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The National Magazine Awards were handed out May 3, and Time, New York and The New Yorker led the pack. Time was the surprise winner of Magazine of the Year, beating out favorites like New York, The New Yorker and Esquire.
Despite the recognition of first-time nominees Vice and The Fader, the list of winners was heavy on magazine establishment (and male-skewing) names. New York won three, including Single-Topic Issue for "The Encyclopedia of 9/11." The New Yorker won for Reporting for "The Apostate," its widely acclaimed epic on the Church of Scientology; and Public Interest. For those keeping score by magazine company, Condé Nast collected the most—six—of the elephant-shaped awards, or Ellies. Hearst got three and Time Inc. got one (albeit the biggest).
After Magazine of the Year, people tend to pay close attention to the General Excellence awards. Among general interest titles, Bloomberg Businessweek beat out perennial winners New York, GQ and The New Yorker. O, the Oprah Magazine, which has struggled since Oprah's talk show went off the air, beat out stalwarts Glamour, More, W and Real Simple in women's magazines to win its first Gen Ex award. In lifestyle magazines, House Beautiful triumphed over Texas Monthly, and Garden & Gun. Inc. won for active and special interest and IEEE Spectrum for thought-leader magazines.
A posthumous honor went to Christopher Hitchens, the Vanity Fair critic who died in December after a battle with cancer. Vanity Fair won for three of his columns in the Columns and Commentary category.
NBC newsman Brian Williams hosted the dinner event at the New York Marriott Marquis and mercifully kept the evening moving fast. (The American Society of Magazine Editors was determined to avoid a repeat of last year's overly long ceremony.) Still, Williams didn't disappoint with the wisecracks. "Always thought there should be a niche market-publication, New Yorkers and Gun," he quipped, referring to General Excellence contender Garden & Gun.
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Pictured: (from top to bottom): Rick Stengel, managing editor, Time, wins the Ellie for Magazine of the Year; David Remnick, editor, The New Yorker


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No eurozone answers as crisis drifts on
David Cameron has called for "decisive action soon" to resolve the ongoing eurozone crisis.
The prime minister's comments came after an informal summit of EU leaders over dinner failed to reach concrete conclusions on how to address concerns about Greece's future and high borrowing rates for other struggling eurozone countries.
"It was a good meeting in that there was complete agreement that dealing with deficits and getting growth are not alternatives, they go together," Mr Cameron said.
"There were good innovative ideas that can help growth in Europe but there were some bad ideas too."
Top of Mr Cameron's 'bad idea' list is the financial transactions tax which led him to veto the EU's fiscal integration proposals last December.
"It would put up the costs of people's insurance, it would put up the cost of people's pensions, it would cost many, many jobs, it would make Britain less competitive and I'll fight it all the way," Mr Cameron added.
Last night's meeting effectively offered the Greek people an ultimatum, maintaining their bailout funds only if it maintains already agreed brutal spending cuts.
"All of us emphasise that consolidation of finances - austerity on the one hand and growth on the other - are not opposites," German chancellor Angela Merkel said.
"They are two sides of the same coin."
Also of concern to eurozone countries is the prospect of other countries seeking bailout money. High borrowing costs could force Spain and Italy to seek cash to help them as Greece, Ireland and Portugal already have.
The recent Franco-German 'duopoly' appears to be collapsing following the election earlier this month of French president Francois Hollande, who was attending his first European leaders' meeting.
Mr Hollande secured a majority of support for his plan to introduce eurobonds, which would share the continent's debts more broadly.
"I see things differently. Eurobonds would be a way for eurozone countries to share their debts," he explained.
"Eurobonds could also be used for investment projects that would be guaranteed directly by the Union."
Germany rejected the proposal, however, along with a number of other countries.
British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is visiting Berlin alongside business secretary Vince Cable today, where they will meet a number of German ministers.
Mr Clegg will criticise European leaders for having offered a "woefully fragmented" response to the crisis.
"Every few weeks European leaders sit down to yet another crisis summit, where another temporary solution is agreed," he will say.
"The tree is falling, and we are pruning one leaf at a time. It is piecemeal politics; endless tactics with no strategy."
He is expected to say the decisions taken so far have undermined public confidence, created "different classes" of countries and wrongly tried to keep questions of labour market reform, fiscal discipline and management of financial risk separate.
"The sceptics will claim Europe is now congenitally incapable of exercising the leadership needed to do so," Mr Clegg will say at an event launching the Queen Elizabeth prize for engineering.
"I absolutely reject that. We have got to hit back against this fatalism which says that Europe can't fix this."
Greece goes to the polls on June 17th, after which its future - and that of the continent - will become clearer.


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Selenium achieves a broad goal. It enables software developers and testers to write functional tests in any programming language (Java, C#, Python, Ruby, PHP, etc) against any kind of website or web application, and run those tests in any web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, etc).
There are two main components of Selenium: Selenium IDE, a Firefox extension that can record/playback simple tests which affords new users a low-threshold entry to Selenium testing, and Selenium Remote Control (RC), which has more advanced features and supports more languages and more browsers than Selenium IDE.
Sauce RC is our distribution of Selenium RC. It includes the latest release of Selenium RC, plus some patches that we felt were important, and an installer and configuration interface that make it easy to install, configure, and administrate. It has a web interface for configuration, which is a simple way to enable remote administration, and it can connect to our cloud service, Sauce OnDemand, to run tests in browsers that might not be available locally. We'll be open sourcing Sauce RC under the same (Apache) license as Selenium itself, and we contribute our improvements to Selenium RC back to the Selenium project.
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The good news is, you can throw CPUs at the problem, because well-written tests are naturally parallelizable. Tests that leave behind significant persistent state, or which interact with one another, are more fragile, more prone to false-positive failures when the application is working fine, and less able to isolate failures so that you have some idea where to start looking when a problem is identified. The tendency, if you're doing a good job writing useful and independent tests, will be that they can be parallelized with little or no further effort.
Q: Where does the cloud come into play?
A: It's important in a couple of ways. Parallelization of tests is one obvious benefit. Testing is this bursty process that requires a lot of CPU cycles for a short period of time. Requisitioning CPUs from an elastic cloud makes high-leverage use of the natural capability of the cloud and is an economical way to get testing done rapidly.
But beyond that, I think every software shop that uses Selenium heavily ends up with a bunch of machines that do nothing but run Selenium tests all day. That infrastructure translates into maintenance headaches, and because it's usually not your core focus, it tends not to get built out at the level of quality and with the kinds of features that would make it really great to use. Sauce OnDemand is our answer to those problems. It provides Selenium testing infrastructure as a cloud service, so you can plug it in and get on with the business of building great software. Sauce RC in turn makes that easy. In addition to working as a normal Selenium RC server, it has a mode that connects to Sauce OnDemand. If you have a test you're running in Firefox on your Mac laptop, you can be running it in Internet Explorer 6 in seconds just by selecting that browser from the drop-down menu in Sauce RC.


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We kick off the Easter Triduum with a tradition that helps to keep our faith sure-footed.
When the church gathers on the night of Holy Thursday, its business is to leave the 40 days of Lent and enter the Triduum, the three days at the heart of the Catholic community's life. So whether Lent has been strenuous or a disaster, we leave it behind on this Thursday evening. Ready or not, we begin the Triduum.
What gets us in? The gathered church does something this night it doesn't do all the rest of the year. Perhaps that tells us: Pay attention. Here is the way we enter. We're going into our three holiest days by taking off shoes and stockings and using soap and water and towels. We're getting ready to proclaim the victory of life over death, getting ready to take the catechumens to the font and plunge them in, by touching each other's feet. Sounds weird.
Sometimes it is very weird. In my experience, the washing of feet on Holy Thursday has usually failed completely to do its job. We tell the story that night from John's gospel. What did Jesus do before he died? Take bread and wine and say words about body and blood?
Not the way John tells it. In John's gospel Jesus washed everybody's feet that night, and he talked a lot. One of the things he said: "For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you" (13:15).
Here was this very practical and lovely thing to do for a guest, this expression of service and care and just plain comfort and hygiene. Jesus denied none of that, but he added: "Whether you get all the parables and beatitudes and so on or not, here's what it all comes down to. I'm going to wash your feet. You do likewise."
But what I have seen so often isn't this at all. It is a little playacting of the gospel story, often with great care to keep the actual bare feet (sometimes just one foot per person) and the actual water well out of sight, easily done as the washees sit facing the assembly and the washers (the priest and his helpers) make a little moving cluster going from one washee to the next as fast as possible. The priest is Jesus, the others are disciples. The rest of us are an audience, spectators. From this mentality (and maybe from a few notions of ritual purity) comes the vigilance of some to keep any female feet fully shoed and socked—and all of them in the audience.
But I have seen far more from Holy Thursday's washing of the feet, and it has shaped me. I have been part of assemblies where it took an hour or more. At half a dozen places scattered around the whole room, people came barefoot and someone would wash their feet. Then each whose feet had been washed could choose to kneel down and wash the feet of another.
Here is an old woman washing the feet of a child (the old woman really knows how!). Here is a child washing the feet of a teenager. Here is the teenager washing the feet of another teenager who is always there and always in a wheelchair. Here is a man in a suit whose feet are being washed by a man in a suit. Why not?
Everything we bring with us of the world, what we think of as "ourselves," breaks down here.
There is a different order taking root in us. And it is sealed with a kiss, but not the kiss of peace only.
South African author Alan Paton captures it well when he describes in his novel Cry, the Beloved Country (Scribner) a white South African judge washing the feet of an African woman who has served his family: "Then he took both her feet in his hands with gentleness, for they were no doubt tired with much serving, and he kissed both of them."
That is how I have been helped to enter the Triduum. Now we are ready to fast and to vigil, to walk the way of the cross, to listen to the Passion and kiss the cross, to wait until the dark of Saturday night, to gather around the fire and hear the scriptures, and finally to approach the font and go together to the table.
This article appeared in the April 2009 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 74, No. 4, page 37).
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Aguero close to City return
Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero could be back in action in the next week, manager Manuel Pellegrini has revealed.
Aguero, City's top scorer with 19 goals this season, has been out since suffering a calf injury in the 6-3 defeat of Arsenal on December 14.
The Argentinian is now back in training and could be in contention for next week's home clash with Cardiff in the Barclays Premier League.
Pellegrini said: "Aguero continues working and maybe next week he can be fit."
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Key midfielder Yaya Toure is fit for the game at Newcastle on Sunday.
Toure hurt his ankle early in Wednesday's 6-0 Capital One Cup semi-final thrashing of West Ham but appeared to run off the knock and played on until being substituted in the 66th minute.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
CCA response to Jim Armstrong sentencing
None of those individuals owes me a comment personally. They do all realise, however, that what is said here will likely be read by everyone with an interest in wheelchair curling.
Here is the reply I received from Greg Stremlaw.
The CCA is aware of the outcome of yesterday's court proceedings with Jim Armstrong. We monitored this very closely and have been formally debriefed.
At this time, there was no new information which came forth.
As you have indicated, the sentencing judge actually reduced the recommended actions and fine accordingly.
Given there have been no new facts or information which came forth which were relevant to this situation, the CCA has remained consistent with its disciplinary actions which were already handed down, including the specific conditions, that came out of the comprehensive review by the designated review committee.
The Canadian Curling Association continues to have the right to review or revisit this issue should any further information come forth which was not learned as part of our review and investigation.
The athlete is continuing to train and compete as part of the National Team Program at this juncture.
Thanks Eric.
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Shame on you Greg Stremlaw! Shame on you and the CCA for disgracing the sport of curling in this country. This is supposed to be a gentlemen's game - a game where fair play and sportsmanship are paramount. A sport where all who play it don't like cheaters and rule breakers.
Everyone who knows anything about sport and ethics knows that you have dropped the ball on this one. How dare you try to pull the wool over our eyes and say that everything is ok and Jim has been disciplined. How is this possible? Is he still going to Prague to represent Canada - YES!
He may be facing financial difficulties, may have some issues at home with his mother and I'm sorry to hear that she is not doing well but that has nothing to do with what he's done. He's made his bed - now he must lie in it!
There are a huge number of people with disabilities who are living at or below the poverty line - but they're not going out and committing crimes in order to put food on the table!
What ever the reasons for reducing the fine and recommended actions don't matter. He has still committed a CRIME and has been SENTENCED.
Wheelchair curlers feel betrayed by the CCA and ashamed of what the association has not done in this situation.
Jim Armstrong is not the victim here. Wheelchair curlers, Paralympians and people with disabilities are the victims. Shameful!
- February 15, 2011 at 11:47 AM
As I said in the other area, if athlete's are truly dissappointed in the CCA then they should take action and boycott our National Wheelchair Championship in Edmonton. If all the teams were to show solidarity in their stance, the CCA would need this to be addressed.
- February 15, 2011 at 1:15 PM
I have sent the following email to Greg Stremlaw and encourage all others to also email him directly. His email is readily available on the CCA web site but here it is email@example.com
It is with embarrassment and great disappointment that I read your response to Eric on the blog portion of wheelchaircurling.com with regard to the CCA's position after the sentencing of Jim Armstrong.
I have been involved in curling and wheelchair curling for a total of over 50 years and not until now have I been ashamed to admit that I am an affiliated member of the CCA. The decision by the CCA has not only brought disgrace to the wheelchair community but the entire curling community and all Canadians.
You stated in your comments to Eric "the CCA has remained consistent with its disciplinary actions which were already handed down, including the specific conditions, that came out of the comprehensive review by the designated review committee."
I feel that as wheelchair curlers we have the right to know, what the disciplinary actions were, what the specific conditions were and who sat on the review committee ?
It is a sad day for the curling community in Canada.
Bruce Cameron"
There are some very good comments and points in this blog site and they shud be sent verbatim to Greg Stremlaw who is the CEO of the CCA. Posting them here is fine but in all reality it is like farting in a windstorm. If enough people send him their comments he might give his head a shake and realize how deep the feelings on this issue are and just maybe something will happen.
Waiting for Jim to tell his "there is more to the story".....what more is there to the story...admits he knew what he was doing was wrong, arrested, charged, pleads guilty and is sentenced....end of story. I feel sorry for all those who have taken the bait "hook, line and sinker" This is a classic case of bullshit baffles brains.
- February 15, 2011 at 1:55 PM
To the first post......Amen.....
I see he went on his regular everyday wheelchair to court
Shame shame shame
- February 15, 2011 at 2:02 PM
My god, people are making sense on here. Maybe some people left or did not participate becuase they feel the same way!
My god!
As for a boycott of NATIONALS! Give your head a shake, no province is going to do that becuase to many are afraid to stand up to the CCA and get balck balled!
Nice try though!
- February 15, 2011 at 2:09 PM
Look for Jim's distraction's to affect Team Canada in Prague and yet again have to take a second seat to Jim. It's really not fair that the true representation of this team have to push through yet again negative attention to Canada.
- February 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM
Kevin Martin and many Slammers boycotted the Brier (provincial playdowns) for 6 years. The are the years Randy Ferby won Alberta(Martin never played in any of those years). What did it get them? Sponsors logo's on the team uniforms and a player cash pool to split to cover expenses et al. If you want something to change you need to be prepared to srtand up and be counted. If you do not, don't continue to bitch because you are still part of the problem.
- February 15, 2011 at 2:37 PM
It would seem Stremlaw is the Point man for media comments, and everyone else, including Jim is tehnically an employee.
BUT Jim has maintained there was so much more to say, well where is it, or even a sanitized veersion from Stremlaw?
I assume Jim likely did not even get home until late yesterday, at best, but today is a new day, or is he, too gagged?
- February 15, 2011 at 5:42 PM
He has maintained from the start there was another side to this, and as of this moment, nothing from him, to my knowledge in any media.
I understand the time pressure he is under, but we re waiting for what he assured us was coming. Bring it on, and I, for one, am more than happy to listen. With nothing by at least tomorrow, I guess we are right about him, and all the flowers are sure to be wilted soon.
- February 15, 2011 at 8:55 PM
I agree, we were tokd many times there was more coming, and, I agree that time is tough right now, BUT where is his story?????
- February 15, 2011 at 9:06 PM
Hello, all!!!!!
This guy said there was more. I have followed and admired him for over twenty-five years. If he DOES deserve to be chastised, then I can't prevent it. He said there is more to be said, and deep down, I truly hope there is. PLEASE, at least give him the courtesy of merely a day or so, to enable him to get his and his family's affairs in order before he addresses the likes of this forum, which, to my rcollection, has never run neutral in opinion on anything that has had Jim's name attached.
As i am sure you would agree, Eric, if Jim's name is mentioned, there is way more interest and response than in any other topic. The guy truly does live his life in a fishbowl here, from his starting to play, through his wife's untimely death, through the joy of victory to the sorrow of this portion of his story. He has always been a respected member of his community, his profession, and his passion of curling.
Give him his earned opportunity to respond as he can, or at least, spend as much time as you blog, to put youself in his shoes.
This comment, in no way minimizes the impact of what we know as of this moment, but Jim has earned enough credits in his career to at least listen to the entire story.
- February 15, 2011 at 10:23 PM
Richmond paralympic curler fined $30,000
By Alan Campbell, Richmond News February 15, 2011
Disgraced Paralympic wheelchair curler Jim Armstrong has avoided going to jail after being sentenced for his part in a father and son fake Viagra smuggling scheme.
Armstrong, 59, — who won gold as Canada's skip in last year's Paralympic Games — was fined $30,000 and placed on supervised release for a year when he appeared Monday in a Seattle courtroom.
His son, Gregory, 28, who lived with his father in the family's $1.6 million Richmond home, was jailed for a year and a day.
Both admitted last year to smuggling around $45,000 worth of fake Viagra and Cialis — erectile dysfunction drugs — from India and China via the U.S.
For three years, Armstrong senior would drive over the border and pick up the packages addressed to his late wife, Carleen, from a mailbox.
His son, who was thrown out of UBC as a student after the charges came to light last spring, would then sell the pills at $15 a time in Vancouver area nightclubs.
But less than a month after grabbing gold in the Paralympics last March, Armstrong was intercepted at the Blaine mailbox by U.S. Customs officers, who had been tracking the package since it arrived in Los Angeles.
Sentencing Armstrong senior, U.S. District Judge Ricardo Martinez told the retired dentist that he'd seriously considered jailing him.
"You are a trained medical professional ... you knew better," than to provide counterfeit drugs.
He told Armstrong that he was less to blame in all of this than his son, hence his more lenient sentence.
Armstrong junior was not so fortunate.
He was sentenced to a year and a day in prison, two years of supervised release and a $5,000 fine.
The judge told him that he put people, "at physical risk of harm ... You put them at risk of death."
It's not yet all over for the Armstrongs, as they'll have to return to the same court on April 12, when the judge will determine whether the men owe restitution to the drug companies whose products were counterfeited.
Armstrong senior's lawyer, Richard Hansen, said his client was in "desperate financial straits," and was losing his Richmond home, which court heard was valued at $1.6 million.
"He can hardly buy groceries," Hansen told court, adding that Armstrong "was not profiting" from the scheme and that some packages retrieved from the mailbox contained legitimate goods.
Armstrong was president of the World Curling Players Association from 1997 to 1999. But in 2007 he suffered serious knee and back injuries in a car accident. He could no longer work as a dentist. He couldn't curl.
But then he discovered a twist on the sport and became a wheelchair curler, and a superstar of the sport before his downfall began last April.
Despite his conviction, he has been allowed to continue to curl for Canada.
Friends of Armstrong senior, a father of three, submitted letters to U.S. authorities testifying to his good character.
"Throughout the time that I have known Dr. Armstrong, I have been impressed with his honesty, integrity and strong family values," wrote Vancouver lawyer James Schuman. "I have not known Dr. Armstrong to act in any way that was . . . connected with criminality."
Armstrong and his son are not facing charges in Canada due to insufficient evidence.
Armstrong left court Monday, having paid the $30,000, his lawyer said.
Calls to Armstrong senior, placed by the Richmond News, were not returned by press time.
- February 16, 2011 at 1:50 AM
He should be in jail with his son not representing Canada in Prague.
- February 16, 2011 at 6:38 AM
He could hardly buy groceries......
He was losing his family home ($1.6 million value)
He did not profit form this activity............
Wow, this laweyer covers all the bases.
Why would he be muling "drugs" if he was not profitting? So he could let his son continue a life of deception and criminal behaviour? Sounds quite upstanding to me....
- February 16, 2011 at 3:00 PM
I had a brief discussion with Jim late this afternoon. He has every intention of responding to this site....for the life of me I don't understand why he should even try to explain anything to a bunch of, in the main, morons. He told me he spent a total of THREE HOURS with the Province writer, as in Jim's terms to "finally explain this fully". Why this writer, you ask....because Jim wanted the world to know that he had never met him before, but he had shown an interest in the story; while if he went to long time supporters in other newspapers, it would again be perceived as the "old boys' school". In Jim's perspective he was very disappointed with the article, although it "got the flavour right".
He gave me the five minute version, and I must say, that even if I viewec it with a jaundiced approach, his story is very compelling, and should be grounds for a book. He stated that when he explained it yesterday, he really had no interest in claiming innocence, since the vast majority of crimes are routinely denied by the perpetrator as a matter of course.
He DID provide me with a couple of snippets, that quite frankly, are staggering. He also said that in the interview, it was prefaced by the codicile that whatever he said, unless he qualified it by stating it was third party information, or alternatively, his opinion, based on the facts, he would back up every statement with hard facts and proof.
How about the prosecutor caught bare-faced in a lie as recently as last week in a document to the judge? How about the same prosecutor lying at the arraignment, and the lie proven in October?
How about the theory that Jim sold out his son to save himself? This falls flat, since Pfizer had hired private investigators in the summer of 2009 to obtain evidence on Greg, obtained it over about a four month period (5 or 6 times) and had already forwarded the evidence to authorities months PRIOR to the infamous April arrest and alleged sell-out.
How about Jim passing a government controlled polygraph test in October, with only the US government providing the questions?
I got this in about 5 minutes with him.
He actually told me much more, but I was already reeling from what I could absorb.
He has spent TEN MONTHS under a horrific cloud, and occasionally reads the rantings on this site, and simply shakes his head.
AND ALL OF THIS (AND APPARENTLY MUCH MORE)WAS DISCLOSED TO THE REPORTER, and never published.
He always said there was another side, and believe me it is mind-boggling, for the little I learned.
I do hope he gives you the story, Eric, but I assume, since nothing has been posted, perhaps he has come to his senses, and is ignoring the likes of the ranters on this site.
And, finally, he disclosed virtually all of the story, under legally disclosed confidentiality to the CCA prior to Christmas, and it is such a compelling story that they acted as they did. So perhaps YOU RANTERS should look in a mirror prior to casting further stones. And as a few of you ranters have said to date.....how about SHAME ON YOU?
- February 16, 2011 at 6:53 PM
WOW.........WOW.......and one ,ore WOW.........
IF what the last poster is true, what a different circumstance. I for one, wanted to believe in another story, as much for Jim's family, who have gone through SO much in the past eighteen months, as Jim himself.
I TRULY hope, we get to hear the entire story soon.......WITH PROOF????
I will reconsider ever placing a wheel in the US again...
- February 16, 2011 at 8:09 PM
If true, that does certainly put a different light on things....it simply sounds to unbelievable to be true!
MAYBE it is just that ......TOO UNBELIEVAble.
That said, I have to doubt Jim would risk what he has left, if it is not true.
- February 16, 2011 at 8:28 PM
Come on, this has to be a fairy tale. IF and I say IF, my apologies to Armstrong
- February 16, 2011 at 9:41 PM
Come on, who's kidding who?
- February 16, 2011 at 10:27 PM
Wow.......sounds like maybe the paper left out a lot of information, your 5 minutes tells more than the reporter from a 3 hour interview
Thanks for sharing your conversation
Maybe now we can cut the guy some slack
- February 17, 2011 at 9:11 AM
Okay, WHAT are the chances this guy is right?
If so, I guess one would have to revisit opinion on this......I honestly am intrigued, but not yet convinced.
Has Jim contacted you, Eric?
- February 17, 2011 at 9:57 AM
Get real, sone anonymous guy posts something and it changes facts? Don't think so.
IF it was real, fair enough, but if I was personally provided that kind of news, I would be proud to have broken this.
At any rate, if true, my most sincere aplologies to Jim, but it seems he has not chosen to respond.
I must admit, that under the circustances, I would have done the same thing for my own son.
- February 17, 2011 at 10:06 AM
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Jim has indicated a willingness to put forward his side of the story on this site. However he and I need to find a mutually convenient time for that to happen as he is preparing to leave for Prague.
If and when it does it will be in a separate post.
- February 17, 2011 at 10:46 AM
How about it seems like everyone is lying except Jim, including the guy who ran the postal store who has no vested interest in any of this. Remember he saw Jim pick up numerous packages on many occasions and recognized Jim personally.
Better go back to the first posts people. Stop playing us for fools. Guilty is guilty and nothing is going to change that. One person placing five or six posts together in a row doesn't mean we should now forgive or tolerate this kind of behaviour. If Jim had proof that would have exonerated him I'm sure his lawyer would have used it and been able to get a not guilty verdict.
Eric, is Pfizer still going to be a sponsor or have they disassociated themselves from us?
- February 17, 2011 at 2:04 PM
Good laugh.
Actually there over 120 packages from all over the world. Does this mean he was trafficking to all over the World....nice assumption, Clown.
And NO WONDER we have not heard from Jim
- February 17, 2011 at 2:26 PM
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Pfizer are a sponsor of the Canadian Paralympic Committee - not the CCA or wheelchair curling.
- February 17, 2011 at 4:14 PM
- Jody said...
Hello Wheelchair Bloggers. My name is Jody Armstrong. I am Jim Armstrong's daughter and Greg Armstrong's sister. I am currently living and working abroad. My father is presently on a flight to Prague and is unaware of my current statement.
I have been following the many rants, raves and support on this blog for 3 years since my dad joined the wheelchair curling world, a place where he felt at home and accepted. My family and I watched as he regained the spark that had been missing since his body began to fail him and he was forced to leave able bodied curling.
I believe that everyone is entitled to their opinion; however, I would like to remind that there is often much more to a story than what is printed in the press, or even the "facts" of the prosecutors report. Keep in mind, the prosecution can publicly present their side of the case, but until all is said and done, nothing can be said publicly in defense.
This has been a long, tiresome, stressful and difficult chapter in my family's life. I think it is unfortunate that people with varying physical abilities, who have faced such great adversity, can so easily react like pit bulls and vultures. I understand that my father has been an easy target and that there has been a great deal of misinformation or complete lack thereof, making it easy to form ignorant opinions.
It is not my place to state the facts or our story, but on a very basic level, I would like to point out that our US mail box was used by our every member of my family to ship clothes, books, magazines, music, and various other personal items on a regular basis. Does anyone shop online? Victoria Secret? Ebay? Yes, sometimes there is more than meets the eye.
Also, I am sure most of you have watched Dateline, 60 Minutes, 20/20, or Oprah and have gained an understanding that US Federal Law is not a simple structure and is an extremely costly and prohibitive experience.
The press is notorious for utilizing an individuals' comment to suit a certain slant, usually by shortening it or taking it out of context.
Thank you for allowing me to be heard. I am grateful that our family is able to move forward and I hope that you can as well.
Jody Armstrong
- February 17, 2011 at 10:46 PM
- February 18, 2011 at 7:36 AM
To the blogger questioning Jim............WHY would he lie, to be caught up in yet more innuendo?
If there was NOTHING further, than so be it, let it die down and move on.
BUT in no uncertain terms, he stands behind what he has been saying for months, and to try to convince a bunch of pessimists with have baked notions makes NO sense, and drags this sordid thing out even longer.
I am still convinced Jim has a lot more to tell.
- February 18, 2011 at 11:16 AM


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According to Scripture and the tradition of the Cyprian church, Lazarus was compelled to seek refuge away from Jerusalem to avoid the anger of the high priests and the pharisees, who wanted to kill him, ...the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed in Jesus (John 12:10-11). Many christians too ... were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about. Stephen travelled as far as Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch ...; just like Stephen, Lazarus would have had to leave Judea to seek refuge in another country.
This location was Kittium (today Kittium is called Larnaca) of Cyprus. When Apostle Paul and Apostle Barnabas travelled to Cyprus, they ordained Lazarus as the first Bishop of Kitium. That is why all episcopal thrones in Larnaca have the icon of St. Lazarus instead of Christ, which is the standard custom of the church.
Little more is known about Lazarus after Our Lord's Resurrection and Ascension except that during his thirty year he never smiled or joked except for one occcassion. One day, he saw someone stealing a clay pot and he laughed saying, "the clay steals the clay".
Another famous tradition connected to Lazarus is the discovery of Mount Athos in 52AD. Lazarus was very close to the Virgin Mary and he was very grieved that he could not return to Jerusalem to visit her (he was still in fear of the Jews). The Theotokos learned of his sorrow and sent him a letter to comfort him. She asked that he might send a ship to her that she might visit him in Cyprus. With great joy, Lazarus sent a ship to the Holy Lands to bring the Virgin Mary and John, the beloved disciple to Cyprus for a visit. On their journey, a great storm blew them off course and carried them to the shores of Ephesus and then the ship to the shores of Athos, Greece. Unaware that divine providence had brought her to this area, the Virgin Mary completely taken by the beauty of the area, prayed to her son that this could be her garden devoted to prayer to "fight the good fight of faith". Having converted, blessed and established a new christian community from the local idolaters they set sail for Cyprus and met with Lazarus.
It is said, that she had sewn the omophorion and epimanikia as a present for Lazarus.
The first tomb of Lazarus in Bethany remains as a site for pilgrims to this very day. The second tomb, on the island of Cyprus, was found in Kittium sometime in A.D. 890, with his relics inside and bearing the inscription "Lazarus, the Friend of Christ."
Subsequently a church dedicated to Saint Lazarus has been built on this site.
See Also
- 1 Lazarus Saturday. Speaking the Truth in Love Podcast by Fr. Thomas Hopko. Ancient Faith Radio. 18 April 2008.
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The SORO campaign continues with perhaps a change in direction. We shall have to wait and see the result of the AGM in January at 7.30pm on Wednesday, 23rd at the Stella Maris Hall in Gordon Road. If you would like to attend you need to be a member - fee £3 - see the SORO Facebook page for details - find in the events files.
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I also noticed that on the home page of KCFDC under the leagues page there is a Saturday league mentioned at Down Under at noon, (I think). Is that still going on?
sweet, probably a better chance I'll make that one......what's the turnout like?


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Aragonite-calcite veins of the "Erzberg' iron ore deposit (Austria): Environmental implications from young fractures. Sedimentology. 66(2):604-635.. 2019.
Estimation of Metal Emissions From Tropical Peatland Burning in Indonesia by Controlled Laboratory Experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.. 2019.
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The holidays can be a stressful and even dangerous time for our pets. The routines are upset, visitors abound, and tempting smells are coming from the kitchen! Keeping pets safe is sometimes tricky at this time of year, so here are a few tips and tricks to help everyone enjoy the holidays fearlessly!
The Christmas tree is the first item of great interest on your pet's Santa list. Many cats find it irresistibly tempting to climb. So, make sure your tree is in a sturdy, tip-resistant stand. (A classic Christmas card shows a cat and two women gazing at a decorated tree that's tightly guy-wired to the walls and ceiling; one woman says to the other, "No chance of the cat knocking over the tree this year!")
Most tree stands have a water container—this is another hazard. Aromatic compounds from the tree itself and the chemicals often added to the water are highly toxic to pets; make sure the container is wrapped and taped or otherwise made inaccessible to your feline and canine friends, who will often try to drink from this novel water source.
Christmas lights and wires on the tree and around the home are an invitation to chew for both cats and dogs. For wires that are easily accessible to curious teeth (especially young animals), run them through inexpensive foam pipe insulators that you can find at any home improvement or hardware store.
Metal tinsel is rare these days, but mylar tinsel and garlands can also pose a swallowing hazard. They can cause serious damage to a pet's intestines. Consider a beaded garland instead. Also, when unwrapping presents, make sure all ribbon and string is safely disposed.
Keep glass ornaments to a minimum if you must use them at all, and place them higher on the tree, with unbreakable ornaments lower down. A broken glass ornament is a minefield for tender paws. If a pet eats all or part of a glass ornament, immediately feed cotton balls or bread soaked in milk or cream; the soft mushy texture will gather up all the sharp pieces and safely "escort" and expel them.
Parties and visitors increase the risk of a cat slipping out through an open door; make sure all your pets are microchipped and wearing collars and ID tags.
You may want to provide a "base camp" for your pet that includes food, water, bed—and for cats, a scratching post, and litter box—in a room that's less likely to be disturbed. A spritz or two of a pet pheromone spray (Only Natural Pet Phero-Soothe) or flower essences (Only Natural Pet Just Relax Flower Essences, or Spirit Essences Holiday Stress Stopper) will keep the atmosphere calm. But no decorations in that room, please, especially lit candles! (Of course, unattended burning candles are a serious hazard at any time of year!)
Take it easy on the treats. Too many fatty treats like turkey skin or ham can cause serious tummy upset; in dogs, these can trigger life-threatening pancreatitis. Ask dinner guests to refrain from feeding "under the table"—or even better, keep pets safely confined during the festivities. Chocolate, of course, is toxic to both dogs and cats.
For extra comfort, consider adding essences, herbs (like Animals' Apawthecary Tranquility Blend, or Only Natural Pet Chinese Herbal Blends Calm), or homeopathics (Newton Homeopathics Nervousness & Fear) to meals during the most hectic times.
A little extra care and attention will make this holiday season a safe and happy one for the whole family!


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A Christian can be crushed gazing at the picture of Mary standing at the foot of the cross, watching her beloved son suffocate, and die. But in that vision she stands there for hours, patiently enduring her suffering. For two millennia, she has been a role model for Christians, a woman who practiced obedience in the most difficult of human circumstances, with fervent hope for what this sacrifice will offer all mankind as it struggles with sin.
This is why it seems so hard to reflect that vision of patience when black-hearted "artists" practice character assassination on the Blessed Virgin Mary to strip her of every virtue: her patience, her obedience, her courageous love, and her prayerful faith in God. On November 13, Simon & Schuster launched a vicious little 96-page novella titled "The Testament of Mary."
The author, an Irish ex-Catholic named Colm Toibin, presents us instead with a Bible-burning "reimagination" of an alienated Mary that fled the scene of her son's death in fear for her own life. Two decades after the Resurrection – or was there one? – this anti-Mary is filled with bitterness and rage. She describes herself as "unhinged" and bubbling with contempt for her son's demented followers, to the extreme that she threatens the Gospel writers with a knife. She lives as a bandit, stealing to survive.
Her son's followers must be stopped from making Jesus a god, "or else everything that happened will become a sweet story that will grow poisonous as bright berries that hang low on trees." Toibin describes the scene of the crucifixion in mercenary terms: "It was like a marketplace, but more intense somehow, the act that was about to take place was going to make a profit for both seller and buyer."
Christ's disciples are "fools, twitchers, malcontents, stammerers," while her son's preaching sounded to her "false, and his tone all stilted, and I could not bear to hear him, it was like something grinding and it set my teeth on edge." There is no God in her Father or her Son. She proclaims of the death of Jesus only that "when you say that he redeemed the world, I will say that it was not worth it. It was not worth it."
Toibin's last book of literary criticism was titled "New Ways to Kill Your Mother." In this book, he murders the Mother of God.
In a positive critique in The New York Times, reviewer Mary Gordon explained "The making of the Gospels is portrayed not as an act of sacred remembrance but as an invasion and a theft. The Evangelists — which are they? Luke, perhaps, or John? — are portrayed as menacing intruders, with the lurking shadowy presence of Stalin's secret police."
In our nation's most prestigious newspaper, an author and his feminist reviewer can conjure up the apostles of Christ as Stalinist torturers. But when a Danish newspaper published cartoons mocking the prophet Muhammad as a freedom-of-speech test in 2005, the Times would not show them, "a reasonable choice for news organizations that usually refrain from gratuitous assaults on religious symbols."
This is what Toibin's book is: a gratuitous assault on Christianity and its central drama of salvation. The Times reviewer recognized that, and enjoyed it.
"Mary, the mother of Jesus, has given Christianity a good name. None of the negatives that have made Christianity a byword for tyranny, cruelty and licensed hatred have attached to her," Gordon began. "The problem with all this is that it has led to centuries of sentimentality — blue and white Madonnas with folded hands and upturned eyes, a stick with which to beat independent women."
Washington Post book reviewer Ron Charles was less laudatory: "If you'd enjoy a tale predicated on the idea that Christian faith is a toxic collection of 'foolish anecdotes' based on a 'fierce catastrophe,' Merry Christmas!"
Charles found it refreshing this garbage bag of words "hasn't sparked outrage or boycotts — a reassuring testament to the West's tolerance for such artistic license and Toibin's prominence. Some of us are a lot calmer nowadays about creative re-imaginings of sacred figures."
He somehow left Catholics out of the picture as he expressed relief that "Evangelicals in this country may finally have caught on to the fact that fiery condemnation plays right into the marketing plans of books that would otherwise ascend into oblivion." He notes Toibin's tome has been "widely praised in England, but Toibin is a larger presence there, and churchgoing isn't."
Somehow, he's not making the obvious connection: Toibin and other God-hating authors are consciously conspiring to empty out the churches, and Christian believers cannot always refuse to condemn them. Speaking up for Christ and His mother (and ours) is a solemn duty, not an option.


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Jordan Spieth is taking the golf world by storm. He is young, talented, and winning the respect of golfers, both new and old. While playing at the BMW Championship in Chicago on Friday, he made his second career Hole-in-One on hole #2 at Conway Farms Golf Club.While an Ace in itself is something to be admired, what happened after the round was just as amazing.
Spieth went above and beyond in keeping with the age old tradition of buying a round of drinks with an Ace. On Friday night, Spieth sent 20 Deep dish Pizzas from Chicago's famous Giordano's along with 8 cases of beer to the media tent. He also sent deep dish pies to the volunteers.
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