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Update By: Lanetra Bennett
February 19, 2013
Tallahassee, FL - U.S. Senator Bill Nelson begins his chairmanship of the Senate's Special Committee on Aging with a promise to fight for economic security for older Americans.
The congressman is now on a fact-finding tour to help with that promise.
Senator Nelson stopped at FSU's Claude Pepper Center in Tallahassee Tuesday morning.
He's using the panel discussions to hear from scientists, doctors and policy-makers on a wide array of issues affecting the elderly.
Nelson told today's group that he doesn't see an answer for longtime care insurance because of the gridlock in Congress threatening across-the-board budget cuts.
He says, "You can cut spending but you ought to cut it intelligently; not this meat cleaver, guillotine approach that just whacks off wily nily. Sequestering was never intended to go into effect; and here we are at the point that it may actually go into effect at the end of this month."
Nelson said the State of Florida should do its part by accepting the federal money for Medicaid expansion.
He said that would give health care to one million Floridians.
United States Senate Special Committee on Aging Release
GAINESVILLE, FL -- U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson begins his chairmanship of the Senate's Special Committee on Aging not only with a promise to fight for economic security for elderly Americans, but with a fact-finding tour to hear from some of his state's best scientists, doctors and policy-makers on a wide-array of issues affecting the elderly.
The lawmaker's tour will include stops next week at the University of Florida Institute on Aging in Gainesville, and the Claude Pepper Center in the state's capital city, which is named for the late Sen. Claude D. Pepper. Pepper established the center before his death in 1989 to develop public-policy initiatives and conduct research aimed at benefitting the elderly.
Nelson (D-FL) was named chairman of the Aging Committee late last month. The committee will hold its first meeting the last week of this month.
"I'm going to do everything I can to improve the quality of life and retirement security of our country's elderly," said Nelson, who is the third Floridian to lead the Aging Committee since its formation in 1961, joining the late Sens. George Smathers and Lawton Chiles.
"We're also going to be looking for ways to reduce fraud and abuse against seniors," Nelson said.
The Florida Democrat is scheduled to begin the week in Gainesville, where he'll pay a visit Monday to the University of Florida's Aging and Rehabilitation Research Center. There, he'll participate in a roundtable examination of elder issues with the director of the University's Institute on Aging, Dr. Marco Pahor, M.D., and other faculty members. Researchers at the institute recently were awarded a $5.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop therapies aimed at preventing and rehabilitating age-related disabilities.
On Tuesday, Nelson plans to meet with aging experts in Tallahassee at Florida State University's Pepper Center. He and a panel of experts plan to delve into ways to:
- Make long-term care insurance more affordable;
- Hold assisted living centers more accountable;
- Control Medicare costs without cutting benefits; and,
- Help seniors avoid running out of money in retirement.
Monday, February 18
Univ. of Florida Institute of Aging roundtable
2:00 p.m.
Press access permitted; local contact is Celeste Brown at 407-506-6057
Aging and Rehabilitation Research Center Conference Room
University of Florida
2199 Mowry Road, Gainesville
Tuesday, February 19
Claude Pepper Center panel discussion
9:45 a.m.
Press access permitted; local contact is Lynn Bannister at 850-528-2188
The Claude Pepper Center, the Claude Pepper Library and Museum
Florida State University
636 West Call Street, Tallahassee


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Neil Diamond could easily settle into retirement and look back at his nearly 50-year recording career during which he's sold 125 million records and had 39 Top 40 hits.
But Diamond is not ready to get out of the spotlight yet. He is currently on a 31-city North American concert tour that includes Canadian stops in Montreal, Toronto, London and Vancouver.
He has much to beam about, especially about events in his life over the past two years. Diamond recently married for the third time, to his 41-year-old manager, Katie McNeil. He was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2011 and ended that year as a Kennedy Center honoree for lifetime achievement in the performing arts.
"I feel so fortunate to make my dream a lifetime's work. Having Katie with me, being honoured over the past two years – I am as excited about singing and songwriting now as I ever was. I feel that I have been rejuvenated. I'm looking forward to another 20 years of singing and songwriting," said Diamond in a phone interview from his home in Los Angeles.
He has sold more records in his career than most artists half his age, yet seems to be humble enough to avoid the excesses of stardom. Diamond's last two CDs, Twelve Songs (2005) and Home Before Dark (2008), gave him the status of being the oldest artist to reach No. 1 on the Billboard music charts.
Opening his tour in Fort Lauderdale on June 1, Diamond sang 29 songs in a two-hour concert without either an opening act or intermission. Dressed in a black shirt and black pants, he performed his most beloved songs from the past five decades, ranging from his first hit Cherry, Cheery (1966) to Hell Yeah (2005) with his 14-piece band.
Most memorable for Diamond fans were his singing his signature tunes, America; I Am I Said; I'm a Believer and Sweet Caroline, which fans sang along with him.
"I am grateful that after all these years, people resonate with my songs. I try to be honest and truthful in everything I do – just the same as when I was struggling in the 1960s. But for me, it is not the fame or money that moves me – it is the challenge of expressing myself in new songs."
Diamond recreated, to a degree, his Jewish upbringing when he starred in the film The Jazz Singer, a remake of the tale of a cantor who found fame as a pop singer.
"Even though my parents wanted me to become a doctor and not a cantor, the film is a tribute to my Jewish heritage.
"I worked very hard to retell this classic story of a Jewish cantor who left his expected place in society for a world in show business," he said. "I loved the retelling of the Jewish experience. So much of the story reminds me of my grandparents and their kind of life. They were immigrants to America and taught Yiddish to me as a child.
"I wanted Yiddish in this movie. In fact, I tried to convince the director at one point to have the whole opening in Yiddish with subtitles, as they did in The Godfather. Yiddish is a beautiful language, and I wanted to do my part to keep it alive," added Diamond, whose first language at home was Yiddish, taught to him by his grandmother.
Born in Brooklyn in 1941 to Akeeba and Rose Diamond, young Neil knew he wanted a career in music, but to satisfy his father's wishes for a stable career, he enrolled as a pre-medicine student at New York University.
After taking his first job as a songwriter for $50 weekly in 1961, Diamond was hooked on a music career ever since.
Although he has some disdain for organized religion, he wants to embrace Jewishness and raises funds for organizations he admires.
"I am Jewish. I believe in God, love the traditions I learned growing up, and tend to be very spiritual, so I want to pass on to my four grandchildren all I know about their heritage," he said.
Following the end of the concert tour in September, Diamond will be going on a six-month honeymoon to New York, Israel and Italy, among other destinations.
"I want Katie to know everything about me and my past. Aside from my natural ties to New York City and Israel, my mother has relatives in Italy, so we look forward to a wonderful journey together," he said.
Diamond performs in concert at the Bell Centre, Montreal, on June 21, the Air Canada Centre, Toronto, on June 26, the Labatt Centre, London, on June 28, and the Rogers Arena, Vancouver, on July 21. For links to tickets and concert dates at all Canadian cities, go to www.neildiamond.com.


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Sen. Jim Bunning (R., Ky.) blocked "extended" unemployment benefits beyond their scheduled expiration on February 27. That thwarted bill would also have put off, again, a scheduled 21 percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians. Democrats were outraged. But why?
Bunning just wanted to use leftover "stimulus" money to pay for the benefits. Why not? Such transfer payments accounted for over 80 percent of stimulus spending last year.
Besides, as Federal Reserve policymakers noted, the evidence is overwhelming (see here and here) that extending unemployment benefits from six months to nearly two years has raised the unemployment rate by a percentage point or two. I've waited since 1991 for someone to prove I'm wrong about that. Nobody has, because nobody can.
If the maximum duration of jobless benefits were trimmed by 13 to 20 weeks (which is all that's at stake), they would still be far more extended than ever before. But the unemployment rate by the time of this November's elections would be much lower than otherwise. Would Democrats prefer to go into the elections with an unemployment rate near 10 percent or a rate below 9 percent?
As for Medicare, slashing payments to physicians is the Democrats' favorite way of paying for expanding Medicaid enrollment and health‐insurance subsidies for the non‐poor. If they really think that will work, how can they possibly object to saving money sooner rather than later?
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MONROE, Conn. -- The road to the new Sandy Hook Elementary School was paved with ribbons in the school's colors, signs of welcome and encouragement, and police officers.
School buses idled for moments Thursday morning, with green and white ribbons on their grilles, waiting to bring students to the former Chalk Hill Middle School for their first classes in three weeks. The original Sandy Hook Elementary School, in neighboring Newtown, was the site of a massacre on Dec. 14, when a lone gunman forced his way into the school and killed 20 students and six staff members, including the principal.
Officials announced Wednesday the Monroe building had been renamed Sandy Hook Elementary School. Newtown Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson said the decision to carry over the name had been made by staff members. The new school shares a campus with the Jockey Hollow Middle School and is adjacent to an elementary school.
Police directed traffic in front of the school, only permitting parents and buses onto the campus. Once closer, a second checkpoint was set up. Police said Wednesday they would be stopping and interviewing everyone who entered the campus. One parent reported her license was checked on Wednesday when visiting the school.
By the time school began at 9:07 a.m., there was no traffic on the road that earlier had been filled with parents and buses dropping off students.
The superintendent has said there are about 500 students at the school.
Richard Wilford's son, Richie, is a second-grader at Sandy Hook. Wilford said his son was "apprehensive" about going back to school, but more because of the newness of his environment, not for his safety, which was his parents' paramount concern.
Wilford, like many parents, sent his child to school on the bus and then drove in for an assembly with school officials. While there, he saw five officers within the school but he guessed there were more.
In a mid-day news conference, Monroe police Lt. Keith White said the day proceeded without "any issues." He said students were excited to be "together as a class for the first time since the tragedy."
"Watching them get off the bus most of the kids were excited, they'd seen friends they hadn't seen in a while. They were anxious to get into the hallways and meet up with the other kids," White said. "And you could see the teachers had the same response.
They were quite excited to see the students all together."
Parents were told by interim principal Donna Page they were welcome to remain with their children on the first day of school. Page was the principal of Sandy Hook until her retirement in June 2010; she was succeeded by Dawn Hochsprung, who was among Adam Lanza's victims on Dec. 14.
The original Sandy Hook Elementary School remains closed. Orange cones block the entrance, and a state trooper was parked in the roadway Thursday.


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"For 'Windows'? Which versions?" Pretty much every supported version of Windows is impacted**, so read on. This is important. Yesterday Microsoft released an advisory, and today Microsoft released a security patch outside of its normal release cycle, or "out of band"; meaning: not on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. So you know that this… Read more


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Last week, we bid farewell to Dirk the proselytizing virgin from Wisconsin, the most obviously stock character on this season of Survivor. He's an archetype that, by the year 2000, was already familiar to reality-TV viewers, mostly thanks to the mini culture wars played out in season after season of The Real World.
Funny, then, that even without Dirk, "Udder Revenge" plays so much like a desert-island version of that other groundbreaking reality show. This week we've got the usual assortment of physically demanding challenges and gross-food consumption, but if you ask me, what makes this such an entertaining episode is the growing tension between the
roommates castaways—the petty bickering, the constant shit-talking, the blatant provocation. Whether it's set in a loft in Soho or a remote island in the South China Sea, a reality show is only as good as its casting, and this season of Survivor is superb.
The show's khaki-clad overlord introduces the episode by explaining that, in three days' time, the remaining castaways will merge to form one mixed metaphor. Both tribes are anxious about the imminent change, and are charting out their strategy for the next phase of the game. Tough girl Kelly is pithily dismissive of Pagong: "They're playing island 90210." Likewise, Susan isn't too happy about teaming up with a bunch of frivolous jungle nymphs. She rattles off a bunch of insults: Greg is "psychotic," Jenna is a "speedball," and Gervase (who she calls "Jarvis," like he's a skinny British rocker or something) is "a pervert." The producers use some hilarious B-roll as evidence of her allegations: there's Greg in face paint (schizo!), Jenna raising her arms above her head (spaz!), and, best of all, Gervase doing some kind of amateur Lambada with Jenna (sicko!). In all seriousness, I do wonder where this very specific claim came from. We've seen Gervase act lazy and cocky, but perverted? The only conclusion I can draw is that Susan has a deep-seated fear of black people (seems fair to jump to conclusions under the circumstances).
Admittedly, though, Greg does have a bit of a "lone wolf" vibe going on:
Little do the Tagi cynics know about the mass slaughter taking place on the other side of the island, where the Pagong team members decide they're going to go on a protein binge, eating their three chickens before the tribes merge. Of course, this means they'll have to kill them first. Sounding a little too much like the cute girl she is, Colleen says, "I like to ignore that whole aspect of the food chain, the whole death part." Gretchen, ever the sensible one, leads the charge, and thinks anybody who can't handle killing a chicken should be a vegetarian. I confess I have deeply mixed feelings about Gretchen. On the one hand, she's pragmatic, level-headed, and totally right about the vegetarian thing. On the other hand, I feel like Gretchen would be annoying to live with for days on end. She's extremely self-righteous, especially at the end of the episode when they return to camp to find that a lizard has devoured their last chicken, leaving only half-eaten scraps behind. She insists that the remaining carcass is still edible (all I could think about was the disgusting germs that must live in the mouth of a lizard, and I say that as a firm believer in the 10-second rule). We get it, Gretchen: you come from hardy stock. You've got mad survival skills. You could teach Laura Ingalls Wilder a thing or two about living off the land. Blah blah blah. Little does she know that's not what Survivor is really about. Plus, barbecued rats are one thing, but pre-chewed chicken carcass covered in reptile saliva? Shit's nasty:
We've experienced a lot of firsts so far in our walk down memory lane, and this episode brings us one of the most iconic images from the inaugural season of Survivor: Richard Hatch's jiggly naked flesh. It's unclear when Richard began walking around in the buff, but it's obvious that his nudity has more to do with strategy than self-expression. "Naked isn't sexual to me," he claims, which might be plausible were Richard not being totally disingenuous. Whether or not he fesses up to it, the sole purpose of going nekkid is to intimidate his team members. It's brilliant, I guess, but also deeply creepy. Richard might be gay, but that doesn't give him license to show his wang anytime or to anyone he wants. He's still a big, aggressive male, and as a woman I'd find his constant nudity unsettling (especially to my stomach at meal times). I suppose you could argue that Richard is using his nudity to challenge Rudy and Sean's homophobia, but that's not really the point, is it? Rather than confronting their prejudices, he's actually playing right into them for his own benefit. Not cool, bro.
The members of Pagong are also divided over issues of sexual politics. Gervase, whose continued presence on the island is a complete mystery to me ("I haven't done a thing out here, since I've been here. I'm just out here hanging," he confesses to the camera) has angered his female teammates by claiming "girls are the stupidest thing on the planet next to cows." We're not privy to the original conversation, so we have to wade through all the hearsay. It sounds like Gervase was probably kidding, but the remark sets off a tidal wave of complaints about the tribe's true male chauvinist, Joel. The world's most patronizing health-club consultant, Joel says, "I can't really think of anything I've done that's bad." Cue the montage of Joel undermining every decision the women make, from how they cook their rice to what knife they use to open a can of oil. Even he doesn't look convinced when he denies being a chauvinist (see inset photo).
Unusually, the challenges this week are both fun and yet not entirely irrelevant to the task of surviving in a harsh wilderness setting. For the reward challenge, the teams have to scavenge a number of useful items—a knife, a can opener, etc—from a fake abandoned barrack. Whichever team wins gets a cache of prepared food, including chocolate (upon hearing this detail, Jenna loses her shit). After Richard fucks up and brings back a second knife, the spoils once again go to Pagong. Visually, it's a cool challenge—filmed at night on a rather elaborate set, it's all very cinematic. But what I found really interesting was the way the challenge was introduced. Probst explains that during World War II, the island was a "hotspot of military activity," one of the only times the show has made any effort to teach us anything about Pulau Tiga beyond "It's full of snakes 'n' stuff." Both teams get an unlabelled can of mystery meat that is, in all likelihood, dog food. Richard takes a bite out of it and can barely keep from gagging; Jenna and Gretchen fry it up without even batting an eyelash.
Despite its full bellies, Pagong loses out by a hair in the elimination challenge, an obstacle course constructed by Green Berets (retired ones, I'm guessing). One thing that I've noticed about this season is just how well-balanced the teams really are. Pagong is younger and more fun, but Tagi has them beat when it comes to street smarts (err…beach smarts?). And so it is that they basically tie in a challenge that combines both elements, though frankly I don't really get what was so complicated about the "blown bridge" part of the course. Anyway, the weirdest thing is that it's Richard the Corpulent Homosexual who crosses the finish line first. Sean must really be conserving his energy.
In the queasy hours before tribal council, the Pagong tribe members discuss their pending votes, and it's a toss-up between Gervase and Joel. As clouds roll in over the island, Jenna predicts that it's going to rain. Naturally, Joel disagrees, saying that it looks like the storm will pass. (It pours.) Given the editorial emphasis on Joel's know-it-all tendencies, it's not super surprising when he's eliminated with four votes against him. Joel's parting words pretty much sum up his obliviousness. Once again denying the allegations of chauvinism, he proposes another theory: "I think the girls on the team had a little inferiority complex." Exactly, Joel. Exactly.
Stray observations:
- I'm really looking forward to the upcoming merger of the tribes. Things are about to get awesome.
- Kelly might have lost to Gervase last week in the rowing challenge, but she's still a serious athlete. See her performance in the obstacle course as evidence.
- While I understand why the ladies sent Joel home, Gervase would have gotten my vote. At tribal council, he's still (!) totally confident that he won't be eliminated—this after sitting out the elimination challenge and blithely admitting that he does fuck-all for the tribe.
- Conspiracy-theory alert! Gretchen votes for Joel, but her "J" is written backwards, making it look like she's written in Hebrew or something. I went back to re-watch the segment of the episode where she's casting her ballot, and she actually writes the name backwards, starting on the right side of the paper. Either she's sending a coded message to the viewers back at home, or she's not so smart after all. Any theories?
- When she's casting her vote, Gretchen says that Joel seems to have the most money of anybody. And here I thought "health-club consultant" was a fake job.
- I love that the Survivor producers went to the trouble of tracking down two Green Berets, flying them to the ass end of the globe (probably paying them an appearance fee) all for the totally unnecessary purpose of introducing a single challenge. Did the US Army underwrite this episode or something?
- The fiddle music that's played during the rainstorm is hilariously Ken Burns-esque.
- Greg votes with the women. Make of that what you will.
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FIFA's Director of Security Ralf Mutschke has responded to Europol's investigation into match-fixing by stressing that this worldwide issue cannot be solved by football in isolation.
"The news today from Europol follows a long investigation," said Mutschke. "I have been very clear in saying that match-fixing and match manipulation is a global problem, and one that is not going to go away tomorrow. FIFA and the football community are committed to tackling this problem, but we will not succeed alone.
"The cooperation between law enforcement and sporting organisations needs to be strengthened. The support of law enforcement bodies, legal investigations, and ultimately tougher sanctions are required, as currently there is low risk and high gain potential for the fixers."
Today in the Hague,* *Europol announced the results of the biggest-ever investigation into match-fixing in Europe in which 425 match officials, club officials, players and criminals are suspected of being involved.
Investigators believe that as many as 380 matches across the Old Continent have been fixed by an Asia-based crime syndicate, including FIFA World Cup™ and UEFA European Championship qualifiers and several top football matches in European leagues. Overall, Europol claim match-fixing had taken place in 15 countries with 50 people arrested to date.
Rob Wainwright, director of Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, said: "This is the work of a suspected organised crime syndicate based in Asia and operated with criminal networks around Europe.
"It is clear to us this is the biggest-ever investigation into suspected match-fixing in Europe. It has yielded major results which we think have uncovered a big problem for the integrity of football in Europe. We have uncovered an extensive criminal network."
It is also time for governments to take the threat of match-fixing seriously and introduce appropriate sanctions as a deterrent, for while a player may be prepared to rish a ban for throwing a match, he will most likely not wish to risk a prison sentence.
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With the extensive criminal network now uncovered, Mutschke now hopes that governments will show solidarity with the football family and deliver tougher custodial sentences.
"In football, a national association can sanction a member of the football family if they are found guilty of contravening the legal, football framework," he continued. "FIFA's Disciplinary Code provides the opportunity to extend those sanctions, and impose a life ban.
"But for people outside of football, currently the custodial sentences imposed are too weak, and offer little to deter someone from getting involved in match-fixing.
"FIFA requests that law enforcement bodies continue their engagement, and continue to assist FIFA in the global fight against match-manipulation and organised criminals, even if the investigations are considered complex."
In recent interviews, FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter echoed Mutschke's sentiments, saying: "We are working here together with the political authorities and also with INTERPOL. What is necessary is solidarity within the football community. Then, when players, coaches and referees are touched by these people they should immediately disclose it, acting as whistle-blowers. Only then can we intervene effectively.
"Outside the football family, it is also time for governments to take the threat of match-fixing seriously and introduce appropriate sanctions as a deterrent, for while a player may be prepared to rish a ban for throwing a match, he will most likely not wish to risk a prison sentence.
"We must lobby governments to introduce legislation of this kind, both nationally and across borders where possible, through countries reaching a common position on this problem."


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Mo. Financial Adviser to be Sentenced in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A prominent Missouri financial adviser and campaign fundraiser for President Barack Obama is scheduled to be sentenced in Memphis after she pleaded guilty to stalking and harassing her daughter's ex-boyfriend.
Nadia Cavner is set to be sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge John Fowlkes. Federal prosecutors have recommended probation for Cavner, who pleaded guilty in April to felony interstate stalking.
Prosecutors say Cavner asked private investigators to follow and conduct surveillance on her daughter Maral's former boyfriend and his new girlfriend in Memphis.
Prosecutor Brian Coleman says Cavner discussed the possibility of someone becoming violent with the ex-boyfriend, but not to the point of killing him.
Records show Cavner organized a July 2008 fundraiser for Obama in Springfield, Mo., and has donated to Democrat U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill.


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I was hit by a car, rear ended outside Salisbury, England. My Schwinn World Voyager frame was destroyed along with both wheels. It was the summer of 75 and my younger brother and I were cycle touring together in England and Scotland for six weeks. We had been in southern England for three days when I was hit (my fault). After being released from the hospital with a very raw back, elbows, hands and knees, I had to find another frame and wheel components. My brother, already an experienced racer at 15, had heard of Holdsworth frames. I hopped a train into London, looked up Holdsworth in the phone book and took a local train out to East Penge and the Holdsworth shop. I bought a 21 frame set, a pair of rims, spokes and a seat post and returned to the hostel in Salisbury. Dave and I rebuilt the bike the next day and completed the trip a bit more than five weeks later. During that time, I became a cyclist, not a terribly good one, but a permanent one.
After that summer, I had one more year of undergrad studies with a degree in Sociology waiting the next May. With a degree in sociology, you can teach, go back to school for something else or simply head out in a different direction. What you could not do back then was get a job as a sociologist.
During that winter of 75 76, there was an article published in what would become Bicycling Magazine about American frame builders. Until that time, I thought that you had to be either British or Italian to build high end frames. Looking at those little black and white snap shots of American built frames transfixed me. One image in particular just blew me away. It was a shot of the inside of a right, rear dropout on a Jim Redcay frame. It was so beautiful, the lines and curves were just so perfect. I knew I could never do that, but I wanted to try. That winter, I wrote (you know with postage) letters to about five eastern US builders asking for apprentice positions. I got replies from two; Jim Redcay and Bill Boston. Bill hired me for a five year apprenticeship which began the day after I graduated ... he fired me after a couple of months. My understanding was that; a) I wasnt earning my keep and, b) I wasnt progressing at a rate that indicated I might someday earn my keep. I sucked. At least from the perspective of an experienced builder, I sucked.
After leaving Bill, I visited a couple of other builders. Peter Weigle at Whitcome, USA gave me the best advice. He said that I had learned enough from Bill and about his techniques and designs that working for someone else would require re-learning in some areas. He thought I should just give it a try on my own.
As it turned out, being forced to leave Bill was good for both of us. He no longer had a millstone around his neck and I could develop on my own. Over the years, I came to understand that I was actually so terrified of messing up at Bills that I simply locked up. Once I was on my own, I had more freedom to make mistakes and learn from them. The very steep part of the learning curve at the beginning was the worst of it, at least when it came to the building process. After the first ten frames or so, the curve started to level out, never completely doing so. The other parts of frame building; painting, business, marketing, all have had their own curves and new ones seem to arrive all the time.
I was very fortunate to have moved to the Lehigh Valley very late in 76. Since it was not very far from where I grew up and they had a bicycle racing track, I figured that it was as good a place as any to set up a shop. Those first few years racing on the track and training with national team members enabled me to jump start my business. It gave me a leg us not only because I got many of the riders on my frames, but also because they taught me what was right and wrong about the frames I built them. They knew nothing about frame design, but they did know what worked and what didnt work. Early on, they were my teachers. I had to figure out how to eliminate the characteristics that they didnt like and how to enhance the ones that they did. Somehow, I was good at doing that; figuring out how to make frames perform in certain ways.
That ability is one of the reasons why Merlin took me on as a designer back around day-one in Somerville. Working through a mechanical or design problem still gets me excited. Each time I design another custom frame or frame component, I am challenged in a way that brings me back to the sixth grade when I was introduced to geometry and trigonometry. It was so exciting to me back then because I could see it, I could visualize it. It made sense. Frame design is the same way for me. I dont know where that ability came from, but I still value it and love to work with it.
Our style came from my earliest days with Bill Boston and later while spending a lot of time in Jim Redcays shop using his paint booth. Both of those guys had developed a very simple, clean, no frills look. When I started building my own frames, I began like many back then using Prugnat long point lugs. You cant get much plainer looking than they were. My big departure from Jims and Bills styles was with my seat stays. For some reason, I never liked the fastback style they used. I tried a few variations on our current style and settled where we are now about thirty years ago. The actual stay cap is very close to what the old Masi Gran Criteriums used except that we miter them into the seat lug very differently. After using cast lugs for years, we finally gave up on them once we got to the point where over half of our frames required custom angled and dimensioned lugs. Now that we are used to making our own lugs, even standard geometry frames get handmade lugs.
I have been blessed to have worked with and helped by a large number of talented and generous people in the bicycle business. I keep doing what I do for all the obvious reasons;
- I love riding and racing.
- I love the challenges of designing, building and painting.
- I can never get enough of hearing that we have helped make someone happy, more healthy, etc.
- Id get bored if I stopped.
I wish I had another me to;
- Do the paperwork.
- Sand clear coats.
- Mask lug edges.
- Mow the lawn.


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The Tennessee Technology Centers continue to serve as the premier providers for workforce development throughout the State of Tennessee. The centers fulfill the mission by: Providing competency based training through traditional and distance learning instructional delivery systems of the highest quality that will qualify individuals for employment and/or advancement in jobs; providing high quality training that is economical and accessible to all residents of Tennessee, thereby contributing to the economic and community development of the communities we serve.
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Big Laughs from IC Alumni
In Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, an electric red and yellow trolley car, aptly named Trolley, used special tunnels as a portal between the real world and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Sketch comedy group the Birthday Boys didn't make it so easy for Car-y, a red convertible appearing in the pilot of their eponymous new show, which premieres on the Independent Film Channel this fall. The remote-control car's path to the (apparently far less accessible) Land of Pretend takes Car-y down traffic-heavy U.S. Route 101 in Los Angeles and into increasingly dangerous situations. But Car-y's true journey started almost a decade ago and more than 2,500 miles away—at Ithaca College.
In the car for the wild ride are IC alumni Jefferson Dutton '05, Dave Ferguson '06, Mike Hanford '05, Tim Kalpakis '05, Mike Mitchell '05, and Chris Van Artsdalen '05, who, along with Matt Kowalick, make up the Birthday Boys. "Our own TV show is something we've been working toward forever," says Ferguson. "It's the ultimate goal for a sketch comedy group" and a new challenge for "the boys," who have become known in Los Angeles for live shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and online for viral comedy videos.
One of their best-known skits, "Pool Jumpers," parodies stylized documentaries like skate-culture Dogtown and the Z-Boys regarding the influences of jumping into pools. (It has gained "immortal" status on Funny or Die, Will Ferrell's comedy video website.) "We were just kids," intones Hanford in the 2010 sketch. "We didn't know what we were doing. We didn't know that it would lead to anything."
Although the Birthday Boys grew up watching—and imitating—influencers like Saturday Night Live, Steve Martin, Conan O'Brien, and Monty Python's Flying Circus, they say careers in comedy seemed out of reach. "It just never occurred to me that someone could work in it," says Dutton. However, a job directing or writing for television came across as nearly as impossible but almost within reach—with the right education. Explains Kalpakis: "I was on the lookout for a TV school specifically, and Ithaca has that reputation. It was the only school I applied to. [Ithaca was] where I wanted to be."
It took time for the guys' paths to cross despite their shared interests. Mitchell, who was a computer science major until his junior year, met Dutton while looking for help editing a film project. Through student-run ICTV, Ferguson, Hanford, and Kalpakis worked together making 30 Minutes with Dave Ferguson, weekly comedic news broadcasts in the style of The Daily Show.
"It became clear that none of us could regularly read a newspaper to stay up on current events, so it became a sketch show," Kalpakis says. (That's when he came up with the concept of Car-y.) VanArtsdalen, who was friends with Dutton, got to know most of the others during a shared semester at IC's Los Angeles program.
Los Angeles was, they agreed, the place to be after graduation. "We were five dudes, no jobs, all with gross beards," Dutton says of the group's arrival in L.A. in September 2005, where they ended up sharing a house on the back end of Hollywood Hills. The holdout, Mitchell, says he often slept on the guys' couch after deciding that the home he'd been staying in was haunted by the ghost of Charlie Chaplin's mother. (Incidentally, the crew now writes comedy in Charlie Chaplin's former United Artists studio).
They all started by taking work as they could get it—in the entertainment industry (as production assistants) and outside it (Hanford briefly ran errands for a billionaire; Kalpakis was a telemarketer). "You would work up a little nest egg, quit your job, and essentially free fall, thinking you would get a writer's job," Dutton says. In the evenings, they began taking improvisational theater classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. There, they met Kowalick.
And the Birthday Boys were born.
Well, unofficially, at least. It took them until early 2008, months after they started performing together at open mic nights, to settle on the name. "We just kept signing up as the Seven Guys," Ferguson says. The Birthday Boys stuck, he says, as a reflection of the group's collaborative nature: "Everybody has a birthday."
A regular monthly sketch show at the UCB Theatre followed for them, as well as hosting gigs for some of the open mic nights and independent video sketches on Funny or Die and other outlets. Skills they learned at Ithaca years earlier, with the access they had to equipment and encouragement to get hands-on experience as freshmen, gave the guys an edge.
"We never hired camera crews or sound guys," says Ferguson. "We'd just do musical chairs to get the other angle." The group's directing and editing skills gave the videos higher production value than much of the amateur YouTube fare at the time.
By 2010, things were picking up steam, and the guys were working in comedy (for their day jobs!) as writers, actors, and production assistants on shows as varied as Parks and Recreation, Conan, The Simpsons, Portlandia, and Comedy Bang! Bang! The Independent Film Channel (IFC) is home to the last two upstarts as well as comedy classics like Monty Python and the Flying Circus.
Hanford was cast by the Portlandia director for its "Brunch Special" and Van Artsdalen and Dutton directed a number of web series for IFC. Scott Auckerman, comedian and creator of Comedy Bang! Bang! introduced the Birthday Boys to IFC, which hosts his show.
"These experiences and our live shows in L.A. definitely played a role in exposing us to IFC," Ferguson said. "But our meetings with IFC about a Birthday Boys sketch show grew from taking a pitch out around town."
The Birthday Boys had been collaborating with Bob Odenkirk of Breaking Bad and Mr. Show, when they began talking about doing a televised sketch show together. With Odenkirk and Red Hour Films (Ben Stiller's company), the Birthday Boys took their pitch to the cable marketplace. IFC liked their pitch and ordered a half-hour pilot. Based on the pilot, IFC ordered a 10-episode series in March. The first season is scheduled to premiere this October.
As Mitchell puts it, "Seven white guys trying to sell a sketch show is a really tough sell." The Birthday Boys say executives repeatedly told them they just weren't in the market for a group show: producers were more interested in hiring writers to craft sketches around one funny personality. "There was a moment—and I'm sure people who are coming up still feel this way—that I wasn't sure we were going to see any more sketch comedy on TV," Ferguson says.
What helped set them apart and seal the deal, they say, is having a unique style. While much of comedy comes from things comics love to hate (inane political comments that turn into fodder for The Daily Show, for example), the Birthday Boys tend to pull positive inspiration. "A lot of our sketches start with a movie trope or a classic scenario that we really like," says Van Artsdalen. Then they push it over the top, or dig for a new angle—such as in the sketch "Rough Patch," where the oft-seen scene of an angry girlfriend (actress Abby Elliott of SNL) throwing her boyfriend's possessions out a window becomes a battle of wills as several sympathetic men in the street throw it all back inside faster than she can remove it.
With positive thoughts as a starting point, the resulting comedy tends to be clean. But the guys are quick to point out that it's not spotless. "It's not that we want to avoid the risqué or profane, but to us sometimes that's not the funniest thing," he says. "We're not afraid to do edgier stuff. We've all been naked onstage at one point or another."
Years of collaboration have given the seven comedians a cohesive voice and vision. They work as a group instead of fighting for the spotlight as individuals. "For us, there's always been this idea that the group is worth more than the sum of its parts," Dutton says.
That's a rarity that sets the group apart, says Odenkirk, who is now executive producer for The Birthday Boys and codirector with Dutton and Van Artsdalen. "There are many, many sketch groups with one outstanding video or one super-funny scene," he says, "but the guys have a voice that they share and, once you have a sense of it, all of their work has that sensibility that you can appreciate."
The Birthday Boys' challenge is to keep their comedy machine well-oiled for an intense production schedule: writing 10 half-hour episodes, each with 6 to 10 sketches, over the course of 11 weeks in the spring followed by 2 weeks of preproduction and a full summer of shooting before the October premiere. They don't seem daunted. "This is what we have always wanted to do, so it doesn't feel like too much work at all," says Mitchell. After that, it's up to the viewers, says Hanford: "We'll see if the public finds us funny and hope for a season two."


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MoviePass, an app that lets you pay a monthly fee to watch a movie a day in theaters, is launching publicly starting today.
Think of it as Netflix for movies still playing in theaters.
The service costs about $30 per month, depending on your location, and lets you reserve tickets from your smartphone and load them on a pre-paid card. You then swipe your card at the theater's kiosk to receive your ticket. The card has built-in geo-location so it can confirm you're actually at the theater.
The app is only on iPhone right now, but an Android version will launch next month.
We spoke with MoviePass' CEO and co-founder, Stacy Spikes, and he explained how the service works and lessons learned from the closed beta testing.
He said MoviePass' goal is to remove the friction of movie-going, just like Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, and other streaming services make it easy to watch stuff at home.
Users sign up for MoviePass at www.moviepass.com. The service is invitation-only right now, but once you've been given access, you'll receive a special geo-located reloadable debit card. The debit card will work at all theaters that accept credit cards. It's the same process you use when you purchase movie tickets online and use your credit card to redeem them.
But there's a catch: the MoviePass card will only work when its near your cell phone and the theater. That helps prevent people from abusing the service.


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Early offer scheme launched for promising students
24 July 2012
Are you a high school student passionate about a particular area of study and motivated to succeed, but worried your exam marks may not quite get you where you need to be?
What if you could have an early conditional offer to study at the University of Sydney before you even start your HSC exams?
Recognising that the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) is not always a true measure of a student's potential to succeed at university and beyond, the University of Sydney this week launched its new Early Offer Year 12 scheme (E12).
Designed to assist year 12 students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds the E12 scheme enables school principals to nominate up to 10 students they believe show the potential to succeed at the University of Sydney, for degrees covered by the scheme. The principals' recommendations are then considered by a select panel from the University, which may also interview applicants for some courses.
Students who are offered an early conditional offer under the scheme will have a place reserved just for them at the University of Sydney. Provided they meet the special ATAR cut-offs and subject bands for their preferred course, these students will then have their offer confirmed through UAC in the early January round.
"The University of Sydney is intent on identifying and supporting the school students who would benefit from all the opportunities that Sydney has on offer," said University of Sydney Director of Social Inclusion Annette Cairnduff.
"That is why this new scheme is so important - it shifts the focus from wholly relying on final school results and will consider the whole set of circumstances of a student.
"School students might not reach their desired final mark for a variety of reasons. The E12 scheme means that we can still recruit and support young people with the potential to succeed at the University and beyond. We'll be looking for motivation in particular subject areas and other skills and achievements that will support students on a path of life-long learning and career success."
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Derrick Armstrong said the University's academic and teaching excellence is founded on principles of diversity and equity.
"At the University of Sydney, we are committed to enriching our community by bringing together people from all social backgrounds. We welcome promising students from around Australia and the world, and invest time and money to make sure they are properly supported while they study," Professor Armstrong said.
Under the E12 scheme students will receive financial assistance as well as additional support throughout the application and orientation process and into their first year at the University.
The benefits of the E12 scheme include:
- an early conditional offer to the University of Sydney before final HSC exams start
- specific ATAR cut-offs for successful candidates and a UAC offer in the early January round
- a $5000 first-year scholarship
- support through the transition from school to the University, including a guided enrolment process, orientation, mentoring and additional assistance
- an Apple iPad to assist with studies
- a University of Sydney Union Access card that gives discounts on an off campus with major retailers, and access to more than 200 clubs and societies.
If you are interested visit our website, talk to your school principal, fill out our online application form and study as hard as you can for your HSC exams!


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The offer of a vanishing deductible certainly seems beguiling. Car insurance companies say they'll reward customers by trimming their collision deductible after a few years of crash-free driving.
Nationwide, The Hartford and Allstate offer these "vanishing deductible" discounts, frequently pitched through TV commercials. Allstate calls it a "Deductible Rewards" plan while The Hartford, also evoking the near-magical in its pitch, goes with "Disappearing Deductible."
Combined with car insurance discounts, these deductible rewards programs have the potential to save you lots of money. Or do they?
Here's how each works, according to the insurers:
- The Hartford will slice $150 off the collision deductible after five years without crashes or violations. Three of those years must be as a policyholder with The Hartford. Once you've qualified, $50 will be trimmed from your deductible every year you go without a black mark on your record. "Over time, you deductible may 'disappear' altogether," the company says, but adds that "in some states, we are prohibited from reducing your deductible below $100."
- Nationwide strips $100 off the top and $100 each year you go without an accident or moving violation. The insurer puts a $500 ceiling on how much can ultimately be stripped from the deductible.
- Allstate's plan gives customers an immediate $100 off their deductible and another $100 off for each year they're accident-free, up to $500, the same as Nationwide.
The car insurance companies didn't disclose how many of their policyholders opt for these plans, but say they've become popular over the past few years.
Vanishing deductibles: What's the catch?
These plans will cost you more, that's the most obvious catch. The companies tend to offer disappearing deductibles through their more expensive policies. The Hartford wraps the deductible discount into its "Advantage Plus" package, adding about 5 percent or 6 percent to your bill. "Advantage Plus" also includes "accident forgiveness," which means there's no premium increase after a first accident.
Nationwide says you can buy "Vanishing Deductible" for $60 a year ($30 for each six-month term) for your first vehicle and $10 for each car you add. The company says it decided on the flat fee to make coverage "easier for consumers to understand." The program can be bought on its own, Nationwide adds, meaning you don't have to pay for a bigger car insurance package to get it.
But there are consequences if you're in a crash or get a moving violation while under the plans.
The Hartford notes that you have to start anew -- your original deductible is reinstated and you have to establish a clean record again to qualify for reductions. And it doesn't make any difference who caused the accident; policyholders go back even if it's not their fault.
Nationwide says customers revert to the original $100 off the deductible if they have an accident or violation.
Consumer Reports evaluated the "Vanishing Deductible" and decided that it may be a bad idea for many drivers, even those who are careful and avoid road mishaps.
"Eventually the vanishing deductible will cost you more than you'll save," Consumer Reports says. "After nine years, for example, you will have spent $540 for a $500 reduction. You might save more by raising your deductible instead. Hiking it from $200 to $1,000, for example, can cut your collision premium by 40 percent."
Hank Coleman, the owner of the Money Q&A blog, advised policyholders to study these plans carefully, and to fully understand that they'll cost extra. "Do not make the mistake of assuming [that these features] are included in your insurance policy automatically," he says.
Crunch the numbers
We decided to do the math, using Nationwide's plan as an example. Once you've driven five accident-free years with Nationwide, your deductible is reduced by $500, the maximum -- but you've paid at least $300 to do that. If you drive 10 problem-free years on the program, you'll have paid $600. That's more than the cut in your deductible.
Should those numbers encourage you to sign up?
Possibly. But you could avoid the middleman by opening a savings account and banking a monthly amount toward your deductible. But what if you don't trust your ability to save the money and still like the disappearing deductible idea? Then you might enroll in one of these plans but consider raising your deductible, which may reduce your collision premiums.
But keep in mind that you'd still need to have money to cover the difference between your part of the deductible and what hasn't "disappeared."
Look beyond the TV ads when buying auto insurance
Insurance experts, including the Insurance Information Institute (III), offer this simple advice: Don't make a decision based on an insurer's commercials, no matter how appealing they seem. Instead, understand your personal needs and shop around for car insurance, all the while closely evaluating an insurance company's product.
"Education, knowing what you have and what you need, is always a great idea when it comes to your vehicle coverage,'' says III spokesperson Michael Barry."The consumer needs to be prepared."


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Mo::import - Special import feature for Mo::Inline
package MyMo;
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package SomeClass;
use MyMo;
has foo => (builder => 'build_foo');
If you are defining your own Mo class for a project, and you want it to always use a default set of features, you should add
import to the end of the list. Then by calling:
use MyMo;
you get the default set:
default and
builder. If you just want
default, do this:
use MyMo 'default';
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use MyMo '';
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Sidebottom rides Swann and Widebottom at the same time.
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Want to be the next Bradman - of the forum?
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England selecting 4 bowlers for this Test Match..
Or something.
RIP Fardin Qayyumi (AKA "cricket player"; "Bob"), 1/11/1990 - 15/4/2006
Sidebottom's Upbottom leavces Swann a sitting duck.
Proof that Englands tail end does have a bit of spunk in it.
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce
Langeveldt: I of course blame their parents.. and unchecked immigration!
GingerFurball: He's Austrian, they tend to produce the odd ****ed up individual
Burgey: Be careful dealing with neighbours whose cars don't have wheels but whose houses do.
Uppercut: Maybe I just need better strippers
How do you know they are in India....And why dig an old topic?
hey you rekon we can put the bloke beside us in a test cap, and pwoa i thought the elephant was big!
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A natural process? Women, men and the medicalisation of childbirth
Smellie-type obstetrical forceps, England, 1701-1800
Childbirth was once 'women's business': women assisted births as well as bearing children. Midwife, from the Old English, literally means 'with woman'. Before the 1700s childbirth was customarily a domestic event, attended by female friends, relatives and local women experienced in delivering children. It still is for much of the world.
The beginnings of new birthing practices
A more technological approach to childbirth gained momentum in Europe and North America throughout the 1700s. Professional medical men were the focus. Over time female midwives lost status and came to be portrayed as unenlightened, unhygienic and entwined with superstition and folklore. Contemporary accounts such as the diaries of midwife Martha Ballard are more positive, but she noted fundamental shifts in childbirth practice. Modern obstetrics is a hi-tech hospital-based speciality of men and women. Its origins are the appearance of so-called man-midwives.
Women dealt with straightforward births. However, male physicians were often called when complications needed physical intervention. They often carried destructive instruments to remove dead, obstructed foetuses. There were also instruments to assist live births. The origins of the obstetric forceps lie with the man-midwives of the secretive Chamberlen family, as do the origins of lesser tools such as the vectis, fillet and ventouse.
The most influential early man-midwife in Britain was William Smellie. He was a leading teacher of obstetrics, midwifery and forceps use. Despite growing professionalisation, man-midwives only found real respectability in the early 1800s, when they gained approval among the upper classes. Families who could afford their fees increasingly 'called for the doctor', invariably male. Female midwives became unfashionable, outmoded and associated with the poor.
Female midwives voice their opposition
This gradual shift was criticised. Martha Ballard recorded her displeasure, and English midwife Sarah Stone complained about 'young pretenders'. These were men who took credit for success but blamed women when things went wrong. Many maternal deaths from puerperal fever were the result of overzealous interventions by forceps-wielding man-midwives.
The ideal of a 'normal' birth
Obstetrics had not developed significantly by the early 20th century, despite these changes. The majority of births were still at home, attended by midwives. However, obstetricians began defining 'normal' standards for childbirth as the century progressed. This was in keeping with drives for standardisation in the wider medical world. The epitome was Friedman's curve, developed by Emanuel Friedman, a graphic representation of a 'normal' labour. Deviations from normality were seen as reasons for medical intervention, and childbirth became an ideal sequence of events to be monitored and managed.
Childbirth moves to the hospital
The ideal environment to monitor, manage and potentially intervene in childbirth was the hospital. In the 20th century childbirth in the developed world moved from the home to the hospital. Home birth rates fell to around 1% in the United Sates by the late 1970s.
Associated with this new birthing space were childbirth technologies. Hospitals provided a hi-tech, highly medicalised birthing experience. The measuring of foetal heart rate became key to clinical decision-making. The hospital also gave greater options for pain relief, such as the epidural anaesthesia. Caesarean sections embody this change; once a last resort, they are now commonplace.
The desire for a more natural process
This clinical vision of childbirth has met with a recent backlash, resulting in more hybridity in practice. For example, medicalised foetal heart monitoring might occur alongside 'natural' pain relief provided by a water birth. In the UK women are again central to childbirth, and midwives are active both in the hospital and other contexts. Home birth rates and the use of female-midwife-managed birthing centres have modestly increased.
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Book Review: Game of Shadows
"So with few exceptions, the more than three dozen athletes who appeared before the grand jury admitted taking steroids . . . They weren't asked why. Perhaps the answers were too obvious: It was to run faster, jump higher, hit the ball farther, and ultimately, make more money. Some of the confessions were grudging and evasive. Others were extremely forthcoming. It came down to the same thing: Competitive sports, it turned out, was part mirage, a game of shadows" (p.197, emphasis mine).
Overview of the Book
Game of Shadows is a book that is hard to read for a sports enthusiast like myself. It reads more like a seedy novel about local government corruption than an expose on the recent steroids debacle in professional baseball and Olympic track and field. Lies told before the grand jury; greedy, angry track coaches turning state's evidence, and egotistical, success-driven athletes willing to put their lives on the line for the edge that might secure their own immortality are just a few of the storylines you will find in this book by the two San Francisco Chronicle reporters that first broke the story of the grand jury probe into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) and its hippie-turned-nutritionist-turned-steroids-dealer-to-the-stars Victor Conte.
The story begins in 1998, barely two months into the baseball season that would serve to resurrect the sport still ailing from almost three decades of labor disputes, culminating in the August 1994 strike that "led to the only cancellation of the World Series since World War I" (p.xi). In that year Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa would awe the fans with their race to Roger Maris's record-breaking 61 homeruns. McGwire would ultimately take the coveted prize, racking up 70 homers to Sosa's 66. But that year would also eventually be clouded by a bottle of pills labeled "Androstenedione" found in McGwire's locker by a curious reporter. This led to speculation regarding legal supplements used by baseball players. But that was only the beginning . . .
In Chapter One Victor Conte is introduced as the genius behind the success of the track and field superstar Marion Jones. Over the course of the next few chapters the authors in dramatic fashion weave a tale of backroom deals, money-laundering, and good old-fashioned sports doping, to arrive at what would prove to be the largest network of steroid trafficking in both baseball and track and field in U.S. history. And behind it all was Victor Conte, with his premier athletes: the future Hall of Famer Barry Bonds, and once crowned "world's fastest woman," Marion Jones.
The authors explain how Conte took his knowledge of nutritional products (which ironically many doctors dismissed as foolhardy) and, when facing bankruptcy, turned it into a multi-million dollar drug trafficking operation. Conte's assent to the throne of sports infamy began with a small nutrition store he and his then-wife Audrey opened in 1983. From there, his intelligence and quick learning aided him in winning many clients beginning with Willy Cahill, a former judo champion, to invest in his ideas about mineral deficiencies in athletes. Capitalizing on this, his small outfit he named the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative or BALCO for short, attracted many more clients, some of whom would provide him with the connections that would lead him to superstar athletes like Bonds and Marion Jones.
Conte was able to meet men like Patrick Arnold, who was busy developing a substance nicknamed "The Clear" from the all but forgotten Russian-developed steroid norbolethone, and Emeric Delczeg, a 47-year old bodybuilder that supplied Human Growth Hormone (HGH) to professional bodybuilders and NFL players like Bill Romanowski. Through these men he met others like Greg Anderson, Barry Bonds childhood acquaintance who became his personal trainer and supplier of performance-enhancing drugs, and former Soviet track coach Remi Korchemny, who now trained many elite U.S. track stars and had connections to countless others. Eventually Conte used the marketing of his legal product, ZMA (zinc magnesium/monomethionine aspartate) to front his steroid trafficking.
In 2003, Conte's world began to unravel. Jeff Novitzky, a Special Agent with the IRS's Criminal Investigations unit (IRS CI), started to investigate BALCO for money-laundering and drug trafficking. Later that year Trevor Graham, the track and field coach for Tim Montgomery who had previously had a falling out with Conte, decided he would get back at his former steroid supplier and called a reporter in North Carolina with news that he had a syringe with a substance undetectable to drug tests that athletes on the West Coast were using to enhance their performances. On December 3, 2003 agents raided BALCO's storefront offices on the Peninsula near San Francisco and by the end of the next year over a dozen premier athletes would testify before the grand jury as to their involvement with Victor Conte and their use of illegal and banned performance-enhancers.
For his part, Barry Bonds never admitted to using the drugs. He claimed he did not know which products his trainer Greg Anderson was providing him, despite documents and testimony to the contrary. Marion Jones played the same denial game, eventually pulling out of competition in 2004 amid rumors that the new tests for THG (the name given to "The Clear" by the scientists that first examined it for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency [ADA]), had stunted her ability to compete on the level to which she had previously been accustomed. In the end, the authors leave you with a bad taste in your mouth for competitive sports and wishing that you hadn't taken the red pill and didn't know how deep the rabbit hole would go.
Why Christians Should Read This Book
Toward the end of the book, the authors report on the now infamous hearing that took place before the House Government Reform Committee in which baseball stars Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, and Sammy Sosa testified about steroid use in baseball. Among those who would testify were baseball commissioner Bud Selig, players' union chief Donald Fehr, and Denise and Ray Garibaldi, parents of Rob Garibaldi, a former junior college baseball standout who took his life on October 1, 2002, likely suffering from depression brought on by extensive steroid use that Rob claimed was necessary if he was to make it to the Big Leagues. Rob explained to his mother when she confronted him earlier in 2002 that he knew that major leaguers were using the same illegal products he had been injecting into his young body for the past five years. The Garibaldi's sat in stunned silence as the athletes at the hearing dodged questions regarding steroid usage.
This story illustrates the fact that steroid use has become rampant among high schoolers who see their idols bulking up in inexplicable ways to the detriment of their futures bodies. Steroids are already common in bodybuilding, but in recent years, amid weak testing and blatant ignorance, they have tricked down into the locker rooms of would-be athletes, many of whom are impressionable Christians pressured to perform by teammates, classmates, administrators, fans, and unfortunately, even parents who dream of elite scholarships and big professional contracts for their children. All Christians need to come back often to the reality that men are depraved, that "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9, KJV) It is important for us as Christians to have a reasoned response to those who destroy their bodies in pursuit of vain glory. This book, above all else, shows evil men engaging in wicked acts to fuel their perverse egos. We should all take inventory of ourselves and those around us who may fall into the same traps.
Problems With the Book
Despite the overwhelming evidence that the authors skillfully adapt into a dramatic narrative, they, in the interest of this approach, often leave the reader confused as to when events transpire and as to the timeline in relation to other occurrences detailed in the book. It would be helpful to the reader for them to include another Appendix in the back with a timeline covering major events in relation to each other. Also, the authors employ a moderate amount of profanity, mostly through quotes made by the major players in the narrative. Still, the Christian reader should be informed that were the book a movie, it would receive an 'R' rating. And finally, despite the fact that the book is well-written and incredibly informative, the authors at times go overboard to provide details that serve more to bog down the narrative than to inform the reader. An example of this is found in Chapter Seven when the authors detail the blossoming relationship between Greg Anderson and Barry Bonds. The authors could have sliced this chapter in half and still given the reader all that he needed to connect the two.
Overall Rating
I would give this book an overall rating of 7 syringes out of 10. The book was informative, well-written, and hard to put down. The authors cover a great deal of material in a short format and from the beginning they suck the reader into a story that is bound to keep us intrigued for years to come, especially now that Major League Baseball has launched a new investigation into steroid use by its players and as Barry Bonds continues to receive criticism from fans.


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Wild turkey crashes through school window
UTICA, N.Y. -- A fifth-grade class received an unexpected visitor Thursday.
Around noon, a wild turkey crashed into the window of the classroom at the Our Lady of Lourdes School, said school principal Carol Polito.
"He literally flew through the window right from the outside. Thank God nobody was injured," she said. "I think it's just amazing that not only did the bird come flying through, but the noise it made; it was a very, very loud noise."
Technology teacher Josh Marris was able to coax and walk the turkey out of the building. He said the turkey didn't appear to be hurt, although he did see red on the stairwell when he was taking the bird outside.
"I heard the smash; the fifth-graders screamed," he said. "They went screaming down the hall, some of them were holding the door shut."
He then went in the room and began the process of coaxing the bird out.
"We'll remember this one for a very long time," Polito said.
Dean resigns after spray-painting parking sign
JACKSON TWP., Ohio -- The dean of the Kent State University Stark Campus, who resigned abruptly last week, did so after being stopped by security while spray-painting a parking sign on neighboring Stark State College of Technology's campus.
Betsy Boze said in an interview Tuesday that she "was simply correcting an error on the sign."
Spray-paint was used to deface two signs on Stark State's campus, according to police. Boze said the spray-paint was "not graffiti."
"But it was simply removing an arrow pointing to the parking lot that was incorrect and correcting it," she said.
Boze will not face criminal charges.
Ex-Scout leader accused of stealing Girl Scout cookie money
TROUPSBURG, N.Y. -- It's one thing to get caught with your hand in the cookie jar, but it's a lot more serious if the jar turns up missing entirely.
Bath-based state police on Monday charged April Martineau, 28, of Troupsburg, with fourth-degree grand larceny — a class E felony — and third-degree falsely reporting an incident, a misdemeanor, after she allegedly lied about a burglary at her home and later admitted to keeping more than $2,000 worth of cash and checks raised during a fall 2008 Girl Scout cookie sale.
According to troopers, Martineau allegedly reported a burglary at her home on Dec. 8, 2008, and claimed $1,200 in cash and $1,000 in checks raised for the Girl Scouts had been stolen. When Martineau repeatedly dodged a state police investigator who was trying to follow up on the initial report, authorities began to question the legitimacy of her burglary claim.
"She was avoiding me for two months. It was strange. She was reporting a burglary to her home and I thought it was odd that the homeowner who was reporting a burglary to her residence was not availing herself to me for an interview," said Inv. Marci Trimble.
Trimble said when she stopped at Martineau's home earlier this week, Martineau confessed to keeping the money and cooperated with the investigation. Trimble said before the confession was made, she already reviewing large purchases Martineau had recently made.
Trimble said Martineau had spent the money on "family items" but would not identify specifically what the items were.
Private eye's secret camera leads to theft arrest
WINCHESTER, Mass. -- A Winchester man was arrested after allegedly getting caught on a hidden camera entering his neighbor's apartment and stealing money from a dresser drawer.
William J. Austin Jr., 24, was arrested about 11:30 a.m. Feb. 20 and charged with breaking and entering during the daytime with the intent to commit a felony, and larceny over $250. According to the police report, Austin was arrested after a resident of a nearby multi-family home reported money missing from his apartment.
More than $9,000 in cash had been stolen from the victim's home since October, police said.
According to police, the victim said he believes someone may have a key to his apartment and was using it to gain entry when he was away. In order to catch the intruder, the victim hired a private investigation firm to install a video surveillance system in his home.
On Feb. 17, the video captured a man on tape inside the apartment.
"We viewed the DVD and observed a white male in a hooded sweatshirt entering (the victim's unit), and ransacking the unit," police wrote in their report.
Austin admitted to police he had entered the victim's apartment on Feb. 17, after going next door to see him. When he knocked on the door and there was no answer Austin allegedly tried the handle and found the door unlocked.
He admitted to stealing $40 from a dresser drawer, but told police it was the only time he had gone into the victim's apartment, police said.
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Celtic culture at the castros of Galicia and Asturias
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Travel back in time and discover what prehistory's first "cities" were like. They are the Celtic "castros" (fortified Iron Age settlements) of northwestern Spain, which gave rise to a culture with its own distinctive traits. Sites in Galicia and Asturias will let you discover the artistic and archaeological wealth of this ancient people, always surrounded by legend.
During the Iron Age, at the end of prehistory, human beings decided to leave behind their itinerant existence to settle in villages, some larger than others. This was the origin of the Celtic "castros" (fortified, Iron Age settlements) of northwestern Spain, in the Regions of Galicia and Asturias. Some of these settlements were to survive until after the arrival of the Romans. Castro culture in this region left behind a valuable architectural and artistic legacy, that you can see at museums and at the many archaeological sites in the area. Visiting them is an ideal opportunity to discover this history of these legendary villages for yourself: their wealth of crafts and traditions, their way of life...
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One of the most characteristic elements of the castros in Galicia and Asturias is their setting. They tended to be located either on mountains and in elevated positions, or close to the coast, so that nature itself would provide them with defenses. Nowadays, this special positioning means that they also enjoy stunning views.
Castros were fortified enclosures, surrounded by ditches and walls. Inside there were circular stone dwellings with thatched roofs, laid out in neighbourhoods, separated by streets and squares. Other, longer buildings served as places to get together or to worship, and some settlements even had steam baths. Castro de Coaña, in Asturias, and Santa Tecla in the Galicia village of A Guarda (Pontevedra), are two highly representative examples, but there are more.
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In Galicia, special mention should be made of Castro de Viladonga, in the village of Castro do Rei (some 30 kilometres from the city of Lugo). Next to the site you will find its Archaeological Museum, with an exhibition which is an excellent way to complete your visit. Amongst other interesting spots, you can also discover the castros of Baroña and Elvira, less than 65 kilometres from Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña), or those at San Cibrán de Lás and Castromao, just over 25 kilometres from Ourense.
In Asturias there are many other outstanding spots to be visited besides Castro de Coaña, situated 25 kilometres from Luarca. Very close, 10 minutes away by car, you will find Castro de Mohías and Castro de Pendía. And, less than 50 kilometres from the village of Pendía, you will find the "castros" of San Isidro and Chao Samartín. These are just a few of the most emblematic places: to make sure you don't miss anything, a good idea is to make for the tourist offices where they will give you all the details.
If you have time left over, visit any of the archaeological museums to be found in these provinces. At the museums in Asturias, Pontevedra, Lugo, A Coruña and Ourense, you can see a range of objects and materials found in the different castros, including everything from ceramics and beautiful items of precious metal work, to iron and copper tools. Don't think twice: in Spain, ancient Celtic culture is close at hand.


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