calling LieStrong out along time ago. Have also stated that Trek owes him financial compensation for dropping him as a result.
What does that have to do with political cartoons? I only know 1 such animal, KAL, as my son went to elementary school with his kid & KAL got on my nerves, fast.
Gee, did you know he went to Harvard, yes, you mentioned that 3 times ago. And worked as street busker, that is so interesting, really. And also For The London Economist, you are very deep.
Ted you are a bit older yet part of the generation hip crowd defined by Dave Eggers/McSweeny et al. Hope shot you took at Pat Tillman was a whole lot of yucks. My life's dream was once to have a cartoon in The New Yorker, but dreams die hard.
My son was a protege of David Foster Wallace, who made up stuff all the time in his non-fiction pieces. The cruise ship bit was a marvel of things that could never have happened & he is still worshipped forever as the literary analogue to Kurt Cobain.
I have my own blog now, with over 1,000 unique page views a day. So it is my personal gallery display of my thought on social injustice, gender inequality, criminal profiling, have a look. Down below.
|by Anonymous
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Don't let let the hater R88 influence you. Cancer warrior and acclaimed comic, Tig Notaro, really is sick and has turned her illnesses to art. I just watched her tape "Live" for the tenth time and it just gets better with every listen. Best money I ever spent. She beat cancer and doesn't need the stress of haters like R88.
You can now download Tig's tape on Itunes. AWESOME!
|by Anonymous
|reply 99
haters suck. Tig Rocks. Her tape was the best purchase I ever made. Support Tig Notaro you guys!
|by Anonymous
|reply 100
Back on topic, the ass just tweeted this yesterday. No shame at all.
|by Anonymous
|reply 101
He STILL hasn't come clean, has he?
|by Anonymous
|reply 102
Sorry to be off topic. I just thought it fair that I protect Tig when she is attacked.
|by Anonymous
|reply 103
He's too busy spending the millions he already made and having sex with beautiful Olsen twins to be concerned what anyone here thinks.
|by Anonymous
|reply 104
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*Rating: Mr. Tiger Goes Wild is a super, cute picture book that sends the message to children that they need to listen to their heart and become individuals. It's also okay to miss your friends and love them for whom they are! I was lucky enough to see Peter Brown in person in St. Peters, MO, at a library presentation. He is a very funny speaker and a talented artist. It was a great night. Although my husband said to him at the book signing: "Now my daughter is going to want to take her clothes off and run wild in the jungle." Oh, so not true–but Peter did apologize. My daughter is now in love with this very cute book.
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text: SOELDEN, Austria (Oct. 13 - Ski Racing Magazine News Service) - The leaves are just starting to fall across the U.S. but World Cup racing isn't waiting as the competitive season is set to kick off next weekend (Oct. 22-23) with women's and men's giant slalom races in Soelden, Austria.The team of three women selected to represent the U.S. has already made its way to Austria to get a few runs on the Rettenbach glacier ahead of their race next Saturday. World Cup veterans Lindsey Vonn, Julia Mancuso and Sarah Schleper will get things started, hoping to build on some promising GS results from last season."We just brought athletes that are able to be top-10, top-five or podium skiers, that is the goal," said U.S. Women's Alpine head coach Alex Hoedlmoser. "We'll let the younger girls continue to train for the bulk of the season without too much travel time."Hoedlmoser is confident his squad of experienced racers is ready for their return to the big show."The prep period was really good this year, we had excellent conditions in New Zealand and Chile. The girls are prepared, they have been testing a lot of equipment working on the setups with the skis and boots," continues Hoedlmoser. "I think we made pretty good progress and the girls are skiing well so we just need to bring the speed and go out there and present our selves with confidence. It's always a little bit difficult going into the first race because everybody is a little bit nervous and nobody really knows where we are in relation to the other teams."Three-time World Cup overall champion Vonn echoed her coach's feeling of anticipation for the new season. "Soelden is one of the toughest giant slalom hills we race all season, it's definitely the steepest hill and also pretty intimidating, especially being the first race of the season and having it be so difficult," said Vonn. "It always makes me a little bit nervous in the starting gate."Vonn will look to build on the momentum she gained last season when she secured her first career World Cup GS podium finish (third in Spindleruv Mlyn), adding the final missing piece to her collection of 79 top-three results in other disciplines."Spindleruv was a huge breakthrough for me to finally get my first podium in giant slalom and was definitly a big step. I have a lot more confidence in myself now and I know that I can be in the top three," said Vonn. "I've been training a lot of GS this summer, in New Zealand I focused heavily on GS and slalom and I feel like I am skiing really well right now so hopefully I can carry over my confidence from last season into this season. It will help a lot that I'm starting in the top 15, starting numbers are so important in GS."Mancuso, who recorded a second-place finish in Soelden in 2007, is coming off her best season in three years with goals to continue the climb in 2012 starting next weekend."I like the course, when I'm skiing well it's a good spot for me," said Mancuso. "I think this year, just building off of my results last year in GS, I'll be looking forward to the race. It's kind of one of those cool races where if you do well you can really feed off it and if you don't do so well you can kind of forget about it and just look forward to the rest of the season. It's a cool place to go test everything out and get the first race out of the way."For Mancuso, who spends most of the off season in Hawaii, the change of gears provides a reminder of what ski racing is all about."Austria is a great ski country, after a long summer of kincking back and training in Maui, where no body really knows what ski racing is, I get over here and there are little girls asking for your autograph in the grocery store," said Mancuso. "You are reminded that skiing is kind of a big deal in Europe and a cool job and kind of brings back the race jitters and the feeling of being an athlete and role model."Schleper opted to return to dry-land training during the team's trip to Chile but flew to Europe early to tune up for the opening of the competitive season."With [Schleper] and her experience, we need to make sure that she gets quality training and she doesn't need all that volume that the young ones need," said Hoedlmoser. "She knows what she needs and when her body needs rest and that was the reason we skipped Chile for her. She showed some really strong skiing in New Zealand and that was very promising. She is a veteran, she knows what it takes to get back on the podium and she seems very motivated and determined and ready to really kick out a good season."Be sure to check SkiRacing.com often next week as we will be posting all the latest breaking news from the World Cup kick off events and races live from Soelden.This content is courtesy of Ski Racing Magazine, any reproduction must carry a credit to the publication.


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One of the main reasons the Sicilian is the most popular opening is that is it promotes such bold and aggressive chess. But as White it's not enough just to attack; you must do so in the right way, using the appropriate weapons. In this book Yury Lapshun and Nick Conticello introduce, categorize and analyse the "Seven Deadly Sacrifices" White has at his disposal.
EBOOK - Seven Ways to Smash the Sicilian
Grandmaster and well-known Sicilian Dragon expert Simon Williams takes a totally fresh look at this famous opening. Concentrating on his favorite Dragadorf Variation, Williams constructs a cutting-edge repertoire for Black, one which is perfect for the modern Dragon player who wishes to cause his opponents maximum problems in the opening.
EBOOK - The New Sicilian Dragon
The Catalan is a sophisticated and wide-ranging opening system which is popular at all levels of chess. In recent years it has been catapulted into the limelight by Vladimir Kramnik, who has revitalized it with many new ideas and has utilized it with great success against the world's strongest players - on occasion making it look like a forced win for White!
EBOOK - Play the Catalan
Learn from Topalov, Geller, Bronstein, Alekhine and Morphy
Short Description for Chess Secrets : The Giants of Power Play - B0288EM
EBOOK - Chess Secrets - The Giants of Power Play
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov are unquestionably the participants who featured in the greatest ever chess rivalry. Between 1984 and 1990 they contested five long matches for the World Championship. This 3rd volume of the 'Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess' series concentrates on the third and fourth matches in this sequence: London/Leningrad 1986 and Seville 1987. Both matches were tremendously exciting and hard fought and both produced chess of an extremely high level.
EBOOK - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
The Budapest Gambit is an ambitious and adventurous opening for Black, who offers a pawn as early as the second move in return for active and rapid development. It has always been a particular favorite at club level, where it still provides a surprise weapon, but it has also been utilized with success by top-class Grandmasters.
EBOOK - The Budapest Gambit
In recent years the Scandinavian has been catapulted into the limelight, and it has now firmly established itself as an opening to be reckoned with. Why has it become popular? Because it's easy to play!
EBOOK - Starting Out - The Scandinavian
Some players seem to be naturally gifted at chess. Almost effortlessly they seem to know what to do in every position. They recognize the best squares for their pieces; they know whether to seize the initiative with a bold attack or play quietly; whether to trade pieces or avoid exchanges; how to exploit opponents' weaknesses while minimizing the effect of their own - they make it look all too easy!
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Perhaps it's time for a change and here's the answer: choose Dangerous Weapons and amaze your opponents with new and exciting opening ideas! In this book, three renowned opening experts get together to take a revolutionary look at the Dutch Defense, one of Black's most ambitious answers to 1. d4. In doing so they take the road less traveled and concentrate on fresh or little-explored variations - selecting a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both colors.
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A Step-By-Step Guide to Brilliant Chess
The Modern Defence is an ambitious, counter-attacking choice for Black which can be played against all mainline openings. In typical hypermodern style, Black allows White to occupy the centre and then undermines this centre by attacking it with pawns and pieces. In this book, Cyrus Lakdawala examines the key variations of the Modern Defence. He shares his experience and knowledge, presents a repertoire for Black and provides answers to all the key questions.
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Attacking the Kings on Opposite Sides
Both players are gunning for each other's kings. Whose attack will break through first? This is a typical scenario in chess games. In such tense battles where one slip can be fatal, often it's a case of 'who dares wins'. But it's not enough to throw your pieces up the board and hope for the best. To succeed you need to acquire sophisticated attacking and defensive skills. The good news is that they can easily be learned, remembered and put into practice.
EBOOK - Who Dares Wins!
The Reti is a popular opening at all levels of chess. The great advantage it possesses over other openings is that it's a thematic system which can be adopted against many different defences, and because of this it's a firm favourite amongst those who prefer the understanding of ideas over dry memorization of moves.
EBOOK - Starting Out - The Reti
'Open Games' refer to a myriad of openings arising after the ever-popular 1 e4 e5: the Italian Game, the Scotch, The Two Knights Defence, the King's Gambit, the Evans Gambit, the Bishop's Opening, the Four Knights, the Petroff and much more besides.
EBOOK - Starting Out - Open Games
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EBOOK - Alekhine Alert
The main reason why we lose at chess is no big secret: we all make unnecessary mistakes! But simply acknowledging this fact isn't enough to help us improve. The big question is, how can we eliminate these mistakes from our game, or at least keep them to an absolute minimum?
EBOOK - Why we Lose at Chess
Mistakes are often made in the early part of the game - at all levels of chess - but a key skill is to recognize these critical moments as they happen and to exploit them with maximum efficiency. This is a skill which Grandmaster Simon Williams addresses in this book. Using instructive and entertaining games in which one side wins quickly, he examines all the typical mistakes chess players make in the opening and early middlegame, how you should look to exploit them, and how to avoid falling into similar traps yourself.
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Grandmaster John Emms presents a repertoire for White after 1 e4 e5, based on the Italian Game and the Bishop's Opening. The lines he recommends are built upon a sound yet aggressive system of development which can be deployed against virtually every Black defence.
EBOOK - Beating 1. e4 e5
In this book grandmaster Nigel Davies provides that direction. He examines the methods used by a number of players who were looking to improve their game, and how they went about achieving their goal. He has drawn heavily on the games and thoughts of players who have been his students over the years and experienced a clear improvement in their play.
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It's no secret why the London System is such a popular opening, especially at club level. White's development plan is very easy to learn, and it can be employed against virtually any defence. What's more, depending on mood, style or opponent, White can choose either to attack directly or to instigate a more positional strategy. Many players admit they hate facing the London System, which is surely another good reason to play it!
EBOOK - Play the London System
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1988-2009
Between 1984 and 1990 Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested five long matches for the World Championship. This fourth volume of the series 'Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess' concentrates on all the games played between the two from 1988 to the present day and features their fifth World Championship match played in New York and Lyon 1990.
EBOOK - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME IV
Finding a suitable defence to 1 d4 isn't an easy task, especially if you don't have endless time available to study all the latest theoretical developments. If you choose fashionable openings, it's imperative to keep pace with modern theory if you want to succeed with Black.
EBOOK - How to play against 1. d4
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EBOOK - Mastering Chess Strategy
A Guide to Chess Improvement features the very best of Dan Heisman's multi-award winning chess column Novice Nook, which has run for the past ten years at a popular website. This book is full of valuable instruction, insight and practical advice on a wide range of key subjects: general improvement, thought processes, planning and strategy, tactics, endgame play, technique, time management and much more.
E-BOOK A Guide to Chess Improvement
An Opening Repertoire for Black Based on the Leningrad Variation
There's no doubt that the Dutch Defence is one of Black's most enterprising answers to 1 d4. Black strives to unbalance the position by creating an asymmetrical pawn structure on the very first move, giving himself every opportunity to fight for the initiative from the outset. It's no surprise that the Dutch particularly appeals to ambitious players who relish a complicated battle.
EBOOK - Play the Dutch
ng's Indian remains a hugely popular opening - unsurprising given the attacking opportunities it offers. In many of the ultra-sharp main lines, White wins the queenside battle but this often turns out to be a Pyrrhic victory as Black wins the war by checkmating on the kingside! Black is hunting the enemy king and - in practical play - this gives him a psychological edge.
EBOOK - Attacking Chess - The King's Indian - VOLUME 1
Dazzle Your Opponents
Are you tired of playing the same old openings again and again? Perhaps it's time for a change: choose Dangerous Weapons and amaze your opponents with new and exciting opening ideas! In this book, three opening specialists get together to take a revolutionary look at the Caro-Kann. In doing so they take the road less travelled and concentrate on fresh or little-explored variations - selecting a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both colours.
EBOOK - Dangerous Weapons - Caro-Kann
There's no escaping the fact: if you want to win chess games, you have to attack at some point. Many players are happy solving combinations in winning positions, when the hard work is already done, but the key to a successful attack undoubtedly comes much earlier. No-one can attack effectively if they haven't prepared properly, and yet planning in chess can be a difficult technique to master, even for experienced players.
EBOOK - Prepare to Attack
The King's Indian remains a hugely popular opening at all levels of chess - unsurprising given the attacking opportunities it offers. In many of the ultra-sharp main lines, both sides can fight for the initiative. White frequently wins the queenside battle but this often turns out to be a Pyrrhic victory as Black wins the war by checkmating on the kingside!
E-BOOK Attacking Chess - The King's Indian - VOLUME 2
Former American Open Champion Cyrus Lakdawala presents a range of vicious weapons for White in a repertoire which is perfect for those who have little time for study, but enjoy taking opponents out of their comfort zones and causing them problems from the very beginning.
EBOOK - A Ferocious Opening Repertoire
Play ...g6, ....Bg7 and ...c5!
The Sniper is a dynamic and universal opening weapon for Black which can be used against all mainline openings. Black's system of development with ...g6 and ...Bg7 initially allows White to occupy the centre but, in true hypermodern style, Black strikes back immediately with ...c5. The Sniper can lead to original or barely-known positions in which Black can strive for the initiative. It's also rich in move-order possibilities, with potential transpositions into Sicilian, King's Indian or Benko-type positions.
EBOOK - The Sniper
Weapons Against the Ruy Lopez
Former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor presents weapons for Black against the hugely popular Spanish Opening, with a repertoire based on the Modern Steinitz Defence. This has justifiably earned a reputation as an important alternative to the main lines, and it's easy to see its appeal. The Modern Steinitz can lead to razor-sharp positions, such as in the Siesta Variation, where one slip by either player could prove to be fatal. But a major attraction of the Modern Steinitz is its flexibility, and Black can also choose to play in a more positional manner.
EBOOK - Slay the Spanish
Enhance Your Chess Strategy and Psychology with Boris Gulko
Club players are unaware of the subtleties that exist in grandmaster chess. Grandmasters can analyse chess at a depth that is unfathomable to amateurs. Moreover, they have extensive knowledge of chess history and opening theory, as well extraordinary endgame technique and tactical vision. However, having reached such a high level can make it difficult to understand what is lacking in the mind of the amateur.
EBOOK - Lessons with a Grandmaster
Leading chess author Colin Crouch believes that the key to sustained chess improvement lies in the critical analysis and assessment of your own games. Each and every game you play provides a significant learning opportunity, and this opportunity should never be squandered.
EBOOK - Analyse Your Chess
A Dynamic Repertoire For Black
This will prove ideal for players who like to seize the initiative and cause problems for their opponents from the outset. Williams' recommendations in the French are based on his own repertoire which he has successfully employed at Grandmaster level.
EBOOK - Attacking Chess - The French
A Repertoire for Black against 1 d4
The Old Indian Defence is considered to be a sound way for Black to meet 1 d4. Some might argue that it is steady rather than spectacular, but is this reputation totally deserved? Grandmaster Alexander Cherniaev strongly disagrees, and in this book he introduces ambitious and aggressive ways for Black to play in the main lines. He constructs an improved version of a repertoire he has himself utilized with great success against grandmaster opposition. Using illustrative games, he studies the fundamental tactical and positional ideas for both sides, and also covers what to do if White avoids the Old Indian.
EBOOK - The New Old Indian
This is a new series which provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, Move by Move greatly encourages the learning and practicing of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge.
EBOOK - The Slav - Move by Move


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I had Mohs surgery to remove BCC 8 weeks ago, on the nasal ala. It was repaired with a rhomboid flap which is still elevated by the crease. Will this improve over time? Or would dermabrasion improve this, and can it be effective if done 6 months from the original mohs surgery date?
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Dermabrasion Too Late at 8 Weeks
No, eight weeks is not too late. Generally, you want to dermabrade a wound that is young and still actively producing and modifying collagen, but not too young that the trauma of dermabrasion causes problems to the incision line. So most studies suggest the optimal time would be around 8-12 weeks after surgery. But the question is whether you need dermabrasion. Dermabrasion works best for softening the transition from scar to the surrounding skin. It's hard to tell from the photograph, but if the flap is elevated. A better option might be massage and intralesional steroids. Sometimes flaps like the rhombic flap may develop trapdoor scarring, which is basically scarring that is contracting beneath the flap and causing a bulge. This is especially a possibility over concave areas such as the alar crease. So go back to the doctor that did the reconstruction and see what your best option is.
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In addition, you may want to ask your doctor about cortisone injections to help soften the puffy area as this may be a potential treatment for a puffy flap.
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Dermabrasion 6 months after repair is not too late!!! The flap will improve with time, but dermabrasion may help improve more quickly. You may also want to ask your surgeon about steroid injections. Sometimes, however, neither dermabrasion nor steroids will help the swollen area and the only thing that will help is flap contouring, which will require an incision to "debulk" the flap.
Dermabrasion for a flap after Mohs surgery on the nose
No it's not too late to do a dermabrasion IF it's warranted. It appears from this frontal view that the flap is only slighlty elevated and your surgeon did a very good job, but of course we can't examine you. If there is a slight elevation, which does increase because of "pincushioning" or if the flap stays the same, dermabrasion may not be indicated as it would thin out the good skin of the flap when in reality you wouldn't want the surface changed but the infrastructure of the flap. If the edge of the flap, or the incision, is slightly depressed as a groove then dermabrasion can help improve, but not eliminate, the line. There are other treatments including Fraxel laser than can help the incision scar. The thickness or elevation of the flap can be addressed at times with injections and surgical revision to thin out the flap. All treatments have risks so discuss them carefully with your surgeon.
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