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trebert wrote:So I, like many of you, worked my a$$ off trying various things and nothing worked. It pissed me off, and forced me to stay up till 2am (not that late, but later than I wanted to be up). By the way, a message to whomever decided to put that precaution in: I can understand you are worried about safety and those who would do "nasty" things, but to block every single command/parameter except for the right answer and a variation thereof seems extreme and excessive . I'm a "code-by-doer," and so to constantly see the "I'm sorry, you can't even see what that command does" error was ridiculously frustrating. I felt like I was firing in the dark at a tin can: I could only tell whether or not I hit the can, not any information as to where I was aiming/how much I was missing by. I'll leave my frustration-venting rant at that.
But for those of you who were like me, I leave you the following pieces of advice (hopefully none will be censored )
*Don't be discouraged by those who say "omg it's so simple wow I feel so dumb now," because some might be better at certain things/get lucky. It's a tough challenge, hence it being number 8 of 10... Just keep at it, and hopefully you'll find the light through the smoke
*It was posted once before on this forum, and was the thing that cracked it for me, so I will repeat it here. It's a fairly significant help, and it might be censored, but the fact is, you don't need to be in a directory to view it's files. So search around to get a better idea how one might do that. http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uls.htm was the site that was most helpful for me.
*If you've read this far in the forum, well done! That shows perseverance. There is enough actual command hints in this forum that, when put together yield what you're looking for. So that narrows down the permutations at least
guitarshredder32 wrote:i tried entering a code and i got a message "If you are trying to use server side includes to solve the challenge, you are on the right track: but I have limited the commands allowed to ones relevant towards finding the password file for security reasons(because there will always be that one person who decides to execute some rather nasty commands). So please manipulate your code so that it is a little more pertaining to the level."
I don't know what to do. i haven't even been able to see any files and i've been at this for 2+hours.
Any Hints would be nice.
EDIT: i use the echo command btw, just wanted to throw that out, tell me if that is wrong please. i don't even think that it is called the echo command, but i don't know much ssi, just from the websites.
:'( me noob (just sarcasm)
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Occasionally, amidst the rapid rise and fall of trends, fashion and fancy, we are faced with true revolution: paradigm shifts that throw out excess baggage of some kind and usher in new ways of thinking and seeing altogether. The catch is that you need to have the benefit of hindsight to truly measure their effectiveness. With this in mind, I believe that the interaction design community is witnessing an important revolution — an 'IxD Bauhaus' of sorts.
I'd like to start with architecture and its recent history, and then compare it with current changes in the way interaction design is being conceived and made. Lastly I'd like to discuss the effects of such a revolution in architecture, and provoke thought on what the implications might be for the design of user experience.
Remembering the Bauhaus: a call to end ornamentation in the built environment
The Bauhaus Movement (1918-1933) was based on a German revival of a purer, honest design representation in architecture, art, typography and product design. Its philosophy celebrated an austere functionalism with little or no ornamentation. It advocated a use of industrial materials and inter-disciplinary methods and techniques. The Bauhaus aesthetic and beliefs were influenced by and derived from techniques and materials employed especially in industrial fabrication and manufacture. Artists included Paul Klee, Wassilli Kandinsky, and Feininger. Architects and designers included Mies Van der Rohe, Phillip Johnson, Walter Gropius, Lazlso Moholy-Nagy and several others.
Walter Gropius who at Columbia University (March, 1961) clarified the intention of the Bauhaus saying –
"The Bauhaus was not concerned with the formulation of timebound, stylistic concepts, and its technical methods were not ends in themselves. It was created to show how a multitude of individuals, willing to work concertedly but without losing their identity, could evolve a kinship of expression in their response to the challenges of the day. Its aim was to give a basic demonstration of how to maintain unity in diversity, and it did this with the materials, techniques, and form concepts germane to its time. It was this method of approach that was revolutionary…"
This movement was a true revolution because prior to its time, the built environment had bloated in stimuli, caused by an excess of decor and 'pastry-work'. As early as 1908, the Austrian architect Adolf Loos had said that architectural ornament was criminal, and his essay on that topic would become foundational to Modernism and eventually trigger the careers of Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto,Mies van der Rohe and Gerrit Rietveld and other Bauhaus masters. The Modernists embraced these equations—form follows function, ornament is crime—as moral principles, and they celebrated industrial artifacts like steel water towers and other 'Machine Age' construction as brilliant and beautiful examples of plain, simple design integrity.
The Bauhaus liberated construction from the excessive need for ornamentation as a means of expression, be it in art, typography, graphic design or architecture. One of the main objectives of the Bauhaus was to unify art, craft, and technology. It freed itself from the shackles of historical 'styling' and attempted to create a fresh order of primary principles. Such radical thinking enabled a celebration of the purity and honesty of structure and looking for truth in things be it on a 2-dimensional canvas or a building. Anyone who's marvelled at the Barcelona Pavillion or the Barcelona Chair (both designed by Van der Rohe) has experienced the essence of what the movement stood for.
The Bauhaus's philosophy was that form should follow function and all other distractions and decoration should be avoided. It wanted space to be experience for its purity, stripped off all the 'dirt' and clutter of decor. This is something that's been happening recently in the field of visual interaction design.
What's the 'IxD Bauhaus' about?
If you're the kind of interaction designer who starts getting a gradient-itch or delights in making buttons look like glass – think again. The times they are a-changin'.
There was a time when our sense of 'modern' in the user-interface was driven by concepts like these –
Examine the words used to describe such a concept – "… a rich palette of visual surfaces for the media player and taskbars, giving XP a unique, consistent design language that challenges the traditional digital media experience. Analog-style, "rubberized" buttons on the skin of Windows Media Player offer classic, intuitive navigation and avoid the hyper-technical feel of other online players. Brushed aluminum textures, rich colors, and dimensional lighting add a satisfying tactile quality to the user's online interactions, lending the experience a sense of the real." The term often used to describe this kind of UI is skeumorphic. If pre-industrial revolution construction suffered from 'nature-envy', skeumorphic visual user experiences suffer from 'object-envy'.
To quote an explanation from FastCompany's article on it – Skeuomorphic apps take pains to reference or mimic physical, real-world features in their user interfaces. Apple is the current king of this design style, enshrining skeuomorphics in its Human Interface Guidelines: "Whenever possible, add a realistic, physical dimension to your application. The more true to life your application looks and behaves, the easier it is for people to understand how it works and the more they enjoy using it."
It's tough to compete with a force as dominant as Apple, in the realm of beautiful user-experiences, but the release of the Windows Phone 7 design guideline (codenamed: Metro), an impending revolution has been made official. The new IxD Bauhaus' basic principle is that 'Form follows Data'.
Windows Phone's new design language is inspired by print in the digital age. Let's examine the words used by their team (extracted from Mike Kruzeniski's blog) to describe their UI design principles –
- Clean, Light, Open and Fast
- Alive in Motion
- Celebrate Typography
- Content, Not Chrome
- Authentically Digital
One could almost use these words to describe Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavillion, for example –
- Clean, Light, Open and Fast (Open space, pure exposed beautiful material)
- Alive in Motion (through albeit static sweeping horizontal lines in the design language)
- Celebrate Typography (celebrating structure – making it boldly present)
- Content, Not Chrome (no decor, just beautiful clean spaces)
- Authentically Digital (authentically physical)
There are so many examples that are beginning to exemplify this philosophy, some better than others. Examples of this 'IxD Bauhaus' (to name a few) are –
Flipboard for iPad, The Puma Phone,
The Fluid App for iPad and iPhone, Wired app for iPad
Some design their visual interaction with fiercely reductionist vigor. Others still show hints of a gradient itch. The revolution however, is definitely underway. Increasingly, our apps and OS's hint on letting us focus on our lives and tasks and 'getting the job done' by focussing on 'content rather than chrome'.
Increasingly, our apps and OS's hint on letting us focus on our lives and tasks and 'getting the job done' by focussing on 'content rather than chrome'.
This is an exciting and most welcome change in visual interaction design. It is also a huge challenge for designers, content-providers and business groups. Inorder to see the revolution thrive and prosper – all these interest groups need to work even more closely. We need to learn lessons from history and not make the same mistakes.
The Good, the Bad, and the Boxy: What can visual interaction designers learn from the Bauhaus?
The point of this article is not to acknowledge revolution. That's been done already and perhaps more eloquently. This stream of thought would like to probe the consequences of such a 'reductivist' philosophy and draw parallel lessons from history.
The Bauhaus movement had immeasurable value in shaping modern architecture and design to what it is today, but it also faced severe criticism. After living in them, or owning Bauhaus furniture – several found them to be too impersonal, sterile and devoid of any emotional value. All houses started to look vaguely similar, offices became cubicle graveyards while Bauhaus masterpiece-inspired furniture design knock-offs looked tacky and boring. Since the moved was fuelled by World War II and an industrial wave of mass production it killed 'craft' and ensured a sameness in the objects we started seeing around us. This was both good and bad.
Jacques Tati's 'Playtime' (1967) was a brilliant cinematic critique of the 'glass and steel' forest that modern life had become as a result of the Bauhaus.
Lets quickly summarize why the Bauhaus was important for design history, but was frequently criticized in people's lives –
- Not all material is worthy of celebration, not all content is beautiful too.
The Bauhaus movement was a huge challenge not only to designers but also to the people providing engineering, construction and material services. Everyone needed to up their game in order to make a beautiful chair, poster or building. Any compromise in quality ensured that material/content was revealed as poor in quality and tacky in appearance.In today's times business owners, content-providers and other interest groups need to do some serious soul searching to ensure that their content alone will carry their online experience through? Just like in the Bauhaus movement, bad quality wood looked tolerable when it was decorated or concealed. The moment one stripped them off decor – it exposed nothing but ugliness.
- Beauty is in the details, construction, and structure.A bad visual experience will now be judged, not by the beautiful 'glassiness' of its buttons, but by its inherent structure and little details that are made to manifest from inside out. Interaction designers and developers alike need to collaborate more closely to ensure that experiences are built inside-out, rather than designers applying 'skins' to a detached user-experience development platform. Wireframing experiences in close collaboration with developers and content-providers, detailing points of interaction without applying visual clutter will suddenly become a bottom-line in interaction design.
- Ensuring familiarity without losing brand value and character.
Visual interaction designers will now be faced with the stiff challenge of creating identity, character and uniqueness without the easier palette of 'decor'. A failure to create differences could lead to familiar 'Bauhaus problems' of sameness and monotony.
- Industrial processes drove the Bauhaus, software development processes are driving the 'IxD Bauhaus'.
Mass production, industrial fabrication, pre-cast components and material technology spurred the Bauhaus movement to fruition in its time. Today, we need to acknowledge that the reductionist IxD revolution is being caused by a larger understanding that 'apps' might be the way forward in a 'Cloud' computing world. Designers, engineers and developers would need to ensure that pre-cast components were designed well, almost as 'toolboxes' in the design of user experiences so that parts were repetitive without being too rigid. Visual interaction designers would need to think big and small simultaneously – keeping overall architecture in mind while resolving smaller details.
- When all facades are glass, its hard to know where the door is
Knowing when and how to provide cues for interaction becomes even more crucial for the design of a good user experience. Windows Phone does this through minimal, yet intuitive animations that delight and inform users. Other app-experiences and platforms need to think of their own ways of solving this problem. Since buttons need no longer look like buttons, designers need to ensure clarity in design language using color, typography, or other material to differentiate interactive elements from static ones.
Conclusion: How much of less is more?
The main question here is not when or where the 'IxD Bauhaus' movement began. Or if it exists at all.
It is more important to recognize this reductionist behavior as a refreshingly welcome change in how we plan and design our visual interactive experiences. While we can no longer conceal mediocre interaction design behind the facade of decoration and fluff, several questions remain unanswered. How much can we reduce, without compromising on usability , cognition and emotion? How much can we strip experiences of cues (formerly done through decor) without making them sterile?
Even though the movement is in its early days in mobile, table and desktop visual interaction design, its implications will be broad and deep, regardless of commercial performance. A lot of the movement's success depends on how users accept such a reductionist approach to visual interactive experiences where there are many hidden cues and authentic digital behavior. It remains to be seen how users respond to the lack of familiarity in the new UX metaphors that were formerly mimicking the physical world.
We all like personalization, customization and a feeling of ownership of the objects and services that we interact with and consume. The Windows Phone Design Team has done a great job of showing the user their relevant content on an interactive start-screen experience. How will others respond, without setting off another clone assembly line that mimics rather than acts authentic? While personally praying for the success of such a school of thought and action, there are hurdles that we need to be clear about and prepare ourselves for that would rush to quash the revolution at the first signs of duress.
If the Bauhaus movement in the early part of last century failed to resonate with users for reasons that we've discussed – can we as designers prepare ourselves to meet the challenges ahead?
Marcel Breuer chair from Wikipedia
Skeumorphic UI from Fastcodesign
Concept sketches from frogdesign
Barcelona Pavillion from Travel with Frank Gehry
Barcelon Pavillion details from Sketchucation


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many of you know that i've been working on gnio for a little while. it is available from git://git.desrt.ca/gnio
gnio is a networking library built on the foundations of gio. it allows you to use network connections as input and output streams.
you need the gresolver branch of glib in order to use it. that's at git://git.desrt.ca/glib
i think it's pretty nice, but i'd like some feedback. if you could take it for a spin and send flames my way, it would be greatly appreciated. i'm specifically looking for API suggestions.
any bugs or feature requests should be filed in the 'network' component of glib on bgo. contributions of code, docs, tests are most welcome and i encourage you to attach git-format-patch output to the relevant bugs.
thanks :)


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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that stand-alone data centers and buildings that house large data centers can now earn the Energy Star label. To earn the label, data centers must be in the top 25 percent of their peers in energy efficiency according to EPA's energy performance scale. By improving efficiency, centers can save energy and money and help fight climate change.
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Significant energy and cost savings are possible through modest gains in efficiency. The energy consumed by data centers is growing every year. Based on the latest available data, improving the energy efficiency of America's data centers by just 10 percent would save more than 6 billion kilowatt-hours each year, enough to power more than 350,000 homes and save more than $450 million annually.
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Key aide says he passed cash to then-Detroit mayor
A high-ranking aide to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick told jurors Monday that he picked up thousands of dollars in bribes for his boss from a contractor at the city's convention center where both men had broad powers over operations.
Derrick Miller, who was Detroit's chief administrative officer, said he collected thousands of dollars "once or twice," typically in stacks of hundred-dollar bills, for Kilpatrick, whom he has known since high school. Miller said he also took his own payoffs from Karl Kado, who held contracts at Cobo Center during Kilpatrick's nearly seven years in office.
"I picked it up from Kado, took it to (Kilpatrick). ... I didn't count it but it was a lot of money. Five (thousand) to 10,000," said Miller, whose testimony matched what Kado said earlier in the trial.
Miller's testimony is important for prosecutors trying to prove that Kilpatrick, his father Bernard and pal Bobby Ferguson spent years rigging contracts and taking payoffs. Miller was a defendant in the case until 2011, when he pleaded guilty to taking bribes and committing tax crimes and agreed to help the government.
Kilpatrick at times grinned, shook his head, consulted with his lawyer and took many notes while Miller, nicknamed "Zeke," answered questions from Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Chutkow.
Miller met Kilpatrick in a ninth-grade English class and later worked on his staff at the state Legislature. He helped hatch Kilpatrick's first run for mayor in 2001 and held senior roles at city hall.
As chief administrative officer, Miller had authority over Cobo Center, its director and contractors. Cobo now is run by a regional board and no longer is solely in the hands of city government.
"It was wrong to take cash from a contractor I was responsible for overseeing," Miller said of his own illegal payments.
Monday was the 49th day of Kilpatrick's trial.
Earlier, prosecutors displayed checks on a screen to reinforce allegations of illegal spending from Kilpatrick's Civic Fund, which was promoted as a nonprofit fund to help the community. Checks from the fund paid for golf clubs, yoga, an $8,600 stay at a resort and political polling. Miller signed many of them.
Miller said Kilpatrick lied when he said at a 2001 debate that Civic Fund money wasn't used by the campaign. When a TV station learned about the trip to a resort in Carlsbad, Calif., Kilpatrick told his aides that he was there to raise money for the fund, but that wasn't true either, Miller said.
"He basically had to come up with some kind of response," Miller testified.
Miller pleaded guilty in 2011, admitting he accepted $115,000 from a real estate broker in connection with the lease or sale of city properties and $10,000 from a contractor at Cobo Center, a convention hall. Miller has yet to be sentenced, but his cooperation could help him avoid a maximum punishment of 10 years in prison.
Kilpatrick, a Democrat whose mother is former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, was elected mayor in 2001. He resigned in 2008 and pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by lying in a civil case about having sex with an aide. He subsequently served 14 months in prison for violating his probation in that case.
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Economists love to talk about time consistency and the dynamics of tax rates. The public does not share this love. Consider the case of Wyoming. Like all states, it is seeking out new sources of revenue. Returning to basic ideas from the economics of taxes, a state can tax (and raise revenue) from activities that cannot respond and "walk away". You can tax land because it can't migrate to Nevada. If Wyoming tries to tax high income earners, it will quickly lose these high flyers as they migrate elsewhere. If you tax the "golden goose" you risk losing your goose!
Now, given this background, let's turn to wind turbines and solar panels. Right now a heck of lot of investment is taking place in this sector – investors are choosing where to site their irreversible sunk investment. After all, once you've built a billion dollar wind turbine farm --- you can't pick it up and carry it across state borders to another location.
A good business person will ask herself; "I know the upfront costs of installing this system but what is the flow of revenue from setting this up? The answer depends on how much power the wind turbines will generate on average each year and at what price (net of taxes) that the wind turbine output can be sold at.
Today's NY Times says that Wyoming is considering a $1 per MwH tax on wind output. This lowers the marginal revenue that wind turbine companies will earn. In truth, this is not a large tax but if it hints that the tax will go up even higher in the future --- then forward looking entrepreneurs in the green renewables game should think twice about going to Wyoming.
Note that this is a dynamic Laffer Curve; by keeping taxes low and credibly committing to keep them low --- Wyoming will attract more "green investment". The golden goose will thrive.
With a new technology where there is little installed capacity but a lot of capacity will soon be installed, locations that can credibly say "our taxes will remain low" – will be rewarded. This same issue arises over and over again in the capital gains tax literature.
From an Al Gore's point of view does any of this boring discussion matter? Suppose that a physical scientist who knows no economics declares that North Dakota and Wyoming are the objective best places to have wind turbines and are much better than Idaho or California.
In this case, Wyoming's myopic strategy of taxing now will be socially costly because it will displace green investment to areas (the lower tax ones) where the same wind turbine will generate less output.
So , assuming equal cost of installation of the turbine;
profit in Wyoming = Price_mWh*(Generation_wyoming)*(1- Tax_wyoming)
profit in Idaho = Price_mWh*(Generation_idaho)*(1-Tax_Idaho)
A benevolent planner would send the turbine to Wyoming if
Generation_wyoming > Generation_idaho --- while the for profit firm will choose the location with the higher after tax profit. The presence of the tax in wyoming could lead the self interested firms to go to the "wrong" location.
In this algebra – Generation_wyoming represents the power generation by the same wind turbine if it locates in Wyoming.
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The global oncology market is projected to attain revenues worth USD 241 billion by 2023, according to a report on Radiant Insights, Inc. It is estimated to expand at a CAGR of close to 11% from 2016 to 2023, the forecast period. It is driven by increasing number of cancer cases, rising elderly populace, and growing consumer awareness regarding various cancers. Large variations in treatments of cancer in developing countries are expected to contribute toward market growth.
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According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), there can be close to 1.7 million cancer cases in 2017. This can be attributed to sedentary lifestyles and decline in immunity levels. Various cancers studied in this market are hematological cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and lung cancer. Breast cancer accounted for a large market share due to its constant recurrence in women. Major manufacturers are developing second-line treatment to prevent its metastasizing to later stages. Colorectal cancer is expected to be the second largest segment, followed by liver and prostate cancer.
Development of combination therapies and targeted therapies are major trends anticipated to drive market growth over the forecast period. Targeted therapies focus on specific proteins and cells and aid the immune system in eliminating cancerous cells. For instance, TapImmune Inc. has developed two vaccines (TPIV 100 and TPIV 200) that are expected to trigger autoimmune responses against molecular targets.
The worldwide oncology market is segmented based on marketed product, pipeline product, and molecular target. By marketed product, the market is divided into Zytiga (abiraterone acetate), MabThera/Rituxan (rituximab), Herceptin (trastuzumab), Opdivo (nivolumab), Alimta (pemetrexed), Gleevec/Glivec (imatinib mesylate), Revlimid (lenalidomide), Avastin (bevacizumab), and Xtandi (enzalutamide).
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NYC Ballet art series targets younger audience
The New York City Ballet is turning to a hip artistic duo known for their tapestry-like sculptures, paintings and collages to help bring in a younger audience.
The New York City Ballet Art Series is a new initiative that will feature collaborations with contemporary visual artists who will create original works for the public spaces at the company's home at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.
The initiative is in keeping with the 65-year-old company's tradition of partnering with outside artists on new music, ballets and sets, a practice started by its legendary founder George Balanchine and continuing under Ballet Master-in-Chief Peter Martins.
Like other cultural organizations, the NYCB is seeking innovative ways to attract new audiences in a world where the Internet, on-demand movies and other distractions compete for their time.
"The idea of working with young artists came up as a great way to honor that tradition and also reach out to new people who might be connected with those artists," said NYCB Executive Director Katherine Brown.
The inaugural commission went to the Brooklyn-based urban art duo of Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller, better known as FAILE.
They have created Tower of Faile, a 40-foot sculpture made of more than 2,000 wood blocks decorated with text and images inspired by the company's dance repertoire, pieced together in a Jenga-like pillar. The tower will be on exhibit in the theater promenade, where it can be viewed from five rings of balconies, during the NYCB'S winter season from Jan. 15 through Feb. 24.
The 30-something artists spent a lot of time pouring over the company's archives and attending performances before creating the installation.
"We worked with this idea of temples, monolithic sculptures," said Miller of the tower, which is made entirely of plywood puzzle boxes with applied hand-painted panels of art.
"When you come in, it's very much this visual tapestry. In a way it's much like a New York City experience, you take in all these things," he added. "For us it's about making a narrative with images. One is of an octopus coming out of a sewer capturing this ballerina in this perfect ballet pose. There's another one of a girl holding a ballerina's legs."
Seeing the NYCB archives "allowed us to expand our visual ideas . not just being locked into this classical idea of what you might expect ballet is, because some of these dances are very abstract," McNeil said.
In addition, FAILE has produced 10 sculptural paintings, which will be on display in the theater's orchestra level.
The artists have also created limited-edition works of art - 2-inch wood blocks hand-painted on all six sides -that will be handed out to each of the 5,000 audience members who attend two special performances, on Feb. 1 and May 29, where every seat in the house will go for $29.
"The idea was to provide something you could take away from the ballet and use as a conversation piece to further push the conversation and the experience you had at the ballet," Miller said.
FAILE has exhibited at the Tate Modern in London and created public works in far-flung parts of the world, including a large sculpture of a man-wolf for a park in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, and a monumental installation of a church in ruins in Lisbon, Portugal.
Subscriptions are way down from what they were a decade ago.
"These days, people don't like to make that kind of commitment so far in advance," Brown said. "Today they're much more spontaneous because there are so many things to choose from ... that didn't previously exist."
The ballet's Lincoln Center's neighbor, the New York Metropolitan Opera, for example, has built audiences through its popular simulcasts into movie theaters and fashion events, like the spring 2011 gala that was sponsored by Yves Saint Laurent.
"We're all very focused on bringing in a new audience to replace audiences that are aging," Brown said. She said NYCB's under-45 audience grew in recent years to 29 percent, compared to 20 percent nationally. "We're pleased with that but now we really want to build on that."


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It's a simple concept – and the proper defense for a rear-naked choke – and yet, it's not always quite so simple to execute, as we learned in a Sengoku Raiden Championship 12 bout between Kiuma Kunioku and Leonardo Santos.
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THE SPORTS DOCTOR- Dopey charges: Jealousy cause of Armstrong witch-hunt
I'm not a fan of the 1992 movie A Few Good Men. I haven't found Jack Nicholson entertaining since The Shining, and I'd rather be forced to listen to James Patterson read one of his own books than hear Tom Cruise utter dialogue.
It's unfortunate, then, that I must hark back to the most melodramatic scene from that movie to explain my situation. Simply put– I can't handle the truth.
At least I can't handle what some people are saying is the truth. In the last two weeks, an "unnamed" cyclist has claimed that the U.S. Postal Service team used performance-enhancing drugs rampantly and systematically, and that Lance Armstrong was an encouraging and willing participant during his career. It's a claim a lot of people, including many in the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), readily believe.
There's one reason the USADA, three-time Tour de France champion-turned-vigilante Greg LeMond, and random haters on the street all believe Lance Armstrong doped: they want to believe it. Before you lose your temper, let me acknowledge that the converse is also true: I and those of like mind defend Armstrong because we don't want to believe he took performance-enhancing drugs.
To those who would make that claim, let me say, you couldn't be more right: I sure as shootin' don't want to believe it, and thanks to the USADA, I don't have to.
One needn't be a lawyer to grasp how important it is for an argument to have a solid foundation. Even a courtroom drama like the ever-dubious Boston Legal constantly references circumstantial evidence and hearsay: two things that can easily kill a case, even in real life. It's not that circumstantial evidence is useless, but for a prosecutor to build a case on such shaky ground is indicative of one thing: a lack of direct evidence.
Add Floyd Landis to the mix, and you have a real doozy.
The USADA and its federal prosecutors claim it was 2006 Tour de France winner Landis' public allegations this spring about Armstrong's drug use that prompted them to investigate the famed rider.
If that's true, it's a sad state of affairs. Not only was Landis stripped of his 2006 Tour title and subsequently banned from cycling for two years for testing positive for dope, this past January the French government issued an arrest warrant for him on computer hacking charges related to the 2006 doping allegations. If that's not enough, back in 2007 when he was still under suspension, Landis outed the USADA for offering him a deal to point a finger at Armstrong. (Landis refused the deal then.)
So why talk now? Accusing Armstrong takes the focus off Landis' own doping, and now that his suspension is over and he's racing again (oh, yes he is), he can use the USADA to gain notoriety without looking like a rat.
Landis may have changed his tune, but the USADA is up to its old tricks.
Former U.S. cycling gold medalist Tyler Hamilton, who's serving an eight-year suspension for doping (his second), has already received a grand jury subpoena, but the "anonymous" rider who never tested positive for drugs has not. Prosecutors are interested only in witnesses who will "jump on the bus," a prison term for earning time off a sentence at another's expense.
But why is the USADA so intent on this witch-hunt anyway? How could they possibly benefit from turning Lance Armstrong's heroic career into a doping scandal?
The answer lies in France, Belgium and Spain. They will never forgive the United States for producing Lance Armstrong, and this triumvirate is making and will continue to make life very, very hard for U.S. cycling. Unless we make amends and serve up Armstrong's head on a platter, the big three will find a way for every American rider to pay a hefty price.
Greg LeMond's reason for accusing Armstrong? Simple: seven is more than three.
Despite being the most closely scrutinized rider in cycling history, in his 20-year career, seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong has never failed a single drug test– not after a time trial, a stage win, or a trip to the dentist. And no USADA sweetheart deal can change that.
Now that's a truth I can handle.
Juanita Giles lives in Keysville where she makes videos and updates her Sports Doctor site.
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Wow! I believed the same after reading Lance's books, but then I read "From Lance to Landis" by David Walsh and you find out it is more complex than "seven is more than three".
Jan Ulrich never tested positive either and his manager just admitted to organizing a complex doping program the years he finished second to Lance in the Tour. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/pevenage-confesses-to-operacion-puerto-i...
As a cycling fan I held hope that Lance didn't dope, but from a purely physiological basis to beat someone else who is doping is beyond human capabilities. Everyone who shared the podium with Lance during his wins has admitted to doping. Even former teammates have admitted to using blood doping products.
A good primer on comparative power outputs from this years tour compared to the "doping years" can be found here: http://www.sportsscientists.com/
How is this possible, for a clean rider to beat doping riders when transfusions and doping products increase power output and recovery, two very important factors in winning a 3 week bike race? That is the truth I want to hear.
How can it be possible that Lance and Ulrich rode the same climbs used in this year's TDF 10 minutes faster than Contador and Schleck (who were giving it their best)? Ulrich has an excuse, he's admitted he was doping.
By the way, Lance did fail a drug test, and then was given a post-dated medical exemption after not declaring using a cream for saddle sores that had a banned product...It's in David Walsh's book.
I meant to type "pre-dated" medical exemption for the cream.
lance was "surprised by the dope police" prior to the tour this year and went to take a one hour shower while his coach confirmed the persons idenity. more than enough time to take the masking agents. he also twittered "thanks for heads up on comming by".major league baseball does not announce drug tests they only call the day before to ask for a parking pass. too much money to have the big guns caught and blow up there respective sports. ask Dick pound at UCI
Come on Brian,
Your coup de grace was a steroidal cream for Lance's nads? Steroids are not generally used by cyclists anyway. They make you bulk up.
Interesting conclusions in the article. France, Belgium and Spain want Lance's head on a platter? Who in these countries want Lance's head? The government? The sports federation? What do they have to do with a US Federal Investigation and/or USADA? What they now control these federal organisations? They made one phone call to the Feds and said "Hi we don't like Americans winning sport in Europe so can you take Armstrong down with some bogus drug charge?" - yeah right. You really have to do better resort to nationalism and its "those nasty indifferent Euros against our Lance" to make your argument – now that's what I would consider circumstantial at best!
There are some very serious allegations on the table. Its not just about doping. Its about money laundering, misappropriation of government funds, bribing sports officials, drug trafficking, drug using, coercing and commercial fraud. I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate riders from say Belgium, Spain and France coming to the US and setting up vast drug and payment networks along with sophisticated and dangerous blood labs.
If this is the sport and world you want our children to enter then lets just say that. But I for one would want to know that if these allegations are true and that they will be investigated.
As much as "Its not about the bike" glorifies and tells a wonderful story we have to be reasonable from everything we know today through various accounts of riders, the national federations and the even the UCI that "never tested positive" doesn't actually mean "never used performance enhancing drugs". It may not be the truth you can handle but it doesn't mean its not the truth.
Everyone in the world of cycling knows that Lance doped. It's common knowledge. It's just a matter of who is going to step up and tell the truth knowing he'll have turned his back on all his buddies.
Why don't we just put all these cyclists in front of a grand jury and see who wants to perjure themselves like Clemens? Let's put them under oath and then, we'll hear the truth.
I think it's really disturbing how much of this doping case against Lance Armstrong is based on disgraced cyclists like Landis and Hamilton. Those guys will always be remembered for their doping and the only way they can make themselves feel better is if they can say, "Well at least we didn't lie like Armstrong lied. He's the real cheat".
Maybe Armstrong is guilty of doping. If he is, then he should be ridiculed, tied to the back of a bike naked and dragged through the mud. But until I see some solid, scientific evidence, I will continue to support him as the awesome cyclist and athlete he is.
@ Emily
Scientific Evidence? Right here:
"So there is no doubt in my mind he (Lance Armstrong) took EPO during the '99 Tour."
Who is this guy? He sites on the UCI Bio Passport committee.
Armstrong suspicious blood values
One of Denmark's leading blood researchers believes that Lance Armstrong's blood values from the Tour de France looks suspicious and indicate blood doping
Lance Armstrong impressed in his Tour de France comeback this year with a third place. But maybe it was not surprising for one of Denmark's leading blood researchers, James Dark Mountain from Bispebjerg Hospital, has looked at American's blood values over and they can indicate the use of blood doping"
Both the number of red blood cells, hematocrit and hemoglobin were essentially the same on the first day and last day of Tour'en, which is quite unusual.
Furthermore, increased hematocrit value during 11th-14th July, representing the middle of Tour'en, 40.7 to 43.1, which is also strange, does Dark Mountain.
Can also be caused by diarrhea ?
- What we know from our research is that the hard work as a Tour de France will see a marked decrease of these blood values, and it seems we are not in Lance Armstrong, he says to DR, and suggests that there may be due blood transfusions.
- This does not mean that he has received it, but it could be one explanation, he says, but insists that another reason may be diarrhea or dehydration.
- But the picture the contradiction that we would normally see. Lance Armstrong's values are unchanged from the first to the last sample, and would normally expect a decline. This fall also sees the cyclists values during the Giro d'Italia a few months before, but not so during the Tour de France.
Scientific Evidence?
Or maybe he had the craps.
The craps? Perhaps. Perhaps not. And the 1999 EPO samples? Spiked with crap? There's the science. It is what it is. Science.
The steroid cream should have been declared at the medical check-in, it wasn't. He only stated he had a legitimate use after the positive test, and the team doctor was able to produce that information after the positive test.
I've never run a doping program, so I don't know why a cyclist would use a steroid.
Please, you guys are wearing out my bingo card!
Seriously, can you even believe this drivel you're writing?
Juanita, to quote you: "But why is the USADA so intent on this witch-hunt anyway? How could they possibly benefit from turning Lance Armstrong's heroic career into a doping scandal?
The answer lies in France, Belgium and Spain. They will never forgive the United States for producing Lance Armstrong, and this triumvirate is making and will continue to make life very, very hard for U.S. cycling. Unless we make amends and serve up Armstrong's head on a platter, the big three will find a way for every American rider to pay a hefty price."
- Can you give even one example of a US rider who has been unfairly treated by those three countries, because of Lance Armstrong? Do you honestly believe those countries would be so petty, or jealous?
Maybe USADA is determined to catch Armstrong because it is in a position to know something you don't? That's also valid logic, no? I've been involved in cycling for most of my life and while I'm sorry to say it, there's substance to these claims.
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Juanita...I find this piece quite laughable. You really need to become more educated before you write articles like this.
I see NO mention of the lengthy Michael Ashenden interview done last year, and NO mention of Doctor Coyle (the physiologist who first made the claim that Lance was the most gifted rider on the planet) being taken to task for his faulty research methods in 2009 either. There is of course the Ferrari (PED program designer of the gods) association, the 60 missing Trek bikes (to fund ??? for USPS), and the fact that every rival Lance beat was doped to the gills.
All that I see here is flimsy character assassination of individuals who have already or are currently serving their suspensions for doping. They lied once and were beaten, so obviously every statement that proceeds out of there mouths from here on out is a falsity and must stem from jealousy, right? Of course, let us not forget that many of these individuals are the SAME "domestiques" who made Lance's victories possible.
It's nice that you hate USADA and keep your head in the sand for Lance. However, before you drag us into the desert with you, at least do some rudimentary research first.
PS. Maybe this will help you get started: http://nyvelocity.com/content/interviews/2009/michael-ashenden
Why does this article exist? A sports column should be penned by someone that knows something about sports. Juanita has shown repeatedly over the last couple of months how utterly clueless she is when it comes to high-level athletic competition.
Her predictions regarding the World Cup and the NBA Finals were ridiculous, and I mean that in the strict sense of the word: worthy of ridicule.
Now she writes this column about Lance Armstrong. She might as well write a column about why she wishes Santa Claus were real and then trash all those that have provided evidence that he is not.
I am truly and utterly baffled as to what this column's purpose is. It certainly isn't to provide expert opinion or exposition or clever writing.
Oh, but why? you now know this about Juanita:
"I'm not a fan of the 1992 movie A Few Good Men. I haven't found Jack Nicholson entertaining since The Shining, and I'd rather be forced to listen to James Patterson read one of his own books than hear Tom Cruise utter dialogue."
Doesn't that make it all worth it???


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Chinese carrier China Mobile reportedly released two new images of China's version of the Nokia Lumia 920, the Lumia 920T, on Friday.
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Evolution Hoax
Alexander I. Oparin, a leading proponent of evolution, describes coacervates as blobs of organic matter (mostly containing sugars and short polypeptides), supposedly the precursors of modern cells.81 At one time evolutionists maintained that coacervates were the forerunners of the cell, and that proteins emerged as a result of the evolution of coacervates. However, this claim, devoid of any scientific evidence—was later abandoned as invalid by even the evolutionists themselves.
Even the simplest looking organism has energy producing and transforming mechanisms for its own survival, as well as complex genetic mechanisms to ensure the survival of the species concerned. Coacervates, however, are simple collections of molecules lacking any such systems and mechanisms. Their structures are prone to be broken down by even the slightest natural effects. It is totally unscientific to claim that they gradually and spontaneously came to life by developing such complex systems.
Droplets with metabolism such as coacervate cannot of course be regarded as living. Because they lack two fundamental characteristics as inheritance and mutation. In addition, the primitive cell, in other words the protobiont, cannot be regarded as a pre-formative stage. Because the substances used in these droplets are formed from present-day organisms.82
However, some circles who have turned evolution into an ideological slogan continue to portray coacervates as major evidence for evolution in their publications, without admitting the slightest scientific doubt on the matter. As always, their aim is to portray the theory of evolution as backed by extensive scientific evidence and to deceive those who lack detailed information about the subject about and the means to investigate it.
81 www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-55683967.php.
82 M. Yılmaz 85ner, Canlıların Diyalektiği ve Yeni Evrim Teorisi, Belge Publishing, 2000, p. 165.


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Firstly, let me make it clear that I went shopping on Amazon for things for the Munchkin's impending seventh birthday. As any of you who have shopped with Amazon before shall know, you only get free delivery if you spend over £15 so I just had to add in the odd thing for myself to make up the order and qualify for free delivery. Yes?
So, the Munchkin has professed quite an interest in sewing, possibly not surprising given how much sewing I do. Lacking a young girly in the household with whom to share my enthusiasm, I've been quite happy to do a few little sewing projects with him (notably Mr Owl). When I was on Marylebone High Street a few weeks ago, I popped into the marvellous Daunts Bookshop. It has a very good children's section and there I spotted a lovely old fashioned-style book for children about sewing.
I pondered whether this was a suitable gift for a boy... Anyway, I managed to find the book on Amazon (for a very reasonable £6 something) and thought the Munchkin would like it and that is the important thing, (hey, just look at Kaffe Fassett)! In particular, it has a section on blanket stitch which he has been wanting me to teach him.
It is beautifully illustrated inside. Way back when I was little, I used to love books that had a nameplate in the front (heck, I still would love that!)
Now this, I like. A section about "Pressing". Yes, it's definitely time the Munchkin took up ironing!
The back cover is equally charming.
Obviously, I need to hone my own sewing skills so that I can help the small person learn. As such, I popped this into the virtual basket for me.
I had seen this book in Country Living mag and have long been an admirer of Jan Constantine's work (particularly, the tea cosy, seaside themed patches and the Union Jack cushion). Oh my, but the projects in here are beautiful and there's more than twenty-five of them. Even the tea cosy is included. The projects are split into five sections: Hearts, Country Garden, Seaside, Botanicals and Bugs, and Celebrations. I am really impressed that she has been prepared to share the secrets of her products for many crafters/business people are not. They do look quite complex and of course, not everyone likes sewing (honestly?) so I guess there shall still be a market for her beautifully produced, ready-made goods. I'm going to try to make some... Here are some of the beautiful pictures from inside:
Also whilst in Daunts, I spotted the new Leon cookbook. As it is quite a tome, I didn't want to lug it home, (already laden as I was with Cath K goodies), so I added that to Mr Amazon's delivery task. I am a fan of Leon which is a small chain of "fast food" outlets, but with a difference. Leon's founding principle is that "food can be both lovely and good for you". Leon was formed by three friends , variously a chef and management consultants, who wanted good, seasonal food to be available to everybody. They eventually gave up their day jobs and the first Leon store/cafe opened in Carnaby Street in 2004. As this is just round the corner from Liberty, I can often be found in there recovering from a visit to the haberdashery department. Whilst the food is undoubtedly healthy, the Leon gang believe in treating yourself too, so you can indulge in a chocolate mousse or a glass of wine with your meal.
This is really a gorgeous book to look at (I haven't cooked anything from it yet so cannot report on the recipes). It starts with a look at ingredients and then the recipes can be found in the latter half of the book. Can't decide whether I like the vegetable or fruit frontpage the most...
There is an emphasis on seasonality and this handy chart:
I spy a Union Jack...
There are some great fold-out sections. This one is on chickens:
Any cookbook which manages to feature Ladybird's Chicken Licken is fine by me!
Here is a choccy hedgehog I might try for the Munchkin's birthday party:
All in all, it looks to be a great addition to my groaning cookery book shelves.
Now I'm really loving this page of stickers at the back. No idea what they're for, of course, but I like them just the same.