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M-1 Global's Jerry Millen expresses his strong opinion of UFC president Dana White and his unwillingness to work with Fedor, MMA websites.
M-1 Global's Jerry Millen Talks Fedor, Websites and Dana White
I think if Fedor beats aa in a devastating way then the ufc will reconsider. It would be cool to see the ufc put on some shows in russia. I don't see how it would hurt them to co-promote a show there.
I have to say this though, these guys who say dana is bad for mma have never accomplished what the ufc has accomplished in mma. I'm not sure if i respect this dudes opinion about this issue just yet.
Yea Anderson Silva, GSP, and BJ Penn should all be ranked better pound for pound fighter based on the past 3 years or so. Fedor at best should be number four……at best. Anderson Silva is definitely number one. I dont really know how anyone could argue that based on the past 3 or 4 years.
The UFC will never get Fedor unless they own the contract with him and the UFC doesn not allow their fighters to fight outside the UFC while under contract..which Fedor has always insisted on being able to in his contracts so i just dont see this happening and plus the UFC doesnt need Fedor they are doing just fine without him…its not going to hurt the UFC by not signing him Fedor is just like every other fighter in the end result and is simply not worth the 2 million per fight contract he wants with the UFC fuck he isnt even getting that anywhere else.
Yes Silva is number one for now most definetly and Fedor is top 5 tops based upone the last 4 years.
fedor is thebest p4p fighter in the world. and dana white is the biggest jackass in mma.
the ufc dosn't need fedor and fedor dosn't need the ufc, plus the best hw's are not in the ufc.
Fedor is probably the best HW but not p4p best. There's still a few top HWs he has not fought and might have trouble with. U can't say the same for Silva, GSP, or BJ. That's what p4p means. There's not 1 MW that can even last against Silva when he tries his best. Many HWs have got the distance with Fedor and still plenty of HWs yet to fight him. If people do consider him the p4p best then it's because of his record which is padded like crazy! He's fought guys that aren't even true MMA fighters and not top guys.
I agree that Fedor is the top heavyweight in the world but in my opinion GSP is the p4p based on the last 3 years.
Its funny how he says 'im not saying that cos i work for Fedor' if he works for M1 doesn't fedor work for him. I think that proves that Fedor is the only thing they care about.
Jerry Millen is a polite version of dana white, calling him out to the show, it reminds me of the wwf/wcw days when Eric Bischoff called out Vince Mcmahon.
This is the first time i have heard him speak i dont really like his attitude. Maybe he is M1's version of Dana.
I completely agree its as if it truly is sacreligous to doubt anything about fedor, I don't doubt that he is the best hw however, bj, gsp, silva. Have truly fought the best their weight class has to offer. When u say p4p I guess yeah fedor could beat any of them in a fight because he is much larger. The domination that bj and silva have displayed though to me puts them ahead of him until after he fights the rest of the hw's in affliction and beats them and if nog beats lesnar at that point yeah then he is top or in a two or three way tie. I guess it just comes down to the fact that lw, ww, not as much mw are much deeper weight classes around the globe.which is not fedor's fault. Though still in the end it is all about opinion.
i would never agrue who is top p4p between bj gsp fedor silva, put who you want up there and its a matter of opinion.but there is some things you brought up 1. fedor really hasn't lost to anyone where bj gsp and silva all have lost. 2 i would say that bj and gsp have pretty much fought the best out there but silva(who i think is the best mw) has not really fought the top mw's other than dan and rich i think he would beat alot of the top mw's but he hasn't done it like you said fedor hasn't.
I know Anderson silva is up with the top p4p fighters but i think a main thing to take in to acount when talking about p4p is the calibre of the opponents the guys have beat. Similar to fedor, the talent pool in middleweight is not as deep as the others. Again like Zalbag said, its not their fault.
Dude needs to stop eating garlic before an interview. After the 3rd burp I had to quit watching it. The UFC has 3 of the top 4 P4P fighters, they don't Fedor.
The UFC doesn't give a crap about what mma fans want. They don't care if any one fighter fights for them or not. Fighters are expendable to the UFC. They build their brand and plug whichever fighter they choose into it. They don't care if they don't have Fedor because he sucks. He's overrated blah,blah,blah. The UFC is in control of the US mma market. They are not going to take a chance on ANYTHING upsetting the apple cart. Their building an empire that doesn't require acquiring the best available fighters in the world. I love mma. I want to see Fedor vs the UFC. Dana doesn't care. All they care about is gate sales and ppv buys. If they can get it buy inflating their stable of fighters and degrading the rest of the mma world the US market deserves what it will get. Everybody keeps saying Fedor NEEDS to fight in the UFC to ?earn? his status as an elite fighter. Well I think the UFC needs Fedor to prove its heavyweight division is worth a crap. History already has Fedor as the best ever. He doesn't need anybody. Jerry came off as jerk to me too. Not as bad as dana but maybe he'll grow into his role over time.
Luke hit it on the head that Millen is the polite Dana White. Its all business for those guys regardless. Business aside Anderson Silva is the best P4P and he'll prove that when he KO's GSP before he retires. Fedor is the best heavyweight. I have a ton of respect for Brock but right now Fedor will kill that guy.
Some good points made here!… My issue with Dana White is on the the way he disrespects Fedor in public (White has No Class)… Let's face it – IF the UFC signed Fedor tomorrow White and everyone else involved with the UFC would be calling him the Best MMA fighter in history!
The way Fedor disposed of Big Tim in 30 seconds was a bigwake up call…
He is the best HW in the world – He has a COMPLETE MMA skill set and is as fast as lightning.. I love Randy Couture but Fedor would have smashed him!!!!
On the Pound for pound debate I put in at No.4 Behind GSP, BJ & Silva…
Having said all this, I understand why White does not want to co-promte – If Fedor beats the UFC HW champ and walks away (Back to M1/Affliction etc) then it would devalue the whole UFC HW division!
I think co-promotion would work well if some rules were set out first.
For instance if Affliction had their own version of world titles instead of the WAMMA titles, once every few months a holder of a Affliction title fights a holder of a UFC title, make it for the WAMMA belt then whoever loses they are still the champ of their promotion. WAMMA's slogan is "One Belt One King" so if they had the undisputed champion with their belt, anyone with a title from all promotions in the world could put their champions in and maybe this wont end up like boxing with 190 champions in 25 weightclasses (or whatever they have).
I don't buy into this pound for pound shit! pound for pound is bollocks guess work at best! a big guy deals with a big guy in a certain way the same as a smaller guy deals with a smaller guy! Bj penn is the best light weight Fedor is the best heavyweight etc etc. at the end of the day if everyone was the same the same size, whos to say who would be champion??
I like your point Zulu, there will never be a way to factually tell who is the best p4p fighter it will always just be opinion. the superfights between Fedor and anyone from 185 on down at a catchweight will never happen. There will never be a quantitative way to tell who the best p4p fighter is during this era of fighters. Maybe one day if its obvious the best two or three fighters are at the same weight. You never heard people talk about having Oscar De La Hoya in his prime fighting Lennox Lewis or who is better..
The problem is that now MMA is mainstream. There is more money involved with catering to the casual fan than there is the real fan. Fights are being set up on which match-up will make the most cash. Which "real" fans want to see Pulver vs Faber part 2? The ones that want to see this fight are the same bitches you see driving around with a tapout sticker on their car. Fucking posers.


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Gay, who was born in Columbia and lived in Howard County for three years before moving to Newtown, CT, was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting on Friday, Dec. 14.
Gay had turned seven three days before the shooting and was looking forward to celebrating her birthday with her friends the day after the shooting, said her parents.
"Josephine loved the color purple," wrote Bob and Michele Gay. "Born in Maryland, she grew up in a family of Ravens fans and developed an affinity for all things purple. She rarely left the house without wearing something purple. After her passing, many friends who visited wore purple clothing to honor her. On Saturday a family friend tied purple balloons on the mailboxes on our street, and on Sunday the neighborhood children and her sisters and cousins released purple balloons with written messages of love to her in heaven."
Josephine, who her parents called Joey, was autistic and severly apraxic.
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If beating Bedlam rival and 23rd-ranked Oklahoma State doesn't figure to be easy for Oklahoma, it still figures to be quite a bit easier than beating No. 1 Baylor on Monday night at Lloyd Noble Center.
The Sooners (19-7, 9-5) sure don't need another two-game losing streak with a loss to the Cowgirls (18-7, 7-7 Big 12). OU in a three-way tie for second in the Big 12 conference with Iowa State and Texas Tech, though the Cyclones have the advantage with two wins over the Sooners. Both teams need the highest possible seed entering the Big 12 tournament and no loss is a good one.
The Sooners could use another big game from junior center Nicole Griffin.
The first four games of the season, she averaged 13.5 points. The next four games of the season it was 8.3. The next five it was 13.2. The next six it was 8.5. And over the last seven, a run that's ongoing, she has averaged 14.7 points.
If Griffin can keep from taking the step back she's already taken twice this season, the Sooners are clearly a better team going forward. Further, there's evidence Griffin isn't simply back on her game, but that she's playing a better one.
Her current run includes a career-high 21 points against Oklahoma State Feb. 10 at Lloyd Noble Center. It also includes 17 at Kansas on a day her teammates weren't very good and 14, on 7-of-11 shooting, this past Wednesday night against Kansas State.
"We got bullied down there and we didn't fight back," Oklahoma State coach Jim Littell said. "We have to fight back, we have to be physical and we have to be smart about where we let Griffin and (Joanna) McFarland catch the basketball. ... We just have to play with more of an aggressive attitude and more physicality."
OU coach Sherri Coale and Griffin's teammates believe her game has reached a new place. More than anything, perhaps, by her ability to relax and see what's happening around her.
"Basketball is not a very complicated game. It's a simple game, but it's hard to teach that and it's hard to learn that because so many things change so rapidly," Coale said. "For Nicole, the thing I noticed (against Kansas State) was she would not only take advantage of the help defender, she was also making the right reads on her own defender instead of premeditating. Like. 'When I catch this I'm going to drop step and score.'"
As a result, Griffin scored, but not only off the drop step. As Coale said, she "finished with a jump hook, she finished getting all the way to the rim, she had a drop step and she had a turnaround jump shot."
It's an interesting dichotomy. Relaxing enough to have that awareness, Griffin has also displayed greater hunger for the ball.
"It's (the post) demanding for the ball and that's what Nicole has been doing such a good job at," point guard Morgan Hook said. "She'll call for it and she'll show me where she needs it and if she's ready for it, she's going to catch it. If I know she's calling for it then I know she's confident enough with her position, so I just throw it to her."
The loser of Bedlam is likely on the outside of the NCAA Tournament looking in, adding even higher stakes to Saturday's game.
"We put ourselves in a bad situation," Littell said. "I think the bottom line is that you have to get to nine wins and when you're playing on your home court you need to get one there for sure. We've been in a must-win situation for probably two or three weeks now."


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In an episode of Sex And The City, the lead character Carrie Bradshaw, once poignantly concluded, "Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be."
In extraordinarily different circumstances, in a far cry from the glamorous lives portrayed on SATC, a 21-year-old homeless woman named Dani Johnson, came to roughly the same conclusion, though perhaps, through a more excruciating journey.
She made a meager living as a cocktail waitress in Hawaii, and was living out of her car with just two dollars and three cents to her name and $35,000 in debt. Haunted by a childhood filled with brutal and systematic physical and sexual abuse, she attempted suicide following a cocaine binge – but in that moment, ironically, her life changed forever.
Today Dani Johnson is a multi-millionaire many times over, runs five companies and spends her time jetting around the world, giving back through her various charities.
How she went on to make her first million despite a tortured past and despite being homeless, is the stuff of entrepreneurial legend.
Her story suggests, as Dr. Phil would put it, "It doesn't matter what your mama did; it doesn't matter what your daddy didn't do. Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself."
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It was Christmas Eve, 1990.
"I was stoned out of my mind for two months – sleeping with eight different guys. I got to eat only by dating all these people. I realized that I had become worse than the family I grew up in and that was devastating. My mom and dad were drug addicts and I had never seen my parents sober. My childhood was filled with threats and getting beaten daily; week in, week out. My whole life was filled with horror and terror and lies and I vowed that I would never be like my family. And there I was doing cocaine…"
She hated cocaine 'with a passion' and recalls that when coke was introduced into the home by her parents when she was a teenager, the violence had intensified and the emotional instability was 'horrifying'. "They would say one thing and then another thing after 15 minutes."
That Christmas Eve, she joined other waitresses at the beach on a drink and drug binge.
"I was sweating as I was constantly dancing. I see the coke and I leaned down and I did a line. I remember waking up at 10 the next morning on my beach mat and I am asking everyone for coke. I was walking around saying, 'Where do I get more of that stuff?'
That day, I would have given my body – I would have become a prostitute for coke and that's how low I became. I hated everything about myself. I knew my future would never be good. I was suicidal from the age of six. My life was not worth living. There was no chance to turn it into anything better. I was disgusting. I hated how my parents raised us. My life was filled with broken promises and lies and people stealing and people beating me and people hating me and me hating myself even more…"
Fueled by the after-effects of the drug, in an almost catatonic state that morning, Dani decided she was going to end it all. "I started walking towards the ocean and dived underneath the wave."
A few more moments under, and her life would have ended there – not an unsurprising demise given her circumstances, the coroner and police chief would have quietly concluded.
But as it happened, in that instant, her life changed forever.
'Almost a Miracle'
"I heard a voice say, 'Pick up your mat and walk.''
It felt almost like a miracle to her.
"The feeling of coke left instantly – I wasn't wanting it anymore. I rolled up my beach mat, turned around and hiked a mile that I needed to in order to get back to my car. I drove 45 minutes to the beach where I was living. And the whole time I was driving, it was as if the left side of my mind was saying, 'This is not what is intended for your life, you shouldn't be drinking. There is more to life,' and the right side was saying, 'You're a failure, you're a loser, you're filthy; worse than your parents. Drive this car into the ocean.' This was like a war inside my mind with these voices and I was literally in a trance.
And I have no idea why I chose to listen to that first voice."
So Dani began to ask herself: What can I do? What do I need to do to get myself out this situation?
"As a cocktail waitress, I was not making enough, so I had to figure out my options."
She needed $4,500 to be able to afford an apartment but with a small income derived mostly from tips coupled with the island's high rents, it would take her four months to save enough money.
"I didn't want to be homeless for another four months. Rent in Hawaii was outrageously expensive and I couldn't afford plane tickets back to California. I knew no one. I was terrified I would be raped or beaten or kidnapped because there wasn't any shelter. I was a kid who, between the ages of three to 16, was abused and molested. The emotions were still there. You try to push this back but when you're homeless, it is at the forefront of your mind all the time and it was terrifying to me."
That night she fell asleep in her car without any answers but the following day, the proverbial light bulb went off.
"I get this idea. Everything I ever owned was in the backseat of my car. And there was this weight loss program I had purchased long before I was homeless, lying in the back seat. I had used it for a week. I never paid attention to it before. And it just caught the corner of my eye in the sun. It was warped from the humidity. But it was as if this device was talking to me. I picked it up and it was as if this thing was saying, 'I'm your answer.' And my first thought was, 'No, I'm not going to peddle a weight loss program! No way I'm going to do this!'
As if it was beneath me. As if it was sinking to a new depth. And you know, sometimes you have that feeling that you need to do something you don't want to do?
I turned the box around, saw the manufacturer's details and called them from the payphone.
I started asking them the question: What is it going to take to carry the product in Hawaii? As it turned out, it would require me to have licensing – and money, that I didn't have."
And this is when Dani – given her very scant means – decided to get resourceful.
"I handwrote a flyer [for the weight loss program] but I needed a phone number to advertise so people could contact me – and I didn't have one. So I picked up the Yellow Pages in the phone booth. You know cocktail waitresses always have coins! So I looked through the Yellow Pages and called a small telecommunications company. And I chatted with this guy for some time, trying to build a relationship. I asked him what the cost of their voice mail service was.
He said to me, 'Don't drive all the way to pay for this. Send me a check for $15. Here's your new number…!'
Dani, of course, was elated – down to her last quarter for that week, she got the break she needed.
"I put up the flyer at the Post Office where everyone in this town went to, and three hours later, not thinking I would get any messages – it was filled with 25 messages. I didn't know what to do with them!
Long story short, I ended up with 40 checks, totaling $4,000 dollars from people I didn't even know – that first month!
I called up the manufacturer with an order but they wanted a physical address to send the product and I didn't have one. So I talked the local liquor store into letting me use their address."
Dani made a quarter of a million dollars that first year just by selling the weight loss program, was a millionaire by the second year and went on to open up 18 weight loss centers around the country. She sold the business in 1996 – a multi-millionaire.
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How encouraging for so many !
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Dani Johnson has blow my mind when I met her in person and she my life totally from that day onwards. She has given me a new look at my family life and financial path.
Thank you for changing my life …awesome
This is an awesome story! Dani Johnson is a great leader and teacher and has been a definite empowerment in my life. Congrats! Dani!
Very inspiratoinal!
I am so excited to read this article. Congratulations Dani! You are so DESERVING!!!!! You pour your heart and soul into people all over the world, giving, loving, supporting and teaching!!!! What you do impacts every area of our lives and all the orphans you take care of too! God put you in my life!!! My family's life is FOREVER changed. We are FOREVER THANKFUL!!!!! We do not recognize our lives and my kids have been impacted in such a Huge way! Please keep doing what you are doing Dani. The world needs your teaching!
Thank you so very much Forbes for giving me the chance to have my story shown here. I am forever grateful!!!
Hi there, I just wanted to share how inspired and touched I was by your story… Also, "Pick up your mat and walk" is a verse that has been an important part of what motivates me too. God bless you.
Please absolutely write a part 2 post :)
Love this…this is how i'm ending my day so I'm gonna sleep super successful dreams :)
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PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission has decided to let an Elkins High School football player to continue competing.
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Jan 3, 2011 Pardon the Buggles reference. Vizio has made a splash by selling cheap LCD TVs in places like Wal-Mart. Today, they're getting into the tablet and...
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University of Nebraska Omaha head hockey coach Dean Blais announced his captains for the upcoming season today. Senior defenseman Michael Young will serve as captain while senior forward Johnnie Searfoss and junior forward Dominic Zombo will be the alternate captains.
All three players are wearing a letter for the first time in their collegiate careers.
"These players will be new to the role of captain this season, but they have been leaders through their hard work for us throughout their careers," said Blais. "They clearly have the respect of their fellow players who chose them for these important roles. All three players have the ability to set good examples for their teammates both on the ice and off."


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"Randy [Starkman (1960-April 16, 2012)] lived by the same motto as the rest of us. The Olympics isnt every four years, its every single day. He just got it." --Canadian Olympic kayaker Adam van Koeverden
LOL and gag all at once. Id stop watching if only those 2 were allowed to compete. Give me the others who didnt "deserve" to get a 2nd.
The only spot Phaneuf has a reasonable chance of getting is the TBD for Skate Canada, as, if the rules are the same as last year, there are ten Ladies ahead of her that have to be offered a second before Top 75 skaters are considered, assuming their country doesn't have three and the travel/visa logistics aren't prohibitive. Last season, there were three non-host withdrawals (two for Lepisto, one for Hecken), and two substitutes in total.
"The team doesn't get automatic capacity because management is mad" -- Greg Smith, agile guy
I'd send Cynthia to B comps this year and let her ride the bench a little. She hasn't had a decent result in any GP in her comeback so time's up honey, as much as I love ya.
I want to see Samson get monitored, do well, and get the 3rd spot.
We should send Phaneuf, Desanctis, and Najarro to the new US senior B and send the highest of them to Skate Canada.
I'm sure her dismal skate at WTT didn't help Phaneuf's cause.
Osmond seems by far the best chance of getting two spots for Sochi.
What are the chances of Osmond picking up a second grand prix later on?
Unless she wins an early Senior B and they've changed the rule so that the winners of Senior B's go to the top of the alternates list, not the bottom, about the same as Pfaneuf's, virtually none without more rule changes (like putting GP medalists at the top of the alternates list): there are six women with Top 24 SB and four women with Top 24 WS ahead of her on the alternates list, each of whom has to get a second before she is even in the Top 75 selection pool. After that, both she and Phaneuf would be in the first group of three with Flatt, and even if a flu swept the Ladies and over 1/5 of the remaining field had to pull out of the other five events to to the Top 75, would a host nation choose her over the other two, if they are trying to protect their own Ladies' chances, since they get a choice of the top three?
"The team doesn't get automatic capacity because management is mad" -- Greg Smith, agile guy
I must say I am a bit frustrated re: Phaneuf. I mean, she is as inconsistent as Czisny or Korpi, but she has the skating skills to be at the top. But for various reasons just couldn't quite make it happen.
Shame that she got held back during 03-04 when she could have gone to a world championship, and that she didn't medal at 2010 worlds (her best showing).
JW doesn't count because China has three skaters in 4CC. It's better to send Han Yan to GP and 4cc if the Chinese federation really cares about WTT
Why in the friggin world would China give a friggin damn about friggin WTT? Where is this coming from? Unless, I see the Chinese Fed forcing Shen/Zhao to compete at WTT, I am assuming the folks at the Chinese Fed are not idiots.
"The team doesn't get automatic capacity because management is mad" -- Greg Smith, agile guy
I can see China caring about the Olympic team event, but I don't see a big link between that and keeping Yan Han in JGP. I mean, Yan can totally help the team event by rocking senior worlds next year. That said, I can see them keeping Yan Han's option open by deciding later whether to send him to jr or senior world. If Yan does GP and the new rule passes then Yan has no option but competes for the one Senior world spot. But that is a good option regardless of the team trophy
It's possible that they look at Men's and think that if the make the final in 2014, given the likely competition -- Canada, France, and Russia, at least -- the odds of beating those men are not great and it won't impact their team strategy so much for Sochi. They could use Sochi as a development tool, and, at this point, they could be looking at Yan Han as their future strategy.
I never thought I'd see a top 12 dance team from China, but if the Zaretski's can come in 6th, there's always hope.
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TERRE HAUTE — Rose-Hulman earned its third victory in its last at-bat in the last five days with a 6-5 win over Franklin in Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball Tuesday night at Art Nehf Field.
The Engineers rallied from a 5-3 deficit with two runs in the bottom of the seventh to tie the score at 5-5. Junior Hank Akard knotted the score with a two-run triple that scored senior Jordan Chipka and sophomore Josh Hoeing.
Franklin was held scoreless in the eighth and ninth innings by sophomore Jake Althouse before Rose won the game in the bottom of the ninth. Chipka started the rally with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice by Hoeing. After a groundout advanced Chipka to third, he scored the game-winning run on a passed ball.
The win marked Rose-Hulman's third ninth inning victory in the last five days, after the Engineers topped Defiance twice in their last at-bat last weekend.
Althouse picked up the pitching victory with two scoreless innings of relief with two strikeouts. Junior Ben Menich started and allowed just one earned run in 4.1 innings of work with three strikeouts.
Franklin recorded 12 hits in the contest, led by three hits and a home run from Scott Windler. Zach Osowski also added three hits and two RBIs for the Grizzlies. Taylor Glaze tossed seven innings and scattered nine hits in a no decision to lead the Franklin pitching effort.
Rose (15-20 overall, 12-9 HCAC) will return to action on Wednesday with a home game at 6 p.m. against Washington (St. Louis) University. Franklin is now 19-18 and 11-11 respectively.
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Glaze, Cleveland (8) and Wilson. Menich, C.Post (5), Farley (6), Bush (7), Althouse (8) and Turk. HR — FC: Windler (4).
* Four honored — The Terre Haute Bowlers Hall of Fame recently inducted four new members.
They are Robert Acree (men's service), Robert Lovvron (men's achievement), Mary Lou Williams (ladies service) and Bonnie Chandler (ladies achievement).
* Spring Fling — At Idle Creek, the annual Spring Fling Scramble was played Saturday.
Spring Fling Scramble
60 — Jack Keidel, Steve Scheid, Fred Lamb, Dave Early.
62 — Chris Targett, Kyle Romas, Brent Roberts, Clint Freet (second place); Todd Brinza, Brad Binns, Richard Booe, Scott Green (third).
63 — Ashley Matchett, Teresa Matchett, Rick Gordon, Tony Serrato.
62 — Brian Cottom, Tom Swiger, Greg Conrad, Rusty Gray.
66 — Reay Fagg, Tommy Rea, Mark Fenton, Brad Shoemaker.
Proximity winners
Closest to pin — Binns (No. 3), Lamb (No. 9), Keidel (No. 12), Green (No. 16), Roberts (No. 6, second shot).
Long putt — Scott Baer (No. 1), A.Matchett (No. 18).
Long drive — Romas (No. 15).
* Goddard fares well — At Boonville, Idle Creek pro Ray Goddard was part of a foursome that also included amateurs Steve Zehr, Mel Redman and Bob Thompson which placed first in the pro-am division of the Tri-State Pro-Am on April 22 at Quail Crossing Course.
Goddard also placed eighth in the pro division, shooting a 77.
Auto racing
* Racing halted — Rain halted action at Crossroads Dragway on Saturday after two time runs had taken place.
Fun Night runs are slated for Friday with the first Pink Ladies race on the schedule. Regular racing is set for Saturday, including juniors, with time runs at 12:30 p.m.
Track information is available at www.crossroadsdragway or by phone at 812-229-2167.
* LP race rescheduled — U.S. Auto Club officials have announced a new date for a sprint race halted by rain last Saturday Lincoln Park Speedway.
The new date is July 4 and a complete race will be run with qualifying and heat races.


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The Northwestern Pacific and Tamalpais Railroad, the Marin County Promotion League and North Coast Water Company of Marin City never saw the 21st Century.
But the institution those defunct companies helped birth financially remains alive and well.
The Mountain Play, the venerable theatrical institution that debuted on Mount Tam in 1913, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and is set to do so with a big ol' birthday party in Mill Valley's Depot Plaza on May 8.
The Mill Valley Parks and Recreation Commission approved the party, a Wednesday evening affair that will piggyback on the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce mixer at Wells Fargo downtown that afternoon and feature birthday cake, a proclamation from Mayor Andy Berman and a children's sing-along with music from the Sound of Music, this season's centennial production.
"It's not every day an organization turns 100 years old," Recreation Director Jenny Rogers said.
The anniversary season kicks off May 19 and runs through June 16. Sara Pearson, a San Rafael resident and the Mountain Play Association's executive director, told the commission that her organization and its hometown have been indelibly linked for as long as anyone can remember.
"We are a 100-year-old organization that has celebrated our activities and anniversaries here in this town," she said. "We want to blow out come candles and have some birthday cake with everyone downtown."
The days surrounding the party will also feature lamp post banners marking the centennial, and several downtown storefronts will be decorated around the theme of the Sound of Music, Rogers said.
The party will culminate with a brief musical performance by cast members portraying the Von Trapp Family Singers in the Mountain Play production of The Sound of Music, chosen from a group of more than 150 youth who auditioned for seven parts.
"These are lovely, talented kids who are really anxious to be a part of this thing," she said.


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12:00pm Friday 30th November 2012 in Local Sport By Alan Feldberg
AMERSHAM & Chiltern RFC were left kicking their heels last weekend and they could face a similarly frustrating afternoon tomorrow as well.
They were due to travel to Oxford Harlequins and had identified the game against the National 3 South West strugglers as a potential five-pointer.
But a waterlogged pitch won the day and coach Alun Rise admits there are no certainties for tomorrow's rearranged match.
He said: "It's a potential five-pointer so with a bit of luck we'll get it played.
"They've done a bit of work around the ground this week, but there is still a possibility it's going to be off again."
Amersham could do with a game after almost two weeks of next to no practice.
Rise said: "Our training pitch is very wet and soggy so there's been no training on it and no kids' rugby.
"We've got to preserve it or it will be mangled for the rest of the season, so we've just done a bit of gym work and ball skills inside."
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When most people I know think of the tea party, they think of phrases like "smaller government" and "less taxes" (and yes, some of my friends on the left refer to these as if they were bad things). "Solar power" isn't typically the first thing that comes to mind. Likewise, when people think of the "green" movement, they typically think of "clean energy" or "subsidies" or "tax credits". What began as unlikely allies in an initial effort by these various groups to defeat the proposed T-SPLOST (Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) has evolved into an unlikely set of allies who are working together to find areas of mutual agreement on energy policy.
I happened to be at the launch party for this new "Green Tea Coalition" last night that featured Debbie Dooley (known for her involvement with the Tea Party Patriots) and Seth Gunning (known for his involvement with the Sierra Club) among others. This is not to say that the Tea Party Patriots and the Sierra Club have officially combined forces. Neither organization officially is involved or takes an official stance on this new movement. This Green Tea Coalition is simply the beginning of an effort to organize and find areas of mutual agreement by a number of individuals within all parts of the political spectrum.
However, even though the movement has only just begun, it's already drawn some heavy criticism from those on the left and right filled with stereotypes about brainwashing and that somehow conservatives are being converted into tree hugging liberals. So today I want to set the record straight.
There seems to be a perception by some on the left that those on the right don't care about the environment. I believe this describes very few people on the right. Yes, there are certainly those out there who at least put on an outward appearance that they don't care about the environment, but most of us on the right do care. We like clean air. We want to know that our drinking water is clean and not going to make us sick. We want to make sure that the planet we leave behind for our kids or our grandkids is going to allow them to live long and prosper. We may have different ideas of the paths to take to get to these end goals, but the goals are relatively the same.
As well, there is a perception by some on the right that those on the left are whacko tree huggers that want to tax coal and other fossil fuels to the point that they're unaffordable while heavily subsidizing things like solar and wind. And those perceptions are accurate to varying degrees depending on the individual you talk to. But here's where having an open and honest conversation can be helpful.See, here's the thing... some of these "renewable energy" technologies have evolved to the point that they're now able to compete with the fossil fuels if there were a level playing field. Those on the right should be pushing for free markets and less government intervention. The government shouldn't be picking winners and losers right? So what if all subsidies were removed from all forms of energy production - moving more in the direction of that free market? That's not such a bad thing, right? And do you think that those on the left would be opposed to such a non-partisan solution?
Last night when Debbie Dooley talked about the coalition pushing to remove all subsidies from all forms of energy and letting all types of energy compete on a level playing field, would it surprise you if I told you that even those that come from the left hand side of the political spectrum were clapping and nodding in approval? It appears that we've found an area of mutual agreement there that we can all support.
For those of you on the right criticizing even talking to people on the left, I want to address this as well. The right is known for being... perhaps more outwardly religious is the best way I can think of to describe it at the moment. I want you to sit down and think about where the Bible and your pastor tell you that you should spread the word of Jesus. Does it say to only share your faith with the other members of your congregation? Or does it say to go out and tell the world?
If you want to dislike the various policies of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party or whatever other political party... then fine. But realize that these people are also your neighbors. You can be cordial and carry on conversations with them. Who knows... after some lengthy conversations you may even find areas of agreement with them as well. You may both like the same type of beer or pizza toppings.
As for me, I look forward to continuing the conversation of how we can encourage free markets and remove all forms of subsidies from all forms of energy production. One of the things on my radar is the modification of the Territorial Electric Services Act of 1973 (the one my opponent this last election favored no changes to, as he believes that "Georgians aren't ready for a choice") that establishes the various service areas for the variety of electric monopolies we have in this state. I also look forward to Americans for Prosperity (which we disagreed with during the recent IRP process) joining us in this effort as they too have been touting their of support of free markets and competition. If any form of technology isn't economically viable and feasible, then it will surely fail in the free market sans subsidy, right?
As for everyone else, I invite you to join The Green Tea Coalition on Facebook and join in the conversation as to how we can help shape energy policy in our state in the years to come. You can find it at: http://www.facebook.com/thegreenteacoalition


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The MultiWash III Washer can be used to perform a wide range of assays including enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), enzyme immuno assay (EIA), fluorescent immuno assay (FIA), luminescent immuno assay (LIA), cytotoxicity assays, and agglutination tests in flat, round, or V-bottom microplates. It is configurable with user interchangeable wash manifolds to suit a variety of washing applications.
The system is completely self-contained with no external pumps, and can be assembled and fully operational in just minutes. Once operational, the MultiWash III Washer can perform a 300 µL three-cycle wash on a 96-well plate in less than two minutes. For greater assay flexibility, users can wash any number of rows or columns, including washing the whole plate. All programming is done on the front display panel. No external computer is necessary for programming or operation.
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(Below is Monday's post-Hurricane Sandy open list for Chappaqua and Millwood merchants, courtesy of the Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber of Commerce).
Most of the stores listed are open normal business hours as of Monday. Feel free to come and charge batteries and get warm at any of the locations.
Emmery Day Spa -Our gift to the stressed-out and tired community is 20% off ALL services this week! Please call us and come in to relax...get those tired muscles massaged, that hair removed, and that dry skin refreshed. We hope to see you soon!
Squires Family Clothing & Footwear
Chase Bank and ATMs
Friedricks Interiors
Le Jardin will open at 8am
Kittle House
World Cup Gymnastics
A & S Foods of Millwood will be open Tuesday
Center for Aligned Healing
Dunkin Donuts
Whispering Pines
Always the Children
Breath Rhodadendron
Citibank and the ATM's are open as well
Mario's Pizzeria
Healthy Choice Apothecary
Step In Style
Bagel Emporium
The King's Scribe
Auntie Penny
Chappaqua Village Market 100% new products!
Chappaqua Paint and Hardware - phone number 2388-4474 is now working
Susan Lawrence
Rite Aid
Gail Patrick's Cafe
Wilson Prep
Petticoat Lane
Drug Mart
Rocky's Deli
Millwood garden center has power and is filling propane tanks
Desires by Mikolay, normally closed on Mon., will be opening tomorrow 10-6 and we have a large conference room and hot spot where people can work or just get out of the house and read the paper
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In my mind, the real power of Vimperator besides the standard keybindings is the fact that you can use the keyboard to open links, move to input boxes and even simulate mouse hovering. Vimperator calls this Hint mode, and to activate it, press the f key on any Web page. All of the "hintable" objects on the page, such as hyperlinks, text-entry boxes and drop-down menus will be highlighted with a number assigned to them (Figure 2). To select one of the highlighted items, you either can type in the number next to it and press Enter, or you can start typing part of the highlighted text. For instance, if you are reading a multipage article on the Web and see links to each page of the article along with a Next link, you could press f and then type N e x t. As you type, hints that no longer match drop away, and once there is only one match left, it automatically will load. When you use f, hints will open up in the current tab, but if you want to open the page in a new tab, simply start Hint mode with F instead of f. Like with other modes, you can press the Esc key to exit Hint mode.
The f and F keys activate a Quick Hint mode, but you also can activate an Extended Hint mode to enable other actions on a link beyond a left-mouse click. To enable Extended Hint mode, press the ; key, followed by a special key to set the type of action you want to perform, and finally type the number associated with a particular hint. Here is an abridged list of some hint modes you might want to use, but for the full list, check the Vimperator help page. Keep in mind that you will press the ; key before any of these keys:
; — pressing two ; keys in a row will focus a link and hover over it with a mouse; this is useful for activating JavaScript drop-down menus.
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Believe me, I've barely scratched the surface of Vimperator here. It really reminds me of vim in the sense that I always feel like I'm using only 10% of the available features. As with vim though, Vimperator rewards you while you progress through its learning curve. I use Vimperator on all of my Firefox sessions, and it seems weird (and slow) to me now to browse Web sites with a mouse.
Kyle Rankin is a Systems Architect in the San Francisco Bay Area and the author of a number of books, including The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Knoppix Hacks and Ubuntu Hacks. He is currently the president of the North Bay Linux Users' Group.
Kyle Rankin is a director of engineering operations in the San Francisco Bay Area, the author of a number of books including DevOps Troubleshooting and The Official Ubuntu Server Book, and is a columnist for Linux Journal.
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vimperator and "next" links
Great article. I wanted to mention that the specific example you site in your section on hinting ("For instance, if you are reading a multipage article on the Web and see links to each page of the article along with a Next link") is a poor example -- see the help for "[[" and "]]". These keybindings automatically look for next/previous links and activate them (so, when browsing multi-page articles at online magazine sites, you can simply type ']]' to move from one page to the next).
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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
According to Wikipedia, Ray Kurzweil is an
American author, inventor, futurist, and director of engineering at Google. Aside from futurology, he is involved in such fields as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments.
So he is a computer engineer specializing in word recognition technology, with a side interest in bold predictions about future machines. He is not a professional neuroscientist or psychologist or philosopher. Yet here we have a book purporting to reveal—no less—"the secret of human thought." Kurzweil is going to tell us, in no uncertain terms, "how to create a mind": that is to say, he has a grand theory of the human mind, in which its secrets will be finally revealed.
These are strong claims indeed, and one looks forward eagerly to learning what this new theory will look like. Perhaps at first one feels a little skeptical that Kurzweil has succeeded where so many have failed, but one tries to keep an open mind—hoping the book will justify the hype so blatantly brandished in its title. After all, Kurzweil has honors from three US presidents (so says Wikipedia) and was the "principal inventor of the first CCD flatbed scanner" and other useful devices, as well as receiving many other entrepreneurial awards. He is clearly a man of many parts—but is ultimate theoretician of the mind one of them?
What is this grand theory? It is set out in chapter 3 of the book, "A Model of the Neocortex: The Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind." One cannot help noting immediately that the theory echoes Kurzweil's professional achievements as an inventor of word recognition machines: the "secret of human thought" is pattern recognition, as it is implemented in the hardware of the brain. To create a mind therefore we need to create a machine that recognizes patterns, such as letters and words. Calling this the PRTM (pattern recognition theory of mind), Kurzweil outlines what his theory amounts to by reference to the neural architecture of the neocortex, the wrinkled thin outer layer of the brain.
According to him, there are about 300 million neural pattern recognizers in the neocortex, with a distinctive arrangement of dendrites and axons (the tiny fibers that link one neuron to another). A stimulus is presented, say, the letter "A," and these little brain machines respond by breaking it down into its geometric constituents, which are then processed: thus "A" is analyzed into a horizontal bar and two angled lines meeting at a point. By recognizing each constituent separately, the neural machine can combine them and finally recognize that the stimulus is an instance of the letter "A." It can then use this information to combine with other letter recognizers to recognize, say, the word "APPLE." This procedure is said to be "hierarchical," meaning that it proceeds by part-whole analysis: from elementary shapes, to letters, to words, to sentences. To recognize the whole pattern you first have to recognize the parts.
The process of recognition, which involves the firing of neurons in response to stimuli from the world, will typically include weightings of various features, as well as a lowering of response thresholds for probable constituents of the pattern. Thus some features will be more important than others to the recognizer, while the probability of recognizing a presented shape as an "E" will be higher if it occurs after "APPL."
These recognizers will therefore be "intelligent," able to anticipate and correct for poverty and distortion in the stimulus. This process mirrors our human ability to recognize a face, say, when in shadow or partially occluded or drawn in caricature. Kurzweil contends that such pattern recognizers are uniform across the brain, so that all regions of the neocortex work in basically the same manner. This is why, he thinks, the brain exhibits plasticity: one part can take over the job performed by another part because all parts work according to the same principles.
It is this uniformity of anatomy and function that emboldens him to claim that he has a quite general theory of the mind, since pattern recognition is held to be the essence of mind and all pattern recognition is implemented by the same basic neural mechanisms. And since we can duplicate these mechanisms in a machine, there is nothing to prevent us from creating an artificial mind—we just need to install the right pattern recognizers (which Kurzweil can manufacture for a price). The "secret of thought" is therefore mechanical pattern recognition, with hierarchical structure and suitable weightings for constituent features. All is revealed!
What are we to make of this theory? First, pattern recognition is a subject much studied by perceptual psychologists, so Kurzweil is hardly original in calling attention to it (I worked on it myself as a psychology student back in 1970). What is more original is his contention that it provides the key to mental phenomena in general.
However, that claim seems obviously false. Pattern recognition pertains to perception specifically, not to all mental activity: the perceptual systems process stimuli and categorize what is presented to the senses, but that is only part of the activity of the mind. In what way does thinking involve processing a stimulus and categorizing it? When I am thinking about London while in Miami I am not recognizing any presented stimulus as London—since I am not perceiving London with my senses. There is no perceptual recognition going on at all in thinking about an absent object. So pattern recognition cannot be the essential nature of thought. This point seems totally obvious and quite devastating, yet Kurzweil has nothing to say about it, not even acknowledging the problem.
He does in one place speak of dreaming as a "sequence of patterns" and he might try to say the same about thinking. But this faces obvious objections. First, even if that is true, there is no pattern recognition involved when I dream, or when I think about London and my friends and relatives there. So his "model of the neocortex" does not apply. Second, it is quite unclear what this description is supposed to mean. Why is a dream a sequence of "patterns," instead of just ideas or images or hallucinations? The notion of "pattern" has lost its moorings in the geometric models of letters and faces: Are we seriously to suppose that dreams and thoughts have geometrical shape? At best the word "pattern" is now being used loosely and metaphorically; there is no theory of dreaming or thinking here. Similarly for Kurzweil's claim that memories are "sequences of patterns": What notion of pattern is he working with here? Why is remembering that I have to feed the cat itself some kind of pattern?
What has happened is that he has switched from patterns as stimuli in the external environment to patterns as mental entities, without acknowledging the switch; and it is hardly plausible to suggest that dreams and thoughts are themselves geometric patterns that we introspectively recognize. So what is the point of calling dreams and thoughts "patterns"? The truth is that the PRTM does not generalize beyond its original home of sensory perception—the recognition of external patterns in the environment.
Indeed, it is notable that Kurzweil makes no serious effort to generalize beyond the perceptual case, blithely proceeding as if everything mental involves perception. In fact, it is not even clear that all perception involves pattern recognition in any significant sense. When I see an apple as red, do I recognize the color as a pattern? No, because the color is not a geometric arrangement of shapes or anything analogous to that—it is simply a homogeneous sensory quality. Is the sweetness of sugar or the smell of a rose a pattern? Not every perceived feature of objects resembles a letter of the alphabet or a word—the objects of Kurzweil's professional interest and expertise.
Then there are such mental phenomena as emotion, imagination, reasoning, willing, intending, calculating, silently talking to oneself, feeling pain and pleasure, itches, and moods—the full panoply of the mind. In what useful sense do all these count as "pattern recognition"? Certainly they are nothing like the perceptual cases on which Kurzweil focuses. He makes no attempt to explain how these very various mental phenomena fit his supposedly general theory of mind—and they clearly do not. So he has not shown us how to "create a mind," or come anywhere near to doing so. Thus the hype of the title explodes very early and with a feeble fizzle. Why write a book with such an ambitious title and then deliver so little?
There is another glaring problem with Kurzweil's book: the relentless and unapologetic use of homunculus language. Kurzweil writes: "The firing of the axon is that pattern recognizer shouting the name of the pattern: 'Hey guys, I just saw the written word "apple."'" Again:
If, for example, we are reading from left to right and have already seen and recognized the letters "A," "P," "P," and "L," the "APPLE" recognizer will predict that it is likely to see an "E" in the next position. It will send a signal down to the "E" recognizer saying, in effect, "Please be aware that there is a high likelihood that you will see your "E" pattern very soon, so be on the lookout for it." The "E" recognizer then adjusts its threshold such that it is more likely to recognize an "E."
Presumably (I am not entirely sure) Kurzweil would agree that such descriptions cannot be taken literally: individual neurons don't say things or predict things or see things—though it is perhaps as if they do. People say and predict and see, not little bunches of neurons, still less bits of machines. Such anthropomorphic descriptions of cortical activity must ultimately be replaced by literal descriptions of electric charge and chemical transmission (though they may be harmless for expository purposes). Still, they are not scientifically acceptable as they stand.
But the problem bites deeper than that, for two reasons. First, homunculus talk can give rise to the illusion that one is nearer to accounting for the mind, properly so-called, than one really is. If neural clumps can be characterized in psychological terms, then it looks as if we are in the right conceptual ballpark when trying to explain genuine mental phenomena—such as the recognition of words and faces by perceiving conscious subjects. But if we strip our theoretical language of psychological content, restricting ourselves to the physics and chemistry of cells, we are far from accounting for the mental phenomena we wish to explain. An army of homunculi all recognizing patterns, talking to each other, and having expectations might provide a foundation for whole-person pattern recognition; but electrochemical interactions across cell membranes are a far cry from actually consciously seeing something as the letter "A." How do we get from pure chemistry to full-blown psychology?
And the second point is that even talk of "pattern recognition" by neurons is already far too homunculus-like for comfort: people (and animals) recognize patterns—neurons don't. Neurons simply emit electrical impulses when caused to do so by impinging stimuli; they don't recognize anything in the literal sense. Recognizing is a conscious mental act. Neither do neurons read or understand—though they may be said to simulate these mental acts.


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