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Posted: 13 Mar 2013, 21:09
I started trying to lose weight after Christmas. I know I have lost weight and inches around my stomach, but now I can't get the scale to budge. I try to exercise 5-6 days a week as my job allows. I do 45-60 minutes of zumba followed by 20-30 minutes of Jillian Michaels. Then before bed I try to run on the elliptical for 30 minutes. I eat 1500 calories a day and try to track everything. My husband says I look great, but the scale reads 185 and for my height that is obese. I don't know what more I can do. Any advice ?
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Posted: 14 Mar 2013, 15:52
I find that I sometimes plateau for 2 or 3 weeks and then like magic I'll drop a bunch all at once. I can't explain it, I just know it happens.
Keep doing what your doing and it will be fine. If after a couple weeks you still haven't dropped, you may want to mix up your intake a bit. If you do low cal, try moving to low fat. If you do low carb, try moving to low cal, etc... I find that sometimes I just need to let my body have the particular food I've been denying it and then my fat cells relax and let go!
Best of luck! Don't let this momentary delay frustrate you. Remember to breathe deeply!
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Posted: 14 Mar 2013, 18:47
You are exercising a lot and 1500 calories is not enough to provide the energy you need. Your body is probably holding on to the weight as a defense mechanism to what it perceives as starvation. Try eating a bit more. As strange as it sounds it may be just what you need to start losing.
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Posted: 18 Mar 2013, 21:02
Thanks for the advice. I was able to lose 2lbs this week even with my daughter's 3rd birthday.
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Posted: 19 Mar 2013, 00:57
I started going to the gym about 2½ months ago. Since then I haven't dropped any weight whatsoever. I go at least 4 times per week.
I did, however, cut my body fat percentage from 21 to 7. You might be surprised what is going on "under the hood". Do you feel that you're making progress at the gym? Are you able to handle heavier weights? Are you stronger, faster, leaner?
I am a total scale addict. I want to see weight loss. However, it's just not happening - so I am happy to see the change in the other numbers. It makes me see that there are definitely things happening, even when it doesn't feel like it.
Trust me, I know your frustration. I've been there for months. It wasn't until recently I found out about my body fat.
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Posted: 19 Mar 2013, 20:46
Actually I am making process. I was only using 3 lb weights during my jillian michaels workouts and now I use 5 lbs. I started zumba at 45 minutes and now do 60 minutes and my runs on my elliptical went from 20 minutes to 30-45 minutes. Today I didn't get a chance to exercise because of work, I own my own business; however my toddler did not want to sit around tonight and watch tv. She wanted to play games on the Wii. So at least I did not sit around all night.
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TAIPEI -- The ruling Kuomintang (KMT) had a remarkably bad showing in a public opinion poll conducted by a think tank with ties to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) — but surprisingly, the DPP fared fairly poorly itself.
The survey by the Taiwan Brain Trust, a think tank established by senior DPP member Koo Kwang-ming, found that only 13.5 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with the KMT's performance, while a whopping 77.8 percent were not. The ruling party earned what support it had due to "party identification," cross strait policy and its approach to the economy. Most critics, meanwhile, pointed their fingers at ineffectual governance, followed by disappointing economic policies and perceived corruption. The DPP won only 36.6 percent approval, though the number of people expressing disappointment with the opposition party was much lower at 46.3 percent. "The result is worth review for the DPP," Taiwan Brain Trust Chairman Wu Rong-i said. Society has high expectations for the DPP that the party failed to meet, he said. An economist, Wu served as vice premier in 2005-2006 under the DPP administration of then-President Chen Shui-bian. Supporters cited the DPP's Taiwan-centric stance, support for farmers and workers, and commitment to democracy; but others were made unhappy by infighting among the party's factions and a perceived lack of direction in policies — especially in regards to China — and a scarcity of skilled politicians. An astoundingly high number of respondents, nearly 80 percent, said they were unsure exactly what the DPP's economic policies are. In terms of the major area of China policies, both parties failed to win wide support. Just over half said they were not happy with the KMT's cross-strait policies at 58.1 percent of respondents, while 22.1 percent said they were satisfied. The DPP showed a similar trend, with 43.1 percent disappointed and only 22.9 percent contented. The survey was conducted Jan. 9-11 among randomly-selected adults over the age of 20 across the country. A total of 1,078 valid samples were collected with a margin of error of plus-or-minus three percentage points.
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A friend from down the road gave me some 'glad' bulbs last year and i have been wanting to plant them.* The bulbs are kind of small and with most of them there doesn't seem to be much there if you understand what i mean, maybe they are supposed to be like that. they seem so light i just don't know if they'll grow. Are they suppopsed to be like that, do you know?:?
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I'll ask Scott; I know there is one when you make your purchase, I'll have to see about how to do that for a second purchase. (Scott is on California time, so later today, K?)
The discounts are as follows.
There is no discount for ordering licenses one at a time which if I read correctly your situation. Discounts only start when ordering minimum two licenses at a time and above Thus if a user orders Photopost and Reviewpost or Classifieds at the same time there is a ten dollar discount off Photopost If a user orders Classifieds and Reviewpost at the same time there is a ten dollar discount off both licenses making them 89.00 a piece If a user orders all 3 products at the same time there is a ten dollar discount off all licenses. |
So NO encouragement for current customer to buy another PP product :rolleyes:
Not at this time, but I believe there is a holiday special in the works for current customers.
Looking at Vbulletin and looking at there discount options their discounts are basically the same as ours. There is no discount for purchasing one license at a time. If you purchase in quantity there is a discount. This is directly from purchasing right in my members area if VBulletin
Correct but what I am saying is its not one at a time its bulk ordered. We have the same kind of discount structure
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What Kall is saying is right. If they gave you a discount then its not the norm. At least not from what he and I are finding out. Discounts are only available when purchasing multiple licenses at one time. Thats the incentive to give the discount. Nothing more to add here. We give the same discount. There is no discount for peice mealing licenses one at a time. |
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Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice. Amir R. Alexander. xviii + 293 pp. Stanford University Press, 2002. $65.
Geometrical Landscapes—in part a history of English exploration of the Americas, in part a history of precursors of the infinitesimal calculus—is an original and challenging contribution to the history of ideas. Author Amir R. Alexander acknowledges several well-known historians of mathematics and several centers for cultural studies, humanities, European studies and international studies. But his claims for his methodology leave me wondering how much he consulted with actual mathematicians.
The book makes and documents the claim that in the 17th century, geographical and mathematical explorers shared a "standard narrative of exploration and discovery." This narrative
posited a wondrous land of riches in the interior, surrounded by hazardous terrain of forests, mountains, and, occasionally, icebergs. The enterprising explorer who arrived on its shore would find hidden passages and break through all obstacles in his way to the fabled land of the interior. For this he was rewarded with fabulous riches and the possession of a wondrous land.
Alexander gives many examples of this narrative, presented literally in reports of explorations of the Atlantic coast of North America and figuratively in accounts of the mathematics of rhumb lines and equiangular spirals.
The exploration stories are fascinating: Martin Frobisher repeatedly convinced himself that he had found the Northwest Passage to the Orient, and Walter Raleigh vainly attempted to colonize Virginia and Guyana. But Alexander focuses mainly on advertisements for and reports about these explorations. Regardless of geographical reality, they conform to the standard narrative.
Mathematicians were closely involved in these explorations. Thomas Hariot, a leading Elizabethan mathematician, was actually a member of Raleigh's first Virginia colony. His contemporary Henry Briggs, the first Savilian Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, constructed "elaborate mathematical tables, which were to be used by mariners in determining their location according to the magnetic dip." Briggs was an "advisor and promoter" of two competing voyages seeking the Northwest Passage in 1631.
In an appendix on "The Mathematical Narrative," Alexander notes that Hariot and his colleagues played important roles in expeditions, designing nautical instruments, preparing astronomical tables, composing promotional pamphlets, drawing maps of discoveries and sometimes even going along for the journey.
Navigators needed mathematical help in following the "rhumb line"—the curve on the surface of the Earth that leads a ship along a constant bearing to its desired destination. A natural planar simplification of the rhumb line is the equiangular spiral, which Alexander describes as "a curve that revolves endlessly around a central point, approaching it ever more closely but never actually reaching it. . . . [I]f straight lines were drawn emanating from the central point, the spiral would cross each and every one of them at the same angle." To calculate either the rhumb line or the equiangular spiral, the natural method was approximation by straight line segments. Hariot theorized that a curved line is made of connected infinitesimal straight line segments. Alexander says Hariot was not just describing the continuum, he was exploring its inner essence.
In a chapter on "Navigating Mathematical Oceans," Alexander describes the better-known work done with infinitesimal methods in the 16th century by Continental mathematicians Bonaventura Cavalieri, Evangelista Toricelli and Simon Stevin. These mathematical explorations by means of infinitesimals were different in spirit from what one finds in Euclid's Elements. Paradoxes were relished. They involved searching the geometrical unknown, rather than rigorously deriving known facts. And the descriptive rhetoric that accompanied this mathematical work often used the same images and metaphors as did the proposals and reports of geographic exploration, all following the standard narrative of discovery.
On the basis of this historical material, Alexander makes a grandiose claim for a new historical methodology: "Certain mathematical techniques, developed by Elizabethan mathematical practitioners, were shaped by a ubiquitous cultural narrative." He maintains that "In mathematics, as also in cartography, Hariot's work was guided by the standard narrative of exploration and discovery."
Mathematicians will see the shaping and guiding in a different light. Practical needs focused attention on the rhumb line and its model, the equiangular spiral. The only tool available to study such curves was approximation by straight line segments. Once a mathematician had made some progress in analysis and calculation, it would be natural to talk about these successes with the rhetoric and metaphors available from geographical exploration. To a mathematician it would seem a blatant non sequitur to claim that those metaphors and rhetorics "shaped" or "guided" the mathematical work.
Alexander offers this book as a new paradigm for the history of mathematics. He finds that standard history of mathematics, which "emphasizes the progressive unveiling of universal truths, rather than the contingencies of human existence, has little to do with 'history' as it is commonly understood."
"I find a narrative approach to be a most promising avenue for historicizing mathematics," writes Alexander.
Mathematical work does, I argue, contain a narrative. Once this narrative is identified, it can be related to other, nonmathematical cultural tales that are prevalent within the mathematicians' social circles. A clear connection between the "mathematical" and the "external" stories would place a mathematical work firmly within its historical setting.
No problem so far. But then Alexander goes on to claim that "If a strong relationship can be established between an historically specific nonmathematical tale and the narrative of a mathematical work that originated within its social sphere, then mathematics can indeed be said to be fundamentally shaped by its social and cultural setting." By using a narrative approach to the history of mathematics, he maintains, "complex mathematical techniques are shown to be dependent on cultural narratives prevalent in their wider social setting."
No such thing is or could be shown.
Mathematics progresses by the recognition or invention of problems and the struggle to solve them. The choice of problems for Hariot and Stevin came from navigation and engineering. Social reality shapes mathematics, not by its narratives, but by its practical needs. The means to solve the problem are then "shaped" or "guided" by the problem itself, by the mathematical knowledge and technique available at that time and place, and by the ingenuity of the mathematicians who work on it.
If there existed a prevalent social or cultural story that was analogous or parallel to the mathematical story, it by no means follows that such a story "shaped" or "guided" the mathematics. Such a social or cultural story may have simply served as a model for how one talked about or advertised the mathematics.
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Anyone who wants to game on the go has a number of choices. There's the Nintendo DS and 3DS, the PSP or the upcoming PS Vita, and then the growing competition from App Store and Android Market games running on smartphones or media players. Is there room for yet another platform? GameGadget hopes there is.
GameGadget is a portable gaming device that looks a lot like the Game Boy Micro or GP2X Wiz. Other than that we know very little beyond an interesting take on attracting games to its service.
The creator of GameGadget, Jason Cooper, has decided to setup a service a lot like the App Store, where games are offered for download directly to the device.
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SkyUI should've been vanilla
It's absolutely perfect and I can't believe Bethesda couldn't do something similar since it was released so shortly after the game hit PC
Does anybody have any ideas as to how I could fix Skyrim crashing to desktop when loading a game?
Making a new character, any suggestions to make this play-through more interesting?
I dunno, this has always been one of my favorite videos I've uploaded and I don't think I ever posted it here.
Realistic Lighting with Customization is now in the official release of V2.4.
On a similar note, I released my V3 ini as well.
How can you see?
With my eyes?
My ini is made with the game's brightness at the default 50%, so if you think it's too dark increase the game brightness. It's simple really. (Although it explains that on the mod page)
HELLO Fellow Roleplayers!
So, is there any way, probably through downloading a mod, to get an armor that does NOT cover my Orc's whole upper body?
There is a loading screen picture of an Orc, with 2 one-handed weapons, no helmet, no chest armor, only pants and boots and probably gloves. Looking badass as a Motherfucker.
And THAT is the sole reason why I started my Orc. So, How can I get an armor set that does not cover the upper body? And I DON'T want my Orc to run around butt-ass naked, so leaving Body armor simply unequipped is not a choice either.
thank you! please.
Fur armor only found on thieves or studded armor have a variant with only a "skirt". You could also wear ragged pants if you like to wear clothes.
The pink color is not my choice. That's just basic with the mod. If I had it my way, I would have the sunrise a pale orange-yellow and the sunset a deep orange.
Maybe it's thought to be that way because of a colder Nordic sky, but I live in Canada and the sunrise / sunset isn't pink. Even in winter.
Aren't sunsets supposed to be red/pinkish? Also, It's a video game, the mod is called realistic lighting because he/she didn't have a better name for it.
And he's Colorblind. True fact.
I see, but why does he then make the default config himself? Can't he get someone to do that fo him?
The color of a sunset differs vastly depending on atmsopheric conditions and the location you are on earth
Generally the yellower/golder a sunset, the less stuff there is "filtering" the light on the horizion and in the air, and/or the thinner the air is. Heavy Pollution tends to produce very deep orange/reddish sunsets for example, among other factors such as how dense the air is and etc
Basically Skyrim is a polluted wasteland with that mod active
One of the fur armor variants.
So we should have the reddish sun in Fallout, and the yellow/golden in Skyrim!
He was part of the original team (Plutoman and the others are taking a break) And they handed it off to him. I'm sure the color will eventually get fixed. Hopefully.
I think the vanilla UI is fine. The only thing I hate about it is how there is no way of telling if a Spell is Novice or Adept.
Also. Found this mod. It turns all the Dragon Priest masks to Heavy Armor.
Talking to Sydney on Nexus: He hasn't changed the sun color since forever.
Besides, there's a shittonne of optional configs for brighter or darker settings and specifics.
So am i and but i can see that it's pink and looks stupid.
New mod by me (WIP) Who wants to help me test it?
Notes are on the mod page.
Whats /H/?
It's great but not perfect. The skill trees still feel weird w/ a controller and the Main menu with Map/Skills/Inventory/Magic also feels awkward with a Mouse. but at least Sky UI is a great start!
I hope you don't forget that Brennenberg was actually not pitch-black in Amnesia. Most rooms were lit enough that you could stumble around a bit until you found a candle. Many rooms were also window-lit. Only very few sections were pitch-black.
There are different kinds of colorblindness. I just want to point that out in case you actually weren't joking.
I'm not joking i actually am colour blind and am aware that there are different types of colour blindness.
Yeah, I know. I'm redoing a playthrough on amnesia and taking screenshots everywhere. I'm going to be adding a bunch of ambient lights and increasing others.
No it isn't canon because Kirkbride no longer works at Bethesda
it's basically a glorified fanfic
Is it called the doom 3 mod?
I've got a bad feeling that every time someone either harmlessly makes a joke about, or insults someones lighting preferences it will just erupt in a flame war and is completely pointless.
I ain't mad. I'm adding ambient lights after I put an entrance in the main world.
I really love using Superb ENB-RL but i don't like that caves and at night time it's pitch black, is there a way to disable this?
Don't forget to disable your lighting mods while you add lighting to your cells. If this is a mod which you are going to make public then you want to make sure it looks good with vanilla lighting.
Did anyone else just get an update?
I use Realistic Lighting + my ini. So, the images are going to look darker than what they are for those who don't use lighting mods.
OH SHIT! I forgot to mention that on the mod page!
Okay, fixed it.
yep, it's a fix for the navmesh bug, among other things
mine's bigger
they still refer to him all the time for stuff they put ingame. Parts of Heimskr's rant on Talos were written by him, among other things
How do i disable SSAO and make Night Time and Caves not pitch black when using Superl3 ENB-RL? Does nobody know or?
SSAO can be disabled through the config ini (don't know what it's called). And i don't know about brightness.


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New Zealand Captain Brendon McCullum said the wickets of Virat Kohli and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni altered the nature of the chase and set up his team for victory.
"Yeah, it was a good performance. It was outstanding to get the total we did, and that too in a reduced game. We needed all those runs against India's packed batting," said McCullum.
New Zealand, put in by India, scored 271 for seven in 42 overs in a restricted game that was held up twice due to rain for nearly two hours. Kane Williamson was the top scorer with 77, and ex-skipper Ross Taylor's 57, his second consecutive half-century in the series.
Set a rain-revised daunting target of 297 in 42 overs, India riding on some stellar show by Virat Kohli (78) and Dhoni (56) came tantalisingly close and reached 277 for nine in 41.3 overs as rain interrupted again for the third time. Later, the victory margin was revised to 15 runs in favour of New Zealand.


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Football program staple Caldwell announces retirement
Brad "Spider" Caldwell works with tackle Donovan Smith. Photo courtesy of Mark Selders, Penn State Athletic Communications
Penn State announced today that longtime football equipment manager and facilities coordinator Brad "Spider" Caldwell will retire.
In many ways, Caldwell is the last of the holdovers from the Paterno regime. If you've been to games at Beaver Stadium, you've certainly seen him. If you've been on the road with the Nittany Lions, you've probably had a chance to meet him. He is a great guy who loves Penn State, loves the program, believes in what it has always stood for and molded his life around those standards.
There are many more details in the press release the university sent out, and I will include that here. Spider will certainly be missed, not just by the current team but by a program that benefitted from his institutional knowledge.
Here is the announcement:
Brad "Spider" Caldwell To Retire After 31 Years on Penn State Football Staff
Has worked with hundreds of Nittany Lion Football student-athletes since 1983
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; May 29, 2014 – One of the most revered individuals associated with the Penn State Football family, Brad "Spider" Caldwell, is retiring from the University after 31 years as a fixture on the Nittany Lions' sideline.
A member of the Penn State football equipment staff since 1986, Caldwell and his wife, Karen, are relocating to their vacation home in Vermont, where he has accepted a position as Activities Director for the Fair Haven Union High School in Fair Haven, Vt. Among the duties of the Activities Director is serving as the school's athletic director. Caldwell will begin his new position on July 1.
The Nittany Lions' Equipment and Facilities Coordinator, Caldwell began his association with the football program in 1983 as a student manager after spending his freshman year at Penn State-DuBois near his hometown of Curwensville, Pa. He has been on the sidelines for 379 Nittany Lion games during his 31 years of outstanding and "team-first" service to Penn State and the football program.
"Words cannot begin to express the gratitude I have towards Penn State for all the opportunities it has given me through the years," said Caldwell. The 'Penn State Family,' from all the lettermen, coaching staffs, managers, countless alumni and fans, is what makes Penn State such a special place.
"I'd like to thank, first and foremost, Coach (Joe) Paterno, who became not only my coach, but a father and grandfather figure to me. He instilled in me the values and discipline that I carry with me today. Thank you, JoePa, for all the great memories. I'd like to also thank Coach (Bill) O'Brien, for letting me be part of two of the most special groups of players in Penn State history.
"Finally, I'd like to thank Coach (James) Franklin for giving me an opportunity to be part of his staff. The staff he has put together to lead Penn State to great things in the future made this a difficult decision," Caldwell added.
Caldwell began his career with Penn State as a football student manager in 1983, with the inaugural Kickoff Classic vs. Nebraska as his debut contest. His first bowl game was the 1986 Orange Bowl vs. Oklahoma for the national championship and one year later he was on the sidelines as the Nittany Lions defeated No. 1 Miami, 14-10, in the epic 1987 Fiesta Bowl to capture the national title.


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I've read the debates, and some of the reasoning on either side confuses me.
Let's say you work bench press, military press and closegrip bench press three times a week, at 1-2 sets each as part of a full body.
Now let's say you work the above exercises only once a week, but on different days as part of a chest, shoulder and tricep day.
You performed the same exercises each week, and the same sets. The only difference is rest between workout.
I might be missing some things, and would love to hear what others think on this subject...
Let's get back to the "training theory".
In every plan you have 3 main variable you can work with:
volume: the amount of reps per session
frequency: the time interval between the training of the same muscle
intensity: the "load" used to train and the "hardness" of the workout.
You can't maximize every one of these variables, ie if you pump up the volume you have to lower the intensity... if you highen the frequency you have to lower the intensity and so on.
Now, how does that fills in the split vs fullbody?
Simple, splits are low frequency high volume (or high intensity) training program.
Fullbody are instead high frequency but low volume training methods...
So when split are best? when you need to work with high volume or high intensity (in a Jones/Yates like mean).
Fullbody are better to achieve atletic and strenght performance target. Cause frequency (with periodization) is the better weapon for perfomance gain (CNS improve with frequency)
Great post.
I tend to look at intensity as volume over time, or TUT - time under tension. I know this simplifies things a bit, but in the end, slow reps, negative reps, rest-pause, etc., all create intensity because most of them lengthen the time under tension.
My current workout consists entirely of rest-paused sets, so it has a much high TUT then my workouts in the past. It has high volume, high intensity, but the frequency is dropped to once a week.
IMHO, full body workouts are a great option when you're not riding close to failure on every set. BUT, because HIT style training drops the frequency and performs fewer sets, it makes riding to failure/close to failure more viable.
I have very little experience with HIT. I have tried a HIT workout several times as an advanced trainee, and felt like I needed more days off in between workouts.
If I were to try a fullbody HIT today, I would give it a go on every third day.
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The young coach feels that 2-2 was a fair result, but was disappointed with a point nonetheless as he believes they missed a chance to close the gap on their rivals
Cristian Chivu gave the Nerazzurri an early lead, but a Riccardo Meggiorini double then saw them fall 2-1 behind, only for Esteban Cambiasso to restore parity again halfway through the second half.
"Perhaps a draw is the fairest result, but we're still disappointed about it as we missed a chance to narrow the gap," he said at a press conference.
"We started out really well and our aim was to keep Torino from playing the game they wanted to play. We went ahead but then they were playing better than we were, although I don't think they created more.
"Then came a collective error on our part. After we went down 1-2, we were playing our best, but we gave too much space to Torino by trying to win the match."
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Explore the Vegetarian Side of Los Angeleno Mexican Food at Taqueria Lower East Side
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The Veggielante is on a mission to spread the word about places to order good, meatless grub. Check out this week's pick.
Destination: Taqueria Lower East Side (198 Orchard Street, 212-677-3910)
Neighborhood: Lower East Side
Cuisine: Mexican
Overview: The first location of Taqueria opened in Jersey City in 2006, and the restaurant's success pushed the owners to open a second location in Manhattan two and a half years ago. They took over a slot in the Lower East Side, plastering every square inch of the walls with Los Angeles-themed paraphernalia. That's because Taqueria is a Los Angeles taco bar with no frills, no fronts, and no fusion: The restaurant's cuisine is the kind of homestyle Mexican food like you'd get in the City of Angels: tacos, mostly, with a few other platters, tostadas, and sopes.
Taqueria follows its own version of the 10 Commandments -- no fajitas, no nachos, no Chipotle-sized burritos -- and it doesn't do substitutions; it only serves what's on the menu, so what you see is what you get. But ingredients are delivered daily, and everything is served fresh and made in-house, including excellent freshly squeezed margaritas.
Highlights: Order the nopalitos tacos ($3/taco), two of which are enough to make a meal. Two corn tortillas come piled with nopal (cactus), onions, cilantro, bright salsa, and salty queso fresco. If you're not familiar with nopal, note that this is not an inedible plant that'll make your mouth bleed. The prickly pear cactus is native to Mexico and a staple in Mexican cuisine. It's slightly tart and extremely verdant; the texture is comparable to snappish green beans. It's not dissimilar from other grilled vegetables, and it plays well with the other ingredients. Corn tortillas, by the way, mean this dish is also gluten-free.
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Young Guns: Ashleigh Barty
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Every day this week wtatennis.com has been showcasing Young Guns, those who showed signs of future stardom in 2013.
A former junior Wimbledon champion in singles, Ashleigh Barty truly established herself as a rising doubles star in 2013, and her style certainly belies plenty of more doubles success in her future.
"I try to be an all-court player," Barty said. "I like to use variety, use the slice and mix things up a little with a few droppies as well. I think my strength would be having the ability to have this variety and playing shots that other girls may not know how to play or have in their repertoire, I suppose."
Here is some evidence from 2013 that qualifies the 17-year-old Australian as a Young Gun:
• Alongside fellow Aussie Casey Dellacqua, Barty was a titlist at Birmingham and runner-up at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open, eventually finishing fifth in the Race To Istanbul.
• Barty had a 23-9 record in WTA doubles matches in 2013.
• Barty went from a season-ending doubles ranking of No.172 for 2012 to No.12 for 2013.
Barty has come a long way in singles too, with a quarterfinal showing in Kuala Lumpur, main draw wins at the French Open and US Open and a career-high ranking of No.129 among her accomplishments in 2013.
"I just want to be the best player that I can be," Barty said. "I have no set goals for ranking or anything like that, I just want to try and reach my potential and have some fun while I'm doing so. I'm just kind of playing it by ear and enjoying the journey."
An exclamation point was added to Barty's 2013 résumé when she was named Tennis Australia's Junior Athlete of the Year at the Newcombe Medal Awards on Monday.


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Transcripts: The World According to Lance Armstrong
This is a great example of how the word "never" is used instead of "did not" by liars. For whatever reason, they are more comfortable saying "never" while lying, than they are saying "did not."
A person will avoid saying "I did not..." but instead, will substitute the word "never" wanting it to be conclusive.
The word "never" is appropriate if one is asked, "Have you ever?" but in an open statement, it is not a reliable denial.
A reliable denial has three parts:
1. The pronoun, "I"
2. the past tense verb: "did not" (or "didn't")
3. The specific allegation "I did not use EPO" (and so forth)
Lying causes internal stress, so most liars do not lie outright, but will say things like, "I never doped" or " I would never dope", but not "I did not dope."
In following Lance Armstrong's denials for many years, we have seen that he is unable to bring himself to say "I did not take performance enhancing drugs"; instead, he uses the word "never", or "would not", and often ridicules others instead of issuing a simple reliable denial.
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Don Lemon. Tonight, for the first time in the U.S., disgraced cycling legend Lance Armstrong defends himself at length on camera and under oath.
First seen on Australian network ABC, this investigation by reporter Quinton McDermott features Armstrong in his only on-camera deposition ever, passionately denying the repeated use of performance enhancing drugs.
Friends, former teammates and experts provide damning evidence against Armstrong despite his vigorous denials.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lance Armstrong salutes the crowd, seven times a winner of the Tour de France.
QUINTON MCDERMOTT, ABC CONTRIBUTOR (voice-over): A moment of triumph, now turned epic disgrace. The United States Anti-Doping Agency or USADA says that Lance Armstrong was a drug cheat, part of an organized conspiracy by the U.S. Postal Service team to dupe the public and fool the authorities.
And now cycling's governing body, the UCI, has stripped him of the seven wins in the Tour de France that made him one of modern sport's most celebrated icons.
BETSY ANDREU, WIFE OF FRANKIE ANDREU: The totality of the evidence is overwhelming. You're looking at the Bernie Madoff of sport. This is the biggest fraud in the history of sport. The biggest. He couldn't have done it alone.
PHIL LIGGETT, CYCLING COMMENTATOR: When money is involved -- big money -- then, of course, the cheats come as well.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Lance Armstrong entered cycling as a brash young competitor, full of enthusiasm but limited in his all-around ability. His mentor then was the Australian racer Phil Anderson.
MCDERMOTT: Did he strike you in those days as a cyclist who could eventually win the Tour de France?
PHIL ANDERSON, AUSTRALIAN RACER: For me, no. To be a good tour rider you have to be a good time trialist and you have to be a good mountain climber, and he wasn't particularly strong in those two areas. To me, he didn't have what it took in those early years. MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Lance Armstrong was then with the American Motorola team. So, too, was New Zealander Steven Swart.
Stephen Swart says in 1995 when Phil Anderson had left the team, the riders complained that their European opponents were doping.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you talk with Lance Armstrong about the need to start using EPO to be competitive?
STEPHEN SWART, FORMER PRO CYCLIST: We had a discussion about it, yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What did Mr. Armstrong say?
SWART: He did say, you know, if we're going to the tour, we've got to -- we've got to perform. We need the results.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What does -- what did that mean?
SWART: I think he just said -- you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out. You know? If we were going to -- if we were going to be competitive, there was only one road to take.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Was there a discussion about doping in any way with Mr. Swart?
LANCE ARMSTRONG, PRO CYCLIST: The only aspect that is true is that he was on the team. Beyond that, not true.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): The doping allegations arose in a case brought by Lance Armstrong against an insurer based in Dallas, Texas, who provided huge bonuses paid to Armstrong for winning the Tour de France in successive years.
JEFFREY TILLOTSON, ATTORNEY: These are the checks making the first two payments under the contract. These checks represent when he won on the 4th and the 5th, making those payments for $1.5 million and then $3 million.
Obviously no one had ever won six before.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Attorney Jeff Tillotson represented the insurer, who refused to pay a further $5 million when Armstrong won his sixth Tour de France in 2004.
TILLOTSON: Obviously no one would want to guarantee a payment to an event that was fixed or if someone was cheating, because that's a risk no one would take.
MCDERMOTT: Well, was it fixed?
TILLOTSON: Well, my client and we think now the evidence clearly shows that Lance Armstrong was, in fact, using performance enhancing drugs for both the fourth, fifth, and sixth Tour de France races, which are the ones my clients had risk on.
We also think the evidence we developed showed that he had been using performance enhancing drugs long before we ever got involved, and even dating back to the beginning of his career. So in my client's mind, yes, those races were fixed.
Mr. Armstrong, my name is Jeff Tillotson. I represent --
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Jeff Tillotson has done something USADA has been unable to do.
TILLOTSON (voice-over): Whether it's a blessing or curse, I'm the only lawyer to have actually taken sworn testimony from Lance Armstrong and to have had him to deny under oath, with the penalty of perjury, that he used performance enhancing drugs.
You understand that although we're in the conference room of your lawyers, you are giving testimony as if you are in a court of law?
Do you understand that?
ARMSTRONG: Correct.
TILLOTSON: And that penalties of perjury attach to this deposition just like they would to a court of law proceeding?
ARMSTRONG: Of course.
TILLOTSON: Did you, in fact --
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Tonight, for the first time in the U.S., sworn depositions from Lance Armstrong and other key witnesses are being broadcast. This evidence laid the foundation for later investigations, including USADA's.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Armstrong has the advantage here. He's on the right side of these riders.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Lance Armstrong's dream was to win the Tour de France.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Armstrong goes on the left of the picture. Lance Armstrong, his first Tour de France, they all said he was too young! But he gets clear of the line! Lance Armstrong --
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): In his first tour, well, he won a stage. But three years later it looked like his dream had died.
In this film for his cancer charity, Livestrong, Armstrong described what happened.
ARMSTRONG: I had excruciating headaches, blurry vision, coughing up of blood. I had been debating on whether or not I should go to the doctor for a long time but finally went. "He said, Lance, I hate to tell you this, but you have advanced testicular cancer."
B. ANDREU: Look how young we all looked. MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Cycling legend Lance Armstrong had just been diagnosed with cancer. His closest friends gathered around. Among them, Betsy Andreu and her fiance, Frankie, who was close to Armstrong and rode with him on his team.
B. ANDREU: Frankie, Lance.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Armstrong was due to consult with his doctors. What happened next shocked Betsy Andreu to the core.
B. ANDREU: When the doctors came, I suggested we leave to give him his privacy. And he said, that's OK, you can stay. So we stayed, the doctor started asking Lance a couple of banal questions, and then, boom, have you ever used performance enhancing drugs?
Lance, hanging onto his IV, rattled off EPO, testosterone, cortisone, growth hormone and steroid. My eyes popped out of my head and Frankie said, "I think we should leave the room," and we left the room. And Frankie and I had just been engaged six weeks previously. And I said, that's how he got his cancer. If you are doing that, I am not marrying you.
We can stay, we can stay.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Years later, Betsy and Frankie Andreu recalled under oath what had happened.
B. ANDREU: The doctor asked him a couple of questions and then came the question, have you ever taken any performance enhancing drugs? And Lance said, yes; the doctor said, what were they? And he said, EPO, growth hormone, cortisone, steroids and testosterone.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What is it Mr. Armstrong said in response to the doctor asking him about use of performance enhancing drugs?
FRANKIE ANDREU, PRO CYCLIST: I don't know how the doctor phrased the question but Lance's response was that he had taken EPO and testosterone and growth hormone and cortisone.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Also in the hospital that day was Stephanie McIlvain, who worked as a rep for one of Lance Armstrong's main sponsors, Oakley.
B. ANDREU: After we were deposed, the day after, Stephanie called, sobbing. Stephanie told me that her husband was called into one of the higher-ups of the company, where he is vice president of global marketing for Oakley, one of Lance's sponsors.
And Stephanie was told, if you make the company look bad, you're going to lose your job. And so we said, that's it, she's going to lie. She's going to lie. She's not going to say it happened.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Were you ever in a hospital room or other part of the hospital with Mr. Armstrong where he said anything about performance enhancing drugs?
STEPHANIE MCILVAIN, OAKLEY REP: No.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you have any recollection of any doctor in your presence asking Mr. Armstrong if he used in the past any performance enhancing drugs or substances?
MCILVAIN: No.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Stephanie McIlvain gave her sworn deposition at Oakley's headquarters in California.
The year before, out of the blue, she'd received a phone call from an American cycling legend.
MCILVAIN: Hello?
GREG LEMOND, PRO CYCLIST: Stephanie?
MCILVAIN: Yes?
LEMOND: This is Greg LeMond calling.
MCILVAIN: Greg le who?
LEMOND: Greg LeMond.
MCILVAIN: Hi, Greg, how are you?
LEMOND: How are you doing?
MCILVAIN: I'm doing well.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Greg LeMond in the leader's yellow jersey, 1:13 --
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Greg LeMond was a three-time winner of the Tour de France who insisted he never took drugs.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Greg LeMond has unsettled --
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): LeMond had fallen out with Lance Armstrong, who he suspected of doping. And in 2004, he and Stephanie McIlvain spoke frankly about what occurred in the hospital.
LEMOND: I heard from a source outside of the group here of what happened at the hospital, and Betsy and I have talked a little bit, but -- and I -- and I'm not asking you to do anything you would never want to do, but, you know, if I did get down to where it was a, you know, lawsuit, would you be willing to testify or -- ?
MCILVAIN: If I was subpoenaed, I would.
LEMOND: Yes.
MCILVAIN: Because I'm not going to lie. You know, I was in that room. I heard it. MCDERMOTT (voice-over): What Stephanie McIlvain didn't know was that Greg LeMond was secretly recording that conversation.
TILLOTSON: Lance Armstrong's lawyers immediately backed off this issue and we presented to the panel that Stephanie McIlvain had told two different stories about what happened in the Indiana University Hospital room.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, you heard her testimony regarding --
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): In her last public statement, McIlvain insisted that she had no knowledge of Lance Armstrong ever using performance enhancing drugs.
And Armstrong and his doctors also maintained that he was never asked about them.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you deny the statements that Ms. Andreu attributed to you in the Indiana University Hospital?
ARMSTRONG: Oh, 100 percent. Absolutely.
Please note the need for emphasis
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did any medical person ask you while you were at the Indiana University Hospital whether you had ever used any sort of performance enhancing drugs or substances?
ARMSTRONG: Nope, absolutely not.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you offer or can you help explain to me why Ms. Andreu would make that story up?
ARMSTRONG: Well, she said in her deposition she hates me.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is it your testimony that Mr. Andreu was also lying when he said that he heard you say those things regarding your prior use?
ARMSTRONG: One hundred percent. I feel for him.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do you mean by that?
ARMSTRONG: Well, I think he's trying to back up his old lady.
MCDERMOTT: How has Lance Armstrong treated you following this incident?
B. ANDREU: Oh, I mean, what he's -- how he has described me to people he presumed would never meet me is pretty amazing. Think of just any derogatory adjective, and, you know, basically I'm nuts, just crazy. I'm really jealous, I'm hateful, I'm vindictive, I'm bitter. And so this has been a quest to clear my name because I never, ever, ever lied about anything. Ever.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Two days after the Andreus gave their sworn evidence, Indiana University announced an endowment of $1.5 million for a Chair in Oncology to honor the doctor whose team treated Armstrong for cancer. The endowment was funded by the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
ARMSTRONG: I just want to be clear, because these are very separate issues. I'm endowing, funding a chair for somebody who saved my life.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Throughout the 1990s, cyclists and their teams worked hard to cover up the increasing use of performance enhancing drugs. Their job was made easier by the fact that the drug of choice in the pelleton at the time, the blood booster EPO, was undetectable. So popular was EPO that the pelleton invented a term for riders who didn't use it.
TYLER HAMILTON, PRO CYCLIST: The translation was "riding on bread and water," and the Italian term is pan y agua. So I was, yes, I guess for the first few months of the '97 season I was riding on pan y agua, bread and water.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Tyler Hamilton's revelations about drug taking in cycling have created headlines around the world. Like many top racers, Tyler Hamilton started out as a drug-free rider. But when he joined the U.S. Postal Service team, he saw veteran riders getting preferential treatment; they would be given white lunch bags between races. He wanted his lunch bag, too.
HAMILTON: The doctor at U.S. Postal Service said that, you know, I had enormous potential. So basically -- eventually when I was invited to -- when I was given my first white lunch bag, you know, it was a sign to me that they believed in me, they believed in my potential and they believed in my long-term talent.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): The lunch bags contained the banned drug EPO, designed to raise a cyclist's hematocrit level.
HAMILTON: Your hematocrit is the percentage of red blood cells in your body. Your red blood cells carry oxygen to your muscles. So basically the higher your red blood cell percentage, the better your muscles are going to operate under stress. So in laymen's terms, the more red blood cells you have, the faster you're going to ride a bike, you know.
MCDERMOTT: So what was the doctor's solution to raising those levels?
HAMILTON: Yes. A couple months before, maybe a month and a half before my first Tour de France, it was EPO.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Under UCI rules at the time, riders were allowed a hematocrit level of 50 percent but no higher. Tyler Hamilton says doctors would tell riders what their glow time was with different drugs. HAMILTON: You were given the limits on, you know, what product would -- how long you would glow for, how long you would test positive for. So as long as you played by what the team doctors told you, you know, it was more or less pretty -- at the time it was pretty easy to pass these tests. You know, I passed a couple hundred doping controls myself, you know.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): When Lance Armstrong joined the U.S. Postal Service team in 1998, following his recovery from cancer, he shared a room with Tyler Hamilton.
MCDERMOTT: Did you both talk about drugs together?
HAMILTON: We did. We did. You know, it didn't -- it didn't -- it wasn't -- every conversation wasn't about drugs, but, yes, we talked about it, you know, behind closed doors, absolutely. Absolutely. In '98 I was pretty green, so I asked a lot of questions, and, you know, I learned a lot.
MCDERMOTT: So he was quite open with you.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Tyler Hamilton says Lance Armstrong was surprisingly relaxed about where he kept his EPO.
HAMILTON: When I was at his house in Nice, France, I asked him for some, and he kindly said, yes, no problem. And it was just on the inside door of his refrigerator, just in the box that it came in. You know, I was surprised that it was right there, kind of out in the open.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Evidence against individual --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: French police began investigations into Festina after banned drugs, including steroids, were found in one of the team cars on July 8th. Festina's doctor, Eric Rijkaert, was questioned and later charged under France's anti-drugs act.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): As the 1998 Tour de France got under way, the lid was blown off systematic doping in the pelleton.
DICK POUND, FORMER PRESIDENT, WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY: It was pretty clear that there was a major problem. The French police are arresting team members or followers with industrial quantities of doping substances and equipment.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In the staff house (ph) now is Lance Armstrong --
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): The following year, the Tour de France was billed as the Tour of Renewal. Teams were terrified of being raided, but Lance Armstrong came prepared with a delivery man in tow called Motoman.
HAMILTON: Motoman was this gardener/handyman for Lance Armstrong. And the team I was on didn't carry performance enhancing drugs, so to get EPO for the Tour de France we came up with the plan. And the plan had Motoman involved, where he would follow the race, always stay within probably a half-hour drive of our -- motorcycle drive -- from our hotel.
He basically had the container filled with EPO and he would basically just wait for a phone call on a secret phone. And when he had to do a delivery, he'd do a delivery.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And Armstrong coming up now. Now can he get off to a great start in the Tour de France? He is aiming at 8:09. He's certainly ahead at this (inaudible) and at this point. My goodness me, 8:02.51, Lance Armstrong with that performance, Paul, I think may have done enough.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): This is where the legend began. On the very first day of his comeback Tour de France, Lance Armstrong won the prologue.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lance Armstrong has delivered a great blow.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Three weeks later, less than three years after being diagnosed with cancer, he won his first Tour de France. It would be the first of seven.
LIGGETT: He came back again and again and again, winning tour after tour, and he did it seven times. And of course it's a record. Nobody's ever done it, and it's -- for many people it was unacceptable. It was impossible to do that without taking drugs.
MCDERMOTT: Well, what do you think?
LIGGETT: I -- look, I admit I've been very proud to commentate (sic) on Armstrong over these -- over these years, because I've seen a man, and I've sees how he's battled the elements and I've seen how he's come forward. And I'm very sad.
What do I think? Everybody else did it, so I find it very difficult not to think that Lance did it.
QUINTON MCDERMOTT, ABC CONTRIBUTOR (voice-over): Lance Armstrong was charging to victory in the Tour de France, cycling's biggest race. But the evidence suggests he was doping big-time. Tyler Hamilton says that after finishing a stage, he, Armstrong, and their teammate Kevin Livingston would inject themselves with EPO in the team's camper just meters from the excited fans outside.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Go, baby!
TYLER HAMILTON, PRO CYCLIST: That was nerve-wracking because you're right there in the heart of the Tour de France, thousands and thousands of people around you -- hovering around your -- the team camper, and we had this performance enhancing drug. So I remember just trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible because there was one for Lance, one for Kevin and one for myself. You quickly just stuck it in, got rid of it and then it was quickly hidden away, typically in like a Coke can, all three vials would go into a Coke can. We'd crush it, give it to a team doctor to dispose.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): But it didn't go all to plan. Lance Armstrong was tested for drugs during the tour, and one of his samples revealed a significant level of a banned corticosteroid.
Emma O'Reilly was a soigneur on the team, whose duties included given Armstrong a massage after his rides. During one of these massages, she says, an urgent discussion took place between Armstrong and the team's management.
EMMA O'REILLY, CYCLING SOIGNEUR: The conversation that was occurring really was, what are we going to do, here's the problem. We need a solution. And how do we act upon the solution? And are we happy with the solution?
So it was -- the problem was Lance had tested high in the cortisone; the solution was a potential prescription. What was the prescription for? Why was he taking it? Are we all happy with that? Yes, we're happy with that. All right, let's go down and speak to Luis, who was the team doctor, and get him to write the prescription.
Dr. Luis del Moral has now been issued with a lifetime sporting ban by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, USADA. Emma O'Reilly says the doctor issued a prescription to Armstrong for a cortisone cream for saddle sores and back-dated it.
MCDERMOTT: Had he complained to you about saddle sores?
O'REILLY: No, no. No. No, it wasn't about saddle sores. The whole thing was just a back-dated prescription to help kind of explain his elevated cortisone level in the test at the prologue.
MCDERMOTT: Of course, if he -- if he had been prescribed this cream, then it should have been listed as a -- on the therapeutic exemption.
O'REILLY: Absolutely, yes, yes. And it wasn't, because he wasn't taking the cream, you know. It was just purely back-dated to cover up that cortisone elevation, yes. The back-dated prescription was rigged to suit the test.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): When she was subpoenaed to give sworn evidence, Emma O'Reilly insisted that her memory was clear.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is there any doubt in your mind as to what happened and what you heard?
O'REILLY: None whatsoever at all. I can still, to this day, picture the whole scene vividly.
JEFFREY TILLOTSON, ATTORNEY: She was labeled a traitor by Lance Armstrong. She was told she'd never work in the business again by the Armstrong group. We found her to be extremely credible on the issues in which -- and the things she said she had seen and done.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Lance Armstrong escaped being sanctioned for having a banned corticosteroid in his system. In 2000, a test was introduced for EPO. Tyler Hamilton says that he and Lance Armstrong continued to dope, using microdoses of EPO which would pass through the body more rapidly, and an undetectable type of doping, blood transfusions.
Under this procedure, blood would be taken from a cyclist, stored in a refrigerator, and then reinfused at a later date, boosting the cyclist's red blood cells.
HAMILTON: It seemed kind of -- sort of caveman-like, you know, taking out your own blood, not seeing it for three or four weeks, then getting it back in, reinfusing it back in.
MCDERMOTT: Who was organizing all of that?
HAMILTON: Lance and Johan Bruyneel and the doctor, del Moral, Dr. Del Moral.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Johan Bruyneel, once director of the U.S. Postal Service team, has said he will fight the charges at an arbitration hearing with USADA later this year.
Neither Bruyneel nor Dr. Luis del Moral have ever been charged with a crime. Both deny the allegations, though Tyler Hamilton tells a very different story. He says after stage 11 of the 2000 Tour de France, he, Lance Armstrong and Kevin Livingston had their blood reinfused. Everything was handled by the team's management.
HAMILTON: We were in this small hotel. It was pretty wild. I arrived in my room, and there was, you know, the staff had sort of prepared everything, the doctors, and there was a blood bag up -- taped up on the wall, hanging from the wall, and a red tube coming down -- a red -- a tube filled with blood coming down.
And basically, you know, injected me here. I have pretty small veins, so the one place that always worked was right there. And it's -- you can see the scars today.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Tyler Hamilton says the three riders lay on beds in adjoining rooms with an open door between them.
MCDERMOTT: Could you see Lance Armstrong?
HAMILTON: Yes. Yes. You know, that's a question that's been asked a lot. Yes, I saw him. I saw his bag of blood and saw it in his arm, yes.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): They were taking a huge gamble.
HAMILTON: I'm just -- I'm glad we didn't get caught. You know, I would have been -- we all would have been -- serious stuff. And like now looking back, oh, my God, what was I doing? But you're so deep into it, you know, you don't even have time to take a half-step back and look at the big picture.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): In 2005, Lance Armstrong denied under oath ever having received a blood transfusion.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You've never used your own blood for doping purposes, for example?
LANCE ARMSTRONG, PRO CYCLIST: That would be banned.
He did not deny. This may come up in the perjury trial.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. I'm not trying to agitate you. I'm just trying to make sure your testimony is clear.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK? All right.
DR. MICHAEL ASHENDEN, SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY AGAINST BLOOD DOPING: The whole point of blood doping is to increase the number of red cells in your circulation. The blood transfusions have the advantage of not being detectable, even today. We don't have a foolproof method of establishing when an athlete has reinfused their own blood.
MCDERMOTT: So does that mean that athletes now and cyclists now are transfusing their own blood back into themselves?
ASHENDEN: There's no doubt. There's no doubt that's happening.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): In 2005, Lance Armstrong won an unprecedented seventh straight victory in the Tour de France, then left the stage to huge acclaim. But a month later, the EPO which Motoman had delivered during his first tour delivery came back to haunt him.
In a sensational scoop in the French newspaper L'Equipe, Lance Armstrong was accused of lying about performance enhancing drugs.
DAMIEN RESSIOT, JOURNALIST: "Le Monsonge Armstrong," in French, it means that, yes, is a liar, but all history is a liar. All history. Yes, a double sense in French.
MCDERMOTT: What was the reaction?
Damien Ressiot, an investigative journalist for L'Equipe, had written a story claiming the newspaper had proof that Lance Armstrong took EPO during the 1999 Tour de France.
RESSIOT (from captions): His victory, and I am very clear on this, was "dirty." By this, I mean that here at L'Equipe, we established that he won the 1999 Tour de France using EPO. That's indisputable . It's been scientifically proven.
He didn't want to discuss it when I wrote the story and when I published my investigation, there was no legal action. We know that Mr. Armstrong always has 20 lawyers around him by they didn't try to sue L'Equipe or me. The only thing he said was, "It's not true. I never took EPO." That's all. But we know and it's been demonstrated that he took EPO in 1999.
MCDERMOTT: Lance Armstrong swears he has never taken performance enhancing drugs and that in over 500 tests throughout his career he never once tested positive. But the stronger scientific evidence that he was doping comes from this highly specialized French laboratory.
Testers here found clear evidence of EPO in samples which were later identified as Lance Armstrong's.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): During the '99 tour which Armstrong won, urine samples from the riders were sent to this lab on the outskirts of Paris to be tested.
MCDERMOTT: So what is this room?
FRANCOISE LASNE, NATIONAL ANTI-DOPING AGENCY, FRANCE: This room is the EPO room. In this room we perform the anti-doping analysis for review.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): At the time, a test for EPO was still not ready.
LASNE: -- for the EPO test.
The test for detection of EPO was developed in this laboratory. So I personally performed the development of this test. And it took a very long time; it took about six years to develop this test, and it was ready in 2000.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Four years later, as part of the lab's research but not as part of a formal testing process, the 1999 samples were reexamined, and some were found to contain the banned drug.
Six samples given by Lance Armstrong were found to contain EPO.
MCDERMOTT: Why was it only revealed years later that these samples belonged to Lance Armstrong?
ASHENDEN: It was only a coincidence of events. A journalist requested from the cycling governing body, the UCI, to have access to some of Lance Armstrong's doping control forms.
The UCI voluntarily gave all of Armstrong's forms from that race to the journalist, who then cross-matched the LED numbers that were on those forms with the samples that had been analyzed quite separately by the laboratory, and he was the one that matched the Led numbers to the samples that contained EPO.
The lines here are a delineation --
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Mike Ashenden is a former independent expert for the UCI, who helped develop a blood test for EPO for the Sydney Olympics. MCDERMOTT: Which of these samples belongs to Lance Armstrong?
ASHENDEN: Well, if we go to the doping control form, we see 160297, and that corresponds with this sample here, 160297. And we see that for that sample there was 100 percent basic isoforms, which tells us that the system was flooded with synthetic EPO when that sample was provided.
MCDERMOTT: So and at what stage in the tour was that taken?
ASHENDEN: That was the prologue; that was the first day of the '99 tour.
MCDERMOTT: Is there any doubt in your mind that the positive results for EPO were scientifically correct?
LASNE: Yes, they are scientifically correct.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you know whether or not the samples --
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): When questioned about this under oath, Lance Armstrong put forward an alternative explanation.
ARMSTRONG: I can only believe that they either are not mine or have been manipulated because, when I pissed in the bottle, as I told you earlier, having never taken performance enhancing drugs, when I pissed in the bottle there was not EPO in that piss or urine.
MCDERMOTT: Lance Armstrong, when he criticized those results, alleged that maybe those samples had been spiked or manipulated. Is there any truth in that?
LASNE: No. It's no sense because it -- analyses were performed for our research.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): In 2005, an investigation by the French newspaper L'Equipe revealed that six of Lance Armstrong's blood samples from the 1999 Tour de France contained the banned substance EPO. But cycling's governing body, the UCI, took no action against Armstrong.
ASHENDEN: Rather than open their doors and say, let's try and understand what's going on here inside of our sport, they instead, as far as I could work out, tried to shut the case down.
MCDERMOTT: Should the UCI have acted on those results?
DICK POUND, FORMER PRESIDENT, WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY: In my view? Of course they should have. They had the power to say, all right, you doped, you're out. MCDERMOTT (voice-over): On one other occasion, the UCI chose not to act.
In 2001, Tyler Hamilton alleges Lance Armstrong tested positive for EPO.
HAMILTON: Luckily, we had the right people on our side.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): The test occurred during that year's Tour of Switzerland. Tyler Hamilton says Lance Armstrong's adviser on doping, the Italian Dr. Michele Ferrari, had told Armstrong to take microdoses of EPO to ensure he didn't test positive. USADA says that, in all, Lance Armstrong paid Dr. Ferrari more than $1 million for his doping advice.
But on this occasion, it went wrong.
HAMILTON: He told me he had a positive test for EPO, which was very surprising, because it seemed like it was foolproof.
ASHENDEN: My understanding is that a sample had been provided and analyzed by the laboratory and they had found that there was evidence of synthetic EPO in that sample.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): While Ferrari denies all allegations against him, he has been banned for life by USADA. The UCI says Tyler Hamilton's claims about the 2001 test result are completely unfounded.
But less than a year after the Tour of Switzerland, Lance Armstrong wrote a personal check to the UCI for $25,000 and he pledged a further $100,000 in 2005.
In his sworn evidence, Armstrong's recollection of his donations was vague.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You have made a contribution or donation to the UCI, have you not?
ARMSTRONG: I have, yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you know when that was made?
ARMSTRONG: Some years ago. I don't recall exactly.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 2000, for example?
ARMSTRONG: I don't know.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Was it -- was there anything that occasioned that, that you recall? Like I'm doing it because of X or Y or Z?
ARMSTRONG: I'm doing it to fund the fight against doping.
ASHENDEN: For an athlete to be paying money to the people who police him is -- it's unconscionable. POUND: To have somebody who's at the center of the controversy make this kind of a donation to the organization that has the power to sanction him, it sets up an impossible conflict of interest.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Lance Armstrong is not alone among drug cheats. Since 1998, more than a third of the top 10 finishers in the Tour de France have been linked to doping.
But the will of the UCI to shut down the doping networks has been doubted by many.
Joerg Jaksche is a former cyclist who questions the UCI's commitment to stamp out systematic doping in the pelleton's top teams. From his earliest days as a professional, he was told how the system works.
JOERG JAKSCHE, FORMER PRO CYCLIST: Everyone on our team does it, the team pays for it. And, yes, so I was confronted with the situation, that there is organized doping in cycling.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Joerg Jaksche and Tyler Hamilton's careers hit the skids when, in 2006, Spanish police conducted a raid on a doctor in Madrid and found blood bags, drugs and paperwork implicating them and other cyclists.
Joerg Jaksche had raced with several different teams. But when he met the UCI to tell them everything he knew, he says they failed to act on his detailed revelations.
JAKSCHE : As far as I know, no one of my team managers, of my team doctors got questioned by the UCI. There was no written accusation, nothing. It's like having a deceased body, a dead body in your basement. It stinks a little bit after a while and it's going to come up more and more and more.
And one day, the police is going to find it and the information is there. The UCI did very little or nothing about it. So it's their problem if the basement stinks.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Just recently, the UCI finally took action, stripping Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles. Now more than ever, it's not about the bike, it's about the truth.
HAMILTON: I was kicking and screaming when I had to tell the truth. But little did I know it was the best thing I ever could have done.
B. ANDREU: What Lance never had was the truth, which is more powerful than the corrupt athlete.
ARMSTRONG: How could it have taken place?
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Whether Lance Armstrong will ever confess to doping remains to be seen. In 2005, his denials were passionate.
ARMSTRONG: How many times do I have to say it?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm just trying to make sure your testimony is clear.
ARMSTRONG: Well, if it can't be any clearer than I've never taken drugs, then incidents like that could have never happened.
ARMSTRONG: How clear is that?
TILLOTSON: It was really hard for us to tell if Lance actually believed what he was telling and had convinced himself that he hadn't done these things or that he was just a very persuasive liar.
MCDERMOTT (voice-over): Attorney Jeff Tillotson and the insurer are demanding the return of the bonus money paid to Armstrong, even threatening further legal action.
Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his titles, high-profile sponsorships, much of his prize money and leadership role at Livestrong. But he says he's moving on and will not be distracted from his work with Livestrong and the fight to beat cancer. The stakes could hardly be higher.
LIGGETT: I know the power of this man when he walks into the room, and I know the hope he gives cancer survivors. I mean, I don't know if he is proved to be -- to have taken drugs, how he can face any of these people, because, I mean, he can call up Barack Obama, he has his cell phone number on his cell phone.
And how can you call up these people knowing that you've taken drugs all your life to cheat to seven tours? It's a problem I wouldn't want.
ARMSTRONG: If you have a doping offense or you test positive, it goes without saying that you're fired from all of your contracts, not just the team. But there's numerous contracts that I have that would all go away.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sponsorship agreements, for example?
ARMSTRONG: All of them. And the faith of all the cancer survivors (inaudible) -- everything I do off the bike would go away, too. And don't think for a second I don't understand that.
It's not about money for me. Everything. It's also about the faith that people have put in me over the years. All of that would be erased. So I don't need it to say in a contract, you're fired if you test positive. That's not as important as losing the support of hundreds of millions of people.
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: In a written statement, Armstrong's lawyers assert that testimony to USADA from key witnesses contradicts what they had previously testified to under oath and that witnesses testified only after they knew they wouldn't be subject to cross- examination. USADA responds by saying that Armstrong is just trying to attempt to continue to cover up but that the evidence has revealed the truth about his doping. To read the USADA report and Armstrong's full statement, go to CNN.com.
11 comments:
I have very few "heroes"..Lance was one of them. Now I am deeply saddened, and disappointed.
- October 31, 2012 at 9:40 AM
- equinox said...
This is the first time I have seen the comment that PEDs may have been what caused Lance's cancer to begin with. I've never met someone who beat their cancer and then went back to the habit that got them sick. I've seen lots of smokers continue to smoke, but not a one of them beat their lung cancer.
I dated a pro football player for a while. His knees were blown out by his sport. Doctors said the only thing they could do for the pain was to amputate. He had to live with it. He used to say he wouldn't trade his pro career for anything, but he died from the pain in his early forties.
For Lance and his teammates to steal their false glory and to bury the true achievements of honest competitors, many who's careers are over and can never find their true acclaim despite their sacrifices at the time (and into the future as their bodies fail them) is unforgivable. - October 31, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Lance Armstrong is a god in his own mind. He says it isn't about the money it is about the millions of people who have faith in him.
Lance just gave the world the reason why he lied. He didn't want to lose the adulation of millions.
What I particularly don't like about the man isn't that he lied, in a sport chock full of drug use, but rather his personal vindictiveness against people who dared to take a stand against him and his 'story'. He was ruthless to these people. - October 31, 2012 at 10:10 AM
My understanding of the article is that the donations Lance Armstrong made to the hospital in Indiana and to the UCI came out of the Livestrong foundation not personal accounts. If so, that means he stole from his donors which makes him doubly loathsome in my opinion.
- October 31, 2012 at 10:15 AM
- Lemon said...
bonus points for "doubly loathsome".
PS- I am not Don Lemon. - October 31, 2012 at 11:29 AM
- Hobnob said...
Lemon said...
bonus points for "doubly loathsome".
PS- I am not Don Lemon.
No, if you were we would be waking up with an apple core in our beds.
Happy Halloween one and all today i can roam without my mask on and people love my costume.
~coff coff wheeze~
(i must practice my maniacal cackling a bit more)
- October 31, 2012 at 3:17 PM
Off topic:
An "anti Dede Spicher" page has been set up on Facebook. It has lots of statements by her cousin, Tom Jones, and screen shots of statements made by Dede herself with respect to Kyron's case. Fodder for analysis. I came on this site because of Kyron's case, so I hope somebody bites. Thanks. - October 31, 2012 at 4:22 PM
- Hobnob said...
Hi Anon, Happy halloween.
Do you have the URL for the FB page please?
Thanks - October 31, 2012 at 5:39 PM
- equinox said...
This maybe?:
ArrestTerriMoultonHormanTODAY - October 31, 2012 at 7:19 PM
- Hobnob said...
Thanks Equinox
- October 31, 2012 at 7:52 PM
- Kris said...
I, like many I have spoken to had faith in Lance Armstrong until the end. For some reason, even though I know he is lying it is hard to bring myself to accept that someone could be as ruthless and cold hearted as he. Thank you for this site, it has opened my eyes on many things and always gives me cause to leave my mind open..
- November 1, 2012 at 9:26 AM


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Added the AfterCreateTable and BeforeDropTable functions to be called after creating a table and before dropping a table respectively.
Implemented the ListTableKeys and GetTableKeyDefinition functions.
Added support for the DropDetailed function.
Added support for the CreateDetailedTable function return the SQL statements that it would execute in check mode.
Added support to create tables with primary keys and autoincrement fields.
Used PHP open tag <?php ?p>.
Implemented the functions to reverse engineer the indexes and sequences.
Added the functions ListTables, ListTableFields, GetTableFieldDefinition and ListSequences.
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