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I feel you have missed out a book, the ONLY book i've read in the last 5 years thanks to winning it here, It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels by Rob Penn
We've probably mentioned that road.cc is based in the fine city of Bath where apart from the hills in all directions there's not too much to complain about. Apart from anything, we are fortunate to have in Bath the UK's Independent Bookseller of the Year 2011 in Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights and not only that Mr Edward Scotland who works there is a cyclist. Books on the theme are never a struggle around these parts. Over to you, Ed:
The Rider - Tim Krabbé £8.99
I love this book (and so do a lot of our forum readers - Ed) It is brilliantly written in a taut no-nonsense style by an author who also just happens to be a talented rider in his own right. The single race described in this tiny book is presented like a chess game; the author has raced with the same men many times and revels in predicting when they will fold or try to dominate. Then he becomes aware that no one in his breakaway has ever ridden with the new guy out in front…
Maglia Rosa - Herbie Sykes £29
Another beautifully produced book from the clever people at Rouleur. The photography is stunning and the history of the sexiest race in cycling with the manliest jersey is spot on. A truly class act.
Cyclepedia - Michael Embacher £17.95
Porn for bike enthusiasts of every order from the purely technical to the outrageously aesthetic, this will make lycra-clad weight freaks drool and nerdy vintage lovers flip. It contains great photographs of loads of innovative bikes through the ages, which hammer home the restless desire to improve and finesse what is already one of the perfect design objects.
Tomorrow, We Ride - Jean Bobet £12.95
This is a rare beast, an autobiography by one of the gods of French cycling that is actually well written. The author is surprisingly revealing about all aspects of Tour life and enjoyably defensive about his own considerable talent. But for me the whole book is worth it for the section where he explains why he loves to ride. Pure poetry, that I should really tattoo somewhere.
Paris-Roubaix, a Journey Through Hell - Bouvet, Callewaert & Gatellier £29.95
All the mud and considerable blood of the hardest, most ridiculous race there is. The photography is great and any fan of human emotion, especially suffering, will enjoy the gritted teeth and looks of torment on cycling's most legendary faces. Every aspect of the race is explored and in every age. This is a must.
In Pursuit of Stardom - Tony Hewson £12.95
This is the rousing tale of three friends in a clapped-out old ambulance, who pioneered the terrors of the continent for the rest of us. They set out with ridiculous optimism and no money, confident that they would survive on prize money gained from a season of small races. An exciting, funny and inspiring account of an almost unknown golden age of British competition cycling abroad.
Cycling's Golden Age - Owen Mulholland £34.95
This is my favourite coffee table tome. It covers every great name from the golden age with lashings of photos, biographical detail, memorabilia and incident. It is impossible to walk away from this book and not be depressed by the caliber or lack of eccentricity in today's would-be heroes.
One More Kilometre and We're in the Showers - Tim Hilton £8.99
With all the great books on foreign bike culture it is easy to forget that, from the start, Britain ploughed its own often very different path. This book delves into our island's cycling heritage with unexpected insights and wonderful tangents, I emerged genuinely entertained but also educated and oddly proud of the bike's British legacy. If you haven't read it you really should.
Fallen Angel - William Fotheringham £8.99
One of the all time greatest cyclists and enigmas, here Coppi's insanely complicated life is looked into with great insight and clarity. Fotheringham paints a fascinating portrait of Italy at a time of huge upheaval, as it looks to and then turns from a man who may or may not have made a pact with the devil in order to ride like no other. And here's the road.cc review.
Pedalare! Pedalare! - John Foot £14.99
As an unashamed lover of almost all things Italian, with blind eye turned to Il Duce and old bunga bunga, I approached this history of Italian cycling with some excitement. I really enjoyed Foot's style and came away with way more information on this nation's fascination than I started with. A hearty recommendation.
Rouleur Annual Volume 5
What can I say? It's a great magazine and the annual summing up is a perfect holiday treat. As they say themselves, "Pain, glory, victory, despair, closed roads, cross dressing and sleep deprivation… a year of cycle sport captured with superb imagery and insightful words," all from their usual writers including personal favourite Bill Strickland. (...and you can order this one from the road.cc shop too - Ed)
Bounce - Matthew Syeed £8.99
This is a simply fascinating look at what makes a champion, in pretty much any walk of life but especially sport. The conclusions are often challenging and surprising and the author is very convincing in style as well as argument.
Vault, an anti-novel - David Rose £8.99
This little novel was a real discovery for me. It tells the tale of one man's move from war-time sniper to competition cyclist with a career in espionage for good measure. To his surprise he finds an author has already written his life into a book, and the hero is left trying to prise back his own story. With lots of great bike detail and odd literary twists, this is thought provoking eccentric stuff that should be read far more widely.
The Epiplectic Bicycle - Edward Gorey £8.99
Gorey is better known for his definitive illustrations for TS Eliot's 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats' but we're obviously going for his bicycle period here and 1968. The sort of book knowing parents will enjoy reading to their children for words like 'oaf' and 'ninny'. "An untenanted bicycle rolled into view…" and so Embley and Yewbert's adventure begins.
Raoul Taburin Keeps a Secret - Jean-Jacques Sempe £16.95
I have saved a real treat till last. This is a sly comic masterpiece in graphic form about the worlds' greatest bicycle mechanic who harbours a deeply embarrassing secret that won't stay hidden. It is a real gem from France's most beloved illustrator, and is a must read if only for the wonderful interior views of the most cluttered bike shed ever.
For even more cycling book suggestions take a look at last year's Christmas books for cyclists' list compiled by our very own Simon MacMichael.
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Other great omission is Matt Seaton's The Escape Artist - not just one of the best books about cycling, but one of the best I've ever read (and my wife will tell you I'm not easily pleased). Buy, you won't be disappointed.
I agree. The best cycling related book I've ever read.


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Two Women Carrying Meat in Tub, 1892–1901
ivory, black colouring, red colouring, yellow colouring, string
5.4 x 7.7 x 1.5 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; The Cotter Collection, Acquired with funds from an anonymous donor
The medium of ivory has a long history as a carving material amongst tundra dwelling peoples from Siberia to Greenland. The carving of ivory was a well-developed skill of the Labrador Inuit in the nineteenth century. There was a long history of trading with Moravian missionaries from Europe who established the first of several permanent missions at Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 1771. This carving is one of 58 acquired in the 1890s by Hudson's Bay Company employee James Alma Wilson while he was based at the Inuit community of Rigolet. The collection remained in the possession of the family for several decades and was acquired by the WAG in 1991 from George and Sally Cotter of Winnipeg. The tiny miniatures are carved in exquisite detail and coloured with natural plant dyes.
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Yesterday signaled the end of the 2011 Bonneville Speed Week. Once again speed freaks from all over the world made the pilgrimage to the Salt to race vehicles of almost every imaginable variety.
As we wait for videos of the action to slowly appear and wonder if next year will be the one we finally make it to Bonneville, it seemed appropriate to take a look at this excellent video of last year's event made by Depth of Speed's Josh Clason.
For those of us who missed out on attending Speed Week, watching footage of these vintage rides and advanced speed machines covered in salt is the next best thing.


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By Rick Telander in Men's Journal. There is a decision you must make. The world is vast and unstructured. In it, things move seemingly at random. There comes a narrowing, a focusing, as the aperture reduces and reduces. The act, combined with training and skill and vision and, yes, philosophy, leads to a gradual, noiseless ratcheting down and down, like ripples in a pond going backward toward the pebble, closer and closer, smaller and smaller, the chaos dissipating into a tiny center of detailed clarity. And then the trigger.
Scott Tyler has been out of the Navy Seals for two years, but you don't simply forget what you did best. And what he did best, other than lead men in high-stakes combat, was aim a high-caliber, long-range rifle at a "target," be that machine, structure, or, most relevantly, a man, and, in Tyler's words, "take it out." That is what snipers do. Their craft – a part of warfare since the emergence of the Kentucky rifle during the American Revolution and in some ways even further back, to whenever the first accurate, long-distance bow shooter or rock thrower appeared – might seem outdated in an era of smart bombs and computer-controlled drones. But that is not the case. In the mountains of Afghanistan and the streets of Iraq, where the sporadically appearing plainclothes enemy might be far away, amid protective rocks, or close-up amid innocent citizens, stealth killing and accurate killing – the sniper's trademarks – are essential.
To shoot a man from a distance is a fascinating, awe-inspiring thing. It is nearly mythic in its godlike bequeathal of power. You are here, and he is there, and the connective and intensely private embrace is one of death. The two parties are linked by the flight of a tiny projectile traveling at supersonic speed, arriving to do its work well before the sound does and a moment after the powder flash and smoke are visible. To see that brief flash and to recognize, if only for a millisecond, that you will be the recipient of the explosive message, after which you will cease to exist, must be among the more horrifying recognitions there is. If the chamber noise is reduced and the blast light dulled (Tyler and the men he directed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Philippines generally used silencers or suppressors on the barrels of their rifles), the impact – a far-off head exploding, an arm abruptly detached, a body suddenly pierced by an invisible drill – occurs in a world without context or reason for the enemy, and is therefore not just terrifying but dispiriting.
"Long-range target interdiction: That's the two-dollar phrase," says Tyler, who sometimes speaks so quietly that you find yourself studying his lips. "In a conventional war you're on the battlefield, and if you look over and your buddy's head blows up and then you see another friend go down, it freaks you out. It demoralizes you; it makes you question things. It's a psychological thing. You, as a sniper, try for the highest-ranking person, if you can, to create that chaos. But in an insurgency, as we have now, when the enemy comes out in ones and twos, sometimes right in the cities, without ever being a big force, it's all ambush. So it can be better to have snipers rather than a man on every corner. A sniper team can stay hidden.''
Tyler now works when he can as a security consultant – a job that still takes him to hot spots such as Somalia and Iraq. His company, Qaletaqa Corps, works with various governments, tracking down terrorists and war criminals, and with private companies, planning logistics for their personnel traveling to volatile regions, sometimes even accompanying them. He was also recently featured in a short-lived reality show on NBC called 'The Wanted.' In that show, Tyler and three other specialists tracked down alleged terrorists and killers now living freely in other countries. Instead of a rifle, Tyler carried a passport and a camera. The trouble with the show was it made no final sense. The evildoers had found legal loopholes so they could live openly, and Tyler sure as hell couldn't go to, for instance, Norway, where the first episode occurred, and blast a dude from half a mile away. Though that would have been something.
At 5-foot-11, 185 pounds, Tyler is modestly sized, if muscular, with thick blacksmith hands, dark hair showing flecks of gray, and green eyes, one of which – the left – bears a birthmark that sometimes lends that iris a golden hue. Maybe the defect is actually a gift, because Tyler has 20/20 vision in his right eye but 20/15 in the left.
That's not the only unusual thing about Tyler, 36, a man who likes to meditate and contemplate big philosophical issues, such as the meaning of life. "People expect him to be so macho,'' says his mother, Kate, a former hippie who made jewelry and traveled about with her son in a lime-green school bus in southern California before settling down with second husband Darrol Rice in Rio Linda. "They expect that of a sniper. But he's so thoughtful, so open to suggestions, so concerned about others. When he was a little boy, he found five dollars on the playground, and he turned it in. When he went to sign up for the Marines, I thought we were going to the mall so he could hit me up for comic books."
He was 18 then, in 1991, coming off a restless high school career. (He was kicked out after spending more time surfing than studying, but eventually earned his GED.) He served a tour in Somalia, got out in 1996, and enrolled at the University of California–Berkeley. The elite, famously liberal school wasn't exactly clamoring for a surfer-dropout-turned–G.I. Joe, but Tyler cajoled military officials into writing him letters of recommendation. He settled on chemistry as his major, "because chemistry had kicked my ass'' in some early classes there, and he wasn't backing down from it again. After a year he had a 3.8 GPA, but his view of life from the chemistry lab was not fulfilling.
He had had a dream: He would continue on to medical school, become a doctor, and, rifle hanging in the back of his truck, work on an Indian reservation, where he would save lives while hiking into the roughest terrain. "I wanted to help people," he says. "But I was managing an apartment building and spending 80 to 90 hours a week studying. For what? So I could spend 80 to 90 hours a week studying in med school? I wanted to learn – knowledge for knowledge's sake – but it was all so competitive for no reason, so full of backstabbing, just a meat grinder. I looked out the windows of the lab, and there were the hills. And I knew I wanted to be back around people I liked being around."
So he switched his major to cognitive science – "why we think what we think," he says – and began hanging out with professors, "talking and trying to learn from them." One afternoon, Tyler and I visit his favorite professor at Berkeley, a cheerful man named John Matsui, the head of the scholars program in the department of integrative biology. As we sit in the campus coffee shop, Matsui says with something like awe, "I never had a student like Scott before. I knew you were intelligent. I saw that you would never quit. Your story was… different. Coming to school the way you did. Your desire to learn."
Even so, after he graduated in 2000, Tyler had had enough of school, and he felt himself drawn back to the military, but this time in more of a thinking role. He joined the navy to become a SEAL, one of those supersoldiers trained not only to fight on sea, on land, or in the air, but also to operate more independently. "I wanted to work in as small a unit as possible," he says. "I wanted to take all my determination, intentions, and skill and deliver it as precisely as I could – on the tip of a single bullet."
And that is how a sniper was born.
Part of being a great sniper is having the ability, the mind-set, to blend in, to disguise oneself, to become part of the landscape, to feel and react like soil, like leaves blowing in the wind. In The Ultimate Sniper, a technical guide for advanced snipers that Tyler references again and again, there is a section on Ghillie suits, the camouflage outfits that are designed to resemble the surrounding landscape. "A properly made Ghillie suit so well conceals the wearer that it never fails to impress first-time viewers,'' writes the author, retired army special forces major John L. Plaster. At sniper school, when an instructor talks about the suits, the point is reinforced when, after a spell, an innocuous part of the ground in front of the recruits slowly rises up and becomes human.
"The most important thing about a Ghillie suit is that you can attach other things to it," says Tyler. "It has loops everywhere, and you gather whatever's in your environment – leaves and grass and branches – and tape or string or zip-tie them on. It's a layman's myth that you cover yourself with burlap and you look like Chewbacca and that's that."
Snipers, whenever possible, work as two-man teams – one man spotting with a powerful scope, another shooting. But often even harder than shooting is the act of getting within range. It consists of patience almost beyond belief. There is the high crawl, the elbow crawl, the low crawl, and the sniper crawl. "The sniper crawl is the lowest, slowest movement technique…" Plaster writes, "used when movement must be so slow that there is no visible action to detect. [The sniper] creeps along, only four inches per move, using just fingers and toes to propel himself." With a rifle, of course.
Then come the difficult decisions. "I liked the cut-and-dry, liked it if a guy had a gun and was shooting at our troops, and we shot him," says Tyler. "It's a situation of less ambivalence. Nobody wants to go out and murder someone. You don't shoot just because you can. You have the trigger depressed and there is that final quarter-pound of pressure, and if you make a bad call.… Well, a 'bad kill' can create more insurgents, bad feelings, an international incident. But the biggest thing is, you have to live with it.''
Tyler has won two bronze stars for valor. The first one stemmed from a 2003 incident in which his sniper team was providing support for a unit taking down a Taliban stronghold in the Afghanistan mountains. "We got into a combat situation and had to shoot our way through it," says Tyler, reluctant to say more. It's the second bronze star, though, that illustrates how gray the decision making in the field can get. That one came after a 2005 firefight in the Philippines, where he and other U.S. soldiers had been sent to assist the government in hunting down extremists. The document that accompanied that award notes that Tyler "without regard for his own personal safety…led a two-man element to rescue four injured personnel." The truth is that Tyler came damned close to disobeying orders, since he was supposed to be an "observer," not a combatant. He and another SEAL used two small boats to go up a river, firing all the way, to pull out ambushed and wounded Filipino troops. It was political dynamite, but human grace. Tyler could have been court-martialed as easily as decorated.
"The men had been shot up; they were bleeding out," he says. "I got on the phone with the captain back at the base, and he wanted us to wait. He didn't want to make the call, politically. Then my phone fell in the water. It kind of slipped out of my hand. Even now I don't know if I did it on purpose." Three of the four men he rescued survived, and Scott Tyler's reputation spread.
The men in his platoons revered him, because he was meticulous, because he was loyal and smart, because he followed the rules but still thought philosophically and creatively. "I love the guy like a brother," says Dave Hansen, a 13-year SEAL chief petty officer who served under Tyler in Iraq in 2005. "He constantly thought outside the box. Need something done? Just give him the facts and leave him alone. Because he was so good at so many things, he was always able to get us into combat, which is the point. I mean, there he is, knee-deep in craziness, smoking a lot of dudes, and doing it the right way. Mr. Rice" – Tyler recently changed his name from Rice back to Tyler, his birth name, as a way of reconnecting with his birth dad, but many of his fellow former soldiers still call him that – "he is the kind of guy who's gonna save your ass. Maybe that's what comes through in his art.''
Oh yes, the art. Tyler is a sculptor; he learned welding from his birth father and has created some remarkably beautiful and thought-provoking moving sculptures out of stainless steel and stone. We visit a gallery in Stinson Beach where one of his pieces, Spatial Relationships, is on display in the yard, and the slightest breeze sets arms on the heavy, earth-toned metal-and-rock form into improbable, silent, delicate motion. "My art has to do with the positive spaces and negative spaces of a landscape,'' Tyler explains. "That goes with the art of being a sniper. A person's instinct, your eye, will go from positive space – a tree, a rock – to positive space. Negative space is the space in between. Deer and coyotes have the ability, with their coloring, to stand still in negative space, to hide in plain sight. Our eye notices straight lines, perfect circles, shiny things in the wild because they're out of place. Those are not natural forms or shapes. I like things that blend into the landscape. I find nothing more beautiful than trees and rocks.''
Scott Tyler was in a stone hut in Iraq's Amdar province, east of Ramadi. This was in 2005, and the wrecked little building, about 10 feet by 12 feet, had been dubbed "the hot dog stand" by members of the SEAL team who occasionally used it for cover in the no-man's-land of destruction. Tyler was with two men from his sniper team, observing the gray ambivalent scene outside, when they noticed a suspicious-looking local man checking out places where the SEALs sometimes set up. The man studied the road the military used regularly. He had on a robe, and it was impossible to see what he might be carrying underneath. The man looked at the hut. He walked closer and stared into the opening about five feet off the ground, at eye level, the place where the SEALs had built an observation deck out of bricks inside the hot dog stand. The man stared directly at Tyler, from six feet away, into his face.
Tyler was covered with his own handmade camouflage suit, spray-painted different colors "like a chameleon," with a mottled front he had designed "not to look like a human, but to be natural and exist in negative space, to be invisible." He had layers of mosquito netting covering his face, and he had backed into the shadows. The man could not see Tyler, could not even see his green eyes.
"Every hair on my body was standing on end,'' Tyler says. "He could have tossed a grenade into that opening. But I need to see that he is a threat, absolutely. I need to know. He has to deserve to die."
The man left and 20 minutes later returned with someone else. The first man began to dig a hole in the roadway with a trowel while the other served as a lookout. The first man dropped something into the hole, perhaps a bomb.
"I didn't have a rifle, but I confirmed the target – both of those guys – and I cleared my men hot. It would be a simultaneous shoot. I counted down – 'Three, two, one…' and we took out the mine guy, about 75 meters away, and the lookout guy, about 125 meters away, at the same time. We had to do it precisely so that neither would be alerted. Within seconds a truck came flying down the road and picked up the farther body. But the first guy had fallen directly on top of the mine, or whatever it was. And it was a mine. We detonated it, and he disappeared."
Tyler didn't take those death shots, but he produced them. Though he won't talk about it, it seems likely that snipers under his command have killed more than two dozen men, and he himself has killed maybe a half dozen or more. He won't deny that. And maybe the body count is much higher. He doesn't like to discuss it. "There are noncombatants in that number," he says.
"If I shot somebody, or men under my command did, I took full responsibility for that. I know that helped the men, lifted the burden." But what about the burden on him? "It sucks. It's impossible, really, trying to be precise. Nothing is clear. I never had a textbook case. Never. You do your best. You follow the rules of engagement, your conscience. And then the next morning you wake up and you think, Oh, my God."
At a shooting range outside Nevada City, far up in the wooded, mountainous eastern corner of California, not far from Reno, Tyler lies motionless on his belly in his khaki uniform, his heels pressed flat on the wooden platform, an Austrian-made Steyr Mannlicher .308 collector-grade sniper rifle pressed against his cheek. The rifle is brand-new and belongs to a range member named Rod. Next to Tyler is a box of Hornady 150-grain, lead-core, copper-jacketed, high-impact bullets with polymer tips. The tips are harder than the surrounding lead, so the synthetic red cone will be driven back on impact, causing a small explosion of lead fragments into the target, thus creating a larger hole at the back of a man than at the front. These bullets will travel more than half a mile per second.
Each rifle a sniper uses has unique characteristics that are compounded by the ammunition and many, many exterior factors. There is wind. There is humidity. There is the spin of the Earth. There is even the fact that as a rifle is fired, its barrel heats up, the metal contracts, and the bullets are propelled faster. As a sniper Tyler had a "quiver of rifles," including a huge .50-caliber McMillan Brothers bolt-action, a .300 Winmag, and an MK 12, which he liked because it was light and small, though it "didn't pack much of a punch" in the recoil. But his favorite was a CheyTac .408, a weapon he discovered late in his career and never used on a human. "It was accurate up to 2,500 yards," he says. "The round had a very stable flight. Most rounds, when they go from supersonic to subsonic, start to tumble. This one tumbles and then restabilizes."
I ask Tyler about the drama shots we see from snipers in the movies, like how they always seem to be shooting one another through their scopes. "It's mostly Hollywood," he says. "Head shots seldom happen. Anywhere from here to here" – he indicates the lower chest to the neck – "is good. There are so many variables. A shot that's off by an inch at 100 yards will be off by 10 inches or more at a thousand yards."
To ensure he's as accurate as possible, Tyler meticulously charts the results from his practice shooting, logging all the variances he can think of – temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed, direction. He's looking for patterns – not just, say, how one type of bullet might vary from another, but how one particular batch of that bullet might vary. "That way when it comes down to game time you know what's going to happen," he says.
In combat Tyler never took a shot from more than 400 yards. But at a practice range in Idaho, he once hit a foot-square metal target from 1,600 yards. He was shooting across a valley, amid a furious wind and rain, and still hit the target on his first try. "We used the ballistic computers to deal with the environmental conditions," he says matter-of-factly. That bullet was in the air for well over a second, rising, spiraling, descending, and fading to the right like a Tom Brady Hail Mary pass.
As astonishing as that feat was, it doesn't come close to the long-distance killing record that was recently set by a Canadian sniper in Afghanistan. His fatal shot traveled 2,657 yards – more than a mile and a half. That bullet was in the air for four seconds and dropped 146 feet, while also curving to the side a good amount. "Those Canadians," Tyler says, "they're raising the bar pretty high."
The range is now silent, even though 15 men have come by from various spots, shuffling and eager, to see the SEAL shoot.
"Going hot,'' Tyler says.
He appears to have no breathing at all, no motion, no nothing. His feet are laid out flat on their sides behind him because snipers do not give the enemy even the sight of raised heels as targets.
There is an explosion, and then silence. He racks the bolt, and a bright, smoking casing pops out. He picks it up and lays it carefully to his right. He shoots again.
When he shoots, Tyler keeps both eyes open and lets the floating circular reticules hover like a halo around the target. "I try to get in a good pattern of breathing, try to relax everything. I'll pull the slack off the trigger and know I'm at the point where only the mechanism is barely keeping the hammer back. You do not slap the trigger. You have to be in the moment. It's a little bit of an out-of-body experience." High-powered rifles are incredibly loud. They can be deafening. But Tyler has shot in war zones without muffling devices or earplugs. And a strange thing happens. "I don't hear the blast,'' he says. "I don't hear anything."
He mentions that many hunters – regular guys out for deer, longhorn, elk – flinch at the last moment, because they're not relaxed. Because they're thinking of what they're doing. A sniper can do what he does because – after months and months of training and study and reflection – he knows that he has done it all before thousands of times, effortlessly. "It's like golf,'' Tyler says, "except every time you swing there's an explosion in your face."
This gun, a gun he never used before, misfires three times on the range, and the scope has never been accurately adjusted, but when we walk the 218 yards – two football fields, two end zones – to the target, the Styrofoam square has three patterns of three holes, each of which could be covered by a quarter.
It's worth noting that Tyler does not especially like guns. He owns only a shotgun, which he has never shot and which he needed when he lived up in the hills of the Sierras with his wife and young daughter (he is recently divorced) as protection from meandering bears. He has never hunted, never killed an animal, never even shot at an animal.
Hemingway once wrote: "Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter." But that is not strictly the case for Tyler. He left the service voluntarily, because he felt his principles were being violated by a superior's decisions. It had to do with responsibility – his for the men under him. And he could not live with his conscience.
He admits he is still searching now, trying to come up with a lifestyle that embraces all that he is, all that he has done. Without a permanent address, he's basically living in his pickup truck. He's dating, and he wants to marry again, have more children, continue his art, and live "in a Mongolian yurt along the Pacific coast."
A nice vision. But it must coexist with Tyler's memory of, for instance, the first time he was fired upon in Baghdad: "We were in the back of a Humvee and I thought it was cigarette ashes flicked from a car. Heard nothing, had no idea where it was coming from. Just sparks skipping across stones." The man riding next to Tyler said, "Motherfucker! The turret guy just hit me in the back of the head with the turret!" But the turret was high up. He'd been shot in the neck. By a sniper.
A man, a thinking man, a philosophical man, chooses to be a sniper, to fight his war from a distance. And why would he do so?
Maybe because he can say this, as Scott Tyler does: "If you're shooting from 700 yards, you become the scope, you go down it, you become the tip of the bullet, you project yourself 700 yards. You're there."


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OAKLAND — Elevenpeople were arrested and boats, cars and heavy equipment were found as a large-scale theft operation was broken up Wednesday after a two-month investigation, authorities said.
Police found 23 men and women inside a massive gray warehouse tucked away in a corner of the Fruitvale district at 845 36th Ave., between Interstate 880 and nearby railroad tracks.
California Highway Patrol spokesman Officer Sean Wilkenfeld said 16 other men and women were detained and were being questioned Wednesday afternoon. There is no sign outside the building, and business records listed for the address are either expired or the phone number has been disconnected or changed.
Police did not release any names, ages or cities of residence of those arrested but said more arrests might come later Wednesday. The 11 people arrested were taken into custody on a variety of charges, including suspicion of auto theft, possession of drugs, and warrants including parole violations, police said.
Dozens of heavily armed law enforcement officers raided the building at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. Numerous vehicles were found on the premises, including more than 50 vehicles, at least one stolen cargo trailer, boats and recreational vehicles, police said. At least 10 firearms and an unspecified quantity of methamphetamine were found on the property.
Wilkenfeld said the investigation was ongoing and declined to discuss exactly what was found on the premises.
Auto theft in Oakland rose 10 percent last year compared to 2012, with more nearly 7,800 vehicles stolen from the city in 2013, according to Oakland police statistics.
The investigation, which began in December, was headed by the Alameda County Regional Auto Theft Task Force, including members of the California Highway Patrol and the Oakland Police Department. Homeland Security; Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Alameda County Probation; and Oakland Animal Control also assisted. Several pit bulls were taken from the scene.
The 24-hour Parent Teacher Child Care Center, at East Ninth and 35th Avenue, was placed on lockdown during the raid. The preschool serves about 50 children, ages 3-5. There were no injuries.
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The Financial Services Institute marked its first decade of existence during the opening session of the FSI's OneVoice conference in Washington, D.C., with FSI CEO Dale Brown saying the location made sense because "that's where the action is" for the broker-dealer group's advocacy efforts.
Brown promised that the conference, which has 775 attendees, would include the "most provocative and relevant content we've ever had," for which he credited conference chairwoman Amy Webber, president of Cambridge Investment Research.
More kudos for Webber's programming work came from FSI's 2014 chairman, Mike Mungenast of ProEquities, who also called on the assembled BD home office attendees to grow FSI's membership: "We need more firms" to subsidize FSI membership of individual financial advisors, he said.
That's exactly what ProEquities did itself, and in a media briefing on Tuesday morning, Mungenast said that when it withdrew its subsidized membership, more than 90% of ProEquities' reps renewed their membership. As for other goals during his chairmanship, Mungenast listed work on financial literacy and elder issues.
Webber then introduced the keynote speaker, business consultant and author John Spence, who regaled attendees with a blizzard of advice delivered in a rapid-fire manner to a receptive audience. Beginning by noting that "for those who are prepared, chaos brings opportunity," Spence urged the audience to strive for "nimbleocity," a term defined as a business strategy that combined nimbleness with velocity — enacting change quickly. Successful managers, he said, recognize patterns in their markets and then react quickly to take advantage of those patterns.
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There are only two major differentiators in business these days: the quality of the people on your team and great customer relationships. Spence emphasized the importance of attracting and then retaining top talent in an organization, and encouraged those who are managers to consistently communicate to their employees their value to the business. Noting that 80% of people who quit their jobs do so because of problems with their immediate bosses, Spence said managers should praise their employees at least once every seven to 10 days, as part of a process to build and foster a culture in which good work, and workers, are shown appreciation for their efforts.
Spence went on to say that his favorite business axiom is "ambiguity breeds mediocrity," arguing that most businesses do a poor job of setting clear expectations of employees, failing to provide them with the metrics that both parties can use to determine an employee's success or failure.
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DaveL necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 82 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
DirectBon is a new online shop that sells digital gift cards from other companies. The giftcards will only be send via mail and has a particular code. And will be mailed directly, after succesfull payment.
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The customers-target will have trust in online shopping and credit payments. And they know exactly what they want and what to give as a gift; because DirectBon does not sell gift-packages as others do.
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European Community Directives establish that if the stability of a cosmetic product exceeds 30 months, it is not mandatory to display an expiry date: this is the case for all KIKO MILANO products.
It is however necessary to indicate the PAO (Period After Opening), i.e. the duration - expressed in months - of the product following its opening. This indication is displayed on all our products, with the exception of single-use and pressurized products, as required by law.
The PAO (Period After Opening) is indicated with the same symbol in all European Union countries: an open jar displaying the useful lifespan in months - in figures and followed by the letter M - of the product after opening. The symbol is displayed on both the main container (in direct contact with the cosmetic) and, where present, on the second container (outer packaging).
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If the Los Angeles Kings' Stanley Cup win last season proved anything, it's that any team can win it all. The eighth seed in the Western Conference last season, few thought the Kings stood a chance at anything but a date at the golf course. But behind amazing goaltending from Jonathan Quick and the dedication and grit of four well-rounded forward lines, the Kings dominated the Canucks, Blues, Coyotes and New Jersey Devils and earned their first sip from Lord Stanley's crown.
With the shortened 48-game regular season in 2013, several surprise teams made the playoffs, while others, thanks to chemistry and the right acquisitions, have dominated their respective divisions. It'll be no easy task to predict this year's Stanley Cup champion, but here are a few teams that stick out as potential winners.
Chicago Blackhawks: Behind Patrick Kane (23 goals), Jonathan Toews (48 points) and clutch goaltending from Corey Crawford and Ray Emery, the Blackhawks coasted through the regular season with a 36-7-5 record. What makes the Hawks so good is that in addition three dangerous forwards (Kane, Toews and Marian Hossa), they have aggressive defensemen in Brent Seabrook, Duncan Keith and Nick Leddy that aren't scared to join the play. Crawford and Emery were top-notch all season as well, leading the league with a miniscule 1.96 team GAA, making the Hawks a two-headed monster that can score goals and shut down on defense.
The team's first-round opponent, the Minnesota Wild, will not have an easy time with Chicago. The Blackhawks only weakness is that they lack a real physical presence, but when you score as often as they do, you don't need the rough stuff.
New York Islanders: If the playoffs last year taught us anything, it's that underdogs are dangerous. With one of the best first lines in hockey in John Tavares (28 goals), Matt Molson (44 points) and Brad Boyes (35 points), veteran defensemen in Mark Streit (27 points) and Lubomir Visnovsky (+12) and the NHL's reigning and defending hits leader in Matt Martin (234), the Islanders are a team very similar to last year's Kings. One of the best clubs on the road as well, they have surprised even their toughest critics this season - many of whom expected them to finish in the Atlantic Division cellar again. Behind their depth and the veteran capability of netminder Evgeni Nabokov, the Islanders pose a significant threat.
With four lines that can skate and score, the Islanders key to success this postseason will be special teams. With the league's 11th ranked powerplay and 20th ranked penalty kill, the Isles will have to play better when the chips are down. In five-on-five action, they've proven they can skate with anyone, but with an abundance of youth on the team, they need to stay focused and limit the oppositions chances with the man advantage. If they can stay out of the penalty box and convert on the powerplay, fans in Long Island will have something to cheer about for the first time, in a long time.
Los Angeles Kings: The Kings won the Stanley Cup last season thanks to team-wide depth and grit. In 2013, that same style guided them into the playoffs. On offense, seven players had over 20 points and five had ten or more goals. While Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown were looked at as the backbone of the offense going into the season, Jeff Carter streaked his way to an excellent 26-goal campaign.
Just like last year, all four lines can skate, score and stir it up. With 13 players on the team averaging a hit or more a game, you can bet any win against the Kings is going to come with a few bumps and bruises. The always-stellar Jonathan Quick, who finished April with a solid 2.25 GAA and 6-3-1 record, doesn't make anything easier for the opposition. While it's not easy task to repeat as Stanley Cup champions, the Kings have the potential to do it.
Pittsburgh Penguins: The Penguins dramatically increased their postseason chances by acquiring proven veterans in Brenden Morrow, Jussi Jokinen and Jarome Ignila without giving up much. With any already stacked offense and a plethora of grit to go along with Marc-Andre Fleury in net, the Penguins may be able to win the Stanley Cup without the best offensive player in the league, Sidney Crosby, who's recovering from a broken jaw.
That's because of the skill and leadership ability of Chris Kunitz, James Neal and Matt Cooke. Driven and focused and behind several masterful acquisitions, the Penguins were built for one purpose in 2013: to win the Stanley Cup. Regardless of nagging injuries to Evgeni Malkin, Neal and even the potential absence of Crosby, the Penguins have no excuses.
St. Louis Blues: They don't have the best offense, but in terms of goaltending, the Blues more than make up for it. Brian Elliott was amazing last season and has been on fire as of late, with an 11-2 record in April. The well-balanced scoring and physicality of the team also shouldn't be ignored.
While Chris Stewart led the team with a modest 18-goal, 36-point effort, the Blues had nine players with seven or more goals. That makes matchups for the opposition a prime concern. The additions of Jay Bouwmeester and Jordan Leopold on defense improved any already stellar defense that also consists of Barret Jackman, Kevin Shatternkirk and Alex Pietrangelo. An offense that can come from anywhere, a dependable defense and Elliott in net make, St. Louis a serious threat.


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Equatorial Guinea President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo had a busy round of meetings during the 67th United Nations General Assembly, including a key meeting with Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon.
President Obiang met with the UN Secretary-General to discuss the settlement of the border dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. The UN has been mediating the dispute between the two friendly neighbors, and Ban Ki-Moon and President Obiang announced that the dispute will be submitted to the International Court of Justice in the Hague.
While in New York, President Obiang has also met with Vuk Jeremic, President of the General Assembly; Dr. Dervis Eroglu, President of Northern Cyprus; Atifete Jahjaga, President of Kosovo; and Jose Graziano Da Silva, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
Equatorial Guinea hosts a number of UN programs in its territory, including the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UNICEF, and the UN Development Programme, which has conducted a national census with funding from the government.
President Obiang's Horizon 2020 development plan established sustainable- development goals for Equatorial Guinea to be completed by the year by 2020 in the areas of potable water, education, health, food, security, communication, infrastructure, tourism development, and environmental conservation.


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Today's Song: Jean Grae 'Kill Screen'
It's been an exceptional week for female rappers. Azealia Banks released a video for "1991" that does justice to that year's aesthetics (she called it homage to Madonna, Crystal Waters and Aaliyah, but I detect some swag copped from Black Box mouthpiece Katrin Quinol, too). Her clip has made my affection for the track jump exponentially. Missy Elliott debuted some new songs live. All we got was this shitty, blown-out YouTube video as a result, but still: new Missy. People care about Nicki Minaj's voting choices, and also she proved to be the best thing about the new Alicia Keys single, "Girl on Fire." (Too bad Alicia didn't release this earlier this year so she could have at least gotten some mileage out of the Hunger Games reference.)
All of this is worth pointing out because it wasn't long ago that women were seemingly scarce in hip-hop, underrepresented as it was, and furthermore ignored. There hasn't been this much of a presence for women in rap since the early '90s. I don't report on this stuff to divide a la special "Women in Rock" issues of magazines, but to celebrate this return to (relative) diversity.
And now, in maybe the most exciting applicable turn of the week, Jean Grae has dropped "Kill Screen," the first single from her upcoming Gotham Down album, which she told MTV Hive "has the stories of a superhero gone rogue, turned villainous." Grae spits out "540 words, 683 syllables, 52.54 syllables per sentence" in "Kill Screen," referencing video-game websites, bath salts, "Skarsgaard hotties" and Ke$ha. This is the best song name-checking King of Kong principle Billy Mitchell that you'll hear all year.


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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 21, 2012) -
TransGaming Inc. (TSX VENTURE:TNG) ("TransGaming" or the "Company") today announced that it had completed a third tranche of $150,000 of the non-brokered private placement of up to $1.8 million it previously announced November 20, 2012. A total of 2,142,857 units were issued to subscribers with each unit priced at $0.07 and comprised of one (1) common share and one (1) common share purchase warrant ("Warrant"). Each Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one common share at an exercise price of $0.105 at any time on or before the 24-month anniversary of the closing date.
The terms of this tranche are as previously announced and are part of a subscription agreement with the investor. The issue price of the unit in this tranche was set at a 20% discount from the 30-day volume weighted average price of the stock and the exercise price of the Warrant at a 20% premium to the 30-day volume weighted average price of the stock. The net proceeds from the private placement will be used by the Company for working capital and general corporate purposes.
The subscription rights agreement with the investor includes a covenant that the investor will not exercise any right, including any warrant, in the event that the exercise of such right would result in the investor having beneficial ownership of 10% or more of the issued and outstanding shares in the capital of the Company. To date the Company has raised a total of $450,000 and issued a total of 4,529,273 shares under the terms of the agreement.
In connection with the private placements, a finder's fee of 6% of the aggregate gross proceeds arising therefrom will be paid to the Northern Securities Inc. In addition, the Agents will receive such number of non-transferable warrants (the "Compensation Warrants") equal to 8% of the total number of common shares issued in connection with the offering. Each Compensation Warrant will be exercisable at a price of $0.30 for a period of 24 months from the closing date to acquire one Common Share of the Company.
The private placement is subject to the final approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. Securities issued will be subject to a hold period of four months and one day pursuant to applicable securities laws; however certain insiders of the Company entered into share loan and pledge agreements with one of the investors, which provide for the loan of free trading shares by the insiders. The insiders will not dispose or sell any of their shareholdings under these agreements and all shares loaned will be returned to the insiders after four months.
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TransGaming Inc. (TSX VENTURE:TNG) is the global leader in the multiplatform deployment of interactive entertainment. TransGaming works with the industry's leading developers and publishers to enable and distribute games for Smart TVs, next-generation set-top boxes, Mac computers, and Linux/CE platforms. TransGaming is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Non-Terrific Tim
This game felt a lot "bigger" than just another April matchup of the NL rivals. If you are like me, you looked to Tim Lincecum and a dominant pitching performance. Well, it wasn't meant to happen...started well, 3 clean innings...but the fourth was ugly. Lincecum's effort ( 5.1 innings, 6 hits, 3 earned runs, 1 walk, 4 strikeouts ) was marred by an almost complete lack of getting ahead in the count. Every hit in Tim's bad fourth came on a hitter's count. So, tonight, The Franchise needed help from his fellows.
And they stepped up! Buster with a couple huge RBI's, Mota's terrific hold, Roward with a clutch triple, Sergio and Brian with classic relief...take your pick! A true team effort and a win that we can build on. Let's take this series!!!
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- M.C. O'Connor said...
Not to mention another sensational fielding play by The Freak. That guy is amazing even when he pitches below his standard. And he was humming it in at 94-95!!
Groovy Lincecum link that's part of a RedBull advert. Looks like he's throwing the shuuto.
Huge win. I know, it's April. But the Giants have to prove they can beat the Dodgers, and tonight they showed a lot of spirit. You have to get the hitters going even on a pitching team. They still need to be "average" which was 4.33 rpg in 2010. Loved it when Rowand hit the triple--a homer in most parks. Nice to see Belt get a hit, too. And Buster is waking up. Look out for Buster!
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- Ron said...
Great win, etc., etc..
I have been doing a lot of thinking about modern metrics. So much so, that I have come up with one of my own. It's acronym is TTHTGR or Things That Have to Go Right. It is an assessment at the beginning of the Season of the number of small things that have to go right during a Season for your team to win the World Series.
For example, for the Pittsburgh Pirates, their TTHTGR is approximately 12,574,389. In retrospect, for the 2010 SF Giants, the number was approximately 1,975 - 1,975 little things broke just right, enabling the Giants to win the World Series. For the 2011 SF Giants, given their relatively unchanged roster, Championship experience, & general studliness, that number was reduced to 1,200.
Early season trends are not good, but you can chalk off a few already:
- Aaron Rowand has made some decent contributions in the early season ... we're down to 1,199.
- Tim Lincecum & Matt Cain didn't contract some mysterious tropical disease in the off-season & appear to be just fine ... we're down to 1,197, & down another point for each good start by each of them. Now, we're down to 1,193.
- I postulate that a quality start by Jonathan Sanchez should count for -2 points. Tonight's your chance, Jonathan ... get us down to 1,191.
How about a TTHTGR countdown through the season?
- Wed Apr 13, 10:08:00 AM PDT
- Brother Bob said...
I love it, Ron. TTHTGR. Things that have to go right. This reminds of my alternative MVP selection process, based on the belief that "Great Players Make Great Plays" or GPMGP. Anytime a player makes you say, "Allright!" you give half a point, any time he makes you stand up and shout"Fuck yeah!" you give a full point. Then you just add up the points at the end of the regular season. I realize this may prove to be labor-intensive.
Great game last night. Posey and Sandoval looked good, the rookie looks like me might be out of his slump, and Brian Wilson struck out the side for his first save! And what are we going to do with Rowand? He's playing out of his mind. I remember him being good in spurts in the past and he always came back to earth with a thud.
Maybe Tim will add a Golden Glove to his already awesome trophy case.
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In Burmese Days, there is a sentence:
"Does it mean nothing to you when I say that I love you? I don't believe you've ever realized what it is that I want from you. If you like, I'd marry you and promise never even touch you with my finger. I wouldn't mind even that, so long as you were with me. But I can't go on with my life alone, always alone. Can't you bring yourself ever to forgive me?"
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Contrary to some folks' misconception, there was not only one Popemobile during John Paul's post-assasination-attempt reign. Much like the Duke boys didn't have one General Lee, Michael Knight rolled in more than one KITT, and Colt Seavers' truck sometimes switched between Chevrolet and GMC badging during the course of a Fall Guy episode, the late pontiff had a number of armored-phone-booth cars. And now one's up for bid. This particular example, a Range Rover-based model built for the Pope's '82 visit to the UK, was constructed by British Leyland, and will be auctioned off in Dumfries by Thomson Roddick Scottish Auctions on September 2nd. And really, who doesn't require at least one Popemobile in his stable? [Thanks to the bloke who makes the shirts for the tip.]
Popemobile to go under the hammer [BBC]
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1940's Cuba Cuban Art Deco Vintage Movie Film Poster: Fernandel in Camarero para Senoras
Printed by: Studios Cillero Machado T-5071 for Peliculas Lippert De Cuba S.E.
Age: 1940's
Condition: Large Silk Screen Print, B condition, Linen mounted. Bright, clean, displays beautifully.
Fernandel was a French Comedian known worldwide. This is a Cuban movie poster for one of his comedies called "Ladies Waiter." The top banner states Fernandel now singing and dancing, and features a wonderful graphic of the entertainer with what looks to be a banjo in hand. He wears a yellow top hat and yellow and red performer's bellhop or waiter outfit.
Fernandel was France's top comedic actor, with more than 100 comic performances onscreen. He was best known for a priest role in the "Don Camillo" series. Popular outside of France, he appeared in American and Italian movies. His first Hollywood film was Around the World in Eighty Days in 1956. He also directed his own films.
Poster Text reads as follows:
Top: Fernandel Ahora Cantado y Bailando! (Fernandel singing and dancing!)
on left: A great art deco film screen movie company logo for Peliculas Lippert De Cuba S.E. (Lippert Movies of Cuba) Text says Peliculas Lippert De Cuba S.E. presents....
Bottom, Film Name: En Camarero para Senoras, La Mejor Pelicula Musical Del Mejor Comico European (Best Of The Best Comedy Movie Musical, European)
Original Vintage Cuban posters are very hard to come by from this time period. This is a great art deco design, very graphic. We have had this in our collection for years. The poster is archivally linen backed and ready for framing. We only have this one.
Size: 27 x 37 inches
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LONDON – The Olympic Games forever changed tennis legend Roger Federer's life, long before he finally won a gold medal in Beijing four years ago.
Federer, who holds the all-time record of 17 Grand Slam titles and took the Olympic doubles crown in 2008, is a hot favorite going into the tennis men's singles held on the iconic courts of Wimbledon. For the Swiss master, however, it is the effect the Olympics has had on his personal life that makes the Games so important to him. It was at a lunch table in the Athletes' Village in Sydney in 2000 that he met Slovakian tennis player Mirka Vavrinec, who would become his wife and now the mother of his twin baby daughters.
[ Related: Opening Ceremony mystery solved ]
"It is one of the most special events in the world, in sports, in life, anything," Federer said. "It is a special thing to be part of and if you can be fortunate enough to win a medal or even a gold medal it means everything.
"But it is extra special for me, of course, because of what it means to how my life has gone."
Vavrinec's career on the court ended in 2002 after she suffered a debilitating foot injury that refused to properly heal. Since then she has been Federer's constant companion, while also handling his public-relations matters.
Federer has regularly attributed much of his success to the stability of his relationship with his wife. He's remained at the top of his profession for nearly a decade.
"It has always been a nice thing for us and our relationship to think about the time we met and the fact that it took place at an Olympics," Federer said. "It is pretty cool that it is the time when we were introduced, and obviously now we have been together a long time and have a family and share our lives and all the experiences.
"It doesn't make you want to win it more because you always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it. But it just makes the whole experiences enjoyable. When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too."
Federer carried the Switzerland flag at the Opening Ceremony in Athens in 2004 and again in Beijing. As his country's most high-profile and successful athlete he was offered the opportunity to do it again, but politely declined. Instead, the honor went to Federer's doubles partner, Stanislas Wawrinka.
"I felt it was important to give someone else a chance," Federer said. "I told Switzerland they should choose someone else and they then chose my partner Stan. I think that's a great honor for him because I couldn't have won Olympic gold without him and everyone knows that."
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More Olympic coverage from the Yahoo! Sports network:
• What to watch for: Olympics first weekend
• Lolo Jones shows Tyson Chandler way too big for Olympic village beds
• Photos: Royals greet Olympic torch in England


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A New Declaration
by Derrick Jensen on Feb 1, 2012 • 5:43 pm
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That the real, physical world is the source of our own lives, and the lives of others. A weakened planet is less capable of supporting life, human or otherwise.
Thus the health of the real world is primary, more important than any social or economic system, because all social or economic systems are dependent upon a living planet.
It is self-evident that to value a social system that harms the planet's capacity to support life over life itself is to be out of touch with physical reality.
That any way of life based on the use of nonrenewable resources is by definition not sustainable.
That any way of life based on the hyper-exploitation of renewable resources is by definition not sustainable: if, for example, fewer salmon return every year, eventually there will be none. This means that for a way of life to be sustainable, it must not harm native communities: native prairies, native forests, native fisheries, and so on.
That the real world is interdependent, such that harm done to rivers harms those humans and nonhumans whose lives depend on these rivers, harms forests and prairies and wetlands surrounding these rivers, harms the oceans into which these rivers flow. Harm done to mountains harms the rivers flowing through them. Harm done to oceans harms everyone directly or indirectly connected to them.
That you cannot argue with physics. If you burn carbon-based fuels, this carbon will go into the air, and have effects in the real world.
That creating and releasing poisons into the world will poison humans and nonhumans.
That no one, no matter how rich or powerful, should be allowed to create poisons for which there is no antidote.
That no one, no matter how rich or powerful, should be allowed to create messes that cannot be cleaned up.
That no one, no matter how rich or powerful, should be allowed to destroy places humans or nonhumans need to survive.
That no one, no matter how rich or powerful, should be allowed to drive human cultures or nonhuman species extinct.
That reality trumps all belief systems: what you believe is not nearly so important as what is real.
That on a finite planet you cannot have an economy based on or requiring growth. At least you cannot have one and expect to either have a planet or a future.
That the current way of life is not sustainable, and will collapse. The only real questions are what will be left of the world after that collapse, and how bad things will be for the humans and nonhumans who come after. We hold it as self-evident that we should do all that we can to make sure that as much of the real, physical world remains intact until the collapse of the current system, and that humans and nonhumans should be as prepared as possible for this collapse.
That the health of local economies are more important than the health of a global economy.
That a global economy should not be allowed to harm local economies or land bases.
That corporations are not living beings. They are certainly not human beings.
That corporations do not in any real sense exist. They are legal fictions. Limited liability corporations are institutions created explicitly to separate humans from the effects of their actions—making them, by definition, inhuman and inhumane. To the degree that we desire to live in a human and humane world—and, really, to the degree that we wish to survive—limited liability corporations need to be eliminated.
That the health of human and nonhuman communities is more important than the profits of corporations.
We hold it as self-evident, as the Declaration of Independence states, "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it. . . ." Further, we hold it as self-evident that it would be more precise to say that it is not the Right of the People, nor even their responsibility, but instead something more like breathing—something that if we fail to do we die.
If we as a People fail to rid our communities of destructive institutions, those institutions will destroy our communities. And if we in our communities cannot provide meaningful and nondestructive ways for people to gain food, clothing, and shelter then we must recognize it's not just specific destructive institutions but the entire economic system that is pushing the natural world past breaking points. Capitalism is killing the planet. Industrial civilization is killing the planet.
Once we've recognized the destructiveness of capitalism and industrial civilization—both of which are based on systematically converting a living planet into dead commodities—we've no choice, unless we wish to sign our own and our children's death warrants, but to fight for all we're worth and in every way we can to overturn it.
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Deep Green Resistance - Strategy to Save the Planet
Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen
For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, "Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?" No one ever says yes.
Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can't fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won't stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful.
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War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
~ General Smedley Butler
We may extend our dominion over the whole continent...but be assured it will be at the price of our free institutions.
~ Rep. William Waters Boyce
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses...
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
~ Senator Robert M. La Follette
After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Our children are not born to hate, they are raised to hate.
~ Thomas della Peruta
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
~ George Washington
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
~ Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
~ Frederick Douglass
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
~ Noam Chomsky
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
~ Robert Lynd
Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~ Benjamin Franklin
War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.
~ Ken Gillespie
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
~ Edward R. Murrow
It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people...
~ Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice
It is always more valuable to report the truth.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
~ George Orwell
In this war - as in others - I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.
~ Butler Shaffer
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
~ Voltaire
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
~ Mark Twain
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
~ James Madison
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
~ Jimmy Carter
The dangerous patriot...is a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory.
~ Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
~ William Ellery Channing
...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
War remains the decisive human failure.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
~ Albert Einstein
I hate war...for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
~ General Smedley Butler
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
~ Senator John McCain
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
~ William Penn
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.
~ General Vo Nguyen Giap
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
~ George Orwell
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
~ Sen. Robert Taft, (R) Ohio
The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.
~ Frank Kent
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
~ James Baldwin
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
~ Robin Cook
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't.
~ Mark Twain
All men having power ought to be mistrusted.
~ James Madison
National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.
~ Senator John Taylor
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
~ Congressman Ron Paul
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
~ Herman Goering
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
~ Benjamin Harrison
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
~ Senator James W. Fulbright
I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
~ Jim Garrison
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
~ Jeanette Rankin
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
~ General Douglas MacArthur
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
~ Howard Zinn
All wars are fought for money.
~ Socrates
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Planning a Meeting
From StarsOrg
- Detailed suggestions for planning a meeting
- Meeting room style setups
- A guide for a successful meeting
- A guide for handouts
Suggestions for effective meetings
When the committee agenda is a full one, time is limited, and/or there are observers who wish to participate in the committee's deliberations, the chair may do one or more of the following:
- allow discussion time during the last portion of scheduled meeting time
- to keep business moving in any organization beyond an informal, small group, require all who wish to speak to address the chair. Rule out of order any who do not.
- limit the input of observers, if necessary, to ensure that all committee members have the opportunity to speak and that the agenda is not abrogated
- Avoid formal motions for procedural or non-controversial matters. Use such formulas as: "If there is no objection, (pause) . . .".
- For approving Minutes, use: "Are there any corrections? (pause) If not, they stand approved as distributed."
- For adjournment, use: "Is there any further business? (pause) The meeting is adjourned."
Norms for meetings
- actively participate
- take responsibility for outcomes
- share in the facilitation of the meeting
- have fun
- keep comments within the scope to the group
- speak up before the group if you have an issue
- be respectful of others' ideas and approaches
- start and end on time
- bring all group members into the discussion
- state something positive before you criticize
- be mindful of your time 'on stage'
- share the workload.
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Algerian Oil Minister Chakib Khelil said on November 17th that his country intends to boost output capacity by 500,000 b/d by 2004 through increased foreign investment. Khelil said that: "Algeria is back in business.
We've got 20 companies already investing in Algeria and we aim to double that number in five years." Algeria currently produces 852,000 b/d, with a production capacity of about 900,000 b/d. The North African country, which derives 95 percent of its foreign revenues from energy sales, would like to see its capacity raised to 1.4 million b/d over the next four years.
Algeria has seen a dip in foreign investment since the mid-1990's due to red tape hassles and unfavorable investment terms offered by state oil company Sonatrach. On October 24th, the oil ministry and Sonatrach jointly launched auctions for oil and gas licenses in six areas described as containing "high petroleum resources."
A data room opened in Algiers on November 9th, with 19 foreign oil firms present and many more expected to attend a week-long presentation of contract details and data on November 19th. The bidding process is to run from December 1st to February 14th, with winning bidders announced on the closing day.
Khelil said that the country's production sharing contract (PSC) could be amended to introduce easier terms. "We are not deciding what the terms are going to be. We will let the market decide on the best terms," he said.
Khelil also indicated that Sonatrach will undergo reforms in 2001. The firm is currently in charge of contract negotiations and awards, but will be relieved of those duties after a revised hydrocarbons law is passed next year.
Under the new law, the state will establish two agencies to handle all aspects of oil and gas contracts. Khelil also said that he would soon begin discussions concerning a gas pipeline from Nigeria to Algeria and then on to Europe.


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Announcing the Chrome 64-bit Beta Channel for Windows!
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I don't really feel any difference. I guess it's most noticeable if you have a lot of tabs open, using more than 3 GB ram. Which never happens for me.
Yet the beta 37 for Chrome OS is still not available for a number of devices!
Is hidpi support broken?
I set the flag in the registry to 1, but everytime I open Chrome it reverts back to 2.
Windows 8.1 64b, newest version of Chrome.
Well, I can agree that the tab freezing is gone, but memory usage per tab is up again.
The problem with tabs freezing started after a change where it made the memory footprint for each tab very small [~50M - ~60M], which were much smaller than the browser process.
After this latest update, my tabs (especially gmail [264M], gsheets [170M], ...) use more than what the browser process uses [195M] again (more memory swaps for me with 4G laptop:( )
I guess we cannot have our cakes (small tab memory footprint) and eat it too (responsive tabs)!
-- Amal
I understand not supporting XP 64-bit but why not support Vista?
does the voice plug-in work here? it doesn't in the dev channel 64 bit version
Generally, I'm a Beta user, but now i prefer to wait for stable 64-bit, because i think it's a big change!
Hm I'm not sure why but after installing that beta version, the mac task manager still shows chrome as a 32-bits applications. I'm quite sure to have downloaded the beta app (twice). Any advice?
You can try this link Guillaume Bibaut
I'm on Mac :) and https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/beta.html?platform=mac64 would not help much.
Support for 64-bit Mac version is still being worked on
It'll take time before we see a Dev/Beta/Stable builds of it
Thanks :)
Does this new version Google Chrome Beta 64 bit work on machines that run Windows 32 bit? Or is this new version specifically for machines that run Windows 64 bit?
Chrome Beta 64-bit won't run on Windows 32-bit
You can still use Chrome Beta 32-bit
Shouldn't Chrome 64bit be installed in Program Files and not in Program Files (x86) ?
> Shouldn't Chrome 64bit be installed in Program Files and not in Program Files (x86) ?
You'd think. But maybe a fresh install would?
Does hangouts work yet in x64 Chrome? It did not awhile ago when I tried that x64 beta, and some searches pointed to the fact that x64 really was not ready for prime time? I'm on a Thinkpad running Windows Pro 8.1 Update 1 x64.
To do with what folder Chrome 64-bit is installed to
Hangouts will be switching to webrtc so you might as well wait till that before you switch to 64-bit
My8th: How can I check to see if and when Hangouts in our Google Apps is updated to run with webrtc?
Task manager still shows me that chrome is 32-bit.
What operation system are you using eldhenn?
This is only for Windows 7 and 8.
Not for Windows XP, Vista or OS X
Chrome 64 bit beta on Win8.1 broke my access to various accounts, including my bank. Nothing worked right. Tried to revert back to 32 bit Chrome, but lost my settings, bookmarks, synchronization, etc. Had to restore a previous image of drive C: to get back to normal. Beta definitely means not ready.
Sooo, is there a forum discussing this release/problems? Surely other fools installed, decided it wasn't desired, then used system restore to an earlier time and now have a problem with their chrome profile??
Lester Ingber
No info on when Google Apps will be switched to webrtc except that it will happen
Does this 64bit version of Chrome use the 64bit version of Flash? I'd hope so, it would be pretty silly if it didn't
Flash Player crashes in the beta for the 64 bit of Chrome. Why bother have a beta of Chrome 64 bit when the 64 bit version of Flash does not work. Please fix this.
Dev version of 64-bit is out for OS X apparently.
Now that 64-bit is in beta for Windows, would that mean it'll release with 32-bit later this month?
Also, will google automatically move 32-bit to 64-bit if the OS is 64-bit?
Lester Ingber
WebRTC hangouts should now be available on Google Apps domain accounts.
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64-bit Chrome has been working fantastic since I installed it when it came out! And I actually no longer need the googletalk plugin thing, Chrome now natively supports video and phone thanks to switching to Hangouts mode instead of "old chat."