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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:20 am
Post subject: Coach Joe DeCamillis
Thoughts and Opinions on him?
Without hesitation I admit I was excited when he first joined the franchise. I figured he would give us one of the better ST units in the league. So I don't know what is going on now with this unit. Maybe the stadium falling on him had something to do with it - but his unit is not excelling. Which is distressing given the massive focus we have on that unit. We have kept players solely because of what they do on ST - and cut productive individuals because of the lack of contribution they bring to the ST game.
The Tuna would always talk about hidden yardage. And boy is that killing us.
We have the
worst KR average with 20.9 yards.
Our long on KR is 29 yards. Only 3 teams have a worst long than we do.
We have the
worst PR average with 6.0 yards. [Just imagine what it would be if Dez didn't have an explosive 44 yard return]
Felix Jones gets a lot of hate on here (and rightfully so) but take Sunday's game. He tried to come out on a play and there was no block at all for him.
Another issue was having 12 men on the field. How does that happen?
Against the Bucs we almost saw another blocked punt because the line didn't properly block.
I will concede that our Gunners have been doing well. On the defensive side of ST we seem to be doing a decent job. C. Jones is also punting at a much higher level than I would have thought, so again I give him credit. And our Money kicker has been great. But the return aspect is brutal. Blocking as a whole.
BTB has some excellent articles
24, 28, 20, 20, 20, 20, 18, 26, 16, 20, 5, 14, 15, 29, 20, 21, 19, 30.
Those are the yardlines Dallas started the eighteen possessions they have had in the first two games. And none of them were in the short end of the field.
The average is 20.27. Which means that Dallas faced an average of less than a foot less than 80 yards to the end zone every time they got the ball in the first two games. The best position was at their own 30 - and that was on the supremely futile last possession of the Seattle game, when the Seahawks turned the ball over on downs with :36 seconds left in the game and a 20 point lead.
A nice little chart shows we are DEAD LAST in field position.
Again. It's not the coverage unit I take issue with. Since frankly I think we are doing a good job with that. It's the return game that I find frightening. And I do not like seeing the miscues we are having protecting our Punter.
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:16 am
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Think it has more to do with what Coach D has to work with than his coaching.
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:48 am
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When was the last time the team had a decent returner? I do agree, however, the team has been putrid in the return game and has so for a while. Even with Bryant returning the punts, the Boys are still only average.
DeCamillis, though, has done a pretty solid job with the Boys in return coverage. However, this year, this has been at the expense of punt block protection with the team already having one punt block and at least 2 maybe 3 coming really close.
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:31 am
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it could be a case where the Cowboys are forced to play some of their starters on the punt team... You can't have a blocked punt every week...
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:09 am
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I am kinda torn on DeCamillis. He is better than some of the ST coaches we've had. I like his fiery disposition and attitude that he brings to the coaching staff. I wonder how much of our lack of success on ST is due to the talent being lackluster?
In the end, I don't think it matters how any of us feel about the situation though. I kinda doubt Jerry Jones will fire DeCamillis anytime soon. You know, the whole broken neck thing.
My how the years have flown by.
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 12:17 pm
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mco65 wrote:
it could be a case where the Cowboys are forced to play some of their starters on the punt team... You can't have a blocked punt every week...
I know Connor whiffed on the block last week against Seattle..
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 4:34 pm
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The Cowboys also had a problem counting to 11 in a couple of instances on special teams Sunday. Joe DeCamillis' units twice had only 10 men on the field in the kicking game.
Color me frustrated.
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:36 am
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WizardHawk wrote:
Think it has more to do with what Coach D has to work with than his coaching.
I think the mental mistakes fall squarely on the coach. I remember in preseason, us giving Oakland a number of first downs, when they were in punt formation by getting stupid penalties. I thought Garrett had it, but with all the penalties, I'm just wondering if he either isn't a good head coach, or not a details oriented guy, and allows too much slack. I can live with a team being better than us, but the sloppy play just annoys the heck out of me.
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:44 pm
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Lets give him some talent at the KR position and see what happens...Felix has to go...same old song and dance...catch the ball and run straight until he gets hit...if he learned to look for holes and could juke somebody then maybe id say keep him...trade him or cut him...move on please!!!
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Maybe you've got a string of part numbers which are maybe all 8 characters long and for your purposes you only need the last 6 characters…
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In two weeks, I get on a plane to New York where I will see some much-missed family and friends. I cannot wait to hug and laugh and eat and drink with all of my loves.
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(serves 2)
– 4 large carrots, sliced into long pieces, 1/2 inch/1 cm wide
– 2 tablespoons olive oil
– 1/2 teaspoon cumin
– 1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
– sea salt
– 1 orange, segmented
– 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice from segmented orange
– 2 tablespoons feta cheese
Preheat oven to 230 C/450 F.
Mix carrots, olive oil, cumin, paprika and salt. Roast carrots for 15-20 until browned.
Let carrots cool for 5 minutes.
Combine carrots, orange, orange juice and feta. Sprinkle with additional sea salt and serve warm or at room temperature.
Bulk it up: serve on salad greens (spinach, kale, Romain, etc.) tossed with another drizzle of olive oil and tablespoon of orange juice. Top with toasted pepitas and chickpeas. Boom.


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How do you talk to kids about a tragedy? In the wake of the Aurora shootings, experts weigh in.
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The local news footage is chilling. Hoards of people stumble out of the Colorado theater where a gunman opened fire on a packed audience for The Dark Knight Rises. One limping man's shirt is streaked with blood, and a child dressed head-to-toe in as Batman walks behind him, bewildered.
For the victims who witnessed the horrific act, some as young as 6 and even 4-months-old, the trauma is incalculable. But even for kids around the country following the news coverage, the incident is devastating.
"Batman is supposed to be their protector," child trauma expert and psychologist Dr. Francine Shapiro tells Yahoo! Shine. "With any type of tragedy spread over news, a child's own feelings of fear emerge, but parents need to take the 'hero stance' to restore their children's sense of security."
Read Kid Heroes: 13-Year-Old Steers Bus to Safety After Driver Passes Out
The first step is monitoring how much access kids have to the news story. "I wouldn't make a big deal about it -I would subtly limit their amount of TV or time," advises Heather Turgeon, a psychotherapist and Babble columnist. "If you want to know more details about the story yourself, do it when your kids are not around. You need to be their filter of information."
Between Twitter feeds, Facebook status updates and a constantly swirling news cycle, there's only so much control a parent can have. So the next step is helping kids process what they've already heard, by asking questions and reassuring them of their safety.
"Parents can acknowledge what happened," says Dr. Shapiro, "but they also need to be saying 'I'm here for you, you're safe,' and letting the child know they're protected."
This would seem intuitive, but Dr. Shapiro says, parents sometimes, nervously or forgetfully, brush off kids' concerns about news events, making fears feel more potent and shameful. In a tragedy like this, kids are bound to have concerns, if not questions. Because the shooting happened at a super-hero movie, in a room dotted with children in costumes, it's likely to feel closer to home than other news stories.


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Sometimes when I make websites I have a unique link, where the user is clicking (usually from an e-mail) and they end up at www.mypage.com/campaign.php?code=1x2x34jkiureeleWSac
Then I can check the code and see that the user actually did go to the page and save things to my stats.But, sometimes I've noticed that users remove the last bit of code and the go to www.mypage.com/campaign.phpI guess they remove the last part of the URL, since they don't want me to know that they were there or whatever.
So, now I thought about making something to check that the code is actually there. If there is no code in the url, then they'll be redirected to a page saying that there is no page here. Or that they didn't enter the correct url or something like that.
I guess people here have a great idea on how to make this or what I should think about when making it.
If I have a table called tbl_user with fields for username, user_code
I would simply check the $GLOBALS to see if such parameters as code exist then perform an action if it doesn't.
if (!isset($_GET['code']) || (isset($_GET['code']) && !preg_match('/^[\\w\\d]+$/', $_GET['code']))) {
// Do something here...
But, what if the user just puts anything else there? Like changing the code or whatever? Wouldn't it be better to check if the code is in the db in some way?
That is why I left the "//Do something here" comment there since I don't know what you're using to connect to the database.
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So, your code is checking if there is something at all after the "code"?But isn't just the following enough to check that?
if (!isset($_GET['code'])) {
// Do something here...
Or what about making a query that is looking for the code in the db.If there's no match, then just a header redirect?
Or am I not getting it?
His code reads as:
If $GET['code'] is not on the command line, OR $GET['code'] is set and there is something other than 0-9, a-z, A-Z, or _ in $_GET['code'], you will "do something" (btw, Chris, \d would overlap entirely with \w, so it's redundant to have \d in there)
But isn't it enough to ask the db if the code is in there. Otherwise do something, like showing another page? I don't get it.Because, if the code isn't correct, then they are not allowed anyway.
That would work, but be careful to sanitize your input before you put it into a query. (which, effectively, is what chris' regex does; it makes sure that the string is just letters and numbers (and underscores).
What is that? What else could someone input to make something else?
Simple injection?
if, instead of your code, they put... "'; TRUNCATE codes; SELECT * FROM codes where code = '"...
and you stick it into your script like:
$query = "SELECT * FROM codes WHERE code = '".$_GET['code']."'";
your actual query string becomes...SELECT * FROM codes WHERE code = ''; TRUNCATE codes; SELECT * FROM codes where code = ''
and then your data go boom.
You never, ever, use variables the user could POSSIBLY TOUCH without sanitizing them, preferably also using prepared statements in your database implementation.
So, everytime I have a code like that I need to check it before making a query?Is there a simple line I could add to my pages to do this without starting all over?
Oh, now I found something on that.
So, maybe I should put a code like this on my pages where I'm asking for input?
$page = preg_replace('/[^-a-zA-Z0-9_]/', '', $_GET['page']);
And then remove whatever is written before the .php
Like this
$page = substr($page, 20);
Then I would get the things that are in the string,but not the first 19 (or whatever I need to have there).
If I use the sanitize like this:
if (!isset($_GET['code']) || (isset($_GET['code']) && !preg_match('/^[\\w\\d]+$/', $_GET['code']))) {
// If not correct I put a header redirection sending them to an error page.
And then have this on the first landing page. Then I thought I could make a session to use for this user to follow them around on the following pages. Then I don't have to do this sanitize thing on following pages. Right?Or is there anything else I have to think about here? Im all new to this.
Or is there anything else I have to think about here?
What you are doing with this regex here is Filtering Input (part of FIEO - Filter Input Escape Output) - so yes, if you are not aware of FIEO then go and read up on it pronto.
Prior to building your sql query you should be doing the Escape Output part, by using PDO or Mysqli and their prepared statements to protect your db from the SQL injection attack described previously.


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At each stop, kids and adults can climb aboard the truck to participate in free hands-on crafts. Visitors can also take pictures with Michaels' interactive social media walls and share photos of their crafts through social media channels using hashtag #michaelscrafttour. Other features include TV screens showing Michaels DIY videos.
"We wanted to do something big to celebrate our 40th birthday with our customers, and the Michaels Craft Tour and truck is a one-of-a-kind craft party on wheels," said Michaels director of local marketing Chris Young. "We've been spreading creativity since the first Michaels store opened in Dallas in 1973, and we look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones as we travel the nation."
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Update: USC player apologizes for calling El Paso 'sh-tty' in tweet
EL PASO, Texas - The University of Southern California football team arrived in El Paso on Wednesday and is already making an impression on the city and football fans - a bad impression.
Late Wednesday night, USC freshman defensive end Leonard Williams tweeted "Out here in El Paso. Shitty city but glad I can enjoy this moment wit the USC family."
Williams tweeted an apology and deleted the original tweet shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday.
"Sorry about what I said last night. It came out wrong. I'm so grateful to be a part of this bowl and looking forward to a great game," Williams said in the apology. "I was saying I'm just proud to be here with my family. ... I also think the people in El Paso are very welcoming and made me feel at home. Once again I apologize for speaking with out thinking."
In response to a person asking him why he took down his original tweet, Williams tweeted back that "I took it down because it was not how I really am and shouldn't be presented in that way."
Williams' original tweet came just a few hours after USC showed up an hour late to the Sheriff's Posse dinner for the Hyundai Sun Bowl teams. According to 600 ESPN El Paso's Duke Keith, who attended the dinner and posted a picture of the dinner on Facebook, Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson was upset about the late showing and took his team and left.
"Wow! Gonna dispose of my USC gear. Great show of sportsmanship after the first bowl eligible year. My west coast teams are disappointing," Audrey Sanchez said in a comment on Keith's picture.
Joel Gonzales, also commenting on Keith's photo, said "They should be fined and never invited back F USC I hope they get whooped."
A USC athletic department spokesman told the Los Angeles Times that the Trojans' tardiness for the dinner was because of their late arrival at the airport, which pushed back the start of practice and its return to the team hotel before departing for the dinner. The spokesman said USC apprised bowl officials of its delays.
Kiffin told the Orange County Register on Thursday that USC went "as fast as we could" but were 30 minutes late to dinner. The OC Register said he apologized and said there was no disrespect intended.
Sun Bowl officials offered an explanation Thursday morning for why USC was late to the dinner.
"Here's what happened: USC practiced at SAC, for out of towners that's on the other side of town! Then practice ran late and they had to haul 100+ people to the other side of town. Best scenario? No. Did GT leave? Yes," Sun Bowl officials tweeted Thursday morning. "Now let's move on, nothing to see here. Tomorrow we have GT at hospital visits and both teams meeting real heroes at Fort Bliss."
USC and Georgia Tech arrived in El Paso on Wednesday. USC's appearance in the Sun Bowl is the team's first bowl game after a two-year ban.
This isn't the first time social media has gotten a USC player in a bit of hot water with El Pasoans.
Earlier this month, USC linebacker Tony Burnett apologized to El Pasoans after he received criticism for his remarks.
"Earlier today I made some tweets I regret," he wrote on his Twitter account the afternoon of Dec. 3. "To the city of El Paso and representatives of the Hyundai Sun Bowl, I apologize for my remarks. My team and I are grateful for the opportunity to play in our first bowl game in three years and we are appreciative of all of the hard work that goes into making the game happen.
"What I tweeted was not representative of my team or my university. I sincerely apologize and hope my apology is taken at its word. I am excited for the bowl game and I hope we can give you a great show. Thank you for your support and Fight On! I am not perfect. When a mistake is made you apologize. it is the simplest complexity of life."
Earlier on Dec. 3, tweeting under the name Benjamin S. Button, Burnett wrote "Georgia Tech!? El Paso, Texas!? New Years Eve!? FML" about the Dec. 31 Sun Bowl matchup. That tweet and two other tweets about El Paso that were posted early Monday were deleted in the afternoon. Burnett had also tweeted, "El Paso "if you never seen a real life giant tumbleweed get ready," and, "Well on the bright side get a chance to go out a winner so hey. Work my ass off 15 more times then one last go round in the card n gold."
USC was ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press preseason poll and projected by some to contend for the national title. They did not qualify for a Bowl Championship Series bowl game and were invited to the Sun Bowl.
During the Sun Bowl coaches' news conference in early December, USC head coach Lane Kiffin apologized for Burnett's comments.
"First off I want to open up with an apology from myself and on behalf of our whole university. One of our 120 players put something on Twitter that is not representative of how we feel. That's been addressed since and I would like to, myself, apologize to everybody down here," Kiffin said in early December news conference. "We are extremely excited about this. We haven't been to a bowl game in three years and it was a long two years and our players are really excited. They don't know much about this bowl game having not been here before or SC not been here for a number of years. We talked to our kids about it and went ahead and had a good practice. We're excited for the matchup, playing a team that has done a phenomenal job. We're excited for a great week down here at the Sun Bowl."
During the coaches news conference, Johnson said "I heard a lot of positive things from our fans that came to El Paso about the hospitality in the time they got to spend here. The neat thing I think about what (Sun Bowl Association Executive Director) Bernie (Olivas) and the people at the Sun Bowl have done is they have such a great local following and such a good nucleus of fans and support here in El Paso that the teams feel like whichever side that the locals decide to get on certainly gives you some kind of home field advantage and that kind of atmosphere. I thought last year there was a great atmosphere at the game. I thought the fans were into it and it ended up being an exciting game all the way through the fourth quarter and it went great except at the end when we didn't stop them on fourth down.
"I think the biggest thing I took from the game was just the people," Johnson said. "I think the people of El Paso are great, the bowl people from Bernie (Olivas) to everybody involved, the hospitality that was shown I think that was probably the one thing we took more so than anything else."
Sun Bowl, El Paso Take Some Lumps
Not long after Burnett's apology, the Bleacher Report website started getting some digs in on our fair city.
Sports writer Lisa Horne wrote a snarky article touting things USC fans could do in El Paso while in town for the Hyundai Sun Bowl. She based the recommendations on posts about El Paso on TripAdvisor. The No. 1 destination? A movie theater (actually, the Plaza Theatre, which is much more than a movie theater-though Horne wouldn't know that). Another El Paso hot spot? Hanging out with ghosts of cowboy outlaws at the dusty ol' Concordia Cemetery.
Some people didn't like the joke and took to social media to blast Horne and her screed. Horne tweeted that she received death threats from El Pasoans who claimed to be gang members, and later took the article down.
"First of all, to those people in El Paso, I apologize. I did not mean to do that. I did offend you, but on the other hand-and this is not to take away from the apology-but I think people overreacted and didn't realize it was satire," Horne said in an on-air phone call with 600 ESPN Radio El Paso.
And before we could recover from that drama, the Wall Street Journal delivered a virtual kick to the crotch, and nicknamed this year's Sun Bowl the "Flatliners Bowl."
Still, Bill Blaziek, general manager of the El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau, is took it all in stride.
"We have the opportunity to change (Burnett's) opinion and that's really where we shine," Blaziek said earlier this month. "If we could package the qualities of El Paso and market it out in front of their visit, they'd have a completely different attitude."
Blaziek said the City has hired a media house out of New York to handle public relations. He said they are "garnering or generating positive media for El Paso and the Sun Bowl is surely one of those opportunities. We've employed them in Los Angeles to help with this week and they're very engaging and given us sharp and clear direction on how to respond to media."
Blaziek said that outsiders don't have a perception of the city before they arrive. However, year in and year out, the teams and their fans love the city after the game, he said.
"They leave with a different attitude," Blaziek said.
Sometimes, attitudes make a complete 180.
Berry Tramel would not have been mistaken for an ambassador for El Paso in 2009. In the lead-up to that year's Sun Bowl, Tramel, a sports writer for The Oklahoman, said El Paso was "not a great tourist destination."
He also said faulted the city for its weather, and its lack of things to do.
"El Paso might be a fine place to live, but I'm in no hurry to return," he wrote in 2009 as Oklahoma was getting ready to face Stanford in the Sun Bowl.
He did return, however. This time he was a bit more complimentary, even calling it a good trip.
"I enjoyed it. I hope to be back soon," Tramel wrote in his blog this past September after Oklahoma defeated UTEP at the Sun Bowl.
Tramel wrote about Marty Robbins' ballad "El Paso," describing it as "one of the best ballads ever written, and that it would make a great screenplay with just a few pieces of dialogue thrown in."
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His colleague, Stephanie Kuzdym, the beat writer for the Sooners, posted several pictures and a couple of videos from the trip, saying she loved how the Sun Bowl is carved into the mountain.


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My daughter's 04 325i Steptronic (116K miles) is exhibiting the following symptoms:
After starting it up, she drives it about one mile till she comes to the stoplight leading out of our neighborhood. As she pulls away from the light, the engine races up to a high rpm (5-6K, indicated on the tach), but the car doesn't accelerate commensurate with the engine speed. If other words, if it were a manual transmission car, it's as if she pressed in the clutch, and floored the accelerator.
It does this for about as long as it takes he to complete the turn, and then everything returns to normal. It doesn't do it again on the rest of the drive. I've tried to duplicate the symptoms, but so far, it hasn't done it for me. She says this has been happening for about two weeks. I'll have the codes read asap. Any ideas? I did a search under "engine racing", but nothing turned up. Thanks.
Sounds like your transmission is experiencing a loss of prime. Is the fluid level correct?
What do you mean by "loss of prime" (never heard that term before). I did a transmission fluid drain & fill about a year ago, and I *think* I topped it up correctly - I added fluid until it started coming out the fill hole, with the engine running, after running it through the gears. There's no sign of a leak. Why would it do this strange thing only once, only one mile from where she starts it from, and then never again on the rest of the trip?
Sounds like a "computer" problem to me. I'd try upgrading the engine software to the latest version (if available) and resetting the transmission adaptations ( I did it in INPA), but see if there are any stored codes.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I understood everything you said right through "Sounds like..." .
Seriously, I haven't the foggiest idea how I would go about doing what you're suggesting, nor do I have a clue what INPA is. And I wouldn't know a stored code if it gave me a full frontal dope slap (which would actually be pretty appropriate). Sounds interesting, though.
I called a BMW specialty shop today, and before I completed two sentences, the guys said it sounds very much like my problem is caused by the transmission fluid being low. I did a drain & fill in June of 2011, and looking back, I was perplexed as to why significantly less fluid went back in than what I measured as having drained out. But there was no way I could add any more without it spilling out front the fill plug hole. His theory is that I got the transmission (and therefore the fluid) too hot during the procedure, causing the fluid to expand, and appear to be full, when it really wasn't. He said this is a common mistake that he has sen many times. This, combined with a possible small leak, could explain my symptoms. He recommended simply topping it up with everything cold to see how much I can add, and if it's a significant amount (say, half a quart or more), this could be my problem. Crossing my fingers...
I am thinking it is the issue some 04 models had where the pump doesn't "prime" (to quote another poster) enough to get the fluid sufficiently moving about the valve body. Let me ask you this, has it started since it got cold out?
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If this is the problem, what's the remedy? Thanks.
Crap. Well, the transmission isn't low on fluid. I put the car up on four jack stands, as level as I could make it, carefully removed the fill plug, and fluid immediately came gushing out. I replaced the plug very quickly, so I lost very little fluid, but the "low on fluid" theory seems to be dead. Anything else, before I start looking for someone locally who can rebuild one of these units? Can anyone elaborate on the "pump priming" theory, and what's involved with diagnosing this? Thanks.
No, I just did it cold, because when I filled it, I did it using the prescribed method of warming up the transmission fluid by running it through the gears, and it was full to overflowing. I suppose I don't have anything to lose by trying that again.
Question - how did you determine the transmission was at the correct temperature? I ask because, and this is pretty embarrassing, but when I read, "shift the transmission through the gears to warm it up," I took it very literally, and ran it through ALL the gears, with the car in jack stands, which required me to run it at a very high effective speed to get it into fifth. I was sure the car was going to fly off the stands! So, I think I may have gotten the transmission too hot, thus the theory that the fluid expanded, and gave a higher indicated level than would have been shown if it were at the correct temperature.
Another question - what is it about warming up the transmission that lowers the fluid level? I would have thought that just sitting would allow the fluid to settle at its lowest possible level.
Edit: I read back through your procedure, and see that you say that running the engine sucks fluid up into the transmission from the pan, which reduces the amount of fluid left in the pan, obviously. OK, makes sense.
So, could you please describe the exact method you used to get the transmission to the correct temperature, and how you confirmed that it was at the right temp? I'm definitely willing to try anything at this point. Thanks.
Last edited by Variocam; 11-01-2012 at 09:24 PM.
When I fill mine I have it hooked up to INPA. To get to operating temp of 50degC, all it takes is to start the car (from sitting overnight, filled in the morning), shift through the gears for 3 seconds each (or however long until it kicks it back down), top it off again, shift through the gears again and close it up. It doesn't take long. It would probably take even less time being in Texas.
Screenshot below taken right after I closed it up, right before I killed the ignition.
Procedure per TIS.
Thanks for all the replies.
So INPA is some sort of diagnostic tool, which I don't have. Maybe I'll try using a kitchen liquid thermometer, and bending it to reach the fluid through the fill hole.
And as far as shifting through the gears, it sounds like all I need to do is put it in manual mode, and while at idle, shift into each gear, and let it kick back down. When I did it during the drain & fill, I rev'd the engine enough to allow it to hold each gear, even 4th and 5th, without kicking down, allowing me to control which gear it was in. I didn't catch the 30C - 50C temperature target, so I'm sure I got the trans fluid way too hot.
OK, I'll report back how much, if any, fluid I have to add.
OK, here's what happened. I followed james2538's procedure, in which I started the car, turned on the A/C, and shifted through P-R-N-D five times, holding it in each selection for five seconds, and let it idle a few more minutes in Park until the pan became warm to the touch. This took a good ten minutes, but I'm confident I didn't get the fluid too hot. Then I removed the fill plug, and what came out was a very frothy, brown liquid, not what I was expecting. I let it drain a few seconds to see if its character would change, and it didn't. I caught the liquid in a pan, and after a few minutes, the bubbles evaporated, and it looks like normal auto trans fluid. It doesn't smell burnt, or look strange in any way.
Did I not allow the fluid to get warm enough? It definitely didn't feel hot to the touch, just warm. The last time I did it, I seem to recall it being blazing hot. Is it possible that I somehow OVER-filled the trans when I did the drain & fill in June of 2011 (hard to imagine how this would be possible)? Through this recent process, I've now drained out a total of 250 ml of fluid. Any advice on where to go from here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Variocam - you mentioned "frothy brown liquid" when you opened the fill plug. Just to be safe, inspect your coolant reservoir. If the coolant and transmission fluid are mixing via a (broken) transmission heat exchanger, that could account for some goofy transmission behavior for sure.
cvx - Interesting theory. I was just thinking that if this were engine oil I was inspecting, I would conclude I had a blown head gasket, allowing coolant to mix with the oil. The liquid that was coming out of the fill hole was very bubbly, more brown in color that ATF, and also quite thin and watery, so you may be on to something.
I checked the coolant level, and it's very low (surprised the car isn't running hot), which supports your theory. So, if I understand correctly, there's a heat exchanger that allows the engine coolant to heat up the auto trans fluid when the car is first started, and once the auto trans fluid hits the target temperature, the thermostat, located in the bottom of the coolant reservoir, shuts off the flow of coolant. So, you're saying I might have a situation in my transmission heat exchanger which is allowing coolant to get into the trans, which would account for the frothy liquid coming out of the trans fill hole.
I looked on realoem, and couldn't find a picture of the transmission heat exchanger. Do you know where it is? Any idea by what mechanism a broken transmission heat exchanger could allow coolant to get into the transmission? Thanks.
It definitely warrants a closer inspection. In the same thread at E46F, you mentioned changing out the fluid at 98k, and what came out was clean and sediment free. Now, only a few thousand miles later, it's brown and frothy. Maybe ATF does that, I don't know. But the fact it's now brown when the outgoing 98k fluid was clean means it became brown on the last fill. To further eliminate other possibilities, what transmission is this and what fluid was used?
Heat exchanger is at the bottom of the radiator. You can see it from the engine bay and has a couple hoses connected to it.
Don't assume this is the issue just yet. Inspect and check it out. Search the boards too, as with a 12-yr old platform I'm sure this issue has been documented before.
I can net it out simple. Change your trans fluid. My fluid was brown on my 323 when I changed it because it was OLD. Old fluid takes longer to flow where it needs to when cold, theres your problem. Change fluid and filter and go on with life.
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Yes, I did a drain & fill at 98K (18,000 miles ago), and the fluid that drained out of drain hole at the bottom of the pan was very clean, and sediment free. What I'm seeing now coming out of the fill hole is brown, thin, and frothy, but still clean. So I just drained a little from the drain hole, and it looks like very clean ATF - no trace of coolant in it, which argues against the coolant-in-the-trans theory, since coolant is heavier than ATF, and should settle on the bottom. But the fact that there's so much of this brown frothy liquid coming out of the drain hole is very strange, although I agree that I'm not going to assume a compromised AT heat exchanger is the problem without further investigation. Also, the fact that the coolant level is low is suspicious, although of course that could just be a coincidence.
To answer your question, the car has the GM-sourced G4 transmission. It has 96025458 written on the green tag on its side. After a lot of research, I went with Valvoline Max Life DEX/MERC ATF. On its bottle, it says it's recommend for use in transmissions that use GM Dexron II, III, and VI, and BMW LT71141, so it appeared to be acceptable stuff. Other people on the forum had used it as well. Hopefully this wasn't a mistake, but I'm skeptical of the "BMW magic special fluid" argument, especially when it's a GM-sourced transmission.
I'd be more than happy to go that route, except I did a drain & fill & filter change 18K miles ago, and the fluid that came out was incredibly clean and sediment-free. It even smelled new. Nothing like the horror stories I had read about with nasty smelling fluid, and pans filled with silt. It looked like it was drained out of a brand new car.
And to clarify, the ATF I drained out of the drain plug (I drained a little out to look for signs of coolant in the bottom of the pan) is reddish in color, like normal ATF. The stuff coming out of the fill plug when the engine is running and everything is warmed up has a brownish appearance, but I think that's because of all the bubbles in it.
Bottom line, here's where I'm at:
- Car is acting like ATF might be low
- Opening fill plug with engine running and everything warmed up produces a thin, frothy liquid, so it's acting as though it were OVER-filled, but I don't see how that's possible
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See Post #3:
"I did a transmission fluid drain & fill about a year ago"
And #5:
"I did a drain & fill in June of 2011"
And #13:
"When I did it during the drain & fill..."
It turns out the local BMW indy I talked to was right about the ATF being low. He recommended I use the following procedure to top it up:
- Loosen the fill plug to where it just barely prevents the ATF from leaking out
- Start the car, dive under the car, remove the plug as quickly as possible, and start pumping fresh ATF as fast as possible. If you wait too long, the fluid flowing in the transmission will start to start frothing over and out of the fill hole due to cavitation.
- As soon as a significant amount of fluid starts spilling out of the hole, stop pumping, and put the plug back as quickly as possible.
While this procedure flies in the face of the accepted methods, I think it actually makes sense, because I measured how much I drained out with I did the drain & fill in June of last year, and how much I put back in, and there was a difference of about half a quart. This puzzled me, but I figured I must have made a mistake measuring. Now what I think happened is a combination of two things: 1) I think I got the fluid too hot during the procedure, causing it to expand, and appear more full than it actually was, and 2) I suspect I had the car at an angle, with the left side lower than the right.
I added just under 3/4 of a quart this time, which is close to the discrepancy when I did it last year. Is this enough to fix the slipping symptom? It didn't do it when I tested it this morning after topping up the fluid, but I'll have to wait for it to cool off (going to be a balmy 82 degrees again today) to know for sure. Fingers crossed...
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Declining agricultural production and increasing population growth don't seem sustainable.
If something can't go on forever, it will stop.
It doesn't exist. If you modernized agricultural production in third-world countries, you could feed a world population of 21 billion.
We create a machine that can create food out of thin air.
A food printing press?
Historically, at least, the richer the country is, the less it reproduces. I'm not sure whether this is a "law", but for now the trened favors stability.
Malachi:So what if you had 42 billion people to feed?
Why would he (or any other one person) need to feed 42 billion people? They can feed themselves. If not, there won't be 42 billion of them. Either way, the problem solves itself before it becomes one.
^ This. It's not like we're suddenly going to have 34 billion people pop out of nowhere.
Malachi:Humans are the only species that has control of their own food supply and theres a case to be made that if it isnt handled properly (which to all of us would mean with strict property rights) disaster would result. This argument is also part of the subtext that drives the nwo agenda so its not as if we austrians can forego having some skin in the game.
So what skin in the game (other than the bolded above) would you propose that austrians rather have? In the same paragraph you explain how regulation/planning is (increasingly) the problem then suggest that perhaps one ought to be thinking of regulation/planning solutions to avert it.
More people = more brains = more innovation/problem solving = higher production.
The only important variable is if the free market will be allowed to allocate resources or not. If not, expect starving people. If so, don't worry about stuff like this.
Their position has been "property rights" all along. Not much could be more coherent than that, I'm afraid.
As long as the sun is there to provide energy for photosynthesis and such, it will always be possible to produce enough food for everyone.
I didn't take the time to read the paper, but I think it's pretty simple to realise that private property and voluntary exchanges will lead to society self organizing to feed growing populations. If there is a food shortage the price of food rises giving me and every other property owner the incentive to get rid of our grass yards and plant crops, or raise livestock. I can think of nothing other than government or natural disasters that could keep this from happening.
Coupled with the riches capitalism creates and the correlation between wealth and decreased population growth Wheylous mentions above I see it as a non-problem in a free society.
society self organizing to feed growing populations.
Malachi:yes. Eventually you turn all terrain into agriculture and housing. Whether this happens smootly or gracefully depends on how it happens. I cant understand why this topic is seen as unworthy of serious consideration in this community.
Alarmism produced by "scientific" linear extrapolation of current trends into infinity is the ultimate knowledge conceit and the most (ab)used interventionist tool, by far.
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In 1898, delegates from across the globe gathered in New York City for the world's first international urban planning conference. One topic dominated the discussion. It was not housing, land use, economic development, or infrastructure. The delegates were driven to desperation by horse manure.
The situation seemed dire. In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950 every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep in horse manure. One New York prognosticator of the 1890s concluded that by 1930 the horse droppings would rise to Manhattan's third-story windows. A public health and sanitation crisis of almost unimaginable dimensions loomed.
And no possible solution could be devised. After all, the horse had been the dominant mode of transportation for thousands of years. Horses were absolutely essential for the functioning of the nineteenth-century city -- for personal transportation, freight haulage, and even mechanical power. Without horses, cities would quite literally starve.
You are thinking like an interventionist, central planner trying to outsmart and outpredict 7 billion self-interested human agents participating in division of labor and trade. The Fatal Conceit, par excellence.
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Ubuntu Quantal Tips
Tips & Tricks
Run Command
You can run any application in your path using the Run Command. Use Alt+F2.
Turn off Hot Keys
This is the most evil option on any operating system, in my opinion. A mis-stroke enables any number of random events. Unfortunately, this problem is pervasive in operating systems and is difficult to turn off.
- Menu -> System -> Administration-> Advanced -> Input Actions -> General Settings -> check "Disable KHotKeys daemon"
- Menu -> System -> Administration-> Advanced -> Input Actions -> Gestures Settings -> check "Disable mouse gestures globally"
If you wish to be selective about it (this doesn't often work, however), start by disabling unnecessary desktop hotkeys.
- Menu -> System -> Administration-> Advanced -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts
Also, you may want to deactivate linking gestures to sticky and slow keys:
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Accessibility -> Activation Gestures -> uncheck "Use gestures for activating sticky keys and slow keys"
Note: You probably will have to disable hotkeys in many applications, as well.
- Hotkeys from the Synaptics Touchpad can be selectively turned off using this information from the Ubuntu documentation.
Associate default applications
- To assign the default DVD player (make sure you have enabled DVD playback capability first:
- Menu -> System -> Administration-> Advanced -> File Associations -> x-content -> video-dvd -> Applications Preference order -> Add...
- then choose your favourite media player. There are similar options for Blu-Ray (video-bluray) and HD DVD (video-hddvd). Set each individually.
- To assign the default player for playing mpegs (or other video formats):
- Menu -> System -> Administration-> Advanced -> File Associations -> video -> mpeg -> Applications Preference order -> Add...
- then choose your favourite media player. You can do this for a host of video file formats, including .wmv (x-ms-wmv, or Microsoft WMV format), .flv (x-flv, or Flash video), quicktime, and so on.
- To assign .pls audio streams to play through Audacious:
- Menu -> System -> Administration-> Advanced -> File Associations -> audio -> x-scpls -> Applications Preference order -> Move Audacious to the top (or Add... it).
- Make sure *.pls appears in the Filename Patterns section.
Automatic user login
- To accomplish this (yet still require a user password):
- Menu -> System -> System Settings -> Login Manager -> Convenience -> Enable Auto-Login (ticked) -> Lock session (ticked)
- -> Pre-select user: Specified: Choose primary user
- This ought to be combined with a password-protected screensaver.
Autostart a program at bootup
Any program (or script) can be made to Autostart at bootup by creating a symbolic link to that program (or script) in the ~/.config/autostart folder.
For example, to start Firefox at bootup, create a symbolic link:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox ~/.config/autostart
Choose Bootup/Startup services
Preventing unneeded or unwanted services from loading at startup can improve system performance.
- Install the GTK-based Bootup-Manager:
sudo apt-get install bum
- Run Bootup-Manager:
- Menu -> System -> Bootup-Manager
Run a script from a menu item
It is possible to place a short script in a menu item / shortcut to answer an interactive query (such as a password query). Here is an example that is used to enter a password during an SSH negotiation. First, install the utility expect:
sudo apt-get install expect
The use a command in the Menu Item / Shortcut similar to:
expect -c 'spawn ssh -l sshuser -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 remoteserver.remotedomain.org -p 22 ; expect assword ; send "sshpassword\n" ; interact'
In this example the password sshpassword is returned when the ssh program requires a password. Expect waits for some text to be displayed in the command-line terminal then returns text in return. The Menu Item must be "Run in terminal", therefore.
SHC (Encrypt scripts)
SHC is a simple script compiler that will convert a script into a binary, obscuring the code (and passwords, etc.). Usage instructions are here. Install by adding the Debian Etch repository:
sudo add-apt-repository 'http://archive.debian.org/debian etch main'
then install the shc package:
sudo apt-get install shc
Capture a screenshot
See this tutorial.
Customize desktop to look like KDE
In recent versions of Ubuntu, the Gnome desktop can be made to resemble the cleaner KDE desktop with some customization. (Customizations are highly personal, and this section represents preference only.)
Run a KDE 4 desktop from Ubuntu
It is possible to install the KDE4-based desktop (the default in Kubuntu) in Ubuntu.
apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
There is a risk of software bloat and some incompatibilities between modules when doing this. At login, you can choose (as an option) whether to start the KDE (Kubuntu) desktop or the Gnome (Ubuntu) desktop. Nevertheless, when there are two modules trying to perform the same function (one from each desktop), it is possible to have conflicts.
Run a KDE 3 desktop from Ubuntu
You can also install the older KDE 3 desktop on Lucid, or almost any KDE3 application.
- Add the following KDE 3 repositories:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kde3-maintainers
- Install KDE 3.5 desktop:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop-kde3
- To install any KDE3 app, append "-kde3" suffix to package name. See Pearson Computing for additional details.
Kill (end) a process
- There are many tricks to try to fix a frozen PC. Press Alt+F2, and use killall to end the frozen application. Example:
sudo killall amarok sudo killall firefox
- In order to terminate a stuck graphical application use the xkill utility. Press Alt+F2, type xkill, and press Run. Point the cursor to the application you want to kill and press the left mouse button. This should kill the selected application.
- Another trick to try is pressing AltGr+SysRq+K (RightAlt+PrintScreen+K). This will log you out. But, what happens if this does not work? Try pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1,login, enter your password and run:
sudo killall gdm sudo startx
View hidden files
In the Nautilus file manager, press:
Ctrl+ H
Mute notifications (alerts)
- Notifications (alerts) can be disabled:
- Menu -> System -> Preferences -> Sound -> Sound Effects -> Sound theme: -> No sounds -> Close
- GNOME notifications (alerts) are associated with sounds by default. This can also be disabled separately:
- Alt-F2 -> gconf-editor -> /apps/indicator-sound -> volume_mute (ticked)
- Turn off login notification sound:
- Menu -> System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications -> Startup Programs -> GNOME Login Sound (unticked) -> Close
- -> Menu -> System -> Administration -> Login Screen -> Unlock -> Play login sound (unticked) -> Close
Filenames with spaces
- Filenames or folder names with spaces in them should be enclosed with parentheses (" "). For example, to change to a directory named "This Dir" or "/home/This Dir", use the command:
cd "This Dir"
- or
cd /home/"This Dir"
- Alternatively, a space in a filename or folder name can be preceded with a backslash. For example, to change to a directory named "This Dir" or "/home/This Dir":
cd This\ Dir
- or
cd /home/This\ Dir
Alien is a method for converting (Red Hat) .rpm packages into (Debian) .deb packages. It is not reliable and converted packages must be tested extensively for functionality, with line changes often required. It is often more reliable to create (Debian) .deb packages from source, and even the Alien software maintainers do not recommend using Alien for important packages. To keep alien from changing the version number, use the following command
alien -k rpm_file_name.rpm
Convert the package.rpm into a package.deb
alien -d package-name.rpm
Convert the package.rpm into a package.deb, and install the generated package
alien -i package-name.rpm
To convert .rpm to debian
sudo alien -k *.rpm
Software Troubleshooting
Permissions error on program startup
If you get a permissions error, try the following:
sudo chown -R user /home/user
- Note: Replace user with the actual username. This command changes the owner of the folder /home/user to user. -R means "recursively", i.e. including all subfolders.
CD-ROM Troubleshooting
If you receive the "cdrecord has no permission to open the device" error while burning using a CD burner, open a terminal and type:
sudo chmod 777 /dev/scd0
- Note: replace "/dev/scd0" with your own device.
- Note: chmod 777 is the universal option for granting full permission to a folder. The 777 mask indicates that read, write, and execute permission is given to all users.
Linux is largely a community of volunteers and as such represents one of the largest altruistic efforts on earth. This includes companies who decide to contribute their own software into the public domain for free use. The continued success of sharing depends on licenses that keep software free and usable for anyone who wants to use it. However, there must be a method for Linux users and developers to make money, as well. Licensing helps protect each of these efforts. See the Wikipedia Free Software Licensing article and the GNU operating system licensing page for more complete information.
- Kubuntu Derivatives do not need a license, according to its developer. See this blog article.
GPL license
The GPLv3 license (and the Affero GPLv3 license for network-based software) intends that the software module or package is free to use in any environment, and furthermore, any software that relies on that GPLv3-licensed module must in turn also be completely free. Commercial and proprietary software packages can't use or incorporate GPLv3-licensed modules.
LGPL license
The Lesser GPL license intends that the software module or package is free to use in any environment, including in commercial and proprietary software packages. This allows companies to develop proprietary packages which includes LGPL-licensed modules, from which they can make a profit. The disadvantage is that their products (which benefit from the LGPL-licensed modules) are not required to be in the public domain in turn. (Many companies often later donate their entire package into the public domain, however, after they no longer make a profit from them.)
ODbL license
The ODbL (Open Database License) is a "share alike" open license intended for databases.
Apache license
The Apache license has been around a long time. It is compatible with the GPLv3 license, but, unlike the GPLv3 license, it does not require modified software to retain the Apache license. In other words, Apache-licensed software can be modified and the modified software then made proprietary (and therefore not returned to the open source community).
BSD license
The BSD license is similar to a public domain license. There are currently many confusing iterations of the BSD license, however, mostly regarding attribution notices and advertising that is required to be provided along with any software derivatives. The BSD license allows the option of propagation of either (otherwise-licensed) free open source restrictions or proprietary restrictions. It therefore allows a mix of (otherwise-licensed) proprietary modules and open sourced-licensed modules to co-exist in the same package. This flexibility has made the BSD license popular with complex distributions (such as the (BSD Unix-based) Mac OS X operating system, for example).
Creative Commons licenses
Espoused by many large public-domain projects, there are a variety of Creative Commons copyright licenses for different scenarios. Many variations impose "non-free" limitations and versions prior to version 3 were denounced by several large open-source projects; particular variations of this license must be examined closely.
Proprietary licenses
There is a vast array of proprietary licenses, all different. You never know what your limitations for software are unless you read every word. Most are attempts by lawyers to have an opportunity to create a lawsuit in the future. Some may be called "free" licenses but have many limitations which you will not be aware of until you are in the middle of a lawsuit. No license outside of the GPLv3 license is recommended. Be careful when committing your organization to a mission-critical software package with a proprietary license. Also see this outstanding article on the Open Source Enterprise Trap.


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Lance Armstrong Confesses to Doping in Oprah Interview — Could He Face a Perjury Charge?
Guess the cat's out of the bag. After attempts to keep the contents of her interview with Lance Armstrong under wraps failed, Oprah Winfrey appeared on "CBS This Morning" on Tuesday to discuss her two-and-a-half hour long talk with the disgraced cyclist. "We had agreed that the terms of the interview, and specifically what was included in the interview, would be left for people to make their own judgments about, and that I would not be discussing and he would not be discussing or confirming," Winfrey tells CBS News. "We agreed to that. But then by the time I had left Austin and landed in Chicago, you had already confirmed it!" The "it" Winfrey is referring to is that Armstrong confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs.
While Winfrey says that Armstrong was "forthcoming" in his answers, his admission was not what she expected. "It was surprising to me. I would say that for myself, my team, all of us in the room, we were mesmerized and riveted by some of his answers," Winfrey says. "I had prepared [for the interview] like it was a college exam, and walked into the room with 112 questions. And in a two-and-a-half hour interview I asked most of those questions — or at least as many of those questions as I could — but I feel that he answered the questions in a way that he was ready."
Alluding to Armstrong's doping confession, Winfrey says, "I didn't get all the questions asked, but I think the most important questions and the answers that people around the world had been waiting to hear were answered, and I can only say I was satisfied by the answers."
In response to questions about the timing of Armstrong's confession, Winfrey said, "I think he was just ready. I think the velocity of everything that's come at him in the past several months and particularly the past several weeks, he was just ready." Watch Winfrey's interview with CBS News below.
According to a New York Times article from Jan. 4, Armstrong was considering a confession "because he wants to persuade antidoping officials to restore his eligibility so he can resume his athletic career." CBS notes that while the World Anti-Doping Code states that Armstrong's ban cannot be reduced to less than eight years, Armstrong may hope that a confession will allow him to compete in triathlon or running events.
Prior to making his decision to op(rah)en up about his transgression, Armstrong and his team were concerned about the legal ramifications of a confession. The New York Times states, "But what worries Armstrong and his lawyers most, two of the people with knowledge of the situation said, is that he could face charges of perjury if he confesses because in sworn testimony in the SCA case he said he had never doped." (The Dallas-based insurance company SCA Promotions is seeking to recoup the millions of dollars it covered when Armstrong won multiple Tours de France races. Armstrong previously sued SCA after it withheld a $5 million dollar bonus due Armstrong for winning the 2004 Tour based on doping allegations made in the book L.A. Confidential: Les Secrets de Lance Armstrong.
The Times notes, "Before coming forward, Armstrong would need assurances from the Justice Department that he would not be prosecuted for those crimes, those two people said."
As Armstrong's attorney Tim Herman declined comment to Hollywood.com, it's not clear that Armstrong received such immunity. But Jenny Carroll, Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law and a former public defender, notes that while rare, it is possible that the Justice Department granted Armstrong such a request. "The government can, as part of its executive power, make decisions about who to charge and what the circumstances are of a particular charge. And certainly granting someone immunity in exchange for them testifying or confessing, as the New York Times says, it definitely happens," says Carroll.
"What's interesting about this case, is when it happens it usually happens the other way around," she adds. "So instead of the big name being the person that gets the immunity a little name gets immunity so that they can prosecute the big name. But, as the New York Times article alludes, there are several reasons why in this case it makes more sense to have the big name get the immunity rather than one of the little names: because Armtrong's the draw for a lot of fundraising, he's the big name attached to a series of causes. So there may actually be some very good policy reasons that they perceive, that the US government perceives, and kind of go a little counter to what their policy frequently is."
In regards to sentencing in perjury cases, Carroll notes, "The government will make a sentencing recommendation. My guess is if [Armstrong]'s perceived as cooperating with them and voluntarily participating, the recommendation will probably be relatively low, and even if it's not the sentencing judge will take into account, or should take into account, the fact that he is voluntarily cooperating even at his own peril. The modern federal criminal sentencing structure is pushing towards more discretion for judges to make decisions on kind of a case by case basis rather than to have kind of these very strict sentencing guidelines that are always followed."
A potential perjury charge will also hinge, of course, on what exactly Armstrong revealed to Oprah. While she says she was "satisfied" by his answers, there is not guarantee that Armstrong will come clean with the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It is expected, however, that an apology will accompany Armstrong's confession. CBS reports that before sitting down with Winfrey, Armstrong appeared at the Livestrong Foundation and tearfully apologized to the cancer charity he helped create.
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National Ride to Work Day was marked at the museum with high staff participation, a celebratory breakfast, and an announcement about the museum's new bicycle fleet.
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Narrator: It was Ride to Work Day on October 14th, and despite a drizzle of rain, Museum Victoria staff cycled in from all over Melbourne.
Anna McCallum: Not too wet!
Tim Murphy: I've got mudguards, there.
Bernard Caleo: ...and of course, there was a bit of a look at the sky, but Ride to Work Day really got me going, and we chanced it, which was so good, because often you think "ah no, looks like it's going to rain, take the car," and it doesn't rain! And you feel like a heel. You feel like a bike riding heel. But today I feel like the whole shoe.
Mark Norman: Good turnout. Seventy-seven. Fantastic.
Narrator: This is nearly twenty more than last year, and is equal to an eighth of all museum staff. Upon arrival, participants were rewarded with a breakfast and tracked their journeys on a map. There was a mix of regular riders, newer cyclists and those returning to the saddle after a break.
Peter Lillywhite: I've been riding, on and off, for about thirty years to the museum.
Robin Wilson: I might need rescuing on the way home
Narrator: Maryanne McCubbin, official Ride to Work Day ambassador, loves her daily cycle to the museum.
Maryanne McCubbin: You're outside so you can engage with your environment, unlike when you're in a car and you sit there and you're frustrated, and not generally a very happy person. When you're on your bike you just don't have that level of frustration.
Narrator: At the breakfast, she announced the museum's new bicycle fleet. Its aim is to reduce the use of cars and taxis by staff travelling between the museum's four sites. The initial purchase of five bikes will test the idea, which is an initiative of the Climate Change Committee.
Maryanne McCubbin: …and it will be really interesting to see how much use it gets and whether staff take it up. But it's a really innovative idea and good on the museum for giving it a go.
Mark Norman: The Climate Change Committee is very keen to support both the bicycle fleet proposal and the National Ride to Work Day. Now, it seems like a small event, you know, like Earth Hour, this one hour, or bicycle day is just one day. But it actually represents a lot more. If we get a large number of staff engaged, it sends a very strong message to the museum staff and senior management that we care about what's happening with the environment, we're trying to reduce our impact, we'd like the institution to support things like storage facilities and shower facilities, and locking areas, and sort of raise the involvement of staff in how they get to and from work. Because it's an enormous amount of energy spent to drive a car through peak-hour traffic to park in the car park, when people often get to work quicker by riding a bike along a safe bike trail somewhere.
Narrator: Of course, there are other benefits to cycling too.
Maryanne McCubbin: You need to do a bit of maintenance occasionally but apart from that it costs absolutely nothing. So, if you're a very disciplined person you can put the money you would save riding a bike towards a big flash holiday.
Robin Wilson: Just get out there and pedal!
Museum Victoria conducted a research project on Australian Women Cyclists in the 1890s, which was undertaken by a staff member for her Masters thesis. It surveys the diversity of cycling activities that Australian women enjoyed in the 1890s, including sport and recreational cycling. We also have many objects and images related to cycling that can be viewed in our History & Technology Collections Online.
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Lady Gaga and Christina Aguilera are making pop music history. On Tuesday's season finale of "The Voice," the two stars shared the stage for the first time ever. Aguilera surprised viewers by coming out from behind a giant seashell during Gaga's "Do What U Want."
The ladies came together after the song and spoke to host Carson Daly about why they wanted to work together. Christina said that it was actually the first time they had met face-to-face, and called Gaga "the most down-to-earth, real person [she's] ever met in this business."
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Before the announcement, she also got the chance to sing with her personal idol - Celine Dion. Celine brought Ne-Yo to the show to sing their duet "Incredible." Paramore performed their new single "Ain't It Fun" with finalist Jacquie Lee, and Aloe Blacc sang his Avicii hit "Wake Me Up" with finalist Will Champlin.
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One Direction is back on the road with their "Take Me Home" tour.
On Monday, they returned with a show in Adelaide, Australia that ended up being memorable for some unexpected reasons.
In a Youtube clip of their "Kiss You" performance now going viral, member Louis Tomlinson is shown sliding across the stage and taking what looks like a hard fall in the center of the stage. The 21-year-old is seen laying motionless on the stage as his bandmates rush around to help him up - all without missing a beat.
The group also found themselves in a predicament before the concert started, when a group of fans crowded around in a grassy area outside their hotel, despite the signs warning them that it was a "snake habitat."
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"I myself am actually a spiritual, religious person," Cody tells The Daily Beast.
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"I can't allow any such business as this, Cody," he exclaimed.
Cody's planes are noted for their neatness, rigidity and smoothness.
The following year saw Cody winning another Michelin prize for a cross-country competition.