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Reference List
The member States of the Council of Europe, the other States party to the European Cultural Convention, and other States, signatory hereto,
Considering that the aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve a greater unity between its members for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress;
Conscious that sport should play an important role in the protection of health, in moral and physical education and in promoting international understanding;
Concerned by the growing use of doping agents and methods by sportsmen and sportswomen throughout sport and the consequences thereof for the health of participants and the future of sport;
Mindful that this problem puts at risk the ethical principles and educational values embodied in the Olympic Charter, in the International Charter for Sport and Physical Education of Unesco and in Resolution (76) 41 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, known as the "European Sport for All Charter";
Bearing in mind the anti-doping regulations, policies and declarations adopted by the international sports organisations;
Aware that public authorities and the voluntary sports organisations have complementary responsibilities to combat doping in sport, notably to ensure the proper conduct, on the basis of the principle of fair play, of sports events and to protect the health of those that take part in them;
Recognising that these authorities and organisations must work together for these purposes at all appropriate levels;
Recalling the resolutions on doping adopted by the Conference of European Ministers responsible for Sport, and in particular Resolution No. 1 adopted at the 6th Conference at Reykjavik in 1989;
Recalling that the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has already adopted Resolution (67) 12 on the doping of athletes, Recommendation No. R (79) 8 on doping in sport, Recommendation No. R (84) 19 on the "European Anti-doping Charter for Sport", and Recommendation No. R (88) 12 on the institution of doping controls without warning outside competitions;
Recalling Recommendation No. 5 on doping adopted by the 2nd International Conference of Ministers and Senior Officials responsible for Sport and Physical Education organised by Unesco at Moscow (1988);
Determined however to take further and stronger co-operative action aimed at the reduction and eventual elimination of doping in sport using as a basis the ethical values and practical measures contained in those instruments,
Have agreed as follows:
The Parties, with a view to the reduction and eventual elimination of doping in sport, undertake, within the limits of their respective constitutional provisions, to take the steps necessary to apply the provisions of this Convention.
- For the purposes of this Convention:
- "doping in sport" means the administration to sportsmen or sportswomen, or the use by them, of pharmacological classes of doping agents or doping methods;
- "pharmacological classes of doping agents or doping methods" means, subject to paragraph 2 below, those classes of doping agents or doping methods banned by the relevant international sports organisations and appearing in lists that have been approved by the monitoring group under the terms of Article 11.1.b;
- "sportsmen and sportswomen" means those persons who participate regularly in organised sports activities.
- Until such time as a list of banned pharmacological classes of doping agents and doping methods is approved by the monitoring group under the terms of Article 11.1.b, the reference list in the appendix to this Convention shall apply.
- The Parties shall co-ordinate the policies and actions of their government departments and other public agencies concerned with combating doping in sport.
- They shall ensure that there is practical application of this Convention, and in particular that the requirements under Article 7 are met, by entrusting, where appropriate, the implementation of some of the provisions of this Convention to a designated governmental or non-governmental sports authority or to a sports organisation.
- The Parties shall adopt where appropriate legislation, regulations or administrative measures to restrict the availability (including provisions to control movement, possession, importation, distribution and sale) as well as the use in sport of banned doping agents and doping methods and in particular anabolic steroids.
- To this end, the Parties or, where appropriate, the relevant non-governmental organisations shall make it a criterion for the grant of public subsidies to sports organisations that they effectively apply anti-doping regulations.
- Furthermore, the Parties shall:
- assist their sports organisations to finance doping controls and analyses, either by direct subsidies or grants, or by recognising the costs of such controls and analyses when determining the overall subsidies or grants to be awarded to those organisations;
- take appropriate steps to withhold the grant of subsidies from public funds, for training purposes, to individual sportsmen and sportswomen who have been suspended following a doping offence in sport, during the period of their suspension;
- encourage and, where appropriate, facilitate the carrying out by their sports organisations of the doping controls required by the competent international sports organisations whether during or outside competitions; and
- encourage and facilitate the negotiation by sports organisations of agreements permitting their members to be tested by duly authorised doping control teams in other countries.
- Parties reserve the right to adopt anti-doping regulations and to organise doping controls on their own initiative and on their own responsibility, provided that they are compatible with the relevant principles of this Convention.
- Each Party undertakes:
- either to establish or facilitate the establishment on its territory of one or more doping control laboratories suitable for consideration for accreditation under the criteria adopted by the relevant international sports organisations and approved by the monitoring group under the terms of Article 11.1.b; or
- to assist its sports organisations to gain access to such a laboratory on the territory of another Party.
- These laboratories shall be encouraged to:
- take appropriate action to employ and retain, train and retrain qualified staff;
- undertake appropriate programmes of research and development into doping agents and methods used, or thought to be used, for the purposes of doping in sport and into analytical biochemistry and pharmacology with a view to obtaining a better understanding of the effects of various substances upon the human body and their consequences for athletic performance;
- publish and circulate promptly new data from their research.
- The Parties undertake to devise and implement, where appropriate in co-operation with the sports organisations concerned and the mass media, educational programmes and information campaigns emphasising the dangers to health inherent in doping and its harm to the ethical values of sport. Such programmes and campaigns shall be directed at both young people in schools and sports clubs and their parents and at adult sportsmen and sportswomen, sports officials, coaches and trainers. For those involved in medicine, such educational programmes will emphasise respect for medical ethics.
- The Parties undertake to encourage and promote research, in co-operation with the regional, national and international sports organisations concerned, into ways and means of devising scientifically-based physiological and psychological training programmes that respect the integrity of the human person.
- The Parties undertake to encourage their sports organisations and through them the international sports organisations to formulate and apply all appropriate measures, falling within their competence, against doping in sport.
- To this end, they shall encourage their sports organisations to clarify and harmonise their respective rights, obligations and duties, in particular by harmonising their:
- anti-doping regulations on the basis of the regulations agreed by the relevant international sports organisations;
- lists of banned pharmacological classes of doping agents and banned doping methods on the basis of the lists agreed by the relevant international sports organisations;
- doping control procedures;
- disciplinary procedures, applying agreed international principles of natural justice and ensuring respect for the fundamental rights of suspected sportsmen and sportswomen; these principles will include:
- the reporting and disciplinary bodies to be distinct from one another;
- the right of such persons to a fair hearing and to be assisted or represented;
- clear and enforceable provisions for appealing against any judgment made;
- procedures for the imposition of effective penalties for officials, doctors, veterinary doctors, coaches, physiotherapists and other officials or accessories associated with infringements of the anti-doping regulations by sportsmen and sportswomen;
- procedures for the mutual recognition of suspensions and other penalties imposed by other sports organisations in the same or other countries.
- Moreover, the Parties shall encourage their sports organisations:
- to introduce, on an effective scale, doping controls not only at, but also without advance warning at any appropriate time outside, competitions, such controls to be conducted in a way which is equitable for all sportsmen and sportswomen and which include testing and retesting of persons selected, where appropriate, on a random basis;
- to negotiate agreements with sports organisations of other countries permitting a sportsman or sportswoman training in another country to be tested by a duly authorised doping control team of that country;
- to clarify and harmonise regulations on eligibility to take part in sports events which will include anti-doping criteria;
- to promote active participation by sportsmen and sportswomen themselves in the anti-doping work of international sports organisations;
- to make full and efficient use of the facilities available for doping analysis at the laboratories provided for by Article 5, both during and outside sports competitions;
- to study scientific training methods and to devise guidelines to protect sportsmen and sportswomen of all ages appropriate for each sport.
- The Parties shall co-operate closely on the matters covered by this Convention and shall encourage similar co-operation amongst their sports organisations.
- The Parties undertake:
- to encourage their sports organisations to operate in a manner that promotes application of the provisions of this Convention within all the appropriate international sports organisations to which they are affiliated, including the refusal to ratify claims for world or regional records unless accompanied by an authenticated negative doping control report;
- to promote co-operation between the staffs of their doping control laboratories established or operating in pursuance of Article 5; and
- to initiate bilateral and multilateral co-operation between their appropriate agencies, authorities and organisations in order to achieve, at the international level as well, the purposes set out in Article 4.1.
- The Parties with laboratories established or operating in pursuance of Article 5 undertake to assist other Parties to enable them to acquire the experience, skills and techniques necessary to establish their own laboratories.
Each Party shall forward to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, in one of the official languages of the Council of Europe, all relevant information concerning legislative and other measures taken by it for the purpose of complying with the terms of this Convention.
- For the purposes of this Convention, a monitoring group is hereby set up.
- Any Party may be represented on the monitoring group by one or more delegates. Each Party shall have one vote.
- Any State mentioned in Article 14.1 which is not a Party to this Convention may be represented on the monitoring group by an observer.
- The monitoring group may, by unanimous decision, invite any non-member State of the Council of Europe which is not a Party to the Convention and any sports or other professional organisation concerned to be represented by an observer at one or more of its meetings.
- The monitoring group shall be convened by the Secretary General. Its first meeting shall be held as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any case within one year after the date of the entry into force of the Convention. It shall subsequently meet whenever necessary, on the initiative of the Secretary General or a Party.
- A majority of the Parties shall constitute a quorum for holding a meeting of the monitoring group.
- The monitoring group shall meet in private.
- Subject to the provisions of this Convention, the monitoring group shall draw up and adopt by consensus its own Rules of Procedure.
- The monitoring group shall monitor the application of this Convention. It may in particular:
- keep under review the provisions of this Convention and examine any modifications necessary;
- approve the list, and any revision thereto, of pharmacological classes of doping agents and doping methods banned by the relevant international sports organisations, referred to in Articles 2.1 and 2.2, and the criteria for accreditation of laboratories, and any revision thereto, adopted by the said organisations, referred to in Article 5.1.a, and fix the date for the relevant decisions to enter into force;
- hold consultations with relevant sports organisations;
- make recommendations to the Parties concerning measures to be taken for the purposes of this Convention;
- recommend the appropriate measures to keep relevant international organisations and the public informed about the activities undertaken within the framework of this Convention;
- make recommendations to the Committee of Ministers concerning non-member States of the Council of Europe to be invited to accede to this Convention;
- make any proposal for improving the effectiveness of this Convention.
- In order to discharge its functions, the monitoring group may, on its own initiative, arrange for meetings of groups of experts.
After each meeting, the monitoring group shall forward to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe a report on its work and on the functioning of the Convention.
- Amendments to the articles of this Convention may be proposed by a Party, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe or the monitoring group.
- Any proposal for amendment shall be communicated by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to the States mentioned in Article 14 and to every State which has acceded to or has been invited to accede to this Convention in accordance with the provisions of Article 16.
- Any amendment proposed by a Party or the Committee of Ministers shall be communicated to the monitoring group at least two months before the meeting at which it is to be considered. The monitoring group shall submit to the Committee of Ministers its opinion on the proposed amendment, where appropriate after consultation with the relevant sports organisations.
- The Committee of Ministers shall consider the proposed amendment and any opinion submitted by the monitoring group and may adopt the amendment.
- The text of any amendment adopted by the Committee of Ministers in accordance with paragraph 4 of this article shall be forwarded to the Parties for acceptance.
- Any amendment adopted in accordance with paragraph 4 of this article shall come into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of one month after all Parties have informed the Secretary General of their acceptance thereof.
Final clauses
- This Convention shall be open for signature by member States of the Council of Europe, other States party to the European Cultural Convention and non-member States which have participated in the elaboration of this Convention, which may express their consent to be bound by:
- signature without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval, or
- signature subject to ratification, acceptance or approval, followed by ratification, acceptance or approval.
- Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be desposited with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
- The Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of one month after the date on which five States, including at least four member States of the Council of Europe, have expressed their consent to be bound by the Convention in accordance with the provisions of Article 14.
- In respect of any signatory State which subsequently expresses its consent to be bound by it, the Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of one month after the date of signature or of the deposit of the instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval.
- After the entry into force of this Convention, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, after consulting the Parties, may invite to accede to the Convention any non-member State by a decision taken by the majority provided for in Article 20.d of the Statute of the Council of Europe and by the unanimous vote of the representatives of the Contracting States entitled to sit on the Committee.
- In respect of any acceding State, the Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of one month after the date of the deposit of the instrument of accession with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
- Any State may, at the time of signature or when depositing its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, specify the territory or territories to which this Convention shall apply.
- Any State may, at any later date, by a declaration addressed to the Secretary General, extend the application of this Convention to any other territory specified in the declaration. In respect of such territory the Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of one month after the date of receipt of such declaration by the Secretary General.
- Any declaration made under the two preceding paragraphs may, in respect of any territory mentioned in such declaration, be withdrawn by a notification addressed to the Secretary General. Such withdrawal shall become effective on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of six months after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary General.
- Any Party may, at any time, denounce this Convention by means of a notification addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
- Such denunciation shall become effective on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of six months after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary General.
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe shall notify the Parties, the other member States of the Council of Europe, the other States party to the European Cultural Convention, the non-member States which have participated in the elaboration of this Convention and any State which has acceded or has been invited to accede to it of:
- any signature in accordance with Article 14;
- the deposit of any instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession in accordance with Article 14 or 16;
- any date of entry into force of this Convention in accordance with Articles 15 and 16;
- any information forwarded under the provisions of Article 9;
- any report prepared in pursuance of the provisions of Article 12;
- any proposal for amendment or any amendment adopted in accordance with Article 13 and the date on which the amendment comes into force;
- any declaration made under the provisions of Article 17;
- any notification made under the provisions of Article 18 and the date on which the denunciation takes effect;
- any other act, notification or communication relating to this Convention.
In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto, have signed this Convention.
Done at Strasbourg, the 16th day of November 1989, in English and French, both texts being equally authentic, in a single copy which shall be deposited in the archives of the Council of Europe. The Secretary General of the Council of Europe shall transmit certified copies to each member State of the Council of Europe, to the other States party to the European Cultural Convention, to the non-member States which have participated in the elaboration of this Convention and to any State invited to accede to it.
Appendix List of prohibited pharmacological classes of doping agents and doping methods
(Status as of 31 March 2000. The appendix is regularly revised by the Monitoring Group on the basis of the anti-doping list of the International Olympic Committee.)
A. Stimulants
B. Narcotics
C. Anabolic Agents
D. Diuretics
E. Peptide hormones, mimetics and analogues
A. Alcohol
B. Cannabinoids
C. Local anaesthetics
D. Glucocorticosteroids
E. Beta-blockers
Appendix to the Reference List
A. Stimulants
Prohibited substances in class (A) include the following examples :
amineptine, amiphenazole, amphetamines, bromantan, caffeine*, carphedon, cocaine, ephedrines**, fencamfamin, mesocarb, pentetrazol, pipradol, salbutamol***, salmeterol***, terbutaline***, and related substances.
* For caffeine the definition of a positive is a concentration in urine greater than 12 micrograms per millilitre.
** For cathine, the definition of a positive is a concentration in urine greater than 5 micrograms per millilitre. For ephedrine, and methylephedrine, the definition of a positive is a concentration in urine greater than 10 micrograms per millilitre. For phenylpropanolamine and pseudoephedrine the definition of a positive is a concentration in urine greater than 25 micrograms per millilitre.
*** Permitted by inhaler only to prevent and/or treat asthma and exercise-induced asthma. Written notification of asthma and/or exercise-induced asthma by a respiratory or team physician is necessary to the relevant medical authority.
NOTE: All imidazole preparations are acceptable for topical use. Vasoconstrictors may be administered with local anaesthetic agents. Topical preparations (e.g. nasal, ophtalmological, rectal) of adrenaline and phenylephrine are permitted.
B. Narcotics
Prohibited substances in class (B) include the following examples:
buprenorphine, dextromoramide, diamorphine (heroin), methadone, morphine, pentazocine, pethidine, and related substances.
NOTE: codeine, dextromethorphan, dextropropoxyphene, dihydrocodeine, diphenoxylate, ethylmorphine, pholcodine, propoxyphene and tramadol are permitted.
C. Anabolic agents
Prohibited substances in class (C) include the following examples:
1. Anabolic androgenic steroids
a. clostebol, fluoxymesterone, metandienone, metenolone, nandrolone, 19-norandrostenediol, 19-norandrostenedione, oxandrolone, stanozolol, and related substances.
b. androstenediol, androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), dihydrotestosterone, testosterone*, and related substances.
Evidence obtained from metabolic profiles and/or isotopic ratio measurements may be used to draw definitive conclusions.
* The presence of a testosterone (T) to epitestosterone (E) ratio greater than six (6) to one (1) in the urine of a competitor constitutes an offence unless there is evidence that this ratio is due to a physiological or pathological condition, e.g. low epitestosterone excretion, androgen producing tumour, enzyme deficiencies.
In the case of T/E higher than 6, it is mandatory that the relevant medical authority conduct an investigation before the sample is declared positive. A full report will be written and will include a review of previous tests, subsequent tests and any results of endocrine investigations. In the event that previous tests are not available, the athlete should be tested unannounced at least once per month for three months. The results of these investigations should be included in the report. Failure to cooperate in the investigations will result in declaring the sample positive.
2. Beta-2 agonists
bambuterol, clenbuterol, fenoterol, formoterol, reproterol, salbutamol*, terbutaline*, and related substances.
* Permitted by inhalation as described in Article (I.A).
D. Diuretics
Prohibited substances in class (D) include the following examples:
acetazolamide, bumetanide, chlorthalidone, ethacrynic acid, furosemide, hydrochlorothiazide, mannitol*, mersalyl, spironolactone, triamterene, and related substances.
* Prohibited by intravenous injection.
E. Peptide hormones, mimetics and analogues
Prohibited substances in class (E) include the following examples and their analogues and mimetics:
1. Chorionic Gonadotrophin (hCG) prohibited in males only;
2. Pituitary and synthetic gonadotrophins (LH) prohibited in males only;
3. Corticotrophins (ACTH, tetracosactide);
4. Growth hormone (hGH);
5. Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF-1);
and all the respective releasing factors and their analogues;
6. Erythropoietin (EPO);
7. Insulin;
permitted only to treat certified insulin-dependent diabetes. Written notification of insulin-dependent diabetes must be obtained from an endocrynologist or team physician.
The presence of an abnormal concentration of an endogenous hormone in class (E) or its diagnostic marker(s) in the urine of a competitor constitutes an offence unless it has been proven to be due to a physiological or pathological condition.
The following procedures are prohibited:
1. Blood doping;
2. Administering artificial oxygen carriers or plasma expanders;
3. Pharmacological, chemical and physical manipulations.
A. Alcohol
Where the rules of a responsible authority so provide, tests will be conducted for ethanol.
B. Cannabinoids
Where the rules of a responsible authority so provide, tests will be conducted for cannabinoids (e.g. Marijuana, Hashish). At the Olympic Games, tests will be conducted for cannabinoids. A concentration in urine of 11-nor-delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol-9-carboxylic acid (carboxy-THC) greater than 15 nanograms per millilitre constitutes doping.
C. Local anaesthetics
Injectable local anaesthetics are permitted under the following conditions:
a. bupivacaine, lidocaine, mepivacaine, procaine, and related substances, can be used but not cocaine. Vasoconstrictor agents may be used in conjunction with local anaesthetics;
b. only local or intra-articular injections may be administered;
c. only when medically justified.
Where the rules of a responsible authority so provide, notification of administration may be necessary.
D. Glucocorticosteroids
The systemic use of glucocorticosteroids is prohibited when administered orally, rectally, or by intravenous or intramuscular injection.
E. Beta-blockers
Prohibited substances in class (E) include the following examples :
acebutolol, alprenolol, atenolol, labetalol, metoprolol, nadolol, oxprenolol, propranolol, sotalol, and related substances.
Where the rules of a responsible authority so provide, tests will be conducted for beta-blockers.
caffeine > 12 micrograms / millilitre carboxy-THC > 15 nanograms / millilitre cathine > 5 micrograms / millilitre ephedrine > 10 micrograms / millilitre epitestosterone > 200 nanograms / millilitre methylephedrine > 10 micrograms / millilitre morphine > 1 microgram / millilitre 19-norandrosterone > 2 nanograms / millilitre in males 19-norandrosterone > 5 nanograms / millilitre in females phenylpropanolamine > 25 micrograms / millilitre pseudoephedrine > 25 micrograms / millilitre salbutamol
(out-o-competition testing)
> 1000 nanograms / millilitre T/E ratio > 6
Unless specifically requested by the responsible authority, out-of-competition testing is directed solely at prohibited substances in class I.C (Anabolic Agents), I.D. (Diuretics), I.E. (Peptide Hormones, Mimetics and Analogues), and II (Prohibited Methods).
CAUTION: This is not an exhaustive list of prohibited substances. Many substances that do not appear on this list are considered prohibited under the term "and related substances".
Athletes must ensure that any medicines, supplement, over-the-counter preparation or any other substances they use does not contain any prohibited substance.
amineptine, amfepramone, amiphenazole, amphetamine, bambuterol, bromantan, caffeine, carphedon, cathine, cocaine, cropropamide, crotethamide, ephedrine, etamivan, etilamphetamine, etilefrine, fencamfamin, fenetylline, fenfluramine, formoterol, heptaminol, mefenorex, mephentermine, mesocarb, methamphetamine, methoxyphenamine, methylendioxyamphetamine, methylephedrine, methylphenidate, nikethamide, norfenfluramine, parahydroxyamphetamine, pemoline, pentetrazol, phendimetrazine, phentermine, phenylephrine, phenylpropanolamine, pholedrine, pipradrol, prolintane, propylhexedrine, pseudoephedrine, reproterol, salbutamol, salmeterol, selegiline, strychnine, terbutaline,
buprenorphine, dextromoramide, diamorphine (heroin), hydrocodone, methadone, morphine, pentazocine, pethidine,
androstenediol, androstenedione, bambuterol, boldenone, clenbuterol, clostebol, danazol, dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), dihydrotestosterone, drostanolone, fenoterol, fluoxymesterone, formebolone, formoterol, gestrinone, mesterolone, metandienone, metenolone, methandriol, methyltestosterone, mibolerone, nandrolone, 19-norandrostenediol, 19-norandrostenedione, norethandrolone, oxandrolone, oxymesterone, oxymetholone, reproterol, salbutamol, salmeterol, stanozolol, terbutaline, testosterone, trenbolone,
acetazolamide, bendroflumethiazide, bumetanide, canrenone, chlortalidone, ethacrynic acid, furosemide, hydrochlorothiazide, indapamide, mannitol, mersalyl, spironolactone, triamterene,
bromantan, diuretics (see above), epitestosterone, probenecid,
ACTH, erythropoietin (EPO), hCG*, hGH, insulin, LH*, clomiphene*, cyclofenil*, tamoxifen*,
* Prohibited in males only.
acebutolol, alprenolol, atenolol, betaxolol, bisoprolol, bunolol, carteolol, celiprolol, esmolol, labetalol, levobunolol, metipranolol, metoprolol, nadodol, oxprenolol, pindolol, propranolol, sotalol, timolol.
Salbutamol is classified as both a stimulant and an anabolic agent.
The intent of out-of-competition testing is to detect anabolic agents. The revised rules on salbutamol consider it as anabolic agent when its concentration is higher than 500 manograms/millilitre and confirmed by enantiomeric analysis.
However, pending the acceptance of the enantiomeric analysis by a peer-reviewed journal, only concentrations higher than 1000 manograms/millilitre will be considered positive as an anabolic agent until further notice. Samples that contain less than this amount are not to be reported to the authorities for out-of-competition testing.
In-competition testing is designed to detect the use of salbutamol either as an anabolic agent or as a stimulant. Whether or not the administration of salbutamol is declared is an important issue for in-competition testing.
As always, it is the task of the authorities to interpret the laboratory finding. In order not to overload authorities with the need to confirm medical notifications of non-recent inhaled use, laboratories do not need to report concentrations lower than 100 manograms/millilitre.
All concentrations above correspond to free (non conjugated) salbutamol.
The pharmacology and urinary pharmacokinetics of the ephedrines were reviewed. The consensus was that the revised cut-offs would detect all cases of doping where the ephedrines were ingested on the day of competition.
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Second-ranked Chandler Hamilton is a good team, perhaps even state-championship good.
But this is 2013, and No. 1-ranked Phoenix Mountain Pointe has never been faster, more dynamic and more in control of its destiny.
The top-ranked team showed the defending Division I champions what a dominating football team looks like for much of Friday night's 37-27 victory before an overflow crowd at Mountain Pointe.
"We are physical and very atheltic," All-Arizona offensive guard Natrell Curtis said. "A lot of people are sleeping on us, but we're a whole different team this year. I'm pretty sure they know it. The majority of their points came on our mistakes."
Speedsters Paul Lucas and Jalen Brown cranked it up a few gears and punctured Hamilton's vaunted defense and special teams with ease.
Hamilton applied single-coverage early on the All-Arizona wide receiver, and Brown made Hamilton pay.
He scored on a 37-yard touchdown pass from Antonio Hinojosa in the first quarter. In the third quarter, Brown caught the ball on a quick hitch route, faked out the defender and ran 37 yards for his second touchdown.
Lucas found a seam in the middle of Hamilton's kickoff coverage and raced 96 yards for a touchdown after Hamilton (4-1) fought hard for just a field goal to cut it to 10-6.
"I couldn't catch 'em," Hamilton coach Steve Belles said. "They're fast. They're a physical team. They're a good team. I thought they were a really good team last year, and they deserved to win tonight."
The victory not only helped Mountain Pointe (6-0) rid the memory of last year's 31-16 state championship loss to Hamilton, but it ended Hamilton's 16-game winning streak.
But it is only mid-season, and Mountain Pointe coach Norris Vaughan knows Hamilton isn't going away.
"They're a great team," Vaughan said. "Our team is fast, but I promise they're a hell of a team. You can say all that you want to, but taking it from somebody who knows a little bit about football, they're pretty good. I'm telling you, they ain't dead."
Miscommunication on a play called late in the first half — a pass play that Vaughan didn't want — resulted in a Hamilton touchdown with A.J. Greathouse returning a Hinojosa pass 30 yards to cut it to 24-13.
Hamilton's first offensive touchdown came with 8:20 to play, a 2-yard pass from Sammy Sasso to Elijah Williams, that trimmed the deficit to 31-21.
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A Christian-based wellness company is moving ahead with plans to relocate its headquarters to Gastonia.
A city building permit shows Hallelujah Acres will spend more than $450,000 to get its new space ready on Cox Road.
The group will open offices and a health-food store in The Arboretum, a largely vacant medical complex at 916 Cox Road.
Hallelujah Acres leaves Cleveland County with a tab. The organization apparently owes the county $350,000 to pay back grant money for a now-abandoned Christian housing development there.
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SEATTLE Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman's trash talk after the NFC Championship victory went viral, and the Twitter talk went vile.
Few give Sherman a complete pass for his ill-timed, intemperate remarks. But many people acknowledge the ramped-up passions of the moment, combined with ample rations of bruised egos, perceived slights and smoldering off-field feuds.
Fans are allowed to be passionate by definition, with obvious limits. What the gifted All-Pro player did not deserve or invite are the racist taunts and profane abuse he received.
The easy lapse into race-based hatred is indefensible, inexcusable and shameless.
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Sherman learned a lesson, and the highly regarded Stanford grad will not forget it. Even Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League, had only the nicest things to say about Sherman, as the commissioner expressed his displeasure with the incident.
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Sherman's rant was out of tune with the moment — a big win for the team. The gutter response he triggered is out of step with basic morality and modern times.
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Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik traces the convergence of German and Japanese metaphors for national literary spirit through the academic study of the German language and literature in Germanistik. Early notions of a spiritual link to the national literary tradition allowed speakers of German to imagine their unity before the existence of the modern German state, but the concept for spirit also gained various nuances in the works of such writers as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Hermann Hesse. Moreover, throughout the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, scholars and thinkers increasingly equated literary spirit with the psychology of the German nation. Against the background of these developments, the slogans of university students who burned books of so-called un-German spirit in 1933 gained a particularly ominous meaning. Interestingly, for Japanese contemplating German literature in the late nineteenth century, the native idea of national literary spirit was one of many concepts that differed from their German counterparts. However, skilled writers and translators like Mori Ōgai invested old words with new meanings, and by the 1930s Japanese scholars of Germanistik had not only documented the discourse on German national literary spirit but also deemed it synonymous with the spirit of Japan's own tradition.
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The Author: Lee M. Roberts is Assistant Professor of German Language and Literature at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. He received his Ph.D. in German from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include East-West literary relations, the literature of fascism, and comparative Germanistik. He edited the volume of essays Germany and the Imagined East (2005).
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Hi, I'm a new member with a 3yr old boy and an old Trek 800 I'd like to convert into a kid transporter.
Not really keen on the idea of my wild child being out of eyesight behind me in a trailer or rear seat.
noticed on E-bay someone is now selling front mounted seats and sidecars for bicycles.
sidecar would be nice to haul lots of stuff and keep everything dry.
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Also being a motorcyclist,I know sidecars handle very differently than a 2wheeler,
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I'm thinking front mounted child seats might cause a few maneuverability issues also.
Can my kid grab the handlebars?
How will it affect MY reach to the bars?
Anyone have experience with both/either of these?
One better than the other?
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how many people in England are uncircumcised
Almost all.
Most Europeans are uncut, it's really a Jewish or an American things.
And Hicky as a fellow bro I demand to see pics!
why did it take root in america
Something about health reasons I think.
maybe for an art class
i went to a naked art class before. the nude model was called trish and she'd shaved a "t" out of her pubes. interesting to say the least.
So that's where he went...
I'm a nude model when I drink too much
We've all been there.
yes, it was for an art class. i sat there for two houra doing various poses whilst about 15 people drew me. one of them is my housemate, and she has pictures of me naked but i really don't want to see them.
so while there are no pics there are drawings of me naked which i will post here once i summon the confidence to look at them
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We had our two annual Polar Bear rides around here this weekend. The one yesterday north of Charlotte was 62 miles and drew over 600 riders. The one today was west of Charlotte and drew about 200 riders. The weather was very un-Polar Bear like with the temps yesterday in the mid 60's and today over 70.
Yesterday I rode over to the ride from the house and wound up getting in 80+ miles. Plus, we rode really hard and my legs were really feeling it. I did my usual horrible job of just not drinking enough along the way.
My wife questioned why I'd go back out and ride the next day limping around the way I was. I fully intended to just sit back and ride the 50 miles today enjoying the scenery using it as a "recovery ride". That lasted about 4-5 miles.
I hooked up with about 6 guys and probably pulled them around about 35 of the 50 miles. Surprisingly there was a lot more left in the legs than I thought. In fact, we averaged about 21 mph today in some pretty good wind. I know it's not the best thing to do but hey, we had one heck of a time and it was fun!!
No pie to celebrate with but we did enjoy ourselves immensely at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants.
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text: Explore South Taiwan Tainan The southwest coast Kaohsiung and around Maolin National Scenic Area Southern Cross-Island Highway South from Kaohsiung Kenting National Park Share The Kaohsiung Incident (高雄事件; gāoxióng shìjiàn) of December 1979 was a political watershed, often regarded as the beginning of Taiwan's democratic revolution. Opposition to Taiwan's one-party state had been growing in the 1970s and, in an apparent concession, President Chiang Ching-kuo had agreed to hold legislative elections in 1979 – but at the last minute, he cancelled them. On Human Rights Day (Dec 10) a rally was organized in Kaohsiung in protest, the activists spurred on by the arrest the night before of two workers for Meilidao ("Formosa" in English), a clandestine publication that was a focus for dissidents. Things quickly got out of hand as police were brought in to disperse the crowds, and violent scuffles ensued. In the aftermath, almost every member of the unofficial opposition was arrested, culminating in the trial, in 1980, of the "Kaohsiung Eight" for sedition. Most were jailed for lengthy periods, but the trial was widely publicized and as a result the defendants garnered a great deal of sympathy, ultimately creating a wider base for democratic reform. Today, the list of those involved reads like a "Who's Who" of Taiwanese politics, many becoming leaders of the Tangwai (dăngwài; Outside Party) movement and later the Democratic Progressive Party: Chen Shui-bian (president 2000–08) and Frank Hsieh (former Kaohsiung mayor and premier) were lawyers on the defence team, while Annette Lu (vice-president 2000–08), Lin Yi-hsiung (former leader of the DPP) and Shih Ming-teh (ex-DPP chairman and political activist) served five to ten years in jail. Although no one died during the incident, Lin's mother and twin 7-year-old daughters were murdered while he was in prison, a case that remains unsolved. Read More


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|Dragon fielders look for good year
|Written by Chris Lee
HHS baseball team kicked off the 2010 season Thursday, March 18 in a double header with Wiggins in Holyoke. The games were originally scheduled for Saturday, March 20 but were changed due to poor weather expected for Saturday.
The Dragon team is looking for great things after coming off an 11-9 season in which they upset the No. 1 ranked team in the state during the district semifinal, and finished 1-1 at the regional tournament.
Head coach Kyle Bules said he would like to see the team make it back to the regional tournament and possibly bring home a regional championship.
"We need to do the little things right to win," Bules said. He also mentioned he expects the team to win a couple games they aren't expected to win.
Six returning letterwinners lead the 2010 campaign. They include seniors Ryan Baumgartner and Logan Krueger, junior Brian DeBoer, and sophomores Reid Baumgartner, Broc Pelle and Austin Killin.
Other team members include seniors Shaun Beck and Brandon Oosthuysen; juniors Francisco Diaz, Dustin Carrick and Preston King; sophomores Chris Bieber and Parker Redfern; and freshmen Astolfo Rojo, Logan Zeiler, Phillip Beck, Cesar Hinostroza, Jaydin Goldenstein, Brett Cumming, Alfredo Santos, Oto Martinez, Jesus Hermosillo, Spencer Kotch, Ben Martinez and Deyten Klein.
Kyle Bules begins his third year as head coach of the Dragons. He is assisted by Marcus Kammer and John Ortner. Logan Tharp serves as manager for the team.


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In the words of Pope Francis
Last month at World Youth Week in Brazil, Pope Francis declared:
|"We need saints without cassocks, without veils – we need saints with jeans and tennis shoes. We need saints that go to the movies that listen to music, that hang out with their friends. We need saints that place God in first place ahead of succeeding in any career. We need saints that look for time to pray every day and who know how to be in love with purity, chastity and all good things. We need saints – saints for the 21st century with a spirituality appropriate to our new time. We need saints that have a commitment to helping the poor and to make the needed social change. We need saints to live in the world, to sanctify the world and to not be afraid of living in the world by their presence in it. We need saints that drink Coca-Cola, that eat hot dogs, that surf the internet and that listen to their iPods. We need saints that love the Eucharist, that are not afraid or embarrassed to eat a pizza or drink a beer with their friends. We need saints who love the movies, dance, sports, theater. We need saints that are open sociable normal happy companions. We need saints who are in this world and who know how to enjoy the best in this world without being callous or mundane. We need saints."
We're going to take it a step further. We need saints who will fight for religious liberty, for all people, protect life, and defend traditional marriage.
As you know, the Obama administration has launched an unprecedented attack on the religious liberty, violating the beliefs of Americans of all faiths. Religious organizations, like Catholic Advocate, have lobbied tirelessly against the administration's radical pro-abortion and same-sex marriage agenda, but to no avail. The Obama administration has made it clear they have no interest in working with religious organizations to preserve your freedom.
Restoring religious liberty in America is going to come down to one thing: sending saints to the United States Congress.
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From March 28th till April 2nd Mr. Roelof Hol, the MCH-program director at the Dutch Nationaal Archief, visited Indonesia. The main reason for this visit was a Conference of the Encompass program.
Encompass program
This Encompass program aims at teaching Asian students to use the archives of the Dutch Colonial authorities in the East Indies for their historical research. These Dutch sources give important insights in the early modern history of South- and Southeast Asia. At the Encompass Conference in Indonesia the University of Leiden (faculty of Humanities) and the Indonesian Ministry of Education signed an agreement on the future exchange of students. Also the participants evaluated the Encompass Program was evaluated. It was concluded that the program has been successful with its high numbers of graduates. For Encompass II, which will last till 2017, the program will only be slightly adapted (for example the financing will be on a mutual base).
Dutch administrative records in provincial and city archives
After the Encompass Conference the MCH-program director visited the Arsip Nasional in Jakarta (the national archives of Indonesia). The subject of this meeting was the MCH working program for Indonesia. This program was complemented with a project comprising the publishing of a guide on Dutch administrative records outside the repository of the Arsip Nasional. In the first phase the focus will be on records kept in the provincial and city archives on Java and Sumatra. The material in the kratong-archives will also be looked at. The activities for this guide will start in the summer of 2011, after the approval of the budget estimate.
Kereta Api archives in Bandoeng
Finally the MCH-program director paid a visit to one of the locations in Bandoeng where records and documentation of the Kereta Api, the Indonesian Railway Organisation, are kept. The Dutch Nationaal Archief is interested in these archives, because parts of those records are unique copies. The Dutch originals were lost in 1945 due to the bombardment of the Bezuidenhout-quarter of The Hague. It became clear that, besides the already executed activities to salvage the material, more efforts will have to be put in to preserve these records. The majority consists of maps and drawings of rolling stock and railway buildings. The Dutch Embassy in Jakarta uses a part of their MCH-budget to support preservation activities. Therefore the MCH-team will advise the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta on the work to be done preserving the Kereta Api-archives.


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Tiger Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegren graduated from Rollins College over the weekend and also gave a commencement speech in which she alluded to the past controversy involving Woods' cheating.
Nordegren earned her bachelor's degree in psychology and was awarded the class's top honor — the Hamilton Holt Outstanding Senior Award.
During her address to fellow graduates, the 34-year-old never mentioned her ex-husband's name but clearly alluded to the controversy generated from Woods' extramarital affairs scandal.
"When I entered my student advisor office in the fall of 2005, I was 25 years old," Nordegren said. "I just recently moved to America. I was married without children. Today, nine years later, I'm a proud American, and I have two beautiful children."
"But I'm no longer married," she added as the audience laughed and applauded even louder.
"It was right after I had taken communication and the media [class], I was unexpectedly thrust into the media limelight," she said. "And I probably should have taken more notes in that class."
Nordegren began taking classes at Rollins in 2005, took a semester off after the birth of each of her children, and took a semester off in 2010 following Woods' scandal, reports E! Online.
"I have also realized that education has been the only consistent part of my life for the last nine years, and it has offered me comfort," the single mother said. "Because education is the one thing that no one can take away from you."
Nordegren also poked fun at herself, joking about how it took her nine years to graduate.
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As shown in the second photo set, he buildings and landmarks were fairly constant in Budapest over the years, but the political and social circumstances changed so much. This is somewhat the opposite of the US cities as shown in the first set of photos. Our political landscape has stayed constant, but the urban environment has changed a great deal.
What strikes me about both the pictures and the videos posted by others is the amount of traffic seems small compared to the amount of indoor space suggested by the buildings. Either there was a high ratio of indoor area to population or traffic was less with the same population density. Maybe more commuting causes more traffic today. Also, with more people working outside the home, there are more houses and apartments empty during the day while the residents are out working in other buildings.
The guy is BLIND.
Notice with no powered vehicles
pitiful horses have to haul EVERYTHING-
crapping everywhere-dying and being abused
Yeah great.
The scenes are actually instructive for bike transportation in cities folks
THERE ARE CLOSE TO ZERO BIKES- maybe 1 per hundred people.
And no crosswalks-because They didn't need them"
DUH people were COMMONLY injured killed by horse drawn wagons-Pierre Curie was killed just that way-1908 or so-
and the Trolleys killed LOTS of people.
So No bikes-horse crap and dying abused horses everywhere- filthy coal driven public transportation-
Wow lets go back to that!!
Bikes were OBVIOUSLY NOT the answer then-they aren't now either-unless we become as poor as China once was.
They are only a small part of the answer in high density cities-with EXTREMELY attentive cops-
Bike theft is a HUGE problem in the sort of neighborhoods that are good for bike riding-(behind-downriver of the French Quarter in NOLA)-gentrified areas of cities where young hipsters have pushed out the PO FOLKS.
Yeah those photos ARE INSTRUCTIVE- NO bikes! Pitiful livestock-filthy coal driven trolleys(think China air quality)
So BIKES won't dominate any "future" streets-not unless we become very poor- or manage to stop bike theft-
Some Western Europeans have stricter laws-less theft-no presumed innocent in france- plus fewer "chronically poor" people in W Europe-
Pierre Curie was killed by a horse drawn wagon-suspect that was common
And those trolleys-no crosswalks-safe bet they killed PLENTY of people
See what numbers you can come up with
Guessing there were PLENTY of pedestrian injuries deaths in the early 1900's
Horses killed in other, more direct ways as well. As difficult as it may be to believe given their low speeds, horse-drawn vehicles were far deadlier than their modern counterparts. In New York in 1900, 200 persons were killed by horses and horse-drawn vehicles. This contrasts with 344 auto-related fatalities in New York in 2003; given the modern city's greater population, this means the fatality rate per capita in the horse era was roughly 75 percent higher than today. Data from Chicago show that in 1916 there were 16.9 horse-related fatalities for each 10,000 horse-drawn vehicles; this is nearly seven times the city's fatality rate per auto in 1997.
So-anyone who thinks those streets were safer because no cars-is full of horse manure
And as I said-no bikes to speak of on those streets- we might walk more in these "livable" european type neighborhoods-but we won't be riding bikes
And those "livable" neighborhoods-will be EXTREMELY expensive-like manhattan-so most of you folks won't be living in them
The "no cars great for walking neighborhoods"strictly a affluent folks scam-the rest of us will have to commute into them to serve them.
Don't be taken in by the "suburbs are evil" BS- folks wanted suburbs because inner city neighborhoods they could afford-SUCKED!
"Good city neighborhoods" are expensive.Always were always will be.
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And those "livable" neighborhoods-will be EXTREMELY expensive-like manhattan-so most of you folks won't be living in them
The "no cars great for walking neighborhoods"strictly a affluent folks scam-the rest of us will have to commute into them to serve them.
The reason they "SUCKED!" was because of growing motor-traffic. Ultimately the suburbs began to suck as well, also due to motor-traffic. When you're not brainwashed into unquestioningly accepting the driving-dependency for everything you do, you begin to see through the very superficial aesthetic that sells suburban houses. They look lovely until you've been stuck in them for a while and realize it's a prison cell unless you can get out and walk around, jog, cycle, and engage in other activities outside your own property. This is why suburbs with MUPs are more appealing. I'm not sure how many developers have yet figured out that they can use the MUPs to connect residences with businesses for work and commerce but why would you think that that isn't coming on the agenda?Quote:
Don't be taken in by the "suburbs are evil" BS- folks wanted suburbs because inner city neighborhoods they could afford-SUCKED!
This is an economically abusive and exploitative philosophy. Affordable living can also be good. The main problem in poor areas is moral laxity, often due to people losing their minds from economic stress. When a person can get an affordable house and have a source of income that doesn't torture them, they can live prosperously without driving or too much consumption. People want time to spend with their families, raise their children personally instead of having them in childcare day and night to work multiple jobs. These things are achievable if the 'American dream' is revised to more self-sustaining work with less overhead so people can have more free time to devote to family and personal property and life-development. That's the original 'American Dream' anyway, not drowning in debt to try to win a status competition out of fear that if you don't you'll be relegated to a drug and crime infested ghetto.Quote:
"Good city neighborhoods" are expensive.Always were always will be.
So how can anyone afford to live there?
NYNY manages to keep crime down with EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE policing=STOP AND FRISK- and what amounts to an unconstitutional ban on "right to bear arms"
NYNY can get away with it because it is rich-center of the financial universe-so it can pay to have aggressive cops.
Most cities are soooo poor that can't add police-and the STOP AND FRISK policy-in theory- is unconstitutional-but of course they -NYNY- will attempt to keep it in place.
Yeah NYNY are very heavy handed with young minorities-they profile them-and of course it is effective-but unconstitutional.
NYNY most certainly WASN'T livable in the 1960's-1970's-1980's- it wasn't until they got an aggressive mayor-and went to unconstitutional methods of policing(profiling -stop and frisk)-that NYNY became livable again.
Cars didn't make neighborhoods unlivable-they allowed folks to leave crummy-(meaning crime)-neighborhoods.
Supply and demand- folks want to live in nice neighborhoods-who wouldn't. Once a neighborhoods starts improving-meaning affluent outsiders start gentrifying it-poorer locals are priced out.
It happens EVERYWHERE! Po folks are pushed out to crummier neighborhoods. In NYNY- they attempt to subsidize the less affluent-and they use aggressive-illegal police tactics-which the affluent and middle class and most of the lower class-LOVE- since it means they can walk their own streets.
Young black males-most of whom aren't criminals- HATE IT- since they are the ones being "stopped and frisked"
But most cities can't afford that many cops-so not an option in NOLA- besides no one would want MORE of OUR cops!
Geez-the ones we have are bad enough!
Tandempower's "bikes weren't cheap in 1900" is a good point.Now a bike can be bought for ones day's take home pay-minimum wage-say $50 -used maybe even new.
I wonder how much a "safety bike" was in 1910? Horses were expensive-probably at least as much as a cheap used car-even with mandatory insurance-a car could be as little as $1000/yr-usually 3x that-10% or more of takehome pay
Yeah-goods have to get into cities-then get distributed-which means motor transport.
Eventually perhaps-we can make cleaner electric power-Nukes wind etc-but for now electric power isn't clean(NG- fracking-cleanest fossil fuel-but CO2 is CO2-and livable cities "folks" generally oppose fracking-and fossil fuels -but they sure as hell use them-and they are quick to steal water from other places-all CA and most of the SW).
Those cities-weren't "great"
NYNY is livable- because of unconstitutional POLICING- it was a SH in the 60's-70's-80's-despite being rich. Only aggressive policing-and generous social support-make it livable-and expensive rents that limit and push out PO FOLKS-Seattle Portland-two other "livable cities" also are crowding out Po Folks-
Yeah-urban renewal by another name(gentrification) -put in zoning regs-restrict development(so no lower wage jobs in neighborhoods) and Po Folks are pushed out.
Po Folks commit more crimes-a LOT more-so neighborhoods become "better"
Course these livable cities-mean po folks pushed to BURBS-and they become less livable
USA- we are a violent well armed bunch-always a consideration for bike riders!
this article. Crime is down in New York like it is almost everywhere else likely due to demographics.
Who knows-it is easy to spin numbers.
Toronto?? Is your mayor the boozing doper supporter of sex industry employees who insisted his wife would "service him suitably" so he had no need of the sex industry workers he was linked with??
He is a great guy-really adds something to the south of the border view of canada.
We normally view you guys as dull-not him
Now he isn't quite Marion Barry - immortal quote "Bit%$ set me up" but it is a start!!


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Jane Roeder serves as Managing Director for the Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership at California State University, Long Beach. She is responsible for daily operations, strategic planning, program implementation, event planning, and fundraising for the center.
Previously, Jane served as Executive Director of Leadership Long Beach, demonstrating visionary leadership that moved the organization to international prominence and acclaim. She is a graduate of the Leadership Long Beach Class of 1996.
Jane completed her Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees at UCLA. She earned a Professional Coaching and Mentoring Certificate from CSULB and Somatic Coaching Certificate from the Strozzi Institute in Petaluma, California. An active community volunteer for most of her life, Jane is currently a member of the Rotary Club of Long Beach, Junior League of Long Beach, and Long Beach Branch of NAACP.


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It's El Salvador's Turn Now
It's El Salvador's Turn Now
The inexorable creep through Central America by Mexico's expanding drug cartels—truly multinational trading enterprises by any reasonable definition—has reached El Salvador, as Mexican President Felipe Calderon turns up the heat at home. As they have done in other countries, the drug thugs have turned to "outsourcing" the trade to new gangs in Central America. In March, we told you about "the capture of a big fish," as Guatemalan interior minister Carlos Menocal put it during a press conference. The drug kingpin was accused of smuggling tons of cocaine into the U.S. through Guatemala and Mexico over the past few years. Guatemala continues to battle against the destabilizing of various regions of the country by Mexican drug cartels.
And now the focus is on El Salvador. It's hard to see how El Salvador will have much better luck fending off the cartels. But so far, things have been quieter there than in neighboring Guatemala. The head of the emergency response police in the capitol city of San Salvador told National Public Radio that "in El Salvador, we still don't have well-armed groups that have the capacity to directly attack the police." Nor has the Salvadoran government lost control of parts of the country to the drug traffickers, as has happened elsewhere. And while that definitely qualifies as a good thing, how long it will last is another matter entirely. Bautista Rodriquez of the city's emergency response police said that the Mexican cartels deliberately work with the most violent local gangs, and that ups the danger for everyone. "The gangs are used more as hit men, used more to kill—used for revenge," he said. Why can't anybody stop them? As the NPR report starkly concludes, the "billions of dollars in revenue generated each year by the cartels exceeds the annual gross domestic product of any country in the region." Unfortunately, that's an advantage not likely to erode much in the foreseeable future.


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• Raised in Illinois, Dr. Smith can provide historical perspective on corrupt Illinois politics.
• Chair of the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism
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Pro Football Talk "The Buccaneers haven't needed Da'Quan Bowers all offseason. But now that camp's about to start, they realized some depth at defensive end might not be bad to have. The Bucs announced they had re-signed the free agent, who had sat on the market untouched all offseason. " July 27
Bucs defensive lineman Da'Quan Bowers has been suspended 2 games without pay for violating the NFL's PED policy. Eligible to return Nov. 3
#Bucs are not planning on DT Gerald McCoy (broken hand) playing vs #Falcons, sources says. Too early. Would be Da'Quan Bowers stepping in
Tampa Bay Times "Da'Quan Bowers' disappointing career with the Bucs could be nearing an end. Bowers, the oft-injured defensive lineman, is nursing a groin strain that's now hurting his chances of making the team, coach Lovie Smith said. Bowers, who had three tackles (including one for a loss) and a..." August 21
Tampa Tribune "No one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a more disappointing training camp last year than defensive end Da'Quan Bowers. Given a starter's job during the offseason by then-coach Greg Schiano, Bowers showed up for camp out of shape and promptly gave it away. Now Bowers may be on the brink of..." June 06
Pro Football Talk "A disappointing third season for Buccaneers defensive end Da'Quan Bowers has ended. The Bucs announced they placed Bowers on injured reserve with a knee injury. He'll be replaced on the 53-man roster with second-year defensive end Scott Solomon. Bowers had just 1.0 sack this season, giving..." December 26
Bucs Nation "The Tampa Bay Buccaneers may miss some key defensive players against the Rams. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will miss defensive end Da'Quan Bowers against the St. Louis Rams, while Mark Barron's participation is in doubt as well, Greg Schiano announced today. Bowers has been afterthought on defense..." December 20
#Bucs WR Vincent Jackson, C Jeremy Zuttah, G Davin Joseph, DE Da'Quan Bowers were not at practice during portion open to media
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Schiano said Da'Quan Bowers has concussion like symptoms. Status unknown for Sunday.
Tampa Tribune "Football coaches have a tendency to call in their reserves early in preseason games. Take the Buccaneers' preseason opener Thursday against the Baltimore Ravens for example. The Bucs were only a couple of plays into their second offensive series when coach Greg Schiano began pulling his..." August 11
Bucs Nation "The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are counting on Da'Quan Bowers this season. They let their top pass rusher sign with the Seattle Seahawks in free agency so they could give Bowers more snaps. They have no capable backups -- a fourth-round rookie with three sacks in his college career is the only defensive..." July 27
Tampa Tribune "We've lost a legend. David "Deacon" Jones, Hall of Famer, pass-rush royalty, the fiercest of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome," has passed. In lieu of donations, slap an offensive lineman upside the head or tackle the nearest quarterback. Bucs defensive end Da'Quan Bowers has seen NFL..." June 05
Tampa Tribune "Da'Quan Bowers claims to have dug the hole all by himself, yet he can't tell you how deep it is. Doesn't matter, really. All that does matter is that Bowers eventually digs himself back out. That's what the Buccaneers defensive end's offseason has been about. He has dedicated it to digging..." May 08
Tampa Bay Times "Da'Quan Bowers has had to bear a lot on his broad shoulders the past two years. From seeing his stock plummet from the highest reaches of the 2011 NFL draft to a devastating Achilles tear in the summer of 2012 to his February gun-possession arrest in New York, there have been a never-ending..." May 07
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Yahoo! Sports "Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Da'Quan Bowers was arrested at LaGuardia Airport after a loaded .40-caliber handgun was discovered his carry-on bag, NBC New York reports. Bowers, who will turn 23 later this week, was scheduled to fly to Raleigh, North Carolina on US Airways. Bowers will be..." February 18


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Given that CMG's industry-leading reservoir simulation applications run on both Power and Intel platforms, we are presently benchmarking the advantages that IBM's new offering could bring to our customers, where the appetites for performance, complexity and simulation sizes are ever-increasing.
Ken Dedeluk, CEO
Computer Modelling Group Ltd.
"Datameer and IBM have a shared vision on the exploding big data market and the pivotal role that Hadoop plays to bring cost effective analytics to business users. IBM's newest Power Systems servers offer our joint clients the power, performance and security they need to handle their toughest analytic challenges."
Stefan Groschupf, CEO
Fixstars Hadoop data appliance starts with the IBM PowerLinux 7R2 utilizing PowerVM to host YellowDog Linux 7......the overall architecture features a lot of integration above and beyond a simple bundling of Hadoop. For example, scripts for heartbeat are already setup to add or remove data nodes or job trackers as compute nodes come on and off line.
Fixstars started to develop Yellow Dog Linux for Hadoop in the fall of 2011, the first beta version will be available to partners in late April, with an initial launch of the appliance scheduled for early summer. The initial products will be optimized for the medical, manufacturing and finance industries for small to mid size organizations, each solution will consist of 3-5 PowerLinux 7R2's in a single clustered solution.
Owen Stampflee, Linux Product Manager
"Linux is appealing because of its flexibility factor in the powerful IBM PowerLinux hardware, provisioning, reliability and, together, IBM and Information Builders deliver cost-effective, efficient, and state-of-the-art BI solutions for their joint customers."
Adam Cohen, Partner Marketing Manager
Information Builders
Big data and scalability go hand-in-hand. Big data solutions must be capable of handling Terabytes to Petabytes of data for real-time, deep analytical and complex workloads. IBM PowerLinux Big Data Solutions provide the best performance and total cost of ownership to meet the growing needs of our big data customers.
We are very excited to offer IBM InfoSphere BigInsights and IBM InfoSphere Streams on the new IBM PowerLinux servers. Power and Linux are a natural fit with big data to provide a very high performance and scalable environment with the industry standards of Linux and the enterprise-grade quality of Power. IBM PowerLinux servers will be very appealing to our customers, providing a competitive price point and an alternative to x86 for a big data solution where both the hardware and software are supported by IBM.
Anjul Bhambhri, Vice President, Big Data
IBM InfoSphere Big Insights and IBM InfoSphere Streams
"It was noted from results that in spite of its lower configuration compared to Intel servers, IBM PowerLinux performed much better in terms of Average Response time. PowerLinux was able to scale to 100 user workload which is nearly 12% higher user load than what was achieved in the Intel Server. The scaled up workload was achieved on IBM PowerLinux with nearly 67% lesser compute capacity (with just 2 cores as compared to 6 cores) and with nearly 266% lesser memory requirement (with just 24GB as compared to 64GB)."
Maya Vijay, Principal Consultant
Kran Consulting
Midrange Performance Group's Power Navigator® has been tracking AIX and Linux performance on IBM Power severs for years. We are particularly excited about IBM's PowerLinux announcement. This Linux only Power system provides end-user great scalability with the POWER7 performance and the advance virtualization features of PowerVM at a lower cost of acquisition. Power Navigator's capacity planning function collects Linux performance data on multiple platforms and models the workload on the new PowerLinux server, including recommended LPAR configuration.
Randy Watson, President
Midrange Performance Group, Inc.
Given that OpenPro's historical support of Open Source solutions and with our innovative ERP packages, OpenPro On Demand and OpenPro on Premise, we look forward to supporting our customers as they deploy installations based on IBM's PowerLinux™ platforms. We are presently benchmarking the advantages that IBM's new offering could bring to our customers, where the appetite for reliable Business Solutions, cost effective and scalability is ever-increasing.
Jim Clark, CEO and Founder
OpenPro, Inc.
Platform Computing, an IBM Company, has a long history of support for the IBM Power family of products and we are pleased continue that tradition with PowerLinux," said Nick Werstiuk, Vice President, Product Management, Platform Computing. "As pressure mounts within organizations to process larger data volumes at increasingly efficient rates, there is an even greater need for powerful, efficient technical computing solutions. By combining PowerLinux with Platform LSF, Platform's flagship workload management product for demanding, distributed computing environments, these organizations can quickly take advantage of the performance and scalability of PowerLinux while increasing job throughput and ensuring optimal resource utilization.
Nick Werstiuk, Vice President, Product Management
Platform Computing, an IBM Company
The POWER architecture brings choice to customers, a core value proposition from Red Hat.
Jim Totton, VP and GM of Platform Business Unit
Red Hat
SEP deployed a backup and recovery solution at Pneuhage Wheel Services on PowerLinux with high customer satisfaction: within the expected timeline and on reduced budget. The migration from SAP MaxDB to SAP on IBM DB2 on PowerLinux shows a significant performance improvement, and the combination of the SEP sesam, SAP R/3 and IBM PowerLinux hardware delivers a secure high-performance solution for management of almost every aspect of our customers' business.
Geor Moosreiner, CEO
"The successful porting and testing of PARAS on IBM's PowerLinux series has enabled Srishti in achieving better penetration into newer markets such as South East Asia, Africa & Middle East, This synergy has enabled both Srishti and IBM to offer a complete end-to-end solution to its customers at a cost effective price point."
Mr. John Selvaraj,Vice President - Sales
Srishti Software Applications
"In a 24/7 world, efficient backup and reliable system recovery is crucial to business continuity. IBM PowerLinux and Storix SBAdmin gives customers the stability of IBM's PowerLinux servers for their mission-critical workloads while Storix's SBAdmin provides Adaptable System Recovery (ASR), reducing downtime and giving the customers the flexibility to rebuild/migrate their Linux systems to the same or dissimilar hardware and storage configurations".
David Huffman, President/CEO
SugarCRM has a long history of supporting Linux platforms and the IBM PowerLinux platform provides our customers and business partners with the openness, flexibility, and cost advantage of Linux coupled with the robustness and scalability of the IBM Power platform. Bringing these two technologies together provide a reliable and cost effective platform for companies of all sizes – from small business, to mid market, to large enterprise.
Chuck Coulson, VP Business Development
SUGARCRM inc.
The time for PowerLinux is now.
Michael Miller, VP Global Alliances and Marketing
The SUSE partnership with SAP enables customers of all sizes to run mission-critical operations on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, the industry's most interoperable, reliable and secure computing platform. When coupled with the computing power of IBM PowerLinux and the efficiency of PowerVM as offered in the low cost IBM PowerLinux Solution Edition for SAP Applications, midsize businesses have better access to a wealth of benefits while staying within budget.
Naji Almahmoud, Senior Director
SAP Global Alliance
TerraEchos is extremely excited about the release of the IBM PowerLinux servers," states Alex Philp, Ph.D., Founder and CTO of TerraEchos. "Given the growing capabilities of our Kairos™ appliance and the exploding business challenges involving extreme data in motion analytics, we look forward to offering PowerLinux server configurations to our US Government and commercial customers.
Alex Philp, Ph.D., Founder and CTO
TerraEchos, Inc.
With PowerLinux, IBM brings four big things to the table that are good for Linux: competition, commitment, code, and cool technology.
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director
The Linux Foundation
"SMART/InSight® G2 Open" built on OSS search technology Lucene/Solr as a Search-Based Application can help corporate decision makers deal with big data dramatically easier with faster data access and sophisticated visualization features. We are excited to see the higher availability and flexibility that PowerVM brings with this affordability will accelerate the adoption by cost conscious decision makers with wider choice of applications on PowerLinux platform including those from OSS market. We look forward to the further expansion of SMART/InSight G2 Open business on this new PowerLinux platform from IBM.
Uchida Spectrum is a leading provider of Search-Based Application SMART/InSight G2 Open.
Mack K. Machida, President & CEO
Uchida Spectrum
We saw the growth of the Linux market and in late 2009. we added support for PowerLinux on IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging. This middleware is a high-throughput, low-latency messaging transport for industries where speed of data delivery is key, and PowerLinux will be simple to use and manage for our customers, allowing them to scale out workloads quickly and easily.
Heran Shah, WW Sales Leader
WMQ Low Latency Messaging
"Businesses with big data know that large data analysis queries are useless unless the answers are delivered immediately, on demand. At the same time, big data must be stored and processed in an environment that supports comprehensive and verifiable security. The combination of IBM PowerLinux and Zettaset Orchestrator together deliver the performance and security necessary to facilitate cost effective, production-ready big data solutions. "
Jim Vogt, President and CEO
As the first Italian group in the software industry and services in their reference market(*), Zucchetti Group has been selected to work together with IBM to test the new IBM PowerLinux system. Tests have shown excellent performances on all Zucchetti analysed software: both on applications for accountants, employment consultants and associations and on the HR and ERP for companies. In particular, we have been able to verify that the new IBM machines produce a performance improvement of at least 40% compared to Linux machines based on Intel X86 and represent an ideal tool to assure continuity over time, supporting the needs of development and growth of applications without the need for further investments. That's why Zucchetti's strategy of development of cloud computing will be based on IBM machines.
(*) source IDC ITALIA – November 2011 DATAMANAGER
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Zucchetti Group
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As part of the Tots100 book club, in association with Tesco Books, the lovely Yummy Mummy Flabby Tummy reviewed Lorraine Pascal's Home Cooking Made Easy and nominated me for this month of the Tots100 book club.
I love books almost as much as I love wool. That said you can't really take your crochet in the bath or to a spa so perhaps books have the edge. Mr C also knows how much I love books and I think was becoming a tad fed up of the expanding piles of books so bought me a Kindle. This has only increased my love for a good book. I seem to be reading them even quicker now.
One of my favourite, recent reads is Breaking The Silence by Diane Chamberlain. This is my first Diane Chamberlain book and it certainly won't be my last.
"Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing—except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make. "
I need thrill and excitement in a book, I don't have much time for reading so if I am giving up my time for a book it needs to be good, in fact better than good. I don't like predictable.
The chapters are split between Laura's journey and also that of Sarah. Just when you think you know what the next chapter will hold something comes along to give you more to think about. Each time you figure out how the book may end new events unfold and more details click into place.
You will be hooked until the end.
I am recommending this book to Mummy's Moments, time to put her feet up and relax.
If you fancy seeing what other books people are recommending why not check out the Tots100 book club.


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Look out Robin Sparkles, theres a new fake pop-star in town and her name is Ava. If youve been watching NBCs hilarious new comedy Up All Night, then you know that Maya Rudolph plays Ava, Christina Applegates characters friend and talk show host boss. This video shows Avas earlier claim to fame.
In anticipation of tomorrow nights episode of Up All Night, NBC released this clip, which features Rudolphs character Ava in a music video, which was likely done years before she went on to become her own version of Oprah. Keep watching and growing!
The video above reminds me of Rudolph as featured in the classic SNL digital short D--k in a Box.
In Up All Night's series premiere, we got to see the opening credits for Ava, which included a look at Rudolph during what might have been the hip-hop phase of her career. At least, thats what Im guessing based on the shot of her that looked like it was inspired by TLCs Aint 2 Proud 2 Beg video. Id love to see more of whatever they had her doing in that costume.
Speaking of costumes, based on these photos, which are also from tomorrow nights episode, were either in for some flashbacks or Reagan and Ava are attending a late 80s/early 90s party.
For more Up All Night goodness, check out Reagan and Chris facebook pages. Chris really does like soup.
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