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Editor: The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce is strongly critical of the U.S. EPA's proposed rules on new coal-using power plants that are due to be released next week....
Hey Joe.......you talking about the Wall Street that Obama and democrats helped BAIL OUT with our tax dollars? LOLOLOLOL>
How do you even mention Wall Street with a straight face? heh.
Yeah, Obama hates Wall Street so much; Wall Street donated thousands to his campaign for bailing them out. You should LOVE Wall Street now.
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Bwhahahaha......Joe you're too funny!
Even with your miserable radical clueless filthy rich millionaire democrats like the last one, Humphreys from Charleston could not spend enough millions to defeat Capito.
WV voters have seen enough of you democrats over past several years and are thoroughly fed up with the whole bunch of you. Manchin will NOT get re-elected as he's a typical turncoat and Natalie Tennant is just a female version of Joe Manchin as he's 'trained' her with his own progressive idiotic views and ideas.
You dems are worried and you know it. Obama's poll numbers are at 37% approval. HAHA~ Yeah that sounds like the country is loving your progressive socialism.
FYI: 2+2=4 and not 5 like the socialist indoctrinated Common Core education sponsored by Manchin and Gov. Tomblyn and all democrats. Parents are fighting out against that piece of crap educational tool from the weasels with no morals and values too. No more school levy passes until Common Crap is gone.
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Best thing about govt shutdown? EPA workers NOT working!!!
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What...you calling Obama a liar? That is funny!
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What...........You KNOW he said it. They aired it enough times on tv that there isn't anyone who hasn't seen the interview and Obama admitting that EVERYONE'S UTILITY RATES WOULD 'necessarily' QUADRUPLE.
You can't deal with that???
THen what will you do when you get your BILLS?????? Bwahaha....you are too funny.
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And WHAT continues his lies although the majority of folks with 'intelligence' KNOW what Obama said. You have to be pretty stupid with all the PROOF of Obama's comments on quadruple utility rates on interviews/videos/audio 'proving' what I said was correct. But when liberals are proven wrong; they resort to their childish antics of 'just lie.' Bwahaha....that's the point you realize they KNOW they've been called out and proven to be lying yet once again. It's getting rather boring. You'd think they could at least come up with something 'new.' LOLOL.
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WHAT>.........your obvious 'attempts' to deceive people is laughable.
You know full well exactly what Obama is doing and what he said 5 years ago. Once the LAST coal mine is shut down thanks to idiots like you.....YOU WILL SEE YOUR ELECTRIC BILL QUADRUPLE.
News flash to ignorant left brains..........Those are OBAMA'S promises NOT MINE! MORONS!
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Roflamo. OMG! Can What can any more stupid?
Where do you "shop" for electricity?
Democrats are too darn crazy funny.
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Yeah....quadruple electric rates. Thanks Rockefeller. Thanks Manchin. And now Manchins little pal, Natalie Tennent wants a job in the senate. No freaking way. No more radical progressives. These people are NUTS!
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Yeah Manchin lied about not being with Obama on coal and Obamacare but he turned around and sucked right up to him.
Now, his handpicked secretary of state Natalie Tennant is running to be in senate with him. Voters better keep BOTH of these radicals OUT of WV or gun control will be next whether YOU likeit or not. Democrats have PROVEN that they don't care what the people think.
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Fire officials in eastern Kentucky are investigating the cause of a blaze that killed an eastern Kentucky woman.
Mayking Fire Chief Tony Fugate told WYMT-TV that the Letcher County residence was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived on Friday afternoon. He says it appears that the fire started in the back of the home and spread so quickly that 73-year-old Virginia Lowe wasn't able to escape.
Neighbor Charles Adams said he ran next door when he saw smoke and pulled Lowe from the structure after finding her near the front door. CPR was performed until ambulances arrived and she was taken to a hospital, but she didn't make it.
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Rex Powell Jr. of Truckee Calif., passed away Sunday Nov. 4, 2012 at his home, with his wife Sandra Powell who were married for 55 yrs.
He is survived by his children Dana Powell and fiance Margi McIntyre of Reno, Nev., Debra Erickson of Fallon, Nev., and Amy Lawlor of Reno. His sister Pasty Jeffrey of Loomis, Calif., brothers Frank and John Powell of Washington. He has seven grandchildren and eight great grand children. He was a carpenter for 40 years. He retired in 1991 to hunt, fish, travel and carve canes and walking sticks from Aspen Trees from around the Truckee area. He loved his children, grand children and great grand children. He taught them to hunt, fish and to enjoy the outdoors. He loved to travel to Wyoming, Montana and Utah to hunt Elk and deer. Every year he took his grand children with him. He loved life and left many memories for his family. He will be dearly missed and always loved. Any donations please make to Hospice of Truckee.
A celebration of life will be on Saturday, Nov. 17 at noon at Sierra Bible Church 11460 Brockway Rd., Truckee, CA.


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A Modern Malibu Home Reduced 20% to $14.5 Million
Producer and home preservationist Michael LaFetra has reduced the price of his Malibu, Calif., beachfront home by almost 20%, to $14.5 million.
The 4,083-square-foot home, which has four bedrooms and 3½ bathrooms, first went on the market in March. It was the last home designed by architect Pierre Koenig before his death in 2004. Architect James Tyler finished the project. Mr. LaFetra bought the property in 1999 for $2.6 million and spent from 2002 to 2011 constructing a steel-, concrete- and glass-clad home. He put in custom-made Murphy beds, a car lift and a variety of eco-friendly features such as solar panels, cork flooring and radiant heat. "I haven't paid an electric bill yet," Mr. LaFetra says. The property also has a drawbridge with direct access to a private beach.
Mr. LaFetra, who has now restored more than a dozen properties, says he owns another Malibu beach house and that "having two houses on the beach seemed kind of silly."
Cory Weiss of Partners Trust in Beverly Hills, Calif., has the exclusive listing. He says they lowered the price in an attempt to locate the right buyer.
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110-Year-Old San Francisco Home (With Solar Panels) Tries a New Price
An approximately 11,000-square-foot home in San Francisco's Pacific Heights, built in 1902 for the daughter of banker Isaias W. Hellman, has been relisted for $14.9 million, according to people familiar with the situation. Designed by architect Julius Krafft, the brick Neoclassical house has seven bedrooms, seven full bathrooms and three half bathrooms on four levels.
According to the San Francisco Multiple Listing Service, the house was listed for $20 million in September, 2011. The price was later lowered to $17.5 million before the house was taken off the market in early October.
With views of the Bay, the house also has two kitchens, seven fireplaces, a double curved mahogany staircase, a game room, a media room, a wine cellar and solar panels. The master bedroom has two dressing rooms as well as two bathrooms. The house served as the San Francisco Decorator Showcase in 1991 and again in 2012.
The seller is the Catherine N. Schwab Trust, which paid $15 million for the home in 2004, according to public records.
Gloria Smith and Jon Taylor of Sotheby's International Realty share the listing.
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France Meets Maryland: A 20-Acre Estate Lists for $19.5 Million
The 20-acre compound of Martin Fisher, a former AOL executive, is on the market for $19.5 million.
Mr. Fisher and his wife, Georgie, built the home in 2002 in Severna Park, Md., near Annapolis. The property has more than 900 feet of waterfront and includes a dock with six boat slips and two lifts.
The 20,000-square-foot French-style main residence has a French-carved limestone mantle in the living room, a screening room and a wine cellar made from 200-year-old beams from a church in Pennsylvania. There's also a 6,000-square-foot pool house, a quilting studio and a garage for 10 cars.
Mr. Fisher, who's now semiretired, most recently served as the chief technology officer of Revolution Health, which was sold to WaterFront Media at the end of 2008. Prior to that, he was president of AOL's Technology Development division.
David DeSantis, one of the listing agents, says the Fishers are selling the property because their children are grown and they want to travel more.
Mr. DeSantis and Maria-Victoria Checa, both of TTR Sotheby's International Realty, have the listing.
Versace Furniture Negotiable: A Miami Home On a Private Island Lists for $37 Million
A 16,977-square-foot Italianate home on a private island in Miami Beach, Fla., has been listed for $37 million.
Located on the tip of the gated La Gorce Island, Castello del Sole's main house has eight bedrooms and 9½ bathrooms. There are hand-painted murals in the rotunda and throughout the home, a screening room, gym and Versace furniture that isn't included in the price, but may be negotiable. The property also includes a guesthouse, staff quarters, three teak docks and 349 feet of waterfront.
The owner, an out-of-the-country businessman, is selling because he doesn't spend enough time there, says Jill Eber, one of the listing agents.
Ms. Eber and Jill Hertzberg of Coldwell Banker's "The Jills" have the listing.


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A few months ago, Charlottesville Cemetery in Tipton looked nearly abandoned. Headstones were either toppled over or stuck out of the ground unevenly, the yellowed grass looked like it hadn't been cut in months, and there were soiled American flags piled up in a maintenance shed.
Then, a group of concerned citizens stepped in and decided to assume responsibility of the cemetery's physical maintenance and monetary assets.
Many of them said they felt a responsibility to the place because friends and family members are buried there, and they themselves want Charlottesville Cemetery to be their final resting place.
"I don't want to go anywhere else," said Diana Bartlebaugh, the group's vice president.
It's taken more than two months of work, and the group still has a long way to go, but getting it off the ground might be the easy part. As many church organizations can attest, it takes a lot of time and money to manage a cemetery.
Working with less
Henry Weinberg has chaired Agudath Achim Congregation's cemetery committee for more than 30 years, and in that time he has seen a lot of changes.
The cemetery is funded through plot purchases and donations from the congregation but requires an outside lawn service to mow the grass twice a month and keep up with maintenance - although Weinberg is often there himself making sure everything meets his standards.
But because of a decline in Altoona's Jewish population, Weinberg said it's getting increasingly difficult to keep up.
The perpetual-care fund, paid into by plot purchasers years ago, wouldn't pay for a drop of fuel needed to mow the grass now, he said, and the cemetery has seen no more than five or six burials within the past year.
"The cost of maintaining it for a year is very high," he said.
While he wouldn't disclose an exact figure, he said expenses are several times higher than the $1,800 per year paid out for Charlottesville's care.
"[We're] not dealing with small numbers," he said.
To make matters worse, the descendants of those buried there often have moved out of the area, Weinberg said, or perhaps have died. Without a way to contact them, he can't ask for contributions to care for their relatives' final resting place.
However, congregation members continue to make sure the cemetery looks good, Weinberg said, and he hopes to see enough plot purchases to sustain the fund.
Comfort in numbers
While most churches are struggling, some cemeteries are doing well for now. Catholic churches, particularly members within the eight-county Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, have a central organization to keep them running.
Stan Krish, a volunteer at SS. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Cemetery, said in more than 30 years of working at the cemetery, it doesn't seem that much has changed.
When SS. Peter and Paul's congregation merged with St. Leo's in 1995 to form Our Lady of Fatima parish in Altoona, the new church continued care for its three-acre cemetery and even started to see additional burials, he said.
"What we're seeing is people being brought in from other churches," Krish noted, whether to be buried near family members and friends or just to be closer to the area where they grew up.
As with many other cemeteries, an outside lawn-care company is contracted to mow the grass, with Krish and his sons volunteering time to backfill the graves and spread seeds.
The diocese also is a great source, Krish said, producing cemetery-care guidelines and helping the group set up an endowment fund in the 1990s.
Father Sean Code, pastor at St. Joan of Arc in Frugality and chairman of the Diocesan Cemetery Commission, said each Catholic cemetery operates under the individual parish with which it is associated.
But with church closures around the area and merging parishes, in some cases a pastor and his congregation have been charged with caring for more than one.
Northern Cambria's Prince of Peace parish formed in July 2000, the merger of five Catholic churches under Pastor Larry Lacovic, and over time the parish also decided to merge the financial operations of all five cemeteries: Mount Carmel, St. John the Baptist, St. Stanislaus Koska, Holy Cross and St. Patrick.
That isn't always the case, he said, pointing to the 2009 merger of Johnstown's Cambria City churches, where St. Rochus, St. Columba, St. Stephen, SS. Casimir and Emerich and Immaculate Conception became Resurrection Parish.
Those cemeteries still are financially independent, Code said, whereas Prince of Peace has become one both "financially and spiritually."
Lacovic said the church formed an umbrella organization seven or eight years ago and created an 11-person committee, comprised of himself as spiritual adviser and two members from each former congregation.
It was a delicate process, he said, because each cemetery had its own financial records and accounts. Some were big, and some were small.
"It took some negotiating," he said.
While the merger meant fewer churches, Lacovic said there is still some comfort in numbers, and the large single congregation has done a good job at maintaining its cemeteries.
Each has its own caretaker, paid by the church to cut several acres of grass and trim around monuments, which Lacovic said is the most expensive and time-consuming job.
Total maintenance costs top $20,000 each year for all five, and with a low interest rate in a perpetual-care fund, "we're gradually losing our savings, just a fraction every year" to keep up, he said.
Lacovic estimated the congregation's fund can last another generation before the money is gone, but he expects to hold a special fundraiser to replenish some of the account once the economy improves.
Code also said that there is security in knowing that should a parish close, its property, finances and obligations become the responsibility of another parish.
"It's a sacred space," just like a church, Code said, and the religious nature of the property "encourages us to be very attentive to the maintenance of it, the management of it."
The diocese also is fortunate that there are no known cases where a church cemetery account balance is zero, and despite what Code called the clear reality of declining church attendance, their cemeteries are not suffering.
A community effort
Other cemetery groups have gotten large gifts able to sustain them.
Longtime volunteer John Bush has been on the Mount Pleasant United Church of Christ cemetery board in Martinsburg since his father, himself a longtime board member, died in 1966.
Bush said the cemetery usually gets between four and six burials a year, with a portion of the plot cost put into a perpetual-care fund.
But the church also got very lucky, he said, when a family made a donation earmarked for cemetery use in the late 1940s or early 1950s.
The $5,000 donation back then has been able to sustain the fund since, he said, and "we'd be in bad shape if it wasn't for that."
Pete Dutrow, member of Tyrone's Grandview Cemetery association, said the seven-and-a-half acre property is tended to regularly by volunteers, many of whom donate time as well as their own supplies to mow and trim weeds.
"Our expenses are determined by how much grass we have to mow, and that's determined by the weather," he said. "We don't have a lot of expenses [with the association] because we do most of the work ourselves."
Dutrow also said the group has received four or five donated lawnmowers.
"We're not too proud [to accept gifts]," he said.
Association secretary Darlene Cupp also said the Charlottesville association is, in fact, better off than Grandview's was when it started. She said her group had far less than the $13,000 in Charlottesville's perpetual-care fund.
"We didn't have a cent," she said.
But the group continues to build on its finances with community support and donations.
"People in town know what we're doing" and offer help, Dutrow said, "but we are running on a shoestring budget. ... We get very little return on our investments."
Making progress
Even on a tight budget, structured organizations can do a lot to care for a cemetery. It's whenever a church ceases to exist or the group lacks manpower that weeds begin to spring up and nature tries to take the land back.
At a June 12 Charlottesville meeting, Bellwood-Antis Historical Society President Mary Brunner brought up Zion Cemetery near the former Fuoss Mills.
"That's an old, old cemetery," she said, which has graves dating back to the early 1800s and possible even 1700s, and once was under a Lutheran church's care. The church no longer exists, she said, and there's no one around to take up the charge.
Brunner said she called in a Boy Scout troop a few years ago to clean it up, but it's become overgrown with Briars and poison ivy.
Knowing the difficult task that lies ahead, the small group Friends of the Charlottesville Cemetery Inc, which. recently voted to establish itself as a nonprofit corporation, plans to plod ahead.
Bellwood attorney Perry Flaugh, who is advising the group, told them the next step is filing for an employer-identification number from the Internal Revenue Service so it can open a checking account and begin fundraising.
It's also looking at account options, but with a 4 percent return on its perpetual-care fund, the group is off to a decent start.
Once the group reaches $25,000, Flaugh said it can file paperwork to become a nonprofit corporation and ask a judge to sign the cemetery deed over to them, completing the transition to ownership.
The last step is reaching $50,000 to be allowed to sell plots.
From that point on, in the eyes of the state, the group should have enough money to stay afloat, Flaugh said, although it's got a long road ahead of them.
In the meantime, volunteers continue to mow and trim weeds and have received donations in the form of free services, including a lawn-care company cutting down an obstructive tree free of charge.
Bartlebaugh also is asking a contracting company to donate leftover stone to cover the cemetery's worn down gravel road.
"It's back to the freebies. Any freebies you can get," she said.
Dedication to loved ones and what the cemetery represents is pushing them forward, something Weinberg said he can appreciate.
Agudath Achim Cemetery looks so nice, he said, because the committee continues to work hard and "it's done without question."
He said he thinks not only of his parents buried at the cemetery, but of other congregation members who might come by to see how it looks. He takes great pride in its appearance, he said.
"Indubitably, we think of our loved ones and see that when family members come, they feel gratified that their loved ones are resting in peace," he said.


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Why is innovation difficult?
The merits of failing faster are integrated with taking risks. Successful innovations only come after many failed attempts. Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, explores the intersection of open source and innovation in a Technology Academy Finland (TAF) post "What is Innovation?"
Mickos says:
"An innovation creates a new dimension of performance. It's not enough to improve performance. It's not enough to create a new thought. A new thing is not an innovation unless it finds a new direction for performance."
He explains that innovation doesn't require a PHD, and that open source development is a great example of innovation and a way to bring different opinions together to advance technology.
"Open source software is an innovation in that it brings together in a productive way programmers who disagree on many things," Mickos said. He goes on to list other examples such as Facebook, the touchscreen, and e-learning.
I agree with Mickos. It takes a release often, release early mentality with a fail early, fail often approach to develop innovations that create a new performance dimension. One of the hardest perceptions to break, tied to innovation, is that they happen in a laboratory setting and require a lab coat.
This is not the case in the 21st century as we see from the examples above—Facebook was not made in a science lab. Innovations are being created in dorm rooms, home garages, collaboratively on the Internet, and beyond.
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Fail often, fail early. Failing early is cheaper than failing late and it teaches you what to avoid so you won't fail late. :)
Yeah, early and often is a good precaution. But in business, it is impossible to not make a mistake, as in everything else in life. So early and often won't cut it then. Innovation, at least to me, is an inevitability
It's important to know that you always have to innovate. Yes, innovation is a risky thing. It may cause premature "goodbyes." But, with no innovation, one is just postponing "goodbye". One is making no changes. And as we all know, whatever remains stagnant will eventually be eliminated from society.


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6 Ways Iron Man Is Objectively Better Than Batman
The Dark Knight Rises and Iron Man With Some Other Losers (aka The Avengers) prove that, despite everything they claim, the Internet loves sequels and the 1 percent. And I can't disagree with them. I've loved Batman since I was old enough to read and understand what car batteries were.
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To this day, I consider "driving" them sort of a waste.
Both Noun-men are easily the best heroes in their universes. They prove that being smart is better than being naturally talented, and also better than being so dumb that you fall into toxic waste vats and don't even know to die from it. Batman beats Superman because when your idea of the perfect hero is "super invincible and he can do anything," you're 7 years old. Which is cool, and we're glad you love comics, but you are 7 years old. Iron Man is better than Captain America because "drug-fueled" and "foreigner-killing" accidentally became everything people hate about America since Cap was invented.
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Still more believable than Barry Bonds.
But every time I see two heroes in proximity, I have to decide who'll win, because I've found a way to get paid for remaining a child. Anyways, I've settled on a winner, and the answer is Bat-blasphemous. We'll stick to their recent movies, because that's what most people have seen, and they have two each, so it's fair. Ignoring Batman's entire glorious comics history might seem stupid, but since that's what DC Comics has already done with the recent reboot, we're kind of stuck with it. Besides, if I wanted to be unfair, I'd include Batman & Robin.
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Bat-nipples presented without comment, because I don't want to use that phrase more than once.
#6. Iron Man Has a Better Plan
Bruce Wayne traveled the world for years and trained himself to the peak of physical perfection. Tony Stark had one weekend and an actual heart attack and still had time to think "I'd better not get shot in the face!" I know that mentioning headshots around Batman is the comics equivalent of farting in an elevator, but his standard defense against machine guns is back flips. Iron Man doesn't have to worry about hiding. When Batman vanishes into the night, panicked thugs have been known to spray automatic fire into the air because they can't find him. While "Haha, you can't see me" might be satisfying, Batman's primary defense mechanism is at best a pain in the ass and at worst capable of killing hundreds of Gotham slum dwellers in any direction.
Of all people, you'd think he'd know guns were dangerous.
Stark understands that a billionaire training himself to the peak of physical perfection is like a billionaire learning to grow his own organic tomatoes. The whole point of money and technology is not having to do stuff with your bare hands. And for every "Batman could design something to disable the armor," I'd raise you an "Iron Man's actual job is designing things and he knows more about the armor." Sure, if they were stripped naked and locked in a room, Bruce would utterly dominate Tony, but if that's what you want to see, there are websites you can go to.
#5. Iron Man Did More Good
OK, Tony Stark was an arms dealer. That's a challenging origin for a good guy. But his father built the company when weapons merchants were heroes, because Hitler. Howard Stark reversed the polarity of Godwin's law. His entire legacy was "No More Nazis" and "Yes More Captain America," which means he couldn't have been a better advertisement for weapons technology if he were a zombie slowly shambling toward your daughter. Tony genuinely believed that giving the good guys guns was how you fixed things and sacrificed billions to stop the very second he found out he was wrong. The very instant Bruce Wayne didn't get what he wanted, he stormed off to a remote prison hellhole, and while I'll admit that's the most badass version of screaming "I'm going to my room!" and slamming the door possible, that's still what it was.
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And when most rich dilettantes run off to a sweaty house full of mid-Asians to wrestle with, they have a much better time.
While he was busy writhing under Long Dong up there, amoral executives changed his father's legacy from a shining supporter of Gotham into the shadiest company not currently operating out of a volcano base. His sheer neglect let the transport system -- his parents' gleaming gift to Gotham City -- degenerate into a filthy crime-ridden nightmare. Which Batman then blew up. Meanwhile, Wayne Industries became an arms company. The evil executives talked about "getting into" weapons, but they already had military assault vehicles loaded with more missiles than an aircraft carrier, bulletproof armor and a device for vaporizing enemy water supplies in the desert. That's worse than guns! Way worse! The sort of shit they go back and add clauses to the Geneva Conventions for worse! And those weren't top secret projects, those were just a few research odds and ends they had in storage or transport during the movie. Wayne Industries must have had more military projects on the go than the actual U.S. Army.
Sure, Bruce comes back and puts Morgan Freeman in charge (the standard Hollywood solution to everything from selfish weathermen to asteroid strikes), but Wayne Industries still spent years and millions of dollars as the sort of company where "forcing people to die of thirst" was a possible revenue stream.
#4. Iron Man Has a Less Ridiculous Moral Stance
Tony Stark realizes that people have been misusing his inventions to kill people, although when you invent missiles, that's kind of stretching the word "misuse." The profiteering war merchant then blew things up for two straight movies and the only things he killed were robots or actually pointing guns at screaming women and children at that exact moment.
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Gray areas are for art-house movies and sober people.
On the other end of the spectrum is Batman, whose "don't kill them immediately" stance is about as moral as the guy from Saw. He's cruel and unusual punishment incarnate. Gotham thugs don't have employee insurance -- every time he cripples one, he is at best dooming them to dying homeless in Gotham, a city that looks like the tenth circle of hell even when you're healthily employed. At worst, it means that thug's wife or girlfriend and kids are now stuck with a bitter psychopath who can no longer be violent outside. Batman has directly caused more spousal abuse than whiskey.
You know how much custom batarangs cost? Remember when he bought at least 20,000 helmets so that his victims couldn't pick him out of a lineup? He could just hire every single mugger in Gotham City. Make the thugs night security in Wayne Industries warehouses and fill them with easily stolen crates of Twinkies and cheap beer and you'd cut the crime rate in half for a tenth of the cost. Throw in a "Thomas and Martha Wayne Foundation" educational program for their families and you'll do more to reduce future crime in Gotham than a nuclear strike.


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Cannot imagine too many individuals installing solar recharging stations and I have yet to see any solar cars around town. Must be a few businesses that were sold a bill of goods in SB465. Definitely think solar should count as an alternative fuel source though...
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On June 17, 2009, Governor Manchin of West Virginia signed HB 103, the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act. The bill mandates that electric utilities (excluding municipal utilities, rural electric cooperatives, and utilities serving fewer than 30,000 residential customers) obtain 25 percent of their electricity from alternative or renewable energy sources by 2025. The bill sets interim targets of 10 percent by 2015 and 15 percent by 2020. Eligible alternative resources are advanced coal technology (e.g., carbon capture and storage, supercritical technology, ultrasupercritical technology and pressurized fluidized bed technology), coal bed methane, natural gas, fuel produced by a coal gasification or liquefaction facility, synthetic gas, integrated gasification combined cycle technologies, waste coal, tire-derived fuel, pumped storage hydroelectric projects, and recycled energy. Eligible renewable resources are solar PV, solar thermal, wind, run-of-river hydropower, geotherma
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Dear Rachel Please, do some investigative reporting. The "green" power folks are "heavily" subsidized by our govenment already. The solar stuff isn't working out. It's a nightmare for lots of folks and another political gimick based on BS and not reality. The earth is going to overheat and explode for about 12.546 billion years so dont get excited. Thats concept is a political scheme also called a "back door" tax. It's a redistribution of wealth. If you think I'm wrong look up the facts concern how California is spending the money from their Cap and Trade law..We are talking billions of dollars indirectly collected from customers in their monthly bills. WV has Cap and Trade HB 103. (giver to us by joe Manchin)Your mines and the related jobs are shutting down and you didn't even realize it. check out ***********dsireusa****/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=WV05R. Wood stove may soon be a target also
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If they get a tax credit for the sun, can I get one for my wood stove? That is if I can pry the tree huggers from the tree first?
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It's championship or bust for Wando girls soccer this season, but for one of the most consistent programs in Warriors athletics, that's nothing new.
Wando has reeled off five Class 4A state championships in the past seven years, along with two second-place finishes. It's become a factory for playoff wins and expectations for 2014 remain sky high for the defending 2013 Class 4A state champs.
"Championships are definitely the expectation," Wando head coach Shannon Champ said. "Every year we're pretty consistent at being the best in the state so our players know the bar is set pretty high."
Wando enters the season ranked No. 1 in all of South Carolina girls soccer despite losing eight players from last season's squad. The Warriors return nine upperclassmen who have the responsibility of helping acclimate the 10 newcomers to team's standards, routines and tradition.
Goalkeeper Logan Nelson and midfielder Allie Winglosky will shoulder much of the leadership responsibility as the only seniors. Both have spent at least four years with the team and played key roles in last season's championship run. Champ says the two help maintain the Warriors' high level of efficiency in practices, which she expects to translate into wins on the field.
"They know what the expectation is in training and preparation," Champ said. "It's nice to have players like them, who have been there and done that before and can pass it along to the younger players.
"Logan is very vocal and very demanding and those are great qualities for a goalkeeper. Allie is very tenacious, aggressive, very quick and gets after everything. She puts a lot of pressure on the other team, doing some great things for us in the center midfield."
Junior Raymara Barretto and sophomore Ellen Hayes will help anchor the Warriors' stingy defensive unit. Both were parts the stronghold that allowed just six goals all of last season.
Champ says she's looking forward to seeing which of the underclassmen separate themselves this season. Wando has freshman slated in starting positions, along with several others who are expected to receive significant minutes.
"I won't keep anyone on varsity that's not going to get serious playing time, including our freshmen" she said. "I like to try different things with different players in different spots to see who plays well together in what situations."
Wando travels to Columbia March 7, looking to use the Spring Valley Viking Cup as an early gauge for where the team is heading into the regular season. The tournament pits the top 32 teams in the state against each other. Wando opens against Nation Ford Friday at Spring Valley High School.
"We'll have a pretty good idea of where this team stands after that weekend," Champ said. "The unspoken expectation is that we're getting another state championship. Anything less is a disappointment."
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Federal Preemption of State Law: The Current State of Play
Daniel A. Farber
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UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1740043
This paper reviews the evolving case law on the boundary between state and federal power, covering both basic preemption doctrine and recent cases (particularly in the area of torts). It also provides a look at the evolving law regarding Congress's commerce power and at when state law infringe on the federal government's exclusive jurisdiction over foreign affairs. The paper's general conclusion is that preemption law is likely to remain very messy because it involves overlapping issues: methods of interpreting federal statutes, views of federal versus state power, disputes about the role of regulation versus liability in controlling risks, attitudes toward juries and toward administrative agencies, and the benefits and drawbacks of specific regulatory policies. Because preemption cases have multiple dimensions, doctrinal tidiness is unlikely. However, the paper does outline some modest steps toward improving decision-making about the division of authority between states and the federal government.
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Clash of the titans: iOS 7 vs Android 4.3 comparison
0. phoneArena 19 Sep 2013, 15:31 posted on
One of the most heated "debates" within the wireless industry is the one between iOS and Android fans. In case it isn't obvious, we've put "debate" in quotes, because it's much more of a flame war, rather than a civilized debate, but anyway, you get the point. So here we are, not trying to start yet another flame war, but wanting to make it easy for users to find out what the meaningful differences between iOS 7 and Android 4.3 are. And without further ado, let's dive straight into it...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
19. AnTuTu (Posts: 1580; Member since: 14 Oct 2012)
iOS looks damn cheap. Yesterday we did the update on one phone and oh boy apart from their lock screen the whole OS looks so kiddish n cheap. We showed it to others and they didn't want to update it,
4.3 >>>>>>>>>> iOS 7
41. ardent1 (Posts: 2000; Member since: 16 Apr 2011)
Antutu: did you ever make your app't with the eye doctor?
When asking for new glasses, make sure your get the right precription. If anyone needs helps with his eyes, it's you.
60. Striker13084 (Posts: 128; Member since: 30 Mar 2009)
I don't think the author used an objective eye. They definitely showed apple favoritism.
126. pilfro (Posts: 1; Member since: 30 Sep 2013)
Well they compared things Apple can do to things android can do. Like the Calendar review is fair until you realize you can put your calendar in one of your home screens or on your home screen etc. You dont need to open your phone application to make a call, you can just click on someones picture on your homescreen. My wife just switched to Iphone from s3. She wishes she didnt. I went with S4.
62. Long1 (banned) (Posts: 399; Member since: 18 May 2013)
No doctor needed here, Except for you. Poor Iboys. They even don't dare to compare the TouchWiz version of Android 4.3 vs iOS7 . LOL
It would be a great fun.
71. tman123 (Posts: 1; Member since: 19 Sep 2013)
Why don't you do it for us? You seem to have great knowledge of both OSes.
45. taikucing (unregistered)
Android can be modified into iOS look & feel, but not vice versa.
There are many Chinese iPhone 5 clones.
58. Tre-Nitty (Posts: 468; Member since: 16 Nov 2010)
You lie quicker than a cat lick its a**! So you updated and walked the streets and showed people and they didnt wanna update? You kind sir are lying and its not even funny!
111. JC557 (Posts: 1513; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
My brother didn't really care for the changes in iOS7 as well and he went from an iPhone 4S to 5 to 5S. The only thing that bothers me about iOS7 is the super coloful Playskool icons on a device that looks pretty professional. If the iPhone 5s came with a 4.5" screen and a more staid color scheme in line with OSX I would probably consider it.
Also, despite running on Android 4.1.2 with LG's UI, my Spectrum 2 is just as fluid as my brother's iPhone 5s in scrolling, typing and browsing. So there's no lag on this Android and maybe I'll keep the phone long enough to see 4.3.
54. PootisMan (Posts: 249; Member since: 02 Aug 2013)
Yeah, just wait until Android 4.4 comes out. Then it would be 4.4>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ios 7
63. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
There is no chance for ios, android is powerful.
93. designerfx (Posts: 76; Member since: 26 Mar 2013)
I don't think we even needed an article to articulate this. As is, the article is really short on actual review.
96. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4833; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
What elegance?!? iOS 7 more elegant than Android 4.3? iOS 7 is just the app drawer for Android 4.3, nothing else. lol
C'mon PhoneArena.com.
2. apple4never (Posts: 1064; Member since: 08 May 2013)
agreed, the title should be the little os that couldnt, if they can put android on an iphone, holy c*** ill but it, looks of iphone epicness of android
3. apple4never (Posts: 1064; Member since: 08 May 2013)
buy it, autocorrect again
4. Naruto_Uzumaki (Posts: 25; Member since: 22 Mar 2013)
ios7 looks like winphone 8
27. Gdrye (Posts: 110; Member since: 02 Jan 2012)
i dont know what OS your talking about cuz the two are not even close. as far as someone saying that it looks cheap?? are you kidding, lets be honest here the transition effects are pretty nice, the way they implement the folders is a nice thing to see. honestly i know this is a mostly pro android site by no fault of the site creators, but damn, i like what they did and they closed the gap is a pretty big way.
5. Zero0 (Posts: 592; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
"routs texts over the web instead of eating up the user's monthly SMS allowance. "
Barring the typo, I disagree that this is an advantage of iOS. It's a major disadvantage. Everyone and their mother has unlimited texting. Few smartphone users have unlimited data. My brother repeatedly hits his data cap of 2GB, and has to disable mobile data often. iMessages no longer come through, and he misses texts from other iPhone users because of it.
9. Sauce (unregistered)
Wait, so what exactly is it's major disadvantage?
15. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Stock message app for android is dated, I can't wait for hangouts to be the default messaging application
37. Zero0 (Posts: 592; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
Needing a data connection to receive messages from iPhone users. People run out of data and have to turn it off, so they stop getting their texts.
Meanwhile, Android users generally keep getting their text messages, because text messages are unlimited on just about every cell plan in the last five years.
48. 14545 (Posts: 1532; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
I kinda disagree here. Text are a few kb to maybe a meg for a mms. But I have to pay 30 a month for unlimited texting on my 3 lines. So I would take it over my data plan anyday. Plus, at the place I work when I have to go out on to the manufacturing floor (not very often) I don't get texts because I don't have cell service. But there is WIFI out there.
103. Jillxz (Posts: 149; Member since: 04 Jun 2012)
Not mine it isn't. I pay for texting and data.
130. RebelwithoutaClue (Posts: 2887; Member since: 05 Apr 2013)
Doesn't imessage switch back to regular text messages when there is no internet connection?
28. Gdrye (Posts: 110; Member since: 02 Jan 2012)
i dont agree with you either, because one thing imessage does that i like so much, UNCOMPRESSED images and videos. i hate the fact that android does it, hey lets be honest, whats the point of a great camera when you send a picture mail compresses the image so much that you might as well send it with a flip phone.
As far as iMessages going over the data cap i think your missing something else, i would send about 10,000 text messages a month and never go over my data cap, so its not iMessages doing it i would take a longer look in to the phone and see where the real issue is.
35. reckless562 (banned) (Posts: 1153; Member since: 09 Sep 2013)
thats y theres email dumass
36. Zero0 (Posts: 592; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
It isn't iMessage causing it, but iMessage is affected.
He burns data through Facebook or whatever, and then shuts down mobile data, thus blocking iMessage and every one of his iPhone contacts.
40. Napalm_3nema (Posts: 2183; Member since: 14 Jun 2013)
Umm, he can turn off iMessage. There, done.
46. Zero0 (Posts: 592; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
Why, he sure can. A. Kinda kills the point of a feature, and B. iMessages still attempt to send to him, which holds things up.
53. Napalm_3nema (Posts: 2183; Member since: 14 Jun 2013)
It is seamless and is sent like a regular text message. I have had conversations break in the middle from one to the other because I was in the middle of nowhere on 2G, and they just keep coming through. They work just fine on WiFi, too, so I don't see what the problem is.
67. SilverSurfer85 (Posts: 28; Member since: 12 Apr 2013)
There is setting if you need to turn iMessage off, to still recieve iMessages as simply text instead.. From the sound of things your brother doesnt have that setting on. If that is on, no messages will be missed. You simply will not get them as quick as an iMessage.
6. ajac09 (Posts: 1481; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
they tried so hard to make there apple oversears not look bad
61. Long1 (banned) (Posts: 399; Member since: 18 May 2013)
And they choose the stock Android to compare. Poor iboys. They dont dare to compare the Touchwiz version of Android 4.3 vs iOS7 . LOL
It would be a great fun.
104. ecmedic4 (Posts: 335; Member since: 02 May 2013)
That's cause the purpose of this comparison is to compare stock versions. Touchwiz isn't Android, it isn't controlled by google. It's samsungs skin atop of Android. If iOS had different skins like what OEMS can do with Android then it would be fair to compare with touchwiz, otherwise your not doing a fair comparison by comparing something stock with an overlay by an OEM. This is an Android vs iOS comparison, and as I said, touchwiz isn't Android, it's an overlay. Stop being a Samsung fanboy.
7. Rayvelynn (Posts: 124; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
How are the Iphone users enjoying their new Android's out there??? lol IOS7 is just that. I think I see a lawsuit in the future soon against Apple. lol Apple clearly has run out of ideas so they are having to look just like an Android as the end result. smh just die already Apple, lol
10. Sauce (unregistered)
You sir, are highly intelligent.
50. 14545 (Posts: 1532; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
Well, he's not completely wrong. I mean the "notification" center is stolen. The recents window is nearly identical minus the fact that iOS is horizontal. Then the new "live wallpapers". I mean it's kind of sad. Apple should be sued just for a taste of their own medicine.
51. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
The recent apps appearance thats's also found in Sense 4 was blatantly inspired by webOS first off.
Second of all, Android wasn't the first OS to introduce a notification center, Google perfected it. I believe Nokia implemented it first.
Third, live wallpapers are a battery drainer although they are nice.
56. 14545 (Posts: 1532; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
I'm not saying that android didn't borrow from other OS, as clearly it did. I really with WebOS had not been given up on so soon. My point is that apple sues everyone like everything they make is original when clearly it's not. The only thing I mentioned that is an android original is live wallpapers IIRC.
136. beachguyva (Posts: 9; Member since: 09 Nov 2013)
Youre seriously claiming android os as the first OS to use live wallpapers...lmfao. You could put live wallpapers on Windows 95
97. Topcat488 (Posts: 1396; Member since: 29 Sep 2012)
I'm just here to say NOKIA is DEAD... And that Android started the notification bar.
8. Sakeem (Posts: 458; Member since: 05 Sep 2012)
I prefer 4.3 over ios7. I'm not saying ios7 sucks. That would be foolish. But 4.3 is my preference.
85. frydaexiii (Posts: 1443; Member since: 01 Dec 2011)
Comparing iOS to Android is like comparing Micheal Bay's Transformers to Pacific Rim. It's ok to tell me you prefer one over the other. But you must be plain delusional if you tell me Transformers is filmed better and directed by a better director.
Transformers relies on explosions and slow-mo Megan Fox's boobs to be interesting, while Pacific Rim is actually well shot, realistic (as in physics-wise, movements and stuff), and doesn't have Megan Fox jumping around in skimpy outfits.
Same for iOS, they rely on fancy transitions and Ads to make the iPhone even remotely interesting while Android is more functional and cuts the crap of fancy stuff thats supposed to make the OS look good (Although, they do leave this to the user). It's ok to say you prefer iOS to Android for reasons, but telling me iOS is better than Android is just delusional.
11. apple4never (Posts: 1064; Member since: 08 May 2013)
how did i know they were gonna say its a tie, smh android won long before jobs conceptualized ios
12. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Why would you prefer the iPhone music player? They have nearly the same functionality, plus you can have most your information on the cloud. When you make a song purchase the song will need to download to be played (at least the last time I tried it) while on android it will appear on your media, and be ready to stream, no full song download required, also the album pictures have a nice effect added to Google play (album cover moving left to right while playing)
Also if not mistaken Google keep comes installed on 4.3 as the note taking applications, at least on the nexus 7
16. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Also under the settings of both they where important features missing like data cap, do not disturb, and others
34. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Play Music has an equalizer to make everything sound better than ever.
Just saying.
38. Zero0 (Posts: 592; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
Pretty sure iOS has an equalizer as well, though.
52. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Nope. You have to manually set a equalizer to a song through iTunes last time I used it.
68. SilverSurfer85 (Posts: 28; Member since: 12 Apr 2013)
Androids music player does not auto tune, just like iOS you have to set it.
72. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Mmm by autotune you mean? Like an instant mix?
39. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Its why I think they should be considered nearly equal and not say "we still prefer this music player" without giving us a reason
14. Deadeye37 (Posts: 162; Member since: 25 Jan 2011)
They should've done this write up after KitKat is released.
17. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
I don't think kit Kat will bring too much to the table, since its 4.4 and no 5.0 means will be a small update with little to no change in the visuals
Also if they make this post now, one with windows and the same thing when 4.4 comes they will have you clicking twice helping them get funds
29. Gdrye (Posts: 110; Member since: 02 Jan 2012)
im pretty sure they will, they will be foolish not to
18. phatcow (Posts: 18; Member since: 13 Jun 2013)
Honest question: the point about iMessage... isn't it required for the receiver to have an iDevice as well with iMessage? If so wouldn't Googles Voice app be better? It can do both calls and sms thru web... Across platforms. I think once they integrate voice into Hangouts, it would be the ultimate app. Heck don't have to pay for minute either, just get data. Sorry if I am mistaken...
21. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
That is correct, you need another idevice in order to use imessage but also Google voice doesn't come installed on 4.3, we will have to wait for the integration with hangouts to occur (maybe along with 4.4) in order to decide witch is superior, but with hangouts already being cross platform I can see a possible advantage over there... And it would be something to consider for the righter, if you don't have many friends with iPhones then iMessage might not be much of a big thing when considering a device with iOS, but its still there
137. beachguyva (Posts: 9; Member since: 09 Nov 2013)
iMessage works across iDevices and was incorporated into Mountain Lion for the Mac line up.


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Ha! Just when you thought you were done having to listen to me (@dvewlsh / @LiverKickdotcom) ramble on about Kickboxing, you were wrong. This time I'm joined by a very special guest by the way of GLORY 10 Middleweight Champion Joe Schilling as we discuss his big victory at GLORY 10 as well as how he felt going into the tournament and how his life has changed after it. Joe also weighs in on the GLORY 11 card coming up this week and that his next fight will be at GLORY 12 New York.
Don't forget to check Joe out on Facebook, Twitter and to keep tabs on Can't Stop Crazy.
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The fight.
If you follow kickboxing you know the one fight that everyone has been asking about; GLORY Heavyweight Champion Rico Verhoeven vs. Badr Hari. Badr Hari may not be a regular in the realm of high-level kickboxing right now, but he's the lone holdover of a generation of heavyweights that defined the sport from the heyday of K-1.
Hari, never a K-1 World Grand Prix Champion -- in part thanks to his volatile temper leading to a DQ loss in 2008 -- was seen as the heir apparent to the heavyweight throne, only for FEG's K-1 to go bankrupt and the international kickboxing scene changed forever. Since then, GLORY has emerged as the world leader in the sport, albeit in a scaled-back form compared to the opulence of FEG's K-1.
Since then both Hari and Verhoeven have had very different paths. Hari chased paydays from rich sheikhs and warlords where he could find them while Verhoeven competed with the best of the best, transitioning from being a tall, awkward kid to an unstoppable force in heavyweight kickboxing. Outside of the ring Hari has been plagued with legal issues thanks to his temper and for a while it looked like he would never, truly, find a way back to fighting the best.
Hari has remained a public figure, his every indiscretion stealing international headlines all while being accentuated by a fairly rabid social media following. For Verhoeven, this became the fight to make, the fight that made sense. All of the old heroes had retired; Semmy Schilt, Peter Aerts, Jerome Le Banner, Ernesto Hoost and Remy Bonjasky.
With wins over Gokhan Saki, Daniel Ghita, Errol Zimmerman and Benjamin Adegbuyi it was all starting to feel a bit "academic" for Verhoeven. He is the best and all of the challengers that are lining up are talented individuals, but what can they bring to the table?
An issue that arises with a dominant champion is that it's difficult for other stars to flourish. Adegbuyi, in any other generation, would be a huge star, but now he's been defeated twice by Verhoeven, as have Daniel Ghita and Errol Zimmerman, making it lonely at the top for Rico, who has only suffered one errant loss in China to Anderei Gerasimchuk while Rico's wife was in labor and his mind was elsewhere.
Speculation has run wild for the past few months, smaller promoters have tossed their hat into the ring with very public, very unrealistic offers to host the fight, but there was always going to be one promotion where it would go down; GLORY. GLORY has worked with Verhoeven and Hari's team and now it's official. According to a report from Gareth Davies, the fight is happening in December in Germany.
As for the stakes? Simply pride.
GLORY just confirmed Rico Verhoeven vs. Badr Hari will not be a title fight. It will be three rounds.— Michael Stets (@Michael_Stets) July 23, 2016
Hari is not under a longer contract to GLORY, thus no title will be on the line.
Whew, what a weekend, right? Glory 3 Rome happened and it was pretty incredible. Giorgio Petrosyan continued his reign of dominance in the world of 70kg Kickboxing and shows no signs of relenting, but fighters like Sanny Dahlback and Davit Kiria came from out of nowhere and impressed the world. Listen to Rian Scalia (@rianscalia) and myself (@LiverKickdotcom / @dvewlsh) as we discuss the latest and greatest in Kickboxing news.
Also note that we've changed software, so going forward the Podcast will be using the player below. You can still download the episode by right clicking on the player and choosing download. You can also subscribe by clicking the button on the left and it should be up on iTunes shortly. See, we listen to your feedback.
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After perhaps one of the most legendary careers in the sport of kickboxing, the trailblazing Peter Aerts has finally hung up the gloves. Aerts, originally promoted to be retiring at GLORY 13 wasn't too pleased with being pushed into retirement when he didn't quite feel ready for it just yet. Aerts has been aware of father time since at least 2012 when he first started planning his retirement, with the bout against Tyrone Spong being his "BeNeLux retirement."
Since then it has all been about winding down and while Aerts was scheduled to participate in the BLADE.2 event in Japan on August 1st, yesterday at a press conference in Japan he instead sent along a video announcing his retirement. He had sustained a few injuries after his last fight with Ernesto Hoost and has had difficulties getting back into fighting shape and recovering, which has pushed him to finally retire. He will now focus on training fighters and building up the next generation of kickboxers.
For me, personally, it is tough to see the end of the Aerts era considering he was the first fighter that really caught my eye as a kid. After watching Aerts' first K-1 World Grand Prix victory I was hooked for life. That being said, it is all about safety and health. Aerts has a family and a gym right now and leaves behind a legacy as one of the all-time greats of the sport. My favorite memory of the past few years will still be Aerts making it to the finals of the 2010 World Grand Prix against Alistair Overeem and having that feeling that anything could happen, that Aerts could win it one last time. That was the kind of magic that Peter Aerts brought to the ring with him.
Over the last few months there have been various reports that four-time K-1 World Grand Prix Champion, 2012 Glory Grand Slam and Glory Heavyweight Champion Semmy Schilt will no longer be fighting. The rumors were first centered around his participation in future tournaments, as after his victory on New Year's Eve in 2012 he stated that he would not participate in future tournaments, although it was quickly brushed off. Since then there has been talk about him fighting Gokhan Saki with the Heavyweight title on the line, but there has also been talk of Schilt no longer fighting at all.
Since last night LiverKick has received numerous reports from reliable sources that Semmy Schilt is retired, effective immediately. The decision was apparently not an easy one for the Hightower, who was instructed to retire from his medical team due to a heart condition that was discovered. This marks the retirement of what may be the greatest Heavyweight Kickboxer of all time, with five big tournament victories under his belt and numerous world championships. Schilt was also a pioneer in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts, making his debut in Pancrase in 1996, fighting in both the UFC and PRIDE over the course of his career.
Today in Los Angeles at a press conference streamed live to the world via Facebook GLORY announced that they would be creating a Women's Super Bantamweight division, the weight at which Tiffany Van Soest fights. It makes sense considering the signing of Van Soest. They've announced a Super Bantamweight Grand Prix, which Van Soest vs. Hasshass is the first quarterfinal bout in said tournament. The second fight will be at GLORY 31 Amsterdam as Isis Verbeek takes on Iman Barlow.
The addition of Barlow is perhaps the other biggest bit of news as she can easily be considered one of the best female fighters in the world. In fact, Steven Wright ranked her as the #2 pound-for-pound woman in the world right now. GLORY has built a ten-woman division, with future match-ups being Zoila Frausto vs. Daniela Graf and Amel Dehby vs. Ji Waen-Lee, while Ferial Ameeroedien vs. Irina Mazepa will serve as the reserve fight.
There are some solid names in there for the division and hopefully this takes off in a big way. You can watch the full announcement below.
We're thrilled to announce a new division with a Grand Prix tournament, tune in LIVE!Posted by GLORY Kickboxing on Thursday, May 12, 2016
This weekend saw the GLORY World Series put on their Glory 2 Brussels event in Brussels, Belgium, headlined by Remy Bonjasky vs. Anderson "Braddock" Silva. The return bout of Bonjasky was a big deal, as was Gokhan Saki taking on Mourad Bouzidi and a slew of other big matches. Join Rian Scalia (@rianscalia) and myself (@LiverKickdotcom / @dvewlsh) as we run through the Glory World Series event as well as look at next weekend's K-1 Final 16 and the inherent lack of hype surrounding it.
This weekend was huge for Kickboxing. Firstly, It's Showtime promoted It's Showtime 57&58, featuring some very important fights and putting on an incredibly entertaining card. That wasn't it, though, was it? On top of that, Glory Sports International announced -- from that show -- that they had purchased It's Showtime and will absorb It's Showtime's staff and fighters into the Glory team, shaking the Kickboxing world up like never before. Rian Scalia (@rianscalia) and myself (@dvewlsh / @liverkickdotcom) talk you through what was a historic weekend for Kickboxing.
without further ado, go ahead and take a listen.
Things have been up-in-the-air for the bad boy, Badr Hari, as he has been in jail awaiting sentencing for quite a while now. It appears that the courts have decided what to do with him, and if you are a Badr Hari fan, it does not look good for him right now. The charges to be levied against the former K-1 fighter who recently attempted to switch gears to professional Boxing before returning to the Kickboxing ring in May is that of Attempted Manslaughter.
If you are wondering about the kind of evidence they have against him, they have DNA evidence from a towel that they found and there are also nine open cases against Badr Hari right now. Of course, the most serious is the Attempted Manslaughter of Koen Everink in July, and it looks like with the evidence that they have and his past history, things might be looking bleak for Hari. The court is going to attempt to put Hari away for ten years, which would effectively mean the end of Badr Hari's career as a Kickboxer, Boxer or anything else in the world of combat sports. [Source]