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PRETORIA, South Africa— In a courtroom, not an Olympic stadium, there was no click-click-click of Oscar Pistorius' prosthetic limbs. His only sound Friday was loud, uncontrollable sobs as prosecutors charged him with premeditated murder in the shooting death of his model girlfriend.
"Take it easy," Chief Magistrate Desmond Nasir told the Olympic star-turned-murder-defendant as his father, Henke, and his brother, Carl, reached out to touch his shoulder to comfort him.
The 26-year-old Pistorius, the double-amputee sprinter who won world acclaim by competing in last summer's London Olympics, did not speak or enter a plea. He held his head and wept as he heard the charge, which carries a life sentence.
A statement released later by his family and agent said Pistorius disputed the murder charge "in the strongest terms."
The track star's arrest in the Valentine's Day killing of 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp shocked South Africa, where Pistorius was a national hero dubbed the Blade Runner for his high-tech prosthetics and revered for overcoming his disability to compete in the London Games.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel said he would pursue a charge of premeditated murder against Pistorius in the slaying of Steenkamp, a leggy blonde model with a law degree who had spoken out on Twitter against rape and abuse of women.
She was discovered in a pool of blood before dawn Thursday by police called to Pistorius' upscale home in a gated community in the South African capital of Pretoria. Authorities said she had been shot four times, and a 9 mm pistol was recovered at the home.
Throngs of reporters, photographers and videographers filled the brick-walled Courtroom C in Pretoria Magistrate's Court, where Pistorius appeared. Nasir's first ruling focused on the press as he dismissed requests from the state broadcaster and a private television station to air the hearing live.
Nasir also ordered that no photographs be taken while court was in session. That left dozens of photographers kneeling less than a yard from the sobbing Pistorius to simply stare at a man many had photographed previously sprinting on his famous carbon-fiber blades.
Police said investigators had conducted an autopsy on Steenkamp's body but the results would not be released.
Pistorius' family left quickly after the hearing, without speaking to journalists. In a statement later Friday, the family and his London-based management agency questioned the criminal charge the athlete faces.
"The alleged murder is disputed in the strongest terms," the statement said, without elaborating. It added that Pistorius wanted to "send his deepest sympathies to the family of Reeva."
"He would also like to express his thanks through us today for all the messages of support he has received — but as stated our thoughts and prayers today should be for Reeva and her family — regardless of the circumstances of this terrible, terrible tragedy," the statement read.
Since news of the slaying, shock waves have rippled across South Africa, a nation of 50 million where nearly 50 people are killed each day, one of the world's highest murder rates. U.N. statistics say the nation has the second highest rate of shooting deaths in the world, behind only Colombia.
Many wore black Friday to demonstrate against the high levels of violence against women in the country.
Others focused their attention on Pistorius and his fascination with fast cars, cage fighting and firearms.
Those who knew Pistorius, including a former girlfriend, weighed in on social media.
Trish Taylor, mother of Pistorius' ex-girlfriend, Samantha Taylor, wrote on Facebook: "I'm so glad Sammy is safe and out of the clutches of that man."
But another ex-girlfriend, Jenna Edkins, took to Twitter to defend him.
"All I am saying is let him speak, let his side be heard without jumping to conclusions," she tweeted, offering "love and support" to the Pistorius family.
"I have dated Oscar on and off for 5 YEARS, NOT ONCE has he EVER lifted a finger to me or made me fear for my life."
At the defense request, the chief magistrate delayed a bail hearing until Tuesday for Pistorius, who was ordered held in a police holding cell, rather than transferred to a prison.
In seeking a premeditated murder charge against Pistorius, prosecutors appear to be claiming they have evidence the athlete planned the killing ahead of time, said William Booth, a prominent Cape Town defense lawyer.
Such a serious charge makes it more difficult for Pistorius to successfully apply for bail, Booth said, though it could also be a challenge to get a conviction.
"It's quite difficult to prove that in a situation where there isn't a witness," the defense lawyer said. "If I just plan it in my mind and I arrive at somebody's house and there's no witnesses and I shoot the person, it's really tough for the prosecution to show that planning."
Pistorius made history at the London Olympics last year when he became the first double-amputee track athlete to compete at any games. He didn't win a medal but did make the semifinals of the 400 meters and the final of the 4X400 relay, propelling the world's best-known Paralympian to the level of an international track star and one of the world's best-known sportsmen.


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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
So the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rendered its decision in the Floyd Landis case. Saying that his charges were "unfounded," the court delivered a shocking rebuke to the Landis defense.
The 3-0 decision found no merit at all in Landis' defense which is surprising given that even the American Arbitration Association (AAA) panel uniformly agreed that there were problems with the work performed by the French National Anti-Doping Laboratory at Chatenay-Malabry (LNDD), though ultimately they weren't considered enough to exonerate him. You may recall that the panel found the LNDD had performed the initial test resulting the non-negative testosterone-epitestosterone result poorly enough to disallow the finding. It also stated that it might be difficult to find athletes guilty in the future should the LNDD continue to perform work in a manner other than specified by the World Anti-Doping Authority (WADA).
Bluntly put, CAS would not have thrown out the initial T:E result. The panel stated in its decision the lab was guilty of nothing more than "minor procedural imperfections." One could be forgiven for thinking of Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Newman presiding over the proceedings with a "What, me worry?" bubble above his head.
The head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Travis Tygart, was quoted saying, "We did a full review of the evidence from the start. Before we brought charges in this case, every day we reviewed the evidence we had and asked the same question, 'does this point to a doping violation?' We were comfortable that we had the case when we started."
This statement simply isn't supported by the facts of the proceeding. Tygart never questioned the validity of the test results that lead to Landis' prosecution; rather than mount an inquiry for the truth, Tygart and USADA worked to defend the LNDD.
I've read the full transcript of the AAA hearing at Pepperdine Law School in Malibu, California. More than 1000 pages. I don't see how a reasonable, rational person who doesn't have agenda can come to a conclusion other than Floyd Landis wasn't caught doping. That doesn't necessarily mean he was innocent, but if he was doing something, LNDD didn't find it. That's fundamentally the problem with the outcome; the truth got swept aside in the rush to get a conviction.
Landis' next step (Surely you didn't think the plus-size gal had had her moment on stage?) would be to challenge the outcome in U.S. federal court. Such a move has been hinted at in the past by Landis' attorney, Maurice Suh. This move may be in doubt given that the panel took the extraordinary step of assessing Landis $100,000 of USADA's defense costs as a penalty for "the unprecedented scope and intensity of the technical challenges" the defense raised despite the fact that they had been rejected in the first proceeding.
This is a punishment for style, not substance, and that goes against everything Americans understand the judicial process to be.
If athletes who appeal a conviction are punished for, in essence, appealing the conviction, this outcome will have a very chilling effect on any athlete attempting to defend him or herself against doping charges, whether or not the lab work was performed correctly.
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I agree. I poured over every bit of evidence publicly available in this case and can only concluded that the charging entities have adduced no credible evidence whatsoever that Landis doped.
To the contrary, looking at all the circumstances reported by the media, I cannot help but conclude that, after Landis charged back into the lead of the Tour after having lost it -- a very common occurrence in pre-doping days -- the Tour organizers concluded that Landis must be a doper -- which is counter-intuitive, as a doper would not have had the bad day in the first place -- and pressured the LAb for a positive result. The Lab, which first found nothing in Landis' blind sample, then targeted Landis' sample (no minor procedural irregularity) and prematurely announced a subjective positive result (which was recreated only after numerous subsequently) tries. Worst of all, the so-called positive simply wasn't -- not according to the standards of any other lab accredited by professional cycling.
So here we have it. Lance, who tested positive for using EPO in the '99 Tour (a point that the supposedly "exnoreating" report does not deny or cast serious doubt upon) is lauded as a hero and Landis, who has been railroad, is the goat. Apparently, Landis forgot to plead "cancer survivor" and wrap himself in the Star and Bars. - July 1, 2008 at 4:16:00 AM CDT
these are strong words, and a not unimportant point of view in the cycling world. black or white, no gray areas here.
as much as i enjoy bkw, i wonder as to the identities of who really are "padraig" and "radio freddy".
postings like these, should not be thrown about without attribution.
does anyone else know (or care to know?) the identities of these gentlemen? with important postings on a sport we all love, it would be nice to know who we are addressing, who's work we are reading. - July 1, 2008 at 6:11:00 AM CDT
I'll be upfront I think Landis is guilty. So you can stop reading now. I must also say as an Australian we collectively do not have a good record when it comes to doping. In swimming if someone else dopes they are cheats, if an Australian dopes it is an innocent mistake or the test is wrong.
I don't understand the logic of your blog. As I understand it, you point out at the beginning that the AAA found that the procedural problems in testing which were not enough to invalidate the finding of doping and CAS confirmed this result. My understanding from reading cyclingnew.com is that CAS merely confirmed the finding of the AAA.
It seem that after making this point you seem to ignore it totally and jump to a position based on your own understanding of the evidence which is that Landis is not only not guilty but also innocent.
So what you are really saying if I understand you correctly is that you know Landis is innocent and that the AAA and CAS got it wrong. So rather than say that you suggest that this is somehow about the truth because you have read the transcripts of the hearing.
What I would like to know is where is your expertise in analysis of evidence and your experience in adjudicating on doping charges that makes you so confident that of your assessment and dismissive of the AAA and CAS? Why should I trust you, I am not a scientific expert, why is your science more believable that the AAA or CAS?
I trust the AAA and CAS to consider the evidence in front of them and to get the correct result based on the evidence. The people on CAS are not novices at this; they know what they are doing and I assume that they would have no desire to support a doubtful decision by the AAA. To me CAS supporting the wrong decision by the AAA would only weaken CAS's own creditability.
On the matter of trust except for one or two notable examples (e.g. David Miller) what doper has said 'Yep, I did it' at the time? The only person who really knows if he did it is Landis and I know what his position is, and from every profile on him that I have read since the TDF I find that the profilers don't know if he is telling the truth or not. I don't know.
I don't know about the law in the US but in Australia it is common practice in civil cases like this for those appealing a judgment to a higher court to pay cost if they loose. As I understand it US law is not too dissimilar in general to Australian law in that its roots are in English law. So I wonder if it is really fair to play the UN-AMERICAN card because Landis has to pay costs? If Landis had won and got cost and you thought that the AAA was right would you think it un-American?
The key point as I understand it from reading about Landis is that his case is that the whole process is unfair. Like all good conspiracy theories unless you are proven correct the conspiracy theory remains, it can never be disproven. - July 1, 2008 at 6:37:00 AM CDT
- Jim said...
If mere press accounts of the procedural flaws in the case against Landis, Carsten Lundby's just-released study on cyclists and EPO, as well as the efficacy of certified dope testing labs will stop you in your tracks. At best the labs are unreliable. At worst, their results are simply a fabulist's false assurances that the tests can be trusted. The portion of Lundby's study dealing with the labs' reliability (admittedly a small sample) is shocking.
Articles in PresS. J Appl Physiol (June 26, 2008). doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.90529.2008
Landis has done us a favor by shining a light on the lack of due process given accused athletes. No US court would accept the blithe assurances of anti-doping officials that a botched chain of custody is insignificant. As Vrijman noted in his study of WADA's enforcement activities, there is a lack of procedural integrity that renders the effort untrustworthy.
The NBA is discovering this with the Tim Donaghy referee point-shaving scandal. He was involved in some of the most controversial games of the last decade, in which he made seemingly inexplicable foul calls. The NBA didn't deal with it well, and responds to criticisms of other refs making clearly erroneous and game changing calls with stonewalling. As a result, conspiracy theories about the NBA being rigged are now common.
The point of that is that for anti-doping initiatives to be effective, they must be credible. Adjudicating alleged infractions before a capricious kangaroo court whose judges are given to making ex cathedra comments revealing a strong presumption of guilt is not the way to do it.
By all means, let's get rid of the dopers. But let's find a way to do it that holds up to rational scrutiny. The present system isn't even good frontier justice - at least frontier justice is bold enough to be unashamed of its own summary judgments of the accused. The sketchy process now provided to athletes - which is extensive, but not effective at protecting anybody's rights - is merely a fig leaf for a timid form of frontier justice that is ashamed to admit that its purpose is to railroad the accused. It is sad to watch because each time an athlete is able to surface questionable testing methods, the anti-doping cause is undercut just a little bit more. Act capriciously, lose the authority we accord you. It's pretty simple, as long as you believe that the governed ought to have some say in the manner by which the governance body operates. I guess if you're comfortable with divine right monarchy or other forms of unaccountable oligarchy, you don't see anything wrong with the process and want to unmask and intimidate the critics. Fair enough.
Oh yeah, and for what it's worth, I'm personally convinced Floyd is guilty as sin, but still think that doesn't justify us forming a virtual lynch mob to take him down. - July 1, 2008 at 8:02:00 AM CDT
- Bluenoser said...
I'm no lawyer but I do love our sport and feel bad when this keeps getting all the press.
Remember Ben Johnson? He seemed to start it all and cried innocent and then flip flopped and pointed fingers every which way. He cost us Canadian tax payers a lot of cash in investigations and commissions when we can't even send a cyclist coach to the Olympics with her.
I think it's Dick Pounds revenge for not making him the president like he thought he would be. Nothing like a bitter man with an axe to grind.
It doesn't matter to me who padraig or radio freddy are. So far we are still allowed to have our opinions and if I don't want to read them well no one is forcing me.
-B - July 1, 2008 at 8:51:00 AM CDT
This whole thing is the OJ Simpson case, set against a backdrop of cycling, instead of race, gender, and power.
Am I pretty damn sure he did it? Yep.
Am I equally certain the lab f'ed it up beyond all hope. Yep.
The whole thing is offensive to the American sense of fair play and justice.
But then, Tyler Hamilton and Lance both should have come clean too. But they never will. - July 1, 2008 at 10:26:00 AM CDT
I strongly suspect that Padraig is Patrick Brady, ex- of Bicycle Guide and Asphalt Magazine. Padraig has a similar writing style and has mentioned some of the same locations around Amherst, MA that Brady mentioned in Bicycle Guide.
Given that the subject here largely concerns honesty and integrity, it might be worth mentioning that my subscription dollars for the latter disappeared, along with those of many others. - July 1, 2008 at 10:38:00 AM CDT
Why should I care again ?
How is Landis testing positive or not going to change my life ? Is it going to make me a faster bike rider ? Is it going to make me love riding my bike anymore?
I can't believe you actually read 1000 pages of this report. Get a life! You should have spent that time instead doing something that would have actually brought meaning to your life.
Pro Cycling is dead. Dead to me. I stopped watching and caring years ago.
Bike riding is what you do, not what you watch.
It's Canada Day here. I am going to go and ride my bike. - July 1, 2008 at 10:39:00 AM CDT
Marshall Taylor -
When exactly were the "pre-doping days"? - July 1, 2008 at 10:45:00 AM CDT
Has anyone tried to deny the finding that Landis had exogeneous (if that is the term for non body produced) testosterone? You can say what you will about various anti doping tests, but a mass spectrophotometer is hard to argue with, and, as I understand it, that test found testosterone that wasn't his.
- July 1, 2008 at 10:47:00 AM CDT
everybody's a fucking critic. you guys make an entertaining site that at its worst, invited folks to think about what they think... rather than to agree with what's written... and idiots stack on criticism like they have to be tickled just right for it to be valid.
you and freddy keep up the good work. i don't always agree with the pov, but i love having the chance to discover that for myself along the way.
keep it up. as for floyd... well... it is what it is. life is like that. the personal toll must be unbearable .. but you know, there is a whole life to be had away from this stupid perfect sport... and just like love, its timing. its a really shit era to be riding for a living.
noel. - July 1, 2008 at 11:23:00 AM CDT
I love BKW but it's time to acknowledge the facts. After reviewing expert testimony, two panels found, 5-1, that Landis doped. If the lab is so shoddy, or engaged in a conspiracy, where are the other false positives?
Time to move along. - July 1, 2008 at 11:41:00 AM CDT
Like this site and like Floyd (at least Floyd the rider). But, it's reckless to say that Floyd is being punished for appealing the conviction due to the $100k award against him.
I read the entire CAS ruling. In the part about the $100k award, the panel makes it very clear that they are charging him for intentionally acting in an petty, destructive way rather than in a way that would provide evidence to support his position. They site, for example, the fact that Floyd's team insisted that USADA bring 10 witnesses to New York for the procedings (as opposed to being available by conf call), yet did not not question any of them. It was clear from this action and his statements about trying to "bring down" the doping establishment that his tactics were to force USADA to spend a ton of money out of spite, not out of a desire to defend himself.
The USADA had counterclaimed to CAS for the entire legal cost of the CAS arbitration (over $1M). Floyd was aware of this counterclaim and the possibility that it or a portion of it would be awarded when he brought the action to CAS. The panel rejected the notion that Floyd should cover the USADA's cost of the CAS case, except for the most puntative actions that HE took designed to do nothing but drive up the costs to the USADA.
Whether you believe Landis or not, you have to say that his behavior and that of his team has been very poor. The CAS panel also cited his attorney, for example, for repeating the very serious charges of fraud and plagerism at the lab without any substantiation, even after the panel requested specific evidence and after Floyd's own expert witness backed off his statements of fraud. Throw in the unfair way he treated LeMond and it's not hard to see why there are those who would be unsympathetic to his cause. - July 1, 2008 at 12:17:00 PM CDT
- Padraig said...
BKW is not about Padraig or Radio Freddy. That's precisely why we chose pseudonyms. BKW is about the sport we all love. We try to focus on the universality of the experience and the appeal of clean racing. We love it with all its bumps and bruises.
We look at these things the same as you, our readers. We are fans, not professional cyclists and we're entitled to have an opinion. While BKW is not "journalism" as such, we do hold ourselves to certain standards that we hope make the reading more worthwhile. We are not tied to obligations to sponsors or advertisers. We are guided by our mutual interest and respect for other cyclists. Nothing covert or "shrill" about it. - July 1, 2008 at 1:26:00 PM CDT
- bikesgonewild said...
..."i disapprove of what you say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it"...voltaire...
...basically the disingenuous rips on & attempts at "outing" bkw's writers is pure, small minded tripe...an opinion was presented in regard to a real life situation...if you disagree, it doesn't make you right or wrong & neither does it make bkw right or wrong, it simply means there is in fact, a difference of opinion...
...if there were irrefutable evidence, the landis case would have been 'cut & dried' & resolved long ago...there are & always will remain questionable concerns & actions on the the part of literally everyone involved...
...face it, you will never know the truth, no matter what your opinion...
...the final "ruling" doesn't offer the much awaited truth, it simply offers just that, a final ruling...& one, that in my opinion was designed to "protect" the sport but does nothing to that end... - July 1, 2008 at 2:42:00 PM CDT
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- July 1, 2008 at 2:43:00 PM CDT
- jza said...
After all,
there is NOTHING more pro than a lengthy appeals process. - July 1, 2008 at 2:44:00 PM CDT
if you believe Floyd, does that mean you have to believe Tyler Hamilton?
especially now that the credibility of the EPO test has been questioned. - July 1, 2008 at 3:27:00 PM CDT
- Padraig said...
Regarding innocence and believing: Despite the fact that I believe the problems illustrated in Landis' AAA hearing at Pepperdine show that an adverse cannot be supported, I don't believe that "proves" Landis innocent. Based on the evidence presented, I don't think anyone can come to the conclusion that the LNDD found too great a T:E ratio or exogenous testosterone. That's all. My personal feelings about Landis and whether or not he may or may not have doped aren't relevant.
As to whether I or anyone else should "Believe Tyler," that's a personal decision. The science involved in determining whether or not a second blood population is contained within a sample is to testing for exogenous testosterone what Lincoln Logs are to skyscrapers. Anyone remember the Sesame Street game "One of these things is not like the other"? Not quite the same thing as evaluating individual ions.
Tyler's argument was that there was no provision for a false positive, and in that he had a point. There's a statistical chance that he's innocent. There's also a statistical chance that you'll win the lottery and retire to Tahiti, but most folks haven't put their house on the market just yet. - July 1, 2008 at 4:42:00 PM CDT
- LegFarm said...
anon 3:27:00 PM EDT
EPO testing credibility
take it for what it says and if you wish to look for the background studies and form an opinion please do so.
in all of this remember that right or wrong this is sport. on a fundamental level sport is about entertainment and money. So, try to enjoy the parts that are meaningful to you and try to understand the process behind the ugly parts so that your enjoyment is of the sport and not the background.
as it has been said informally and often "hate the player, not the game"
ride well and enjoy the spectacle. - July 1, 2008 at 4:53:00 PM CDT
- LegFarm said...
that link didn't post in its entirety
&ei=5087%0A - July 1, 2008 at 4:54:00 PM CDT
- Erik W. Laursen said...
It is all very troubling. The simple facts are that cyclists are being held to a different standard than the labs. This is fact whether you think Landis doped or not. If, for you, the issue is: Did Landis dope? - then you have an answer. If the issue is the big problem of doping an ferreting it out, then you do not have resolution.
Frankly, the whole things make me sad. - July 1, 2008 at 6:12:00 PM CDT
The crusk of this biscuit is that the doping industry (those who invent, manipulate, propagate and then "market" these chemical products) are light years ahead of the testing labs and the like. Only now do we have the ability to test and find trace substances like EPO and the like, 10 -15 years after they were used almost carte blanche. Doesn't that say something about the sophistication of the chemists/ industry who are developing these drugs?? They are likely to be developing permutation number 44446768 this week. Do we actually think that these chemicals are boiled up in a tiny outdoor laboratory and filtered down to athletes by a back yard outfit? These enhancers are not created by accident. They can research, develop and manipulate these chemicals because they have access to large amounts of money and reap rewards that make the risks acceptable to them.
Then some one who stands accused gets some well paid suits to take apart the custody chain/ procedures. So some lab rat in Paris left a sample un-covered in a lab whilst he/she had a toilet break or the likes and some dark sinister shadow came into the secured building and sprinkled fairy dust over the samples. "I have never tested positive to a known substance", ho hum. Yeah I can believe that too. Get the guilty dopers to rat on the people who they got them from and chase the chain back to the people making them. Focus on the result and do not get lost on the distractions - July 1, 2008 at 8:06:00 PM CDT
It's pretty hard to believe anything Tyler says after seeing this and hearing his continual denials:
http://www.velonews.com/photo/35172 - July 1, 2008 at 8:37:00 PM CDT
Floyd Landis = guilty as charged. Anyone who watched the stage that day can't realistically deny that he was doped. Look at his actions after the stage. They were very bizarre....
- July 1, 2008 at 8:53:00 PM CDT
- Jim said...
and idiots stack on criticism like they have to be tickled just right for it to be valid.
Sure. I've been a white collar crimes cop, and as an attorney have prosecuted and defended criminal cases, including lab fraud cases, and litigated civil cases involving complex technical issues. What would I know about due process in in testing cases like Floyd's? Nothing, apparently, compared to anonymous guys on the internet.
I do recognize veiled threats and intimidation, however, and think it's pretty lame to do that, very sophomoric at best, though that's an insult to 15 year-olds. - July 1, 2008 at 9:32:00 PM CDT
As a biochemist with years of actual laboratory experience, I can, in my personal opinion, say that the results of Landis' alleged positive sample are totally inadmissable as far as carry scientific merit is concerned.
Working in the pharmaceutical industry, where patents are protected by procedure, protocol and documentation you gain a great appreciation for clear and concise notation and labeling, handling of samples, not cross-contaminating sample and most importantly handling biologicals in such a way that the integrity of the sample, and by extension, the intergrity of the data obtained from that sample is not called into question.
The only way this is possible is to work to the industry standard and it is obvious that the work done at the lab in question was either done by college freshmen or technicians who clearly didn't care about the integrity of the data they were generating.
From there, the case is over in my mind; if the data is, at best, inconclusive to vague, you can't proceed. Period.
My personal opinion on the matter, not withstanding the morality of doping etc, is that the Landis affair was a snow job. Not necessarily a tin-foil conspiracy but the execution of an agenda; WADA et al had something to cling to and they were going to prove a point; the fact that they railroaded standards of practice, the intended need for objectivity and the basic rules of procedure is simply something the couldn't be bothered with.
The addition 100K fine is exactly that, a punishment for appeal; since when has the execution of the innocent until proven guilty doctrine become an offense? - July 1, 2008 at 9:47:00 PM CDT
a question...I've actually forgot at this point.
Were the alleged technical problems with the A sample or the B sample or both? - July 1, 2008 at 10:07:00 PM CDT
- Old Fonzie said...
Patrick Brady was actually a pseudonym for Kurt Vonnegut. He liked to write about bikes, but wanted to keep it separate from his other works. Ever notice how you never saw the two of them together?
As for the identities of Pradaig and Radio Freddy, I have it on good authority that they are Tibetan monks from an obscure Buddhist sect that sees FVB as the incarnation of the seventh boddhisatva, Ultegra Gruppo. They are currently living in Mexico as asylum seekers petitioning entry into Belgium.
Who cares what their real world identity is? That's so 20th century. What matters is the identity forged online. And it's a solid one.
While I enjoy their analysis of the events surrounding Floyd, I am relieved. It used to be a rumor that the big stars weren't busted for doping because they had too much money to be stopped -- they'd be accused privately of doping (which is probably why the positive result was 'leaked'), their lawyers would threaten litigation and liable, feds would back down since they could barely afford to get high sniffing tire glue let alone a great legal team.
It's too bad that Floyd had to be the one to set the example. I still see him as one of the greatest cycling talents.
However, my money is on that he only blood doped with blood he had packed away over the winter to avoid explaining a chimera. Unfortunately, when he removed the blood he forgot he was boosting. So he tested positive for steroids he was using in the off season. It's happened before. - July 2, 2008 at 8:29:00 AM CDT
- Matt said...
Great post - as always.
At the very least, no one can deny that Floyd gave us a peek behind the curtain at WADA, LNDD, and USADA, and what we saw isn't very pretty. - July 2, 2008 at 1:35:00 PM CDT


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Some of the more than $100 million Peregrine Financial's former chief executive stole from his brokerage's clients went to pay for his divorce settlement, the trustee of the now-bankrupt brokerage said in a lawsuit late Friday against the former wife.
The lawsuit demands the return of more than $2.9 million in divorce payments and the disallowance of the former wife's bankruptcy court claims for an additional $2.4 million, money she says is still owed her from the divorce.
Russell Wasendorf Sr, the former CEO, has pleaded guilty to embezzlement and is in an Iowa jail awaiting sentencing this Thursday. Wasendorf's attempted suicide last July sent his firm into bankruptcy.
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Authorities say he spent some of the money on personal items like a private plane and a luxury Chicago apartment, and Wasendorf has confessed he used it to pay for regulatory fines and to keep his money-losing company afloat.
The lawsuit by Peregrine Financial trustee Ira Bodenstein alleges yet another use for the stolen funds: to cut free from his 24-year marriage to Connie Wasendorf. The divorce was finalized on December 30, 2010.
"On December 31, 2010, Wasendorf fraudulently authorized a transfer from the Customer Seg Account to Defendant in the amount of $2,469,692, and such transfer was received by Defendant on the same day," the lawsuit said, referring to a U.S. Bank account that was supposed to be reserved for customer money.
Wasendorf also used company funds to pay his former wife about $20,000 a month for more than a year, trustee Ira Bodenstein said, even though she did little work for the money. Those payments - also part of the divorce settlement -- totaled $360,000, he said.
Connie Wasendorf has refused to return the $2.5 million lump sum payment from December 2010, the trustee said in the lawsuit.
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**(This is an old post from 2010!! I have no idea why blogger decided to show it as a new 2014 post. Sorry about the mix-up!)**
Warning: I'm a little loopy and stuffy-nosey as I type this. There might be some nonsensical stuff goin' on here. Please ignore! :)
I am so spoiled! Mr. Wing-It wanted to buy me an end-of-our-exhausting-travels present and after much research he decided to buy me a Blendtec! YAY! Do I have the bestest husband or what?! A Blendtec! I am one of the cool kids now! :D
Doesn't that peanut butter look perfect?! My first attempt at making peanut butter with my new toy was kind of a disaster. The end result wasn't really peanut butter, it was more like a peanut paste. Odd. It was my fault because I added some maple syrup to the peanuts before they were *completely* butterized (yeah, that's a word now) and the peanut paste never became smooth. That's cool, I used the peanut paste to make peanut butter blondies (same recipe as the almond butter blondies but with peanut butter... or paste) and they were grrrreat!
Wanna see my Blendtec in action, turning roasted peanuts into peanut butter? Watch this video! Don't ask me why I decided to end it with a curtsey though. Too much Austen, I guess! :P
Awesome stuff! Can't see the video? It's OK, don't feel left out, you can watch it on flickr.
*EDIT: The video is one minute and thirteen seconds, but the actual peanut butter making process took longer! Roughly about eight minutes, including all the stirring that happened in between cycles.
One pound of roasted peanuts made about nine ounces of peanut butter, and I turned some of it into peanut butter cups! These are nonconformist cups, because the filling is not the traditional one made with powdered sugar, this one is gooey and it's made with maple syrup.
Nonconformist Peanut Butter Cups (makes 12 mini cups) 2 tbsp creamy peanut butter 1 tbsp full fat coconut milk 1 tbsp maple syrup 1/4 tsp vanilla extract pinch of salt (or more if you like it sweet *and* salty) 2 tbsp ground almonds 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (You will also need 12 candy cups or mini cupcake liners) 1. In a small mixing bowl combine the peanut butter, coconut milk, maple syrup, and vanilla extract. Mix well and thoroughly stir in the salt and the ground almonds. Set aside. 2. In a dry glass bowl, microwave the chocolate chips on medium power for 45 seconds. Stir the chips around a bit and microwave again, on medium power for 30 more seconds. Stir and repeat until the chippers are completely melted. 3. Separate your candy cups or mini cupcake liners and use a butter knife (or any small knife with a rounded point) to coat the bottoms and sides of all the cups with the melted chocolate. A generous layer is best to keep the peanut butter cups from breaking. Freeze for five minutes or until the chocolate is hard and solid. * 4. Fill each cup with the peanut butter filling, but don't fill them all the way up to the top, leave a couple of millimeters for the chocolate topping. The filling should be quite sticky. 5. Top all the little cuppies with the rest of the melted chocolate. Spread the chocolate so that all the cups are nice and brown on top. You might need to reheat the chocolate if it's not soft anymore. Just 30 seconds in the microwave on medium power should do it. Freeze or refrigerate the cuppies until firm. I froze mine because I *wanted* them right away! :D * I placed the cups in a mini muffin pan so they would have a nice even shape, but that's just my OCD talking. |
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After a few days of progress, the NHL and the locked-out players' association not only have not met, but they are not even having negotiations over the phone to end the stalemate.
With the lockout about to enter its third month, communications between the fighting sides have come to a halt with no clear sign of what the next step will be or when it will be taken.
"No, we have not communicated today," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press on Wednesday in an email. "No meetings scheduled, and no plans to meet."
After four straight days of negotiations in New York last week, talks broke off angrily Friday night. Discussions resumed on Sunday, solely regarding player contract terms, but that meeting ended after only 90 minutes.
The union contends that the NHL doesn't want to get back together yet.
"The players remain prepared to resume negotiations at any time," NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr said.
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- Purchasing History.In order for the Website to enhance its ability to tailor the site to a user's preference, we may combine information about the purchasing habits of users with similar information from our affiliates to create a personalized user profile. When a user makes a purchase or other transaction with an affiliate either of these two companies, the companies [we] collect [and share] personal [and demographic] information back with us.
- Enhancement of Marketing Profile.We may acquire third party marketing data and add it to our existing user database to better target our advertising and provide pertinent offers we think our users would be interested in. We use this information to enhance or overlay the "profile" of individual users. This aggregate marketing data is therefore tied to the users' personally identifiable information.
- 3.8. Correcting Updating Deleting Deactivating Personal Information. If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as postal code, phone, email or postal address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to correct, update or delete/deactivate users' personally identifiable information by contacting us using the means and addresses at the end of this privacy policy statement.
4. Means of Collecting Information.
In order to provide users optimal access and features, the Website collects information in several ways, including:
- 4.1. Orders. We request information from a user ordering goods or services. A user must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer's orders. If we have trouble processing an order, the information is used to contact the user.
- 4.2. Use of Information. Users and members who post information to, and use information from, the Website are each given a profile which tracks and records usage. This enables the Website to verify that only appropriately authorized members post and edit property information. Profiles also allow the tracking of usage to assist in assuring users that the information on the Website is accurate and up to date.
- 4.3. Profile. We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third parties to create a profile of our users and members. A profile is stored information that we keep on each individual user and member that details their viewing and usage preferences. Consequently, collected information is tied to the users personally identifiable information to provide offers and improve the content of the site for the user. This profile is used to tailor a user's visit to the Website, and to direct pertinent marketing promotions to them. Your profile is shared in aggregate form only.
- 4.4. Cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user's hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions but may cause portions of the Website to no longer be available to that user. By using a cookie with our site, users would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If users reject the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site. For example, the user may not be able to become a member entitled to post or edit that member's previously entered property information. Persistent cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Some of our advertisers use cookies on their site. However, we have no access to or control over these sites or the cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising.
- 4.5. Third Party Advertising. The ads appearing on this web site are delivered to users by various advertising affiliates. Information about users' visit to this site, such as number of times they have viewed an ad (but not user name, address, or other personal information), may be used to serve ads to users on this site.
- 4.6. Log Files. Like most standard web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information to enable our Web-based service. We may use a tracking utility that uses log files to analyze user movement. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by the Website only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers or other affiliates.
- 4.7. Clear Gifs, Web Beacons, Web Bugs. We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of internet users. The main difference between the two is that clear gifs are invisible on the page and are much smaller, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence and may be tied to users' personally identifiable information. Clear Gifs can "work with" existing cookies on a computer if they are both from the same web site or advertising company. That means, for example, that if a person visited "www.companyX.com", which uses an advertising company's clear gif, this web site and/or the advertising company could match the clear gifs identifier and the advertising company's cookie ID number, to show the past online behavior for that computer. This collected information could then be given to the advertising company. In addition, we use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by the recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If users would like to opt-out of these emails, please see the Opt-out section.
5. Communications from the Website.
- 5.1. Membership Confirmation. We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username.
- 5.2. Special Offers and Updates. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see the Opt-out section.
- 5.3. Newsletter. If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. Out of respect for our users privacy we provide a way to opt-out of these communications. Please see the Opt-out section.
- 5.4. Service Announcements. On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send users an email. Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications, though they can deactivate their account. However, these communications are not promotional in nature.
- 5.5. Customer Service. We communicate with users on a regular basis to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account we reply via email or phone, in accordance with the users wishes.
6. User Elections to Further Restrict Use of Personal Information.
- 6.1. Choice/Opt-out. Our users are given the opportunity to "opt-out" of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for information. For example, our order form has an "opt-out" mechanism so users who buy a product from us, but don't want any marketing material, can keep their email address off of those lists. Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or email us.
- 6.2. Links. This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site they visit which may collect personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by the Website; this privacy policy does not apply to other web sites a user may access by or through the Website.
- 6.3. Surveys. From time-to-time our site may request information from users via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose requested information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as postal code). Contact information may be used and/or shared with the survey sponsors. Survey information may be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. Though we may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys, they may not use users' personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
- 6.4. Referrals. If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. The Website will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. The Website stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. The friend may contact the Website to request the removal of this information from our database.
7. Security.
The Website takes every precaution to protect our users' and members' information. When users submit sensitive information via the web site, their information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry – SSL.
While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when users are just "surfing". While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to user information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our users' information is protected. Finally, the servers that store personally identifiable information are in a secure environment, in a locked facility.
8. Children's Guidelines.
We at Catylist are concerned about protecting children's privacy and follow these guidelines. The Website does not:
- 8.1. Direct its content or features to children.
- 8.2. Collect online contact information targeted to children without prior parental consent or parental notification, which will include an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online information targeted to children will only be used to respond directly to the child's request and will not be used for other purposes without prior parental consent.
- 8.3. Collect personally identifiable offline contact information which Catylist is aware is from a child without prior parental consent.
- 8.4. Distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information which Catylist is aware is from a child without prior parental consent.
- 8.5. Give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information which Catylist is aware is from a child without prior parental consent.
- 8.6. Entice a child to this web site by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity.
9. Changes to This Policy.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated in this privacy policy we will notify users via email and users will then have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. However, if users have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated their account, then they will not be contacted, nor will their personal information be used in this new manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that effect user information already stored in our database, we will post a notice on the Website notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post a notice we may also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.
10. Contact Information.
Please contact: email@example.com with questions or concerns regarding this statement.


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DETROIT – Miguel Cabrera's three-run homer in the seventh inning broke the game open, and the Detroit Tigers finished off a three-game sweep of the Atlanta Braves with an 8-3 victory Sunday night.
Austin Jackson and Omar Infante also homered for the Tigers, and Doug Fister (4-0) struck out eight in seven innings on a rainy night at Comerica Park.
Mike Minor (3-2) allowed a three-run homer to Jackson in the third, and although the Braves came back to tie it, Cabrera doubled and scored in the sixth to make it 4-3.
Infante hit a solo shot in the seventh, and Cabrera added an opposite-field homer off reliever Cory Gearrin.
Atlanta has lost four straight and is 3-8 since a 12-1 start.
Cabrera extended his hitting streak to 12 games.
The NL East-leading Braves have a 2½-game lead over Washington in the division, with a four-game series against the Nationals starting Monday.
Detroit won the three games in this series by a combined 25-7. Anibal Sanchez set a franchise record Friday with 17 strikeouts, and it looked as if Fister might approach that Sunday when he fanned five in the first two innings.
Atlanta manager Fredi Gonzalez shuffled his lineup before the game, giving struggling outfielder B.J. Upton the night off. It didn't matter much. Aside from a three-run fourth, the Braves were quiet offensively, and Minor gave up six runs in 6 2-3 innings.
Jackson came to the plate with two on in the third and opened the scoring with a drive that cleared the fence and the bullpen in left-center.
The Braves tied it the following inning. Chris Johnson hit an RBI double, and Evan Gattis drove in a run with a single to make it 3-2.
With men on first and third and one out, Dan Uggla hit what looked like a double play grounder, but Infante's relay from second to first was a bit wide, and the Tigers got only one out on the play, allowing the tying run to score.
Victor Martinez's sacrifice fly scored Cabrera to put Detroit ahead in the sixth. Minor got the first two outs of the seventh, but Infante hit his second homer in two days, and Jackson drew a walk to end Minor's night.
Gearrin allowed Torii Hunter's single and Cabrera's opposite-field drive — the third home run of the year for the Triple Crown winner.
Fister, making his 100th career start, allowed three runs and six hits with no walks.
Minor allowed six hits, walked two and struck out six.
Jose Valverde made his third appearance for the Tigers since returning from the minors less than a week ago. After two saves in two chances, he came on in a non-save situation Sunday — with two on in the ninth and an 8-3 lead.
Valverde got the last three outs in order.
NOTES: The game was played amid a light, misty drizzle, and it started raining a little harder in the fourth, but there were no delays. ... Detroit RHP Al Alburquerque pitched an inning-plus of eventful relief. He walked two, struck out three, hit a batter and threw two wild pitches. ... Fister had two hit batsman, bringing his season total to eight. ... Detroit hosts Minnesota on Monday night. Max Scherzer (2-0) takes the mound for the Tigers against Mike Pelfrey (2-2). Atlanta's Julio Teheran (1-0) is scheduled to start against Washington's Stephen Strasburg (1-4).


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Dear Editor:
I am not sure everyone realizes that the state of New Jersey has a senior freeze program for property tax relief for owners who are 65 or over and live in their homes. To qualify, your income must be under a state determined maximum. The way the program works, once you establish a base year property tax, the state will reimburse you the difference between your base year and your current year's property tax as long as your income doesn't exceed the state maximum.
If your income for 2011 was under $80,000 and your 2012 income was under $82,880 you qualify for the program. You can Google senior freeze or call the state senior freeze hotline at 1-800-882-6597 for more information. I had no idea this program existed until a friend told me about it.
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09 APRIL 2013 - KHUNTAN, LAMPHUN, THAILAND: A man rides his motorcycle past a grassfire buring out weeds in Khuntan, Lamphun province, Thailand. The "burning season," which roughly goes from late February to late April, is when farmers in northern Thailand burn the dead grass and last year's stubble out of their fields. The burning creates clouds of smoke that causes breathing problems, reduces visibility and contributes to global warming. The Thai government has banned the burning and is making an effort to control it, but the farmers think it replenishes their soil (they use the ash as fertilizer) and it's cheaper than ploughing the weeds under. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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52CC 2-Stroke Gas Powered Earth Auger Engine Digging Machine Hole Digger 1900W. This is a 2-Stroke Gas Powered Auger for quickly drilling into the earth in order to set into the ground: fence posts, poles, trees, shrubs etc. Equipped with a 52cc gasoline engine, the auger can be handled by one or two people easily for a wide variety of tasks. Ergonomically designed, it has double handles.
Double handles can help you operate the machine more stably. Two handles are convenient for one-person operation or two-person operation.Three different sizes of drill bits help you work professionally. Drill bits of different specifications are suitable for using in the different environments, and installation and disassembly are also very convenient. The Earth Auger has a straight through gearbox, unlike models with a side mounted engine, the straight through design is much more robust and less likely to shear gears. Engine: Single Cylinder, 2-stroke, air-cooled.
Easy starting system (cord starter). Change bits quickly and easily.
Feedback is very important to us. It is impossible to address issues if we do not know about them! Faction is our ultimate goal. We work hard to earn your trust and future business. A If you receive a defective item, you may return it or ask for a discount. Due to time zones, our reply to your questions may not be immediately. If it's non-workdays, please kindly be patient and wait till Monday.Long Service Life, Exquisite Appearance, High-quality. This item is in the category "Business & Industrial\Heavy Equipment, Parts & Attachments\Heavy Equipment Attachments\Post Hole Diggers". The seller is "shengyuwangluo01" and is located in this country: US.
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Hyun-Jin Ryu (0-0, -.--) vs. Madison Bumgarner (0-0, -.--).
It's a Whole New Ryu tonight, as we get to see if the $61.7M man ($25.7M in posting fees; six years / $36M for the actual contract) will perform to his high expectations now that he's clad in Dodger blue. This ain't the Hanwha Eagles (or "Hanwha Chickens", either), that's for sure. I suppose Ryu might get confused seeing the Hanwha Eagles-like orange and black colors on today's opponent. (As long as it doesn't keep Ryu from throwing inside today, especially following the Giants' two-HBP performance on Opening Day). Ryu went 2-2 with a 3.29 ERA (27 Ks and 8 BB over 27.1 IP) this spring, which is reassuring. But now, the real games begin.
Ashley Madison Bumgarner is coming off a 16-win season with a 3.37 ERA (103 ERA+, slightly better than the average pitcher), his highest in any of his three seasons. Bumgarner's spring training line 2-0, 2.29 ERA (18 Ks and 7 BB over 19.2 IP) looks eerily similar, so we may be in for a head-to-head matchup akin to the Kershaw-Cain duel from yesterday. The hype surrounding this game is high; even the Chosun Ilbo is all over Ryu's start. I'm hoping the Ilbo is indeed the Chosun one today.
And that Ryu is the Hyun-Jin that powers the Dodgers to victory.
If Ryu is no shuriken violet on the mound tonight, we should get the win.
Thank you, Los Angeles! Good night!


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These days, technology is scaling newer heights of success at an unbelievably fast pace. One of the latest triumphs in this direction is the evolution of the Blockchain technology. The new technology has greatly influenced the finance sector. In fact, it had been initially developed for Bitcoin – the digital currency. However now, it finds its application in a number of other things as well.
Coming across this far was probably easy. But, one is yet to learn what is Blockchain?
A distributed database
Imagine an electronic spreadsheet, that is copied umpteen number of times across a computer network. Now, imagine the computer network was created so smartly that it regularly updates the spreadsheet alone. This is a broad overview of the Blockchain. Blockchain holds information as a shared database. Moreover, this database gets reconciled continuously.
This approach has its own benefits. It does not allow the database to be stored at any single location. The records inside it possess genuine public attribute and can be verified quickly. As there is no centralised version of the records, unauthorised users haven't any means to manipulate with and corrupt the data. The Blockchain distributed database is simultaneously hosted by millions of computers, making the data easy to get at to almost anyone across the virtual web.
To make the concept or the technology clearer, it is just a good idea to go over the Google Docs analogy.
Google Docs analogy for Blockchain
After the advent of the e-mail, the conventional way of sharing documents is to send a Microsoft Word doc as attachment to a recipient or recipients. The recipients will take their sweet time to go through it, before they send back the revised copy. In this approach, one needs to wait till receiving the return copy to start to see the changes designed to the document. This happens because the sender is locked from making corrections till the recipient is performed with the editing and sends the document back. Contemporary databases do not allow two owners access the same record as well. This is how banks maintain balances of these clients or account-holders.
As opposed to the set practice, Google docs allow both parties to access the same document simultaneously. Moreover, it also allows to see a single version of the document to both of them simultaneously. Just like a shared ledger, the Google Docs also acts as a shared document. coincapcentral distributed part only becomes relevant when the sharing involves multiple users. The Blockchain technology is, in ways, an extension of the concept. However, you should point out here that the Blockchain isn't meant to share documents. Rather, it really is just an analogy, which will help to have clear-cut idea relating to this cutting-edge technology.
Salient Blockchain features
Blockchain stores blocks of information across the network, which are identical. By virtue of this feature:
The data or information can't be controlled by any single, particular entity.
There can't be no failure point either.
The data is hold in a public network, which ensures absolute transparency in the entire procedure.
The data stored in it cannot be corrupted.
Demand for Blockchain developers
As mentioned earlier, Blockchain technology has a very high application in the world of finance and banking. According to the World Bank, more than US$ 430 billion money transfers were sent through it only in 2015. Thus, Blockchain developers have significant demand on the market.
The Blockchain eliminates the payoff of the middlemen in such monetary transactions. It was the invention of the GUI (Graphical INTERFACE), which facilitated the common man to access computers in form of desktops. Similarly, the wallet application is the most common GUI for the Blockchain technology. Users utilize the wallet to buy things they need using Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency.


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Have you made a New Year's resolution?
This may sound dorky.... but every January I aim for one big theme for the year. I started this tradition in 2008 - projected (by me) to be "The Year of Fun." It turned out that 2008 brought me terrible health and the US economy went to hell. Nonetheless my "Year of Fun" moniker seemed to work miracles - I have great memories of dragging my tired self to ride roller coasters and squealing with abandon alongside my kids. Somehow my intention to look for fun helped me laugh at myself and see lightheartedness and small joys even when the tenor of the times was weighted with worry.
I'm not sure what this year's theme will be, but it could be to take more time for nature. I really should start in our backyard garden - we have neglected it these past few months. Throughout the fall and winter, P and the kids are off at school all day and creep home after the sun has gone down, and I'm BUSY working on the book and cooking like a fiend. All of our veggies have been a bit ignored. Nonetheless, the strong are surviving and that's why I'm talking about sorrel today. Sorrel is one hearty plant and its fortitude warrants a little love today.
A few months ago Rach said she was whipping up sorrel pesto in her kitchen and urged us to try it. We're happy we did. Sorrel, with its tangy citrusy bite holds its own with raw garlic, while good olive oil, Parm, and Marcona almonds mellow things out nicely.
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- 2 cups loosely packed sorrel leaves (arugula would make a nice peppery substitute here)
- 1/3 cup salted and roasted Marcona almonds
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1/3 cup grated Parmesan
- pinch of salt
- a few grinds of the pepper mill
- 1/2-2/3 cup olive oil
Of course this pesto is good on pasta, pizza, or a sandwich, but we also like it slathered onto grilled fish, or roasted chicken, or poached eggs. Just this morning, I scooped some sorrel pesto onto my frittata. Yum!
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And I'd love to hear your New Year's resolutions if you are willing to share...


text: Railroad worker injuries are covered under the Federal Employees Liability Act which requires that a railroad maintains their fleet, ensuring that their trains are in good working order and free of defects. If a railroad does not comply with these standards, they may be liable for injuries to their workers. Damages railroad workers may receive include medical treatments, present and future lost wages and mental trauma. An injury on the railway can range from a minor sprain to a spinal injury so severe that it leads to death. Some of the most common injuries that affect railway workers are head trauma, knee injuries, back injuries, neck injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, brain trauma or spinal cord injuries. The Federal Employees Liability Act protects railroad workers and others as diverse as clerical employees whose day-to-day functions do not directly involve trains or outdoor activity.