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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Jan Ullrich's 2006 Blog
While living in Tuscany that year (2006) I met and trained with many PT riders. Jan Ullrich was the only one I ever stopped to ask for a photo with him (at the base of Monte Serra). He obliged, and came across as being a genuinely nice, approachable person. And this was at a time just before Puerto, after Jan won the ITT in the Giro and was preparing for the Tour...
Imagine someone trying to stop the Lance and asking for an autograph. His bodyguards would probably shoot you. But Jan was just cruising on his own, with a single Audi wagon following him, with just a driver in it (didn't see who it was). Did Jan ever need to resort to bodyguards?
When we stopped to take the picture, the car just whipped around and kept going up the climb while he stood there. Too freaking cool of a guy and an example of what makes cycling such a fan-friendly sport in Europe - accessibility.
Of course I forgot to hit "save" on the stupid camera phone so the picture was lost before I even reached the bottom of the climb!
Jan and LeMond were my two fav riders. It's reassuring to see that Jan survived his forced retirement and virtual banishment from cycling for doping, and that he is able to carry on with a semi-public life seemingly no worse for wear. While I cheered for Lance when he won his first Tour in 1999, thereafter, his rapid dehumanization and transformation into something more akin to a superstar athlete-robot left me feeling no admiration for him at all. When I bumped into him in NYC before the start of the BMC criterium there in 2002, and was almost trampled by his body guards, I realized he would never again be someone who I could identify with, as an athlete or person. But Jan, however, seemed to lose none of his humanness no matter what celebrity - or notoriety - he achieved. Of all the riders who've thrown their careers away to doping, he is the one who I wish could redeem himself and return, even though it's impossible.
I think unlike Lance, however, Jan will retain the appeal, the affection that the cycling public felt for him. The same mortality that led him down the path of darkness and into the arms of Fuentes is what keeps him human and allows the Everyman to identify with him. How could you not like a guy who was described thusly by Walter Goodefroot:
"Jan rides a bicycle to make a living, but I don't think he'll ever be able mentally to have a monastic life. If he didn't take some liberties during the winter, he wouldn't be able to withstand the stress of competition. That's too bad, because if you added the professionalism of Zabel to the talent of Ullrich, you'd have a Merckx."
With no further adieu, here is the Jan's MySpace blog:
Quit being harshing the Jan's buzz.
Listen, OK, the Jan was just going to be taking this time to be preparing for the Tour. It is only being in like, some days from now. The Jan must be focused!
It is kind of being like those dreams where you are at the last day of school and suddenly you are realizing that you have not been being studied for your final in the Maths, and you are all like, "Oh, the Jan is totally fuschieked now!" And then the principal is being calling you to his office, and it is not being the principal, but instead it is being the bearer of the One True Ball! And he is being very angry, and he is being pulling down your lederhosen and spanking you, and your Grandmama is there and she is being crying in shame, and then you are waking up and you are being covered in sweat and you are doing the heavy breathing thing from the movies, and then your girlfriend is being like, "Hey, the Jan, first of all, thanks for the totally great sexes you are always being giving me, you are being the best with the sex," and then you are all like, "Ja, the Jan is being good at the sexes. It is known." And then she is being like, "Hey, what's the matter?" And you are all like, "I was being crying, and the Lance was spanking the Jan's tushy in front of the Nana, and, and..." And then she is being like, "Hey, shhh... There, there now. You were just having a bad dream. Come on now, there, there..." And then she is hugging you, and you are feeling better. But then, the camera is slowly zooming in, and, geschissen! She is not being the girlfriend. She is the Lance! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaggghhhhhhhhhhhh!
Man, the Jan just blew his own fucking mind.
OK, listen, the point is, the Jan is trying to be focusing, and instead, he is getting the hammering by all the press. Did the Jan take drugs? When did the Jan take drugs? Hey Jan, we are hearing that you are being totally awesome at the sexes, care to comment? (That question is being acceptable.)
For once and the all, let the Jan put this straight. The Jan did not take the performance-enhancing drugs. Listen, if it was being the offseason, the Jan would be totally like, "Hey bro-ham, are you being holding? Suh-weeet. The Jan is being having the rolling papers if you are being having the weed." The Jan is being liking to party, and to do the disco dancing, it is well known.
But the Jan does not do the transfusions of blood, or the micro-injections of EPO, or the eating of the horse testicles for strength.
The Jan is being a simple man. The Jan takes in schnitzel and beer, and outputs death and pain. It is being that simple.
People are being trying to distract the Mighty Jan. They are gnats circling around the head of a giant. It is not even being worth the time it would take to pull off their legs and force feed them to their children. You may try to distract the mighty Jan, you may try to beat him down with your lies, with your rumors, with your inuendos, but your words are being raindrops on the back of a mountain.
People of France, gather your children. Run to the hills. For the Jan is coming. And death rides with him.
Friday, June 23, 2006
The Jan has answers.
You know, people are always being saying to the Jan, "Oh god! Oh God, NO! Please! Please God, have mercy! I don't even know you! Why would you do that? Someone HELP.... aargggchhhhh...."
Also, one time, a guy was being saying to the Jan, "Hey, the Jan."
And the Jan was like, "Yes, mortal."
And the guy was like, "Hey, you should totally be doing a mailbag sometime."
And the Jan was like, "You bore me. The Jan will see your kidneys now."
But later, when the Jan had washed off, I thought, "This is maybe being a good idea. Yes, the Jan shall do a mailbag."
So the Jan had the sweet sex with a bag of mail. This was not, in fact, a good idea. What can the Jan say, things got weird.
But the Jan is here to answer your questions. Go ahead, the Jan is always listening. And watching.
Q: Dear the Jan, you are being so great and totally awesome. I am a worm beneath the unholy heel of your clipless pedal shoes. Should I be taking the drugs to match one tenth of your awesome, earth shattering power? - Steve from Vancouver
A: Yes.
Q: Oh great and mighty Jan, who doth fill this vale of tears with fire and death with every stroke of your massive thighs, why do you ride such big gears. - Eli from Valencia
A. Because the cycling is pain. The cycling is soul crushing pain. The cycling is meant to make mothers weep, to make children scream, to crush the souls of the weak. The cycling is not spin class. Sure the Jan could ride a gear that is being the size of a tea cup, like Marinara Boy Basso, but the Jan is not here to dance. The Jan is here to reap.
Q. Oh my cruel dark lord, the Jan, master of all that dies and is never reborn. What is with Dave Zabriskie? - Sara from, um, the Antartica.
A. The Jan is having no idea. Dave Zabriskie is being the only mortal on this earth that is giving the Jan the willies. The Jan sees him in the interviews and it is like, dude, that guy is totally being a psycho robot. He is being having less personality than a roll of carpet. Personally, the Jan thinks he is being invented by Bjarne Riis and the CSC as an android who feels no pain, which is being the only way he is coming close to challenging the Jan in the time trials.
Q. Oh the Jan, you are dark and evil and blah, blah, etc., etc. So. What was with "The Look" everyone talks about that the Lance was being giving you in the 2001 Tour? Shoe - from, oh, let's say, Closet
A. Yes, well, it may be being hard for to you to be believing, but even with one ball, that guy is still a massive dick.
Monday, June 19, 2006
The Basso's fear is smelling like cigarettes and back hair. No, wait. That's just the Basso.
I am the Jan. I am the Destroyer of Worlds.
So, fuck ja. The Jan is being rocking the road, bros. If you are not being hearing yet, the Jan is totally living up to his yearbook pledge of having a K/A summer. Of course, in the Jan's yearbook there were also many entreaties to "Stay Sweet," which the Jan was obviously ignoring.
Another Tour de Suisse in the can, and now it is being time for the Suisse-France double. Only the Mighty Uniballed One has done it, back in 2001, and before that, only Merckxxkexa-7. (Note to self: the Jan must learn to spell more things better-y.)
They are being loving the Jan in Switzerland, which is being kind of weird because the Swiss are being like the Vanilla Ice Cream of nations, while if the Jan were an ice cream, he would be the Chocolate Double Fudge with Chunks of Blood and Baby Tears. But whatever, the Jan is being cool with it.
There was being much rain and wind and lightning when Jan did begin to pedal yesterday, but that was totally being the Jan's fault. The Jan must be careful when pedaling, for when the Jan's massive thighs begin to spin so close together, they are creating a low pressure system centered on the Jan's "special place" that is often causing massive weather anomalies and atmospheric disturbances. It can be embarassing. There have been many cases where the Jan is being totally breaking it down on the dance floor, and then busts out with the Jan's favorite move, the Roger Rabbit, and then whole villages are blown away into ash and smoke, and for nights afterward there are being many sightings of strange lights in the sky.
So, the Jan saw that the CSC won the Team Time Trial in Eindhoven yesterday. Ooooooooooo.
The T-Mobile plan was actually being for Jan to compete in both events yesterday, and for the Team Time Trial the entire T-Mobile team would simply crawl onto the Jan's back, and then hold onto each other like some giant pink sphere of pain, and the Jan would just carry them the whole way. We even thought of maybe just driving the T-Mobile team bus onto my back and the Jan could just carry that, but when we tried it, little Matty Kessler started crying and said he was being scared and then he wouldn't get in the bus, and I'm like, Bro! Get in the fucking bus! I am, like, already having the bus on my back! You better get freaking in there, crap face! But he wouldn't.
Sheep. The Jan is surrounded by sheep.
On the good news, the Jan is thinking he going to be starting updating regularly in the run-up to the Tour. The Jan is thinking of doing a daily update for the Tour, even, and like putting fancy computer internets graphics and stuff on his page. The Jan is being a little surprised at the many thousands of daily hits he is getting, and he is even breaking the top 100 blogs of the MySpace sometimes, which is meaning that the fans of the Jan are probably mostly a bunch of 40 year-old pederasts and maybe only 17 people who actually are liking to ride the bikes.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Sweet little Klodi, the Jan has been being missing you.
Current mood: happy
Ja, the Mob is reforming like the Voltron.
Klodi is finally being back from his injury. The Jan is wanting to take this time now to do some apologizing to his bro, Klodi. The Jan did not mean to be hurting you so badly, bro, but when the Jan is putting on his patented double-thigh scissor-lock, he is not being doing it half-ass. Sometimes the Jan can be kind of a dick, he knows, but the Klodi is like the little brother that the Jan never had. I mean, when you are doing the knee-capping of little Klodi with a rusty tire-iron, he is doing the funniest crying-screeching sound. He is sounding just like some crazy, sobbing monkey. It is being soooo hilarious. And the Jan is always remembering the time he kicked in the door on the T-Mobile bus bathroom when Klodi was in there doing number zwie, and the Jan beat him half to death with a sack of water bottles. Oh, we laughed and laughed. Well, ok, maybe just the Jan laughed, because Klodi was being half into a coma at that point, but the Jan knows that if Klodi had been conscious, he would have screech/cried at the obvious funniness of the situation.
As for the earring, though, the Jan is not sorry for ripping that thing out of Klodi's ear. That thing just looked retarded.
It is being kind of strange, everyone getting back together, cowering in fear, huddling in the back of the bus in terror of one of the Jan's legendary rages, but something's missing. The Vino isn't here.
The Jan had high hopes for little Vino. It is being true. He was being like a little mini-Jan. Everyone knows the unholy might that is the Jan, they know that the Jan strides this trembling earth like some dark colussus, dealing death and pain with every turn of his massive gear. But the Vino is being pretty evil too. He not only is looking like a punk kid who would toilet-paper your grandmother's house and then push her down and steal her purse when she came outside, but he is actually being kind of an asshole, too. When the Jan dropped a bar of soap inside a sock and then used it to beat the holy living hell out of Klodi, it was always Vino who would be holding him down. Vino is not on the level of the Jan, of course, but still, he is about 10 pounds of evil in a 5 pound bag, and the Jan will be missing him.
The Mighty Uniballed One, the Lance, is now telling people that he thinks Jan is going to be winning the Tour this year. To which the Jan is being saying, Ja, no shit, dumbass.
Ivan Basso, Valverde, Floyd Landis, it doesn't matter. No one can drop the hammers on the climbs AND the time trials like the Jan. It is being like the Highlander. Or like Lance's nuts.
There can be only one.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Yeesh. There is being steroids in his macaroni.
The Jan must be giving much respect to the hairy one. Pink Ivan was being very strong today. He is racing like there is being someone chasing him with a razor and a bar of soap.
Simoni, Salvoldelli, Cunego, Bettini... The Jan has not seen this much back hair since he was watching King Kong. When we are being hitting the mountains, and the Italians are beginning the huffing and puffing and the sweating, it is smelling like a donkey's ass. That is, if the donkey's ass has triple espresso on its breath and a couple of cigarettes are being matted in its ass-hair.
The Jan had to do the dropping back today just to do the breathing. I was being all like, "Bros, that is seriously being not cool!" And Kessler is being all like "Ya, totally. Right, Jan? That is not being cool!" And I was all being like, "Shut up, douche bag."
Seriously. 4 out of 5 doctors recommend Oral B. The fifth one is being an Italian, and the Jan thinks he is recommending road kill and horse shit.
So ja, Pink Pasta Panties was being looking pretty strong today. Still, the Jan was only down 5 minutes, and that is being a very good sign this early in the Jan's preparation. Can the Basso Profundo keep this form until the late days of July? The Jan is thinking... no.
Still, the Jan is being a totally cool bro right now, and giving the credit where the credit is being due. Ivan Basso can really climb. Is is being true, he is not having to carry the extra added weight of a male penis, but he is still a good climber. And the Jan is not wanting to be graphic, but the Jan is definitely at a disadvantage there, because he is being packing 7 pounds of anaconda meat in his bicycle shorts. If you are knowing what he is being saying. Wink, wink.
(The Jan is saying he is having a big schnitzel.)
Are you being hearing the sound of thunder?
"And lo, when the Jan passes by, there will be a mighty rumble, as though a thousand elephants were falling down a hill. And the sun will be blotted from the sky by the wings of a thousand ravens, and the hearts of men shall quail, and the hearts of women shall flutter (and then quail), and even the hearts of quail shall quail, and the souls of the weak shall be snuffed out like candles in the wailing wind that follows his passing. Then shall be the time of the Jan, when he rises from the earth and takes his two thrones, one for each thigh. And then the world shall weep." - From the Book of Jan. Also known as the NecronomiJan.
So ja, the Jan is being back.
I was being thinking to myself this morning, "You know what? I am going to be kicking some ass today. Ja, what the hell. Let's go make some widows."
At first I was going to be doing the time trial on a unicycle, with one of those rainbow clown hair wigs, just to prove that the Jan could do it, but then I thought, no, it is being the time to get serious. There are being many doubters of the Jan, and they are telling him that he is being too fat, and too old, and that his is having way too many sexes with the hot Italian chicks and that he is simply being too handsome to go fast anymore.
And the Jan is almost believing them.
So the Jan is thinking, why don't we just open up the throttle a little bit, and see what I am being having in the tank. And it is turning out that when the Jan decides to start crushing souls, there are being no motherfuckers that can be hanging with him.
Ja, the Jan is a little fat. Ja, I am not on my form yet. Ja, I am not even close to peaking. But the Jan decided to give you all a taste today, to let the twin towers of doom out for a little air. And the Jan is being getting closer to form every day.
Marinara boy, the Jan hopes that you are being enjoying your time in the spotlight. You should be living it up to max, bro, and having the good times. Because the Jan is not going to be fucking around in July, and after today, you are being on notice.
Currently listening:
Twilight of the Gods: The Essential Wagner Collection
By Richard Wagner
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Does the Jan's ass look fat in this?
The Jan is...
Well, the Jan is not knowing how to say this.
I mean, I am still being the Jan. I am still being the bringer of nightmares, the destroyer of worlds. The earth is still being cracking into great fissures of shadow and death beneath my every footstep, and the Jan is still laying the bitch-slap on Satan himself whenever the Jan is feeling like it.
But the Jan is feeling something new in his dark and empty heart. He is feeling something that is being suspiciously close to... doubt.
Where did the Jan go wrong? What more could the Jan have done? I mean, maybe the Jan should not have entered the donut eating contest two days before the Giro. (Of course, you will be relieved to hear that the Jan was being the winner easily. The Jan's apetite for donuts is mighty. The Jan maybe even got a little too excited when he ate the second place challenger as well. The Jan's appetite for fat kid is also mighty.)
Maybe also the Jan should not be playing quarters with Robbie McEwen after every stage. Or maybe the Jan should not be sneaking the pizza back to the hotel when the team director is being fallen asleep, and then eating it under the covers and then going into the bathroom afterward and calling myself a fat pig and telling myself that I am hating myself and then crying myself to sleep on the cold tile floor.
The Basso, the Hairy One, the girly looking guido, he was being dropping a hammer today, and for the first time, the twisted souls of all the demons in hell did not answer the Jan's unearthly call. The Jan was like, hey, dudes, what is being the hell? And the demons are all like, yeah, uhm, that little hairy dude is real fast and like, oh mighty one, we don't know how to tell you this... And the Jan is like, what, what are you saying, just spit it out, and the demons are like, oh great dark one, oh great master of all that is unholy, um, have you, like, gained some weight, cause we're all back here pushing and, um, you're like really, really heavy. What we mean is, we're really trying back here and Bob even hurt his back and he seems real bad, and the Jan is like, fine, fuck, fine, just go pissing off, dudes. And then the demons are all, hey, man, maybe it's not you, ok, maybe it's like the gravity up here, or, uh... something. And the Jan is like, oh, please, stop, ok, just stop. And the demons are like, no, no, I think I saw that on Nova sometime or something like that, you know, that the gravity is, um, bad, um, here, and another demon is like, yeah, I think I saw that one. And then there was being a real awkward silence.
And the so the Jan suffered.
The Jan dropped 16 minutes today. The Jan is starting to wonder. The Jan is starting to doubt.
The Jan is starting to get hungry.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
A good Kessler puts the lotion in the basket...
So, the yeah. The Jan is getting zeppelin-loads of the shit sandwiches from people because they are being saying that my time-trialing at the Giro is sucking.
The Jan thinks it is being time to come clean. The Jan was totally wasted during the prologue. I mean, like, the Jan was throwing up his tacos and schnitzel like two minutes before go time. And the Jan did not even eat tacos that day.
The Mikester, (as the Jan is being referring to his bro-ham and fellow Mobster Michael Rodgers,) said that the Jan was trying to have the sweet sex with Simoni's bike pump when they called his name for the start. The Jan does not remember this, but it is seeming to be possible. I have seen this bike pump when the Jan is sober, and still the Jan would totally do her. Or it, maybe. The Jan is not being clear on the gender of bike pumps.
So, ja. The Jan is blowing the TT. So what. I am not in the Giro for the gay pink shirt. Maglia Rosa. The Jan is thinking that this sounds like the name of a transvestite prostitute.
Do you doubt the Jan? Just to be reminding you of the unholy might that clings to my thighs like wet lingerie to a sweet, sweet bike pump, the Jan was being dropping a hammer on Wednesday in the team time trial. It is not being getting much coverage, but the Jan was wanting the stage win that day, so the Jan was pulling for 10 minutes at a time at like, 200 kilometers per hour. It was being totally awesome. It was the Mob's stage win. It was ours, we were being whooping CSC's ass over the last four splits. The road was crying in pain beneath my wheels, and all the spirits of the German dead were rising like a mighty host at my back, their glorious chorus of Wagner shaking the hairy hearts of the Italians in their sunken, cigarette-smoking chests.
And then there was Kessler. Or pussy-pussy-crap-face, as the Jan is now calling him. When he fell off the back, our eyes met, and he knew. The Jan does not accept weakness. Weakness brings dishonor. And dishonor must be purified by pain.
Matthias will never speak of that night, and what happened in the T-Mobile bus after everyone but the Jan and little Kessy had gone, but look into his eyes, if ever you meet him, and you will see the emptiness there. You will see the darkness, and the pain. That night, Matthias was the Jan's bike pump. And the touch of the Jan is not gentle.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Tour of Romandie. And Bjarne Riis humps donkeys.
Current mood: bored
It is I.
It is the Jan.
I have done the returning. I am being like the Terminator. Oooo, wait, no, I am being like the Terminator 2, with the motorcycle and the shotgun and the having sex with a trash compactor. That is happening in Terminator 2, right? It has been a long time since the Jan has been seeing this movie.
My knee is better. It is only feeling like the fires of a thousand hells are burning in my joints, which the Jan is handling easy. The Jan snacks on pain, and dines on death. Seriously, the Jan actually dines on death, with a side of wilted spinach and a nice Grenache. The Jan may dine on death, but he is not being a savage.
The Jan has just done the finishing of the stage two of the tour of Romandie. Romandie is being the worst country the Jan has ever been to. It is smelling like cabbage, and the all the women are looking like wooly sacks of potatoes. Preferably the Jan must dine on the liver of fourteen virgins every morning to be strong, but there are not being 14 virgins in all of Romandie, the Jan is thinking. So I am not crushing as many souls as I am normally doing.
Oh, do not being getting the Jan wrong, there has been much weeping and gnashing of teeth as I flow down over the peloton like the hot pink spectre of doom and pestilence that all men know me to be. But the true crushing has not yet done the beginning in earnest. Only once will I open the portal to pain and death and rain down a storm from the darkest of hells upon the peloton. That will be in the July, of course.
The Jan has heard Mr. Riis comments. The Jan is thinking it is super classy of the team director of CSC to comment on other riders he is being having nothing to do with. Especially when he is obviously having an axe to grind. Normally, the Jan would go up to Bjarne Riis and rip his stomach out through his mouth. But the Jan is a bit tired. The team doctor says that I am worn out, that I have been porking Bjarne Riis' wife too much. I am saying, yes, this task is not being easy, for it is requiring the mountain climbing gear, and the hazmat suit, and the stomach of iron, but I am still doing it. If I am not porking Bjarne Riis' wife, then who will? Certainly not Mr. Fussy Pants Throw a Bicycle Baby Face Bjarne. He is not liking the company of women, I am hearing thourgh the grapevine. It is apparently the truth that the Bjarne Riis likes to hump donkeys. Big ones. Sometimes he is even having nasty big donkey orgies, the details of which are so horrific that even the Jan's black soul cringes in disgust. And the Jan has done nearly everything. Ask Bjarne's wife.
The Jan is keeping one burning, fear-inspiring eye on the little spanish one, Valverde. He is riding less pathetically than most other mortals lately. One eye also is being kept on Mr. Hair Monkey Marinara Boy, Ivan Basso. And it is looking kind of weird, because my eyes are being all over the place and people are being all like, Jan, what is the deal with your eyes, and I am like, "Shut up, man, I am being watching people." And then they are all like, "Oh, my bad, Jan." And the Jan is all like, "Ja, no shit." And then I am killing them. The Jan is hating to be interrupted when I am watching people.
Yet who can forget that horrible time...
July 1, 2006
Top Cyclists Are Out of Tour in Doping Case
By SAMUEL ABT and JULIET MACUR
STRASBOURG, France, June 30 — A doping scandal that could end up being the most widespread in cycling's history brought havoc to the Tour de France on Friday, with several of the top contenders implicated and removed from the field on the eve of the prestigious race.
The field for the Tour, scheduled to begin here Saturday, was already without the sport's biggest star, Lance Armstrong, who retired last year after his record seventh consecutive victory. Now the race will go off without the riders who finished second, third, fourth and fifth behind Armstrong last year — including this year's favorites, Jan Ullrich of Germany and Ivan Basso of Italy.
Ullrich, Basso and at least seven other riders were suspended after a meeting of race organizers and team directors late Thursday in Strasbourg, the starting point for this year's race. The Spanish authorities had sent race organizers a summary of their investigation into a drug ring that they suspect supplied cyclists with drugs and doping equipment used to increase the amount of oxygen-carrying red blood cells in one's body.
On Thursday, Tour organizers and team directors saw the names of the cyclists identified in the investigation and moved to withdraw those riders from the race. Cycling teams and the International Cycling Union agreed to a code of ethics last year that stipulated that riders would not be allowed to participate in the Tour if they were under investigation for doping.
"The directors will be contacting their riders to tell them that anybody on the list is suspended and cannot appear in the Tour de France," Christian Prudhomme, the director of the race, said during a news conference.
"The enemy is not cycling, the enemy is doping."
The police in Madrid last month raided what they described as a doping laboratory and seized steroids, hormones, the endurance-boosting drug EPO, nearly 100 bags of frozen blood and equipment for treating blood. The evidence was said to have implicated dozens of cyclists and coaches.
The drug scandal is the most serious and sprawling at the Tour since 1998, when the nine-man Festina team was kicked out of the competition after performance-enhancing drugs were found in the car of a team trainer. The French police then raided team hotels in search of more drugs, which caused riders to strike in protest.
"This is a bookend to the Festina scandal that put doping on the map as an issue," said Dr. Gary I. Wadler, a New York University medical professor and steroids expert. "Is something still going on in cycling? It's a given. It's the most grueling sport. What those athletes do is unbelievable, a physiological wonderment. It almost defies credibility. Now people are saying, 'Maybe they aren't so credible.' "
Homologous blood doping, the practice of transfusing another person's blood to increase the amount of oxygen-carrying red blood cells, has been against the rules in cycling since the late 1980's. But cyclists have resorted to those transfusions, said Dr. Don Catlin, head of the U.C.L.A. drug testing lab, because tests for EPO have been improving. A test for EPO became available in 2000.
In recent years, several high-profile cyclists have been punished for doping, including David Millar of Britain, who was stripped of his 2003 world championship and suspended for admitting he used EPO, which increases the red blood cells that carry oxygen to muscles. The American Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton also was suspended for two years for testing positive for blood doping at the 2004 Spanish Vuelta.
Even riders who never tested positive are the targets of doping accusations. For years, Armstrong has disputed allegations that he used drugs to win his record seven Tours. Those allegations began after he won the 1999 Tour de France in his fairy-tale comeback from testicular cancer.
Most recently, Betsy Andreu, wife of Frankie Andreu, one of Armstrong's former teammates, said that Armstrong had admitted to a doctor that he had used performance-enhancing drugs. She testified that she was in the room after Armstrong's cancer surgery in 1996 and heard him say he had used EPO, testosterone, growth hormones and cortisone.
Armstrong, who was at home in Austin, Tex., with his children, could not be reached for comment Friday, but he has denied Andreu's allegations.
Though the report from the Spanish authorities has not been released, the news media in Spain have reported that more than 50 cyclists and coaches are implicated. Among those are riders who had hoped to finally win the Tour after Armstrong's longtime stranglehold over the yellow jersey.
Basso, who rides for the CSC team, finished second last year, and Ullrich was third, riding for T-Mobile. The fourth-place finisher was Francisco Mancebo of Spain, and he was also removed from the field Friday.
Last year's fifth-place finisher, Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan, was not on the list that Spanish authorities gave race organizers, but his team, Astana-Würth, was forced to drop out because five of its riders were removed from the Tour, leaving the team with fewer than the minimum six it needs to start the race.
The departing Tour director, Jean-Marie Leblanc, told The Associated Press that the Spanish investigators found evidence of doping prescriptions, apparently for Ullrich, Basso, Mancebo and Oscar Sevilla, Ullrich's teammate on T-Mobile.
"I am not going into details what those documents were about, but you might assume that those documents have to have really serious content, otherwise we would not have gone to such a dramatic decision to suspend our favorite," said Philipp Schindera, the spokesman for the T-Mobile team.
Schindera said that the documents did not prove that Ullrich and Sevilla were guilty of doping, and that the team had asked them to provide DNA samples to prove their innocence.
Ullrich, who at 32 is nearing the end of his career, won the Tour in 1997 and has finished second five times. He insisted he was innocent, saying he was "absolutely shocked" by the allegations.
"I need a few days for myself and then I'll try to prove my innocence with the help of my lawyer," he told The Associated Press. "And I'll go on fighting."
Samuel Abt reported from Strasbourg for this article, and Juliet Macur from Orlando, Fla. Ian Austen contributed reporting from Windsor, Ontario, and Nathaniel Vinton from Hamburg, Germany.
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Thanks for the reminder. The Jan's mySpace blog was the best out there. Wish it would have kept on.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous03 May, 2010 12:54
Yeah, I'd never seen this before - thanks for digging it out. I wish both Ullrich and the blog had been able to continue.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous03 May, 2010 13:04
That's a good article by Sam Abt, the best cycling journalist of the modern era. Why do you think he is not more widely-known or followed? Does he still write?ReplyDelete
Sure thing, Gunnar.ReplyDelete
Anon, I don't know if Abt is writing or retired. Google him at the NYTimes or Int'l Herald Tribune. His book "In High Gear" was the first piece of creative non-fiction cycling literature that I ever read and I decided that if I ever aspired to be a cycling correspondent after competing, I would seek to emulate Abt. He's the man. Ed Hood from VeloresultsUK has a unique, endearing style, too.
Worth reading article by Sam and Juliet, it would greatly affect and help the next generations of cyclist by encouraging them to join for future races.ReplyDelete
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Brined and Grilled Pork Chops with Chipotle Glaze
Brining adds flavor and moisture to these lean chops - it's the prefect way to get them ready to grill. The chops are finished off with a thick brushing of Chipotle Glaze, adding a huge amount of spicy, sweet and smoky flavor.
Pork Chops
Dissolve brown sugar and salt in boiling water. Add cider, and stir to combine. Make a spice sachet** with the garlic, bay leaves, thyme and peppercorns. Add sachet to cider mixture, and cool to room temperature. Add pork chops to room temperature brine, and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Combine orange juice, zest, honey, soy sauce, chipotle chile and adobo sauce in a small sauce pan. Place over medium-high heat, and cook until sauce has thickened and reduced by half, about 5 to 8 minutes.
To Grill
Take pork chops out of brine, and dry really well with paper towels. Throw away brine and spice sachet. Preheat grill to medium-high. Clean grates with a stiff brush, then oil liberally to prevent sticking. (Note: To use a grill pan, preheat a lightly oiled grill pan to medium-high heat.)
Brush pork chops with oil, then generously season both sides with pepper. Place each pork chop onto the hot, oiled grill, and cook for about 2 to 3 minutes. Without turning, rotate chops 90 degrees, and continue cooking until meat is seared and crusty on the outside, about 2 minutes more. This will produce beautiful cross-hatch grill marks. Flip chops over, then thickly brush with glaze. Repeat grilling process for second side. Cook chops to an internal temperature of 145°F (medium-well). (Note: The chops will continue to cook a bit further after removing from the grill.)
Transfer pork chops to a warm platter. Let the meat rest, loosely tented with aluminum foil, for about 5 minutes before serving.
* Canned chipotles in adobo sauce can generally be found at ethnic and/or specialty markets or in the international section of many grocery stores.
** To make the sachet, cut a 6 to 8-inch double-folded square of cheesecloth. Rinse it under cool running water, then squeeze it dry. Place the herbs and garlic in the middle of the cheesecloth square, and draw up all four corners; tie securely with kitchen twine.
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BETTING ODDS FOR THE 2018 WORLD CUP By Socceroddking
The ideal to take advantage of the best and most competitive odds of betting for the 2018 World Cup is to be registered in more than one betting house. In the section of 'Bookmakers' we recommend some options so you can enjoy Russia 2018 getting benefits from your bets and your knowledge of football in general. Moving we must start from the quota is the number by which we multiply the amount of money that we bet. From that result will come no more or less than our profit. For example, if we bet 3.00 euros for Spain against Portugal with a quota of 1.90, we will receive a total of 5.70 euros (2.70 of profit, also recovering the 3.00 invested initially).
When comparing bookmakers to choose from in which to register we suggest that, as a starting point, you establish what your priorities are. The fees vary according to each operator and are very important because they will ultimately determine our income, but in no way are the only points to be taken into account. Do not lose sight of the fact that it must be a reliable company that inspires you with confidence and security, with good customer service, a wide range of bets and methods of depositing and withdrawing money that serve you, among other things.
Types of installments
In Apuestas-Mundial.es we deal with the decimal or European format, the easiest to understand and the one that you will find a priori in the majority of betting houses. The example described above is with decimal quotas. Assuming that Brazil pays 6.00 euros in the bets to the 2018 World Champion, if we played 2.00 euros we would get a prize of 12: 2.00 × 6.00 = 12.00 (10.00 of profit).
On the other hand, there is the quota per fraction, used mainly in the United Kingdom, which is why it is also called 'English quota'. The fractional fee is precisely a fraction: if Spain before Portugal pays 10/11, we will set our net profit multiplying the money invested by the fraction. So, if we bet 5 euros, the account will be 5 × 10/11, whose result is 4.54.
Finally, we have the so-called American quotas, common in the United States, Canada and other countries in the region. Following the same example of the match between Spain and Portugal, the victory the red one in American odds could pay -110. In this case we have a negative quota and means that to get 100 euros, for example, we would have to put at stake 110.
Live betting at the 2018 World Cup By Socceroddking
While most of the bets are received when the event has not yet started, many times we have the possibility to bet during the course of the event.
The World Cup will not be the exception. The most prestigious betting houses according to us, like Bet365, William Hill or Bwin for example, will offer live betting thanks to its already famous "Live" service.
Although it seems obvious, it is worth clarifying that Live bets are those that are made with the match in play. When the quotas are changing according to the different circumstances of the meeting.
Now, in the face of the beginning of the 2018 World Cup Russia, from here we leave you a couple of tips.
– First of all it's about how to place Live bets. That an event does not start as we thought it does not have to make us bet against what we had previously wagered.
In this way the only thing we will achieve is to increase the margin of error and reduce our chances. As an example, if we think that Spain will beat Chile forcefully, an early goal by the South Americans cannot make us change our bet in favor of the "Red".
– In second place the interesting thing is to know when to use Live betting. We do not always have the time to place bets during a game. Sometimes we are working hours or simply do not have a computer (or any other mobile device) available to place bets.
But if we have the opportunity to witness the match, we can use the Live when the team shares that we consider favorite do not meet our expectations.
Let's go back to the example of Spain – Chile
Obviously the quotas will increase if it is that Chile is winning the match. If we are sure that Spain will win, the time when it is disadvantaged is the best to bet.
Live bets are double-edged weapons. They are exciting and addictive, but before the end we recommend some advice. If you see that luck does not favor you with the Live, do not insist. There are people with skills to bet live and others just before the event.


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Nice photo, great use of DOF.
The greatest sporting precinct in the world meets the fuji X100s and Nik Analog Efex Pro2
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I didn't realize there was a Fuji thread. I bought the wife the X100s as a pre-wedding gift last year (right after David Hobby got his).
Here's a picture of me shot by the wife (over processed by me)... at World's End, Sri Lanka
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) -- Rodney King has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in Southern California.
The Moreno Valley Police Department said officers pulled King over Tuesday after seeing him commit several alleged traffic violations. He was booked into jail for investigation of DUI, and bail was set at $2,500.
King was the black motorist whose beating by four white police officers in 1991 exposed racial wounds and led to a devastating riot in Los Angeles.
He has struggled with sobriety publicly and appeared on television's "Celebrity Rehab."
Riverside County Sheriff's spokeswoman Courtney Donowho said no arraignment date has been set.
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Monday, November 26, 2012
Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Having Withdrawal Symptoms
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I just remember the first time I used Deadly Boss Mods having it scare the bejeebers out of me when it went off making me run madly around in the goo I was supposed to avoid, sigh.ReplyDelete
And the dps meter was so depressing so I got rid of that. Now I just worry about pet battle addons, very, very, important!Replies
The time I first loaded DBM, I got into Forge of Souls for the first time. When that *Soul Storm* popped up, I had no idea whatsoever what it meant. Boy did I learn fast....Delete
I try to avoid looking at the damage meters, but it does tell me if I'm doing something VERY wrong. Like, say, entering an instance wielding my fishing rod instead of a real weapon... (Which did actually happen in Utgarde Keep!)
So, do you think that the pet battle addons will very quickly become required for getting into that scene? For example, I can't not think that Gatherer is anything but required for the serious gathering profession user.Delete
After the patch I was stricken with grief when all my pet teams disappeared. I had something like 20 teams made up for different fights, yep, I cannot live without teams.Delete
And definitely Gatherer is a must; I can't remember what life was like without it. Sheesh, I try not to become dependent on addons but on reflection I've not succeeded, lol.


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I've been busy in the studio drawing non-stop the last few days. Getting into a nice groove. Here's some other stuff I finished over the last few days:
New drawing for Rebel8...
Started this Oni tattoo this week too...
I've been working on lots of other tattoos and illustrations, but I'll post flics of those as I finish them.
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Check them out if you're interested. Don't sleep if you want one. I don't have many and they're going fast.
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Kauffman Stadium to host game benefiting CBHOF
Wichita State, Missouri to play April 22 at home of Kansas City Royals
Kauffman Stadium will soon be the site of a college baseball border clash.
The National College Baseball Hall of Fame "Classic at The K" will feature a matchup between the Wichita State Shockers and the Missouri Tigers on Tuesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. Farmland Foods will be the presenting sponsor of the game, which will benefit the National College Baseball Hall of Fame, located in Lubbock, Texas.
"We are so honored that David and Dan Glass and the Royals organization have chosen to host this game," said Hall of Fame Executive Vice President of Development Jana Howser, daughter of late Royals Hall of Fame Manager Dick Howser. "We look forward to a wonderful night of college baseball."
Wichita State leads the all-time series, having won six of the 10 matchups between the teams. They last met in 2004 with the Shockers winning, 3-0.
Tickets in the BATS Crown Club, which will include a special menu offered at a reduced price, will be available for $25 for adults and $14 for youth ages 14 and under. Fans may also purchase tickets in the KIA Diamond Club for $15 for adults and $10 for youth. Please note that Royals Crown Club and Diamond Club seat holders will be given a special opportunity to purchase tickets in these two areas and will receive an email with information on how to purchase tickets within the next week. In addition, general admission seating in the lower seating bowl will be available for purchase at $10 for adults and $5 for youth.
Fans may purchase tickets online at www.royals.com/hofgame, by visiting the Kauffman Stadium Box Office or by calling 1-800-6-ROYALS.


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Google on Tuesday rolled out version 2.0 of Gmail for iOS, a redesigned upgrade that supports up to five email accounts on Apple's iPhone and iPad.
Matthew Izatt, Google's Gmail product manager, announced the update yesterday in a blog post.
Google introduced Gmail for iOS in November 2011.
By most accounts, the launch of Gmail 2.0 went much smoother than the original last year. Then, Google pulled the app from Apple's App Store within minutes, issued an apology and admitted it had "messed up" by shipping a flawed version.
The company re-launched Gmail for iOS two weeks later.
Most reviews of Gmail 2.0 were positive -- Wired said it "rocks," ReadWrite noted it "doesn't suck anymore" -- but a few chastised the upgrade for still seeming too much like the Web edition. The Verge called it "a frustratingly mixed bag" and "ultimately flawed."
Besides the new support for multiple accounts, Gmail 2.0 also beefed up integration with Google+, the company's Facebook competitor; sported a flatter UI (user interface) akin to other Google designs; and offered in-app RSVPs to Google Calendar invitations.
The new Gmail for iOS is a free download from Apple's iTunes-based App Store.
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Ms. Finnigan is a nationally recognized interventionist. She received her intervention training from the man who developed the process, Dr. Vern Johnson. She is regularly featured on A&E's television show Intervention, conducts lectures across the country, and recently released a comprehensive book about the intervention process.
"When Enough is Enough: A comprehensive guide to successful intervention" is available now from publisher Penguin/Avery. The book is a tell-it-like-it-is guide to the process of intervention; a must read if you're interested in conducting an intervention.


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Bill Gates Stresses Importance of Investment in Both HIV Treatment and Research for Vaccines, Microbicides
July 24, 2012
In a symposium session on Monday at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., politicians and public health experts joined Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Co-Chair Bill Gates for a discussion about improving effectiveness and efficiency in the HIV/AIDS response, the Washington Post reports (Brown/Botelho, 7/23). "Gates ... reiterated the importance for nations and donors to support research, but also expressed support for ongoing treatment initiatives in the meantime," according to Agence France-Presse. "No one should think that we have got the tools yet. We will get the tools but only if we stay the course in terms of the scientific investments," Gates said, AFP notes (Sheridan, 7/23). The Washington Post adds that "[t]he main one lacking is a vaccine, but also important and missing are woman-controlled means to prevent infection, such as a vaginal microbicide" (7/23).
Joining Gates in a panel discussion, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim "said that procurement methods and systems put in place in the ramp-up of AIDS programs in low-income countries [will provide] useful lessons to other government sectors, such as education," the Washington Post notes. U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby, also on the panel, said PEPFAR has created efficiency by purchasing generic drugs and lowering shipping costs, among other things, the newspaper adds. "But at some point we will need to inject more resources. I don't want to give the impression that we have enough," Goosby said, according to the newspaper. Opening the session, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) spoke about U.S. investments in global AIDS programs, noting the country budgeted $6.6 billion for PEPFAR in FY 2012, the Washington Post reports. "Why can we continue to pour $100 billion a year into Afghanistan but we can't find a quarter of that to end a global pandemic?" Kerry asked, adding, "This is precisely the moment we need to invest more, so that past investments are not lost and we don't slide back," the newspaper notes. Following Kerry, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) praised PEPFAR, which was begun by former President George W. Bush, saying, "To the American taxpayer, your money is going to a good cause. ... This is a worthy cause for both parties," according to the newspaper (7/23).
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Secretary Clinton Reaffirms U.S. Commitment to "AIDS-Free Generation," Pledges $150 Million for Global Efforts
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December 19, 2008
Sharon and Kurt Conklin, owners of Crawfordsville coffee shops Good to Go Xpresso, opened their two stores with an interesting business model.
The coffee and frozen drink shops on the north and south ends of Crawfordsville operate as drive-through kiosks, and provide customers everything from dark and rich espresso to frozen fruit smoothies.
The Conklins' business model includes a healthy dose of philanthropy, too.
The Conklins have printed and distributed "Join Our Team" punch cards at Wabash College and the three Montgomery County high schools, all marked with school logos and colors. Customers get the cards punched with every drink purchase and the dividends are two-fold:
After 11 punches, customers get $1.00 off their 12th purchase. In addition, the company makes quarterly donations to the schools based on the volume of business.
"Folks at Wabash who have their cards punched with every purchase are helping the Conklins donate to a Wabash scholarship fund for Montgomery County students," said Wabash spokesman Jim Amidon.
Dean for Advancement Joe Emmick '92 worked with the Conklins to set up the arrangement. The owners of Good to Go Xpresso made their first philanthropic donation to Wabash in mid-December — the first of what the Conklins expect to be quarterly gifts to the College. The gifts will be pooled into a scholarship fund.
"Kurt and Sharon came to Crawfordsville after successful corporate careers in the Pacific Northwest," said Dean Emmick. "They embody many of the same values we instill in our own students — a creative, entrepreneurial spirit grounded in a desire to serve the community. Kurt's and Sharon's vision will help support a Montgomery County student's Wabash education."
There are two Good to Go Xpresso shops in Crawfordsville. One is located just across from the Holiday Inn on U.S. Highway 231 North and the second store is located on the south side of town across from Arby's on 231 South.
Wabash students, faculty, staff, and alumni can pick up "Join Our Team" Wabash punch cards on the table outside the president's office in Center Hall, at the front desk of Lilly Library, and on the first floor of Kane House.


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Friday, June 25, 2010
Jeannie Longo Wins French National Time Trial Championship
2010 French National Time Trial Championships
1. Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (Rhône-Alpes), 24.7 km in 34:51
2. Edwige Pitel (Michela Fanini), at 1:19
3. Christel Ferrier-Bruneau (Vienne Futuroscope), at 1:31
4. Aude Biannic (Bretagne), at 1:45
5. Julie Krasniak (Lorraine), at 1:48
6. Delphine Pelletier (Centre), at 2:04
7. Mélodie Lesueur (ESGL 93), at 2:09
8. Caroline Mani (Vienne Futuroscope), at 2:19
9. Audrey Cordon (Vienne Futuroscope), at 2:21
10. Amélie Rivat (Rhône-Alpes), at 3:03
This year's event was seemingly devoid of the drama chronicled in 2009 by Cyclingnews.com:
"Jeannie Longo claimed her 56th French national title in the time trial championship in St. Brieuc on Thursday. Her victory came 30 years after she took her first blue, white and red jersey on the road back in 1979.
However, the day was less than fairytale as family troubles were made public and mechanical discord occurred once again with race commissaires.
She started five seconds later than scheduled because of a discussion with the judges over the conformity of her time trial bike. The bike was initially refused. She argued that she recently rode the Souvenir Magali-Pache with the same bike and she was eventually given the green light in extremis at the difference of her rival Edwige Pitel who had to race with her replacement bike that was four years old.
Asked whether or not this incident had favoured her, Longo replied to the reporters: "You would have preferred to see her winning, right? Well, I'm happy to have won once again. The incident prior to the race gave me a lot of adrenaline at the beginning of the race. I've suffered a lot but the huge crowd has encouraged me remarkably."
Despite her popularity and her winning status still at the age of 50, Longo cried a few times after the race. It was because of the revelation by L'Equipe that she was no longer coached by her husband Patrice Ciprelli who on the other hand gives Pitel training plans. It was Longo who attracted Pitel to her town of Grenoble. She even found a job for her.
Longo was quoted as not having "a great morale being alone and staying up until 2am sometimes". During the race, Ciprelli followed his wife in the car just as he has in the past and did not follow Pitel. Longo presumed he will follow her to their usual training camp in the USA in July as a preparation for the world championship in Mendrisio."
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- Anonymous25 June, 2010 14:50
Are you saying that Longo doped, that Pitel doped, some combination of the previous or that you supplied Ciprelli, Longo or Pitel with doping products, or you facilitated Ciprelli's obtaining doping products via the Internet?ReplyDelete
Mehhh, not saying any of the above, at least not directly.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 June, 2010 22:31
I thought she won. Then why are they so long in the face ?ReplyDelete
Guilty as 'charged' !!ReplyDelete
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In my local assembly we not only celebrated Christ's victory, but I called out to those in attendance who had never seen nor understood what Christ had accomplished for them. As I spoke I looked into the faces of those who just some months or years ago were outside of the life of Christ, outside of His kingdom...they were strangers to the family of God. And now, there they were: citizens with the saints, rejoicing in Jesus, their Redeemer and friend. For some of these souls, walking through our church doorway was the last stop on the road to salvation; when they heard the message they were ready receive the grace and life that Christ offered them. Hmm...but others were not quite so ready; no, they would require patient reasoning and exhortation, urging them to faith. Their stubborn skepticism and doubt restrained their hope that what I was communicating in the Gospel and the miracle of the Resurrection just might be true. I saw these faces of doubt too as I spoke.and called out to them to believe the message.
What does it take to convince a soul of the truth of the Gospel? Someone will quickly claim, "well, that is the Holy Spirit's job, not ours...just preach the message and let God do the rest." And who can argue with that reasoning? It is certainly true that Scripture speaks profoundly about the drawing and convicting work of the Spirit. And yet God has ordained our part as the messengers of the Gospel: We are to be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks us to give the reason for the hope we have (1 Peter 3:15). Did not the Apostle Paul, after leaving no doubt about God's sovereign work in salvation in Romans 8 and 9, then go on to speak of the need for preachers to convey the message in chapter 10? "How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent?" (Romans 10: 14-15a). We will always have a responsibility to obey the Great Commission and take the message to those who need to hear. It takes work and persevering patience to reason with those who do not believe.
While in Corinth, Paul visited the synagogues every Sabbath and "reasoned...trying to persuade Jews and Greeks" (Acts 18:4). Indeed, in writing to the Corinthians, he acknowledges that all believers will stand before the judgment seat of Christ and states plainly, "since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men" (2 Cor. 5:10–11). In this statement Paul may certainly have been referring to his need to convince certain Corinthian believers to submit to his apostleship; but in the larger context he is speaking of the ministry that God had given him, and indeed to each of us...the "ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us" (2 Cor. 5: 18–20).
Have you ever wondered how Paul reasoned with unbelievers? Where did he start? Did he use different approaches and styles to draw their attention? Again, his interaction with the Corinthians is informative: "When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified....My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power" (1 Cor. 1–2, 4–5). Yet, in Acts 17, we find that Paul "reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace" (v. 17). Indeed, "Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection," and was taken to a meeting of the Areopagus to discuss his preaching. What is most fascinating in this account is Paul's appeal to their minds through sound theological reasoning that is not overly technical; he even refers to an inscription on an altar and quotes from their poets! The quotations and the altar reference connect him to his listeners and allow him to sketch out important fundamental themes like Creation, God's omnipotence, the created order, Judgment, and ultimately the Resurrection. And note the response of his audience: "When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but other said, 'we want to hear you again on this subject'" (v. 32).
God is calling all of us to connect with those who are lost in this world! He calls us to a ministry that requires great effort of heart and mind to reach the souls of others. This requires knowledge of God, knowledge of His world, and an understanding of the reasoning of man. However, we must never forget that it is the message of the Resurrection that arrests attention and focuses the minds of unbelievers. In Acts 17 the message of the Resurrection was the dividing line between those who mocked and those who wanted to hear more. It is the same today.
What is the value of a soul? God gave his one and only Son, who poured out his life on the cross. Truly God loves the world and desires all people to be saved. May we be faithful in taking the word of the Cross and the word of the Resurrection to those who are perishing apart from God. At ABR we use the knowledge of the science of archaeology to speak into the body of Christ and into the skeptical world. Like Paul we use this knowledge to help others find Christ and spiritual freedom. And we build up the church in helping them to be strong and confident in the word of God. May the Lord grant each one of us the boldness to speak the unchangeable Gospel within our unique area of calling and knowledge. And may we never forget the power of the Resurrection of Christ in filling our lives and our words with power to transform lives.
Scott Lanser is the Executive Director of ABR. He graduated with an MA from Biblical Theological Seminary and has served as a pastor for over 20 years in Lancaster County, PA.
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Netherlands and Norway operate with at least 4 different steady states for data e.g. raw data, clean microdata, macrodata/statistical data, published data.
How is this modelled in GSIM? There is Unit Data and Dimensional Data, but how do we model the amount of processing? Attributes?
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I agree this would be an attribute, although it is not a standardised attribute within GSIM V1.0. ABS hasn't standardised "steady states" of data in the past but we are looking to do so now. it would be worth looking at whether, for next version of GSIM, we can come up with a common reference list of steady states to be associated with a standardised attribute?
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Most NSIs are not ready for standardisation around steady states of data, but this could be important for the modernisation of statistics.
This could be used to indicate the amount of processing on the data and the business rules e.g. statistical disclosure control associated with this.
In the meantime, steady states of the data could be an optional attribute on the DataResource, with an uncontrolled vocabulary.
This would be in accordance with GSIM Design Principle of standardising to the level og agreement but no further.
Any NSI that wishes to extend the DataResource i.o. with this optional attribute can do so.
Following the discussion on 9 April, I see a potentially different way of approaching this question. Perhaps the next generation of the GSIM User Guide could provide a recommended means of extending a local implementation of GSIM to support States of Data. This would save adding an attribute to the formal GSIM specification if there is not yet consensus that such an attribute is relevant to enough NSIs.
The discussion on 9 April, however, further convinced me that some recommendation on this point would be useful - even if it is not built into the formal specification. I heard some people suggest (from memory) it should be an attribute on DataResource where I was thinking of it as an attribute on DataSet. This is an example of how the half dozen or more agencies that are interested in States of Data could all go off and model it, and build it in to systems, in different and incompatible ways. This would impact (in a small way) the ability to more easily share components based on a common information model.
While I agree the exact "allowable values" for States of Data and the business rules applied to specific states of data are matters for local implementation, I think the concept that there are states of data is somewhat prevalent (although not ubiquitous). I continue to believe, therefore, some attempt to establish common high level modelling advice (which can be ignored by implementers if they choose) would be useful.
Information about how states of data "could be done" should go into the next version of the User Guide, rather than trying to fit into the model
Input to be given by countries using states of data may be done.


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While the rest of the world debates whether Yevgeny Plushenko of Russia, Japan's Daisuke Takahashi, or US skater Evan Lysacek – all in a near tie after Tuesday's short program – has the best shot of winning Olympic skating gold tonight, there's one thing the American knows for sure.
Under the new judging system, favoritism won't play a part in determining the winner.
"If you're the favorite and you don't skate well, you're not going to win," said Lysacek, the 2010 US silver medalist, before the Games began. "That [is one thing that] has completely changed. Has the best skater won every time? Yes."
The new system, which has continually been refined since its introduction in 2005, emphasizes the athleticism of figure skating over artistic impressions – Johnny Weir's pink ribbons notwithstanding. While superior artistry may be the tie-breaker between two skaters with comparable technical elements, it won't compensate for a lack of difficulty in the routine.
Overall, both quad-jumpers like Pluschenko and artists like fifth-ranked Stéphane Lambiel of Switzerland seem pleased with the new system, which they say binds judges to criteria – closing the door on ambiguous "impressions" that leave room for too much subjectivity and even corruption, as at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.
But for skaters like Weir, infamous for plumage and theatrics, it has reduced inexplicable beauty to unfeeling calculation. And in that attempted justice, he sees a great injustice to the sport.
"It's something that's very difficult to balance – the sport of figure skating and the art of figure skating have basically become some kind of national math contest," said Weir to reporters before skating to a disappointing fifth at US Nationals in January 2009, prompting a temporary retirement. "And this judging system is killing the sport as I grew up loving it and as the way I see the sport should be…. In my opinion, the art of figure skating is lost because of this judging system."
Pure beauty – without secretly adding up points
It also may ruin the show for audiences who – especially at the Winter Olympics – are at the rink to see a good performance, not compare it with a check-list of elements they've never heard of.
"All the programs end up looking exactly the same because everyone is trying to put in the same level-4 tricks" to maximize their score, says Megan Marod, a figure skater and ardent fan in New York City. "Basically, it's now music playing while people do tricks."
Weir couldn't agree more.
"I'm just longing for the day when you see that beautiful program that's clean, that you can really feel something from, and not be secretly adding up points in your head while you're watching it," said Weir last year, complaining that even he couldn't squeeze much artistry into routines jam-packed with necessarily technical elements. "I miss the days of when Michelle Kwan would skate a program and get perfect 6s, or when Alexei Yagudin would kind of breeze through this amazing footwork that maybe wasn't technically that difficult, but you got an emotion from it."
But what the new International Judging System (IJS) does do is create a more level playing field. In 1998, for example, Michelle Kwan lost to Tara Lipinski's solid but easier program with a bobble on a much more difficult routine. That won't happen tonight. And that's why even if a skater falls on the ice here at the Pacific Coliseum, he could still win gold.
"In the new system ... you can fall [on a jump] and still win. In the old system if you fall, you'd lose, it didn't matter if you were the best skater in the world," explains Marod. In the old system, "you could go out and hit your jumps but have poor spins and poor footwork and still win."
How the new system works
So how does the new system work, exactly? According to US Figure Skating's explanation online, the IJS involves two panels at an event: a technical panel and a judging panel. The technical panel identifies each technical element and its level of difficulty as the skater performs it. That leaves the judge free to focus on how well the element was performed – giving it a "grade of execution" of GOE score that ranges between -3 and +3. That GOE is then factored into the base value for the element.
To take US Figure Skating's example:
The technical specialist identifies a jump as a triple Axel. The judge grades the quality of the jump and assigns a GOE of +1. The base value for a triple Axel is 8.2 points, and a GOE of +1 for a triple Axel has a value of 1.0 points, so the point value for the element is 9.2 points.
The judges, meanwhile, focus on five criteria: skating skills, transitions, performance/execution, choreography/composition, and interpretation.
The system has been modified every season since the 2005 World Championships. This year, the big change was to lessen the penalty for under-rotating jumps – a criterion that discouraged the top men from trying to land quads in competition, says Akiko Tamura, a Japanese journalist who has covered figure skating since 1993.
Quad king Plushenko is 'like steel'
At the past two Worlds, both gold medalists won without any quads – a trend that impelled Russia's Plushenko, a master of quads, to come back and try to save the world of figure skating skills from deteriorating into a bunch of boyish hops.
Tonight, he is favored to win.
"He is like steel," says Tamura, who – like the rest of the world – will be watching closely.
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Sky Hook
Sky Hook was a fanzine published by Redd Boggs in the 1940s and 50s in the U.S.A.
Sky Hook was a Fantasy Amateur Press Association publication that had its premiere in Winter of 1948. Bogg's previous zine Chronoscope was merged into this new title.
Writers for Sky Hook included Poul Anderson, James Blish (The Planeteer), writing as himself and as William Atherling, Jr., Virginia Blish (Virginia Kidd), John Chapman, Philip Jose Farmer, Dean Grennell (Filler, Grue), Terence Heywood, Lee Hoffman (Quandry), David H. Keller, Damon Knight, Noel Loomis, Sam Moskowitz (Helios), Con Pederson, Phil Rasch, Oliver Saari, Jack Speer, and Ken Tuttle.
Artists featured were Richard Bergeron (Warhoon), Jerri Bullock (Fan Artisan), Eugene Calewaert (Eclipse), Terry Carr (Innuendo), Henry Chabot, Bob Dougherty, Ed Emshwiller, Dean Grennell (Grue, Filler), Howard Miller (Dream Quest), Randall Nelson, Bill Rotsler and Maril Shrewsbury.
Twenty five issues were published during its run. The last issue of Sky Hook was published in Autumn 1957.
Redd Boggs was also the publisher of Chronoscope, Discord and The Lovecraftsman.


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Part of series: TO017 Tool 017 – Heartbeats
Series Keywords: healthy heartbeat, irregular heartbeat, animated heartbeat, heartbeat line, EKG
This series of heartbeats can be used in a lot of interesting ways. You can use healthy heartbeats as a visual analogy for a healthy business (as in the series example) or an irregular heartbeat to show the opposite. You can combine any of these heartbeats or extend them (see the tutorial to find out how to do this).
The heartbeats are lines, so you can change the color, thickness, and move the points if you wish.
The heartbeats can be animated as an interesting element on a slide (download the animated example to see one example of this type of use). The animation section of the tutorial will give you important tips on animation, so review this before you begin.


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Microsoft has been inventing new products for decades, but today marks the first time it's changed its corporate logo in 25 years. As a nod to the new style of Windows 8, and an admission that tiles really are everything to Microsoft right now, the company's new logo has a completely square version of the classic Windows symbol included on it, complete with the red, green, blue, and yellow squares. In addition to the Windows symbol, the Microsoft wording is now in a simpler, more Windows 8-style font as well and is now colored gray instead of black. If you take a trip to Microsoft.com, you'll already see the new logo in use.
Though the Windows operating system has always had a symbol similar to this, albeit not as modern, this is the first time Microsoft has put the Windows symbol on its corporate logo. The change shows how deeply Microsoft is committed to its new strategy. Nearly every product, from Azure to Zune, has been reworked and altered to fit in with Windows 8. Even the Xbox, once a completely separate brand, now has an interface with Live Tiles (or should we call them window panes?) covering it.
We won't know whether or not Windows 8 is a smart move for Microsoft for some time, but it is interesting to see how boldly the software giant is pushing its new design style. Microsoft claims that the new logo will be used "prominently," going forward. Expect to see old Microsoft logos disappearing around the world as the great purging and re-invention of the Microsoft logo begins. If you get nostalgic though, you can always search
Google Bing for old Microsoft logos!


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The Magician represents cleverness, skillfulness, self-confidence, and actively creating your own life. He stands for a time in which we also master difficult problems and successfully face challenges with a keen consciousness and worldly wisdom. Although this card depicts the strength of conscious powers, it does not express the idea that feeling and other unconscious powers are to be neglected in the process. On the contrary: the extraordinary influential powers and effectiveness shown by the Magician are based upon the secret of deep harmony between the conscious and the unconscious. It is only the inner certainty, which then occurs, that is capable of moving mountains.


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Hollywood's dominance of the movie industry has been the subject of numerous studies. An interdisciplinary literature review in this thesis identified twenty different single or multiple factor explanations that try to account for Major studio dominance at different time periods but cannot comprehensively explain how Hollywood acquired and maintained dominance for nine decades. This thesis reviewed the economics, management and marketing literatures to identify existing theoretical explanations for the acquisition and persistence of market dominance. It then integrated existing theories identified within the business literature into a 'theoretical lens'. This lens enables an historical analysis of Hollywood's longstanding dominance of the movie business to be undertaken from a strategic business perspective. This thesis concludes that the Major studios rise to market leadership and enduring dominance can primarily be explained because they developed and maintained a set of strategic marketing management capabilities that were superior to rival firms and rival film industries. It is argued that a marketing orientation and effective strategic marketing management capabilities also provide a unifying theory for Hollywood's enduring dominance because they can account for each of the twenty previously identified explanations for that dominance. The original contribution of this thesis is the development of a strategic marketing management lens and a set of guiding questions that can facilitate a strategic analysis of market dominance in any industry.
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Ag's Open Exhibition Season with a WinSports Thursday, October 31st, 2013
COLLEGE STATION – Led by a balanced scoring attack that featured four players with double-figure points, the Texas A&M men's basketball team notched an 80-70 exhibition victory over Texas-Permian Basin Wednesday night at Reed Arena.
Senior guard Fabyon Harris paced the Aggies with 13 points on the night, while adding five rebounds and a pair of steals. The Chicago, Ill., native was joined in double-digit scoring by junior guard Jamal Jones, who chipped in 11 points along with six rebounds.
Additionally, sophomore guard Alex Caruso and freshman forward Davonte Fitzgerald each tallied 10 points in the winning effort.
"I think tonight we saw more athletic plays of guys attacking the rim and getting deflections and steals with our athleticism," Texas A&M head coach Billy Kennedy said. "We just have to try to get a little bit better every day and mature as fast as possible."
The Aggies were active in transition during the contest, outscoring the Falcons by a 20-2 margin in fast break points, while also dominating in the interior where they held a 58-28 edge in points in the paint.
For the game, the Aggies shot 32-of-66 (48.5 percent) from the floor and were aggressive on the defensive end, collecting 12 steals and eight blocks as a team.
During his first action on the court for Texas A&M after sitting out last season following his transfer from Florida State, sophomore Antwan Space led the Aggies with eight boards to go along with nine points, a block and a steal.
Junior guard Jordan Green tallied six points and five rebounds in addition to leading the Aggies with four assists.
UTPB's Keith Martin notched a double-double with 13 points and 11 boards, while teammate Anthony Dees paced all scorers with 18 points.
Early in the contest it was an 11-0 Aggie run which gave the home squad control of the game and a 23-14 lead with 10:15 to play in the opening period.
The Aggies owned a 41-30 advantage at the intermission, shooting 47 percent from the floor during the first half.
The Aggies will officially christen their 2013-14 campaign on Friday, Nov. 8, when they welcome Buffalo to Reed Arena.
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The Master of Arts in economics has a twofold objective: (1) to provide students with analytical capabilities and research skills for careers in business, government, and the nonprofit sector; and (2) to prepare those who wish to pursue a Ph.D.
Special Departmental Requirements
(See also general University Graduate School requirements.)
Admission Requirements
Applicants should have completed a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution. Ordinarily, applicants should have a minimum grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in their undergraduate course work and in their previous economics courses. Before undertaking graduate study in economics, a student should have knowledge of intermediate-level undergraduate economic theory (E321 and E322), statistics (E270), differential and integral calculus (the IUPUI equivalent is M16500 offered by the mathematics department). Students with deficiencies in economics and/or mathematics may be admitted on a conditional basis.
The verbal, quantitative, and analytical portions of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) are required, and applicants are urged to complete the examination by December of the year before admission. Requests to substitute GMAT scores for GRE scores will be considered.
Three letters of recommendation are required. For students with English as a second language, a minimum TOEFL score of at least 550 is recommended. Successful completion of ELS 112 will be accepted in lieu of TOEFL for admission.
Master of Arts Degree
Course Requirements
Students must complete a minimum of 30 credit hours of graduate work. Credits are devoted to the following required core courses: E520 Optimization Theory in Economic Analysis, E521 Theory of Prices and Markets, E522 Theory of Income and Employment, E570 Fundamentals of Statistics and Econometrics, and E574 Applied Econometrics and Forecasting.
The student must receive at least a C (2.0) in each course and must average at least a B (3.0 on a 4.0 scale) for all courses taken.
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Admission requirements for the dual degree program are identical to those for each program separately. Separate application must be made to each of the two programs. Students are expected to take responsibility for learning about and meeting the admission requirements of each school individually, which may differ from each other in application documents required, minimal standards of criteria for admission, and deadline dates. Students must make plans early with advisors in both programs to identify (1) common courses and (2) thesis credit.
Study for the two degrees can be combined for a total of 51 credit hours rather than the 66 credit hours that would be required if the two degrees were taken separately. Two of the required core courses for the M.A. in economics may be selected as electives to meet the Philanthropic Studies Program requirement for two applied electives. One of the required philanthropic studies courses, ECON E514 The Nonprofit Economy and Public Policy, may be taken to meet 3 of the 12 credit hours of electives required in the economics program. A common thesis meets the requirements of both departments.
Further information regarding regulations governing advanced degree programs may be obtained from the respective departments.
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The PhD program is designed to (i) advance knowledge concerning health economics and philanthropy/nonprofit economics; (ii) develop the skills essential for our graduates to conduct independent research in these two areas.
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Applicants should have completed a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution. Ordinarily, applicants should have a minimum grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in their undergraduate course work and in the major. Before undertaking Ph.D. graduate study in economics, a student is required to have completed coursework covering undergraduate univariate and multivariate calculus (equivalent to MATH M16500, M16600, and M26100 at IUPUI), a calculus-based statistics course or a course in Statistics and one in Econometrics (equivalent to ECON E270 and E470 at IUPUI), and Linear Algebra (equivalent to Math M35100 at IUPUI). The verbal, quantitative, and analytical portions of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) are required, and applicants are urged to complete the examination by December of the year before admission is desired. Requests to substitute GMAT scores for GRE scores will be considered. Three letters of recommendation are required. Students with English as a second language who have not attended school in the U.S. are required to take either the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). For IELTS, applicants must take the academic reading and writing modules. A minimum TOEFL score of at least 570 (230 on computer version or 88 on the internet version) is required. The minimum acceptable IELTS score is 6.5.
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Fields of study currently available within the department are health economics and nonprofit/philanthropic economics. Students must take one or both of these fields as well as the course sequence in econometrics.
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A total of 90 credit hours, including the theory sequence E520, E521, E522, E611, E621, and the econometrics-statistics sequence E571, E573, E577, E578, E670, and E673. In addition, starting in their third year, students must formally enroll in a workshop course for a minimum of four semesters. There is a minimum requirement of 61.5 credit hours of course work, including standard Economics courses, Economics workshop courses, and minor or research tool courses. The remaining courses will be taken as thesis credits.
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United Airlines has another large computer outage
NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of United Airlines passengers around the globe were delayed for hours Thursday after another huge computer outage at the world's largest carrier.
The outage lasted for about two hours in the morning, affecting half of all flights on United's main network. It was at least the third major outage for the Chicago-based airline since June.
Major delays across the world, especially those early in the morning, can easily ripple throughout an airline's network. United runs about 5,500 flights a day worldwide.
''Does anyone have a Radio Shack computer or abacus to help United get their system fixed?,'' tweeted Lewis Franck, a motorsports writer who was flying from Newark, N.J. to Miami Thursday to cover the last race of the NASCAR season.
In a subsequent phone call with The Associated Press, Franck added: ''Why is there a total system failure on a beautiful day? What happened to the backup and the backup to backup?''
United Continental Holdings Inc. spokesman Rahsaan Johnson said the outage didn't affect its regional flights on United Express. He said only those airplanes that came from the former United were affected.
United has been struggling with technology problems since March, when it switched to a passenger information computer system that was previously used by Continental, the airline it merged with in 2010. That system, called ''Shares,'' has needed extensive reworking since March to make it easier for workers to use.
Passengers by midmorning reported that pilots and gate agents told them that a backup system was allowing some flights to take off. Earlier, fliers were told by pilots and airport agents that computers were down and they didn't know when the system would come back.
Judd Shapiro of Nashua, N.H. said he got to the gate at Logan Airport in Boston and agents told him that planes could land but not take off.
''JetBlue is taking off, American is taking off, but United is on the ground,'' he said. ''I was having a flawless airport experience until I got to the gate.''
About two hours after his plane was scheduled to take off, Shapiro e-mailed an AP reporter to say he was back on a plane.
''Fingers crossed'' for takeoff, he wrote.
Michael Silverstein, who works in finance, was supposed to be on a 6:01 a.m. flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The computer outage had already caused him to miss one meeting and he was worried about missing another. So he walked off the plane and bought a $195 last-second ticket on a Southwest Airlines flight to Oakland, Calif.
''I'm frustrated because I'm missing a meeting that I thought I had plenty of time for,'' Silverstein said.